I find it weird in general when people compliment things that i had nothing to do with. Like: nice tattoo. Thanks, i sat there for a bit and then it was done. I had a girlfriend who treated her car like she designed and build it herself. I even made a joke once where i said exactly that and je just cold heatedly said: she does that too. Like if someone would insult her car, she would take that very personally.
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months agoBe as interested in Jeeps as you like.
Saying you’re part of a culture because you bought something (especially something prohibitively expensive) is not something I will do anything but mock.
I don’t hear about “Mercedes Culture” or “Nissan Culture.” Probably because people way into those cars understand that it isn’t a culture just to be into a car.
Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 8 months ago
SamboT@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Reducing peoples interests to consumerism is your culture i guess.
If i buy a mountain bike is my culture a mountain biker? How often do i have to ride to be justified in thay belief? How often do i have to post online about bikes? How many hours of youtube do i need to watch of mountain biking?
Jeeps do things normal passenger vehicles dont and people creating a community of interest on that basis is valid.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you call ‘mountain biking’ a culture, I’ll mock you for that too. Because it’s a hobby, not a culture.
Something isn’t a culture just because you and your friends want to base your identities around it.
SamboT@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Now you’re just being pedantic. If you’re while argument was based on the usage of the word “culture” i think you could have made that point more clear lol.
Obviously you were talking about the validity of assembling for the interest of the Jeep brand.
For a professional lemming your performance hasnt been stellar this morning.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well as long as it’s obvious to you, because it wasn’t obvious to me.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’ve not heard of Jeep culture, myself, so now I’m going to imagine a colony of asexually-reproducing microscopic Jeeps in a Petri dish.
Today, O Squid, you have broadened my imagination beyond yesterday.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would have much greater interest in microscopic Jeeps that could reproduce. I probably wouldn’t even mock them. Unless they were jerks.