Only in NOVA do I see this - not in SW Virginia, Richmond or Tidewater. My guess is Narcissism, et tu?

Narcissism

I used to live in Staunton and have traveled a lot of Virginia - there are personalized plates everywhere.

Get out more.

People who concern themselves with tags on other people's cars are the ones with a problem.

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> People who concern themselves with tags on other
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Yep. We should be thanking them as they volunteering to pay more $$$ to the government.

Narcissism. People in this area are so full of themselves and its obvious with their plates.

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> volunteering to pay more $$$ to the government.

Exactly.....if it makes them happy who gives a fuck?

I really hate when Douchebags have to announce what type of car they have, like MY BMW. Just drive Douchebags.

Typical Fairfax drivers.

My plate says MY LEXUS.

And mine says MY BENZ.

I wanted NIGS SUK but it was already taken.

In VA you can get away with anything

The worst is when a driver will have a vanity plate frame covering their vanity plate. Like "M// Performance" when they are driving a 10 year old 3-series.

Triple vanity douchebag points if they have a Don't Tread on Me plate. Are you trying to go for the narcissistic badass look too?

Maybe they want smaller government.

Snake symbolism

The timber rattlesnake and eastern diamondback rattlesnake both populate the geographical areas of the original thirteen colonies. Their use as a symbol of the American colonies can be traced back to the publications of Benjamin Franklin. In 1751, he made the first reference to the rattlesnake in a satirical commentary published in his Pennsylvania Gazette. It had been the policy of Britain to send convicted criminals to America, so Franklin suggested that they thank the British by sending rattlesnakes to England.
Benjamin Franklin's "Join, or Die" cartoon

In 1754, during the French and Indian War, Franklin published his famous woodcut of a snake cut into eight sections. It represented the colonies, with New England joined together as the head and South Carolina as the tail, following their order along the coast. Under the snake was the message "Join, or Die". This was the first political cartoon published in an American newspaper.

When American colonies came to identify more with their own community and liberty than as vassals of the British empire, icons that were unique to the Americas became increasingly popular. The rattlesnake, like the bald eagle and American Indian, came to symbolize American ideals and society.

As the American Revolution grew, the snake began to see more use as a symbol of the colonies. In 1774, Paul Revere added it to the title of his paper, the Massachusetts Spy, as a snake joined to fight a British dragon. In December 1775, Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit:

"I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of stepping on her.—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?"


Don't Tread on Me. For the idiots who only get it because "it looks cool", then you are a true douchebag. The snake is one of the few standing American symbols used today. It is as the bald eagle is to freedom. The snake is not there to look cool. It is there to hold onto the American ideals.

Personalized plates are stupid.You have to pay more per year and they are more easily remembered than a random alpha numeric plate.

I once had this tag on my car : XLYZQR

The DMV employee asked me what that meant, I said absolutley nothing. She asked why I wanted it. I said to confuse the cops. She was not amused.

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> I once had this tag on my car : XLYZQR
> The DMV employee asked me what that meant, I said
> absolutley nothing. She asked why I wanted it. I
> said to confuse the cops. She was not amused.

She was merely too polite to laugh in your face.

Haters are gonna hate
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