• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        65·
        7 days ago

        Setting aside cancer dog, 95% of the time when I see this lettering on a vehicle I know it’s probably mental illness.

        The other 5% is probably the best plumber in town

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Entirely seriously:

        I once dated a person with diagnosed schizophrenia.

        Obviously I cannot diagnose someone from their truck alone, but my first thought here is that this person is convinced their dog is being fucked with by their ‘handlers’ or ‘gang stalkers’, who have magic nonsense technology and tens of millions of dollars dedicated to fuck with him and his dog in particular, capable of using some kind of DEW to project thoughts and memories and voices into their had, beam cancer at their dog, etc.

        … Or, that is my own CPTSD from having had a fairly longterm relationship with a schizophrenic talking.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          5 days ago

          I think it’s a poorly worded theory that dogs with colon cancer lick their buts and then lick you, giving you colon cancer.

          Possibly they heard about the Tasmanian devils with cancer on their faces that spread by biting each other. Or possibly they know about HPV and cervical cancer and extrapolated from there.

          It’s hard to say, but if they’ve had colon cancer and it’s been traumatic, I can understand wanting to get a message out. If you don’t have the education to do it other ways, mailbox letters on your truck probably make sense.

      • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
        14·
        6 days ago

        All you need to get published is a Silverado, some stickers, and someone with a first grade understanding of the English language. The review in this case comes after the publication.

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
      5·
      6 days ago

      “Proceedings from the Dog Turd”, Elsevier, annual subscription cost: several arms and legs

  • Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world
    36·
    6 days ago

    Dogs can pass cancer to each other, due to genetic similarity. A similar occurrence wiped out something like 75% of Tasmanian Devils recently. Seems like a fun misunderstanding of a real phenomenon.

  • Gorge@lemm.eeEnglish
    44·
    7 days ago

    This reminds me of when I was about 8 years old. I read online that vaccines are bad, and fluoride in the drinking water was part of some evil plot. I told everyone about it and it took about a day for me to realize how wrong I was. I was embarrassed for a while, but every time I see something like this I feel so lucky I developed critical thinking before it was too late.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.world
      91·
      6 days ago

      I wish I hadn’t to be honest with you. I wish I could have carried on relating to my family, ignorant of the problems of this world.

      I miss believing in ghosts. I miss the comfort I got praying as I walked through a dark room. I miss the live music at church a few times a week, the big tent revivals, believing I was seeing actual miracles when faith healers called someone up.

      I miss that short window in life when the only things that I knew related directly to me and my community.

      I don’t miss any of it enough to actually, honestly go back even if I could, but damn.

      I’m just worked up because a stray cat got hit by a car. There’s something wrong with me, I swear haha. Sorry for this.

    • 0ops@lemm.ee
      8·
      6 days ago

      Haha that’s great. What’s your mother’s maiden name just wondering? I love learning strangers family history

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        My mother’s maiden name was Smith, we had a family dog when I was young, the dogs name was spot, oh, and interestingly the last four of my SSN is 678. Weird right?

        • Rodneyck@lemm.ee
          4·
          6 days ago

          My favorite movie is ‘From Justin to Kelly.’

          A movie about finding love in an unexpected place …Florida on spring break. It should give them pause.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    24·
    6 days ago

    Here’s another theory, these people know exactly how crazy this looks. There’s some kind of secret online community where they share these pics of their own vehicles with each other. Then they find where other people online post their pics and laugh about what the reactions are.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    6 days ago

    Ah yes, the notorious supervillain Cancer Dog, whose main power is casting ‘pervert cancer’ on his opponents.

    🎶 Cancer Dog, Cancer Dog, leaves you in a pervert cancer fog! 🎶

    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
      111·
      6 days ago

      Damn, that was an interesting read before sleep.

      But I still don’t understand. Is it basically a mass of cancerous dog cells that just keep spreading around endlessly, nearly unchanged in the last ten thousand years? If so, can it even be considered a life form? Or a form of life at all?

      • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        The cancer cells are genetic clones of some dog’s cancer from 11000 years ago. Yes, they’re alive similarly to how your and my cells are alive. The cells themselves live, die and reproduce asexually. I’d say they constitute life forms, but I’m no biologist.

        • Enkrod@feddit.org
          1·
          5 days ago

          I mean… there is an argument to be made that… genetically… hell, cladistically, the cancer is a dog. It’s just… a very special one?

          This absolutely stretches our understanding of what is a dog and maybe even what is a life form. Maybe we should start looking even at viruses as forms of life. In the end the only distinguishing factor might be if it has inheritable properties which are subject to evolution

      • Enkrod@feddit.org
        1·
        5 days ago

        It’s called the immortal dog. Same thing is happening to tasmanian devils right now, the devil’s tumor evolved in the 1980s and has been jumping from one devil to the next since then.

        The interesting thing about the immortal dog (canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor, CTVT) is that is has continued to evolve and become an ever more efficient parasite. This is a stark reminder that evolution is something that happens to genes, not to organisms.