For instance, the one which uses the different cultural symbols of faith to spell out, "COEXIST". A nice thought,as if we were to accomplish this, all strife and fighting would cease to exist. Personally, I think that ranks somewhere along the lines of believing that everybody holding hands and singing the Coca-Cola song would make world a better place!
What jumped out at me when I first saw this was, the fact that the first symbol is either backwards, or a mirror image of the Turkish flag. If it was meant to represent Turkey then why are the others symbols of faith and beliefs. I don't recall hearing about any news reporting that Turkey is no longer a country but a faith or belief system. And really, for the sake of the bumper sticker I'm sure, this more closely resembles the Algerian flag, but, I'm pretty sure this was meant to symbolize the Muslim faith, of which, one of it's orders for existence is to completely eliminate the 4th symbol!
Followers of the second symbol just piss me off and those who align themselves with the last symbol have done more to damage and destroy what it represents than the Good that came from it.
Don't get me started on the one that says,"My Child is an Honor Student at Our Lady of Perpetual Payments Elementary School!" Or whatever school that child may be attending. Yay for you! As opposed to the home life where the child is fawned over and indulged, hence the bumper sticker, or even worse, neglected, indulgence of another form. Give them whatever they want so the parental units need not be involved.
How do I suppose they are neglected, you ask? As I motor past the mini-van and look inside, I see the parent, bluetooth engaged, with a cup or bottle of the latest energy infused drink and the kids in the back, with drop down monitors and headphones, watching the latest DVD release of whatever movie is out that makes them quiet!
And please, if I offend anyone with the next sticker-ism then, mission accomplished! I don't care that your dog is smarter than their honor student. Our society has given way too much to our 4 legged domesticates. It has been on more than one occasion that I have had to instruct our groomer or vet that I am NOT the daddy of my dog!
I have to take him to the vet because he has to have shots updated. I have to have updated shots records because I have to take him to the groomers. I have to take him to the groomers because every once in a while, like snowstorms, I let him in the house and he stinks! He has to stink because, he's a dog! Not my son, not my daughter, not my baby, and especially not my "preshie-weshie, snoogy-woogy little cute face!" Yeah, it's rare I use the same groomer twice.
Our current canine resident is a Border-Collie, recently touted as, "the smartest breed ever!" Princess Pissy-Pants!?
I found this hard to believe recalling the time, "seth" jumped out of the car window while I was traveling down the freeway at 65 mph! This was not the first time he had been in a car, either! He just bailed out! Incredibly he only had a couple of scrapes and cuts, although I was more afraid someone would be killed in the massive pile up I feared surely would happen as they tried to dodge the dog on the freeway. Thanks be to God, no such thing occurred. How he got to the side of the freeway and how I found him is another story, but there I sit, in the vets office, waiting to get him checked out, and a magazine with this headline is on the table in the waiting room. I looked at our dog and then back at the front page photo of the dog on the magazine. Yup, same dog, just amazingly lacking in the intelligence department.
what a dopey picture. when did you take it.
ReplyDeleteI have always liked the ones that said what they said with a sense of humor. For example, instead of saying something like,
ReplyDelete"If you can read this, then you're too close."
I liked the one that said,
"If you're riding my ass, you better be pulling my hair."
It gets the point across and gives you little chuckle.
Uhm.. Apologies if my comment was too off color. You can remove it if you wish. I'll try to keep it cleaner next time.
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