"tapzz" (tapzz)
01/05/2015 at 12:13 • Filed to: range rover
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"tapzz" (tapzz)
01/05/2015 at 12:13 • Filed to: range rover | 2
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"and anyone remotely civilised must pretend not to be at home if it is presented." Or so claims the Guardian 's Marina Hyde in an interesting column on how !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .What's interesting here is that cars-as-a-social-cypher seems to have gone the way of making mix tapes- something we used to do a lot, but haven't seen that much of lately. Other than the occassional assertion that a showy car must be a Lambo, Normals tend to treat cars as appliances, and reckon them to be about as eloquent about their owners.But not Rangeys. This may be a UK thing, but it's worth repeating Marina's rant:
Why do so many rich people all want identical black Range Rovers? They could afford all manner of diverse and exciting cars, but all they really seem to want is the black Range Rover. Is it because the black Range Rover is a fine automobile (I don't doubt it)? Or is it because its purchase is a shorthand for those who lack imagination but not funds, a way of announcing their suitability to associate with fellow black Range Rover owners, a way of saying that they belong?
But don't worry, Doug; they also make them in silver and blue
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ACESandEIGHTS
> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 12:17 |
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Wait... lack imagination but not funds? I thought that was the point of the entire luxury car market.
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> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 12:17 |
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I agree wholeheartedly. Range Rovers should only be made in green and blue. Black RR = dbag.
PS9
> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 12:19 |
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Or is it because its purchase is a shorthand for those who lack imagination but not funds, a way of announcing their suitability to associate with fellow black Range Rover owners, a way of saying that they belong?
THIS IS INSANE
spanfucker retire bitch
> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 12:22 |
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If I had the money for one, it'd be an RR Sport in whatever their darkest red color is called, with a black roof.
Snazzy. As. Fuck.
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tapzz
> PS9
01/05/2015 at 13:20 |
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Go to the snazzier parts of London and the Home Counties, and you can see it in action:
Pleb. Pleb. Why hello, dahling...
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PS9
> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 13:37 |
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Nope. I live in Florida, and get my daily fill of insanity already down here. I don't need to see anymore.
sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 14:29 |
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I was at Whole Foods the other day, and there were identical black Range Rover HSEs like the above, and three identical silver QX80s. That's whole foods for you, I guess.
VonBelmont
> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 18:35 |
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The whole point of these showoffy bow-to-me-peasant lavish rich kid posts isn't so much to tell others that they're rich, it's to tell themselves. I come from a well-to-do background, straddling the line between upper/upper-middle, and I have to admit it is certainly a polarizing aspect. One that can quickly be used to garner a few quick likes from middle-class dreamers on Instagram or Twitter, or pissing off Occupy supporters.
They always have that feigned air of casualness because to be grateful is to grant power to someone else (their family, their friends, etc), which is too "middle class" or mature for them. It kinda depresses me, because for every mega yacht sweet 16, there was/is intense work done to make it possible that goes unmentioned. Extra hours at the office, stressful deals to be made, risking loads of money on investments, ignoring friends and family to focus on work, etc. All ignored because the Acura was silver instead of white.
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VonBelmont
> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 18:38 |
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True. In Mayfair, practically 3/4 of the cars were Benzes and BMWs, with the rest being Bentleys, Audis, Ferraris, or Jaguars. It made me feel poor, frankly.
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tapzz
> VonBelmont
01/05/2015 at 18:52 |
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More inexplicably, there's the boys with the Ferraris, Lamborghinis and McLarens too, trundling from Knightsbridge to the King's Road and back again at 15 mph, tops. Mind, those make a different sort of statement than a black Rangey: "ladies, join my party now" rather than "I have money"
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VonBelmont
> tapzz
01/05/2015 at 21:00 |
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You can't even go above 15 in London anyway. Seriously, the traffic makes New York look like FarmVille, Virginia.
I was actually in London last week to march in the parade, and a family friend asked us to housesit her Mayfair townhouse. If we weren't on the world's most jampacked itinerary ever, my friends and I would've totally Buellered her Conti and been ironic douches for the week. If only for awesome irony, really.