i'm glad you found jesus....

[unclej]

and i'm glad that you're kid is an honor student/cheerleader/football player/whatever. i know you love your dog/cat/grandmother and home town. i'm pleased as punch that you like nascar/wwf smackdown/golf/pro football. i'm jealous of your ability to run a marathon for charity and i'd love to join your health club/fishing club/martial arts dojo.

my question is why do you/we have to advertise our loves and interests in the form of t-shirts and bumper stickers. and i have to admit that the little fish sign and other forms of advertising your religion offends me only because my faith is a very personal thing to me and i think yours should be also. the rest of the above listed subjects just give me reason to ponder.

i do have t-shirts that advertise my store. i have a couple of t-shirts that promote membership in ascap. the only bumper sticker that i have ever had on a car was on a used truck that i bought and it said, "support the beef industry...run over a chicken". i thought it was funny so i left it on.

what bumper stickers/decals do you have on your car and why? what t-shirts are you proud to wear and why.

i'm really not so much making fun of this phenomenon as trying to understand it. (except for the religion thing.)

 

[Starblayde]

I'm proud to wear my England football shirts... Its my country, its my sport I love... the usual patriotic mumbo-jumbo

 

[SINthysist]

What position does he play, what's his batting average, and what's his REAL age?

 

[Wiggles]

I have one 'I got tuned Up' shirt from some automotive place, and others that I think have a little humor to them.

Bumper Stickers are just a nice way to entertain the people behind you in the traffic jam. Don't you hate when the writings small and you have to edge up right next to their bumper? And then it says "Get off my ass!".

 

[HopefulRomantic]

I didn't even know he was missing....

 

[lobito]

I was always partial to the bumber stickers that said something like - "My kid kicked your honor students ass"

 

[SINthysist]

I Don't Brake for Democrats...

 

[red_rose]

*sigh*

Well... I don't generally wear things that promote anything, really...and there are no bumper stickers on my car. Well...I used to have a "Don't Mess With Texas" sticker on my car when I lived in FL. I thought it was funny b/c people called me Tex while I was there anyhow.....I'm babbling...

As for the "My child is an honor student.." etc bumper stickers... If little Sally or Joe comes home and hands their mom/dad that bumper sticker... how would they explain why they *aren't* putting it up? That is just for the kids, if you ask me. I doubt the parents are really getting a kick out of it. lol

Some people wear shirts and put up signs/stickers to make others think. The WWJD? stuff doesn't bother me as much as some other items I've seen...

I guess there's a line to draw somewhere, but it's too grey for us to really know ....

 

[kotori]

I have a bumper sticker from my favorite local Irish Restaurant/Pub. It's doesn't really need to be promoted, everyone here knows it. But I like the saying:

Ól, Ceol, Bía agus Craic.

"Drink, Music, Food and Conversation."

 

[marksgirl]

My newest tee-shirt reads "MY KID WEARS COMBAT BOOTS" he gave it to me at his graduation from boot camp. I love it!

Hey when did Jesus go AWOL?

 

[ksmybuttons]

The tee shirts I wear are usually to advertise someone/something I support. I paid for it, so I wear it. I don't wear tee shirts out, though. Usually just around the house and for yard work. I sometimes will wear them under a sweater or jacket when it is cold.

I have ones from bluegrass festivals, acoustic music things, some different musical artists.

I have been given ones from work and throw them away.

I have three bumper stickers: women in bluegrass, the local community radio that plays bluegrass, and the locally owned music store that sells bluegrass.

I guess you can tell what type of music I like.

 

[unclej]

hopefulromantic, that's one of my favorite lines and believe it or not one friday afternoon i was over at one of my brother's house drinkin' beer and chillin' and a couple of jehova's witnesses rang the bell. when he opened it their opening line was, "sir, have you found jesus." i swear he said "damn, you mean that boy's missin' again? well, i didn't loose him this time so go bug someone else."

i wrote a song about it years later.

 

[SINthysist]

I have the usual for this part of the country...

NRA sticker,
Dole for President sticker (pretty faded),
and the sticker the Sherriff "sells" to you that you HAVE to buy...

 

[unclej]

well, if i was a bettin' man ksmybuttons, i'd say bluegrass. we have a little fiday night bluegrass circle pluck here at one of the local restaurants. hosted by the same three or four musician core and anyone's allowed to sit in. now i'm a folk/blues/country picker and some of the most complicated music goin' is bluegrass.

it seems simple but there might bee 5 chord changes in every four bars. keeps you on you're toes so to speak.

do you play as well as enjoy listening?

 

[red_rose]

Re: I have the usual for this part of the country...

...
and the sticker the Sherriff "sells" to you that you HAVE to buy...

Ohhh... I used to have one of those!!

I haven't been offered one around here yet.

 

[nasty]

This is a true story. A few months ago, a new tenanant asked me, "Have you found Jesus?" That was the 1st time we even talked. Unfortunetely, he was under the impression I like him. My Mom and I joked around that he found Jesus, because, of all the pot he smoked.

 

[naudiz]

I don't have any bumper stickers, so that answers that. On to t-shirts!

I'm not sure if this promotes or mocks my lifestyle and interests, but I've got one that reads "If you're really a Goth, where were you when we sacked Rome?"

I've got some concert t-shirts and some shirts from gaming cons, but I wear them because a) they're there and b) sometimes they have an amusing logo. I don't really think about anyone else seeing it or what it might say about me. *cough*gaming-geek*cough*

Mr. Naudiz has a fridge magnet that's the Jesus-fish logo only it's got tentacles and the word 'Cthulhu' written on it. I think it reflects an appreciation for morbid humor and Lovecraft more than an expression of religious belief.

I hope.

 

[unclej]

i've got to run to mom's for dinner but i wanted to leave with this. a good friend of mine is the biggest yuppie you've ever seen though he won't admit it and he has a t-shirt that reads, "die yuppie scum". i think it's hilarious.

happy mother's day y'all.....later

 

[Allison484]

what bumper stickers/decals do you have on your car and why? what t-shirts are you proud to wear and why.

i'm really not so much making fun of this phenomenon as trying to understand it. (except for the religion thing.) [/B]

The last t-shirt I got was from the Avon 3-Day walk for breast cancer research and I am very proud to wear that one. I also have a couple of t-shirts with George Strait's face on the front and one with James Dean's face. But most of them are just plain, every-day t-shirts. Don't do bumper stickers.

Allison

 

[MechaBlade]

I have a fish with legs sticker saying Darwin that I haven't put on my car yet. Reason I have it is so other science-oriented thinkers can identify me and we can converse. I can also let the non-freethinkers know that there is another one of "us" out there. But why advertise my (lack of) religion when it's a "personal" issue for you?

It's not a personal issue for me. Being Atheist is my proudest accomplishment.

 

[Sillyman]

I don't keep bumper stickers on my car. That way I can fake fanatical intrest in whatever I like. Jokes get old. Political canidates fall to the wayside. Bands lose their following. And variations on "Can I fuck you?" just sicken me. So I keep my beliefs to myself, which means I don't see harassment for them. Easy.

As for T-shirts, the only one I wear that ever promoted anything was my Vampire: The Masquerade shirt which is now so much rags from wearing. I do have a blood drive T-shirt (with real blood stains) that I wear too, since that's a good cause to support. Everything else is usually just a plain shirt.

 

[ExLimey]

Shirts - the University I attended (I only bought them a few weeks ago. Never bought anything while I attended {graduated 7 years ago}). Also have a shirt from my Yacht Club and from my employer.

Stickers - none on my Jeep. Pickup has 2 NRA stickers and a National Maritime Historical Society sticker in the back window.

 

[Kitte]

I stopped putting bumper stickers on my car after I was accosted and verbally assaulted by a woman at the mall, who in front of my step daughter (5 yrs old at the time) condemned me to hell. I had a simple bumper sticker that said "The last time we mixed politics and religion people got burned at the stake"

I am very proud of my religion and I wear a pentacle and I am not shy when asked about it at all, but when it began to adversely affect my lil one. I had to make sacrafices.

As I am reading this it angers me still.

I have T-shirts that range from plain old ones to a Hells Angels Indiana one. I wear whatever the fuck I want and if you dont like whats on the front of my shirt, stop looking at my tits.

 

[lobito]

...I wear whatever the fuck I want and if you dont like whats on the front of my shirt, stop looking at my tits.

I'm sorry, what were you saying?

The thing about your situation is that this woman was obvioulsy closed minded to any others' beliefs than her own. Sometimes it's the very religious ones who are the most confrontational people.

 

[Dr. Groove]

Kitte,

I'd be happy to give whatever is on the front of your shirt a fair read with an open mind. As long as I have the opportunity to see your tits. <g>

Please??

ciao,

Groove