Right back 'atcha, babe.
I wear it at the firehouse around all the ‘macho’ men. It helps take them down a notch or two.
Be my guest! 
not to hijack… well, maybe a little…
Where does that put those of us that eat tofu because we cook great chinese food (much of which needs tofu) and not because we give a rip about our health? Umm… that didn’t sound right… it’s not that I don’t care about my health, it’s just that I care more about eating yummy meat. waitasecond! this is getting worser and worser… I care about my health! really I do! but I still love the meat. :smack:
I give up.
to summarize:
- Beast is a carnivore, but still eats tofu (in certain dishes when prepared properly)
- Hummers suck (this reminds me of another thread… something about someone needing tips…)
- Hummer drivers are compensating for a lack of… endowment
I heard a Hummer commercial on the radio the other day that touted its 20 miles per gallon. Did a double take right then.
And yes, these TV commercials really are pioneering new pathways into ignorance.
I’d just like to say that my truck is bigger than yours.
I can buy penis enlargement surgery with the savings in fuel costs I get from driving around in my Sunfire.
Ooh, ooh, I know! The military vehicle is used for noble causes?
What do I win?
I don’t recall where I heard this, but it’d be a whole lot cheaper to tattoo “attention whore with disposable income” on one’s forehead.
Don’t forget, there is a loophole in the tax laws that lets you deduct the entire cost of your vehicle if it is above a certain weight and you can claim that it is used for business. So a lot of these people may be buying them just for the tax writeoff.
Could be a Hummer H3, I guess. They’re really Chevy Colorados, at least mechanically, so they’re not nearly as beefy & masculine as they’d have you believe.
I was at the airport the other week to pick someone up. As I sat there waiting in the car, a black H2 pulled up next to me, sporting those spinning hubcap things. He had a bumper sticker, on the top of the dark tinted back window saying (in English, no less)
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Big Toys For Big Boys**
The guy who jumped out was about 5’6 and weighed maybe 150 lb.
A H2 starts at about $110k and gas is $6.70 per gallon around here.
I feel like I’m getting whooshed here, but I have to say something. The Swedish word for “lobster” is “hummer”.
My cat Luna sometimes eats tofu. She’s got a much better claim to being a carnivore than does anyone posting in this thread or anyone driving a Hummer- she’s a member of the order Carnivora (which people are not), and she’s an obligate carnivore- if she didn’t eat meat, she’d go blind (people, again, are not obligate carnivores). And she doesn’t own a Hummer or any other large vehicle (though I’ve got an adorable image in my head now of her trying to drive one with her paws on the steering wheel). She doesn’t even like riding in my car, because that normally only happens when she’s going to the vet.
“The heart is a muscle,” Bigend corrects. “You ‘know’ in your limbic brain. The seat of instinct. The mammalian brain. Deeper, wider, beyond logic. That is where advertising works, not in the upstart cortex. What we think of as ‘mind’ is only a sort of jumped-up gland, piggybacking on the reptilian brainstem and the older, mammalian mind, but our culture tricks us into recognising it as al of consciousness. The mammalian spreads continent-wide beneath it, mute and muscular, attending to its ancient agenda. And makes us buy things.”
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
They’re not selling a car, they’re selling an image of manhood - masculinity, power, strength, toughness, patriotism, the military - to those shallow enough to believe that a buying a heavy, sluggish, expensive and impractical toy tank will somehow endow them with those qualities.
I haven’t seen the H2 “playground” ad, but I have seen the “meat vs. veggies” one. My impression was that the Hummer buyer was one of the most pathetic commercial characters in years. I can only hope that SNL does a killer parody of it. Maybe even a sketch convergence… a Hummer ad parody, followed by an “A@sholes” skit in which the couple buys a Hummer.
[slight hijack] OTOH, there is one objective reason why tofu generally isn’t associated with manliness. It’s rich in phytoestrogens and was believed to confer some protection from reproductive cancers in women – that is, until a recent medical study which found no such benefit re. such cancers and hot flashes in menopausal women. Soy is still believed to confer some cardiovascular benefit, though, especially when it’s used as a substitute for red meat. [/hijack]
In fairness here, isn’t buying a car because it’s fun or funky just the same as buying it for the image?
No. Buying a car for image is buying a car to say, ‘Hey! Look at me!’
Buying a car for fun is buying a car to please one’s self, regardless of what others think.
German too. That’s why I call them lobsters. (Now I can’t get Peter Lorre by The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy out of my head.)
< Looks at picture > Now I’m irresistibly reminded of the song Detachable Penis. I admit, a launchable explosive penis is much more manly.
My car is a ten car long train Mutherfucker!
And there are snakes on it!
The miltary humvee is used to accomplish the mission. Whether you think the mission is noble is up to you. But the guys in the vehicle don’t make that decision. Refer to your local congressman for that.
A “hummer” that you buy to drive around the highway is used to waste fuel and give the driver a misplaced sense of superiority and coolness. At least the driver of a military humvee has balls. Civilian hummer owners only wish they did.
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Your no-prize is in the mail.