Padre Pio stickers on cars

philstar

Why do so many people in this country have Padre Pio stickers on their cars?

Even in other "catholic countries" i don't see it as much?

What good are they..I mean its not like he's going to pop out from behind a ditch and save you when your heading towards it at 80mph.

anyway the guy was a con artist

3ndahalfof6

and you know this BECAUSE

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smash

Where do you live? I've never seen one.

ballsymchugh

of all the things going on in the world, is this really the thing that bugs you the most??

sensibleken

Because he was very holey

OutlawPete

Saints preserve us!

Needler

That reminds me I must get one for my car just to annoy the militant atheist crowd

3ndahalfof6

sensibleken wrote: »

Because he was very holey

and this is why he is going to jump out from behind the bush

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Hande hoche!

He was a fairly good looking man.

mrsdewinter

Wow, that takes me back: haven't seen a Padre Pio car sticker in years... Listen, OP, will you bring me back a 26p bottle of family value orange - you know, via whatever portal to the 1980s you've stumbled through...

sensibleken

Actually there is a patron saint of cars St Francis of Rome. Thats probably why theres so many accidents. wrong saint sticker

I should probably mail Gay Byrne and let him know

ejmaztec

steve06 wrote: »

Where do you live? I've never seen one.

Millions of em in Kerry, in cars driven by coffin-dodgers.

ImpossibleDuck

This is timed very well.
Ahh we bought a car about a week ago and the f*cking thing was loaded with pictures of him. Y'know where the tax and insurance are on the windscreen? Well that whole edging of the windscreen was littered with pictures of him top to bottom.

I thought it was very odd...

smash

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

This is timed very well.
Ahh we bought a car about a week ago and the f*cking thing was loaded with pictures of him. Y'know where the tax and insurance are on the windscreen? Well that whole edging of the windscreen was littered with pictures of him top to bottom.

I thought it was very odd...

I'd have walked away and bought a different car. That would just freak me out!

bleg

They're hilarious.

ejmaztec

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

This is timed very well.
Ahh we bought a car about a week ago and the f*cking thing was loaded with pictures of him. Y'know where the tax and insurance are on the windscreen? Well that whole edging of the windscreen was littered with pictures of him top to bottom.

I thought it was very odd...

The more Padre Pio stickers, the less chance the Guards will notice that the tax and insurance have run out.

saatana

Padre Pedo?

Who on earth is he?

Padraig Mor

The Traveller's Tax Disc.

Alter-Ego

OP have you woken up this morning in 1990's rural Ireland?

I rarely see Padre Pio stickers these days but if I do it's nearly always on a car with a tow bar and a fcuked suspension.

Orando Broom

I wonder do fighter pilots lash an oul PadP sticker up on the cockpit bubble of th'oul F15-E and such like?

philstar

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

This is timed very well.
Ahh we bought a car about a week ago and the f*cking thing was loaded with pictures of him. Y'know where the tax and insurance are on the windscreen? Well that whole edging of the windscreen was littered with pictures of him top to bottom.

and they're bloody hard to get off as well:(

UglyBolloxFace

philstar wrote: »

Why do so many people in this country have Padre Pio stickers on their cars?

Because we're all sheep corrupted by the Catholic Church.

Dan133269

In secondary school we had an absolutely psycho of a teacher, fella who genuinely had serious anger and mental problems. When he freaked out he could be heard shouting from the floor above and below. He threatened to hit students, put his fist through his desk and threw desks etc.

Then 1 day he told us about the time he met Padre Pio when he was young. He said that meeting him had a profound impact on his life. I thought that was priceless.

Bondvillain

Knackered brown Hillman Hunters with flaky red reg plates, no tax, tow bars, rufe-raacks and a bang of wet dog off them FTW.

dlofnep

Me ma put one on my old car and I couldn't be arsed taking it off.

cbmonstra

I don't have that sticker, but I do have a miraculous medal that my granny gave my mam in the ashtray. My mam gave it to me when I got the car.

My granny died just before I learned to drive, so I keep it there just to remind me of her. Not for any religous reasons.

My mam does think it will protect me from crashing though, so it's there to humour her aswell...

ejmaztec

Dan133269 wrote: »

In secondary school we had an absolutely psycho of a teacher, fella who genuinely had serious anger and mental problems. When he freaked out he could be heard shouting from the floor above and below. He threatened to hit students, put his fist through his desk and threw desks etc.

Then 1 day he told us about the time he met Padre Pio when he was young. He said that meeting him had a profound impact on his life. I thought that was priceless.

Perhaps Padre Pio prevented him from butchering the whole school, but allowed him to scream and smash stuff up to compensate.

aidhan

They are instead of road tax

philstar

Alter-Ego wrote: »

OP have you woken up this morning in 1990's rural Ireland?

no i haven't, ok they are not as prevelant as as in the past..but still there's still quite a few around even on new cars

Ghost Buster

Needler wrote: »

That reminds me I must get one for my car just to annoy the militant atheist crowd

The ones who post on boards or the ones who stand on street corners protesting about stuff and preaching.?
You could impress folk with your faith by getting a Padre Pio sticker and then deciding that you obviously dont need insurance.:D

Needler

Ghost Buster wrote: »

The ones who post on boards or the ones who stand on street corners protesting about stuff and preaching.?
You could impress folk with your faith by getting a Padre Pio sticker and then deciding that you obviously dont need insurance.:D

I suppose the real life ones, I don't really use my car to navigate boards so they wouldn't see it anyway

Captain Darling

I always give my relic a good rub when i'm driving. Makes me feel very holy. Very holy indeed.

Biggins

Seen them in a few taxi's.
Each to their own, whatever turns them on.

laughter189

They are probably cheapest car sticker on the market and I bought a few of them last time I was in Knock ( if ye know where that is )

Thepones

Just bought a new car and it has one on the drivers side. I am not religous and want to take it down. 2 things are stopping me. 1) the horrible gummy / glue stain it will leave (insert innuendo/ joke) and 2) the dark clouds that circle my car when i reach to do so.

Tzetze

OutlawPete wrote: »

Saints Formaldehyde preserve us!

/fixed

suicide_circus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UViYFyrxtic

saatana

I looked up that Padre Pio fellow (at first I thought it was Padre Pedo, guess I'm a bit dyslexic). Weird, you couldn't make stuff like this up.

What's amazing is that one of the biggest figures behind the Padre Pio cult in Ireland was also one of the biggest fundraisers for Taca/Fianna Fail.

http://www.cinews.ie/article.php?artid=7705

Even worse, the woman who was this country's Education Minister (no kidding) until a few months ago actually believes that the dead Italian, who suffered from a very rare disease and lacked the cop-on to have it treated by practitioners of medical science, can solve Ireland's economic problems from beyond the grave.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20071104/ai_n21089512/

This country is well and truly fcuked as long as people like that have any influence.

annascott

My b/f's mother bought him a Padre Pio tax disk holder. I find it really embarassing but he won't take it down. I actually considered leaving him because of it...

cowzerp

annascott wrote: »

My b/f's mother bought him a Padre Pio tax disk holder. I find it really embarassing but he won't take it down. I actually considered leaving him because of it...

Do, he's a mammys boy and a tool

c_man

philstar wrote: »

Why do so many people in this country have Padre Pio stickers on their cars?

Because he was an ace driver

Aldebaran

A friend of mine has one on his car, it's well faded now at this stage though.

123balltv

My Brothers girlfriend got him rosary beads/a holy sticker and a
motorists prayer their the same age 18 they dont give a **** who laughs at them.

it's a bit of hope they have lost family/friends in car crashes

Sweatynutsack

I have a sticker of Michael Jackson in my car
Every time i look i see a man in the mirror :P






sorry could'nt help it

Magic Beans

Padre Pio ---- RIP a Pedo

jayteecork

I firmly believe that Padre Pio sticker holders are probably involved in more accidents because they race along willy-nilly thinking "Ah shur I'll be grand, shur isn't Padre Pio looking after me"

Killgore Trout

There seems to be a bit of a stigmata about these PIO people.

fastrac

I brought it up with a priest once who had an AA sticker on his windscreen that I thought his gang had Padre Pio stickers instead and the answer was its not much good ringing him when your on the side of the road.

Boxoffrogs

Not Padre Pio but my Mam has a prayer hanging from her rear view mirror. She wanted to buy me one :eek: Asked me to put one in my car for her peace of mind, said I wouldn't notice it was there.

Also, she bought me a holy medal to pin to the pram when my son was a baby. Clearly they are thought of as some kind of protection. Against what, I do not know.

Calibos

Boxoffrogs wrote: »

Not Padre Pio but my Mam has a prayer hanging from her rear view mirror. She wanted to buy me one :eek: Asked me to put one in my car for her peace of mind, said I wouldn't notice it was there.

Also, she bought me a holy medal to pin to the pram when my son was a baby. Clearly they are thought of as some kind of protection. Against what, I do not know.

The irony being that were you sitting with her watching a documentary on TV with an african witch doctor waving a handful of herbs or necklace of animal bones in front of someones face to ward off a curse or evil spirits, she'd likely turn to you and say, "Jaysus Son, did ya ever see such primitive nonsense!"

Topper Harley

annascott wrote: »

My b/f's mother bought him a Padre Pio tax disk holder. I find it really embarassing but he won't take it down. I actually considered leaving him because of it...

Why does such a trivial thing upset you so much?

cowzerp wrote: »

Do, he's a mammys boy and a tool

If he leave's it up, he's a mammy's boy. If he take's it down, he's whipped. Lose-lose, poor fella.