{"id":475,"date":"2007-01-30T22:03:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T06:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2008-06-22T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T16:09:59","slug":"irony-supplement-part-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Irony Supplement, Part 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately I do not have a photo to go with this installment of Irony Supplement; I was not sufficiently swift with my cell phone camera when the opportunity presented itself this morning.<\/p>\n

I was on the road just south of downtown Seattle when I spied a purple 2000-something Honda Civic with a bumper sticker that read,<\/p>\n

“DON’T LET THE CAR FOOL YOU:
\nTHE KEY TO MY<\/em> TREASURE IS IN HEAVEN.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

This sort of smarmy slogan is just the kind of thing that gets under my skin. Like that other, more common deity-oriented bumper sticker, “CHRISTIANS AREN’T PERFECT….JUST FORGIVEN,” the text above positively drips<\/em> with a particularly rank sort of irony. The irony that comes from someone choosing to use their bumper to broadcast a deep-seated sense of their own superiority, poorly masked as humility. Sort of a “Hey, I’m WAAAYYYY more modest than YOOOOU” kinda thing. Seems to me to be a particularly un-Christ-like sentiment, canyoudigit.<\/p>\n

For some reason, I found the bumper sticker I spotted today to be even more ironic–and annoying–than its more popular cousin. There was something extra-super-mondo-king-size stupid about the concept behind this particular proclamation, considering that:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The idea of attempting to draw attention to one’s vehicle as an object of opulence and source of envy is a highly materialistic<\/em> and not very spiritual<\/em> attitude to take, and<\/li>\n
  2. As objects of opulence and sources of envy go, her car was neither.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Not helping to reduce the overall irony quotient was the fact that she drove like a total asshole. Made me wish I was sporting a bumper sticker reading, “JESUS HATES THE WAY YOU DRIVE.” \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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