End of Porsche

[Sibirsky]

Long rant about how the purchasing of expensive (and thus, symbolic of conspicuous consumption - another compensation mechanism), phallic accessories doesn't mean anything.

...in which, you mention that you just so happen to have purchased one of those accessories.

Does that automatically mean you are in denail? No, of course not.


On an unrelated not, perhaps Bill O'Reilly claims that 'the O'Reilly Factor' is the only program 'without spin' because it's an objective judgement.

Dude, his "conspicuous consumption" was a 17 year old $900 car.

Uh huh. That just happened to be a Porsche. Coincidentally.

He probably intended to buy a Kia, but somehow slipped and pointed at the wrong one.

Of course not. Are you saying it is impossible for one to genuinely care about the car itself, instead of how one looks in it to others if they buy some brand that you would classify as lavish?

[Cannot think of a name]

That's about the saddest dismissal I've seen.

Okay.

You didn't go very far to dispel your own obsession with other people's penis'. At best you managed to create a correlation between...what? That I've had one and might have an insight into what goes into deciding to buy one?

Oh, right...some weird tangential relation to O'Rielly...yeah, that made super sense. Good job. Stretch Armstrong would be proud.

You know, you're on the internet. If you just want to go ahead and look at peoples penis', you can just look them up and no one has to know. There's no need to project your obsession on other people.

[Greed and Death]

I don't know here is what it looked like.

That's just scary... I don't even want to know how you immediately laid hands to that...

Google the ambiguously gay dou.

[Grave_n_idle]

Of course not. Are you saying it is impossible for one to genuinely care about the car itself, instead of how one looks in it to others if they buy some brand that you would classify as lavish?

No, of course not.

I'm sure it's totally possible.

[Grave_n_idle]

That's about the saddest dismissal I've seen.

Okay.

You didn't go very far to dispel your own obsession with other people's penis'. At best you managed to create a correlation between...what? That I've had one and might have an insight into what goes into deciding to buy one?

Oh, right...some weird tangential relation to O'Rielly...yeah, that made super sense. Good job. Stretch Armstrong would be proud.

You know, you're on the internet. If you just want to go ahead and look at peoples penis', you can just look them up and no one has to know. There's no need to project your obsession on other people.

Okay.



What a lot of personal attacks.

[Sibirsky]

Of course not. Are you saying it is impossible for one to genuinely care about the car itself, instead of how one looks in it to others if they buy some brand that you would classify as lavish?

No, of course not.

I'm sure it's totally possible.

Fair enough. I am one of those people.

[Sibirsky]

It's a beauty!

[Cannot think of a name]

Long rant about how the purchasing of expensive (and thus, symbolic of conspicuous consumption - another compensation mechanism), phallic accessories doesn't mean anything.

...in which, you mention that you just so happen to have purchased one of those accessories.

Does that automatically mean you are in denail? No, of course not.


On an unrelated not, perhaps Bill O'Reilly claims that 'the O'Reilly Factor' is the only program 'without spin' because it's an objective judgement.

Dude, his "conspicuous consumption" was a 17 year old $900 car.

Uh huh. That just happened to be a Porsche. Coincidentally.

He probably intended to buy a Kia, but somehow slipped and pointed at the wrong one.

So, wait, I shouldn't have bought it because it was a Porsche, because someone else who doesn't have to drive it might think it has something to do with my sexual organ?

And have you seen a 914?

It screams 'sexy' in the way a serving plate does. It's an angular rectangle.

It's also the only mid-engine car I could afford. Had an X 1/9 been available at the time I might have test drove that. Fieros were a little too new and out of my $1000 price range, sorry. Kia didn't exist yet and to this date doesn't make a mid-engine car.

I bought the car because it was fun to drive. Sometimes a cigar is just a good smoke, even obsessed Freud was able to wrap his brain around that.

[Cannot think of a name]

Okay.

You didn't go very far to dispel your own obsession with other people's penis'. At best you managed to create a correlation between...what? That I've had one and might have an insight into what goes into deciding to buy one?

Oh, right...some weird tangential relation to O'Rielly...yeah, that made super sense. Good job. Stretch Armstrong would be proud.

You know, you're on the internet. If you just want to go ahead and look at peoples penis', you can just look them up and no one has to know. There's no need to project your obsession on other people.

Okay.



What a lot of personal attacks.

Wah. Get a tissue.

[Sibirsky]

...in which, you mention that you just so happen to have purchased one of those accessories.

Does that automatically mean you are in denail? No, of course not.


On an unrelated not, perhaps Bill O'Reilly claims that 'the O'Reilly Factor' is the only program 'without spin' because it's an objective judgement.

Dude, his "conspicuous consumption" was a 17 year old $900 car.

Uh huh. That just happened to be a Porsche. Coincidentally.

He probably intended to buy a Kia, but somehow slipped and pointed at the wrong one.

So, wait, I shouldn't have bought it because it was a Porsche, because someone else who doesn't have to drive it might think it has something to do with my sexual organ?

And have you seen a 914?

It screams 'sexy' in the way a serving plate does. It's an angular rectangle.

It's also the only mid-engine car I could afford. Had an X 1/9 been available at the time I might have test drove that. Fieros were a little too new and out of my $1000 price range, sorry. Kia didn't exist yet and to this date doesn't make a mid-engine car.

I bought the car because it was fun to drive. Sometimes a cigar is just a good smoke, even obsessed Freud was able to wrap his brain around that.[/quote]

AMEN! Sorry to steal your pic up there.

[Cannot think of a name]

AMEN! Sorry to steal your pic up there.

At least you had the patience to find a better picture.

[Grave_n_idle]

Wah. Get a tissue.

Uh huh.

So, merely pointing out that you're making specific, personal attacks, on me as an individual - earns a sensitive "Wah" response... but suggesting that collectively, people buy expensive-looking, sporty cars (that are sold as sex symbols) because they're trying to promote some kind of sexual image they otherwise do not feel is pronounced enough... earns a half a page of ranting and denial.

Hypocrisy, thy name is "Cannot think of a name".

[Sibirsky]

AMEN! Sorry to steal your pic up there.

At least you had the patience to find a better picture.

Forget the picture. I'm going to start looking for a car. Early next year perhaps.

[Grave_n_idle]

It's a beauty!

On the contrary. Some would say "It screams 'sexy' in the way a serving plate does. It's an angular rectangle."

[Sibirsky]

It's a beauty!

On the contrary. Some would say "It screams 'sexy' in the way a serving plate does. It's an angular rectangle."

Ok. Further evidence that "Cannot Think Of A Name" did not make a lavish purchase. Did not try to impress anybody. Was not trying to compensate for anything. And bought the thing, because it is fun to drive.

[Sibirsky]

My daily driver. A nice German 2 door would be a great addition on the weekends.

[Neu Leonstein]

Porsche made a couple of $Billion last year in trading VW shares in what was a massive shafting for would-be short-traders.

They have enough cash to ride out any short-term woes in the car industry.

They don't - they lost a bunch of that cash again in a related pay-out date a few days ago.

Found the English articles:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/c ... 004241.htm
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124786596929560045.html

[Sdaeriji]

Wah. Get a tissue.

You'd do good to put the troll on ignore.

[Christmahanikwanzikah]

Wah. Get a tissue.

Uh huh.

So, merely pointing out that you're making specific, personal attacks, on me as an individual - earns a sensitive "Wah" response... but suggesting that collectively, people buy expensive-looking, sporty cars (that are sold as sex symbols) because they're trying to promote some kind of sexual image they otherwise do not feel is pronounced enough... earns a half a page of ranting and denial.

Hypocrisy, thy name is "Cannot think of a name".

I guess Jay Leno must have a tiny penis, then.

...

Oh, wait, maybe people buy nice cars because they're nice cars. Or they like to drive nice cars fast. A car is a piece of functional art; I don't imagine you'd be ragging on the phallic size of people that collect sculptures or oil paintings.

[Grave_n_idle]

Wah. Get a tissue.

Uh huh.

So, merely pointing out that you're making specific, personal attacks, on me as an individual - earns a sensitive "Wah" response... but suggesting that collectively, people buy expensive-looking, sporty cars (that are sold as sex symbols) because they're trying to promote some kind of sexual image they otherwise do not feel is pronounced enough... earns a half a page of ranting and denial.

Hypocrisy, thy name is "Cannot think of a name".

I guess Jay Leno must have a tiny penis, then.

...

Oh, wait, maybe people buy nice cars because they're nice cars. Or they like to drive nice cars fast. A car is a piece of functional art; I don't imagine you'd be ragging on the phallic size of people that collect sculptures or oil paintings.

You know why the "sports car = compensating" cliche IS a cliche? Because I didn't just come up with it to piss people off in this thread.

[Grave_n_idle]

Wah. Get a tissue.

You'd do good to put the troll on ignore.

You'd do well to put the troll on ignore.

[Jocabia]

Wah. Get a tissue.

Uh huh.

So, merely pointing out that you're making specific, personal attacks, on me as an individual - earns a sensitive "Wah" response... but suggesting that collectively, people buy expensive-looking, sporty cars (that are sold as sex symbols) because they're trying to promote some kind of sexual image they otherwise do not feel is pronounced enough... earns a half a page of ranting and denial.

Hypocrisy, thy name is "Cannot think of a name".

You totally could have done better with that last line. I'm terribly disappointed.

You do realize that if buying a car specifically for the name and that people would associate it to sex is pathetic, then avoiding it for the same reason would be equally pathetic, right?

In your rants about expensive cars, you seem to ignore when cars by the same name aren't (as in $900). It seems your problem isn't that they're expensive, but that they carry the name. If you were really trying to be rational, you would be talking about value. You aren't.

[Potarius]

You know why the "sports car = compensating" cliche IS a cliche? Because I didn't just come up with it to piss people off in this thread.

You may not have come up with it, but it's pretty obvious that your intent here is to piss people off.

Come to think of it, I can't remember a time when it seemed that doing just that wasn't your intent.

[Jocabia]

You know why the "sports car = compensating" cliche IS a cliche? Because I didn't just come up with it to piss people off in this thread.

You know why the "black people=criminals" cliche is a cliche? Because I didn't just come up with it to piss people off in this thread. Does that make it valid?

[Potarius]

You know why the "sports car = compensating" cliche IS a cliche? Because I didn't just come up with it to piss people off in this thread.

You know why the "black people=criminals" cliche is a cliche? Because I didn't just come up with it to piss people off in this thread. Does that make it valid?

I don't think it's of much use to argue with him, being the same person who tried to convince me that I should be open to having anal sex because he'd heard that other people liked it.

Never mind the fact that I simply find even the thought of it disgusting.