Metro or Retro?

That is weird...maybe it's saying the Prius is more urban chic and the Hummer is just an old oddity? What's really odd is that retro tends to have a positive connotation...

 

Hmm, most advertising is about sex right?

I know what Metrosexuals are but I don't know what Retrosexuals are.

 

I thought about metrosexual too, hehe, so maybe that's a subliminal plank, as urban chic is pretty metrosexual in itself. But I think primarily, it's trying to appeal to the urban NYC crowd, saying the Prius is a true metropolitan car for a very metropolitan city.

 

The way I view it, as long as the ad wasn't sponsored by Hummer is:

Metro=Chic, New, Trend, Classy, Popular

Retro=Big, trend of the past, popular (but not among environmentalists, come on, we ALL know that none of those hot rods do much good for anyone)

Did you at least see who paid for the ad? Even if it's in microprint, I think they HAVE to list the sponsor

 

Re: Mystery Solved

Can you paste the texdt of the AP Report? It needs a membership/account to view

Thank you.

Is that website related to the ad? I mean, it seems like it would be, but... I've seen crazy coincidences before... (The Kennedy and Lincoln things for instance...

 

Ahhh, I see. So it's essentially saying that anything conservative is stupid and old, and that anything associated with a conservative audience is stupid and old.

I for one, like Hank Williams. :mrgreen:

 

if only everything were so easily divided between black and white as folks would like...

as comedian lewis black says "what's the difference between a democrat and a republican? a democrat blows, a republican sucks!"

 

Amen...splitting into black and white is just so silly. It doesn't work that way at all...it's a bell curve, just like so many other things.

Of course, as always, I dislike the current trend towards popular democracy. The US never was a Democracy, it was, and is, a Republic. Know what what means? That means minorities get rights. Poor urban people (read: liberal urban people), you lose half the elections, you don't get a power monopoly so you can pillage the rights and powers of people who live differently than you. Yeah, that's tough.

Democracy is just two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. If a majority of people voted for killing off people from opposing political camps, would be right just because a majority said so? Are we, as human beings, comfortable with being ruled by a mass of people, not by indivdual humans, the very people that give us humanity in the first place?

Hitler did win his election.

 

interesting points... priuschat, the thinking person's BBS...

 

Well I do think Prius owners would have a higher average of thinking people and politically-motivated people. :mrgreen:

 

its actually a new website coming out ...
http://www.retrovsmetro.org/

 

I don't like the dixie chicks or hank and I don't own a Prius(not yet or a hummer(I drove one, these things are huge and no room on the inside!) wonder what I am LOL

 

I remember when a Metro, not one on rails, was a 53-mpg model from Geo (!) with a 3-cylinder engine. Many tradeoffs in those days, though I thought for a long time about buying one.

 

And I remember when Retro was the rockets that returned men from the moon.