A nice car is just a penis extension?
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Phil Dicky said:
This has been a tongue in cheek comment about nice/fast cars for as long as I can remember and I'm 50. Really is nothing new.
actually the think that urks me more is the 'mid life crisis' comments because at 50 i had an A45 with aero pack and 20" black rims ...i have had stupid performance cars, mostly with 'wide boy' wings most of my life ...
oceanview said:
and also (some people on here like quoting this) when someones making progress, they must have a really small penis because they're driving fast.
This again comes back to what I said about people thinking everyone thinks like them. The people that say that would probably only drive fast if they were being an aggressive nob, so they assume everyone else who drives fast is too. The idea that driving fast is involving, rewarding and enjoyable is totally alien to them.It’s pathetic jealous comments like “oh he’s compensating for something” that make me determined to always be positive about other people having nice things.
I noticed it when a mate of mine got seriously into fitness. He used to look like half a dozen shovels full of custard in a carrier bag. Now he looks like a v shaped sack full of rocks.
Now a couple of guys say things like “oh he must have an empty life to go to the gym that much” and “he loves himself”. I assume this is because they don’t want to admit they aren’t prepared to put in the work like he has.
I noticed it when a mate of mine got seriously into fitness. He used to look like half a dozen shovels full of custard in a carrier bag. Now he looks like a v shaped sack full of rocks.
Now a couple of guys say things like “oh he must have an empty life to go to the gym that much” and “he loves himself”. I assume this is because they don’t want to admit they aren’t prepared to put in the work like he has.
Phil Dicky said:
This has been a tongue in cheek comment about nice/fast cars for as long as I can remember and I'm 50. Really is nothing new.
Indeed, same old same old repeated repeated repeated...Cliché cliché cliché next thing somebody will come up with a REALLY new subject such as: : 'Girlie cars' / how a Boxster is a poor mans 911 / Middle Lane Hoggers / how speed camera's are so unfair / tail gaters / white van drivers / BMW drivers etc etc etc zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Typical stereotype. I suppose they are manhood extensions if you want them to be but people will tar everyone with the same brush when they see something typically up market.
Some are more obvious than others. Chrome/heavy flake/otherwise crap wraps, Wish grade steering wheel and stupid bullet wheel nuts, driven flat out from startup etc then yes, I can see this as a manhood extension (no matter how "ironically" you claim it to be).
If you own something nice because you want it, earned it and love it then no. It's you doing what you want with your life and money.
Some are more obvious than others. Chrome/heavy flake/otherwise crap wraps, Wish grade steering wheel and stupid bullet wheel nuts, driven flat out from startup etc then yes, I can see this as a manhood extension (no matter how "ironically" you claim it to be).
If you own something nice because you want it, earned it and love it then no. It's you doing what you want with your life and money.
RobM77 said:
In my experience, most people view the world through their own eyes. Those people who made that comment would buy an M5 to improve their image and their confidence - to make them feel better about themselves, and they think everyone thinks like they do. Simple as that.
You get the same thing in other walks of life: very image conscious people often slag off Apple, because they predominately see the marketing and styling and overlook the functionality, so they just assume people buy iPhones for the image. I even had a friend comment on my house once: he said people only buy big houses to impress other people!
When you couple this rather closed minded view of the world with a judgemental nature, you get comments like your friend got.
I think that just about sums it up.You get the same thing in other walks of life: very image conscious people often slag off Apple, because they predominately see the marketing and styling and overlook the functionality, so they just assume people buy iPhones for the image. I even had a friend comment on my house once: he said people only buy big houses to impress other people!
When you couple this rather closed minded view of the world with a judgemental nature, you get comments like your friend got.
I’ve always found it interesting how some people see a car and immediately think about willys...... as you say, through their own eyes. Or the eyes of wife / girlfriend / sister or any other female that they think validates the argument.
Deesee said:
bad_panda said:
By the same logic, do women who drive nice cars do so in order to compensate for having a loose vagina?!
Here you go...https://youtu.be/6_MaV-YdrXk
Women would want people to think they have a tightly packed kebab.
Have you seen Katie Price's big pink Range Rover?
Now she's been banned from using it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7558813/K...
Now she's been banned from using it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7558813/K...
It's not really that a flash car is a penis extension, it's that for a lot of people driving a nice car compensates for other, err...failures in their lives and increases their self-esteem. See young lads with Barryed up cars, older types with an identity crisis who find themselves in a Porsche etc.
stuartmmcfc said:
I’ve got a loud American convertible which probably makes people think I’ve got a small penis.
The jokes on them though because it’s actually f
king ENORMOUS.
This is the thing, there must be a lot of blokes with flash cars who actually are reprehensible show-offs, but they do actually have big dicks. Anyway unless the phrase hits home a bit too painfully and accurately, it IS only a stereotype.The jokes on them though because it’s actually f
king ENORMOUS.Though stereotypes often have a grain of truth behind them.
colin_p said:
Deesee said:
bad_panda said:
By the same logic, do women who drive nice cars do so in order to compensate for having a loose vagina?!
Here you go...https://youtu.be/6_MaV-YdrXk
Women would want people to think they have a tightly packed kebab.
If your wife won't let you buy a nice car and you have to have a zafira. Every sports car is a hair dressers car, every expensive saloon or super car is a penis extension. If you also happen to be over 45 it is a mid life crisis. This is set in law and has been since I bought my first sports car in 1986, and probably dates back to stone age times when someone bought a stone axe.
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