wraithfodder: (invader zim)
wraithfodder ([personal profile] wraithfodder) wrote2010-02-25 07:06 am
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Happy News

Yes, heard on the news today that GM is dumping the Hummer line. Finally, these behemoths will go extinct. I live in an area with 'hummer hives,' as I call them - Hummer dealers, and the people who drive them? Not the best. Tiny blonde housewife yakking on cellphone while driving these things. Disaster waiting to happen. Plus they take up two parking spaces. And there's nothing more fun than being tailgated by one of these! Ack!
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[identity profile] flingslass.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
We call them Toorak Tractors
Stuff it, I tired to put this under a cut but I don't know how to do this in a comment post :P so I'll just give yu the slang meaning:

In Australian slang (particularly in Victoria), a "Toorak tractor," "Toorak taxi," "Toorak tank," or "Toorak truck" are pejorative names for a luxury 4WD (SUV) vehicle. The reference to the wealthy Melbourne suburb alludes to the ownership and use of such vehicles as status symbols rather than for their designed off-road abilities.
Edited 2010-03-21 00:55 (UTC)

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I just call them Yuppie tanks.

[identity profile] flingslass.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it's not the cars fault, just the morons who drive them!

[identity profile] wraithfodder.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Regrettably the morons are breeding like rabbits.

[identity profile] flingslass.livejournal.com 2010-03-22 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a bad syfy movie :D
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