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Study Confirms That Cars Have Personalities
Ponca City, We love you writes "A study has confirmed that many people see human facial features in the front ends of automobiles and ascribe various personality traits to cars. Forty study participants assessed cars based on a system known as geometric morphometrics by viewing high-resolution, 3D computer reconstructions and printed images of 38 actual 2004-06 car models and rating each model on 19 traits such as dominance, maturity, gender, and friendliness, and if they liked the car. Study participants liked best the cars scoring high in the so-called power traits — the most mature, masculine, arrogant, and angry-looking ones. Researchers theorized that over evolutionary time, humans have developed a selective sensitivity to features in the human face that convey information on sex, age, emotions, and intentions. The lead researcher explained, 'Seeing too many faces, even in mountains or toast, has little or no penalty, but missing or misinterpreting the face of a predator or attacker could be fatal.'"
My current car must have character by now. It was suppose to be my dream car. My tastes aren't extravagant. It's a 1996 Holden Berlina station wagon. It has however turned out to be a lemon. Nothing but trouble. The aircon intermittently on a hot day decides to read the temperature as -30 celcius outside, and blows hot air instead of cold. It has broken down a number of times despite maintenance. It's got power windows that occassionally stick and a boot that won't stay up (needs regassing but I'll be damned if I spend a cent on it that I don't have to!) I abuse it almost every time I get in the damn thing and if that kind of abuse isn't enough to give you character, what is?
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If you were trying to make fun of me
If you can disembody yourself from the fact that GP was replying to your post and be objective for a minute, you'd see that the GP post was friggin' hilarious. Sometimes humor needs a brunt. Your best bet is to play the straight man when it happens to you. That's rule #23 in the karma playbook.
Just callin' it like I see it.
It's freaking hilarious until someone tries and fails to make fun of YOU
If I can recognize meanness as an attempt at humor, I usually don't mind. If I don't recognize it as humor, I try to assume the best. If its obvious its not humor, I tend to show up at their house with a neutron laser, a bag of obturators, and a quart of wood glue.
Just callin' it like I see it.
Then again, so did the "Virgin" Mary. The original texts in Hebrew about the circumstances of Jesus' birth described Mary as a "young woman" which got mis-translated into Greek with the word "Virgin". After ~380 years of debate, the RC Church finally decided (I don't recall where the papal edict was issued) on Jesus' divinity and the existence of the Holy Trinity.
Therefore, if Jesus actually existed it is more than likely that Mary got fucked. Proper fucked? Yes, proper fucked.
As for the rest of us? We got screwed too. Not just by whatever sex-partners we've had, but predominantly by the RC Church and whatever offspring it had.