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They'll never let me go to Reclaim the Streets again...

 
  

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:53 / 23.07.02
Now don't get me wrong.
I have nothing against people who have cars.
But I've always sworn blind I'd never, ever, in a million years get one of the fuckers.

This weekend, I was taken to Bug Jam (a Volkswagen festival). It rocked. I am now considering using some of the money my gran left me a couple of years ago to buy a beetle, and paint it up (or rather, pay someone else to paint it up) like Bagpuss.

Because that would look cool. (Or possibly paint it black with a big pirate flag on top and do the interior out like Bagpuss. I'm deadly serious here.)

However, having spent so many years being so vehemently anti-car, I'm afraid this may make me the butt of many jokes among my friends.

Arse.

(Though I would do everything in my power and price range to make it as environmentally-friendly as possible... that old liberal compromise thing, you know...)

So... how much of a hypocrite would that make me?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
15:57 / 23.07.02
Well, if you spend all the dosh and then give it to me and let me drive it around, giving you lifts wherever you needed to go, then you'd be seen as a champion, because you'd a) given someone an asskicking car and b) not sacrificed your principles for it.

Win-win!
 
 
uncle retrospective
16:01 / 23.07.02

Listen to what your saying Stoatie, A pirate flag car with a bagpuss inside.
Even if this made you a bad person, you would still be a bad person with a very cool car.
 
 
bitchiekittie
16:02 / 23.07.02
your friends are rubbing their hands in eager anticipation even as we speak
 
 
Naked Flame
16:04 / 23.07.02
If you run it on solar-converted hydrogen fuel I'll forgive you.

Any chance of a lift?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:04 / 23.07.02
I wouldn't be too sure, bk- some of my friends have seen me drive.
 
 
bitchiekittie
16:21 / 23.07.02
no, I meant they are waiting for the chance to pounce on you. the jokes are becoming more elaborate by the moment....
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:24 / 23.07.02
Thing is though, I figure, whatever they fling at me, they'll have no logical response to the riposte "Yeah, but it's Bagpuss".

So I'll win! Hah!
 
 
bitchiekittie
16:27 / 23.07.02
cars are great. I always scoffed at the neighborhood kids with the tricked out cars and trucks. til I dated one. over the course of two years he managed to work in an appreciation for some of the things - he even taught me how to drive, which has become my very favorite escape from...well, anything

vrrooom
(and good luck getting it together!)
 
 
Mourne Kransky
17:24 / 23.07.02
Don't go over to the Dark Side, CM. Just buy some furry dice to dangle from your bicycle. Think of the expense.

But I'd quite like a lift too...
 
 
videodrome
17:53 / 23.07.02
You are talking about an old one, yes? Not one of those new wouldn't-even-make-it-past-the-quality-control-process-at-the-Lego-factory jobs? 'Cause that would be bad.
 
 
w1rebaby
18:13 / 23.07.02
You could always buy the car, do it up and not drive it. Because, let's face it, a proper Bagpuss-job is going to severely restrict maneuverability. The tail alone would cause severe hazards.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:18 / 23.07.02
With a proper bagpuss-job, you wouldn't need airbags. Comfy when it crashes. Particularly if it sticks to cat miles per hour.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:28 / 23.07.02
I figure a Bugpuss (clever wording, no?) would be asleep most of the time anyway. The more I think about this, the more like a good idea it seems. (Funnily enough, the moment I thought of it, I was wandering around Bug Jam on Sunday morning, thinking- "some of these cars look great. Why's nobody done a Bagpuss one?" At just that same instant, I saw a cuddly Bagpuss stuck in someone's back window. Ummm... I think I've finally lost it. I'm getting psychic messages from Bagpuss.)

Think I'll probably go for it. Since I've been obsessing about it to loads of people for a full two days now, which is about a Godzillion times longer than my usual attention span...
 
 
w1rebaby
18:36 / 23.07.02
And if it breaks down, the mice will just come and fix it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:54 / 23.07.02
Ah YEAH! "we will mend it, we will polish it..."
This just gets better and better. I'm SO gonna do this.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
20:40 / 23.07.02
i'll admit it - i love v dubya's too! though when i see it (no way you're keeping me away from a bagpuss car) i'll be really dismissive of it, professor yaffle style.

p.s. boring environmental stuff - fit a catalytic converter thingy so you can use unleaded?
 
 
invisible_al
21:13 / 23.07.02
Well speaking as someone who has a bloody mondeo as bought by mummy and daddy I am by law forbidden to hold an oppinion on this subject.

However you're not buying a new car and if you take care of the beetle its one new car that isn't being built. But its likely that a newer car will be less polluting, unless you have a bit of work done on the old car, should already be running on lead free but if you have a through engine job on it that should make it a bit more fuel efficient.

Do you have any mechanic friends? Old beetles usually need a awful lot of tender loving care, it would also be good to take a mechanic type person with you to look at the car, just so you don't get sold a lemon.

What are you planning to do with it, long journeys only? Its mainly what I use my car for travelling to the other side of the country and all, what with the rail system in the UK being expensive and rather crap I think I'm allowed.
 
 
Naked Flame
21:46 / 23.07.02
just so you don't get sold a lemon.

Or a lime.

Argh, I gotta get that meme out of my hair.
 
 
rizla mission
08:42 / 24.07.02
At just that same instant, I saw a cuddly Bagpuss stuck in someone's back window. Ummm... I think I've finally lost it. I'm getting psychic messages from Bagpuss.

I'd take that as a sign that you've finally found it..

As to a car .. um .. I don't know either way.. maybe you could destroy a Ford Mondeo or something for Karma reasons - taking a shit car off the road and replacing it with a super-cool car .. maybe.. except you'd probably get arrested..
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:26 / 24.07.02
Oh yeah- definitely an old one. The new ones suck. And yeah, sfd- I'd have to get someone to do some eco-friendly tweaking to salve my conscience, if nothing else.
 
 
higuita
09:28 / 24.07.02
You can always run it on LRP - I think that's the only option for four-star vehicles now.
And please don't destroy a shit car for karmic reasons.

one - you may get mine.

two - whoever owns it will probably be insured and get another shit car.

The only thing I can think of is to sponsor a rescue horse or something. And car ownership does make you a bad person - you have to live with it [I find the extra hour a day I don't have to spend on the bus does it for me - that and the 'bollocks to it, let's go to the seaside' whims]. It also makes you a lot poorer.
 
 
Fengs for the Memory
09:36 / 24.07.02
Spiritually poorer or financially. I know you drive a burgundy car.
 
 
higuita
11:55 / 24.07.02
You bastard.

I like to think of it more as a deep claret, but it says dark red on the MOT certificate.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
11:57 / 24.07.02
maroon, then, mr y - there's no getting away from it!
 
 
higuita
10:53 / 25.07.02
nononononono, sfd please, not ma[ca]roon. Any alternative suggestions that don't make my car sound like an old school jumper?

On the plus side, it is an Orion, which - although not a funky model - is a great trouser-ripping bass monster by Cliffy 'boy' Burton (and some other guys). I occasionally worry that if I actually play the track in the car, some sort of cosmic calamity may occur, a rend in the space/time/bendy continuum, if you will, hurling me into a gyratory system from which I will never escape.

The car's name is Margot, by the way. Have you settled on Bugpuss for yours, Maomin? Coz I quite like 'The MoominMobile'.

[On a weird sidetrack, my local newsagent - Mr Mistry - used to drive a big blue van. He never got it when I asked how the Mistry Machine was doing. So much for Scooby Doo.)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:37 / 25.07.02
The Moominmobile would be good... Batman's got one, the Pope's got one... How about "The mighty Bugpuss, the Moominmobile"?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:57 / 25.07.02
Looks like not everyone's as cool as 'lithers...

Just got this email from one of my mates... (the title was "So you're buying a car?"

...Hahahahahahah!!!!! Decked out like Bagpuss?
Bwahahahahahahaahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
 
 
higuita
08:35 / 26.07.02
I have supportive friends like that too. Ignore the nasty person.
 
 
invisible_al
11:19 / 26.07.02
So you get the car, make it like bagpuss, just to spite the friend in question with the cool upgrade you aquire.

Works for me .
 
 
grant
13:12 / 26.07.02


Nekobasu at Burning Man.



Nekobasu at home.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:04 / 26.07.02
Ignore the philistine. He's only envious 'coz he didn't think of it first.
 
 
netbanshee
17:27 / 26.07.02
Maom...speaking from a good amount of experience with these little bastards...get this. And get it before you look at picking a v-dub up as it'll help you find one and possibly maintain it yourself. The absolute best automotive book on the planet written by some late hippie. Contains great illustrations as well.

A bug takes a lot of care but can put up with a lot in the meantime. They can be pesky at times but love goes a long way. Not for the faint of heart but by far the cheapest auto to maintain, period. Good gas mileage as well.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:03 / 13.08.02
I realise it's the height of ill manners to bump one's own post, but...

I HAVE THE CAR SORTED NOW! (Haven't bought it yet, but have ridden in it- one of my friends is selling his bug that he never had the heart to get rid of but needed the money... MOT'd and everything!)

Bagpussnutterworld here I come!!! Within a month I shall be more of a danger to both myself and others than every before!
 
 
Shortfatdyke
12:14 / 13.08.02
Great! Barbelith has an official cabbie for meetings now....
 
  

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