It was bright carpeted floors that inspired this post.
I would love to have a pet raccoon, but it’d probably take up a large portion of my time entertaining it and running after it, making sure it doesn’t destroy my entire house.
Slightly lowered cars, I love the look, but they are almost always less comfortable, harder to drive in certain places (steep driveways, potholes, etc).
It’s a total waste of money, but I love how it looks when a wheel properly fills an arch and the air dam is that bit closer to the road.
Please don’t kill me. I actually like the way cybertrucks look.
I would never own one for innumerable reasons, though.
I remember when I first saw them, the cyberpunk aesthetic was interesting.
Having seen them in real life though, the fog machines and laser light show were definitely doing a lot of heavy lifting.
In real life they look out of place and instead of looking cyberpunk they end up looking more retro-futurism.
To me, at least, as someone that likes the cyberpunk aesthetic, I was kinda excited for the cybertruck too. If not for it specifically, than for it opening the door for other people to adopt more sci-fi designs.
Sadly every time I see one in person I think it may have set things back instead of moving them forward.
My orange cat
Steam locomotives!!! Maybe not the full intent of this thread, but they’re terrible for the environment, inefficient, complicated as hell, and SO COOL!
related, steam turbine locomotives! they never really took off, but they’re amazing!
I’m guessing that in 50 years people will feel this way about internal combustion engines as well. A lot of the time the more efficient technologies get, the more boring, as all the energy is going into their actual purpose and not chugga-chugga sounds.
Indeed, you’re surely right. Pour one out for the big boys.
White pants. I am not qualified to wear them, not careful enough, not neat enough, I always mess them up. But I love them!
Agree with old cars. I had a gorgeous mustang from 1967, a three speed manual, the clutch not hydraulic, no power steering. Hard to drive (I didn’t trust many people with it) , broke down All The Fucking Time, was a wildly impractical car but oh what a looker. My car now I bought new in 2014, Honda Accord Sport 6 speed manual and I hope it’s my last, it’s beautiful too and better made, just enough tech to be good not bad, one day it will be vintage, I don’t drive much anymore.
The Cybertruck. It’s dangerous, wasteful, impractical, and sold by a Nazi, but I actually like the appearance.
I agree for the front and side profiles, but from the back it is identical to a dumpster.
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From the very first one I saw in person, the wildly variable steps and gaps between panels was a big “nope”. The very long single wiper blade on the windshield also tickled my engineer brain as “nightmare to maintain”.
You’re right, on top of the other problems I mentioned, it also has poor quality control.
Interesting how many upvotes this got. Mostly you just hear about how ugly they are.
It’s legitimately an out-of-the-box, eye-catching design. Probably because it’s so terrible for the actual purpose of the thing nobody else would have bothered.
I think it looks like shit and I LIKE that it looks like shit. I’ll never have one, but maybe there is a parallel reality where we have woke Musk, and I can also afford one.
There are plenty of ugly cars that dont cost nearly as much and are still offensive.
Nissan Juke seems to make people unhappy, as does a Pontiac Aztek. Older and weirder, a GM u-body van like a Chevy Lumina APV, Buick’s last Riveria was shaped like a nicely tapered turd, Acura had the original ZDX that looked like a dog scrunched up to take a crap and the ugly beaky nose. People really hate the BMW 7 series that came out in 2001 for being ugly too. I’m guessing that they’re all broken by now since they were horrific junk, but if you do find one, they’re cheap.
None of those cars look like Playstation 1 cars. These are Playstation 2 AT WORST. I lust for a low poly SACK OF SHIT
Liked the look until I got up close and personal. It’s all bulk! The inside is cramped, for what it is, and the “bed” is laughable.
Gothic architecture. So much extra work to sculpt all the spires, gables, grotesques and archways, for zero added functionality. But they look dope as fuck.
Incidentally I hate brutalist architecture.
Fully agree! It’s so much work and so incredible to look at and admire. Art deco too for the same reasons.
That’s a good one! The level of detail in gothic architecture is insane and gorgeous. I love seeing curves and rounded shapes in architecture in general. As for brutalism, I’ve seen some creative things done with this style too, although of course its advantages are durability and affordability rather than aesthetics. The modern minimalist trend in architecture where everything is beige/white/grey is what I dislike most.
An antique Victorian or Queen Anne house. I love the towers, the gingerbread charm, the corbels and fascias and all the little crinkly bits. The rich old wood interiors with tin ceilings and plaster medallions, hand carved staircases and crown mouldings.
However I am never going to be able to afford the absurd cost of retrofitting one to be energy efficient, and I know the quirks of odd room sizes, antiquated floor plans and non-standard sized things like weird door heights and window widths would drive me absolutely insane. So I’ll admire them from afar
However I am never going to be able to afford the absurd cost of retrofitting one to be energy efficient,
Is that even an option? In my experience they leak so much it’s more like a pile of sticks than a modern envelope. You’d have to, like, add a whole other layer to the inside or outside, or take it all apart and rebuild it to actual geometric standards.
You’d have to, like, add a whole other layer to the inside or outside
That is, actually what they do, by my understanding. If the house isn’t brick, then when you need to replace the siding they will actually put an entirely new layer of sheathing on over the outside, something like Zip R that has poly-iso foam insulation and acts as an air barrier. They then can put siding back on that fits the original look of the house, hopefully using architectural elements and details that were saved from teardown.
Another way is to go from the inside, and rip out the walls to the studs while saving trim pieces and put in new insulation and replace the horsehair plaster with drywall. Then you’ll be dealing with special ordering non-standard modern double glazed windows in weird sizes, because if you wanted to use the standard window sizes you can’t use your beautiful old growth mahogany trim pieces lovingly carved for your whacky leaky windows.
The attic is often not that bad to insulate because there should be relatively few cut-ins and blown in cellulose can go everywhere, but then you miss out on your perfect gothic “Wednesday’s room” unless you want to spend even more money trying to figure out how to get all of those turret towers and vaulting and weird rooflines into your envelope.
So, it’s possible, just prohibitively expensive
Tile or stone roof
Tile roof is durable as heck! https://roofsnap.com/blog/how-long-do-tile-roofs-last-what-roofers-need-to-know/
Fursuits.
They’re all 3 of those negatives, plus also super expensive!
A proper race car. They are all of these things, but damn are they good looking.
Ford GT40 looks amazing. If I was gifted one I’d probably drive it once, take loads of pictures, then sell it. Otherwise it’d get stuck on the roads in my region, there are few places where I can free the horses, the maintenance cost would be a nightmare, and my experience with Ford tells me it’ll have a revolving cast of issues.
Women 😘😁
Boomer humour achieved!
Nah, Dad joke - the best kind of jokes! Haha
You mean apart from myself right?
This guy lording over us that they don’t hate their appearance. /s
Lots of dog breeds with anything but the lowest of maintenance needs. I would love to have one but know the fur in my house would drive me up the wall.
I don’t mind hair everywhere (although I wouldn’t get a dog with long fur because they overheat so easily) but I don’t understand how people who don’t live on a ranch take care of herding breeds. Australian cattle dogs are really popular in New York City but I would never dare to get one in an apartment. It was hard enough to have a dog with a strong prey drive - he could not be off-leash anywhere without a tall fence and double-layer gates, and he would forget that he was on a leash and take off at full speed whenever he saw a squirrel. I admit I envied the people with guarding breeds a little - my sister’s pit bull mix looked like a crossbreed between a crocodile and a pig but that dog just followed my sister everywhere, even indoors, leash or no leash.
Australian cattle dogs… in NYC? People are so dumb when it comes to dog breeds. What poor dogs.
I’m guessing they must walk them constantly? Like, otherwise your apartment gets trashed.
