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Road Rage Linked To Automobile Bumper Stickers
Ponca City, We Love You sends news of a study by Colorado State University psychologist William Szlemko that recorded whether people had added seat covers, bumper stickers, special paint jobs, stereos, or plastic dashboard toys to their cars. Szlemko found a link between road rage and the number of personalized items on or in people's vehicles. "The number of territory markers predicted road rage better than vehicle value, condition, or any of the things that we normally associate with aggressive driving,' says Szlemko. What's more, only the number of bumper stickers, and not their content, predicted road rage... Szlemko suggests that this territoriality may encourage road rage because drivers are simultaneously in a private space (their car) and a public one (the road). 'We think they are forgetting that the public road is not theirs, and are exhibiting territorial behavior that normally would only be acceptable in personal space,' the researcher says.
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Here in the UK you rarely see bumper stickers, yet road rage is not exactly rare. So I don't really see the correlation. Having said that, whenever I see the Jesus fish on the back of a car, I do want to run it off the road on general principle. But maybe that's just me.
I walk past a car at my work's parking lot that has Bush stickers all over it. I have fantasies about keying the holy living shit out of that car as I pass it. I don't DO it - I don't really know how to key a car, never having done it before, and I can control my impulses.
Not everyone can control their impulses.
This is very helpful information. Now I'll know which vehicles my wife should keep the gun trained on.
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as a cyclist I lack opportunities for such displays of wit(I guess I could use my backpack), but if I did, it would have to read:
"The size of ones genitals is inversely proportional to the size of ones vehicle"
The best part is that SUV drivers would run out of fuel before they could even catch up!
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Ixthus fish and a Volvo badge: that combination is my number one worry when I'm out on a bike.
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Are you insinuating that strawberries have low IQs? Perhaps they are simply too intelligent to deal with lower life-forms such as ours?
In those days, I was already fed up with the habit of Quayle and the rest of the Reagan Republican camp of vilifying people whose beliefs ran counter to their own by using the word "Liberal" as an epithet. I felt that Quayle was not qualified for to hold the second-highest or highest offices in in the land. I bought a bumper sticker and pasted it on the back of my car, as close to eye level as the car allowed:
I came out of a few hours shopping at a regional mall to find the bumper sticker peeled off my car, folded, accordion-style, and lying a few feet from the car. I was astonished at the attack on my free speech, and wondered at the fury behind it. I calmed down once I concluded that the vandal's action showed that my message had struck home. I replaced the bumper sticker, which stayed on, this time without vandalism.I dunno about that, but I do know that nearly 100% of hardened drug-crazed criminals started out by drinking milk at a young age.
I think I saw that phrase on a bumper sticker....
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Road rage is caused by me being unable to shoot you in the head for being such an asshole. Attention shitheads here are the things you should avoid:
Driving a white Buick 25mph under the speed limit.
Slowing down when I'm behind you and speeding up when I try to pass.
Being shorter than the dashboard.
Zoning out at a green light.
Goosing the throttle on your Harley you fat fuck.
A ricer wing bigger than Mexico.
Passing me on a one lane highway ramp.
Stopping, yes stopping at the end of a merge ramp on to the highway you redneck motherfucker.
Waiting for a half mile of no traffic in both directions to make a left turn.
Green light, asshole, it's not getting any greener.
No, the secret is to run the muthafscka off the fsckin road! If you do that, you'll never have a problem with road rage, because you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that that asshole got exactly what the fsck he deserved! Ha!
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No we don't. How very dare you to even suggest such a thing. We comment because we can, not because we have sigs. If you don't like it, you can fuck off.
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"when some POS blue car "
What kind of car was it?
I have my own "study", that is at least as scientific as the one in TFA. I live in St Louis and have compiled a list of bad drivers. See if you notice this next time some idiot cuts you off. Bad drivers, in descending order:
1) anyone driving a Pontiac. They drive crazy stupid, cut you off, and are the most belligerent of the bad drivers.
2) anyone with stuffed animals, beanie babies, etc on the back dashboard. These folks are oblivious to everything around them and are a danger to themselves and others. These are the idiots who pull in front of you doing 5mph when you are doing 40.
3) anyone with Illinois plates, ESPECIALLY IL temp tags (in St Louis). In IL, people with IL plates drive just fine. It's just when in St Louis. These folks usually have expired tags and are often illegal aliens. Something about loopholes in IL laws make these super easy to get.
4) anyone driving a Mustang. These are the idiots who always want to race and leave streaks of rubber at every light. Mustangs suck. Stop gunning your engine. Nobody is impressed.
5) anyone driving a dodge neon (or a comparable car) with *any* aftermarket "bling" parts. It's a piece of crap, and those $20 k-mart plastic "chrome" hubcaps complete with spinners do nothing but draw attention to that fact.
In your case, I'll bet it was either a Pontiac or a Mustang that cut you off.
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Er... bumper stickers?!? SCROLL SCROLL
then create a list of who you would kill first, as emperor of your perfect little world.
Special Olympics kids would be way down on my list. First, I'd kill that sorry bitch that cut me off in traffic this morning, then that asshole that flipped me off b/c I merged into his lane right in front of him, then that sorry sack that was going 2 mph under the speed limit in the middle lane...
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Dude, what do you think is holding the car together?
G.He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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