The North Sea island of Sylt is a place of longing for many Germans, which they immortalize with a sticker on their car - but many see something completely different in the sticker.
A few years ago, stickers on cars were still a real statement: for example against nuclear power or for world peace.
Today, the stickers have largely made themselves scarce - although there are of course some exceptions.
For example, rental cars must have a blue sticker - and they are also mandatory on some diplomatic vehicles.
However, it is not always clear to people what some stickers on the car mean, such as the fish sticker on the tailgate, which many mistakenly take for North Sea advertising or the identification mark of hobby anglers.
Apparently many people with another sticker feel the same way.
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Ballerina or gun - with which the Sylt sticker is often confused
Perhaps it has happened to you before: you hear a song – and understand something completely different from what is actually being sung.
And only years later do you find out that you were completely wrong.
Instead of the line "Here we are now, entertain us" in the Nirvana anthem Smells Like Teen Spirit, one or the other should have already understood: "Here we are now, in containers".
A very similar phenomenon seems to exist with a popular Sylt sticker.
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Sylt sticker on the car: "I always thought that was a weird version of Goofy"
A well-known sticker, which people also like to put on cars, shows the outline of the North Sea island of Sylt - but many people didn't realize that until now.
A Twitter user posted a post explaining that she always thought the sticker was a "stylized ballerina".
And she doesn't seem alone with this funny misinterpretation, although not everyone sees a dancer in the island outline:
"I thought that was a kangaroo as a kid."
“For me, however, it always looked like damage to the paintwork on the cars.
Until at some point I realized that all paint damage looks the same.”
"I always thought that was a weird version of Goofy."
"As a kid, I thought it was a dinosaur."
What is your craziest or funniest #knowledge gap?
For years I thought people would stick a stylized ballerina on their car, probably by a well-known artist.
Then my eyes fell on Sylt in the autostlas.
I was in my early 30s. 😄🩰
— Christie Türnichzu (@ChriWi07) February 6, 2023
Confusion about stickers: Outline of Sylt or a gun barrel down?
Another Twitter user explains that she once embarrassed herself in front of her then-boyfriend when she wondered aloud "why so many lunatics tape their guns barrel down on their cars." However, there is also the opposite case, like a tweet from a user who was obviously not very enthusiastic about racing shows: "And I took the car stickers with the route of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife for the outlines of an island".
In general, you should be careful when applying stickers to cars - because they are not allowed everywhere.
And you should also consider that at some point you might not like them anymore.
Because then you have to remove the sticker again - and that's not an easy task without damaging the paintwork.
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