One Life Live It!!

[Ari]

I'm mildly confused by all these "One Life Live It!" stickers on old jacked up 4x4s.

Thing is, you never see these stickers on open top sports cars and they can be quite life affirming. Or on glorious GT cars all set for a life affirming blast across Europe. Or on superbikes (although "One Life End It!" might sometimes be more appropriate for them).

Or indeed on a big people carrier from someone that is living their life by having lots of fun with a big family, or maybe an estate car that carries kayaks and climbing gear for an outdoorsy life type, or a van full of motocross bikes.

So can anyone explain why these people sem to insist that a jacked up 4x4 in particular is a prerequisite to having "a life"?

And also, what does a 4x4 "life" actually consist of? I'm inclined to think it likely to involve getting very cold and very dirty and very stuck in a godforsaken bog somewhere. Doesn't intrinsically feel very "lifey" to me, but I'm happy to be educated on this point.

[Krikkit]

Being at one with the outdoors; in the wild, untamed wilderness... Then driving all over it.

Just as justified as the other eye-bleedingly awful applications of phrases like that and YOLO etc. Bandied about exclusively by cocks who don't actually do what the phrases they pepper their cars with suggest - they still have a mortgage, kids, a job etc; they're not blasting down white water rapids in Ecuador, bumming a ladyboy in Bangkok or living with Masai tribesmen.

Edited by Krikkit on Monday 29th July 16:52

[EK993]

The message may have absolutely nothing to do with cars.

[GC8]

Krikkit said:

...they still have a mortgage, kids, a job etc; they're not blasting down white water rapids in Ecuador, bumming a ladyboy in Bangkok or living with Masai tribesmen...

As you part the ladyboys arse cheeks, your list and mine part company!

[anonymous-user]

'Gripped, sorted, let's OFF ROAD'

Stickers are naff. 'One life live it' stickers are another level. Adult (ish) equivalent of your first remote controlled car.

[Ari]

EK993 said:

The message may have absolutely nothing to do with cars.

The fact that it's only ever on one particular type suggests it does. If it merely advertises a free wheeling life affirming mindset, why isn't it on other types of cars?

[Prof Prolapse]

Ari said:

Or on superbikes (although "One Life End It!" might sometimes be more appropriate for them).

PHNARR PHNARR PHNARR PHNARR

[Janesy B]

Mid life crisis.

[DR10]

Ari said:

EK993 said:

The message may have absolutely nothing to do with cars.

The fact that it's only ever on one particular type suggests it does. If it merely advertises a free wheeling life affirming mindset, why isn't it on other types of cars?

I saw three in a row (following each other) with said wording. I would have assumed that it would be more suitable on a track car/super car/kit car than the vehicles they are on.

[CAPP0]

I believe it was originally the slogan adopted for the Camel Trophy when LR were sponsoring it and the connection (to Landies at least) has stuck from there.

[GC8]

Leading to most gash old discoverys sporting this sticker...

[Mastodon2]

I also see it on a lot of Toyota RAV 4s, Suzuki Grand Vitaras and Jimnys too, generally ones that have been modified to look as "off road" as possible, usually parked in office car parks.

[GC8]

[gforceg]

I always expect the driver to come tumbling out wearing something like this.



Or maybe some cod Native American guff.

[RJP001]

I've often found the phrase attached to 4x4s with orange beacons on the roof, looking very tatty. It's an old phrase I think from LR days in the 90s? Anyway, I hate it and it does my head right in.

[rallycross]

GC8 said:

300 bhp / tonne ?

[Ari]

rallycross said:

GC8 said:

300 bhp / tonne ?

I'm afraid I loled.

[TheHeretic]

RJP001 said:

I've often found the phrase attached to 4x4s with orange beacons on the roof, looking very tatty. It's an old phrase I think from LR days in the 90s? Anyway, I hate it and it does my head right in.

It is indeed a Land Rover thing. Not sure why it would make you hate anything though. Why would it? Maybe you should take the stickers advice, and live your life, without worrying about what others do?

[Baz Tench]

Mastodon2 said:

I also see it on a lot of Toyota RAV 4s, Suzuki Grand Vitaras and Jimnys too, generally ones that have been modified to look as "off road" as possible, usually parked in office car parks.

I thought it was purely a Land-Rover thing.

[crazy about cars]

lol #YOLO