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Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 12:35 pm
by zorg
World peace
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 1:47 pm
by enframed
penningtron wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:54 am
Sometimes I want a pickup truck. Not an obnoxious don't tread on me thing, but old school Toyota sized truck. Then I could acquire a bunch of dumb stuff from CL and estate sales.
Oh man, you should see my neighborhood. Many many people (seemingly) make a living doing just this with their 1980s 4 banger Toyota pick-ups (R22 engine, no doubt). All filled with scrap metal and/or mattresses.
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:18 pm
by DrAwkward
When I was a kid I thought my friends or relatives who had either A) a second floor to their house, or 2) a finished basement rec room, were super rich and cool. Now, as an adult, I have a second floor and am comfortable with the knowledge that I am doing slightly better than my parents in my mind. However, I still kind of wish I had room in my basement for a pool table. I was SO JEALOUS of my cousin as a kid because my aunt & uncle had a pool table in their basement.
Note that I would never go downstairs and use this if I had it.
Also, I really want that new electric VW Van.
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:25 pm
by LuciousSandwich
DaveA wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:55 am
Love how they keep showing that photo--elsewhere--of dude sporting a shit-eating grin. He totally looks like a guy who would do something like that and have no ethical misgivings about it.
It's one thing to fake your own death to collect a bogus insurance claim, or evade the law if it's closing in on you. It's another if you're just like "Fuck all y'all, I'm outta here!"
Frankenheimer's
Seconds is of course a damn good movie, excellent Rock Hudson performance, good James Wong Howe cinematography, though it's way more sinister in scope and has darker implications than Wisconsin kayak bro "dying" under suspect circumstances so he can eff off to Europe.
".....communication with a woman from Uzbekistan."
Assuming there's an actual woman involved, I hope she's not someone who does this for a living and reacts badly when a guy actually shows up in person.
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:48 pm
by Shananiganz
penningtron wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:51 am
tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:25 am
penningtron wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:54 am
Sometimes I want a pickup truck. Not an obnoxious don't tread on me thing, but old school Toyota sized truck. Then I could acquire a bunch of dumb stuff from CL and estate sales.
MINIVAN MINIVAN MINIVAN MINIVAN.
For real, having a minivan is great not just for band gear transportation, but also going out and getting a couch or dresser at a moments notice.
Minivans lack power and aren't great in snow. I need to be able to go pick up a player piano from some backwoods weirdo or shit like that.
A friend of mine drives a Citroen Berlingo and they sure as fuck have more snow at any given moment there. Also lives in the backwoods.
My dumb desire: Citroen Berlingo. I don't have a drivers license. Goddamnit.
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:52 pm
by Dave N.
A cabover camper
A few acres on the Davis Mountains
A shack with a wood burning stove
A Neumann U-87
A nice upright bass
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:20 pm
by PASTA
tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:24 am
A house with a bedroom big enough to fit a king size bed. And a detached building so I can have a practice space at home.
Thread is titled "Dumb Desires" not "ENTIRELY REASONABLE AND PRACTICAL DESIRES" buddy
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:21 pm
by DaveA
LuciousSandwich wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:25 pm
DaveA wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:55 am
Love how they keep showing that photo--elsewhere--of dude sporting a shit-eating grin. He totally looks like a guy who would do something like that and have no ethical misgivings about it.
It's one thing to fake your own death to collect a bogus insurance claim, or evade the law if it's closing in on you. It's another if you're just like "Fuck all y'all, I'm outta here!"
Frankenheimer's
Seconds is of course a damn good movie, excellent Rock Hudson performance, good James Wong Howe cinematography, though it's way more sinister in scope and has darker implications than Wisconsin kayak bro "dying" under suspect circumstances so he can eff off to Europe.
".....communication with a woman from Uzbekistan."
Assuming there's an actual woman involved, I hope she's not someone who does this for a living and reacts badly when a guy actually shows up in person.
Come to think of it, he also has the face of a man who would shop for mail-order brides. In between eyeing up jet skis on Craigslist.
Never said he was some kind of mensch or stand-up guy!
And re-reading all this, he
did take out an insurance policy, so this is absurdly typical stuff, aside from the photo they keep using with him sporting a devious grin.
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:24 pm
by penningtron
Shananiganz wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:48 pmMy dumb desire: Citroen Berlingo. I don't have a drivers license. Goddamnit.
Ok these do look pretty cool, like a mini Sprinter.
Re: Dumb Desires
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 4:11 pm
by Isaac
To give me back my childhood but let me keep my beard.
I'll be the freakish little man.