Car Stickers - a discussion

@f00l

They work fine for me.

@PlacidPenguin
New adjustments to a firewall I’m using and con’t control. Weird. Rebooted and works now.

@f00l

@mfladd
You know my name!

@f00l intimately.

@mfladd
I notice you borrow it frequently.

@f00l same… I couldn’t see the “Local” one

@msklzannie I’ve got a pretty bead bird I bought in Cozumel hanging from my rear view. It’s visible from a fair distance and helps me find my car in the occasional sea of small white cars.

@msklzannie assuming the donation is related to blood…you donate a pint at a time? What duration of time did it take to donate 3 gallons?

I find it admirable…I cannot donate no one wants my shit-for-blood

@mikibell I can’t donate, vacations in Cozumel (malaria zone). Years when I don’t vacation in the Caribbean I am a regular donor.

@mikibell Yep, I’m a blood donor. And yes, a pint at a time. I started in college and got a gallon pin there. (I’m not entirely sure if that 1st gallon was counted in the journey to the 3-gallon mark as they were completely different organizations in different states.) It took me far longer than it should have to get to 3 gallons (somewhere around 15 years) as I didn’t donate for awhile after graduation and I’m not always eligible to donate. My work schedule sometimes interferes with the local blood drive as well.

@msklzannie each of my parents have needed blood transfusions, so I can tell you the donations are greatly appreciated, not just by the recipients!

@moondrake I had a 1-year deferral after my trip to South Korea. I also have to remind them each time that I’m on the “acceptable donors list” after I had lesions on my lungs in 2012. They really freak out when there is no diagnosis. (Everything came back negative and the lesions went away.)

@mikibell My mom has a blood disorder (ITP) so can’t donate. Instead she’s been a recipient many times. When I was born the doctors were concerned I could have inherited her disorder so I received a complete blood transfusion. Thankfully that was before HIV/AIDS.

@mikibell Having a non-curable blood cancer (plus 2 other cancers) no one wants mine either. : (

@mikibell If you give regular blood donations as often as possible you can do 6.5 pints a year (eight weeks between). Allowing for the odd delay or vacation or whatever, you can reasonably give three gallons in four years.

I didn’t talk about donating blood for the longest time because I didn’t want to sound like I was bragging, but I was convinced that talking about it could encourage others to do it.

It was very easy for me. In all that time I had maybe three or four sticks that weren’t right on the money. No pain, no dizziness, free cookies.

The only time I talked about it at one job was when a woman was pestering me to go with a group to donate because of some kid who was sick or had an accident or something. She wasn’t taking my polite no and kept asking why I didn’t want to help, so I finally said, “I can’t go because it’s only been three weeks since my last donation. I do it every eight weeks all year long. But, please, go feel good about yourself for doing it once.” She had really pissed me off, and I almost regretted it.

@msklzannie
10 Gallon club here. Only took me 40 years. Having AB Neg puts me on the blood bank’s speed dial. Had to take 3 1/2 years off for chemo but gave again a couple weeks ago.

@JanaS O positive here; they really like me too. I believe my dad is at 20-some gallons. I’m glad you’re cancer-free now.

My mom went septic about 4 years ago, and chewed through a ton of platelets when they were working to save her. Ever since then, I’ve tried to donate them back as often as I can. (You can donate platelets every two weeks, if you are inspired. It just takes a special machine, and an hour, as they pump your platelet-less blood back into you.)

@msklzannie
I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO DONATES BLOOD. YES, I’M YELLING.

You all deserve a big yell.

I donate too, but not as regularly as some of you. And the centers don’t love me so much because my veins like to collapse and it works best if they use those kiddie needles on me and it can take more than an hour.

@JanaS They let you donate after cancer? After my first cancer they told me I was a permanent reject. I guess I should have asked higher up the food chain to get the real policy rather than accept rejection when I filled out the form. I had donated prior to that. @haydesigner I wonder if they will let me donate platelets since my incurable blood cancer is in the B cells and not the platelets… I’ll have to ask about that.

@haydesigner I gave platelets once (or was it plasma?), never again. The room was like a refrigerator and they ran my blood through the tube and fed it back to me cold and I was chilled all the way through to my dna. I was sick for a couple of weeks, lost about a week of work. Whole blood they can have anytime they’ll accept it but no give backs.

Speaking of which, I got this text from United Blood Services the other day, “Giving blood is easier with our new, free app!”. I know cell phones can suck your soul, but your blood?

@moondrake
If not yet, then soon enough.

@moondrake I tried to donate plasma twice. They did a single needle for draw and return. The first time I threw up on myself when it was 3/4 full. The second time I started to get nauseous and had to stop within ten minutes.

Correction: I asked my dad how many gallons he was at, and it turns out I overestimated the number considerably. Should be 12.5 gallons.

@baqui63 Duh! I forgot to discuss the topic at hand.

I have never had stickers (or emblems or decals, etc.) on any of my vehicles, tho I have considered ones for FSM and NYCFC. However, I usually opt for the nondescript so as to not be noticed and blend in.

When I see stickers, I usually just shrug and am sometimes left wondering “wtf?!” On rare occasions I am left smiling or even laughing.

My most recent laugh was for a Make Hockey Violent Again sticker on a car at work.

@baqui63 stop stalking me!

@baqui63 I have more monkeys in the back seat but they’re not visible from outside. (I think they’re currently in a box.) The giant green-caped monkey used to be belted in.

@duodec I am with ya on the magnetic back!

@brhfl Now that’s funny. It doesn’t even give the real description like most do below.

@woodhouse I liked this one.

@mfladd That’s amazing.

@woodhouse have a button from a SF con over 20 years ago that said that. but didn’t say be a vegetarian, it said ‘just to eat veggies’

@mfladd Almost like the one Trump would have… LOL

@woodhouse My wife got me a sign that says something similar and I hung it over the stove.

“My ancestors didn’t fight their way to the top of the food chain so I could be a vegetarian.”

@DaveInSoCal That one makes a little more sense. I think it’s hilarious.

@woodhouse And to honor them, I only eat things that didn’t want to be eaten.

@DaveInSoCal In my experience lobsters don’t want to be eaten the most.

@mfladd @DaveInSoCal

I mean, we literally boil them alive. That’s a pretty rough way to go.

@woodhouse I use to have a shirt when I was younger that had the lobster stirring the pot with this tormented person in it. Yay, childhood. I still cook’em they taste sooooo good. But, I do put them in the freezer first. (maybe lobster, maybe people, maybe both - you decide)

@mfladd Have you seen Gordon Ramsay make lobster? He has a really cool way of doing it:

Awesome presentation, if you’re into that kind of stuff.

@woodhouse Dude, don’t even get into my bromance with Gordon Ramsey.

@mfladd I used to think he was obnoxious. Just from the stigma on Hell’s Kitchen. Then I saw his actual cooking videos, he’s amazing!

@woodhouse Obnoxious? I hadn’t noticed.

@woodhouse I saw that demo, he’s perfection on a plate

@woodhouse If you watch him though, half the time he’s yelling he looks like he’s trying not to laugh. My favorite is him with the kids.

@pooflady, I got one of those family stickers from a family friend when my son was born six years ago, and felt obligated to put in on my Mazda Tribute. About a year ago, after I realized the divorce was truly inevitable, I scraped off the ‘mom’ part, leaving only the man, kid, and dog. (I lost my dog two years earlier, but wanted to keep her on )

@f00l nope, you saw it a few weeks ago, on a car that may or may not be mine.

@elimanningface
I guess time did one of those weird accordion things then. I woulda sworn it was a few years back.

@Cerridwyn I love Northern Sun; I’ve been a customer for very long time. Only problem for me is that I’m a bleeding-heart liberal living in a mostly red city, and I’m unwilling to risk vandalism and insults.

I have about 50 of my fave stickers from them, gathered over 30+ years, but they stay stored away, alas.

I do display one, though: “Gosh, Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more”

@magic_cave
I’m a bleeding-heart hippy liberal who lives in a bright blue state but works in a bastion of blood-red. But I still have t-shirts, alas bumper stickers didn’t survive my last move. (some of which are too small to wear but I won’t part with them.)

/giphy northernsun.com

@AttyVette

@AttyVette “back in the CB radio craze day”?

you say that like CB’s aren’t still awesome!

@magic_cave I’ve been up there 3 times: twice for launches and once for an open house at Wallops. I got my picture taken in front of the business end of the flame trench for pad 0B! Lovely area!

@magic_cave I’ve never been there but Misty of Chincoteague was a favorite book as a kid. It got lost (probably went to niece or nephew and fell apart) but I found a copy of the same edition at a yard sale years ago. Doesn’t matter if its a kids book, I read it again that day, and now I may just have to do so again. The same sale had Brighty of the Grand Canyon and The Godolphin Arabian books by the same author, also remembered from childhood.

Good memories.

@duodec
I had and cherished all of those.
King of the Wind.

I think she also did one about the first Morgan, and about the racer Black Gold.

@duodec @f00l I loved every one of those books, too. Marguerite Henry was a wonderful storyteller, and Wesley Dennis’s illustrations added the perfect bit of boost to the images in my mind’s eye. I should start collecting them again for my grandson to enjoy.

@jqubed It is a pretty area, as long as you’re able to avoid the 40-pound mosquitoes that live in the marshy areas.

@magic_cave I read all those books when I was a kid, along with the Black Stallion, the Golden Stallion and the Island Stallion series’, as well as the classics, Black Beauty and Flicka.

@moondrake
was an addict : )

@f00l Justin Morgan Had a Horse. I think I read most of her books growing up. It was pretty neat to see where the Misty books were actually based and see the wild horses in the wild. I wonder if the horses are used to the rocket launches? They don’t go to orbit from there very often, but they do several suborbital flights every year.

@moondrake I loved all the Black Stallion series and the Island Stallion series; don’t think I’ve heard of the Golden Stallion books. Something else to start looking for. I was concerned about the movie made of The Black Stallion, since we all know what happens to movies from books, but I was pleasantly surprised that it mostly followed the book, and where it didn’t follow it seemed to be true to the tone and style of the book itself. I though the visuals were stunning.

@magic_cave Here’s a link to the Golden Stallion series.
http://rutherfordmontgomery.ponymadbooklovers.co.uk/

@f00l I used to tell people I came out of the womb horse crazy. I spent my whole childhood saving the money I earned mowing neighbors’ lawns and babysitting their kids to buy a horse one day, and when I was 16 we moved from Illinois to Texas and I was able to actually buy a big mean professionally trained Appaloosa cutting horse from one of my school teachers. I got her on the cheap because she was very hard to manage, kicked and bit anyone who got close to her. But she took to me and although she was a dangerous animal she never hurt me, and was even careful with me. I kept her on my teacher’s property till my family bought a ranch. I took the bus to her place after school every day and taught myself to ride, leading her to a fence so I could climb aboard bareback, where I would lay and read till my parents picked my up after work. Good times.

@moondrake Oooh! More book-hunting to do! Thanks!

@magic_cave I am. Eastern Shore, MD

@jqubed Yup. But if it hasn’t been too long, and especially if its on a mostly vertical surface, it might polish out if you are careful.

@medz Are you sure it’s not 13.1 HM, as 13.1 is a (H)alf (M)arathon?

@narfcake some body said it might be a Jesus thing…

@medz Ah, okay.

@RiotDemon Those Salt Life ones are everywhere here. I didn’t know you were on of those dusty old meh archivists.

@mfladd archivist? I’ll search threads here and there. I just thought it was funny that the thread popped up in an image search.

@CaptAmehrican That’s why modern bumper stickers are removable. With a little effort you can take off the previous candidate, and install the latest.

@Turken 1996 elections, woohoo!

/image “put a brain in the white house”

@narfcake I have the t-shirt too. Pull it out every four years for a couple wears, and then put it back in storage. Amazing how it’s managed to stay relevant for over 20 years now.

@darksaber99999 I have an oval BOC sticker from Woot … somewhere.

@narfcake I have several. Maybe double-digits.

@darksaber99999 The stickers used to have a purpose. http://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/oval-stickers/

@dav3wi11
It might be a disincentive to a laptop thief.

Looks weird as hell tho.

@dav3wi11 you’d be surprised at how easy it would be to get that many stickers. I’ve gotten 3 (one from Meh) unsolicited stickers in the past week alone.

@f00l I’ve found a couple of small stickers that would be appropriate for my netbook, but I can’t bear the idea of putting them on it. “Weird as hell” indeed.

@daveinwarsh
Around here you sometimes see stickers that say something like this:

Very pleased to meet you.

@daveinwarsh The parking pass is kind of out of your control, but the rest are a bad idea. Of course none of that could be true and you could be giving anyone who wanted to track you down lots of false leads…

@Moose Just curious, how much is the appropriate amount of love to have for chickens? It also bugs me that it isn’t spelled “Crabby”

@lichme I can only guess they spelled it that way since Hillary is only spelled with one L instead of the more common two.

It bothers me as well.

@Moose

@lichme It’s very nuanced.

@themutilator I used to have the Ladies sticker, too. My friends made me de-sticker my car when I had to drive to Baton Rouge many years ago.

@sligett My dog’s grooming and bath accessories are in a big fabric basket with that embroidered on it. I bought it at a charity auction for a local rescue.

@DaveInSoCal I also have a trackable geocaching sticker on my car, along with an oval blaze orange State Game Lands one.

@daveinwarsh Can you imagine the kids. “Dad, really - take it off?” “Shut up, they think it’s funny - sometimes it works.” Texas is fun.

@daveinwarsh I believe there’s one in the driver’s seat.