Today while driving home from work, Nat and I saw an older Jeep Wrangler that had this I love Pirates bumper sticker. OK, that is not a fair representation of the car. The car had a NJ Devils (the hockey team) tire cover and license plate holder, a NY Giants Super Bowl Champions bumper sticker, as well as about 3 or a dozen more. While there were lots of sports related stickers, I couldn't get past the I heart Pirates sticker, at least in the sense that I thought that sticker basically symbolized the driver of the car being a female. When I verbalized this to Nat, she quickly disagreed with me and asked for my logic.
My logic? While I can see lots of guys covering the back of their car with loads of stickers, I cannot think of a single one that would willing put an I heart Pirates sticker on their car. I mean, what kind of statement is that? It is not a political statement, or a statement of loyalty to a sports team, or crazed philosophy. It's a statement of love for a way of life, that short of this being Somalia, is something reserved for Disney, it goes by the way of a lifestyle similar to those of a LARPers nationwide. In the later case, I doubt a serious pirate would put a sticker on a Jeep Wrangler stating that they love pirates.
Thus, I take my opinion to you, my loyal listeners. I do like pirate movies and even an occasional visit to a theme park, but I do not heart pirates.
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I agree with the premise of everything you're saying, but I have to be honest that I've never known a woman who was into pirates... but I've known a lot of guys, like Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, who have a crazy fondness for them. Come to think of it, maybe it WAS Mike Leach? There's an opening in Knoxville, and he likes football, right?
I have to also qualify that B made the statement that "NO self respecting man in the entire world would have that bumper sticker on his car". I can't agree with that statement on two levels: 1. Statistically speaking, there must be at least one male who would have that on his car, and 2. There is no way to determine if the person driving the car in front is or is not self respecting. I maintain that there is at least one man in the world who has an I heart pirates bumper sticker.
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