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[–] [email protected] 128 points 2 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"You are a fun person that I should get to know better."

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"This person has expensive, resellable sex toys that they likely wont file a police report over"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

People buy used sex toys? I couldn't even if it was sterilized in an autoclave.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Medical grade silicone, easy to sterilize apparently

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

This post sponsored by bad dragon. Sharable! Stealable!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lol, the community over in reddit basically had as many people buying/selling as they did posts of people using the products. I think they had it in the forums for the bd site as well.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

No, but the seller can lie :^)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You bet your ass I'm filing a report over it. Those things are expensive and they also aren't available all the time. You need to get on a waiting list for some models.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a market for secondhand toys?

On second thought, I don't wanna know.

[–] DarkSirrush 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For bad ragons in specific? Yes. Last I checked there was a subreddit and a section in heir official forums to do so, and I am sure there were more spaces I didn't know about (because I never cared to try looking).

There are literally trusted middlemen for ensuring you don't get scammed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That's nuts (pun intended).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

"I work in IT."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is a car where i work that has 5 ish different bad dragon head stickers with no mention of the brand name. No one can call them out without admitting they know what the logo is, and they keep adding more. They are my hero.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We were talking about power tools at work and I said I'm happy with my Hitachi corded drill. I was disappointed no one even blinked.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

"What's Strange Albert doing in the Impact Zone, Mike???"

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is exactly why I don't put shit on my car. That plus it's incredibly lame.

I'll appreciate a funny one on someone else's car though. And I also appreciate when someone puts a sticker on clearly showing they're not worth even talking to, like political stickers or racist right wing extremist cult nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Punisher sticker- yeah we're not going to get along at all.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't put stickers on my cars typically. But man is this paranoid to the extreme. Unless you're driving an expensive car it's unlikely it would make you a target for anything other than road rage.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, my spouse has received death threats because of her line of work. We have 2 small children and we make sure they have no online presence at all (no pictures, comments, tags, etc), and we intentionally make sure to not have anything identifiable like this on our car. Our other family members have been included in threats before. If someone, for any reason, is targeting you, youre actually giving them a ton of information. Its easier to just not put it on your car and not risk it

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I wonder what my Trogdor the Burninator sticker is secretly telling people about me.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It tells me you can type with boxing gloves on your hands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

LOL - Oh no! My privacy has been breached!!! Destroy the compy!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Any bumper sticker threatening gun violence to thieves merely informs them fhat you own the only thing that gets more valuable when stolen

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This seems paranoid to a silly degree

Edit: Oh it's police propaganda, no wonder it's bad.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

What if I have a car covered in weeb shit. I don’t, but what if I did

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

"Good target for romance scam."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nobody's breaking in because they know the smell will be overpowering

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ll have you know I shower occasionally

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What about thin blue line or I support police stickers huh richland pd??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That says: I support racist policing tactics, and might have guns, food buckets, testosterone creams, and dick pills at my house to steal.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Shit like this is why nobody cares about privacy any more.

Bunch of security media post stupid article about how stickers are leaking into and people just add it to the collection of dumb privacy shit they are told and don't give a fuck about.

Nobody is seeing a baseball sticker and using that to rob your house. It's made up of fantasy shit that doesn't occur in the real world.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I have a bunch of Hyena Agenda and Nomad Complex stickers on my car.

All it says is "I am a furry."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have a big sticker that says "honk if you're a silly goose" and another that says "eat the rich"

so... what does that say about me? :p

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Potential terrorist. Keep under surveilance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

While mostly rich people problems, privacy is not the opposite of expression.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Generic car at shopping centre: "that looks like my mates car, but I dont know for sure" Generic car + personalised plate/stickers: "oh look, mates here too"

Why I personally dont like personalising my car. Just announcing everyone your commute habbits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What does it about me when I’m driving a windowless van that has a sticker that’s say “Free Candy”?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This family has a LOT of activities. And is middle class, but ranking enough to have free time and money to buy stuff, possibly due to the oilfield worker.

Their neighborhood has family rivalries but is knit enough to have community barbecues. My daughter has best friends and ballet partners in the community, so at least we know our neighbors as fellow parents.

Oh and if you fuck with us, we have high-powered rifles and know how to track a bitch. We also have friends with a similar set of skills.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lol neighborhood... community... rofl.
Psychiatric disorders and a danger to the neighborhood as well as to any peaceful person. 100%

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

"Shady Pines Resident"

Hey, I heard Shady Pines burned down in a mysterious fire...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I've never noticed stickers under the numberplate, I guess they're not as popular where I live. Most stickers I see on cars are on the windows. The few cars I've seen with stickers on the body of the car itself were owned by teens and more often than not looking like a piece of worthless junk on wheels. It might be a cultural thing, I take OP's image relates mostly to America.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have surprised pikachu with a flower on his head, what does that say about me?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

If I was a potential thief, maybe that you have a valuable collection of Pokemon cards or a Switch somewhere.

[–] Doubleohdonut 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't it just imply you think your car is a trapper keeper?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

So if I'm understanding correctly, once I get rich from winning the lottery, I should build myself a sleeper with a "Hideous and Horny Commune" bumper sticker on the back.

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