Vulgar bumper stickers

[Guest MormonGator]

Recently a "man" (I use that term loosely) posted an extremely vulgar bumper sticker on his car and got arrested for it. I'm not going to post a link to it, because I find it trashy and disgusting. 

I'm not sure that he should have been arrested-you have the right to be disgusting in this country-but @LadyGator and I were talking about this this morning. Has anyone else noticed that bumper stickers have gotten more trashy and vulgar lately? I haven't noticed, but I haven't been looking for it either. 

Edited May 8, 2019 by MormonGator

[Guest Mores]

4 minutes ago, MormonGator said:

Recently a "man" (I use that term loosely) posted an extremely vulgar bumper sticker on his car and got arrested for it. I'm not sure that he should have been arrested-you have the right to be disgusting in this country-but @LadyGator and I were talking about this this morning. Has anyone else noticed that bumper stickers have gotten more trashy and vulgar lately? I haven't noticed, but I haven't been looking for it either. 

I had not.  But now that you mention it, I believe they have.  Ever since the "stuff" happens bumper sticker that started showing up in the 70s or 80s, yeah, they've gotten worse.

[Guest MormonGator]

5 minutes ago, Mores said:

I had not.  But now that you mention it, I believe they have.  Ever since the "stuff" happens bumper sticker that started showing up in the 70s or 80s, yeah, they've gotten worse.

I hadn't noticed it either until I read this story. I'm from the south, I notice college football bumper stickers. 

No one who has spoken to me for more than five minutes would ever consider me a prude, but I do think his bumper sticker crossed the line. 

[Just_A_Guy]

I’m in Utah, so I haven’t really noticed anything.  Going back and watching movies that I used to watch as a kid in the 80s, though—its amazing how much vulgarity and innuendo there was that just didn’t even register with me.  It’s hard for me to tell whether society generally is getting coarser, or whether I’m just more attenuated to it now.

I will respectfully point out, though, that vulgar/obscene speech is not necessarily constitutionally protected.

[Vort]

3 hours ago, Mores said:

I had not.  But now that you mention it, I believe they have.  Ever since the "stuff" happens bumper sticker that started showing up in the 70s or 80s, yeah, they've gotten worse.

Even when I was in high school, clear back in the late '70s and early '80s, there were students with "Sex Wax" surfboard wax t-shirts featuring lurid taglines for the product. The coarsening of society has been going on since my birth in the early 1960s, coincident with the rise of sexual permissivity and the general popularity of rock music (which were related phenomena).

[NeuroTypical]

3 hours ago, MormonGator said:

Has anyone else noticed that bumper stickers have gotten more trashy and vulgar lately? I haven't noticed, but I haven't been looking for it either. 

The endemic Calvin-knockoff urinating on a Ford sticker isn't quite as popular, but still around.  Occasionally I'll see the occasional driver happy to display the F word on their car, maybe once a month or so. 

Yesterday's school shooter in Denver apparently had an "f society" sticker on his driver's side door.  (If you haven't heard about it, it might be because the shooter apparently liked Obama, hated Trump, and his sidekick might have been transitioning from one gender to another). 

[Guest Mores]

3 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

(If you haven't heard about it, it might be because the shooter apparently liked Obama, hated Trump, and his sidekick might have been transitioning from one gender to another). 

Yep.

[Guest LiterateParakeet]

5 hours ago, MormonGator said:

I'm not sure that he should have been arrested-you have the right to be disgusting in this country-but @LadyGator and I were talking about this this morning. Has anyone else noticed that bumper stickers have gotten more trashy and vulgar lately? I haven't noticed, but I haven't been looking for it either. 

Aw, but do you have the right to be disgusting IN PUBLIC. I think that is the difference. You can walk around naked, and watch porn in privacy, but you can't do it in public. 

I do think bumper stickers have gotten increasingly vulgar. I think I notice it because I'm a mom, and many times I think, "Oh man, I hope my son didn't see that bumper sticker."  

[Guest MormonGator]

19 minutes ago, LiterateParakeet said:

Aw, but do you have the right to be disgusting IN PUBLIC. I think that is the difference. 

Agree. If you are caught doing something indecent in public, than you should be prosecuted for lewd and lascivious/indecent exposure/public grossness, whatever the charge might be. I'm with you 100% on that. 

This was "just" a filthy bumper sticker. And I'm not a lawyer, but I do think it was legal and wrong for the cop to stop him. It's not what I agree with, but the law doesn't care what @MormonGator thinks, sadly. 

And don't get me wrong, I know that what is dirty to one person might be funny to the next person. 

Edited May 8, 2019 by MormonGator

[mordorbund]

3 hours ago, LiterateParakeet said:

You can walk around naked

Don't say that to @MormonGator.

Too late.

[NeedleinA]

8 hours ago, MormonGator said:

Has anyone else noticed that bumper stickers have gotten more trashy and vulgar lately?

Yes. Even more so with the images than words.