So, I had an encounter with a Limbicile yesterday.

[Fuddnik]

I deliver pizzas a couple of days a week, mainly for beer and golf money. I don't need the job, but it keeps me occupied.

Our shop is in a small strip mall, that we share with a sports bar, a Jimmy Johns franchise, and an AT&T store.

So I walked out to my car for a delivery, and heard some idiot behind my car ranting and raving about fucking assholes (he saw my Bernie 2016, and Feel the Bern bumperstickers on my car) Since I was on the clock, and my boss treats me pretty well, I really didn't want to engage with the nutcase anyway, so I tried to ignore him. He wouldn't let up as I was backing out and demanded to know if I was a Communist or an asshole. I told him both, and I was just 'feelin' the Bern, and that I was delighted at having ruined his day.

I could still hear him frothing at the mouth as I drove away. I mean seriously, dude. If I'd had 10 minutes to spare, I could have had you ready to be fitted for a straight jacket.

[Kalidurga]

1. Limbicile

I am stealing that.

[woodsprite]

8. That nickname fits my BIL and SIL to a T!

They think Trump is a business genius, just like Limbaugh. They kinda ruined Easter dinner last night.

[Kalidurga]

9. Ear plugs they aren't just for noisy work environments

[Equinox Moon]

28. "I was delighted at having ruined his day"

It's a tie for me...

"Limbicile -- vs -- I was delighted at having ruined his day"



Did he have a trump bumper sticker?

[Roland99]

42. I like that more than Limbots!

[KamaAina]

58. Wasn't that a lyric from a Men Without Brains tune?

"You can act like a Limbicile.."

[gregcrawford]

59. ME TOO!

[hobbit709]

2. I can usually get one frothing with "Are you natural born stupid or did you take lessons?"

[malaise]

3. Rec for the Limbicile

[Lucky Luciano]

15. Yup - that caught my eye too! nt

[malaise]

19. It's very good

[dorkzilla]

4. As I shared on another thread...

My husband insisted on removing the Bernie magnet from my car after a guy chased me in my car to call me a commie. Too many ignorant nuts with guns.

[Fuddnik]

5. Yeah, this is Floriduh, the "Shoot Me State".

[dorkzilla]

7. The Shoot Me State 😂

Florida Man Lives (until he's shot too)!

[RKP5637]

10. There are so many crazies in this country one has to be very careful. WIth the enormous amount

of weaponry some might take pleasure in saving the world in their mind. A lot of these types are not about politics, but insanity. Be careful.

[dorkzilla]

11. Precisely

I have MS so my ability to run has been somewhat hampered 😉. Hubby was right to remove the magnet, even just to give himself some peace of mind.

[Dont call me Shirley]

34. Mine too insisted I remove my Bernie sticker, because of the Trumpnuts. I miss my Bernie...

[dorkzilla]

38. Aww

I know just how you feel!

[kentauros]

67. How about a pictogram?

The nutters won't get it

[Dont call me Shirley]

68. Thanks...

[Human101948]

6. Your reply was perfect...

I don't think you could have accomplished more with another ten minutes.

[Fritz Walter]

12. I've been luck so far

My Bernie sticker has been on my car for five or six months now, and -- so far -- no Limbicile has confronted me about it here in Jacksonville. or elsewhere.

Quite the contrary, when I picked up my Christmas tree, the kid who tied it to the roof of my car complimented me. I've had people tap their horns and wave at me while passing. One woman at a stoplight actually shouted that she liked my sticker. The worst thing to happen was finding my car blocked into a parking space by shopping carts, but that could have just been someone's laziness rather than hostility.

But then, I live/shop/work/dine in one of the older neighborhoods rather than a suburb or exurb.

Well played, Fuddnik! Stay strong!

[CurtEastPoint]

13. Last week I saw a young Hispanic couple in the car behind me craning to see my Bernie sticker and

gave me big two thumbs up and the guy leaned out the window and yelled FEEL THE BERN!

[Vinca]

14. I'm lucky. I live in Bernie country. I only see Bernie bumper stickers.

[Akamai]

60. Here in Portland, Oregon, almost exclusively Bernie stickers. I was wondering if Highway Cams

looking at traffic can predict political support based on the bumper stickers on cars. I would imagine that is a possible (although imperfect) metric.

Go Bernie!!!!

[chwaliszewski]

65. I'm on the other side of the river from you in Camas

I've seen a small number of Bernie stickers and whatnot but nothing Hillary.

[watoos]

16. I live in Alabama

half way between Pittsburgh and Philly.
I wear my Bernie hat, shirt, hoodie, all of the time. I get, "nice shirt," from the young'uns, and I get glares from the old Limbiciles. I'm waiting for an ignorant remark but haven't gotten one yet. When the "Commie" line comes out I'm ready with something like, Yeah, any time someone wants to represent the people they are labeled a commie by the elites. It's sad that so many people fall for the propaganda.

[The Polack MSgt]

61. I feel this -

As a coal mine country Democrat.

Don't these people remember the coal and steel unions transforming the commonwealth? Saving the lives and dignity of their grandparents' time?
Those folks made PA a powerful state, a force in the nation rather than a feeble joke.... Remember?

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Delivering pizza AND free therapy! Your boss should give you a raise.

I was about to glare at a car that overtook me in limited lane space, till I saw their Bernie stickers. Gave 'em a wave instead. Sometimes (most of the time?) it's better to lob irony than insults. The effect is likely more interesting.

And it was Easter.

[mnhtnbb]

18. That's a great story.

I don't put bumper stickers on my car for precisely the reason there are way too many ignorant, flag waving, Bible-beater, gun-toting a$$holes
in NC. We live in the blue oasis of Chapel Hill, but even here the Republican types are invading. And it really was frightening to see
the bad protoplasm that shot and killed three, wonderful young Muslim students here last year over a parking space dispute. You just
don't know who is carrying and I hesitate to get into it with anyone in an open space.

[Mbrow]

20. Usually I have my Submarine veteran's sticker next to my Bernie sticker,

That really messes with their little bitty brains.

[Fuddnik]

31. Maybe I should try that.

I am a Vietnam Era vet.

[retrowire]

21. i have yet to be confronted for my stickers

should I always avoid a public debate if it presents itself?

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. I've taken to wearing my old "Dumb and Dumber" Poppy/Baby Bush shirt

around town (Houston, TX). I get mostly giggles and a few glares. I've never had a soul confront me.

[homegirl]

43. Tell me

Where can I get one? I still have my No Carb Diet Tshirt.

No Cheney

No Ashcroft

No Rumsfeld

No Bush

[ScreamingMeemie]

45. Sure...

http://www.teamstores.com/George-Bush-Dumb-Dumber-T-Shirt-p/la0951.htm?1=1&CartID=0

I love these t-shirts.

[Fuddnik]

32. The only reason I avoided it, was, I had a quick delivery to make.

I wear my Bernie t-shirt out, while shopping,etc., and usually get nothing but compliments.

[Tarc]

23. I get this sort of thing every time we gather for Easter. And XMas, and Thanksgiving...

There's a portion of the family that thinks Rush Limbaugh is ok, if only he wasn't so moderate...

[Jim Beard]

24. I didn't have a problem recently but during the Clinton Impeachment I had a bumper

sticker on my pickup. A SUV pulled around to pass me and a woman leaned out the passenger side of the SUV and she had very red hair and her face was very red also. She was screaming something I couldn't understand but I could tell she was pissed. There are some that all it takes is a red cape to get their heart beating faster.

[Mira]

25. "Limbicile"....the new Moran

recommended for that and your response.

(as for me, bumperstickers are one of my idiot-syncracies, don't ask me about being stopped by two cops in rural NC with 13 anti Bush stickers on my trucks tailgate)

[malaise]

27. As in 'Get a Brains

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Limbiciles/Morans

[bdwker]

44. I love that guy.

[malaise]

46. He's a gift

who speaks volumes

[dembotoz]

26. over the years my cars have been keyed, cut off and years ago my wife was forced off the road

sometimes a bumper sticker is an act of courage......

funny aside....years ago, my first day on a new job.
I started at a very republican company...i mean photos of various employees standing next to bush jr hanging on the walls republican.....as i heard latter from a fellow employee who has become a good friend....they saw my bumper stickers on my car and the comment was...oh jesus...charlie hired a democrat...wonder how long he is gonna last...as they discovered my skills i became accepted, but it was a strange start

[Botany]

29. the sticker that really gets me is this one

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/National_Rifle_Association.svg


A terrorist supporting organization.

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. Love your reply to that rude person.

[Arugula Latte]

33. I'm curious as to how old of a guy he was.

[Fuddnik]

40. I'm gonna guess early to mid 40's.

[Arugula Latte]

41. Oy. I was hoping you were going to say 70s.

It depresses me to think that so many members of Gen X (my generation) are so right wing.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

48. "The Brainwashing of My Dad" documentary

I heard an interview with the maker of this 2015 documentary on the David Feldman podcast this week and your thought that this might have been a guy in his 70s made me think of it.

I know a lot of family members who went from voting FDR to Limbaugh-listening in their lifetimes. Perhaps they were always racists, but certainly no joy to be around in the past few decades and they just rant and turn every conversation hateful.

Movie trailer:

[Arugula Latte]

50. Yes. When I was growing up (in the SF Bay Area) I didn't know

the politics of my parents' friends and acquaintances. Well, it turns out most of them turned out to be rabid racists/rightwingers/Republicans who complain about "illegals." They are that Eisenhower generation -- mid-70s to mid-80s. I don't know if they were always like that or if they changed.

I think they grew up in a USA where the White Man was unquestionably King of All. So, in a way, a lot of this is a reaction to their perceived change in status. However, my Gen X peers who are rabid rightwingers are a bit of a mystery. I think a lot of them were what we used to call "Reagan Youth" in the early-mid 80s who never gave up their preppy, conservative ways.

[valerief]

35. You're lucky he wasn't a Limbicile with a gun. They love shooting them off as

much as their mouths.

[Dont call me Shirley]

36. Limbicile...

Can't wait to tell my hubby.

[ViseGrip]

37. total re-engineering of society into a 'jerry springer world'. Extreme lack of tolerance toward

people. This is the media's fault. I cut my cord because of the corporate news takeover that I refer to as 'angertainment'. Now look at the mess they created called Trump for Prez.

[AlbertCat]

39. Giggling and laughing....

...... at their every statement and question, with no eye contact, works well too.

Nothing is more cutting than indifference.

[Wise Child]

47. A month ago,

I was leaving a restaurant, and I saw this guy walking away from the counter shouting at the generally young staff " . . .And all you want fifteen an hour . . . this is bullshit!", with a toddler in one arm. His young daughter preoccupied with her frozen custard. He must have been illiterate, and mistaken the Culver's printed on their aprons as Bernie 2016.

He probably thought it was apropos, (whatever his complaint was) and it looked so much like a "When have you stopped beating your wife?" variety of put-on. Why bring up ham-fisted political rhetoric with a bunch of teenagers?

[merrily]

49. On the bright side, running into only one moran per day is not a bad average.

[Rex]

51. I love it, you give me new words to use in RL!

Fuddnik, you totally rock!

[Hulk]

52. Have seen NO Drumpf or Cruz bumper stickers.....not one!

Too cowardly to wear it in public or just too ashamed of their own stupidity....or both.

No Bernie sticker on my cars because I fear for my wife driving alone, and driving for Uber/Lyft, I get an occasional ass hole in my car. I try to stay away from bringing up politics, but when the generic subject arises, I have yet to find one reich winger brown shirt in the open.

My theory is these people have come out of the closet with their bigotry and hatred. Maybe it's a good thing, because now at least we are dealing with it in the open. Better than have them wear their white hoods. Everybody is "out of the closet now", so we can all start accepting reality. I honestly can't help but believe these drumpf supporters are going to have to come to terms with their sickness, once the mass rallies subside. They will be alone to deal with their shame. Maybe then this country can start to heal. Cruz supporters, on the other hand, are a lost bunch of souls. I see little to no hope for them.

I'll be so glad when this is finally over. The exposure of ignorance is heart breaking. I've always been ashamed of some of "the ugly Americans" as I've traveled around the world. I just didn't realize there was so damned many of them. A bit depressing, but let's deal with it!

[Else You Are Mad]

53. Back in my less informed undergrad days...

I had a Bush bumper sticker on my car ca. 2004. I was out at the beach here in NJ & when I came back to my car, I found someone threw what looked like a milkshake on my windshield, what looked like spit on my mirrors & ripped off my bumper sticker and put it in my door handle. Since then, I have learned the error of my political ways and became a progressive. But, I refrain from putting any political bumper stickers on my car.

[Fuddnik]

55. I remember back in 2004, I was driving home from Cleveland.

It was Memorial Day week-end, and I was just finishing an 18 hour, 1200 mile, straight through drive. I had a yellow Chevy S-10 pick-up, with Kerry bumper stickers, and all kinds of anti-Republican stickers on the back. As I'm within 2-3 miles from home, I'm behind this rolling scrap heap that's driving too slow. Her vanity license plate was "DUBYA".

I pulled around her, and drove at her speed for the next mile or so, and in my rear view mirror, it looked like she was performing a raging exorcism on my truck.

[OriginalGeek]

54. My Grandpa lives in a pretty nice neighborhood

it's older now but the HOA has kept up standards and it's well kept and attractive. (I am not a huge fan of HOAs but the fees here are reasonable and they do police it pretty well - if that's the kind of thing you're into. Grandpa keeps his yard up and likes when everyone else does too). (I mean, he's not a yard nazi - he won't report anyone like some folks do. But he likes the neighborhood looking nice and, frankly, it's a lot nicer than mine which has no HOA but tons of crappy rentals and a few people who care)

Grandpa has had his Obama yard signs stolen on many occasions but, more recently, we were over there having a cookout and my aunt had her car parked in the back driveway (Grandpa's house is on the point were two streets meet so his front yard is one street and his back yard is on a different street) with all her Obama stickers on it at some point during the day someone left nasty post-it notes on her car calling her a traitor and said she should be ashamed. Much like you. we were bemused and not at all sad she messed up someone's day.

We still don't know which neighbor it was but we have our suspicions and were pleasantly surprised that the number 1 suspect has put up a for sale sign. Grandpa has lived there since 1975 so he knows most of the long-time neighbors so this could only have been one of the newer ones and that's the guy next door who is selling. We won't miss them.

[PasadenaTrudy]

56. Glad I live in Los Angeles

Many of us have Bernie stickers. Haven't seen a single Trump or Cruz sticker.

[ffr]

57. I would have went off on him

'Yeah, if I'm the communist, then you (idiot behind my car) are the nitwit that enabled our country, through two elections, to go to war on lies and sent our financial markets into collapse, the worst since the 1929 depression. And you're the kind of moron who votes against your own best interests and has enabled GOP obstruction these past 8 years. THANK YOU, YOU T*RD! Get back in your stupid vehicle you unpatriotic POS and don't ever let me see your Fcuking face again.'

Just thinking about it has me worked up.

[Thespian2]

62. One does encounter them...

when they crawl from beneath their rocks...spewing slime left and right...

[pacalo]

63. I wish I could give you an extra recommend for your signature quote.

[Rhiannon12866]

64. This happened to me back in 2004, was headed for my car in a parking lot

To find an elderly gent perusing my car with its New Yorkers for Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker. Like your nut job, this guy went off on me, but even back then I was more informed than he was. And, like you, I got out of there was soon as I could. Would any of us go after perfect strangers over their bumper stickers??

[PatrickforO]

66. These right wingnuts can be downright dangerous to sane people, though

I can remember about a year and a half after Obama was elected and we'd started having some good jobs months. This asshole in a giant RAM 4X4 (Guts! Glory! RAM!) tried to run me off the road because of my Obama bumper sticker.

While he was steering his giant RAM toward my little Buick sedan he was leaning out the window yelling, "Hey, how's that hopey-changey thing going?"

When I finally got home, I remember wondering about this whole thing as by any measure I knew of, Obama was doing a pretty good job. Oh, I was disappointed we got ACA instead of single payer, but in all he was doing great.

But there are a few places, Fox 'news' and hate-talk radio, where Obama will NEVER be acknowledged as doing ANYTHING right whatsoever, will never even be acknowledged as an American, where his entire presidency is considered a failure and de-legitimized.

Hey right wingers, you don't think this constant hate-talk breeds violence??????

So, Fuddnik, be very careful around assholes like this because besides being crazy, the NRA has GUARANTEED they are HEAVILY ARMED.