Wednesday, July 15, 2009

bumper stickers and gas prices.

its nice to see gas prices may have maxed out for the summer (not holding my breathe though) without us having to hit the 4 dollar, or even the 3 dollar mark this year. but when gas prices were going back up i got pretty frustrated. not with the fact that they were going up, everyone knew that would happen, but how they would all uniformally go up. every gas station went up at the same time.

now its hard to think back all the way to when hurricane katrina hit, but when that was coming through, and it took out some of the oil refinerys in florida, gas prices didnt go up uniformally. instead one station would sky rocket, then another, then another. it would happen as each gas station ran out of gas and needed to get new gas shipped in. the new gas, obviously, was much more expensive.

so heres what i dont understand. why do gas prices go up uniformally now? no one is getting new gas, they are just raising their prices. this might be so they can cover their asses when it comes time to buy the more expensive gas, but.......i doubt it. cause, during the big gas crisis last year...record profits. its just all bullshit and its bad for you.

now ive been noticing something lately that i love and hate all at the same time. thats bumper stickers. people are so idiotic when it comes to bumper stickers. case in point, the old calvin pissing on things sticker. when i was a kid i loved those cause i loved calvin and hobbes. now they're just dumb though. no longer are they witty and offensive, they're just stupid. they dont even show anything anymore. hes standing there pissing, like hes been doing from the begginning of time, but instead of a picture, theres just a word or phrase like 'al qaeda' or 'ex wife.' so...umm...what are you saying? thats just flat out not creative, and if you have that on your car you should have some respect for yourself and take it off.

christ, if you just wrote 'i hate my ex wife' on a blank sticker with a sharpie and threw it on there i think you'd be saying more.

bumper stickers have also led people to be very arrogant. case in point: this.

we get it man. you fucking hunt. congradulations. do you need to have basically the exact same sticker 6 different times? no. its just overwhelming and obnoxious to look at. the only thing worse is those pictures that take up the entire back window. its just unneccessary, show-offy in the most idiotic way, and over the top. people dont need that many stickers that all basically say 'hey everyone, i hunt'

and it might be hard to see, but in the bottom right corner of the window....there it is, a palin/mccain sticker. im glad this guy isnt giving up the good fight, even though its not getting anywhere. what are you trying to say by leaving that sticker on your car? tough break, we'll get 'em next time? i just dont understand any of it.

but theres worse when it comes to political bumper stickers. like this one.


why? hilary clinton? not even 'for president' cause then the argument above would hold true. but 're-elect'? how warped are your political views that you want to re-elect that witch. but if you really do want to keep her in office, say those words in the solice of your own home, so you dont have to tarnish the eyes of the rest of the world.

thats almost as bad as it gets i think. unless you still are rocking your 'obama for change' bumper sticker. and yeah, people still have those. obviously they havent watched the news sense the election. cause boy oh boy has there been SO much change, and all for the good of man kind too....

its just so frustrating seeing this shit, at least for me. and one more question. sense when is obesity a handicap? do those people really need to park closer to the grocery store? do we need to not only have people be over-weight, but lazy as well?

just some things people do...........blow my mind.


currently listening to:
fluent in stroll. best record ive heard in a long time.