Comments on: Bumper stickernomics

By: mcmc

mcmc — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:07:09 +0000

Probably

By: mcmc

mcmc — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:06:53 +0000

Probably the guy has discovered the wonder that is Cafe Press. He’s probably got this witticism on a t-shirt, a mug, and a refrigerator magnet to match.

By: cyclist

cyclist — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:50:09 +0000

Recently sold an old car to my neighbor, who wanted it for his daughter going off to college at a (fairly good) east coast university. Some time later, I find her trying to remove my (quite well adhered) Repeal the Patriot Act bumper sticker. In the process of helping her, she asked “just what is the Patriot Act, anyway?”… Sigh. But following my explanation, she did agree that it might be a good thing to repeal.

By: SG

SG — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:49:49 +0000

novakant, are you British? I didn’t notice a particularly unusually large number of swear words in this post, and I’m Australian. Also two of the three uses of “fuck” were used in describing the putative thought-processes of the redneck sticker-buyer, not dsquared himself. So couldn’t this be taken as a bit of class priggery the other way, with dsquared liking to imagine that those rough rednecks talk that way?

Anyway, I would suggest that for a young British male of any class, using the word “fuck” 3 times in 16 paragraphs (especially in a topic where he was forced to use the word “whore” 3 times) would be considered the height of eloquence. Well done dsquared!

I would further suggest that if he wants to make his work more accessible to the British masses, bless their cotton socks, dsquared is going to have to swear a decided (or even a fucking) lot more than he has been. Get to work dsquared! Or are you some kind of ponce?

By: rea

rea — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:48:06 +0000

Certainly in 2004 GWB was the butt of a lot of “humor” that was not a lot better than calling him a doodyhead.

Well, but he is a doodyhead.

By: Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:01:23 +0000

This will be the year in which both the Republicans and the Democrats can use the same bumper sticker: A Vote for the Republicans is a vote for war.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:16 +0000

Suggested Halloween-themed bumper sticker:

Hillary: “When shall we three meet again?” Nancy and Jennifer: “At the Democratic Convention!”

I know, but it’s still funnier than the real one.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:08:00 +0000

It seems to me there’s a strain of this on the left side of the spectrum too. Certainly in 2004 GWB was the butt of a lot of “humor” that was not a lot better than calling him a doodyhead. I suppose that for the right, it’s the rule; for the left, it takes a disgraceful ass on the order of a Bush or a Cheney to bring it out. (I seem to remember some pretty mean-spirited stuff directed at both Reagan and Bush I too.)

By: dsquared

dsquared — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:57:19 +0000

you really don’t know anything about me, novakant, other than the fact that I don’t like you, so why do you persist in addressing me?

PS: soapy tit wank.

By: novakant

novakant — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:13:19 +0000

Maybe you do use expletives with such frequency in your regular social contexts, in which case you must be constantly flabbergasted by the fact that the vast majority of people surrounding you are pompous sermonising prigs, since they would find such language inappropriate. I suspect it’s rather a case of the common hypocrisy of playing by the rules in real life, while lashing out on the internet.

By: theophylact

theophylact — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:30:36 +0000

You can print your own bumper stickers; Office Depot has suitable labels.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:06:17 +0000

no, I use it as a filter to try and prevent prigs and wowsers from reading any further, to cut down on the amount of pomposity and sermonising I have to deal with in the comments.

By: novakant

novakant — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:41:35 +0000

There’s certainly a way in which this piece could be read in which it’s just a bit of pure class snobbery

I don’t know, if that’s supposed to mean that bumper sticker users are lower or lower middle class and that you yourself are middle or upper middle class, it’s a bit irritating that you make such abundant use of the f-word. But then there seems to be a tendency amongst some male English (upper) middle class writers (e.g. Amis, Hitchens) to relish the use of foul-mouthed language. I’ve always found that a bit odd, does it have to do something with proving your manliness?

By: nick s

nick s — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:56:42 +0000

This leads to a bunch of p*ssed-off white men looking for people to blame.

A friend, born and bred in the Detroit metro area and now living in the south, notes that angry white men with pickup trucks in that part of the world have a UAW sticker where the confederate flag would be.

By: Russell L. Carter

Russell L. Carter — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:09:36 +0000

Well damn I’d like to know if DP and DD have decided that maybe layin’ down the weapons and doing a bit of reevaluating might be in order.

Tho if you read that card turning in post it’s hard to know where the problem might lie.

Russell