"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
02/16/2014 at 13:20 • Filed to: The Opposite Locker, Cool Wall, OppositeLock
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"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
02/16/2014 at 13:20 • Filed to: The Opposite Locker, Cool Wall, OppositeLock | 2
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If you have not had the chance to participate in the democratic "Cool Wall" adaptation before, let this be your guide to navigating the waters.
What is it?
In The Opposite Locker we try and sort out the cool from the square. This is a discussion system detailing how cool a car is, not how fast, fun, or frivolous it may be, but how well it looks in the cat's pajamas.
The name The Opposite Locker comes from the ultimate scrutinization of who is cool and who isn't: High School. While we may not always reminisce fondly of our teenage years, there is no denying that everyone knew who was cool and who wasn't (at least within those walls).
What Makes a Car Cool Anyways?
The coolest people in this world are the underdogs that climb out of a hopeless pit and make something great of themselves. In high school, the rich/beautiful clic might be popular and thought of as cool at first, but when a select few kids start making their name in sports by doing the above mentioned, they will become so much cooler than the established clic could ever hope to be.
It might come easily to think of you friends as cool, and some of them may be, but you cannot just assume that the rest of your clic is cool. The same sentiment applies for us automotive enthusiasts; we can't assume a car is cool because we like it.
Cars like the Ariel Atom, the Mazda Miata, or any Ferrari may be fast and fun, but are they cool? No. The cool scale measures on a different beat.
So how do we expect to differentiate our love for strange cars with a meaningful measurement of their coolness? The Anna Kendrick Test.
The Anna Kendrick Test
Yes, the Anna Kendrick Test is a direct rip off of Top Gear's Kristen Scott Thomas Test , but the theory still applies and helps us rain in our raging teenage hormones for speed and replace them with our raging teenage hormones.
Imaging rolling up to Anna Kendrick's house in the car in question; will she get in? Further still, will she be impressed by it?
It's not just a game of comparing her attractiveness with the car's, but rather comparing and complimenting her attractiveness, quirkiness, lightheartedness, and desire to have fun with the car in question.
A discussion of the Anna Kendrick Test in the comments is greatly encouraged on every post.
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There are three iterations of The Opposite Locker that I run, this being the original version.
This is The Opposite Locker where we try and sort out the cool from the square. This is a discussion system detailing how cool a car is, not how fast, fun, or frivolous it may be, but how well it looks in the cat's pajamas.
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Wayback Wednesdays are like the normal !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , save for the advanced age of the cars on the block. For this series of posts, try and perceive the vehicle as if you were living in the time period of the car's release, and then base your vote upon its coolness, taking into consideration the evolution of culture.
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The coolness of a concept car is as much about what the concept can spawn when the ideas and design theories reach the marketplace as it is about the car in its current state holding use in one of our current hypothetical lives.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2014 at 13:32 |
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Anna would totally get in my car, granted it might not be by choice but... anywho.
/imaterribleperson
Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
02/16/2014 at 14:23 |
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She'd probably be hesitant to venture inside mine, until I retracted the hardtop exposing the more feminine side of the car's personality.
Interestingly, now that the model is 10 years old and out of production, many are hitting the market at quite the reasonable price (as low as 30% of original MSRP). This phenomena has opened the ownership demographic to a much younger market and in turn a resurgence of the vehicles hitting the highways and by ways. I've actually seen more of them on the road in the last two years than the previous 8 combined. Although the cars are not that rare (16000+ were built), they were rarely seen as a daily driver. That seems to be changing.
