Padre Pio stickers on cars

philstar · 07-07-2011 10:36AM #1

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 · 07-07-2011 10:39AM

and you know this BECAUSE

smash · 07-07-2011 10:39AM

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

ballsymchugh · 07-07-2011 10:40AM

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

sensibleken · 07-07-2011 10:40AM

Because he was very holey

OutlawPete · 07-07-2011 10:41AM

Saints preserve us!

Needler · 07-07-2011 10:42AM

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

3ndahalfof6 · 07-07-2011 10:42AM

sensibleken wrote: »

Because he was very holey

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

Hande hoche! · 07-07-2011 10:51AM

He was a fairly good looking man.

mrsdewinter · 07-07-2011 10:52AM

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 · 07-07-2011 10:52AM

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 · 07-07-2011 10:53AM

steve06 wrote: »

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

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

ImpossibleDuck · 07-07-2011 10:54AM

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 · 07-07-2011 10:55AM

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 · 07-07-2011 10:55AM

They're hilarious.

ejmaztec · 07-07-2011 10:56AM

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 · 07-07-2011 10:56AM

Padre Pedo?

Who on earth is he?

Padraig Mor · 07-07-2011 10:56AM

The Traveller's Tax Disc.

Alter-Ego · 07-07-2011 10:56AM

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 · 07-07-2011 10:58AM

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

philstar · 07-07-2011 10:59AM

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 · 07-07-2011 11:03AM

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 · 07-07-2011 11:05AM

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 · 07-07-2011 11:06AM

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 · 07-07-2011 11:08AM

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

cbmonstra · 07-07-2011 11:10AM

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 · 07-07-2011 11:10AM

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 · 07-07-2011 11:11AM

They are instead of road tax

philstar · 07-07-2011 11:13AM

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 · 07-07-2011 11:24AM

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 · 07-07-2011 11:31AM

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

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