Pink? Oh dear... (a short rant)

Neeek · 17-05-2005, 02:09 PM

Yes, it's time for another short rant. Last time it was spinners. Having only just recovered from that particular episode (and the therapy I so desperately needed after witnessing their hypnotic spinningness), I have found a new axe to grind.

Ordinarily, I don't pay anything much attention if I see something only once… unless of course it’s the Lincoln Mark IV coupe that I saw trundling down Newmarket Road a couple of weeks back. It had me grinning like an idiot, pointing, dribbling (I think) and almost kerbing the nearside wheel in my wife's car. Breasts have a similar effect on my driving.

This morning on the drive to work, I passed a car parked on the side of the road. Nothing terribly unusual in that, I hear you say. But this car was special; at least it *has* to be for someone. It was a Mazda 121 “bubble” and it was white. But that wasn't what made it special. It had pink seat covers, something pink hanging from the rear view mirror and pink wheel trims. There may be nothing wrong with doing some mild modifications to your car, but please… pink? Surely the driver of said vehicle was a teenage girl who left no clues as to her favourite colour and clearly has no taste at all. And that's just about excusable, in my book.

But that car on its own didn't really catch my attention. I noted it, made up my own mind about it and its owner, and then carried on driving to work. Not 3 minutes down the road, I spy an old Camry ahead. It is also white, and it too has been to the My Little Pony School of Krazy Kustomisation. I am frankly appalled that there exists another car so heinously "pinked". Pink seat covers, pink fluffy toys on the parcel shelf and pink rubbing strips down the side of it… quite who would actually want to rub up against a car like that, I cannot fathom.

My reaction was perhaps a little restrained, as I only emitted a sort of snorting sound; you know, the one that precludes some light sniggering and a few shakes of the head. But then I happened to note the driver of the car. Said driver was not a teenage girl, chewing bubblegum and with hula-hoops dangling from her ears. No, he was… well, a he.

Please, let there have been some misunderstanding here. This guy couldn't POSSIBLY be the owner of this car – not in a million years. He is clearly taking the car to the wreckers to be crushed into a small cube of metal under the cover of dawn (silly boy – night would've been better) and will be replacing his "girlfriend's" car with something more normal, like a metallic silver Toyota Echo.

Sadly, I suspect not. I suspect this gentleman is actually deranged and truly believes that his "worked" 1989 Camry is the height of brilliance. And so, I shake my head, and laugh at him and his pathetic conveyance.

I would like to propose a new requirement – mandatory back-window stickers in all cars with ANY pinkness that state "Yes, I know it looks gay, but it’s my daughter’s car, OK?". Failure to display these stickers in such cars will result in a generous donation to the Fondmetal Mag Wheel Replacement Programme, because I'm getting sick and tired of running into the bloody kerb…

MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 02:21 PM

Lol was the chick hot at least. I think that dude must be gay or extremely metro rofl.

The MaDDeSTMaN · 17-05-2005, 02:22 PM

LOL, maybe the guy is colourblind?

AUII_Forte · 17-05-2005, 02:26 PM

My GF has plush pink seat covers with silver stars in her car, I think it's an attempt to keep me out of it! lol

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merlin · 17-05-2005, 02:27 PM

As I have the bike as my main transport sometimes it isnt always practical (like when i need to pick up multiple passengers or carry a big load) so am forced to drive my fiances red corolla (yes it is almost pink) and it also has red seat covers

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so maybe this guy was a biker in disguise who was just forced into using this contraption?

or perhaps he was a homosexual tool

MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 02:32 PM

Mate said pink was the new black. Lol how bout NO. Pink is for chicks definately but for a dude. I hope that dude is picking up hot chicks at least cause thats the only borderline reason why any dude would have a pink car. I know i wouldnt though. My mate wants to get an XR6T ute and his GF wants to spray it PINK. **** no id toss the woman out on her *** lol

merlin · 17-05-2005, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Mate said pink was the new black. Lol how bout NO. Pink is for chicks definately but for a dude. I hope that dude is picking up hot chicks at least cause thats the only borderline reason why any dude would have a pink car. I know i wouldnt though. My mate wants to get an XR6T ute and his GF wants to spray it PINK. **** no id toss the woman out on her *** lol

Ah but what if the choice was you can have a pink xr6t ute or you can have nothing (girlfriends are known to make such ultimatums)

which would you choose?

Neeek · 17-05-2005, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by merlin

Ah but what if the choice was you can have a pink xr6t ute or you can have nothing (girlfriends are known to make such ultimatums)

which would you choose?

New girlfriend?

merlin · 17-05-2005, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Neeek

New girlfriend?

ok to make it more complicated - say the girlfriend is extremley hot and you have since been hideously disfigured in a drag racing accident so no new girlfriend is on the cards...

MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 02:38 PM

Be ****ed if i will get that ultimatum. Solution is no GF. Get with any chick you want to, do whatever you want to and whenever you want to. I wouldt get a XR6T ute anyways. If you wear the pants in the relationship you dont have anything to worry bout. Now i have to kick the pussy whipped side of my mate out. Pink is sofffffffffft

TheSneakiness · 17-05-2005, 02:39 PM

That doesn't really irk me. Light pink car colour, on the other hand though, on some Magnas....

merlin · 17-05-2005, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Be ****ed if i will get that ultimatum. Solution is no GF. Get with any chick you want to, do whatever you want to and whenever you want to. I wouldt get a XR6T ute anyways. If you wear the pants in the relationship you dont have anything to worry bout. Now i have to kick the pussy whipped side of my mate out. Pink is sofffffffffft

ah you talk the talk but do you walk the walk? I bet she would

: you

MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by merlin

ah you talk the talk but do you walk the walk? I bet she would

: you

lol.

Havent had a GF for ages. Dont want one just prefer hooking up. Some of my chick friends ask me when im goin to keep a chick and im just like when a normal chick exists and isnt a dumbass. And that hasnt been happening for ages. Trust me man any chick who thinks they have me under the thumb is proven that they dont. Titties and *** cut it when your just hooking up but to have a GF they have to have personality.

Blue Oval Mopar Man · 17-05-2005, 02:46 PM

yes but sadly , this is what the majority of the pathetic youth of today has been led to beleive is cool ! I can understand someones first car being four cylinder or even owning one in the battle to keep some of the change in your pocket that the oil companies are raping us anally to deprive us of, but unbeleivably some of these people seem to do some gallacticly stupid things to said cars and then actually show this creatoin to the world , in public, without warning, and do so with an equally gallacticaly stupid grin of pride wrapped around their dial as if we are all in awe of their individuality !

These people are are not realy to blame , as they have seen all the fast and furious documetry's 400 times and been to places and shows that will remain anonomous ( as undobtably we have some of the people in question in our midst)and want to have one just like the rad ride they fell in love with ! By the way, I tend to think that a salon is where girls go to have their hair styled and fingernails done !

But Each to their own , If they can do this to their own mode of transport well I beleive they are well equiped to take the attention they receive when showing it off to the world. What they see is poeple pionting and staring and wishing they had one just like it , But to all us that are doing the pointing and stareing, we ar actually trying to warn eachother of the possible danger we may all be in!

But thats just my true blue , bought up in the world of muscel cars, and possibly slightly homophobic , aussie male opinion on the subject !

merlin · 17-05-2005, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Havent had a GF for ages. Dont want one just prefer hooking up.

Do some sums, it works out advantageuos.

girlfriend + merlin = fiance.

fiance + merlin = dual income.

Dual income + no kids = new xr6 and cbr600

new xr6 + cbr600 = merlin very happy.

Gee i should be a maths professor.

MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 02:53 PM

Nothing wrong with a 4cyl if they are done up properly. I mean ive seen a pink excell and civic. FFS why would you bother unless you were a chick. Rice burners are all show and no go. I appreciate both muscle and hot 4s. Ive got a 4cyl and its cheap to run and goes reasonalbly well for what i paid (well parents paid). I wasnt allowed to get a 6 or 8 as my parents were paying and glad ive got a 4cyl since i know people complain bout insurance, shit handling, and being petrol guzzlers. My next car will most probably also be a 4cyl. Cheap to fix, cheap to mod and cheap to run.

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Neeek · 17-05-2005, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by merlin

Do some sums, it works out advantageuos.

girlfriend + merlin = fiance.

fiance + merlin = dual income.

Dual income + no kids = new xr6 and cbr600

new xr6 + cbr600 = merlin very happy.

Gee i should be a maths professor.

If only... you forgot about a couple of really big minuses...

Fiance + Merlin = WEDDING (remove several thousand dollars - perhaps a motorcycle...).

And then there's the inevitable MORTGAGE (remove double what you removed for WEDDING... that'll be a car, then!).

MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 02:59 PM

Yep. One of the dudes i work with just had a baby so they are saying goodbye to the RX3 which is so nice and have got a magna. But on the other hand upgrading to Liberty GT

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DOC · 17-05-2005, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Neeek

It was a Mazda 121 “bubble” and it was white. But that wasn't what made it special. It had pink seat covers, something pink hanging from the rear view mirror and pink wheel trims. There may be nothing wrong with doing some mild modifications to your car, but please… pink?

A good light harted topic but i cant see what all the fuss is about, I thought they were all pink on the inside ??

may be wrong, havn't looked inside to many mazda 121's

The MaDDeSTMaN · 17-05-2005, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Nothing wrong with a 4cyl if they are done up properly. I mean ive seen a pink excell and civic. FFS why would you bother unless you were a chick. Rice burners are all show and no go. I appreciate both muscle and hot 4s. Ive got a 4cyl and its cheap to run and goes reasonalbly well for what i paid (well parents paid). I wasnt allowed to get a 6 or 8 as my parents were paying and glad ive got a 4cyl since i know people complain bout insurance, shit handling, and being petrol guzzlers. My next car will most probably also be a 4cyl. Cheap to fix, cheap to mod and cheap to run.

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Escorts are 4 cyl, and go fairly well, not to mention can look good... But I'd never have pink paint or a pink interior!

Jaeger · 17-05-2005, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by DOC

I thought they were all pink on the inside ??

That right there made me laugh, Nicely done.

XR-ENVI · 17-05-2005, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Yep. One of the dudes i work with just had a baby so they are saying goodbye to the RX3 which is so nice and have got a magna. But on the other hand upgrading to Liberty GT

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THATS WHY you find the right girlfriend.
for example me
i was the one who suggested the xrt (instead of buying a new house)
i work with kids so not in any hurry at all to have kids
and been there done that with wedding

MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by The MaDDeSTMaN

Escorts are 4 cyl, and go fairly well, not to mention can look good... But I'd never have pink paint or a pink interior!

The focus, TX3s, TX5s, and Cosworths are good aswell. They are gun. Ive seen only one ever. Parts are expensive as hell though. The only reason why ive got a ford is because Holden couldnt make a decent 4cyl to save their life. Camira Vs TX5. What decision is to be made there. Ive seen pink barinas lol. At least they are chick drivers

b2tf · 17-05-2005, 06:03 PM

God I was in tears of laughter reading your rant. You come up with the best rants, keep it up!

The "My Little Pony School of Customisation" - GOLD!

**Mechan1k** · 17-05-2005, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by merlin

Do some sums, it works out advantageuos.

girlfriend + merlin = fiance.

fiance + merlin = dual income.

Dual income + no kids = new xr6 and cbr600

new xr6 + cbr600 = merlin very happy.

Gee i should be a maths professor.

Hahahahaa ... I can relate to that .. excellent maths class.
Mechan1k + fiancee = 3 incomes
3 incomes + no kids = new house on 10 acres + New Ford Territory + fairly new work ute + fun weekend ute
House (very tiny loan) + Territory (own outright) + 2 utes (own outright) = very happy Mechan1k

Fundamental maths ... simple
LOL

Psycho Chicken · 17-05-2005, 06:27 PM

Guy guys, put the pink bits in your car (not those pink bits!), wear a pink shirt around with the collar up and all girlfriend related money issues will disapear!

Might get some boyfriend issues though....

MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 06:28 PM

Mitchay+parents income= Get everything for free

Mitchay+his low income= Really drunk, having a goodtime with mates

Mitchay-GF= No annoying woman to **** him off, and free to chase chicks when ever he feels like it.

b2tf · 17-05-2005, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Mitchay+parents income= Get everything for free

Mitchay+his low income= Really drunk, having a goodtime with mates

Mitchay-GF= No annoying woman to **** him off, and free to chase chicks when ever he feels like it.

Mitchay = Moocher? JJ. I still live at home too. But I do pay for 90% of my stuff myself and anying that's paid for me is repaid in due course.

merlin · 17-05-2005, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Mechan1k

Mechan1k + fiancee = 3 incomes

something dosn't compute here:

how does 1 + 1 = 3?

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MITCHAY · 17-05-2005, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by back2thefutura

Mitchay = Moocher? JJ. I still live at home too. But I do pay for 90% of my stuff myself and anying that's paid for me is repaid in due course.

Damn straight! lol. But im good though. I dont ask for much which is the opposite of my brother so thats why when i need something my parents dont really mind.

As for 1+1=3. Maybe he or the wife has got 2 jobs.