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Why? Seriously, can someone explain what they are supposed to achieve?

Does anyone change their driving habits because there may or may not be a kid in the car ahead of you?

Any obsessive mothers out there want to defend yourselves?:p

Well, I believe the original meaning was to notify rescue workers in the event of a crash that there was a baby in the car. However, people left the sign in the car all the time, whether or not they were transporting a baby.

Eventually, it took on other meanings (as you noted, "be careful not to hit my car").

And finally, it all faded out here (at least around where I live).

Nothing worth getting your road rage hackles up over.

"I bought a baby on board sticker now people will stop unintentionally ramming our car."

I have a bumper sticker on my Passat that says, "Driver Is Armed".

I think it was best put by the B-Sharps:

Baby on board
How I've adored
That sign on my car's windowpane
Bounce in my step
Loaded with pep
'Cause I'm driving in the carpool lane
Call me a square
Friend, I don't care
That little yellow sign can't be ignored
I'm tellin' you it's mighty nice
Each trip's a trip to paradise
With my baby on board!

we don't have them in poland.

we don't have them in poland.

Ditto here.

Well, I believe the original meaning was to notify rescue workers in the event of a crash that there was a baby in the car. However, people left the sign in the car all the time, whether or not they were transporting a baby.

Eventually, it took on other meanings (as you noted, "be careful not to hit my car").

And finally, it all faded out here (at least around where I live).

Nothing worth getting your road rage hackles up over.

Never thought of it that way, interesting.

And I choose to raise my road rage heckles at the only group I that wont get out of the car and slap 7 shades of shite out of me, women and children :D

we don't have them in poland.

They forgot Poland again!

They forgot Poland again!

no. poles simply no better. also i've been to other european countries, never seen "baby on board" stickers there.

no. poles simply no better. also i've been to other european countries, never seen "baby on board" stickers there.

I haven't seen one here since the late 80s. They were stupid then, and they're stupid now.

Anyway, you'll use anything to take a shot at the US, won't you?

Safety is certainly part of it but some people want the entire world to know that they have a baby. Proud parents and all that, like when parents want everyone to know with a bumper sticker that they "are the proud parent of an honor roll student". It is to show up other parents.

Anyway, you'll use anything to take a shot at the US, won't you?

easy tiger, this is a frivolity thread, and besides, im european, so you are both wrong.

easy tiger, this is a frivolity thread, and besides, im european, so you are both wrong.

Yes, even DK knows when it's time to joke around... :fluffle:

Why? Seriously, can someone explain what they are supposed to achieve?

Does anyone change their driving habits because there may or may not be a kid in the car ahead of you?

Any obsessive mothers out there want to defend yourselves?:p

I havent seen one in years but when I did see them I translated the sign to mean "Distracted Driver on Board"

easy tiger, this is a frivolity thread, and besides, im european, so you are both wrong.

I've been getting after him for nationalistic dick-waving for months. He's just as bad as the American dick-wavers.

Wow, Baby on Board signs...welcome to 20 years ago. That's an odd thing to bitch about now. Just about every avenue has been explored by hack comics and good ones alike.

I need one that says "I am here to ride bike."

Wow, Baby on Board signs...welcome to 20 years ago. That's an odd thing to bitch about now. Just about every avenue has been explored by hack comics and good ones alike.

They're trying to make a comeback. I've seen a few in the last six months or so. :eek:

Personally, I think it's awfully convenient for parents to let me know which cars the babies are in. :D

Personally, I think it's awfully convenient for parents to let me know which cars the babies are in. :D

That would be funnier if you weren't grinning like a pedophile. :p

That would be funnier if you weren't grinning like a pedophile. :p

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Quite interesting. I just saw two similiar signs that said:

"Quit following me I'm lost too."

AND

"If you think my music is too loud, then you are too old."

Safety is certainly part of it but some people want the entire world to know that they have a baby. Proud parents and all that, like when parents want everyone to know with a bumper sticker that they "are the proud parent of an honor roll student". It is to show up other parents.

It has nothing to do with showing up other parents, you're letting your cynicism show through here I think and thinking the worst of people in general.

I don’t have a “honor roll” sticker on my car (yet) and I admit that I’m not even looking forward to it. However, my eleven year old informed me just the other day that she’s trying to get on the honor roll at her school so that she can put one of those stickers on my car. :(

I have zero desire to show up other parents, that is the farthest thing from my mind, but denying my daughter the opportunity to display her hard earned sticker would be anal-retentive on my part for NOT letting her put it on the car. I'm absolutely positive that I'm not the only parent that feels this way.

On the back of my Passat:

http://prodtn.cafepress.com/nocache/5/35568545_F_tn.jpg

I have zero desire to show up other parents, that is the farthest thing from my mind, but denying my daughter the opportunity to display her hard earned sticker would be anal-retentive on my part for NOT letting her put it on the car. I'm absolutely positive that I'm not the only parent that feels this way.

Wow, I never knew many kids who WANTED to have their parents tell people what good grades they are getting. Not very cool.

when I was pregnant with my second child I had a maternity shirt that said "baby on board" it was cute....

oh, and I don't have one of those stickers, I have a bumpersticker on the back of my jeep that says "homeschoolers have no class"

but that's just because my kids think it's funny. ;)

On the back of my Passat:

http://prodtn.cafepress.com/nocache/5/35568545_F_tn.jpg

I assume that says "I'm fuckin' crazy" in Arabic.

Wow, I never knew many kids who WANTED to have their parents tell people what good grades they are getting. Not very cool.

hey when I was in elementary school and I got the sticker that said I was on the "Presidents honor roll" I wanted it on my mom's car, I was proud of it, just like I was proud of my letter signed by president Regan that said I was doing a good job.

Wow, I never knew many kids who WANTED to have their parents tell people what good grades they are getting. Not very cool.

Eleven year children are at that in-between age, sometimes they want to be big, sometimes they are still little children. We should temper our judgmental tendencies of deciding if they are 'cool' or not. They like to feel proud of themselves and they like to feel like they are doing well. If it were sports, they’d like to show off their trophy, not hide it in a box in the garage, academics are equally important with sport achievements IMO.

Why? Seriously, can someone explain what they are supposed to achieve?
I live in the same country as you and I have never seen one. But considerong how fucking Americanised this country is becoming it's only a matter of time, surely.

I can't see the point of them either, much like the 'Parent and Child' parking spaces - why should they have preferential, wider spaces just because they have kids and 'Baby On Board' stickers?

I'm going to ban such discriminatory parking in my country.

Eleven year children are at that in-between age, sometimes they want to be big, sometimes they are still little children. We should temper our judgmental tendencies of deciding if they are 'cool' or not. They like to feel proud of themselves and they like to feel like they are doing well. If it were sports, they’d like to show off their trophy, not hide it in a box in the garage, academics are equally important with sport achievements IMO.

I am almost tempted to say more important than sports. Being in good physical shape is important, but being in good mental shape seems more important to me.

It's like my grandma used to say "beauty fades but dumb is forever" it's similar with fitness and education.

Those stickers make we want to ram the car it's on... :rolleyes:

Anyway, even more stupid are those stickers on the horse trailers saying "Attention - tournament horses!".

Usually that'll earn them a honking horn while I pass them...

I have seen a way to ridicule them, though, and it's a great one, too:

"Attention - tournament hamsters!" :D

hey when I was in elementary school and I got the sticker that said I was on the "Presidents honor roll" I wanted it on my mom's car, I was proud of it, just like I was proud of my letter signed by president Regan that said I was doing a good job.

My elementary school didn't give out those kinds of things, all I got was a ribbon for having to give a speech to the school. (a 6th grade requirement). I was just glad when I was finally finished and could sit back down.

Those stickers make we want to ram the car it's on... :rolleyes:

Anyway, even more stupid are those stickers on the horse trailers saying "Attention - tournament horses!".

Usually that'll earn them a honking horn while I pass them...

I have seen a way to ridicule them, though, and it's a great one, too:

"Attention - tournament hamsters!" :D

I particularly enjoy the "Vorsicht - Lebendtransport!" * ones you see on the pig-haulers on their way to the slaughterhouse around here. As if it mattered anymore..

* Careful - live animals transport