I see this a lot, and thought I would attempt to spread some wisdom.

MOST (definitely not all) window decals that you buy now are just that - a decal, not a cling. You are supposed to pull that film off once you stick the decal to the window. I see a lot of vehicles riding around with the film starting to come off, and they still do not realize that you are supposed to peel that off. In case you haven't noticed, that film is not completely clear, and the color is much better when you peel that layer off. Plus, you kinda look like you can't follow directions.

Of course there are still clings around, but common sense tells us that those go on the inside of the window.

1/1/2008 5:03:57 PM

you're a cling

1/1/2008 5:06:43 PM

also, stickers and clings in windows look trashy as hell. Why not just get a Garfield with suction cup feet and get it over with?

1/1/2008 5:07:30 PM

Whatever, like 90% of NCSU students have NCSU decals on their windows. Its not trashy.

1/1/2008 5:09:17 PM

your logic is fucked. I would have made the opposite argument.

1/1/2008 5:10:34 PM

haha no way decals are totally classy

I think the one of Calvin pissing on Mohammed that says "We still pray." is hella classy

like James Bond three-piece-tuxedo-vodka-martini classy

1/1/2008 5:13:07 PM

Just because I don't agree with you, does not mean that there is flawed logic anywhere... Opinions are like assholes.

I am assuming that the amount of replies is so low because people had to put shoes and jackets on to go pull the film off their decals real quick!

1/1/2008 5:13:19 PM

if they don't know how to properly install a sticker of fake bullet holes then I'm not sure they're smart enough to put shoes on in this weather

they might not even own shoes

1/1/2008 5:16:55 PM

COMMON BELIEF. This fallacy is committed when we assert a statement to be true on the evidence that many other people allegedly believe it. Being widely believed is not proof or evidence of the truth. Example: Of course Nixon was guilty in Watergate. Everybody knows that.



EVERYONE AT NCSU HAS A STICKER SO IT MUST BE CLASSY!

1/1/2008 5:18:57 PM

What's the name of the fallacy where some idiot on a message board believes that claiming something to be so makes it so?

1/1/2008 5:21:37 PM

it's called the hooksaw fallacy

1/1/2008 5:22:59 PM

Thanks.

Here's another example of the hooksaw fallacy:

Quote :

"also, stickers and clings in windows look trashy as hell. Why not just get a Garfield with suction cup feet and get it over with?"

1/1/2008 5:23:56 PM

so if you had a Ferrari, you wouldn't mind putting a fake bullethole on the window? You don't think it would take anything away from the car?

[Edited on January 1, 2008 at 5:27 PM. Reason : ,jh]

1/1/2008 5:27:31 PM

So, fake bullet holes are the only kind of decal that there is? I don't know why that is the only example you have. Your crappy Mazda with the bumblebee exhaust must have bullet hole decals on it.


BTW, I didn't say it was classy. I simply said that it was not trashy. There is a neutral "I don't care either way" middle ground.

[Edited on January 1, 2008 at 5:43 PM. Reason : ]

1/1/2008 5:32:21 PM

I really don't care that much either. Thanks for the psa.

1/1/2008 5:37:08 PM

The other day I saw someone with a UNC-C sticker on their back window. They had put it on the outside facing in so that it was reversed to everyone outside of the car.

1/1/2008 6:07:05 PM

bttt so more people can peel their decals!

1/1/2008 7:26:01 PM

WOMEN SHOULDNT HAVE THE OPTION TO COMPLAIN IN AMERICA!!!

1/1/2008 7:27:36 PM

lmnop is a woman?

1/1/2008 7:31:07 PM

i was just trying to be chauvanistic(sp?)

1/1/2008 7:33:52 PM

lmnop is a man, another psa

1/1/2008 7:35:10 PM

chauvinistic.

/stillfuchsia

1/1/2008 7:37:07 PM

I know dnl, I was just saying that lmnop was the complainer.

1/1/2008 7:40:48 PM

do they still sell the crown air fresheners? i be wantin' one yo

1/1/2008 7:49:01 PM

bttt for the work lurkers!

1/2/2008 2:42:07 PM

Quote :

"also, stickers and clings in windows look trashy as hell. Why not just get a Garfield with suction cup feet and get it over with?"

haha, tww is on point today.

1/2/2008 2:44:50 PM

^technically they were on point yesterday

1/2/2008 2:52:16 PM

my back window on my truck is pretty large

but I have a few stickers...

and I don't care what you people think about them






and a wolfpack club sticker

1/2/2008 2:56:15 PM

bttt, because I realized that our new roommate still has the paper on his decal. I'm not sure how to tell him either!

1/10/2008 9:26:27 AM

with your mouth

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM. Reason : talking, not the other thing]

1/10/2008 9:30:28 AM

I thought about just peeling it off for him - but I don't know how he would take that.

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 9:33 AM. Reason : ]

1/10/2008 9:32:52 AM

I am guilty of the offense listed in the first post. I didn't realize the film was supposed to come off until it started peeling in the cold weather

1/10/2008 11:02:33 AM

Guilty as well; had mine on there for a couple weeks before I realized.

1/10/2008 11:04:45 AM

Some people can't read directions, it's not their fault.

1/10/2008 11:06:25 AM

I'm a big fan of directions!!! pretty sure that my sticker didn't have directions on it

1/10/2008 11:22:16 AM

If you see it just pull it off for them, thats what I do.

1/10/2008 11:36:39 AM

sort of off topic but id like to kick every car/minivan i see with those stupid fucking sticker things that consist of some sort of ball or hockey puck being "lodged in the window".

1/10/2008 11:45:08 AM

Quote :

"it's called the hooksaw fallacy"

lmnop

Quote :

"Thanks. Here's another example of the hooksaw fallacy: 'also, stickers and clings in windows look trashy as hell. Why not just get a Garfield with suction cup feet and get it over with?'"

BobbyDigital

Um. . .

1. I hadn't even posted in this thread!!!1

2. The fallacy of logic that you're referring to is likely argumentum ad ignorantiam ("argument to ignorance"), which is the fallacy of assuming something is true simply because it hasn't been proven false. Not that you would know, BobbyDigital--obviously.

3. You both need to find a new obsession. I'm not interested in being yours--FYI.

1/10/2008 11:48:40 AM

haha, i'm now driving a little seabring convertable (we play musical cars at my house...been through 4 in the past 6 months-chrystler 300, honda ridgeline, escalade ext, and now this)

but i think ill have this one for a while

and i have a bleeding through decal on the back window

as well as a "don't mess with texas" and one of those "coexist" bumper stickers
it's a big smorgashborg (sp?) of contradictions

1/10/2008 12:09:13 PM

^^ Welcome to chit chat, where occasionally funny jokes are made. More often, however, stupid jokes are made. You have stumbled across one of these stupid jokes.







Also you forgot this part:

Quote :

"What's the name of the fallacy where some idiot on a message board believes that claiming something to be so makes it so? "

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 12:13 PM. Reason : bgfd]

1/10/2008 12:11:50 PM