Let’s skip over poison ivy and go straight to dimethyl sulfate.
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I’ll just leave this combo platter here.
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Yup. I’d like to see the Venn Diagram of the “population of Georgia’s 6th District who burn Ossoff signs” and “population of Georgia’s 6th District who are OK with cross burning.” More like this → 8 or this ->0 ?
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Funny these signs make my 45 loving neighbor batshit crazy.
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registered pedant says that they make him ANGRY. That in turn reveals the pre-existing fact that he is batshit crazy.
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Could we just not have political lawn signs? Or bumper stickers? Wouldn’t it be nice to travel outside your home without being bombarded by anonymous reminders of the shit-show that is American politics?
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There must be a more umm “injurious?” way to protect one’s property. Something involving razor blades and/or fish hooks perhaps. Wouldn’t it be satisfying to be able to confront one of these idiots while they are attached to your sign and screaming in pain?
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Ever touch one of those electric fences for keeping cows in? It’s all nothing…nothing…nothing…nothMOTHERFUCKER!
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I live in the 6th district. The “who stole my yard sign” debate is about to tear our usually calm, peaceful neighborhood apart… I am grateful to get the big event over with today before we start throwing more than glitter at each other.
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I’d predict a period of, maybe, 10 minutes before it became widely accepted that burning to propel a bullet, for freedom and against 'Murica’s enemies, is basically the flag equivalent of a viking funeral pyre and sends the affected flag straight to flag Valhalla; and that no greater honor is possible; so it’s more of a duty than an option.
Symbols tend to be too flexible to be used to box their adherents in for long.
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This is the sign du jour in our neighborhood: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/12/social_values_mix_with_america.html
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Oh no, they do. They’re just flaming hypocrites. That’s all the Republican Party is anymore. Flaming hypocrites and people who don’t recognize that being in league with flaming hypocrites also makes them flaming hypocrites. And the activist arm of the Republican Party isn’t conservative, it’s just hateful, bigoted and greedy. And probably a quarter to a third of “conservative” activists would copy the Rwandan genocide given half a chance.
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Agreed. Hateful, greedy, bigoted is pretty much my experience in Georgia. If they are not representative of those traits, they bend over backwards making peace with the actions and words of hateful, greedy, bigoted people.
It’s really cut me off from a lot of friends and family.
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Liquid of choice is up to you. A fertilizer mixer in the line filled with paint or skunk spray might be doable. Or both.
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Our city, like most, has a sign ordinance, for some reason it is never enforced with political signs or virtue-signaling signs. Political signs have a pre-election and post-election “shelf life” but we still have many Bernie & HRC signs on display. Leaving these up, and the “Welcome Muslim Neighbor-type” signs were permitted with a tweek to the language of the ord. a few years ago. Signs about “a political issue or an ideological opinion” now encompass this type of sign. The argument for leaving a favored politician’s sign up year-round is that it’s a political issue. But watch the SeeClickFix complaints roll in if that sign were to say “Trump is Great” or “I Love Jesus” or any opinion outside of the liberal orthodoxy that rules Ann Arbor.
Restrictions on placement are routinely ignored. I know for a fact that the city selectively responds to complaints about sign ordinance violations. Why have rules if they are not going to be enforced? In Ann Arbor and I suspect elsewhere, it’s so that authorities can choose to enforce what they want to. Petty tyrants, quashing our right to free speech.
Why have you made up something so easy to verify as false?
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Searching “signs” only gets you results pertaining to signage owned by the City because the website isn’t intended to be the bickering neighbors shitshow. That’s what facebook is for.
Really, if you hate Ann Arbor so much, put your house on the market and move somewhere more to your liking. It should take all of two days for your house to sell unless you over-price like those idiots on S. First Ave.
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Glitter and Vaseline does have availability on its side, but it will wash off (eventually). As a result, my preference is Dykem “high spot blue”. It’s basically thin Vaseline combined with a very tenacious blue dye. As in get it on your hand, and wait for the skin to flake off tenacious. It doesn’t ever dry, is water resistant, and it’s even non toxic.
It is used by machinists when fitting things together. It was also popular when pranking the foreman. When using it, you have to learn to never scratch your nose. (Back when we still had tool and die makers, and phones were black, and bolted to the wall, a little dab would result in a foreman suffering “blue ear syndrome”)
And while nitrile gloves will keep it off the skin, the same can’t be said of the carpet and seat fabric. That grabbed sign has to go somewhere, simply knocking it down isn’t enough.
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