Things that are irrelevant enough that I can’t develop them into posts of their own, but which require comment regardless.

Recently spotted bumper stickers:

“GOD HEARTS FAGS”
Noted on the bumper of a mid ’90s model Toyota also sporting a “Vampire Tattoo and Piercing Studio” bumper sticker, a rainbow ribbon magnet, and a license plate holder outlined in skulls. I thought it was notable as it was made to look rather a lot like the signs that those religious homophobes who follow a certain loudmouth apostate wave that read “GOD HATES FAGS”. The similarity was really quite remarkable. 😈

“HEY ACLU ‘Merry Christmas!'”
Noted on the bumper of (of course) a late model gigantor American SUV (a GMC Jimmy?). To which I respond, “oh get OVER yourself!”. Christianity isn’t the ONLY religion in the world, accept the fact that there are people in the world, even in the United States of America, who don’t worship like you do and that they might not appreciate what they consider a religious reference as a greeting. Consider how you’d feel if, everywhere you went, people said to you “Allah akhbar”. Upset yet? Yeah, I bet you are.
So shut the hell up about Christmas and wish people a happy holiday season. If they don’t like your Christmas then just leave them alone. 🙄

Recently heard inanities:

“Do you want a coupon book for the weekend after Thanksgiving?”
The receipt checker at the outside door of Costco asked me this as I was leaving with a $300 load of groceries. We routinely make one massive Costco run somewhat before Thanksgiving and then stay the hell away until the middle of January or so. When I was walking out the door with what obviously amounted to a huge amount of groceries, what on EARTH made him think I’d want (or need) to come back a week later? 😯
To say nothing of the fact that there is no amount of money on earth that would be enough to get me within 10 miles of Costco on the weekend after Thanksgiving.

“My cat’s got an abscess on his face, but I’m not going to take him to the vet. I wouldn’t go to the doctor myself for something like that so I won’t take my cat for something I can take care of at home.”
Really?
You wouldn’t go to a doctor if you had a massive infection on your face? You’d rather sit around with a pocket of pus under your skin and a huge fever? (and from experience I can say with certainty that cats with facial abscesses tend to have shocking fevers)
Why do people say things like that to veterinarians? If they’re trying to impress us with their compassion or savvy in treating animals they’re not. Pretty much universally we think that people who futz around with home remedies for something that we can fix quickly and definitively are complete jerks.

And, my descent into Andy Rooney-ville:

Since when have pajamas been acceptable outerwear? I have started noticing people wandering around in public in p.j. pants and sweat shirts. Weird, no? To say nothing of REMARKABLY drafty this time of year.

We have been hearing sponsorship ads on NPR from the Mini corporation. Y’know, those remarkably cute little cars? They advertise themselves on NPR as having “go-cart handling”. Erm… I don’t WANT my car to have go-cart handling. I prefer my car to have real live grown up car handling. Although, as Andrew put it, at least go-cart handling is better than bumper car handling.