Vehicles.
Why is it that everyone thinks now a days that cars/trucks/motorcycles are a fashion statement? Why is there no more need for function, but a need for style. Let us go out and get our leopard print seat cover and overpriced steering wheel cover and neon license plate frames (when I thought that vanity plates were already stupid and conceited). Let’s put a thousand dollars of 20" wheels on a $450 olds cutlass. What the fuck are people thinking when they buy this stuff? Let’s get the $800 stereo to put in our little grand prix where it sounds distorted and shatters the glass when you put the volume up to 20 notches...
This was written some time ago, I'm seeing what everyone's general consensus is.
posted by FantasticAlice @ 1:50 PM
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style and beauty are wonderful additions when they don't detract from the function. Think how much prettier cars are today than the late 80s/early 90s blobs on wheels. There was little difference in the appearance of all the brands.
But I agree that it is ridiculous to "pimp" a Piece of Sh**. Most POS cars that are tricked out (that I've seen) are driven by those trapped in low wage jobs with no realistic hope of advancement. Why not save the money and more to buy a decent car?
I am amused by the rice burners with the big exhaust though. Perhaps a trip through a car wash would've been better use of that money?
Amen Kurt!
Since i have lived many years in the ghetto i think i can respond to this first hand..its something, sometimes the only thing they lavish pride on...its pathetic but they can not do shit bout their surroundings for the most part..and its usually the only thing they own outright..yes they are misguiding their selves but who's gonna lead them down the correct path? people are dying because they own vanity wheels..it used to be athletic shoes..suckers beat you and took them right off your feet..my son used to say.."Mom dont buy me expensive shoes i am afraid i will get jumped for them"..isnt that disgusting?? individuals that live in squalor will put thousand dollar wheels on their rides before they buy the kid a carseat..
I drive a 2001 Saturn L300. NOT a fashion statement.
1998 Escort. What makes my car so cool is the driver!
I had a sociology teacher in college make an interesting point about cars--some people, particularly certain ethnic groups, are financially unable to make any kind of statement about themselves with the homes they own. They CAN make a statement with the cars they drive.
Don't forget the satellite dish on the side of the house with holes in the roof or cardboard in the windows! That may be more of a redneck thing though; I see it when I am driving "off interstate" from town to town.
agreed.
BUT
i wouldn't turn down a corvette if you gave me one...
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On the subject of satellite dishes on the sides of "fixer-upper" houses...
I once saw a trailer sitting on ground that had been partially washed away, as in the trailer was fully one-half jutting out into space. The lady I came to see had her living space in the room on the very end (the bad end) of that trailer. The icing on the cake...that same end had a satellite dish installed on it, and I thought to myself how someday the thing is going to fall over or break in the middle all due to the added weight of the dish. Stupid thought, but funny to me. Recently this home burned to the "ground" so I guess lack of foundation wasn't its ultimate demise. I can keep dreaming.
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