Apo, I had no idea you drove a Mercedes.
Ah, the disceet charm of the bourgeoisie...
I would like to see a movie about the Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Please wait until I hit 40 to start calling me 50-something. I had a good friend in high school who leaned out of his car window to shout something inappropriate to an attractive young woman walking down the sidewalk, and ran smack into a telephone pole.
I don't think it's possible to look any less smooth than that.
I'm amused that ogged noted the make of the cars.
I never let my lust walk around naked. Usually it's wearing one of those little dog sweaters.
Usually it's wearing one of those little dog sweaters.
3 and 17 from that thread are two of my very favorite Unfogged comments.
"very attractive 40-something woman"
Thought there was no thing, Ogged/Derbyshire.
Well, had he tripped or fallen on his knees?
I'm amused that ogged noted the make of the cars.
This is totally automatic. Apparently, when I was a little kid, on road trips I would note the make of every car we passed. I'll bet that didn't get old for the parents.
Well, had he tripped or fallen on his knees?
Somehow, he made it home. But seriously, you know the old cartoon/movie scene where the character is walking one way, but his gaze never wavers from something in another direction? Like that. Also, naked lust.
I'll bet that didn't get old for the parents
Every time we walk past a Pontiac (which company is the maker of our own car), Sylvia points it out. She does not know or care about other makes though.
13 -- Did his neck stretch out so that his head could remain in place as he walked away?
I'll bet that didn't get old for the parents
My parents used to encourage it. Beats the hell out of "Are we there yet?" or "I don't feel very well."
Re 12, I did this too, sometimes shouting the "cool" ones. To this day I sometimes whisper "Porsche!" under my breath.
You know, I think I'm going to go around looking at people with naked lust. It makes bystanders very happy to notice, apparently, and as long as the subject of my lustful regard doesn't notice, it does no one harm.
You all are what's wrong with America.
Not JM. I mean all the social climbing brand slaves who can't help noticing the makes of cars.
Says the rich lady, condescendingly.
20 -- "wrong" s/b "right"
Oh but now I'm reading 21 and reconsidering my judgement WRT 20.
Let's make it illegal for companies to have names. That way we'll solve that pesky "reputation" problem for good.
(I thought 20 was just lashing out blindly against the nice Unfogged people. But in context of 21 it is more reasonable.)
I'm snobby about a lot of things, but not brand names.
And anyway, being a hypocrite doesn't make one wrong.
28- no, but it can make one ironic.
Although 21 is self-evidently correct.
It's not like this culture doesn't fetishize positional goods .... but what the hell would we talk about if none can complain about anything they aren't every hypocritical about.
Oh, I'm cool with being ironic. It's *almost* like being funny.
Well, soubz, we could complain about your spelling.
32 and typing skill, sure ... but that's too easy.
we could complain about your spelling
Yeah, like what's that funky "z" doing in there anyways?...
People should look kindly at each other more often. Generally, it seems to lead to smiling. And smiling is a good thing. I am going to make an inspirational poster now. Like that one that says, "the value of higher education" and has a mansion with a jillion-car garage stocked with one Porsche after another. You know the one I mean.
Now, he can have as many z's in his handle as he wants.
I've never noticed the make of a car, unless it's the same make as one that I've personally owned. In fact, I very frequently drive one of my friends' cars, but I can't tell you the make of it -- I just identify it by the out-of-state plates.
a mansion with a jillion-car garage stocked with one Porsche after another
I knew a girl who lived in a place like this! Her father was convicted of fraud and fled the country, and then, after getting an excellent education, she was persuaded to accept an arranged marriage in the country to which her fraudster father had fled. It was all very inspirational to me.
34: call me archaic. either that, or it avoids namespace collisions. I set up an epynomous gmail, and the modern spelling was taken.
Adam Kotsko is apparently my daughter, gone incognito. (I did not mention, but she's big on pointing out the out-of-state license plates too.)
38: But would she have accepted the arranged marriage had the prospective groom not looked at her with naked lust?
I'm glad to say I have no idea what the poster referred to in 35 looks like, and sorry to say that I'm now required to hate Slol for drawing its existence to my attention.
39 -- It's ok, just joshin'. I like your handle because every time I see it, I think "Potrzebie!"
42: you can detox at despair.com
I'm now required to hate Slol for drawing its existence to my attention.
I was just trying undercut the schmaltz in the first half of my comment. Did I go too far? O woe.
Huh, I did not know what a soubriquet was. Very clever!
Anyway, it's Justification for Higher Education.
45: No, now I think you're all super b/c your mentioning it led to soub's linking to the demotivators site (which is fun), and did you know they'll let you do custom calendars now? Awesome!
46 -- it's just another term for a soubzriquet.
47: Dear god, that's worse than I imagined.
45: Someone gave me one of `Mistakes'. I'm seriously considering putting it in my office to be in clear view during office hours.
Only one of those cars is a Porsche, slol.
40: Actually, that was just a solution that I stumbled upon once while looking for her car. There were three that looked similar. I was really convinced this particular one was it, even tried the lock, but then I saw it had multiple years of city stickers in the window. So it occurred to me that maybe I could use the plates to figure it out from then on.
19:
You know, I think I'm going to go around looking at people with naked lust.
You definitely should. And when you should bite your lower lip and inhale sharply, or maybe give little gasps of amazement.
I'm a big fan of "achievement" and, of course, "beauty."
Only one of those cars is a Porsche, slol.
You know what else? I'd remembered the title of the poster wrong, and there aren't a jillion cars, either.
Some errors are more important than others.
Like the ones that other people make.
All these remarks ending with a comma followed by "slol" are giving things a more adolescent flavor than usual, lol.
Justification for Higher Education.
hm, looks like a Ferrari Modena, Porsche 911, Mercedes SLK, Viper SR/10; but someone's gonna have to help me out with the one on the end. The one in the back is fuzzy, but I think it's a Lambo Murcielago.
54 - That's a pretty good tactic generally. Like, JM could indicate that she was really impressed by 61's car knowledge or 39's gmail derring-do.
The second "should" in 54 s/b "do."
(and should be followed by a comma.)
I'm looking lustfully at all of your pixels, right now.
66 -- What I want to know is, what sort of man can't masturbate to porn in the privacy of his own home?
Anyone remember the scene from "The Razor's Edge" where they're all back together again in Paris, after the crash, and the narrator is sitting in the back of the car with Isabelle and Gray (Isabelle's husband) and Larry (Isabelle's old fiance, whom she lost for the normal monied life) are sitting in the front, and Larry's arm is resting across the front seat's back rest, and Isabelle is staring at it, and the Narrator is staring at her? He says she suddenly looked exactly like a "bitch in heat" and that he thinks Gray will find her surprisingly enthusiastic in bed that night.
I was pretty young when I read it, and it freaked me out a little, that that much of your inner life can be written on your face, and sometimes I wonder if its led to me casting a lot of downward glances whenever I'm too aware of the attractiveness of someone I like but it would be embarrassing for this to be revealed to others. An unknown Ogged driving by, not so bad. Mutual friend figuring it out--mortifying.
Lambo Murcielago
Lambo Murcielago! Lambo Murcielago! Lambo Murcielago!
I like to imagine a world in which cars are named after verse forms. You could be driving along in your Cadillac Villanelle, and get rear-ended by a Hyundai Sestina, leading to a pile-up involving an Epic, a Ballade, a Haiku and a Rondelet.
70 lacks the jouissance of being rear ended by a Probe. ("It totally tore up my bumper!")
My dad used to count how many Saturns he saw every day.
Did he also count their moons?
54: you should bite your lower lip and inhale sharply, or maybe give little gasps of amazement.
That solves my L.A./Beverly Hills etiquette question. When one sees a woman with tens of $K worth of cosmetic enhancement and has dressed to reveal it, is it not insulting to ignore it? "Very nice rack" is too much, drooling is messy, and naked lust attracts the rent-a-cops.
OT: Have any of the academics here seen the new AAUP report that lists the proportion of contingent faculty at 2,600 universities? You can look up your own institution!
Nationally: 62% of all faculty are outside of the tenure stream.
74: People always focus on the amount of money that goes into a Hollywood body, but I think it is also important to recognize the amount of work. Many of these people spend a *lot* of time at the gym.
I generally appreciate their dedication quietly, because generally speaking folks like you and me are not the intended audience for such displays.
Still, a quiet gasp of amazement is never out of place.
Uh, do you run into a lot of Hollywood stars up there in the North Country, Rob?
70: Japanese makers had/have several model names for the domestic market that seem deliberately phonetically unfriendly, such as Nissan's Bluebird, Primera and, best of all, Laurel. It's like some kind of hilarious inside joke.
35: About the only thing I remember about my high school guidance counselor was that she had that poster in her office.
'Laurel,' incidentally, is transcribed as 'rooreru.'
12: To be clear, I don't think it's indicative of being social-climbing or neurotic about prestige. It just amused me, as I couldn't tell most cars apart unless I specifically sought out the little emblem, or unless they're very peculiar or memorable. Pretty much everything normal looks like an Accord with different trim.
folks like you and me are not the intended audience for such displays.
Well, perhaps it's just a sense of noblesse oblige that drives them to the local Vons Pavilions and to the Beverly Center instead of a need for toilet paper or a quick massage in Brookstone's many animated chairs but I appreciate the effort.
I don't discount the sweat equity needed at all. It's just that paying that kind of money to have someone cut one's body is awesome. I mean, there are plenty of places in L.A. where one can get sliced and diced for nothing.
85: and the results are often so iffy...
I assume Bluebird is "Burooburudu"?
"Rooreru" sounds like "Subaru" as pronounced by Scooby-Doo.
In that kind of transliteration, "oo" is pronounced like "oh".
Oh, crap, you are so right.
Shit. I retract 88.