What do you love the look of despite it being impractical, uncomfortable, or high maintenance?
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You might be interested in the Slate, if that ever enters production. It’s electric but very basic, the size of a classic 1980s small pickup. No big fancy screens but they plan to offer a tablet mount for the dashboard in case you want to bring your own.
I definitely am interested in it, although I'm worried about buying a car from a new company's first production run. I haven't driven an electric car before but maybe it'll be fun.
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I love, love, love this comment! So interesting to see and read how styles have changed over time and I appreciate the detail you put into your descriptions.
This was the exact picture I was looking at as an example of how I would want one of the rooms in my dream house to look and what led to the creation of this post, haha. I would also want each room to be a different color, and I desperately want a conversation pit in my living room.
That kind of looks like my childhood bedroom, except the carpet needs a lot more bright yellow mixed into the orange. And I didn't have furniture like that. My walls were definitely that vibrant orange color though.
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Relatively old cars. I'm not talking about antiques. I just don't want a screen or an automatic transmission in my car. Right now I need to buy a car and frankly the only ones I want are a manual-transmission BMW or a late-90's pickup. Either one would be a rather impractical choice.
I used to own a 2008 BMW 328i with a manual transmission and sport suspension. It broke down, fixing it would have cost more than it was worth, but I think I should have just paid for the repairs because at least then I would have the same car I had been driving for 14 years rather than a car with the same problems of old age but no nostalgia value. (2018 was the last year than BMW made a manual 3-series, and also coincidentally the year that backup cameras and therefore computer screens became legally required in US cars.)
Edit: I accidentally wrote that I didn't want a manual transmission. Totally wrong!
You could even go into the 2000s for pickups without all the tech. I have an 07 Silverado Classic and its great as I get all the reliability, power, and better fuel economy out of the GM 5.3L while still having a truck that's super easy to work on. I also have a 76 K10 pickup but I'm preparing to sell it because it's essentially a bottomless pit of work and it'd still not be super reliable, powerful, or get okay mileage without a bunch of expensive mods. If you want something smaller the Ranger is still quite common, decent, and easy to obtain.
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It was bright carpeted floors that inspired this post.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Orange. Shag. Carpet.
Yes, it's a bitch to clean. Yes, it traps every particle of dirt that wafts into the room. Yes, to almost everyone other than me and some equally damaged enthusiasts, it looks god awful.
But if I could carpet my whole house with it without that being grounds for divorce, I'd be doing it right now. It's the feeling between the toes, top-tier. I can't explain it - it's not like I grew up with it - but there's something about orange shag specifically that screams "comfy" to me.
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It was bright carpeted floors that inspired this post.
The Cybertruck. It's dangerous, wasteful, impractical, and sold by a Nazi, but I actually like the appearance.
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Orange. Shag. Carpet.
Yes, it's a bitch to clean. Yes, it traps every particle of dirt that wafts into the room. Yes, to almost everyone other than me and some equally damaged enthusiasts, it looks god awful.
But if I could carpet my whole house with it without that being grounds for divorce, I'd be doing it right now. It's the feeling between the toes, top-tier. I can't explain it - it's not like I grew up with it - but there's something about orange shag specifically that screams "comfy" to me.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My kind of people
Love a good shag.
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My kind of people
Love a good shag.
wrote last edited by [email protected]"Lookin' for a good shag with the missus, gov'ner?"
Me, with my wife in the carpet store "Please leave us alone, it was hard enough getting her to come".
"But didja manage?"
"Hell yeah!"
And then we high five, I buy my carpet, and turn around only to notice both my wife and car are gone and never coming back. And I'm left to hump that shag down the road myself.
[This was fun]
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"Lookin' for a good shag with the missus, gov'ner?"
Me, with my wife in the carpet store "Please leave us alone, it was hard enough getting her to come".
"But didja manage?"
"Hell yeah!"
And then we high five, I buy my carpet, and turn around only to notice both my wife and car are gone and never coming back. And I'm left to hump that shag down the road myself.
[This was fun]
Your comments and posts are a great contribution to Lemmy
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Shaved legs, there's literally no practical benefit and it's so much effort but even if I wear long pants just having the knowledge I haven't shaved makes me so uncomfortable.
If you can spare a spa day once every couple of months, you can try sugar waxing at home. The smoothness lasts way longer than shaving and it's more gentle on the skin (and easier to clean) than normal waxing. After a few years of that my hair stopped growing back on my calves, and I haven't had to shave there in a long time.
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The Cybertruck. It's dangerous, wasteful, impractical, and sold by a Nazi, but I actually like the appearance.
I think it looks like shit and I LIKE that it looks like shit. I'll never have one, but maybe there is a parallel reality where we have woke Musk, and I can also afford one.
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The PowerMac G4 Cube. Absolutely gorgeous design, arguably the best looking computer ever. Horribly impractical even for the time and especially nowadays.
Even just looking at them is a problem. The main computer is held in place with two screws? Posts? and the weight of the machine can make the acrylic crack. I have two of them, but I store them upside down. I 3d printer some support braces, but my printer at the time sucked so they weren't a perfect fit and it took a ton of work to file them down to the right size to fit, but not fall out immediately.
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I don't mind hair everywhere (although I wouldn't get a dog with long fur because they overheat so easily) but I don't understand how people who don't live on a ranch take care of herding breeds. Australian cattle dogs are really popular in New York City but I would never dare to get one in an apartment. It was hard enough to have a dog with a strong prey drive - he could not be off-leash anywhere without a tall fence and double-layer gates, and he would forget that he was on a leash and take off at full speed whenever he saw a squirrel. I admit I envied the people with guarding breeds a little - my sister's pit bull mix looked like a crossbreed between a crocodile and a pig but that dog just followed my sister everywhere, even indoors, leash or no leash.
Australian cattle dogs... in NYC? People are so dumb when it comes to dog breeds. What poor dogs.
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The Cybertruck. It's dangerous, wasteful, impractical, and sold by a Nazi, but I actually like the appearance.
I agree for the front and side profiles, but from the back it is identical to a dumpster.
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It was bright carpeted floors that inspired this post.
I would love to have a pet raccoon, but it'd probably take up a large portion of my time entertaining it and running after it, making sure it doesn't destroy my entire house.
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It was bright carpeted floors that inspired this post.
Women
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Honestly, I don't even like the look
It's like watching a train wreck. You know it's bad, but you can't look away.
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I agree for the front and side profiles, but from the back it is identical to a dumpster.
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Orange. Shag. Carpet.
Yes, it's a bitch to clean. Yes, it traps every particle of dirt that wafts into the room. Yes, to almost everyone other than me and some equally damaged enthusiasts, it looks god awful.
But if I could carpet my whole house with it without that being grounds for divorce, I'd be doing it right now. It's the feeling between the toes, top-tier. I can't explain it - it's not like I grew up with it - but there's something about orange shag specifically that screams "comfy" to me.
You talking that weird orange with the bits of brown in it they used in the 70s?
You talking that high maintenance, orange brown shag?
You talking that deranged, I'll never-have-to-clean-it-myself carpeting?
Best shit ever.
My best friend bought a house that was last redecorated in the 70s, and had been unoccupied (but maintained and cleaned regularly) since the early 80s. I loved that carpet so much. Eventually we pulled it up and redid her hardwood floors, but my God did I miss that carpet when it was gone
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You talking that weird orange with the bits of brown in it they used in the 70s?
You talking that high maintenance, orange brown shag?
You talking that deranged, I'll never-have-to-clean-it-myself carpeting?
Best shit ever.
My best friend bought a house that was last redecorated in the 70s, and had been unoccupied (but maintained and cleaned regularly) since the early 80s. I loved that carpet so much. Eventually we pulled it up and redid her hardwood floors, but my God did I miss that carpet when it was gone
wrote last edited by [email protected]Awwww yeaahh...that's the good shit.
In my very last move with my parents, I almost got to have my dream room - wood paneling, old 70s orange-brown shag with pilling like a lawn in need of mowing, the works. I was staying behind in the old city a month longer than them, but I begged them to keep it exactly as is.
I moved in to find it was replaced with beige, boring carpet, with almost no pill to speak of. I was devastated.
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Orange. Shag. Carpet.
Yes, it's a bitch to clean. Yes, it traps every particle of dirt that wafts into the room. Yes, to almost everyone other than me and some equally damaged enthusiasts, it looks god awful.
But if I could carpet my whole house with it without that being grounds for divorce, I'd be doing it right now. It's the feeling between the toes, top-tier. I can't explain it - it's not like I grew up with it - but there's something about orange shag specifically that screams "comfy" to me.
