PizzaMcGee: This has nothing to do with politicians and everything to do with a woman who was annoyed that someone else was going to improve on her idea.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorn'd.

Speedbts alt: Could we just get rid of all specialty plates please?

I like them, they are useful for identifying goobers with some axe to grind... just like those yellow loopy magnet thingies.

drnugget: we still have over 1,000 other specialty license plates to choose from.

No kidding. It's crazy seeing dozens of different plates around here.

I always go for the Green and White with the mountain outline myself. Classic. Simple. Timeless.

The pro-cancer lobby wants their say. To be fair and balanced, I suggest a licence plate featuring cigarettes soaked in benzene. The funding will pay for a playground featuring a giant X-ray machine with the image projected on a wall of asbestos*.

*Mesothelioma also needs our support.

IonBeam2: I guess there's no reason for abstinence when you can rely on crap like this to bail you out of cervical cancer. You guys were right all along.

LOL WUT?

I guess Sarah Palin has another day job already - trolling Fark spewing crap like this. Go back to Whoresilla, Sarah.

0/10

citizen905: I'm still waiting for my "Choose population control: choose abortion" plate.

I may actually break down and get a specialty plate if that were available.

And the stupid "Respect Life" abortion hater license plate survives? Lame.

Why is breast cancer so important to people?

It's easy to detect and not really all that bad, all things considered. Now, ovarian and cervical cancer seem a lot more dangerous. Or cross gender cancers, like ALMOST EVERY DAMN CANCER THERE IS.

And where are the prostate cancer plates? Men die of that all the time. And testicular cancer! Losing a breast is bad for a woman, but losing a testicle is more devastating for a man. Women like their breasts, but men are their genitals.

In short, breast cancer is bad, but it's a waste to focus on it exclusively. And it's not like your stupid license plate is helping anyone. Give your money to the organizations you support and get the cheapest plate so you have more money to give. Ribbons don't cure anything but good fashion sense. Money and R&D is what we need. If you have to show the whole world what causes you support, you're a narcissist. If you're really serious throw out the stickers and give more money to the cause.

doglover: It's easy to detect and not really all that bad, all things considered.

Christina Applegate would like a word with you.

Gals Panic: And the stupid "Respect Life" abortion hater license plate survives? Lame.

Is there something wrong with hating abortion?

Gals Panic: And the stupid "Respect Life" abortion hater license plate survives? Lame.

Yup. That plate was gonna be FREE if they could have put some slogan other than "respect life" on it. What Columbine has to do with abortion is beyond me.

/I'm OK with it costing money
//So I don't see as many
///CHS '99 grad... can we move on yet?

here's a list of what different coloured ribbons represent ...

Link (new window)

Snocones: Add me to the list of people that are sick and tired of hearing about breast cancer and "the race for the cure". We get it, everyone wants to save the boobies. You can call me names all you want to, but I am truly sick and tired of all the pink products out there. I'm sure that 99% of the pink products out there don't even donate one penny to research. The marketing people know that if they make something pink, women will buy it.

There are so many other noble causes out there that would be happy with 1/10 of the money that breast cancer research gets. Where I work, I am in charge of donation requests. Anytime I get a donation request for anything having to do with breast cancer, the request gets my big "hell-motherfarking-no" stamp.

/snort
//head bowed to hide snorts

It's a man's world alright ...

For the four most common cancers the death rates were:

* Prostate, 28.0 per 100,000, down from 28.9.
* Breast, 25.4, down from 26.0.
* Colorectal, 19.6, down from 20.1.
* Lung, 54.8, down from 55.2.

Link (new window)

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=1766533&hl=Man-driving-car-with-Respe ct-Life-license-plate-shoots-motorist-in-road-rage-incident

LadyMech: Hmm ... the politicians suck, but then so does the prevailing attitude that breast cancer > every other disease in the world.

My mother has survived leukemia and skin cancer. And ovarian cancer, which might have reached the critical stage because her male doctors wanted to "keep an eye on it". She finally found a female doctor, and is doing fine.

\Yeah, I know, cool story bro.
\\Honest Bender, I'm with ya. All cancer sucks.
\\\ Not saying breast cancer isn't important, but when my mom was scared about dying and looking for a support group near her, we couldn't find anything.

"Breast Cancer Cure" has become such a big deal in charities in the last decade or so that it's raking in the money and other worthy causes are fighting for pennies.

Yes, cancer of any type sucks, but I donate my money to other, less known, charities.

/hope your mom is doing well

Alx_xlA: PizzaMcGee: This has nothing to do with politicians and everything to do with a woman who was annoyed that someone else was going to improve on her idea.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorn'd.

FTFY

CourtroomWolf: The pro-cancer lobby wants their say. To be fair and balanced, I suggest a licence plate featuring cigarettes soaked in benzene. The funding will pay for a playground featuring a giant X-ray machine with the image projected on a wall of asbestos*.

*Mesothelioma also needs our support.

You can get cigarettes smoked in benzene? Well hell! Sign me up! I've been doing it wrong all these years.

drnugget: we still have over 1,000 other specialty license plates to choose from.

A win on the Boobies. Start Here (new window) and keep clicking to find out the (too) many options to decorate you car with. I wonder how many people I have to sign up to get the Pezjohnson memorial plate going. Maybe I can get a "Respect Dave" slogan on it too.

/Hate the cancer, hate the plate too.

BTW, is it me, or do the people with the firefighter plate drive the worse? Just asking.

Pezjohnson: BTW, is it me, or do the people with the firefighter plate drive the worse? Just asking.

I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere about "spell the worse", but I'm not up for finding it.

When are we going to focus on the REAL menace: TBA?

With your help, we could end TBA in our lifetime!


/Then we can go after BS!

I want numbers comparing the percentage of women that have put money into breast cancer funds to the number of women who've actually breastfed.

I'm genuinely curious whether or not there's a reasonable relation between the two, or if I'm simply part of a culture that cares about keeping something it hates to actually use.

Still no cure for politicians

Well, there IS....but it's the kind that gets you visits from guys in suits and dark glasses with wires coming out of their ears if you talk about it too much, so I won't.

MUST... HAVE... AWARENESS!!!

Come to think of it, yeah, why is boob cancer so freaking important and ball cancer not?! Huh!

PizzaMcGee: NotATFer: Basically, the state is taking ALL the money from the plate to go to highway maintenance and such, just like any other plate. And everyone was fine with that. A law got passed adding an extra $25 fee that goes to help uninsured women with breast cancer. The woman who created the plate was shocked, I say shocked, that money generated by the plate would go to help someone, and pulled the states permission to use her design.

This description of the events is spot on. The woman who "created" the plates was okay with the money going towards the general highway fund.

Then a state rep (and cancer survivor) decides to add a one time charge to the plate to help poor uninsured women treat their cancer. This move is supported by the Colorado Breast Cancer Coalition. But woman who "created" the plates doesn't like the idea, and because the her design cannot be used without her permission, the state has to come up with a new breast cancer awareness plate.

This has nothing to do with politicians and everything to do with a woman who was annoyed that someone else was going to improve on her idea.

That was a dick move on the part of the woman who designed the breast cancer plate.

If you're going to show your support for your favorite cause, really show your support and open your wallet.

/Your wallet. Vote with it.
//thinks Carol Hickman is a dumbass for taking her ball and going home
///slashies!

66dude: PizzaMcGee: NotATFer: Basically, the state is taking ALL the money from the plate to go to highway maintenance and such, just like any other plate. And everyone was fine with that. A law got passed adding an extra $25 fee that goes to help uninsured women with breast cancer. The woman who created the plate was shocked, I say shocked, that money generated by the plate would go to help someone, and pulled the states permission to use her design.

This description of the events is spot on. The woman who "created" the plates was okay with the money going towards the general highway fund.

Then a state rep (and cancer survivor) decides to add a one time charge to the plate to help poor uninsured women treat their cancer. This move is supported by the Colorado Breast Cancer Coalition. But woman who "created" the plates doesn't like the idea, and because the her design cannot be used without her permission, the state has to come up with a new breast cancer awareness plate.

This has nothing to do with politicians and everything to do with a woman who was annoyed that someone else was going to improve on her idea.

That was a dick move on the part of the woman who designed the breast cancer plate.

Improve on an idea by tacking on a 25$ surcharge. Why does the state not take the pre-existing charge for the plate and use that? I'm actually siding with the original plate designer on this one, much to my own surprise.

There are like 200 separate "run for the cure" breast cancer marathons in Toronto and Southern Ontario, but many more deadly diseases and cancers get left out in the cold. Yes, breast cancer is an important cause. It's also substantially less deadly than other forms of cancer and is much more easily cured than other kinds of cancer. It's much easier to spot as well.

I lament post-mastectomy boobies as well, but there are tons of viable causes out there, many in a much greater need of funds than breast cancer. Try to speak out against (or rather, "in less favour") of all of the research money going towards breast cancer and you're a sexist pig.

Other charities are just about going tits-up because of all of the attention being paid to breast cancer awareness. Hepatitis, muscular dystrophy, MS, cystic fibrosis, they are all basically incurable and arguably much worse to live with than breast cancer, but they never get any merchandise and don't get 1/100th the attention that breast cancer gets. It's a shame, because they are much more lethal and painful than breast cancer too.

Honest Bender: skinink: Honest Bender: *Caugh*prostatecancer*caugh*

Excuse me. I'm allergic to sexism.

/I prefer to hate ALL cancers.
//yes I know some men get breast cancer.

Yea, but who wants to buy brown hats, brown bracelets, brown t-shirts...



Actually it's all blue.

Wouldn't brown be colorectal anyways?

/is well aware that, with my family history, one day my asshole will kill me.

GavinTheAlmighty: Hepatitis, muscular dystrophy, MS, cystic fibrosis, they are all basically incurable and arguably much worse to live with than breast cancer, but they never get any merchandise and don't get 1/100th the attention that breast cancer gets. It's a shame, because they are much more lethal and painful than breast cancer too.

MD and CF kill teenagers and 20-somethings. MS kills old people.

Breast cancer kills middle-aged moms. Middle-aged moms tend to have larger social-circles and young children. You get a lot more "survivors" that way.

I guess the plate designer thought it would dilute the brand to have money go to actual treatment and cure instead of research.

\have given a few bucks to prostate cancer at Safeway.

Jesus Christ. How farking Republican does one have to be to slap other women's titties right out of the doctors' hands?

This lady wins the coont of the year award, hands down.

BIGNICKEL: Improve on an idea by tacking on a 25$ surcharge. Why does the state not take the pre-existing charge for the plate and use that? I'm actually siding with the original plate designer on this one, much to my own surprise.

Because those funds are part of their highway fund. What you're asking the state to do is to take a $25 revenue loss on each plate sold.

It's more like this.

Woman: I saw a breast cancer awareness licence plate in another state, and I think Colorado should have one too!

Politicians: Fine, we'll make one.

Woman: The money from them isn't going to charity! I'm outraged!

Politicians: It's a licence plate, not a charity fundraising tool.

Woman: I want it to raise money for charity!

Politicians: Fine. We'll add an extra charge to it and use the money to provide health care to women with breast cancer.

Woman: No, that's not the charity I wanted! WAAAAAAAHHHH!!

Farker#1: Those dirty politicians should have made it a fundraiser in the first place, at the state's cost!

Farker#2: We should focus more on bowel cancer. Can we has a gootse licence plate?

Farker#3: All politicians are the devil. This is proof.

So the vanity plate was created to "raise awareness", but it didn't actually DO anything to help fight breast cancer. Apparently the designer of the plate is into pointless symbolic gestures, as opposed to doing something that actually is beneficial to women fighting breast cancer.

This reminds me of all those people who have yellow ribbon on their cars, as though laying out that $2 at the 7-11 for a magnet on your car is in some way helping the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. You want to support the troops? Do something that actually helps them.

And now the plate's designer doesn't like the fact that money is actually going to help women fighting breast cancer. Seems she's more concerned with a "cause" than with people.

"Raising awareness" is lazy. Get out and do something that actually helps people, and others will be aware of what's important to you and maybe help as well...

GavinTheAlmighty Other charities are just about going tits-up because of all of the attention being paid to breast cancer awareness. Hepatitis, muscular dystrophy, MS, cystic fibrosis, they are all basically incurable and arguably much worse to live with than breast cancer, but they never get any merchandise and don't get 1/100th the attention that breast cancer gets. It's a shame, because they are much more lethal and painful than breast cancer too.

They need better gimmicks, though that telethon is a pretty good one. Right now breast cancer is the hot charity to attention-whore to. Not that long ago everyone had red ribbons everywhere.

/support local charities
//(www.swimacrossthesound.org - Fark keeps tossing link)

And yet, many states have these:

/hotlinked

7Mary3and4: From the comments:

"I'm so tired of hearing about breast cancer and "the cure". Breast cancer has a 86%-90% cure rate. What other major cancer has that? I have a relative with HepC. HepC has a 0% cure rate. It doesnt get nearly the coverage that breast cancer gets. No special plates, no special anything."


Well, you'll always have the special memory of tossing that tranny's salad.

PizzaMcGee: NotATFer: Basically, the state is taking ALL the money from the plate to go to highway maintenance and such, just like any other plate. And everyone was fine with that. A law got passed adding an extra $25 fee that goes to help uninsured women with breast cancer. The woman who created the plate was shocked, I say shocked, that money generated by the plate would go to help someone, and pulled the states permission to use her design.

This description of the events is spot on. The woman who "created" the plates was okay with the money going towards the general highway fund.

Then a state rep (and cancer survivor) decides to add a one time charge to the plate to help poor uninsured women treat their cancer. This move is supported by the Colorado Breast Cancer Coalition. But woman who "created" the plates doesn't like the idea, and because the her design cannot be used without her permission, the state has to come up with a new breast cancer awareness plate.

This has nothing to do with politicians and everything to do with a woman who was annoyed that someone else was going to improve on her idea.

Wow. You're completely missing her point. The point of the plate is to cause awareness. By adding a $25 charge, you're decreasing the likelihood people might actually buy the plates.

Then, instead of using the money to pay for research which may one day benefit ALL breast cancer patients, the politicians are basically going to use the money to pay for SOME women to get treatment. Not women who have insurance, or poor women on medicare, but women who make enough money so that the state feels they should be able to afford their own insurance, but for whatever reason they dont get insurance. So basically, the state is going to use the money to fill whatever gaps they have in budgeting for their peoples healthcare.

It's a very valid point she makes, and the controversy IS being driven by a politician who knows that while funding cancer research doesn't get you votes, the people who don't have health insurance (again, for whatever reason) are voters...

All of this 'raising awareness' BS really bugs me. Is there anyone on the planet who isn't aware of breast cancer? It drives me nuts that people wear a pink bracelet or have a pink licence plate and they actually believe they are in some way contributing to the cause. This is more than just pointless, it's probably actually damaging to the breast cancer cause, because then these people feel they've already done their part, so they never make an effort to actually do anything meaningful.

This is a perfect example: 'Our plate was supposed to be for raising awareness, not for actually helping sick people. If you're going to use it for helping sick people, forget it- you can't have it anymore.'

Kudos to the state for ditching the lip-service plate, and instituting one that actually helps people with cancer.

Veloxus: Wow. You're completely missing her point. The point of the plate is to cause awareness. By adding a $25 charge, you're decreasing the likelihood people might actually buy the plates.

If, in 2009 there are people in America that are NOT aware of breast cancer, then a license plate will not help them. Yet those that aren't aware are usually the poor or undereducated - people who are least likely to have insurance, and need the education the most.

Education is fine and dandy, but a license plate is not educating people.

Then, instead of using the money to pay for research which may one day benefit ALL breast cancer patients, the politicians are basically going to use the money to pay for SOME women to get treatment.

There is PLENTY of research, and plenty of funds for the research. But there definitely should be charities or *something* offering assistance to cancer patients in treatment, and screenings for those underinsured. Not to mention the little things here and there that insurance doesn't cover or have high deductibles for (wigs, mastectomy bras). Add to it hospital deductibles, lost wages from missed work, and one bout can put a hurting on a family.

Not women who have insurance, or poor women on medicare, but women who make enough money so that the state feels they should be able to afford their own insurance, but for whatever reason they dont get insurance. So basically, the state is going to use the money to fill whatever gaps they have in budgeting for their peoples healthcare.

Can you clarify what you mean? It sounds like you're blaming women who don't have insurance for being unable to afford mammograms or treatment, or the little expenses incurred with treatment. I will assume you're aware that having or not having insurance is a complicated matter (blah blah preexisting conditions, blah blah employer dropped coverage and out of pocket will cost about $10,000 a year).

It's a very valid point she makes, and the controversy IS being driven by a politician who knows that while funding cancer research doesn't get you votes, the people who don't have health insurance (again, for whatever reason) are voters...

Do people really not vote for a candidate because they want to fund cancer research? Seriously, are there people like that? If anything, government should pay for medical developments, instead of renaming highways and clogging the legislature with moronic legislation and token gestures.

/a sad story: was listening to a lady in a waiting room. she had cancer (didn't know what type), was waiting for her radiation treatment. She had no job, no insurance, was denied Medicare, had only an elderly family member, and the only thing she owned was a small house, which she had to sell for her treatments. If people down on their luck shouldn't get help, who should?

Bummer I thought this was going to be a Boobies thread.