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I have to say 'baby on board' stickers have always translated to me as a warning to other road users that goes:
"avoid this car like the damn plague, because the driver's attention is with the screaming child in the back & not on the road"

I guess that any sticker on a car is just a way to express yourself and your beliefs...

Perhaps it's an overwhelming sense of pride? I have also seen plenty of cars in CH with a Scottish flag sticker on the back. Why? Are people really that proud of where they come from or how many children they have that they feel the need to tell all the other drivers on the road?

In fact, my sticker even spells it out "I'm proud to be a Scot" Even though only my ancesters were, but as the saying goes, you can take the girl out of Scotland but you can never take Scotland out of the girl

Brilliant.

I've thought this many a time I can tell you.

You've managed to spawn, yeah ok, well that's statistically not very impressive to be honest. Advertising the fact, all over the place, urgh, desperate.

The alternative of course, would be to have a kid with a massive cross through it on your car. May not exactly send out the right message though...

On the other hand, I did chuckle a little bit at the thought. You heard the idea here first folks.

I always thought these types of signs are really funny. I remember back in the 80s, people that the "Baby on Board" signs that morphed into dogs and cats and grandpa etc. The signs are there to warn us that there is a baby or family in the car? As if I would aim to smash into them otherwise. I always have the mental image of a guy roaring up to T-bone an unsuspecting car for fun and screeching to halt last minute because he saw the baby on board sign.

When I was around 6 or 7 I had a tshirt printed with a picture of a train (I wanted to be a train driver back then) and my name on it.

It was popular to have tshirts or sweatshirts printed with your name on.

Of course, now I know that if someone knows your name it's easy to kidnap you. This is why I have a hundred Smiths locked in my cellar in London.

Whilst I agree the whole sticker/sign thing is great marketing, it was absolutley pounded into us to look for these things at a few accident rescue courses i have attended over the years. One instructor stated that they had experienced this personally (dead child thrown from a car during a rollover, no childseat or seatbelt on). It was more to emphise checking the whole scene in a large incident rather than worrying about the dead punters in the car.
Ugly and stupid as they are, people (myself included) do generally give you more parking space so little Johnny doesn't smash his door into your car.

I was just looking at a 20 year old Saab parked near work. There was a retro baby-on-board sticker in the back window too - all faded and crazed but hanging on still. Which means that this babe is probably the driver now.

Another interesting family sticker

In the seventies when I was a young 'un some family friends/relations bought me a t-shirt with my name (Debra) on it. I loved that t-shirt, it was red, my favourite colour at the time..

We went on holiday to Butlins (a family holiday village in the UK) and I was wearing my beloved t-shirt in the playground. A man came up to me and said well I see "de-bra", can I see "de-knickers"?. Being around 6 years old I didn't really understand what he meant but after I told my mum I was never allowed to wear that t-shirt again!

* Adding another entry to my list of unsuccessful chat-up lines *

If I'd wanted my daughter to have her name on her clothes, it would have been a lot simpler to name her Abercrombe.

Much cheaper to call her "Iron on reverse" though.

Normally you can tell they have kids by the cars they drive.

Would anybody buy something as ugly as an Espace if they had the choice?

so it's a sort of hazmat sticker?

In the countryside around here people make large plywood storks, hang a diaper
on its beak, stick it in the front garden, and anounce the new baby.

Something like this, with maybe baby name and date of birth,



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why is this thread wasting my valuable brain resources?

Once you get to zero, the pain stops.