'X' on the rearview mirror?
Look, this may seem like an odd question, but I've noticed quite a few cars with a card displaying an 'X' hanging from the rearview mirror.
It's been suggested to me that this is for target practice, and given the way people drive here I'm inclined to believe it, but - jokes aside - could someone tell what this is meant to signify?
Cheers,
Bec
He is very funny and very intelligent like you! but I'm smarter than him because he married me!
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Che Guevarra sticker on some cars and were wondering if they do know who is that anyway. Hubby says, he's an effin communist!
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But that's the symbol of Malcolm-X, as I explained. Glad to hear you feel better now OzBec! so it won't bugged you anymore!
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Okay, that's more like it... at least I can think that it means something not just "fellow motorists aim here"...
Seriously, it would have bugged me.
i did ask one friend about the x-black card hangin on the rear mirror, and yes it is car freshener
As what PM said
right after the movie Malcolm X came out. It was the logo for the movie -- black background and white letter.
X- stand for the unknown names of a slave
Because when they are taken to America they were given the names of their owners. Malcolm Little refused to use his "slave name" and called himself Malcom X
While in prison for burglary, Malcolm Little adopted the Black Muslim faith and became a minister of the Nation of Islam upon his release in 1952. As Malcolm X, he was a charismatic advocate of black separatism who rejected Martin Luther King Jr. policies of non-violence. Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam in 1964. That same year he made a pilgrimage to Mecca and shortly afterwards he embraced orthodox Islam and took the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. He recanted some of his earlier more strident viewpoints on race, though he remained a staunch advocate of "black power." He was shot to death by a group of men while giving a speech in New York City in 1965; some of the men had connections to the Nation of Islam, though a formal tie between that group and the assassination was never proven.
I said it's an air freshener because one time I was buying an air freshener from one of the garage accesories, I asked about this "X" and the Indian guy says, it's for the car to hang so it gives good smell!
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You know, I came to that conclusion myself. I won't be happy until I hassled some poor clueless driver about his choice of air fresheners...
I think. There is no other meaning.
Alternatively. It could be something used to hypnotize the drivers since many drivers act like that.
BUT. I think it it sort of logo for one of the used cars companies.
Why are we bothering? Suggest asking one of the drivers who has it inside his car about it.
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Irefnesher you got the answer:)
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Oh - it's your driver's...well the book must be all wrong because it said something about "witty, fun, and makes a killer gin and tonic"
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Oryx, I hear you on the smelling thing. I got all swoony in the line at Starbucks the other day. Vanity has it's perks.
*sigh* now you're poking fun at me. I really thought I was onto something.
Decoding Rearview Airfresh Mirror Art :D
Could also mean my driver got given a wee blue teddy by his niece - but hey! who am I to spoil the intrigue ..
Hmmm, blue teddy bear...will have to consult my "Decoding the Airfreshner/Rearview Mirror Art" book and get back to you on the meaning...
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my car has a little blue teddy bear hanging from the rear view mirror - I know this, cos I hang on to him for dear life!
I better look to see who has a, what is it? just an X .. hanging from their rear view mirror.
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worried for blue bear of Doha
Oh, Jauntie they're everywhere. Only thing I ever heard was Malcom X like PM said but I can't figure out why Qataris would be fascinated with him...but they do seem to like Che Guevara as well so who knows!
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it meant they drove like 10 year olds...guess not...
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
will now look out for them and point a bit.
...marks the spot.
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
keep that up and you'll tick off two religions...AND get banned in the process
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
:D
OK that's me banned for sure!
ohhhhhhhhhh yes!
I once had a student about 24 who sat smiling in class for over an hour but was doing nothing..... eventually i realised he was looking at his reflection in the window.....that is why he was so happy!
:)
Qatari men are very vain (they have to be to make sure the thobe stays white) and you will never come across men who smell better ....
there is a laundry near my house and the men just drive onto the pavement... hold their ghutra out of the window and get an emergency iron!
the times i have almost been run over because a man has noticed a crease in his ghutra! LOL
excessive 'hoe' in the 'mirroe' isn't usually your style of speak. :D
Oh thank you! I really enjoyed speculating about all manner of wicked and depraved plots linked to the 'X' air freshener...
Plus, what an introduction to QL, going off on a rant about the mystical air freshener that isn't so mystical.
Okay, you win. I know for a fact that the rearview mirror is for decoration only.
And yes, I mean freemasons. It's been a long day. 22 four-year-olds spent seven hours feasting on my brainzzzzz.
And it's funny you should say that, I've never observed any being more prone to checking themselves out in reflective surfaces than the Qatar male.
the rear view mirror serves two purposes:
a)hanging air freshners
b) checking and rearranging ghutra... most popular.
ehhhh did you mean freemasons? :) guess they would be ripe for it... some good dodgy handshakes with six fingers LOL
dont think they need the freemasons or something similar....with all the 'wasta' they can wield.
You think it's funny, but I'm feeling completely disillusioned. I mean, why so many... and why all in this country?
Oh dear.... the isolation of my new situation has me developing conspiracy theories about air freshener...
I'll be over in the corner rocking.
do stop it, or my hub will think I've gone totally off the wall laughing at the screen!
Then why an 'X'? Man, now I wish I hadn't asked... the mystiqe is just all gone. I had all these elaborate fantasises about them being Qatar's answer to the Stone Masons or something...
Yes its a car freshner. the kind that is most likely to be sold at petrol pumps.
Air freshener? Wow, that's disappointing, I was kind of hoping it'd be a little more... meaningful.
I think it's just a car air freshener.
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pleasure is mine....dear ozbec
Emron, that was helpful. Thanks so much for your insight.
who cares... they need something to hang by the rear view mirror
Looks like one of the Apple (macintosh) logo's to me.
Not sure what it is though.
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