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"You are a fun person that I should get to know better."
"This person has expensive, resellable sex toys that they likely wont file a police report over"
People buy used sex toys? I couldn't even if it was sterilized in an autoclave.
Medical grade silicone, easy to sterilize apparently
This post sponsored by bad dragon. Sharable! Stealable!
No, but the seller can lie :^)
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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.
Is there a market for secondhand toys?
On second thought, I don't wanna know.
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.
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"I work in IT."
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.
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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"What's Strange Albert doing in the Impact Zone, Mike???"
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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.
Punisher sticker- yeah we're not going to get along at all.
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I wonder what my Trogdor the Burninator sticker is secretly telling people about me.
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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.
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
Yeah there's personal tunnel vision for you. I'm lucky that my line of work is not the type that would enrage someone to violence so that didn't occur to me. I'm going to assume your wife is helping people in a way that crazies don't like. Please don't shatter the illusion if it's because her work hurts people.
She does help people. Shes a family law attorney and she deals with some real crazies and some real shitty situations. If shes getting a person/kids out of a domestic abuse situation, that other person gets real hot when they get a restraining order against their kids.
Or some other levels of crazy where her client believes their husband is trying to kill them by slowly poisoning them. She had a client bring in a bottle of shampoo to be analyzed because she was sure thats how he was doing it. Also that he was breaking in and spying on her and yada yada, but literally no evidence, so she couldnt give her any legal support. Well that person feels wronged. And hey, theyve been in your office where you have pictures painted by your kids so they know you have kids. If they see you go to your car in the parking lot with those kinda stickers, the crazy can continue (this is the person that actually threatened her father).
This seems paranoid to a silly degree
Edit: Oh it's police propaganda, no wonder it's bad.
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Any bumper sticker threatening gun violence to thieves merely informs them fhat you own the only thing that gets more valuable when stolen
What if I have a car covered in weeb shit. I don’t, but what if I did
"Good target for romance scam."
Nobody's breaking in because they know the smell will be overpowering
I’ll have you know I shower occasionally
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What about thin blue line or I support police stickers huh richland pd??
That says: I support racist policing tactics, and might have guns, food buckets, testosterone creams, and dick pills at my house to steal.
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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I have a bunch of Hyena Agenda and Nomad Complex stickers on my car.
All it says is "I am a furry."
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
Potential terrorist. Keep under surveilance.
While mostly rich people problems, privacy is not the opposite of expression.
What does it about me when I’m driving a windowless van that has a sticker that’s say “Free Candy”?
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.
Lol neighborhood... community... rofl.
Psychiatric disorders and a danger to the neighborhood as well as to any peaceful person. 100%
"Shady Pines Resident"
Hey, I heard Shady Pines burned down in a mysterious fire...
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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.
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.
I have surprised pikachu with a flower on his head, what does that say about me?
If I was a potential thief, maybe that you have a valuable collection of Pokemon cards or a Switch somewhere.
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