Ok, this Ribbon Magnet craze is about as dumbass as the pet rock

Now I see a rainbow color magnet that is just a generic representation for "Cancer Awareness". And if you get close enough to the car with the magnet, there's a tiny key to what the various colors represent. Of course to get that close your front bumper pretty much has to interlock with the rear bumper of the car with the dumbass magnet.

About 15 years ago a wonderful trend started at the Oscars. AIDS was becoming a major crisis in the United States and the attendees at the Oscars wore tiny red ribbons on their lapels to show support for AIDS awareness. They wanted others to know of the seriousness of the disease and many got involved with donations and recognition.

But fast-forward to today and personally, I think this whole ribbon crazy is just stupid. Someone is making money off of those ribbons and I can almost guarantee it's not the causes that they support. Hell the whole "Yellow Ribbon" craze is based on a bad song from Tony Orlando & Dawn about a guy getting out of jail. Now it's the theme for all of us to hope for someone we love to come home safely from overseas. Of course if I had signed up for one weekend a month and got shanghaied into going to Iraq, I suppose I'd feel like I was in jail too!

So please, let's not support this dumbass craze anymore. If you want to support your troops (or cancer, or whatever other diseases we're supporting), take the $2.50/car you're spending and send it to the Red Cross or some other group that truly helps support our troops. This magnet craze is just stupid and I think it's an insult, especially the yellow ribbon magnets, to our troops. If you truly want to support them - fight to bring them home now!

I liked my pet rock! He was a true stoner that doubled for a stoner's stone, if you know what I mean.

Don't talk about pet rocks, they were very cool and some did serve a purpose! :hi:

It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to drive a mile or less away from my home and NOT see a soccer mom driving the biggest 8-cylinder vehicle built by GM or Ford.

IM-FUCKING-POSSIBLE.

And AT LEAST 50% of these Detroit behemoths are decorated with a ribbon magnet.

Like the title of an old book, "You Laugh, Or You Cry."

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Thanks Havocmom for sharing this!!!

Make your yellow ribbon something to worry the wingers! Razz them and let them know we see through them. If enough people put on snide, cutting ribbons, we will force the dolts to take theirs down. Together, we will make ribbon jingos obsolete!

Call the slackers on their pretense of patriotism and troop supporting! Slapping a jingo on the car is not being a good citizen! Show them up for the simpleminded phonies they are! Shame them into walking the walk instead of talking the talk!

After we win the ribbon war, we take back the flag and shove those lapel pins up their noses! This we will do to honor that Great American, Bill Moyers!

I was younger. They are really brine shrimp. I can still remember how horrified I was when a girl came home from school with me and picked up their little home and dumped them out. I was on the floor trying to save them. After that, the rest of them died. I could never get the salt to water ratio thing right without the little packets.

i aLways wanted them as a kid, but my parents wouLdn't Let me.

brine shrimp? i thought they were monkeys... and wore crowns and rode sea horses.

fun to keep as pets. The little aquariums they came with had these circles of magnifying glass so you could see them a little easier. They really did look like some sort of seahorse/monkey type creature to some degree. I even had a race track for racing them. I lost all that stuff in the move, unfortunately. You can still get the eggs from science wholesale type places. They keep for a long time.

I also had a pet xenopus, water only frog. He would have died if someone had taken him out of the water. He had webbed feet and I got him as a tadpole in a styrofoam container that was about an inch thick. As he grew, he lost his tail and grew legs. He got to be a big thing too. I fed him earthworms, one a day. I also had an earthworm that was about a foot long as a pet and some hermit crabs as pets too. And a couple of gerbils. And a terrarium with a Venus Fly Trap in it. I had an entire table in my room devoted to these strange pets. It was fun, but took a lot of work to keep it clean and the gerbils made scratching noises at night because I had leash trained them and they were spoiled to it. I eventually let "Emmet" sleep with me some nights to quieten him down, then my mother caught me and made me keep him in the cage. That bummed me out.

Glad your back. :pals:

I always love to shock the Monkey!!!!

A cowbell magnet!

(That never stops being funny!)

www.enoughwiththeribbons.com

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One is the standard tricolor that says "Support the Troops". Proceeds from it's purchase went to a local National Guard outfit that was serving in Iraq. The other is white with blue trim, includes a peace sign and says "Bring the troops home." I got that one for free from a Nader supporter. I'm loath to remove either one at this point because there are folks at work who have loved ones in Iraq and they have the ribbons and I think it may give them a little bit of emotional support to see them on other cars. But I understand your displeasure at all this. There's a car I often see in the parking lot at work that has a couple of GWB stickers, a large tricolor ribbon that shouts "One Nation Under God" and a much smaller one that whispers "Support the Troops."

edit: sorry. meant to reply to the OP.

I see cars with up to 10 ribbons on them. It's insane. A very popular one is the black and gold generic "Go Pittsburgh" ribbon that the idiotic Steeler fans had on. Enjoying a football team is NOT a cause to be sporting a ribbon, FUCKERS!!!!

It started with the Lance Armstrong "Livestrong" bracelet which seemed like a neat and innovative idea. Now there's a bracelet of every color for just about any cause under the sun and I wonder where the money for them is going. I'd be willing to bet it's NOT going to the causes they supposedly represent - I've seen those bracelets with everything from diseases to catchy slogans printed on them.

It's too bad that good ideas always seem to be hijacked and made meaningless.

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to a charity, where it will do some good, instead of adding more useless clutter.

Redstone