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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Criticism of material objects != criticism of the people who own those material objects.
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Doesn't even have to be tangible objects, really. I've been more-or-less (scale says 'more') told off in the past few weeks just because I questioned an affiliation's tactics in marketing, which another member here supported, and I was told that my side of the argument didn't matter because I elocuted my contention in such a way - that, I don't know, they felt threatened or disgusted or turned off, and I never mentioned them once in my post, but regardless, my investment and thought expansion was just left there - as if I kicked dirt on someone's idea because I didn't initially agree with it. Been told off for asking elaborations on the OP as well; some are just too invested into their ideals to be completely rational and amiably-communicative about it. I was questioning the discussion points at hand, as I regularly do, if so in a manner to better understand the topic, its context, and general meaning, yet was chastised, for I know not the reason why unstated member(s) perceived it to be more of a personal agenda against them.
What about any one of my posts says 'personal'? I don't spend thirty minutes thinking and typing out a post just to subtly say 'shoo, you don't matter', though I do routinely get those in return, which is odd, and as of yet, I see no basis or examples for insults in this thread (save for the initial tone of how this thread came about, on a level of "
I'm up here and an objective observer of good design & stylistics in contemporary US daily life dealings, and this car of which I'm speaking, this PT Cruiser, is all the way down there, in the gutter, a malignant curse upon this town, these people, by God, our country's ideals and FREEDOM, an automobile so wretched, I now sing the praises of its last dying breath, for well, finally, it has been slayed from future productions." Subjectively, though, that's my own take on the tone of the first half-dozen posts here.)
Crumble-bums. I've lost most of you, haven't I?
Cars I don't like?
My aesthetic sense doesn't agree with most of the shoe-box-looking car designs that have been rolling out since the turn of the millenium. The once-new
Transformers yellow Camaro is a good-enough popular example of this trend. The Hummer variations are another.
In my opinion, the
Plymouth Prowler is somewhat like envisioning a PT Cruiser devoid of 60% of its body structure, so in that regard, I think the PT is at least 25% cool.