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| This is quite simply the (second-) most disgusting vehicle available today. It's vanity, insecurity, gluttony, and lust wrapped in a shiny body and pushed around by a V8 engine. This, folks, is the vehicle that Caligula would drive if he were alive today. It's a truck which had no other purpose than to be bigger than the Chevy Suburban. It's basically a great example of what's wrong with America today: "It's incredibly wasteful, but I can afford it, so why not? It's unsafe for me, but much more unsafe for the poor sap in the VW. I don't need anything nearly this big but my neighbor has a Suburban." The irony here is that many people consider Corvettes vulgar but they cost less to build, buy, run, and dispose of; they burn less gas and pollute less per gallon of fuel burned; and they're much less dangerous to the other drivers on the road. | ||||||||
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| < < | Vehicles like this are a great argument for $3/gallon gas. If only my income taxes weren't subsidizing your cheap fuel... | |||||||
| > > | Vehicles like this are a great argument for $5/gallon gas. If only my income taxes weren't subsidizing your cheap fuel... | |||||||
| UPDATE - Just when you thought that consumption couldn't get any more conspicuous, along comes a vehicle that cranks vulgarity up to 11: the GM Hummer H2. This rolling proof of its owner's insecurity and selfishness rates even worse than the previous champion Caligula-mobile because it's even less useful while being more overtly in-your-face obnoxious. It's so shameless that it even attempts to play off the macho military image. "Sure, kids are dying in Iraq, but I'm a real ass-kicker back here in Wellesley. Hoo-ah!" UPDATE - http://fuh2.com | ||||||||
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| > > | UPDATE - Rejoice - the Hummer is dead! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/23/notes052307.DTL | |||||||
PowerpointThe final victory of style over substance, of the medium over the message. The world managed to ignore this bloated multimedia piece of shit until it was "integrated" into Microsoft Office at which point every presentation given by every PHB in the country had to have 27 colors, 14 typefaces, and 7 different animations to distract you from the fact that it had absolutely nothing to say. People used to say that the Macintosh gave ordinary people the ability to make every document look like a ransom note. Powerpoint gives marketeers the ability to make every presentation look like an infomercial. Thanks, Microsoft, for yet another innovation! (Of course MS didn't actually write Powerpoint, they just made it impossible to ignore) | ||||||||