Women and fancy cars....

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You built your own bikes? will you take me on a motorcycle roadtrip!!

Now now, as you can clearly see im the one mentioned on her post.
That said I am thinking of once i have a ok job buying a bike around here. Maybe a modern cafe project to keep me busy. I hate bikes but the cheapness is something nesesary

When I had my 1984 Supras on the road, I'd get compliments from girls about it sometimes. Never gotten any compliments about my mom's Galant... My good condition gold one got a lot more compliments from girls and younger people than my rusted out blue one, though. So yes, girls do like nice cars. I think overall, girls notice more the "type" of car rather than like, how new it is. My Supra was almost 30 years old, but it'd sure as hell get me a lot more attention than if I were driving like a brand new Hyundai Elantra or something. Nobody would like, wave and honk, stop me in a gas station and ask me about it, etc, for driving a Hyundai Elantra, even though it costs like 10x more than my Supra would.

One thing, though, ricing out your car is overall bad. Like you'd probably not get girls with a very high IQ if you put like, 20 inch wheels on your 1996 Buick LeSabre. That and Hondas. Hondas are played out now.

This thread got me in the mood for discussing bikes, but when I went looking there doesn't seem to be a thread for it? Oh well, can't derail this really...

I'm making a list of parts required to repair my bike after a spill I had, and I've gotten to 1300 dollars already without one critical component. These things are crazy expensive toys, as well as potentially bloody dangerous. Perhaps some women get past the ooh shiny part of the assessment and see the potential for excitement as well?

I'm getting too old for bikes and too cynical for love...anybody wanna buy a bike?

When I was donating blood recently, the phlebotomist on staff said, "Hey, I wanna show you something." (He was a stranger to me). He takes out his phone and shows me some pictures of his extremely pimped-out ride. Being the good little pretend-NT, I said, "Oh, how nice! Is that your hobby?" And he said, "What? Taking pictures?"

If I hadn't had a needle in my arm, I would have facepalmed...

Oh look, it's a "Bash smudge" thread. I thought you asked me bitterly to leave you alone?

"When I trolled her a bit" - I don't treat people IRL or on the internet the way you do. It is *you* who picks on people on here, and then try to cover it up with your "unique style" or another piss take thread.

Whatever my preference - each to their own. If it makes people happy, then let them get on with it. I'm not hurting anybody.

Last edited by smudge on 02 Apr 2012, 4:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.

That's the thing, it's one thing if your car is upgraded/looks different because it's your hobby, but it's another when you're doing it explicitly just to impress other people. I think in general people can tell, though. But, in uh...some...social circles, having your car riced out does indeed bring you popularity. How? I don't know.

You want to french-kiss me, I know that.

Sure, when it comes to "casual/fun" dating a car certainly helps, what's wrong with that?

Probably not a good idea to make that your criteria for a life partner though...

Not even when you're in a jar.

The last guy I dated didn't even have a driver's license. (He was British)

For me if a guy is too fussy about cars it's a real turn off.

Come here and show me how to set up the bluetooth on this computer and sure. It's a secondhand macbook I brought 2 weeks ago and trying to network or play with setting part of it is a PITA, I've failed 3 times already at setting up the bluetooth, for whatever reason it won't work.



Could be interesting, make sure she likes the smell of grease first though. If she likes taking stuff apart and putting it back together, it might be a good thing for you two to do together. Most annoying / time consuming thing is hunting for parts. Buying them new is expensive (I did that with the 2nd one) but it also takes ages to hunt through and find what you need at the wreckers though (which I did on the first).



Sure, I always wanted to do a road trip from the tip of Chile to Canada or Alaska. You might want a shorter one though



You should do it, there are some pretty economical bikes for first timers. Cute little ninja 250 or something.



I don't think we have one, but we should have one. Somebody start a bike thread. And someone else start a thread in which they tell me how to fix my bluetooth on this computer. (can't have a bike thread without pics )

About your bike… you could buy the parts second hand?

To Boo,

I have some serious questions for you.

To be honest, I have never dated a guy who owns a car.

If I really cared about what car a guy has (which I don't, by the way, or even if he has one), do you think I would own an old 180SX myself? Nissans aren't exactly high status . Furthermore, do you think I would have worked on it so much myself over the years also? Why would I invest my own time and energy like that when I could pay someone to do it for me, if it was just about the money? If it was about the money I could have brought a new and better car rather than muck around with this one as much as I have. That doesn't make sense to me.

From what I have observed, you seem to have a bit of a chip on your shoulder when it comes to things like money and status (that isn't an insult, simply an observation). Could it be that it colours your view enough to not being able to distinguish from someone who was making a joke to someone who really means it?

I have seen you make comments towards Smudge like this quite a few times. I don't know if what you say about her is true or not, but does it matter, and if so, why? And if it is about Smudge, then why don't you just say that or take this to a PM conversation with her?

I've always been pretty indifferent to cars, although it's useful if someone has a car and can drive it as I think that's an achievement in itself (one I hope to one day achieve). As far as types of cars go, I like practicality over unnecessary showiness, that's the type of car I'd buy - a practical car that was good value for money. There's not much point in buying a car for what it looks like because 99% of cars look ugly irrespective and the 1% that actually are more visually pleasing than the rest are way too expensive to be affordable by the normal population.

As far as buying a car because of what brand it is, it's the same as buying a clothing item because of a brand label on it when you can buy a clothing item identical in appearance without the brand label for a fraction of the price. You're basically paying for an arbitrary social symbol, which in my opinion is the equivalent of flushing several grand (well a lot more than that really) down the toilet.

Exactly, as long as the car can go from one point to the next, that's the main purpose, however you must be able to appreciate mechanical aptitude and why different designs might appeal to different people, it is a matter of perspective. I think someone with mechanical aptitude can be impressive if they have an understanding and dedication towards learning about a specific car or means of transport.

If someone devotes hours to designing and building a car, is it as impressive to me as someone who spends hours designing a piece of art or architecture? Is it as impressive as someone that has a dedication towards a particular sport or in your case, a musical instrument? Of course not, however to someone with good mechanical aptitude and understanding, it might be.

Well, for smudge, I am started to believe that she didn't really mean it back then after all or she just changed her mind XD.

Honestly, women change their minds in what they want in men, I see it all the time, they say they won't go for X (ie. a trait, personality type, social class, religion...etc) yet they end up with X. Fantasy is totally =/= reality, i guess.


Well, the woman's own car isn't an indicator whether she likes men for their fancy cars or not, she probably simply can't afford something more than Nissan but that it doesn't rule out the possibility that she likes fancy cars or likes a guy for his fancy car.



A personal passion you have perhaps? yet this has nothing to do with guys and fancy cars.




It was quite amusing, but i'll set her free from now on ;p

Well, it's hard to see a joke in forum posts sometimes.

I'm the first person who put "yes"

In general, no, I wouldn't. But I do have one exception. I happen to be in love with Dodge Vipers (SRT or RT10.. 1993-2012, doesn't matter I love them all) and have made a pact with myself that if a strange man in a Viper ever offered me a ride, I'd take it