Have you or anyone you know ever had an antenna ball stolen?

I don't think I know anyone with an antenna ball.

not that I'm aware of

I didn't know car antennas could *have* balls!

Not that I'm aware of.

nope

I still do not understand the question. Is this an American thing?

I've never had my balls ripped off.

People steal those?

Nope.

"Antenna balls are those little balls people put on top of their car antennas."

Why?

i don't think i know anyone with an antenna ball!!!

They have faces on them and sometimes hats. One person I know had "Wilson" from Cast Away stolen. We've had our Jack in the Box dude stolen and a smiley with a cowboy hat. I just wanted to see how common it was for people to get their antenna balls stolen since it happened to us twice. We now have a Smiley with a Santa hat. I give it a week. I'll be surprised if it DOESN'T get stolen. Maybe it's just another stupid Bossier City thing.

My Mickey Mouse one was stolen
Some people suck sooooo fudgein' bad!

No, because I don't know anyone with an antenna ball. I'd never heard of them until this survey!

Why would someone put a ball on top of their antenna?

Mandy had one if the Mickey Mouse ears antenna balls stolen off her car, but my sister just got us a new one, plus an extra one that's wearing a Santa hat. It's so cute!

The clerk my sister bought these ones from suggested super glue. I just worry that if someone tried to take it and it wouldn't come off, they might be mean and break the antenna instead.

They're cute little decorations. They're about the size of a golf ball and made out of styrofoam. Do you have Jack in the Box fast food restaurants there? They sell some that look like their Jack character's head, wearing a little scarf. They're cheesy, but good for a smile.

*has horrible vision of these being the 'next-big-thing' in Britain*

Don't worry. It has never been big in The Netherlands, so why should it in GB?

Yes. But the UK has this awful habit of following what the US do instead of following Europe as we should.

I've seen some people's pushed down some, where they've made a hole through the top, so it's more of a pain to take off.

These things have been around here as long as I can remember. I remember seeing Union 76 antenna balls when I was a wee one.

LOL I just did a google search for antenna balls:

http://www.google.com/search?q=antenna+balls

Good point...
So, where do you live?

Mmmm. They're kind of cute.

My car was stolen? But they left my antenna ball behind!

UK. London. E15
You?

Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Aangenaam kennis te maken.

Insgelijks!
Where did you learn Dutch?

I didn't. I translated it on a web site.
http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran

I think this must be an American thing.

Why should you follow Europe before the US? Why should the UK follow anyone?

I have never owned one or knew anyone that did. I did have a car window flag stolen though is that the same thing?

We share a lot more with Europe than the US - politics, culture, etc.

You do? I would have thought the culture of most English speaking countries is more similar.

We don't have Jack in the Box. I don't think it was in Connecticut either when I lived there.... I'll just have to imagine.

What is a "stupid Bossier City thing"?

You rock! I was just going to go searching for that!

LOL With some of the cars I've had, that was the best part anyway!

Lahdee posted a photo of the basic Jack in the Box one. Here's the one my sister just bought us, though the picture doesn't really do it justice...
Santa Mickey antenna ball

You Americans are strange.... In a nice way of course...

LOL LOL Of course!

Because any nation has its elements of being behind the times. We should all look to other nations to see if they are doing something better than we are. Saying that though we do seem to be consistantly knocking on the U.S.'s door begging for acceptance and friendship.
Blair: Please Dubya. Can I be your pet puppy?

Anyway to answer your original question. The US is getting more repressed and conservative (republican?) by the minute.

Something typical rotten Bossier City people do=just another stupid Bossier City thing.

lol

Sometimes it might be good to have a day-glo colored one in a noticable design, to better find your car in a crowded parking lot.

To a degree we're becoming Americanised but certainly our politics are more in line with Europe.

Culture wise - it's difficult to see our similarities with Europe for the differences, but they are there. And they're much stronger than our superficial cultural ties with the US.

I think it is more repressed under a Liberal government. The left wing in Australia has all the different races at my workplace too scared to talk to each other in case someone says something that can be interpreted as racism. Conservative governments place more importance on individual rights and responsibility. Liberals tend to punish the law abiding citizens by making excuses for misfits and criminals.

Who would you like Blair to suck up to? China? Maybe Castro is left wing enough for you. Yeah, things are really open and free in socialist Cuba huh?

What's wrong with becoming Americanised? Would you prefer Albanianised? Most of the ties in Europe are artificial. The Euro, common market etc are not cultural ties. America doesn't force it's culture on anyone. They offer it and it is accepted. If their culture was crap, like say that of a Mongolian goat herding community, then no one would integrate it with their own. The reason the world is becoming Americanised is because no one's got a better product to offer.

There's something about American culture that repulses me. It's all so bland, everything's the same - with "Have a nice day!" to make you feel better. I just feel like it's being pushed at me sometimes - I'm too stubborn to accept anything that's pushed at me!!

European liberalism isn't really like the view you painted for Dino.

I'd rather the UK stuck with Europe and Russia (and the Commonwealth of course).

Where do you go to hear "Have a nice day" all the time? If you don't like that kind of thing, eat fish and chips all the time.

I think it's weird how people say they hate America but use cars, computers, TV, and all the other things America has given the world. If I don't like something, I ignore it, I don't buy it and I don't use it. I seems like hypocrisy for people to say how they dislike the US while they reap all the advantages US culture and technology have given us. European Liberalism is exactly what I painted for Dino. Didn't Austria recently seek to cut immigration levels and was called racist and ostracised from the rest of Europe by left wing governments with a sick and distorted concept of what racism is? It seems that under a liberal EU, individual countries can't even set their own immigration limits. Talk about central planning. Welcome to the new Europe comrade.

Because European liberalism is just *so* close to Communism! lol I don't know about the rest of Europe exactly - they're left of the UK. But we're centrist, we veer to the left on some issues but to the right on quite a few others. There are a lot of elements of European politics that are quite rightwing, most don't even have a welfare state like we do.

Then they probably have fewer solo mums sitting at home watching Jerry Springer at taxpayers expense. It's amazing how people can get a condom to work if they know there is no benefits available.

The rest of Europe has better sex education than the UK does. They have lower pregnancy rates *and* benefits for single parents.

Everywhere?

No, but most of Western Europe - a lot of Eastern European countries aren't even in the EU.

That sounds like discrimination to me. How very un-PC of the liberals in Europe.

It's all down to economics which I don't get. A lot of people don't want poorer countries in the EU even though if they join we can subsidise their industries and get them going again.

That sounds like extreme discrimination by the liberal left of the EU. Naughty naughty.

Tell me, if you had a bunch of lazy, disorganized, inefficient and constantly fighting people living next door to you who suggested you knock down the fence dividing your property and theirs so they could allow you to help them out of their self inflicted situation at YOUR expense, do you think that's a good idea? Why should Europe, or anyone for that matter, allow entry to people who can't get their crap together? It's time people, and countries, started to realise that most poverty, ill-health and poor education comes from their own lack of motivation and failure to elect or install a government that is not corrupt. I relly don't blame the EU for objecting to the admission of certain countries. Why should those who have worked hard, efficiently and intelligently have to constantly bail out the deadcraps?

It wouldn't take much to get Eastern Europe back on track and we'd get a lot out of it once they were. Forgoing current pleasures for future gain!

Eastern Europe will get on track if they pull their finger out and get to work. They now have a huge market suddenly available to them since the fall of the iron curtain, yet they have done very little to take advantage of it. Artificially extending the life of ineficient business and industry making products no one wants through subsidies will not make it any better in the long run. When the subsidies run out, they're back to square one only with several more million people to feed. Advise them yes. Help them technically sure, but injections of western European tax money will not help in the end. These countries need to get competitive and start paying their own way again.

I just push the red button on my key ring, and go to the car that's honking.

They're all at my place and I'm not giving them back!

Apparently for fun, but in also to find their cars after a heavy snow storm, and to keep the snow plows from crashing into their cars. My parents have a photograph looking down their street after a particularly bad storm, and the day-glow orange balls were all that you could see.

Oh. I didn't think of that! Doh! Good idea!

My antenna goes back down into the car when it is turned off.So it would be useless to have one on my antenna only while driving.But it eliminates to potential of having someone steal it.

I can see myself,picking the dang thing up,everytime I turned my car off.What a hassle!

But,I really wish I did have an antenna,to display my "Winershintzel" dude & my "Baskin & Robbins" ice cream cone. Their really cute....

How did you get the Mickey Mouse antenna ball? I see them all around town,so I'm assuming that the local Californians,went to Disneyland recently or something.Although I haven't had the pleasure of finding one with a Santas hat yet.

Yeah,& I know what you mean about the Jack looking cheesy & all.I was kinda expecting them,to come out with something new this year,for Jack.You know,like the "New Years"(2000 year)Jack with the party hat....That one was really cute,as compared to the one,with the scarf.I've also seen a "Black"Jack,those are kinda unique.

Being the pack-rat that I am,I collect those things.Do you have the Baskin & Robbins Ice cream cone?? I sent one to my oldest daughter in Hawaii.They don't have B & R there. How 'bout the Winershintzel dude? I have a couple of them laying around the house somewhere.Bianca brought them home from work.I'll look around for that & IF I find it,I'll mail you one.The Baskin & Robbins ones can be purchashed at B&R for a dollar+ tax.

Have you seen the smiley face one,with the Zorro like looking hat?? He's so cute I wish I knew where to buy that one. What others have you seen besides the obvious "76" & "Pepsi" logo??

Where did you get your smiley face dude with the cowboy hat?? I think he's soooo cute!! Have you seen the one with the black sombreo(Zerro like looking hat)? He looks just like the little dude that slashes prices for Walmart's commercial.I'd like to get that one too.He's so cute!!

Do you have the Winershintzel dude? Or the Baskin & Robbins ice cream cone?(Please read the above comment to SueBee)Also,do you collect these little guys like I do? Whenever I see an antenna ball thats unique & cute I always want to find out where they got it from.

"It's amazing how people can get a condom to work if they know there is no benefits available."

LOL How true!!

My sister got the mouse ears ones for me on her recent trip to Disneyland. You can also find them for sale online, but I think they're a lot more expensive that way. (At least, I hope she didn't pay five bucks each for these!)

I love the Jack with the party hat! He's so cute! Doesn't he also have one of those noisemaker party favor thingies in his mouth?

I wonder if the Zorro one comes from Walmart? They have a smiley face Zorro in their TV commercials.

I haven't seen the Baskin-Robbins one. I can't think of any others I've seen, except for a saguaro cactus in Western attire, but he's not an antenna ball, he fits down low on the antenna.

We have solo parent benefits in Australia but I have still taken a taxi while drunk to a 7-11 to buy condoms during a party because my worst nightmare would be to wake up after the party and have to worry about whether I knocked someone up.

I got it at Walmart. www.happyballs.com has a lot of cool ones.

why wont my link work

Smart man! (Although it'd be even smarter if you'd just carry a couple with you. )

What link?

http://www.happyballs.com OK never mind. Duh me.

Assuming of course that there is an adequate turnover of 'stock' to avoid the hazards of rubber fatigue.

Huh!!! That's what I thought.I sure don't feel like driving 75-80 miles,& paying 30 something dollars,to get into Disneyland,just to aquire a Mickey ears antenna ball...tho.I'm hopping,that the next time,I have relatives or friends(like yourself )visiting from out of town,that I'll go with them,to the "Happiest place on earth" & buy one then. I went to the link & I saw the cutest little antenna balls there.

As for the Walmart looking,slashing prices,smiley face dude,I guess I'll just have to hang around some strangers car,& wait till they come back to it,so I can ask them where they got it from.

& as for Jack,yeah he does have a party favor thingie in his mouth.I have a couple of them laying around the house also,however.....I can't remember where I "pack-ratted" them of to.Do you have that one?When I run across them again,I'll send you one of them.But in the mean time I found two Winershintzel" dudes with the American Flag hat.I'll send it to you guys.& I'm off to track down the Baskin & Robbins ice cream cone.....If they're still available,I'll include that one in there too.

Ladee,dear.....your link works fine.As I was telling SueBee,the antenna balls there,are so cute,I want to buy majority of them especially the smiley face dude,with the cowboy hat.Oh,also the cowgirl too. But,as I was asking you previously,have you seen the Winershintzel dude & the Baskin & Robbins ice cream cone antenna balls?? Or better yet,do you EVEN have them in Alaska??Some fast food places aren't available everywhere. If not,I have a Winershintsezl dude,that I could send you.He's wearing an American flag hat.As for the Baskin & Robbins ice cream cone,I'll have to drive to my sister city,& see if they're still available.

As for the glo-ball antenna,so you can find your car in the parking lot......that's an excellent idea.Have a variety of colors,just in case it's a big seller,& there are a few other cars in the parking area.

You know? You should really think about that,as a marketing idea.

You mean the darn things need an expiration date?

Oh no! You're trying to revert me back to my packrat ways, just when I was getting good at reducing the clutter! You're trying to enable me, aren't you, Cleo? Wicked, wicked girl!!!

Ohhhhhh,sorry.....I'm so bad like that.But yeah I'm looking at that Winershintzel dude with the American flag hat on his head,right now.Two of them are on my computer table,just wait for someone to adopt them.

** whats that you say,winer dude? You want to go home with SueBee? Okay**

& I'm sending him to you.

I went to Temecula today to get a few Baskin & Robbins ice cream cones,I gotta check two more cities(Lake Elsinore & Hemet) I'll let you know.As for Jack,he might take a while.I have NO clue what so ever where I pack ratted him to.

Yes. It doesn't do much for a man's ego to have a date sprayed on the packet that is 6 months into the future.

I've never seen those... and Im in Louisiana. :)

Oh yeah Tha5t's right....my bad. I thought I was talking to Joalis in Alaska.Would you like the Winershinetsel dude? I'll send him to you for XMAS? E-mail me your snail mail addy & I send him to you.I can't seem to find the Baskin & Robbins ice cream cone right now,but I'm gonna call a couple more citys. Or would you like me to send it to Joalis.I know her home addy.Just in case,heres my e-address; dabprovin@msn.com