Daily Mash: "MX-5 drivers convinced they look cool"
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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/mx%115-...
"As the weather improves, the reasonably-priced sports car containing balding men and their wives is once again ubiquitous on UK roads."
"As the weather improves, the reasonably-priced sports car containing balding men and their wives is once again ubiquitous on UK roads."
Well I am 60 with plenty of hair! I have owned a sports car since 1976 when I bought a TR4 for £400 and my wife had a TR4A in 1978 so nothing new about our sportscar owning, now I have a Quantum 2+2 RST and wife has an MX5 Mk1 auto and we drive em both and love them both plus I am building a sevenesque MX5 turbo special.
Next time your out driving look at drivers faces..........the ones in sportscars are smiling, THATS why people hate us.
Next time your out driving look at drivers faces..........the ones in sportscars are smiling, THATS why people hate us.
Worrying about looking cool is not cool. Trying to be cool is not cool, the thing is when you are cool you just don't talk about whether you are cool or not. You ignore the whole cool thing completely. Its as if it 'the question of being cool' doesn't apply too you because you are cool. Therefore, just by posting this i have negated being cool myself. Bugger. 
killingjoker said:
Worrying about looking cool is not cool. Trying to be cool is not cool, the thing is when you are cool you just don't talk about whether you are cool or not. You ignore the whole cool thing completely. Its as if it 'the question of being cool' doesn't apply too you because you are cool. Therefore, just by posting this i have negated being cool myself. Bugger.
Cool.
killingjoker said:
Worrying about looking cool is not cool. Trying to be cool is not cool, the thing is when you are cool you just don't talk about whether you are cool or not. You ignore the whole cool thing completely. Its as if it 'thoe question of being cool' doesn't apply too you because you are cool. Therefore, just by posting this i have negated being cool myself. Bugger.
What's this "cool" thing all about then? 
I know all about coolness and being cool and know people who I would class as cool. However, I've never actually managed to achieve coolness myself or even believe I might be cool. I can however imagine that I might be cool - a state that is enhanced when a spotty teenager shouts "nice car mister!" when I drive past (rare but has happened) in which case I am actually just basking in the coolness of my car rather than achieving personal coolness.
Alcohol causes more of a paradox. When I consume alcohol my view of my own coolness increases proportionately to my actual coolness decreasing. Add in a dance floor and the effect is magnified exponentially.
Alcohol causes more of a paradox. When I consume alcohol my view of my own coolness increases proportionately to my actual coolness decreasing. Add in a dance floor and the effect is magnified exponentially.
MX-5 Lazza said:
I know all about coolness and being cool and know people who I would class as cool. However, I've never actually managed to achieve coolness myself or even believe I might be cool. I can however imagine that I might be cool - a state that is enhanced when a spotty teenager shouts "nice car mister!" when I drive past (rare but has happened) in which case I am actually just basking in the coolness of my car rather than achieving personal coolness.
Alcohol causes more of a paradox. When I consume alcohol my view of my own coolness increases proportionately to my actual coolness decreasing. Add in a dance floor and the effect is magnified exponentially.
Easier to say 'inverse proportional' relationship ...? Alcohol causes more of a paradox. When I consume alcohol my view of my own coolness increases proportionately to my actual coolness decreasing. Add in a dance floor and the effect is magnified exponentially.
I have not felt so cool in the car (apart from physically perhaps!) but the other day when I saw my ex driving my car with the roof down when I was in hers I thought she looked cool. So my opinion is that a man can never be cool in a convertible (young man [me] = small penis/ older man = mid-life crisis), but a girl looks great...
However I know from work collegues that I have gone from having a cool/stupid/impractical car to genrally being classed as a nutter after driving in winter without the top up at temperatures down to -10C.
One of the things I have enjoyed most is giving friends/ their smaller kids a ride. The person usually admits to really liking it, and the kids love what they consider to be a cool sports car and having a chance to have been in it. It was people doing the same to me that got me into cars, so I like being able to do the same thing now.
However I know from work collegues that I have gone from having a cool/stupid/impractical car to genrally being classed as a nutter after driving in winter without the top up at temperatures down to -10C.
One of the things I have enjoyed most is giving friends/ their smaller kids a ride. The person usually admits to really liking it, and the kids love what they consider to be a cool sports car and having a chance to have been in it. It was people doing the same to me that got me into cars, so I like being able to do the same thing now.
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