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Competing views are held over the aims and effectiveness of this new road safety advertisement. On the one hand, academic Glen:
Maybe if they asked some people who actually do research on young male drivers and car culture, etc they would know that cars within car culture operate as part of a homosocial institution. So the car, instead of a woman (original homosocial relation), as an object is the third term that mediates sociality between men or those who are performing masculinities. Questioning the size of a young male driver’s penis may seem like a tremendously funny neo-freudian way to punish young male drivers by way of inference but it fails to grasp the difference between homosociality and homosexuality. Homosociality may involve homoerotic undercurrents or be part of a homoerotic libidinal economy but this is always mediated by a third term ...
The whole relation between risk - or exploiting the contingencies of social life - and expectations of masculine behaviour needs attention particularly if we are trying to move towards ‘sustainable’ modes of sociality. I don’t see this ad doing that work.
In fact, it is no better than Howard’s modus operatum to target populations within which a problem exists rather than targeting the problem itself by recognising that probelm exists across a whole range of different populations (alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, etc). If someone wants to ...
Thank you, Glen; you raise several very important-sounding points. But so too does YouTube commenter jspecmaz:
i think the ad states that everyones pissweak and needs to try harder. MORE SMOKE…MORE ANGLE!
Further study of the issue is probably required.
There needs to be a formalized reply to reply to wymin who do that “little dicky” thing.
I suggest a sign with both index finger tips touching and both thumbs touching in a circle and then separating the hands to imply a big, nasty, goatse type hole.
I do not mean to imply that any of the women who frequent this place would need such a sign. But I’m pretty sure I’m not the only guy that’s long gone with the sick and tired of “little dick” being trotted out by every dumbass piece of wannabee psychodoctor commenter on man type behavior that they may find offensive to their metrosexualized selfs.
A petrol head porn thread!
From previous:Believed to be a Radical SR9 [engine: 2.6L V8 made from 2 combined Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle blocks] in a hillclimb.
The Nurburgring lap record holder doing what it was originally designed for: hillclimbs.
Note the acceleration - uphill!#3
A case of Lefty retards ignoring our biology - mammalian youth learning = ‘play’ - from our hunter-gatherer origins.
Jeez, even Phatty had Ferraris, etc. in his yoot.
Boyz toyz in cars n guns, etc.
Glen doing a lil’ projection with the sexual (adequacy) stereotype angle?
Wymmin own/drive fast cars n bikes, too, FFS.Ya know Glen, you’re an idiot. Sometimes a guy just likes a muscle car because he likes the dang thing. Stop projecting your homo-everything, why-oh-why-God-is-my-pecker-so-tiny, wussifications on everyone else. You might be afraid of 350HP, much as you fear a gay porn star with a 12” jimmy, but that sure as hell doesn’t me that I do.
...no, wait a minute!!!#5 I got the finger when I beeped the car in front when there was no reaction to the light changing. I allowed a few seconds grace but then gave a short beep - maybe the driver hadn’t noticed the green light? The finger salute was presented instantaneously. If only her reactions to light changes were so quick.
Modus operatum? That some new make of car? Or is Glen just short of a Latin dic?
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 06 25 at 07:01 AM • permalinkI drive a small car as I’m compensating for a large penis. :p
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 06 25 at 07:01 AM • permalinkI would click on the link but I am worried I wouldnt get it up.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 25 at 07:05 AM • permalinkBumper Sticker for Glen: My Other Car Is A 3” Penis
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 06 25 at 07:06 AM • permalinkYe Gods, what a load of wacademic wankspeak.
Glen, society has removed damned near every male rite of passage as ‘too dangerous’, or ‘upsetting’ to some mealy-mouthed gutless PC nannying wowser.
Young men have to be young men. They may die during this walking-hormone-and-really-stupid stage (it has ever been thus) but they are looking for ways to find acceptance as men and not as boys. They have to prove themselves to their mates (and themselves) and have something to boast about.
Getting a driving licence and showing off is about the only thing left. A better idea would be to set up more private raceways to showcase skill and bravado (hell, televise it, why not?) and have awards. ‘Best run of the hour’ and ‘fastest time in class’ and ‘best personal improvement’: a few ‘big swinging dick of the day’ awards to those who show skill maybe.
At least then you’d be promoting better driving skills and allowing the testosterone-charged a manly outlet!
I wonder if Glen has GOT any testosterone.
MarkL
canberraI’d like to point out that I drive the slowest, smallest, clapped out piece of shit on God’s green earth.
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 06 25 at 07:15 AM • permalinkStupid bloody ad.
You want to stop youngsters driving like knobs?
Give them a day on a skid pan. Show them what braking in the wet from 100km/h is like - especially when you have to swerve around something.
When I had a day doing that, we had a boy racer turn up in the typical 3-series BMW with mags and P-plates. Thought he was Gods gift to cool driving.
After his first skid, he pretty much shat himself. He wouldn’t go fast enough on the subsequent exercises to get any value out of them, since he was terrified, so an instructor sat in the passenger seat, stuck his leg over the transmition tunnel and rammed the power pedal to the floor. He had to do that all day as boy racer had had one close encounter with his limitations as a driver and didn’t want another.
Ads like this could pay for a lot of skid pan time. Funny how government is happy to throw money at advertising, but not at hard, practical experience - the one thing that might make a difference.
ps - how are hoons going to cope when we are all forced to convert to a Prius? How many tons of extra batteries would you need to light up the tyres on one of them? Will we see wogged up Prius’s running around towing a trailer of batteries?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 25 at 07:15 AM • permalinkGlen comes across as quite the uber-bore, doesn’t he? Pity the co-worker who gets bailed up at the water cooler…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 25 at 07:17 AM • permalinkOT Media Watch review.
No mention of Tim or last week’s conflict of interest from Tim Palmer.
Summary of this week’s 15 minutes of infamy - capitalism = bad.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 06 25 at 07:35 AM • permalink#31 Ash, you have one of those mothers too. The death mother who destroyed your young life. Mine had the best intentions, I suppose, I just can’t stand being in the same room with her. My five sisters and three brothers love her to death. I speak to her by telephone. That probably says as much about me as it does about her.
#40 Nah, Maree, she was trying to make my sister turn out perfect, and did such a good job that my sister is an absolute nut case and can’t even get dressed without mum’s approval.
I barely got a look in, but I consider myself lucky. I’d hate to not be able to get dressed or cook dinner without asking my mother what she thinks.
Speaking of small penises, have a go at this piece of human garbage.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 25 at 07:43 AM • permalink#34 No Ash. They only bag those who desert the ABC for capitalist pastures. Alan Kohler departing to improve his lot based on his abilities is too much for them to contemplate. He’s a traitor to the greater cause.
In reality Attard and Palmer assume no free enterprise venture is likely to approach them, so therefore the nails are out.
“I think we’re all dumber for having heard that.”
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 06 25 at 08:06 AM • permalinkIn fact, it is no better than Howard’s modus operatum to target populations within which a problem exists rather than targeting the problem itself ...
The usual lefty excuse to prevent substantive discussion: “But X isn’t the only group to do Y - how dare you focus on X.”
And then they usually turn around and say something like “You can’t wage war on [a noun like Y].”
These blokes must have ingrown plonkers according to the Glenster- and foreshame when they could be doing 30kph through traffic calming in a Volvo, and filling their trousers.
Bah.
What screeds like this establish is that (some) homosexuals are themselves of the belief that their sexual practices constitute a perversion and are shamed by that. Otherwise there wouldn’t be this obsessive need to recast every. single. issue. on. the. f*ing. planet in terms of that perversion.
Sometimes a cigar is just a delivery method for nicotine. Articles stoutly maintaining otherwise say more about the writer than they do about the smoker.
Regards,
RicAnyone else got a ‘tard ‘lation who’s been caught fucking a damper in the back of a smallblock Sandman with their Johnny-Wadd sized schlong?
If speeding in big cars is supposed to be compensation for a small penis, then what is spewing a nonstop, meaningless load of big words supposed to compensate for?
I thought that is what kevni ruff did to cover for lack of policies?
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 25 at 09:12 AM • permalinkMartin Short, former Brit F1 driver, takes a Mosler MT900S (Chevy LS1(/6) V8 based GT car) road car for a spin around the Nurburgring.
Oh dear it’s one of those isn’t it. No-one will dare to complain about it for fear of the standard response: “so have you got a tiny penis then” or variations on the theme. Yawn.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 06 25 at 09:32 AM • permalinkWell, maybe unless they were female. Duh.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 06 25 at 09:33 AM • permalinkI posted in the #69 positon. Please God, don’t make all despise me.
Lucky the webcam was off.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 25 at 09:36 AM • permalinkSometimes, Glen, despite all your Freudian conjecture, a car is just a car.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 25 at 09:59 AM • permalinkI thought the homosocialists had a big* parade every year in Sydney and almost all vote ALP?
*What does that mean, I wonder,
Dr. FruitDr. FreudProfessor Glen?Posted by andycanuck on 2007 06 25 at 10:00 AM • permalinkJeez, I read Glen’s post, and I had to wonder if this was a leftie with a sense of humor, and was spoofing lefties.
Alas, no. He’s serious.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 25 at 10:10 AM • permalinkIn fact, it is no better than Howard’s modus operatum to target populations within which a problem exists rather than targeting the problem itself by recognising that probelm exists across a whole range of different populations (alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, etc). If someone wants to ...
Ummm, Glen. I see you use spell check, too. Good man.
“Homosociality may involve homoerotic undercurrents or be part of a homoerotic libidinal economy but this is always mediated by a third term ...”
This is something that has troubled me for many years and it pleasing to see young Glen bring it out in the open. Unfortunately I has a pleasant, albeit rather hot curry tonight, so I cannot debate the issue thoroughly and the the best I can manage at this stage is a turd therm.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 25 at 10:14 AM • permalink#88 You see what he did right there? He cleverly turned my snippy jest around, pulled the rug out from under me, and left me feeling mildly angry at myself. I feel just like I did that time when I was 16 and decided I could take the old manseveral seconds before five fists of lightning flashed into my stomach and face, sending me hurtling into the wall. Attitude adjustment par excellence. Ah, that Paco is a cagey one, he is.
#27, Ash, how right you are. I managed to slide my car into several other cars and a kangaroo, and narrowly missed taking out a bus shelter (going sideways over the kerb) and numerous trees.
My friends managed to take out a wide swathe of street signs, power poles, trees, emus, wombats, roos, parrots, cats, toads, rabbits, tractors, dams, houses, letter boxes and other cars without so much as scratching themselves. Cars were rolled, rolled and rolled again. People were thrown out of the back of utes. Some had crash records so bad, insurance was all but unattainable. We got drunk and went roo shooting with semi-automatic weapons from the back of wildly unstable vehicles.
Our generation were invincible. These newly minted young men are all soft - that’s their problem. They run into something hard, like a rubber penguin, and all their insides squish out and their brains explode.
I reckon its all the hormones in the chicken. Young men these days have breasts from eating too much KFC, and we know where that leads…
Yes, they made them tough in the old days. A powerful engine and a set of smoking tyres are simply God’s way of sorting out the strong from the weak.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 25 at 11:08 AM • permalinkQuick chick - Vicki from BBC 5th Gear.
Starring the baby Radical, the SR3.for one who has never had a licence, my tally of crashed cars is embarrassing, all resulting from eejits insisting they could teach me to drive when others couldn’t. best one was spinning a mini (old as dirt reference, not trendoid) backwards into the rock embankment on the boulevard in kew. next best was ploughing an mga nose first into a rather deep drainage ditch. being a crap driver has its compensations though - you become an ace navigator & cadger of lifts
#61 Habib, I used to have a mate who was once caught in the back of a sheep. At his 21st birthday, no less.
Will that do?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 25 at 05:22 PM • permalinkHell that rally car’s nuthin’. I use ta drive a log truck that way. And my dick is bigger than yours. Wanna seeit Glen? I know you do.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 25 at 05:37 PM • permalinkHmmm, I should have said log for twice the hilarity.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 25 at 05:44 PM • permalinkHere’s a follow-on article- admittedly it’s hypocritical of a state labor politician to be promoting such Gaiea-raping past-times as burnouts and drag racing (especially since he’s just commissioned an ad campaign which states that all tappetheads have tiny todgers) but if some idiot wants to give Morrie Iemma 4 and a half monkeys to piss up a rope, who cares? the usual suspects are out in droves- Harold Scruby in particular.
Harry is a classic example of projection- while a Mossman councillor (and long-term mate of serial dingbat David Marr) he drove his Jag into a jogger while pissed, and has been trying to pass on the blame for his own incompetence onto every other driver ever since. What a twat.
A commenter on the item has also apparently been spying on me:-
The whole anti-hoon mob has gotten out of control. All anti-hoon legislation in this country is inherently unfair (qld especialy, having been a victim of it myself) and it is all knee jerk politics to pander to the today tonight viewing minority. And now they want to extend it to the only legitimate place left to have a bit of fun. Damn, a 500kph drag car is not even a “car”...its a purpose built race vehicle…. theres a big diff between that and habib’s fully sik skyline doing circle work in a local car park.
Posted by: Greg 9:10am today
Comment 19 of 43“modus operatum” ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!! Apart from the Latin grammar error (modus is masculine, operatum is neuter)there is no such term in existence: the correct expression is “modus operandi”. If we can’t get our Latin right how can we trust the rest of the content of the article written in pompous technical gibberish. Is Glen’s effort an attempt to prove he is smarter than us or does he have a penis complex and is trying to prove that his is longer than ours ?
Posted by LaVallette on 2007 06 25 at 10:29 PM • permalinkMaybe the stupid slap heads should have interviewd the target demographic. Burnouts have spread more legs than Spanish Fly laced Bacardi Breezer’s. Hop on myspace or some other god forsaken teen hook up site and check out how many of the chicks are creaming their strides over throbbing V8’s. Most of the girls these guys are tryiong to impress have got aftermarket equipment on their vibrators.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 25 at 10:40 PM • permalinkI hate to say this, but the magnetism of hot cars to certain segments of the female population is such that in the ABSENCE of hot cars they will be attracted to clapped out garbage with black housepaint brushed on and holes stabbed in the muffler with a screwdriver.
Yes you. You know who I’m talking about. Don’t pretend you don’t.
My old car however was singularly unattractive and didn’t like the idea of other women in my life. On the other hand, you didn’t never get roadraged or even honked when you was drivin’ The Bitch. I loved her though she hurt me so…
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Hey, this is fun!