I don't feel "Manly" anymore

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ Dec 11 2006, 04:31 PM) [snapback]360586[/snapback]</div>

Thank you for yourkind words; I'm doing my best to take them to heart and am beginning to think that I may be too 'solution oriented' for my own good. Especially when a solution just isn't at hand.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ Dec 11 2006, 01:02 PM) [snapback]360553[/snapback]</div>

It's always better to go through hard times with friends at hand. You've earned your way to full respect and comradeship here and are encouraged to share your burden anytime. Somebody will have an input to cheer things up a bit.

But I have to say, if we are the best source of friends you can find, you're in real trouble!

I've been told that when somebody has a difficulty, women usually offer warmth and understanding while men try to solve it in a rather analytical manner. I sense you are getting in touch with your male side. You probably aren't capable by training to solve your problem and are feeling frustrated. Instead, try going with the warmth and understanding that will no doubt make your niece's day a little brighter. We can only do what we can.

See what I mean? I tried to solve the problem rather than sympathize with it. We men are such dolts!

 

In the November "Roundel" magazine (the BMW club mag), Dave Farnworth writes an editorial entitled "Manly men don't drive no stinkin' hybrids". One of his lines from the article: "It turns out that the reason I would never buy a hybrid is simple (here comes a very politically incorrect thought: You Have Been Warned). Basically, I consider them girly cars. There, I've said it! I can try to rationalize it away, I can tell myself that's testosterone-fueled, Freudian-heavy, troglodytic nonsense, but I can't shake it."

 

If you want to feel more "manly" with your Prius in a redneck kind of way.... Do the interior in leopard print, dump a thousand watts of stereo into it, remove the rear seats and throw an inflatable bed into the rear hatch area. Turn it into a cruising machine and go have some fun.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Davideo @ Dec 13 2006, 10:21 AM) [snapback]361459[/snapback]</div>

I read that issue last month and told my wife... the M3 was her former daily driver.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Miz @ Dec 11 2006, 11:28 AM) [snapback]360346[/snapback]</div>

I'm considering one of those bumper stickers, you know, the ones that say "Nice truck, sorry about your little pee pee..."

Harry

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MegansPrius @ Dec 11 2006, 03:27 PM) [snapback]360534[/snapback]</div>

Thanks MegansPrius. Could easily be a paid poster ("adverblogger"?). Looks like the Congress is considering legislation requiring disclosure when face word-of-mouth advertising is done face-to-face. Be interesting to see how that shakes out. Couldn't possibly enforce any such on the net, so it's alway reasonable to ask whether the poster was paid to post.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Beryl Octet @ Dec 11 2006, 11:43 AM) [snapback]360358[/snapback]</div>

I'm not slamming the poster in this post, but the product mentioned. Always good to know what my fellow Americans are up to, no matter how idiotic it is.

I realize that I'm way, way out of the mainstream. I don't watch TV, don't subscribe to newspapers, I'm self-employed, I don't commute. Maybe I therefore haven't been appropriately de-sensitized to things like this.

But golly, just when I think American public culture could not possibly get any more vulgar, unclean, or hostile to children ("family-unfriendly"), I see that someone's willing to dig yet a deeper pit. In the name of humor, no less.

I mean, Janet Jackson's boobie was just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Our VP shouting the f-word on the floor of the United States Senate, and being quoted verbatim in the print media, that wasn't enough. Radio ads for erectile dysfunction, no problem, love explaining what that's all about to my kids. Those truck mudflaps withe the oh-so-stylish chrome profile of a naked woman, that passes for conservative these days.

Nope, what American really needs is morons who think its funny to display a (presumably) realistic model of male sexual organs on the back of their pickup. Who'd a thunk it. Wonder what'll top that.

I wouldn't normally react so strongly, but here I was thinking that nobody would really do that, and darned if I didn't see one of those on the DC beltway yesterday. The real problem is that, if asked, yeah, I'll explain what it is to my kids, but what I'll really get to pass along is yet more of my attitude of absolute contempt for clueless, guano-brained morons. I'd rather my kids figured that out on their own. I mean, how can I explain this concept without basically saying, yeah, that guy's an American, a fellow citizen, he's on our side in the grand scheme of things, but he's basically gotta be a total loser. God help us if guys like him get to run the show.

Guess I've blown out the rant-o-meter on this one. I'll be nicer in my next post, unless that would be mistaken for a sign of un-manly weakness.

 

I'll second chogan's post.

Since we have a member that looks like a brown-shirted Charlie Chaplin pronoucing loser's that mention his name or party, can we have someone to officially pronounce Miz a troller as he never came back to talk about his Prius the way real owners do without baiting?

 

Man, if you don't like those, then i bet you didn't go see Jackass II - they had a great scene with a pair of rubber balls like those.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chogan @ Dec 13 2006, 04:11 PM) [snapback]361851[/snapback]</div>

ARE YOU TALKIN' TO ME? (photo from bumpernuts site)

 

That's funny. I interpreted the original post as a sublte yet strong positive for the Prius that was intended that way by the original poster. I interpreted the humor as a tongue in cheek way of expressing reinforcement for the decision to go Prius, while directly addressing unfounded fears potentially held by any persons who might perceive owning a small hybrid as injurious to their ego or image.

I actually thought it was well written and quite clever. I would never have come to the conclusion that this was "adverblogging" or the work of a troll. It sounded more to me like the expression of a convert.

It is obvious that Prius people are very intelligent, with incisive wit and insight that far and away eclipses what can be readily found in most other automotive enthusiast fora. Despite being constantly overcast with storms of self-righteousness, it is still enjoyable to read this faculty of thinking at work... and at play. And I do think the original poster was at play, making wit of points that support, and not deride, the Prius.

Despite keen intelligence, should paranoia be added to the list of Prius poster traits?



<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Miz @ Dec 11 2006, 08:28 AM) [snapback]360346[/snapback]</div>

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cbs4 @ Dec 14 2006, 11:21 AM) [snapback]362318[/snapback]</div>

Is that how most of us took it? I think the majority could see the humor in it quite readily. That's why I posted the first, and probably only, "Ghost Ride the Prius" video. All in fun. On the otherhand, I feel the topic took a turn when some failed to see the humor and took it seriously, from then on the following posts were more directed to a percieved image of Prius drivers rather than the original post. Paranoid? Nah, I'd say defensive.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cbs4 @ Dec 14 2006, 03:21 PM) [snapback]362318[/snapback]</div>

Oh, probably a little. But if you've seen Who Killed the Electric Car? or read the CNW Marketing Study reports that call a Hummer and Jeep "greener" cars than a Prius, well ... I guess I'm saying there's reason for it.

Before I bought my Prius, I searched some message boards to make sure it was ok in the snow. Which is to say, this forum is also frequented by people considering buying a Prius. So if I was a rival manufacturer, it would seem to me standard practice to post a little misinformation now and then on internet message boards. Especially in a witty post like the one above, that someone might copy into an email. And then it replicates forever as unwanted email. And when I first read the post here, it felt like a chain letter to me and not positive (I mean "I feel as though I'm driving a car made of tissue paper. It's made of tin."). So I googled it and bing! There it was. Word for word. On three different message board all from a poster with a name variant of Miz and 1-7 total posts! So I went aha! or muahahaha! So yes! Yes! I'm paranoid! Stop looking at me!

 

Question: Can anyone explain a bona-fide Prius driver making a post like the thread-starter and never bothering to come back and finish the introduction?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Delta Flyer @ Dec 14 2006, 12:10 PM) [snapback]362367[/snapback]</div>

Nope, because its hardly likely that it was a sincere post. One that was made to be funny and try to inengrate the poster into the forum. Especially considering that the same exact post was made elsewhere.

 

I'm not the only one that had their troll buzzer go off....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Dec 14 2006, 02:31 PM) [snapback]362385[/snapback]</div>

My Ultimate Troll Fantasy

- troller puts out some really nasty bait
- Moderator clicks a new 24th century vBulletin feature
- troller beamed into the middle of a convention during HybridFest 2007. He still has a beer in his hand.
- A few members beat the living crap out of him
- Newspapers report the story, splashing a picture of the troller with shredded flannel shirt, riddled with bruises, in rehab for six months.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Delta Flyer @ Dec 14 2006, 01:02 PM) [snapback]362420[/snapback]</div>

LMAO! Can i be a mod when that feature comes out??

Seriously though, I got bashed for stereotyping "drywall hangers, in flannel shirts with beer helmets" so be careful. lol