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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/8/2008 1:24:59 AM | Hi all, I'm new to this site and hope to get some insight into this phenomenon...
Maybe the men haven't noticed, as I'm guessing there's not a lot of you guys checking out the competition (unless that's your specific search criteria), but the women have to have clocked the huge number of men with pictures of themselves inside their cars. I don't necessarily have anything against this particular pose, but I am confused as to why it is so darn popular.
Now, I get the ones who are standing next to their cars (BTW- that mainly just impresses other car guys) but there is an inordinate amount of men who post pics of themselves while driving. I assume this is the case because both hands seem to be on the wheel and the outside scenery is blurry.
I am genuinely facsinated by this and wonder if it's some sort of guy psychology, like "I'm in the driver's seat" type thing. Or worse... is there a camera in my car that I don't know about?? | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 2:37:09 AM | A car is viewed by many as a symbol of freedom and financial security.
It's possibly an advertisement of that stature to attract a mate, because it's not easy for guys to advertise their bodies without looking dumb.  | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/8/2008 3:05:20 AM | lol, yeah and if it even is their car....
u certainley wouldnt see a piccy of someone standing next to an old banger!
it may sound corny, but im alot more intrested im what pplz have to say. | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/8/2008 3:11:50 AM | And If they had a nice house you'd see them posing for a pic in the kitchen haha.
but what vancer said, status, money. He works or at least has money, can you take you somewhere on a date.
Personally I don't care for it and I had a BMW. And course you'll be seeing a lot of the shirtless too if you haven't already noticed.
This online thing is tricky but oddly enough I did take a look at the competition and noticed one guy who had over 50 favs and his profile consisted of how gangter he was and he even had a picture of a pile of money in his profile. | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/8/2008 5:51:38 AM | | well i have pictures of me in cars and i can tell you it's not cause i want to show off! at least for me i'm not one for taking pictures of my self and i'm also big into cars cause you will notice both pictures are not of the same car. i don't own either of them. maybe men do that just cause those are the type of pictures taken of them? plus the main thing in the pictures should be the person not really the background. | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/8/2008 7:02:08 AM | A couple of things come to mind. OP, go check out some female profiles and you'll find Woman-in-Car photos there, too. You will find photos of gardens, homes, lakes, cats--OH, so many cats--expansive photos with some human far, far in the background, and pictures of Woman-in-Sunglasses.
Don't be so sexist. | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/8/2008 7:22:18 AM | questionable, I am one of those men who didn't feel a need to pose IN or beside my car, even if I get 40+ mpg when using it to meet up w/ my love met from here. She drives what I consider to be a slightly safer car, and hopefully gets comparable mileage ...besides arrive here shortly for our eighth in-person 'date' together.
W/ the price of gas rising higher than I once could've imagined ...and I remember when it was 29ยข/gal, the bicycle that I bought for her to use w/ me and mine should get her around nicely. As for our cars? Hopefully they're soon to be a distant memory behind us. | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 8:27:15 AM | I see plenty of women's profiles showing their cars,motorcycles,etc.
People work hard for their toys and they like to show them off. | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 10:01:58 AM | I, for one, love my car. I wish I had a picture of me standing beside it.
I think one of the reasons some men pose in front of their cars is because they probably like them as much as I do..
The status thingy has been very much in demand for quite a while.
Check out the movie,"Grease", or "Gone in Sixty Seconds" Nick Cage looks sooooooooo hot in all of the cars he steals! | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 10:42:36 AM | I don't look at other peoples profiles of the same sex but I will take your word for it!
However when I do, or have done is look at most of the profiles in South Florida and I would say eight out of 10 women are either in a bikini or showing off their breasts, and I really want to know the difference between breasts and cars, as I consider both of them status symbols to attract the opposite sex.
In my profile you will see my landscaping design behind my car as well as my fat self, however, as one of the gentlemen put it on this site, it is a symbol of one's financial security and our freedom to have a nice car. But he went on to say, and I would agree wholeheartedly with this man, how many women on this dating site have the money to take a man out on a date?
All I have ever asked the woman to do was packing pic pic lunch for a day out of boating and snorkeling and perhaps scuba diving, and in each hand and every reply they said I was cheap!
So what do you really want? You want someone with money, a free dinner, if you drinks, and at the end of the day if it suits your needs you will say thank you!
I have yet come across in three years on three different dating sites to meet a woman that was willing to purchase our first dinner engagement, yet you want to be equal in all rights to man.?
How is letting every single man that you go out with on a day, of some sort of entertainment equal, if the man always pays for the first several dates?
And why is it you display your bodies, your cats, and your tattoos, thinking it would a track a decent person ?
The double standard, is in full effect here, in that you are baiting the man to take you out simply because you are so-called attractive... and yet I haven't met a woman of substance, as of today anyway, that can say she did it all on our own...
a House, a car, a boat, and financial stability, all wrapped up in one package with a good-looking woman is not the norm by far!
So when you see a man standing in front of his car, in all probability he worked a great deal harder than most of the women that I have ever met to achieve the status of boating nice things and being proud of them, as opposed to making his living on his back... I would agree it is a pretty sexist remark... but it happens to be the truth!
You wouldn't go out with a man, what a 25-year-old piece of junk on a first date if he pulled up in front of the house with it so why he's so opposed to seeing what he has before he gets there?
You people and your double standards... pretty sad, you want what you want because you want it, and you think you deserve it because you have a nice body... and in most cases that is all that is nice about you.
The rest of your persona, is based on television, and in nonsense that you see there are of on that silly instrument that has wasted people's minds for the last 45 years.
Everything is a status symbol on television, however in the real world it would be nice to have equality along with a quality relationship, where the woman pays for the first date, considering all the free ones they able to obtain, it is the least they should do at this point, if in fact they really want to be our equals.
I don't ever remember in my entire life ever going out on a date with a woman who paid for the first date, or any date thereafter, so when it comes to double standards, I am quite certain that women take the cake in that department, because you want to be equal, and yet you cannot afford to take a man out on a date.
Or of course, you would prefer to buy another pair of shoes that you not going to use more than a half a dozen times and throw them out because they have a scuffed mark on the back part of the shoe that no one can see... instead of paying for a relatively inexpensive dinner of approximately $100 shall we say?
You will go out on a date for times a week, or more, and let the man pay for it each and every time...
Why don't you spend $1600 a month on dating? I
Moving back to the car thing, it is probably one of the few things in life a man can be proud of, and I don't mean the car itself, I mean the fact that he has something that he has gone out and worked extremely difficult for, and saved his money, instead of spending it on some silly nonsensical thing like $75 for a lipstick, that you will wear twice and realize that you don't like the way it looks undiscerning lighting conditions and then throw the lipstick itself away instead of giving it to someone...
Yes I have had some pretty bad dating experiences but everything that I have said is true, and from my point of view, a nice car, is one of the few things that we left to be proud of!
Do you think any man on this dating site or any of the dating site is proud of going out six nights a month, and paying for a women's drinks and dinner, and any of the other expenses incurred during the course of that time for a simple thank you?
We feel like a bunch of fools, that have been used, and discarded... and you move onto the next man with a nice car, looking for that free dinner and several drinks...
Yes I am a male chauvinist pig!
But at least I am not afraid to admit it, and I won't date a woman with a beat up old jalopy, and three banged out credit cards, which in turn implies that I don't go dating much, because that is all I have been able to find on the site's.
And by the way, my boat costs approximately $350 per hour to run... how many of you so-called ladies have their own ocean racer and ask a man out for a date, and pick up the tab for the fuel, dockage, and every other possible expense that could be incurred during the course of the deed itself...
Yes you like to be treated like your royalty, but in fact, for the most part all you have, are things that someone else gave you, except of course for the professionals, and they don't date normal people like myself and many of the other men on this dating site.
They will only date and other professional, and why do they only date of the professionals?
Because they have money!
And nice cars!
And fancy boats!
You ladies are a joke!
You don't want to see pictures of people with their cars, would you prefer that they put a copy banking statements in their profile?
Would that make it simple for you?
My friend Pamela, tells me that I write epistles and we laugh about it all day long...
But the one thing that my friend Pamela does have that none of you have, is the ability to discern, that women are simply out 99 out of 100 times to meet a man with money and a nice car, house, boat and in some instances planes, so that they can be taken care of, and they are insatiable needs, possibly taking care of?
Not going to happen, the one thing that I have learned is that each woman that I have met on these dating sites is insatiable, so when you say you don't like a nice car, or a man that is a little bit successful, what is it that you're looking for I wonder?
What is it you really want?
My friend Pamela says... that women are the most selfish creatures on earth... and I would have to agree, at the age of 52 I still haven't figured out what you want?
You rant and rave about people standing in front of their cars... what do you have?
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/8/2008 1:56:40 PM | It never ceases to amaze me how many guys will use cars to sell themselves, just as some women use their breasts to attract attention.
What I find sad is the old geezer posing topless with his big beer belly hanging out, standing next to a mustang or corvette convertable thinking he is dead sexy.........You can just imagine what they are thinking............Git Ur Done!!
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/9/2008 12:21:58 AM | Bitter, party of one ? - keysguy, your table is ready
My post was just a kooky observation and a bit of amusement at what I have come across.
Maybe a better pic would be one that shows the chip on some guys' shoulders.  | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/9/2008 1:01:14 AM | The answer is simple.
Boys like to play with bows and arrows because the tension of the bow and the sudden release, according to Freud at least, reminds him of the sexual tension, (erection) and the relaxation that follows the quick release of this tension (please don't make me name it. It starts with an "o" and ends with with a sigh.)
Girls like doll houses because the cavity of the doll house and things that they can put into it at will and then take out of it, reminds them of their gear boxes.
So when a man is in his car, he literally has, according to Freud (that's Mrs. Freud, not Sigmund), an illusion that he's in somebody's cavity, so to speak.
This causes great joy to men, and they like to be photographed in it. Behind the idea of getting photographed there is the general idea of pornography, sublimated by the theories of Dr. Freud. "Look ma, no hands." (Notice the psycho-sexual element of the young man who is experimenting with heterosexual sex, instead of his old routine of self-love. This was first discovered by Freud in 1904, when he had a bicycle in for observation for a week, and during the preliminary examination he found that it has a rod, called the handle-bar. This gave a whole new significance to the joyful exclamation of the proud little boy who stears without touching the handle bar.) | |
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Posted: 6/9/2008 1:07:46 AM | You're right, Elnerico, and I want to marry your idea with that of Vancer.
Men get photoed in their status symbols, the cars.
Women, in what they consider their own status symbol: Their homes.
I noticed that an overwhelming majority of women show themselves on photos that were taken in their homes. In the house. In the bedroom, the living room, in the kitchen if you please.
So now I sorta consider it hypocritical for women to squaff at men who show themselves here on photos taken in their cars.
Some women have their photos taken inside of other buildings. That also goes to tie the whole thing together with my Freudean explanation of the phenomenon of empty, enclosed spaces.
And if the woman is photographed outside? On the beach? A devil's advocate will say that's not inside a house. Well, yes and no. On the beach they show their bodies and their charms, which Keysguy, though personally unable to tell the difference between cars and breasts, identified properly as other status symbols. | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/9/2008 1:13:35 AM | i'm going to get my pic taken of me and my car: standing at a gas pump completely filling the tank full.  | |
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Posted: 6/9/2008 2:13:19 AM | Where I come from, they call it stirring up the mud!
I find it rather interesting, that all of the responses that I have received, are from so-called ladies, with extremely poor pictures of themselves, as far as profile pictures are concerned, which are in fact, out of focus, and none of which, except in one case shows anything but a picture from the neck up, and I am not quite certain whether or not they are a series of balloons, with pictures of faces superimposed on them... or pictures of real people,,,,,,,,,
And in each case, as well, they go on to critique me, which is actually quite interesting, because in all of the profiles that I have reviewed, that have critique myself, I can't find any attribute, from any of the so-called ladies, that would have intrigued me to any great degree, or would do so, even if I did drink alcohol... which in fact I do not!
Typically I will consume, approximately 1 drink every two or three years, and that includes beer,,, so it is not a beer belly that I am portraying in front of the car, and in fact if anyone took the time to look at the caption on the picture, you would see that I was displaying something that I created in or as a landscaping design on my property,,, in the Florida Keys!
And I realized that I forgot to put a few things in, the original epistle that I wrote so I will put those in the the follow-up and I think it it would only be fitting to thank the the people that look like balloons, with pictures superimposed on them, for reminding me of the things I forgot originally...
Thank you.. balloon people!
At least I had the, common courtesy to put into the picture that I was fat, a.k.a. my fat cells somewhere in the middle....
And was more than willing to show you a picture of my fat self in front of my nice car, which in fact is a COBRA Mustang, and will run 175 mph., And is more of a machine than a car... and of course anyone that understands what a COBRA, is, will understand what I have just said, which is the reason why in fact I am proud of it than most people that buy these particular types of cars a.k.a. Corvette, COBRA mustangs, BMWs, and all of the other upper and vehicles that are considered driving machines, and not necessarily a simple automobile, should very well be proud of their accomplishments.
I notice you don't see Lamborghinis or similar machines in people's profile pictures because those men are scooped up, by Gold diggers that look extremely well, with or without the bikini...
Which I might add at this point, none of the women that have e-mailed me have anything significant in their profiles except one who pointed out that she has a vertical vacuum cleaner handle, in the background, which, she herself stated, is a subliminal hint at something... what I am not quite sure of... because I doubt very much that anyone could achieve that status while looking at a picture of a balloon with a face superimposed on it..............
And as for the chip on my shoulder, comments, or the [[[ bitter party of two ]]], keyzguy369, that my table is in fact ready...[which in fact made me laugh by the way] I doubt very much, that after viewing your profiles, you get a great deal of responses as well, looking to take you out to dinner, which is in fact the last thing you need, another free meal, but of course I have been wrong in the past there are people that like, people like you, although I am not quite sure why.
And moving back to the car thing, I would imagine that putting a car and your profile pictures is extremely similar to those showing off their bodies and/or their breasts, so perhaps we should put the bill for the plastic surgery alongside pictures of your photos for the supplemental body enhancements that many of you possess, maybe even the Bill itself for the work that was done, so that we would know that you two have money to spare?
In which case perhaps you should pick up the tab for the next four or five dozen dates that you go on, and we shall see how long your bank account lasts, before it is depleted?
How much does it, the car cost, as opposed to how much dating costs, could be a relevant way of saying how much money a man has, by the price of the vehicle itself or the machine, itself?
Let us look at this for a moment, a man goes out on five dates, maybe seven dates per month, and if in fact he is not being cheap, as many of you put it, spends approximately $125 to approximately $150 for each date which in fact is a reasonable amount when considering all the costs incurred...
This comes out to approximately $1000 per month and over the course of three
to five years, and, would be what they would spend on the purchase of their vehicles, or their machines so that will give you a pretty good handle... as to how much money they have to waste on dating considering the fact, that many of the women on these sites and men as well are on them for years searching for something they know not why, or what, and spending endless amounts of money searching for this perfect person to spend the rest of their lives with.
There is also a picture of my Ocean Racer, in my profile pictures, and those, a.k.a. Ocean racer's, make purchasing a COBRA or a Corvette seem like chump change in comparison, as they start somewhere around $250,000 in work themselves up pretty quick from there as far as prices are concerned, and add an additional $250-$400 an hour to run the Ocean Racers, themselves, at least you'll have something to aim at when looking for the many free meals that you receive in return for nothing other than simple conversation, which is pretty boring in fact...
Men with fancy cars, and boats, if they are going to listen to simple conversation. In fact, want, the package that it is coming from to at least appear to be desirable, and pictures of people that look like balloons with images superimposed on them, is certainly not desirable, to people who own machines...
If any of the people that comment that on my body, standing in front of my machine, have an idea what type of chip exactly I should put on my shoulder, including the color of that CHIP ITSELF, I would be more than happy to go outside and take an eight megapixel picture of that, and add it to my profile pictures, next to my car, or on my Ocean Racer...
That might make for an interesting profile picture, and perhaps another blog?
So to the ladies that sent e-mails, that look like balloons with pictures superimposed on them, I would say thank you for your comments and I will be sure to make it a big CHIP, on my shoulder, because after many years of dating and picking up the tab for each date, each and every time, I think that only a large CHIP, would make sense...?
At least I have an opinion, and am not afraid to create an epistle as my friend Pamela puts them up on the forum, for all to view...
Perhaps one day I'll need a woman, that enjoys a bit of sarcasm, and likes fancy things, and is more than willing to bring more to the table than simple conversation, three banged out credit cards, and a beat-up old jalopy... which thus far seems to be the case!
I guess, man standing in front of their cars, is the equivalent in fact, of women posing with their breasts hanging out, but at least the cars themselves can be verified, in that they are real, and that someone didn't stuff them with four or $5,000 worth of gel packs...
THE keyzguy369
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/9/2008 6:40:22 AM | Now that made me laugh,,, thank you very much, Mr. July Morning, it took me about 15 minutes to regroup but I'm back!
The keyzguy369, was simply being a bit facetious, [[[ sarcastic ]]] and does, it in fact know the difference between breasts, and cars as you most graciously pointed out, and gave me the laugh of the day!
Although I couldn't possibly, consider myself as well educated as yourself in psychology, I have lived a rather substantial existence in the business world and do understand human nature, however it is from my own perspective as many of you have already noticed.
And of course not having a higher education in the field of psychology, my point of view not substantiated by people with a higher education simply equals ,,,,,,
Chip on the Shoulder...
I have extremely broad shoulders ........
Breasts, boats, airplanes, automobiles, and of course my favorite, legzzz...
Beautiful long legzzzzzzzz,
are all status symbols, but your eloquence, and ability to discern, and explain these things in the Freudian philosophical viewpoints has definitely enriched my personal limited point of view, and,
My Hat Is off to You,
Mr. July Morning
Keep those professionally fact-based, viewpoints coming, it makes for an interesting forum.....
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/9/2008 9:46:10 AM |
Im a bathroom poser. I point my camera at myself and look in the mirror.
Be sure to crop out the toilet.
Posing by your car is one thing. Posing by the commode doesn't really convey the greatest image. | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/16/2008 10:47:26 AM | | I don't know about the Freud thing but I have a pic of me in my car because it was new and I was excited to NOT be in a minivan! After 3 minivans, I think anyone can understand that! | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/16/2008 7:40:53 PM | Guys are proud of their vehicles, women are proud of their homes....why is this such a problem?
Mr. Bitter is proud of his opinion. | |
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| Pics of guys IN their cars??
Posted: 6/16/2008 9:17:26 PM | Well... if men wore lace bras and low cut tops, we'd probably show them off instead.
seriously:
I was going to post a photo of me in my bed but my bed doesn't have racing cams, bored cylinders, quad exhaust, six speed hydramatic transmission and a nitrous system. argh, argh, argh, argh!!!!! | |
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