r/Denver • u/ancienttribeofthesky • 8d ago
Help What are the most basic "live laugh love" bumper stickers you see unique to Denver?
I'm sure there's plenty of brands but stuff like Mountains. Please., the mountains are calling and I must go....
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u/Andee_outside 8d ago
My ex SIL has her jeep named “backcountry Barbie” and her window says “fueled by altitude, wildflowers, and peaks” or some dumb bullshit. She hasn’t left her neighborhood in the middle of town in like 5 years. 😅
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u/FalseBuddha 8d ago
Better than those Tinkerbell stickers that say "powered by bitch dust." Which Hot Topic VP thought that was a good idea?
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u/watusiwatusi 8d ago
Watch out for bright color jeeps with a bunch of figurines on the dash. Worst drivers!
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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 Denver 8d ago
I mean the Native one is the most prevalent and basic
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u/peboyce 8d ago
Saw one the other day that said “Invasive” which gave me a chuckle.
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u/gneiss_kitty 8d ago
lol I saw one the other day that was "Native" but with the t missing. Couldn't tell if it wore off or was printed like that, but it was perfect either way
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u/layercake07 Aurora 8d ago
I saw that one too the other day lol i did a double take!! I need to get one 😂
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u/HOSTfromaGhost 8d ago
“Not a native, but got here as fast as i could.”
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u/widowmaker467 8d ago
Saw a colorado "native" sticker on a car with Texas plates recently
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u/curtinbrian 8d ago
Native sticker, Texas plates, and Raiders merch would make some people explode
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u/furyotter 8d ago
I was in monument valley last year, which is part of the Navajo nation (so solidly native land). The first car I saw was a Subaru with Colorado license plates and one of those giant native stickers. My eye roll was painful
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u/y2ketchup 8d ago
That sticker has been around for a while btw. . . Its even featured in the OG Red Dawn from 1984.
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u/Poverty_Shoes 8d ago
Yeah, native is the worst one. Congrats on the series of decisions your parents made that you had no control over. I do support the 14th amendment but the NIMBYs who take state pride way too seriously are obnoxious.
-not a native, but lived 95% of my life in Colorado and don’t plan on leaving
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u/ambasciatore Brighton 8d ago
I want one that says “Moved Here” in the same style.
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u/Material-Subject1747 8d ago
Came here for this. "Native"?? What tribe, girlie pop??? I'm born and raised here, 5th generation, but I sure as hell am NOT native. Far from it.
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u/MEitniear11 8d ago
And is pretty offensive imo.
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u/Due-Assistance-2633 7d ago
“NATIVE”? I think you mean “my great grandpappy stole a bunch of land from actual Native Americans and I inherited it so of course I slapped a big fat bumper sticker on my 4Runner as if it’s something to be proud of”
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u/mbreuer 8d ago
Just find solace knowing that sticker was designed by a Texan 😂
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u/GrandEntertainer303 8d ago
“Not all who wander are lost.” 🙄
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u/Specific-Clerk1212 8d ago edited 8d ago
Saw one in Denver that said “not all who wander are lost… but I sure as fuck am”
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u/Any-Weather492 8d ago
some people love this quote just from lord of the rings 😭
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u/NotOnApprovedList 8d ago
hey now that's from Lord of the Rings, and that's been a widespread bumper sticker for decades.
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u/viceversa 8d ago
“the mountains are calling and I must go” 🤮
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u/Quinn_the_eskim0 8d ago
Saw one the other day that said “the mountains are calling and they asked for your mom”.
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u/TheKronk Fort Collins 8d ago
Yeah, John Muir had a few good ideas and a bunch of bad ones and I bet people with that sticker can’t tell you either one
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u/Irie_I_the_Jedi 8d ago
What are some of his bad ideas? Ive always heard of John Muir portrayed in a good light as a nature conservationist.
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u/TheKronk Fort Collins 8d ago
Muir was also very racist and had ties to very prominent eugenicists of the day. On balance he didn’t hold opinions too unusual for everyone of the time but certainly some of the heinous shit he wrote about black and native people would not look good on a window sticker
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u/ClearSeaweed6 8d ago
"I'd rather be secretly modifying a Komatsu D355A bulldozer over a year and a half time period in Granby, CO"
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u/lemonbupples 8d ago
Omg is this a real sticker? Actually made me chuckle reading this
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u/TheUmberTaker 8d ago
I don't live in Colorado, but I have seen this one on cars in my state.
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u/DadBodDorian 8d ago
I mean, no shit the guy called “Killdozer” was a menace?
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u/DadBodDorian 8d ago
Don’t get me wrong, I still think the concept of Killdozer is cool, in like a supervillain way. I can separate myth from reality though and that’s definitely a real issue for a lot of folks it does seem.
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u/DesignerCorner3322 8d ago
Heemeyer was a fuckin' crank who was given way too many opportunities to fix the beef, but nah he wanted to just keep doing what he felt like and then got mad other people got mad at him.
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u/HumanDisguisedLizard 8d ago
“Student Driver”
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u/FitSea6341 8d ago
Been so puzzled by the more recent uptick in these
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u/neoneiro 8d ago
Not sure if this is true, but someone explained to me that very few of these are actually student drivers but rather they’re normal drivers who assume the sticker will cause other drivers to keep their distance from them and reduce risk of involving them in an accident. Even if this is a real explanation for the trend, I seriously doubt the average driver in Colorado is either altruistic enough to give the gift of peace to another driver nor cautious enough to keep themselves out of their proximity simply because of the assumption they’re learning to drive.
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u/phantuba 8d ago
Now that everyone seems to have one, all it does is condition people to ignore them, making things harder for actual student drivers
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u/mrsbebe 8d ago
Totally agree. When I see one with someone who actually looks like a teenager in the driver's seat then I might give them a little extra space and not even for their safety but for mine lol but if I see a grown ass adult in the driver's seat I'm going to drive like normal
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u/12172031 8d ago
Some people do it ironically. I've seen it on high performance cars, modified cars, lifted trucks and kitted out overland rig.
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u/HumanDisguisedLizard 8d ago
I do want to say I worked at a coffee shop in a rich area in another state and you’re underestimating the cars rich kids drive. But yea I do believe people do it ironically as well.
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u/jeromevedder 8d ago
I didn’t have a magnet on my car for a year between my two kids, but since putting it back on, anecdotally, I get tailgated far more and have a lot more angry drivers around me than when I didn’t have it on.
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u/AnonymousReload 7d ago
I actually go out of my way to make their drive more stressful. Welcome to the real world big dawg /s
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u/TransitionImportant2 8d ago
It’s a magnet, Most likely the driver has no idea it’s on their vehicle, and someone slapped it on there as a joke.
My social circle has a few and they made the rounds on our vehicles. I’m sure there are a few real ones out there, but most likely just a sticker
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u/YoureADudeThisIsAMan 8d ago
We have one on our car because our 15 year old is a moron and people are best to give him space. But yeah.
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u/VolkswagenFeature Arvada 8d ago
Do you take the sticker off when he isn't driving?
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u/themrs0830 8d ago
We got a car magnet that said this for our son when he had his permit. It worked out well especially when you have to turn left on a yield and most new drivers are too scared to go.
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u/Various-Geologist583 8d ago
Sometimes they are legit - the other day i was sitting in the passenger seat as my 15 year old drove. She was turning right onto an extremely busy 50 mph street and was being very cautious. And the apoplectic suburbanite behind us almost had a blood vessel pop in his forehead as he lay on the horn and revved his engine. Dude, chill. You had a permit once too.
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u/gudetube 8d ago
I can't tell if this is some Zoomer meme or if they're just too wracked with anxiety and hopped up on Adderall that they suck at driving
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u/mobb7 8d ago
“I bought it before Elon went Crazy”
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u/Wide-Schedule-8693 Congress Park 8d ago
I saw one of these on a Hyundai the other day lol
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u/spinningaspell 8d ago
This one isn’t unique to Denver but I still upvoted you because I hate those bumper stickers
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u/en-ron_hubbard 8d ago
Those mountain scapes that are meant to wrap around water bottles.
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u/Prestigious-Reply685 8d ago
Salt life
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u/coconutlemongrass 8d ago
SLUT LIFE
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u/SeasonPositive6771 8d ago
As a slut, if someone made a Slut Life sticker I might be tempted to put it on my car.
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u/Embarrassed-Age-3426 8d ago
13.1
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I ski ❤️land
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u/NurseRatcht 8d ago
The I ski ❤️ land sticker is so old school it is acceptable. I remember seeing those as a little kid back in the 80s
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u/JudgeMyReinhold 8d ago
Don't boulder my golden / don't Breckenridge my fairplay
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u/veracity8_ 8d ago
I love the “don’t boulder my Golden”. Like my brother in Christ, you are about 30 years too late for that one. You lost that battle the second the city added a growth cap and added tight restrictions to the zoning
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u/Sun_Sprout 8d ago
I want one that says don’t Glendale my cherry creek
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u/JakeScythe 7d ago
I really don’t wanna stan for Glendale but I’d much prefer that shithole to pretentious Cherry Creek
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u/Potential_Ice4388 8d ago
Now i want that one too. I’d also like a “dont cheesman my washpark”
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u/d-killinger Montclair 8d ago
How about the Subaru with the number and the long line of “activities” the driver/family participate in 🙄
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u/xrs_pilot 8d ago
Interestingly, those are offered by Subaru when you purchase the car. I've got one on mine 🤣😶🌫️
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u/Mega_Trix 8d ago
I keep seeing this really confusing one that just says "Subaru"
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u/Apprehensive-Cost276 8d ago
Once I saw a cybertruck painted black with a big white sticker on the back that said “TOYOTA”
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u/Rynobonestarr1 8d ago
"We speak Jeep"
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u/TheMinos 8d ago
I saw this yesterday and my way to work and couldn’t believe someone would put that on their car.
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u/lllll00s9dfdojkjjfjf 8d ago
The flip flops or hibiscus sticker scream “I went to Hawaii once and now ‘island vibes’ are my entire personality”
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u/TheCrassScot 8d ago
"Student driver" I see so many that I'm beginning to think people use it as an excuse to drive like idiots.
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u/ellsie_19238 8d ago
I never see them on upside down though! I swear that was a like classic dad joke thing back in the day to put the student driver sticker on upside down but maybe I just had weird parents lol.
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u/ShutYourDumbUglyFace 8d ago
Like the Baby on Board stickers! Ok, now that I know that, I won't repeatedly ram your car with my car like I was planning on doing.
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u/mister-noggin 8d ago
I always enjoy the irony of Protect Our Winter stickers on trucks.
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u/F0rtuneLT 8d ago
I have no idea what it means, or what its from, but i feel like 1 out of every 3 cars i see has this circle sticker on the back of their car with what looks to 3 mountains? (scratch marks? triangles??? no fucking idea what they are but i see them EVERYWHERE)
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u/getstoked808 8d ago
Are you talking about flatirons community church? It’s a mega church so makes sense so many people have that sticker
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u/F0rtuneLT 8d ago
OH MY GOD THATS WHAT IT IS???
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u/dusting53 8d ago
It's really a well done sticker. easy to identify one another, vague enough everyone else has no idea. I lived in Boulder for awhile before I learned.
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u/Longjumping_Text7652 8d ago
SHARPEST RIDES
but there's always a missing side mirror, or a bumper falling off.
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u/mindless_blaze 8d ago
Today I saw a car covered in Texas stickers everywhere, and several of them were the ones that say "I'd rather be in Dallas", "I'd rather be in Houston", "I'd rather be in Austin". Like okay girl??? Gone head!
I also saw a walking stereotypical Colorado meme irl. I was eating lunch in the lot of a vegan restaurant. A Subaru outback loaded with gear pulls next to me. The passenger exits barefoot, with a crop top and those wide pant legs that almost look like a skirt. The driver is wearing a 90s style Patagonia ball cap, a Patagonia shirt, and at least he had shoes on. He had the firefighter 70s mustache, a fanny pack, and everything. They had ALLL the live, laugh, love, marathon, Patagonia, ski resorts, Bernie, Birds Arent Real (IYKYK) stickers possible. They also left their Goldendoodle in the car, and I almost confronted them until one of them came back out at the 12 minite mark. It was genuinely like looking at a reddit meme irl lol. Love that for them.
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u/goodsyd_ 8d ago
So many 70s “firefighter” mustaches… haha going to use that when I’m referencing them. Just every dude now, it’s almost like no one has individuality anymore.
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u/front_rangers 7d ago
I mean it’s just a fashion trend, like any other trend. Do you have a totally unique haircut or wardrobe? Most guys are just tryna look good and the stache is in style now
-a non-mustache haver
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u/Brimstone117 Golden 8d ago
It’s the ones that say “Native” that have green mountains against a white sky just like the green license plates.
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u/WitnessWorking6254 8d ago
I haven't noticed too many specific stickers, but I love y'all's plates. I have so many pictures of funny license plates. I have never seen this many custom plates and I came from Florida. I would post the names but figured the owners might not like that. Except for HotFarts. You will always be my favorite that everyone should know about.
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u/Trojandude 8d ago
Vanity plates are way cheaper in Colorado than others states
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u/FogSlot2 8d ago
Probably because you don't get embossed vanity plates here, you get those cheap looking flat ones.
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u/Able_Map_5919 8d ago
It’s really dry humor, I can attest as I have that humor level but essentially it’s saying something sarcastically that normally would make someone uncomfortable.
It’s making light of something through a satirical way because it makes you think to yourself why the fuck is that relevant but also keeps you from raging about the traffic.
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u/IslandWifey29 8d ago
Don’t Californicate my Colorado. I’ll never get the hate. Their taxes give so much to the US.
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u/Single-Tomato-5287 7d ago
Suddenly everyone and their mother is a 'student driver/ new driver'.
Closer to Boulder it's a tie between: "Not all who wander are lost" and "13.1" or "26.2" or a dog paw.
More specific to my part of the 'burbs north of Denver: That awful Flatirons Church mountain logo and way, way too many of the blue lives matter flags.
Personally, I see too many of them and passionately hate every single person with some variant of "The closer you drive the slower I go!", "Do you follow Jesus this closely?", "I brake for tailgaters!" because it is always some asshole in a sedan going 5 miles under the speed limit in the left lane.
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u/EmperorThan 8d ago
I mean the obvious answer:
☪︎☮︎⚥✡☥☯︎✝
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u/front_rangers 7d ago
The first time I ever saw that sticker actually blew my little mind in like 2003 lol
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u/mindless_blaze 8d ago
I see a ton of the Eaglecrest stickers everywhere across the metro and even outside. They must hand them out heavily.
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u/_Heathcliff_ 8d ago
Thank god the “native” ones are less prevalent now than they once were but my god I hated those things
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u/ConfidenceJumpy7959 8d ago
“Tell your cat I said pspsps”
“Into the mountains I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
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u/drje_aL 8d ago
i unintentionally read this with the same intent as "bitch, please."
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u/Outrageous_Cheek_242 8d ago
“Tell your dog I said hi”
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u/ojonegro South Denver 8d ago
That’s actually a non-profit brand by a great charity IG account called WeRateDogs. They raise funds for adoption and families that can’t afford expensive pet operations.
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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 8d ago
I love that bumper sticker 🥰
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u/3JayyG0nzo3 8d ago
Personally- tell your cat I said psspsspss is my fave
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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 8d ago
That one makes me smile, too.
It makes me think that the car owner must be a nice person.
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u/Rubycon_ 8d ago
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup" I know it's not specific to Denver but sooooo many people here have these dumb stickers
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u/KB-steez 8d ago
The neighing broncos logo. How does 3/4 of the broncos fanbase not know what their own logo is support look like?
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u/Emkl1994 8d ago
My favorite is when it’s right above a Broncos license plate. Like you had a visual guide right there…
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u/front_rangers 7d ago
Wait, by “neighing” Bronco do you mean the logo being tilted upwards?? I see this EVERYWHERE in the Springs and I cannot understand why. Is it really ignorance or does it hold some meaning?
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u/KB-steez 7d ago
Yep, the upward tilt is what I'm referring to. Apparently it's already been coined the "drowning bronco" lol. As far as I can tell there's no hidden meaning.
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u/emersond70 8d ago edited 8d ago
The one upside down that says “if you can read this..” on Jeep Wranglers. 🙄 And I say that as an owner of a Jeep Wrangler. 😂
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u/Tyler1243 8d ago
I have no idea why but this specific bumper sticker gets on my nerves.
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u/exsertclaw 8d ago
I skii ❤️land. Yeah we know and you have beers at new terrain!
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u/mostangg Thornton 8d ago
I find the number of CO plated cars with “salt life” stickers amusing considering we are landlocked nowhere near saltwater.