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Most cars especially BMW, Cybertrucks, corvettes, cameros, Hummers. Chat gpt, caviar, phone ring tones, expensive weddings, store bought cakes/cupcakes, fake grass/colored rock landscaping, overpaying/over borrowing for higher education.
All store bought cakes?
Yeah, they lost me there.
Hummers... I've rarely ever seen someone pull off the style you need to have to not look tacky.
Cars? ChatGPT, the free service? Ringtones???
I'm still holding my judgement on caviar. I assume there's a reason that it's so popular, and not just because it's expensive, which is to say that I think the people shelling out to eat it wouldn't do so if it tasted like fish ass.
I used to work in the seafood industry and I got invited to a seafood expo once. There were tons of vendors and since I'm super poor and not fancy, i ate everything. Figured I'd never get another chance. I ate so much caviar and roe that day.
It's fuckin' nasty. Every species and preparation I tried. Tbf I was at an expo, not a nice resturant, but also tbf, it was an expo, they were trying to market their best products.
Well, I'll be damned. Straight from the horse's mouth, it really does taste like crap. That's wild, maybe it's stuffed with vitamins and minerals... someone ages ago had the idea to cram those fish eggs into their craw, so I guess it was one of those meals of necessity? If that's the case, I'll be damned if I can figure out why someone would luxuriate crummy eggs on crackers.
I’ve had it and while it’s good it’s often served with hard boiled eggs and crackers so it kinda tasted like those things. I would say it’s overrated.
I absolutely love my Audi but I can’t argue that it isn’t a pile of shit.
have you ever driven a BMW? Bot one of the SUVs but like a 3 series?
it's considered something fancy for a reason, the cars are quality engineering and have a unique quality to the feeling of it's drive
I have to admit I'm skeptical, and not just because it sounds written by a marketing team.
Things like the subjective feeling of something are strongly socially determined. When we're told something is fancy or high quality we have a different and better experience of that thing.
As humans it's rarely possible to separate our experience of a thing from our judgements of the people and identities we associate with it.
I have had 2 BMW's, both 3 series. The feel of the road is something very different from all the other cars I have driven.
That is why I asked if this person had ever driven one. Its one thing to judge it because others think its popular, its another thing to experience and have an opinion based on that.
their steering wheels have a special feel to it, rarely have I felt it on other cars. They say you should be able to feel rolling over two stacked coins. IDK about that but the way you can feel the little things in the road while also not feeling the full impact of a pothole or something is really a truth.
I have never spent more then $15k to acquire one, so I am not suggesting you have to spend big bucks to get into the seat of one. But if you have the chance to test drive one, you should take it. You might have a full on different opinion afterwards.
I have driven a lot of cars (mostly rentals) and BMWs are quite nice. And in Germany they are considered middle class cars.
Both things can be true though, bmw does have marketing which will effect our impressions of driving one but at the same time there are objective differences in quality between a 3 series bmw and say a Honda Civic that you will definitely notice when driving one.
You can argue the beemer is overpriced and that marketing had an effect but that doesn't eliminate the differences entirely.