Via my 17 y.o., who is my last link to what Da Utes T’ink, I present the winner of a Reddit photoshop competition:
‘Bout right, I’d say.
A little more goodness. Here’s a true, heartwarming story of a boy raised right in the Levenson household. I’m walking one day in the neighborhood with my spouse, and as we get to the local library I see an abomination parked in the lot across the street. My gob is so smacked I have to take a picture.
Flash forward a couple of hours. My son has just come home from a ramble round the ‘hood. I asked him if he happened to see this amazingly awful automobile.
“The one parked by the library?” he asked.
“Yeah — I took a picture” say I.
“Me too!”
Good boy — I think. De gustibus and all that…
…but no. Some things are simply abominations. Like this:
For those of us who aren’t car buffs, that’s a Porsche Cayenne. It starts at around $60,000, and shoots up fast from there. Which means someone out there woke up one day and thought that his or her life wouldn’t be complete without a more-than-the-US-median-family-income’s worth of pink Porsche truck.
There is a saying in the car business: “There’s an ass for every seat.” I rate that statement True.
(I’ll admit that this isn’t the most offensive car I’ve ever seen. Hell, I rented a Pontiac Aztek once, and last year in LA I saw someone driving around in a fully chromed Mercedes E-class sedan, which went beyond ugly into a rolling public hazard. But as the son of a mother who once drove twenty miles to the nearest Costco to return a case of dishwashing liquid bought in ignorance of its pink-titude, I reserve the right to loathe the above without any qualification. I miss you, mom.)
Finally, by popular request (by at least one person here), and so as not to make this a whole post of horrors, here’s Tikka in one of his most echt poses:
And what the heck, one more, just for catness.
OK.
Y’all get the message. It’s Sunday. The weather’s great here in the Athens of America, and low tide hits at around 6 — perfect for an evening at the beach. For a few hours at least, the pleasures we each enjoy are ours. The folly and worse will still be here tomorrow; sufficient unto the day and all that.
IOW: Open thread.
Major Major Major Major
Looking at that ‘picture’ of Trump with the dinosaurs, I called out in my head, “curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
Quit now
More funny jokes. Beats trying to win elections. Right ?
BD of MN
Perhaps someone quite high up in the Mary Kay cosmetics pyramid scheme? I’ve seen a few pink Caddies with their stickers…
Steeplejack
@Quit now:
Even God rested on the seventh day. Maybe you should too.
Major Major Major Major
@Quit now:
You would.
raven
Sheeeet, I’m in the Athens of America and it’s hot!
David Evans
@Major Major Major Major: You have been too long in Azeroth. As have I, evidently.
Juice Box
My car is sunshine yellow, Dakargelb 2 specifically. Some people do not like it, but it’s easy to find in the parking lot. Even when it’s hidden by an SUV, I can usually see the reflected glow.
Major Major Major Major
@David Evans: But it’s from Firefly.
efgoldman
@Quit now: Pie pie pie pie
CaseyL
It’s another hot, hot day where I live, and I’m struggling against my normal tendency in the heat to become an inert object. “I really should get up and do something,” says I. Then I go outside, get smacked by the heat, and come back indoors :)
In other news, I have re-discovered why so many people used to die of bad diets: bad diets taste really, really good. Yesterday I decided to cook up the last of the mushrooms in an omelette. I also had some butter I’d been keeping in a dish on the stove, which had melted into a puddle (the butter, not the stove).
Now, for the last 25 years, I have sauteed and pan-fried things in olive oil. Stopped using butter so long ago I can’t remember the last time I fried anything in butter. Yesterday a light bulb went off in my head to saute the ‘shrooms in the melted butter.
Oh. My. God.
It was delicious. Wonderfully, wonderfully delicious.
I know many of my fellow BJers are serious cooks, and it’s probably not news to them that frying things in butter is amazing. I still can’t get over the difference in flavor, though.
However, since I don’t want to keel over dead of blocked arteries before I’m 70 (not to mention wanting to be able to continue fitting into my clothes), I won’t make a habit of using butter again. Alas.
Tenar Arha
(Repeating from earlier thread below).
Does anyone have friends in NC who want a calico cat?
@lasrina on Twitter says:
trollhattan
@BD of MN:
Mary Kaymobile was my first thought as well, but it would have said it somewhere and I don’t envision a Regional Sales Leader getting those black wheels.
I’ll see your pink Porsche and raise the XJ6 Jag sedan I’ve seen teetering around town on 26″ wheels. I know because the fender reads “26” and nobody ever lies about something like that.
Tom Levenson
@Quit now: I bet you get invited to a lot of parties.
Catherine D.
@BD of MN:
That was my first thought as well!
This has been a craptastic weekend. My mare died suddenly on Friday (probably an aneurysm or heart attack). Then this morning I knocked an undersink bottle of bleach over and the effing cap was loose. So there I was yelling at the dog and cat to stay out of the kitchen while I soaked up the bleach and rinsed (and rinsed and rinsed.)
To top it off, I proceeded to knock over the canister of (expensive prescription) dog food and could only save half of it. Grr. Shoulda stood in bed!
Tom Levenson
@trollhattan: That’s kind of, not cool, exactly — but absurd. As if there might be a hint of humor in the owner’s intention. But yeah, still an abomination.
trollhattan
@CaseyL:
Recently cooked a salmon steak in a skillet and instead of just olive oil mixed that with butter 50-50 and boy, did it make a difference. I declared this prep OK for me because the good fats in olive oil and fish would gang up on the bad butter fat and WIN. That’s what science is for, amirite?
Chet
Cleared off my desk, sorted and folded laundry, did the dishes. Now I’m having a glass of sangria before my wife and I ship out to a belated wedding anniversary dinner. Streaming the Red Sox and hoping they don’t lose this series to the Rays.
Elizabelle
@Catherine D.: my sympathies. The day has to get better. Very sorry about your mare.
Ruckus
@Tom Levenson:
You think any with real people?
trollhattan
@Tom Levenson:
Perhaps retribution after getting snubbed for awards at car shows. “Deduct points for not having all the original engine compartment stickers, will you? Well sirs, just you wait ’til next year!”
trollhattan
@Tom Levenson:
Guessing this one keeps reentering wearing different costumes, the sniffy condescension sounds awfully familiar.
efgoldman
@ Tom Levenson
Yes, yes they are. Mine’s older than yours (36) married, with a family of her own, 400 miles away in DC. She does an important job (reporting and writing on consumer issues, with particular expertise, that she learned the hard way, of turning FCC-ese and FTC-ese into English). Plus she gave us the best grandchild in the world.
schrodingers_cat
Tikka is awesome! Thanks!
SiubhanDuinne
@Catherine D.:
How awful about your mare. I’m so sorry. (The other things too, of course, but they’re annoyances more than tragedies.)
Ruckus
@trollhattan:
I have a Farberware electric grill so I never fry fish or meat. I do however put a light coat of sesame oil on the fish before I cook them. Helps to keep them from sticking to the grill.
low-tech cyclist
When I saw that photo, I assumed it was a low-end GM or Chrysler POS. And pink, to boot.
Then I read on, and thought, “someone paid Porsche prices for that piece of crap?” Worked hard all their life, no help from their friends, and they bought this?? Good Lord.
gene108
The Republican Party, with their fanatic obsession about shunning anything that involves cooperation, will destroy our standing in the world sooner or later.
You can’t just order the whole planet around. You have to talk to people and come to compromises.
Republicans and their voters don’t get this. They view it as a sign of weakness.
Trump is just the Republican ethos exposed without any filter.
RedDirtGirl
@Catherine D.: So sorry for your unexpected loss!
gene108
@efgoldman:
My mom would disagree…
Mike in NC
Another steaming day in the upper 90s. Stepped outside with a new bottle of RoundUp to try to do something about the weeds sprouting in the mulchbeds, and had to quit after five minutes. One of the joys of home ownership.
Catherine D.
@SiubhanDuinne:
Thank you. Frankly it was the best way she could go. She hated vets from day 1, and I always worried about how we would ever euthanize her. She was a homebred Connemara/Dutch Warmblood cross and would have been 26 next month.
PST
I’m at a family funeral. A major topic of commentary about the deceased was his obsession with cars, including his Porsche Cayenne. I’m with Tom and his son.
jeffreyw
I weed-eated about a 10 yd. swath beside the front walk (not a vegan buffet line joke, honest!) and called it a day for yard work. I do have to mention that the new lithium battery powered yard tools are amazing. Came in and roasted a chicken for tacos later on today. Gonna try out the new to me guacamole enchilada sauce.
LongHairedWeirdo
It’d be even better with a ceratosaurus labelled Trump and a stegosaurus labeled Trump-voter, with the steg saying “curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
trollhattan
While we’re on Porsche SUVs I saw what I first mistook as a stubby Cayenne the other day but it proved to be a new smaller model, the Macan. The Mac an Cheese jokes followed instantly, along with the thought that owners could ask folks whether they wanted to “Pat Macan.”
I admit I was delirious from heat at the time.
Ruckus
@low-tech cyclist:
It’s quite possible that someone bought that without ever working for a day in their life. Its not a statement of taste or of liking cars. That car is ugly in any color. The shapes are all wrong, all out of proportion. And I think that it costs quite a bit extra to get it in any color you want as that color is not a normal or extra cost option. They had to pay someone to paint it that color. Probably on the order of $10,000. With normal options this ugly thing most likely cost between $100,000- $200,000.
germy
@Ruckus: Maybe they figured no one would ever steal it.
Suzanne
Went to hippie progressive church, at which the focus was the teen group’s service trip to the Navajo Nation, where they repaired roofs, poured wheelchair ramps, and built stairs. Then went to Trader Joe’s, where Spawn the Younger was almost hit by a car in the parking lot.
Mr. Suzanne and I are going to a concert tonight, but it is hot as balls, and swampy (the monsoon is here). I was going to go get my face waxed, including the inside of my nose, but it is too hot to think about leaving the house until after dark. Everyone will just have to deal with my nose hair.
Hal
Trump really is psychic
Ruckus
@germy:
What do they do when pedestrians get sick on it?
pat
@trollhattan:
I saw one of those yesterday. A Porsche bigger than my VW Golf. Why??
raven
@jeffreyw: I bought a big ass De Walt battery powered string trimmer and it kicks ass.
Ruckus
@pat:
When you have far more money than sense what reason do you need?
And I’d bet that it isn’t much bigger than your Golf on the inside.
Starfish
Hal
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article159712234.html
schrodingers_cat
@Suzanne: Never heard of anyone waxing their nose hair. Can it even be seen?
Yarrow
I have done almost nothing today. Yesterday was nonstop for me from 7:00 a.m. when the alarm went off. Drove for about five hours all told, picking up people and getting everyone to a birthday party. Should have been about an hour and a half in each direction but the road construction was awful. At one point we were down to one lane. On the freeway. Plus had to drive through a brutal thunderstorm on the way home after dropping people off. Flooded the roads, traffic crawling along. I’m just beat and have decided just to rest. Might go for a walk later.
dmsilev
I’m actually getting set to leave Boston right now (sitting on the plane waiting for the crew to tell us on turn off our phones). Family medical crisis is, for the most part, dealt with. Father is two days home from rehab (hip replacement a week ago Friday) and definitely seems to on the mend. It’ll take a while to get back to full (parents idea of a holiday is to go for a 200 mile walk along some trail…), but at least he’s at the physio stage of healing rather than the hospital stage.
dmsilev
@pat:
To prove to the world that you can (afford it).
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
I don’t get car people. The only car I truly covet is a 1971 Plymouth Sport Fury, like the one I inherited from my uncle. My father sold it while I was away. I love my father, and miss him dearly, but that was a cheesy move.
efgoldman
@Yarrow:
Getting soft in our old age, are we?
Starfish
@Hal: Someone somewhere else had posted that, but I didn’t read it because I just assumed it would be things Democrats like. I am so glad that I took the time to read it after seeing your excerpt.
SiubhanDuinne
@Catherine D.:
That’s a good long life, and I’m sure she spent it happily. For her sake, and yours, I’m glad her end was quick. When you’re ready, would you please send one of the front-pagers a photo of her so we can all admire her?
Suzanne
@schrodingers_cat: Nose hair? Yeah, it can be seen. Also, it catches snot.
MattF
@CaseyL: I’ve never been a fan of frying things in olive oyl. Butter, of course, if no one’s watching– peanut oil if I’m feeling guilty.
Suzanne
@dmsilev: Glad to hear your dad is on the mend. It is amazing how fast they have patients back to mobility after joint replacements these days.
gene108
@Suzanne:
I thought nose hairs performed important biological function of filtering the air we breath?
They are our own built in air filter.
@schrodingers_cat:
My nose hairs get longer than my nostrils, but I am a hairy man, which is why I have a nose hair trimmer. I have never met a woman with this issue.
Suzanne
@gene108: I’m sure they do serve a biological function (as does all body hair), but they also look gross. SO BYE.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Sure, it can be seen. But waxing, OUCH!
dmsilev
@Suzanne: The nurse who did the home visit yesterday said she was surprised that they sent him to rehab instead of straight home. Rehab was a good idea IMO; there was a big difference in terms of mobility etc. between when we left the hospital on Monday and when he came home on Friday (still only a week after the operation).
Starfish
@Suzanne: BUT IT IS PAINFUL.
Ruckus
I see a lot of expensive cars around where I live. 4 blocks away is a very large, expensive car dealership. Porsche, Audi, Bentley, RR, Maserati, Jaguar and Karma.
They sell a lot of very expensive cars. Audi is the only mfg there that has a car under $50,000. A very small 60-70 yr old 2 bedroom home, smaller than my apt, within less than a mile of me would go for over 2 mil. I realize that people pay this much because that’s what it costs, but the question is how are there that many people who can afford this. If you walk 2 blocks from my place away from the dealership you will find homeless people. I look around and wonder how an economy survives being so far out of balance. There are far more people who have really nothing compared to a large segment that can afford to purchase an ugly ass pink porsche suv that costs a minimum of $80K and quite possibly a lot more. And where I live is not the only place this out of balance, I know of quite a few more around the country. At least the French allowed them to eat cake. Here they want all the cake too.
MattF
@schrodingers_cat: Sigh. In fact, waxing your nose hair is a bad idea. Try googling ‘nose hair connected to brain’. Yes, really.
gene108
@Hal:
Wish the author would give examples other than Trump of how warped the GOP is. State governments run by Republicans are twisted and evil, not to mention Congress.
Suzanne
@dmsilev: Great strides have been made in rehab (pun intended) in recent years. Glad to hear that good progress is being made.
Suzanne
@Starfish: It doesn’t hurt much! Pulling one out is agony—pulling out many at a time is oddly….not.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: It was an emotionally exhausting day in addition to all the driving. Had to do with my mother’s death. Just took it out of me.
How are you recovering? Hope everything is going well.
jeffreyw
@raven: Yeah, a charge lasts longer than I do. We also have a hedge trimmer, a blower, and a 16″ chain saw, all taking the same batteries.
Suzanne
@Yarrow: Hugs. Hang in there.
gene108
@Suzanne:
Not all body hair serves a function. Some of it is just decorative ?
I mean back hair? Decorative. Hair on your feet? Decorative.
Hair on your head? Keeps you warm in winter.
Nose hair and eyelashes are in the useful body hair category, in my opinion.
chris
@Ruckus: All the cake all over the world.
http://www.mansionglobal.com/
gene108
@Yarrow:
Condolences. Hope things get better.
debbie
@trollhattan:
I only use the top of the stove in summer. I sautéed a tuna steak in butter, and it turned out much better than I expected. It was more than 1 1/2″ thick but still very moist.
efgoldman
@Yarrow:
I’ve felt better, thanx. Kidney failure is not fun. Having to go back to the ER at 100am Thursday because i looked down and realized my t-shirt and boxers were all soaked in blood and I was literally dripping on the floor, didn’t help.
Resident on call surgeon gave me a whole bunch of new stitches, slapped enough Tegaderm on it to keep the Titanic from sinking; we got home maybe 415am, Spent most of the next 24 hours sleeping.
I had forgotten about your mother; just being my usual inconsiderate, flip self. When my dad died, I had the ferrying mom around duties, altho the distances around here aren’t so daunting.
divF
@Major Major Major Major: Another one bites the pie. It’s really easy.
Yarrow
@Suzanne: @gene108: Thanks. I would like things to get better too, but I’m pretty steely-eyed about the reality I’m in. I have to pace myself as it’s only me to take care of everyone. I’m tired.
@efgoldman: Thanks for the kind wishes. You weren’t flip. It is what it is.
I’m so sorry to hear you’re having problems after surgery. That sounds awful! I hope the patching up works and you can recover now. I hope this buys you some time and you feel better too. Sending good thoughts.
gene108
@efgoldman:
That sounds scary. Hope you keep healing without any more problems.
Eric S.
@trollhattan: Your logic cannot be refuted. So declared I.
Eric S.
@Ruckus: Porsche will paint your new car any color under the sun. You just have to write the check. So yes, they paid extra but it could be factory paint.
Eric S.
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): and you don’t get us cat people? You desire an old rare car that would require a great deal of maintenance compared you the average new car. You desire it because it has a sentimental value.
Sorry, but welcome to the car enthusiast’s life. You may never follow through on it but you have a longing for a car that makes no practical sense. That’s who we are. Not those that buy just for a status symbol but because we have an irrational attachment.
It’s ok. We won’t judge and we will welcomed you into the fold. I hope one day you get the cat you desire.
Eric
Porscher
BeezusQ
Tikka reminds me of Henri Le Chat Noir…checks out his angst-filled youtube videos!
Ruckus
@Eric S.:
I understand. Should have used the word factory. What I meant was that it’s not a usual option so that they can find a car like you want in inventory. It has to be factory ordered. I’d bet all of the high end car companies will do this. After all painting a car for say $10K just because it’s a different color that costs them maybe $1K, leaving a nice profit margin really shouldn’t bother them.
scuffletuffle
@Catherine D.: you have my condolences as well and, from what you say her lines are, pictures would be lovely…
Greg Ferguson
Tikka has the most noble profile. And big feet. I would hook up w/ him, were I a….whatever.
Is there still a Combat Zone?
AND – o please, all kinds of electric groomers for things like nose hairs, ear hairs, brows etc. Why is this even an issue? LOL
Suzanne
@efgoldman: Oh shit. That’s scary. Glad to hear you’re re-stitched up.
Dev Null
Apologies if this has already been posted… I don’t see it, but “attention span of a fruit fly.”
And a heartfelt mea culpa for posting this sexist joke. I am truly a horrible horrible person. Just ask the Spousal Unit …
[quote]
A blonde canvassed a wealthy neighborhood looking for odd jobs. She went to the front door of the first house and asked the owner if he had anything for her to do.
“Well, you can paint my porch. How much will you charge?”
She replied, “How about $50?”
The man agreed and told her the paint was in the garage. A short time later, the blonde came to the door to collect her money.
“You’re finished already?” he asked.
“Yes,” the blonde answered, “and I had paint left over, so I gave it two coats.” Impressed, the man reached in his pocket for the $50.
“And by the way,” the blonde added, “that’s not a Porsche; it’s a Ferrari.”
[/quote]
J R in WV
@CaseyL:
Butter and EVOO (extra-virgin olive oil) have about the same caloric content, so no worry about your clothes fitting. Just you arteries clogging. We visited Italy, and learned about real olive oil – OMFSM !!! So now I spend money on real EVOO. and Real Cheese.
I even mail ordered a truffle !! OGFSM !!!! and Truffle Butter.
PaulWartenberg
How f-cked up is our universe when Porsche is in the SUV market?
It doesn’t look any f-cking different from a Nissan or Kia or Ford SUV.
Could have bought a Kia Sportage for $24,000 with money to spare for repainting the car in gold.
J R in WV
@Catherine D.:
26 is a very good run for a riding horse. Not such a bad day.
Sorry for your loss, glad she didn’t suffer.
No One You Know
@Yarrow: I’m sorry to hear about your mother. Hope out stay well!
No One You Know
@efgoldman: Yow! Wishing you the best, as well. That sounds…painful. And ugly to clean up. Hope you’re feeling better now.
Honus
@Ruckus: maybe sometime you should comment on something you actually know something about. I know a waitress that has a Cayenne that color. She bought it used and had it painted. She drives it to work and with the paint she still has less than 15k in it. A friendly mechanic at a private shop keeps it running for her.
NoraLenderbee
Eh. If you’re spending $60K on a car, you might as well get a color you like. You don’t need to please anyone else.