white_wolf (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Oct-19-11 11:01 PM
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"My kid beat up your honor student."
Am I the only one gets pissed off when I see these bumper stickers? I saw one today and it just pissed me off. Maybe, I'm overreacting, but I don't think joking or being proud of kids for bullying is a good thing. Granted, I could understand how people get annoyed with those "My child is an honor student" bumper stickers, but I think these are much worse. Whenever I see these bumper stickers I always think the should read something like "My kid is an immature bully with self-esteem issues and emotional problems, that I am failing to address as a parent." I really don't think we should be even jokingly encouraging bullying. Once again, I may be overreacting and I am hardly unbiased since I got picked on some growing up. I just thought I'd post this. Feel free to let me know what you all think and if I'm way overreacting tell me. I may very well be.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2150275A bumper sticker that is meant to get a laugh gets wolfy all bent out of shape, yet signs saying, 'eat the rich" and with pictures of guillotines are just fine.
Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Oct-19-11 11:07 PM
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2. I hate those stickers too.
It only encourages bullying and there's way too much of that shit in our schools right now. I grew up around it, I know what it's like. I've always wanted to counter those stickers with "Your bully works a low-wage job for my honor student", but I'm not sure who or what that would offend. :evilgrin:
Why is it, that sign would encourage bullies, yet eat the rich won't encourage violence?
Nuclear Unicorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 11:06 AM
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62. What if the honor student grows up to be a bank CEO who lobbies for bailouts?
just askin'
Then you can eat him I suppose.
av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Oct-19-11 11:55 PM
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14. I'm not a bumper sticker person
The last one I had was an Obama magnet in '08. My car got egged for that one.
The "beat up your honor student" doesn't seem as funny now as it did back in the day. I suppose too much has happened lately on that subject that isn't funny at all.
Why is it, all the DUmmies get their vehicles vandalized for bumper stickers? It's almost like they are making it up or something.
Fruittree (479 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 06:30 AM
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33. Another point of view...
The Honor Student stickers were given out to students at my kid's middle school...I don't think it's fair to assume snobbishness - My son worked super hard to get one and when he did, he asked that we put it on the car. He was and remains a quiet, hard-working person..I don't think it's fair to equate academic success with being a snob - that's kind of what the tea-party does..
No, it's not academic success that the Tea Party doesn't like (Herman Cain is a rocket scientist afterall), it's the smug professors who couldn't run a business if their lives depended on it, telling businesses what they should do.
Demstud (264 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 12:29 PM
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79. It's one of those things that's funny...
... until you realize how many people are serious about it. I'm sure we've all had those moments of finding a comment hysterical until you realize the person speaking is dead serious.
renegade000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Oct-19-11 11:13 PM
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4. those are obnoxious
though only in an eye-roll inducing way for me.
the one bumper sticker I saw several years ago that really got my blood boiling was "Give War a chance." only some chicken-hawk asshole who's never been within a thousand miles of any warzone would spew such a inane message.
0bama qualifies as a chicken hawk, yet you don't mind him starting wars.
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Oct-19-11 11:32 PM
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11. It doesn't anger me, although it's kind of stupid
The worst I ever saw was "My kid got your honor's student pregnant". THAT was over the line in my view.
Why? All he did was implant a clump of cells in her, and she can get an abortion easily.
DebJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 02:07 AM
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23. For some reason, that reminds me of Santorum, who feels
compelled to brag that he has seven children. Yuck. Why is this something to brag about?
Yet bragging about being gay is fine.
Tumbulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Oct-19-11 11:36 PM
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12. Luckily I have never seen such a sticker
and I am afraid I would use a sharpie to color over it if the vehicle was parked. Or scowl at the driver....I am furious just reading about it.
You are not at all overreacting- but perhaps I am.
They love them some free speech at DUmmyland.
gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 01:42 PM
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96. Wow -- they're fairly common here.
I'm so glad my daughter's school doesn't issue them, because I wouldn't put it on the car and I wouldn't want to hurt her feelings. The bumper sticker for her school is "Everybody's somebody special at ______".
Yep, because there is nothing worse than being proud of a kid who accomplishes something.
Marr (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 03:30 AM
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28. I agree- it's more anti-intellectual than anything else.
I've seen those stickers a few times, and I always think about what a shitty start that kid is getting.
Maybe they should have just aborted then, right?
seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 06:53 AM
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36. first time i saw it i was in a store, around bush time, on a tshirt. i got pissed
told the manager not cute. so damn tired of hooring stupid adn violence.
i have seen it a couple times on cars, since then
The things that set you goons off.
white_wolf (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 12:30 PM
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80. They do try, its just they've changed their insults.
Now instead of calling us "nerd" or "loser" they call us "un-American" "traitor" or Nazi communists." Yeah, they are just as ignorant as ever.
You are un American, commies.
AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 09:56 AM
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50. Any bumper sticker identifies the owner of the vehicle as an asshole.
Ever meet a normal person with a bumper sticker in this day and age? Why do that to your car? Why make yourself a target? Oh, you have to give me your opinion. Guess what - that makes you an asshole.
pintobean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 10:03 AM
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52. Um....DU has bumper stickers. Asshole?
LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Oct-20-11 10:07 AM
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56. No. I find the whole bragging about your kid bumper sticker
phenomena irritating. Bragging about your kid being a bully is simply an obvious symptom of a deeper social disease.
Wanting to eat rich, is simply an obvious symptom of a deeper social disease.
These goons, don't understand humor at all.
lots of
in that thread.
