QOTD, Top Gear edition

[jbsegal]

"Driving a Lexus has always been like sitting in a bucket of warm wallpaper paste, reading a Jane Austin novel."

What does this MEAN??

Comments

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Given that it sounds like you would have to try it to find out, you probably don't really want to know?

Edit: try *both* to find out, rather.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

I think it means they don't find it exciting.

Or, possibly, that they have had more contact with wallpaper paste than I care to imagine. With Top Gear? It's tough to tell.

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

Probably means the cars are boring and have a suspension that's is so soft, you can't feel the road.

[xeger.livejournal.com]

I'd rather not admit that I do, in fact, understand that description. Chalk up your confusion to living well, and move on... it's safer that way...

[jpenamelist.livejournal.com]

sounds like i'll be avoiding the lexus experience as really, just not all that appealing a description...

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

too comfy for words?

bland and over-hyped?

beats me...

[scliff.livejournal.com]

I believe the word they're trying to get you to think is "mushy". It's an adjective frequently used for suspensions and steering on cars.

It's Austen, by the way.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

That description makes it sound like Toyota's general vague steering and mushy suspension--I drive one, so I know--is carried over to the Lexus line.

Also, it sounds like that writer doesn't like Jane Austen.

[mangosteen]

Vague steering, mushy suspension, and it's a luxury car, so you can't be permitted to feel the road. Ever.

[redbird]

It means the speaker doesn't have a proper appreciation of Jane Austen. (There's a nice bit in a Sarah Caudwell novel in which two women have been invited to what they don't realize is a sex party, with large amounts of alcohol and marijuana in the mix, by someone who doesn't realize they aren't a couple. One of them, having gotten somewhat stoned, sits happily in the corner reading a Jane Austen book, and complains afterward that some people are not sufficiently tolerant of others' pleasures: she wasn't urging him to put his clothes on and read Austen, but he kept urging her to take hers off and have sex with someone.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

And suddenly, everyone is made aware that JB has never had his ass spackled.

If you're interested, I recommend Boudreaux's Butt Paste (http://www.buttpaste.com/BLButtPaste.php).