Come on... Seriously?

[road_to_dawn]

That woman is simply ridiculous and seems like the type that just goes around and purposely looks for anything to be offended by. The thing that really irks me about it is that she's teaching her son to be the same way. She wasn't explaining what it meant or said, she was explaining her overly sensitive interpretation of it. And in the process teaching her son to be overly sensitive and victimized at every little thing. It's people and situations like this that diminish and distract from things that are actually offensive and racist.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Mom: "you see that son?"

Son: "see what mommy"

Mom: "that license plate and what it says:

Son: *looks at plate* "DYNGR what's dyngr mommy"

Mom: "no son not DYNGR it's something white people like to say to us because we're black"

Son: "oh i still don't get it"

This may or may not have been the exact conversation but it was along that line because everyone is so oversensitive because the rules of what's politically correct keeps changing and it makes everyone like this ***** of a female look for shit to complain about

 

[Omikron009]

That lady is a bit crazy. I'd also like to hear the explanation of why whoever had that license plate chose those letters in particular. Maybe he was this guy:

Spoiler

 

[jonnosferatu]

Ticks me off.

 

[maninahat]

Maybe he wanted to write "DANGER" but that was the closest he could get.

I once saw a liscense plate that read "B18 PRK"

 

[Bladecatcher]

Yup, only at Walmart.

Which is ironic, because I'm sure we could find some legitimately offensive products actually being sold there.

 

[inpachi]

If this doesn't prove how stupid people have become i dont know what could.. I mean honestly? IS THIS FOR REAL? You gotta be shitten me.. This is like a women complaining about sexual harassment when wearing a skanky skirt and very loose top and getting weird looks on the street.. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? God soceity has truly gone down the shitter hasn't it?

 

[Jubbsy]

That's just sad.

Soon she'll start complaining that whites are harder to see in a blizzard* and that they get an unfair advantage in war in arctic conditions.

*I do not believe this, just Hyperbole-ing.

 

[inpachi]

Can someone tell me just what she saw in this?

DYNGR

I mean you can't even rearrange it into some take off "nygdr" unless you spell it with a D, which means you probably spell "offensive" with a 6 and shouldn't be allowed to operate a motor vehicle.

Hope i dont get suspended for this but it says (IF YOUR A IDIOT AND CHOOSE TO READ IT THIS WAY) Dy Ngr or Die ******... I wonder if that word is censored..

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Again, the Big LoL arrives like Superman on a broomstick!

 

[ace_of_something]

Okay, when I first saw the plate i actually thought of 'Danger' as well. After reading it like ten times I finally picked up the n-word in it and until just now I figured out DY could be Die.

I can see how she thought that. Maybe it is best just to change it, it's not like ANYONE would ever guess the real meaning of such an abstract acronym.
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In my state in the mid 90's there was a case where a guy had a vanity plate that said
"SHT HPNS"
Or something like that. He said it stands for 'Shout Happiness' the state was not buying that explaination.

 

[ace_of_something]

Spoiler: big picture

Again, the Big LoL arrives like Superman on a broomstick!

What the hell? I am so confused. Also... nice avatar...

 

[gxs]

Hope i dont get suspended for this but it says (IF YOUR A IDIOT AND CHOOSE TO READ IT THIS WAY) Dy Ngr or Die ******... I wonder if that word is censored..

Thanks for the explanation. I was reading it for 15 minutes and couldn't figure out what she saw offensive in those words. And I doubt that her kid would see it to. I can imagine that she was just too eager to tell him what she saw and be appalled.

 

[Volucer]

I think it says more about the woman that the person with the bike. It took me a while looking at the number plate to work out what the fuss was all about. It's how you percieve them that's the problem, not what they're meant to mean. Doubt the owner even considered anyone thinking of it like that, I know I wouldn't of, to me it just spells danger, with slightly off spelling.

 

[Rhade]

If I was in her position I probably wouldn't have pointed it out to, or explained it to my son. I also probably would've told myself that there was a 50/50 chance that what I was thinking might be accurate in regards to some kind of message being given by the owner of the plate and then probably gone away to go on with my life. It could be a coincidence, it could not be. I'd probably take action if I found a burning cross on my lawn, but not to a vanity plate.

The world's kind of full of that stuff, you can't react to all of it and still be well adjusted. That, and I mean...it's the US, you're not used to a wide array of assholes (among the other normal and fine people) in the population?

 

[moose49408]

But...But...but...I mean it is obvious when you go into it looking for something offensive, but I don't think I would EVER have even seen that otherwise. I mean come on; that plate was clearly meant to abbreviate the word "danger." Any claims otherwise are just frivolously inflammatory. I consider myself to be a fairly liberal, ethnically sensitive person, but I have to say that people are getting a little TOO sensitive about these matters. When people make claims like these it only weakens the case against legitimate discrimination and ethnically driven hatred.

Edit: I mean don't get me wrong, they're right that danger isn't spelled with a "y" but words are frequently abbreviated on license plates using letters that aren't in those words. Doesn't the fact that the other idea was the first thing that occurred to them actually say more about the people reading the plate then the person who has it?

 

[Kurokami]

I came across this article on the interwebs and it just caught my eye. i read it and well... just read it.

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/12/personalized_michigan_license.html

After you read the article, post a comment. i want to know what your take on this is. I want to tell that women to just get over it! Even though it is pretty clear, he does give a valid reason (i would say it's valid) to why its his license plate. That basically means that anyone can pretty much take anything and make it offensive and you have to do what they say or its a fine and maybe some jail time for you!

Never even heard the word but it seems fairly exaggerated to take such profound offense to this, I think this woman's got a whole lot of spare time on her hands and should pick up a hobby...

 

[Twilight_guy]

DYNGR looks like it could be extrapolated as DY NGR or "die niger". Personally I wouldn't have seen this unless it was pointed out as racist. I would see the plate, not know what it means, and ignore it or assume that it was a last name. The party at fault here is internal racism.

 

[wordsmith]

I'm sorry, I know the point of this thread is to beat on some bird who is over sensitive, blah blah blah, but.... what?

Obviously she's an idiot, which might explain why there was no mention of a husband and she was walking with her kid in a wal-mart parking lot... might be looking for a new baby daddy or someone to give her enough money for a DNA test because Maury Povich thought she was too stupid for his show. Suck that, random racist jizzmopper!

So it couldn't be that she's head of a company, 7 figure salary, went into walmart to buy ammunition for her RPG (or whatever the hell you guys buy in walmart), and was walking across the lot to her new Merc to drive home and see her husband of 15 years when she saw the plate?

Oh, right, the article doesn't say anything either way, so because she's oversensitive about race MUST mean she's a crackwhore, right? [/sarcasm]

 

[Instant K4rma]

People take things WAY too seriously these days. I can see what the woman is talking about, but she obviously blew the situation way out of perportion. People need to get over themselves.