"David Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari, then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva. He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff -- a measure of their arousal -- after hearing the revving exotics, but the amount the women had was off the charts.
The econobox, however, left everyone colder than a January day in Nome.
The study was commissioned by the ultra-exclusive British insurer Hiscox (we swear we're not making this up), which was curious to know how people respond to high-end luxury cars." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Heard this story on the radio the other day - the key factor is that women don't give a stuff what the car looks like - it's all about the noise, baby. If you got a little junker of a car, just punch a hole in the exhaust to get the ladies revvin'.....lol - Slippy Lane
like WMDS is Iraq... there are some things I don't need proof about. BTW Chomsky now says Iraq did have WMDS... and I'm like Gee Really? Do you think women like sports cars? - Noah David Simon
you need proof of this? ask Noam Chomsky and he will change his mind about women in sports cars in 5 years. Guaranteed. The official quote from Chomsky about WMDs in Iraq now is of course there were WMDs in Iraq, because we gave it to them and now we have 50% chance of a dirty bomb going off in the United States in the next 5 years. I still disagree with him... but it makes me want to ask what he has been smoking this decade. I wonder what Gloria Steinem and Arundhati Roy would say about sportscars? WTF? indeed - Noah David Simon
Chomsky: "This is even sometimes discussed. You can find it in the strategic analysis literature. Take, say, the invasion of Iraq again. We're told that they didn't find weapons of mass destruction. Well, that's not exactly correct. They did find weapons of mass destruction, namely, the ones that had been sent to Saddam by the United States, Britain, and others through the 1980s. A lot of them were still there. They were under control of U.N. inspectors and were being dismantled. But many were still there. When the U.S. invaded, the inspectors were kicked out, and Rumsfeld and Cheney didn't tell their troops to guard the sites. So the sites were left unguarded, and they were systematically looted. The U.N. inspectors did continue their work by satellite and they identified over 100 sites that were systematically looted, like, not somebody going in and stealing something, but carefully, systematically looted." - Noah David Simon
sounds to me like the left has a BIG problem to deal with.... now about those sports cars... Gloria Steinem does it turn you on? I don't see much consistency coming from friendfeed these days. you hate Palin and think women get turned on more by sportscars... hmmm - Noah David Simon
so we listen to Chomsky, Steinem, Roy and the rest of the numbnuts and we have Saddam with a bomb because we don't trust our own pentagon? I prefer to just say that women like sportscars http://simonstudiotheatre.blog... - Noah David Simon
not this woman. i think those cars are tacky and that the guys driving them are severely overcompensating. but i'm basing that on friends who drove/drive such cars. - faboo mama
I didn't need science to tell me that. Watch any rap video :p - Matt Musgrave
like I said. you want these people making policy decisions when they can't ever say the chick digs the car? - Noah David Simon
watching rap videos for truths is like using wikipedia as sole source for your doctoral thesis. - Michael J Cohen
I drive a Ford Taurus guess that explains my lack of chix - fotographic via twhirl
oh boy I can't wait to put these Gloria Steinems into power so they can say the pretty lady doesn't dig the car and there were no WMDS in Iraq... DUH! - Noah David Simon
MJC- so you're telling me there's more to life than Gin & Juice? i don't believe it :p - Matt Musgrave
I be darned. Maybe they should repeat the experiment with, say, DSLRs? Custom built PCs with blinking LEDs? Anyone? - Yuvi
Exotic women sells cars. Would love to know how many clicked on that photo :) - Charlie Anzman
anything coo and stylish, Yuvi, preferably from our everyday abode, might turn women on :) a coolish looking lighter might as well ;) - Hayk Hakobyan
@Hayk - is that from personal experience? :P I'll start working on the LEDs right away! - Yuvi
hell, yeah, very long sequence for trending - 40 measurements from N billions of human population on Earth... Very scientific :-/ - silpol
There is an interesting site where beautiful models showcase cool gadgets - needless to say models sometimes have scarce dresses but always conspiciously show their gadgets http://gadgetmodels.i4u.com/ .Updated monthly :) - Hayk Hakobyan
what astounds me is that there is a debate here. the chick *likes* guys with cars and there *were* WMDs in Iraq. and there *are* ELITIST blue state snobs on friendfeed who block if you disagree - Noah David Simon
Women often give me money for the opportunity of riding in my car. I've convinced myself that being a cab driver has some bearing on this. - Christopher Harley
Yuvi, not really :) It is more knowing the underlying psycho-biological process of partner selection :) Females as well as males look for competitive advantages in the other gender. Research proved that females dig more into guys who dance well - the same line of htought - because not many males dance well and those who dance well convey a message of good physical state, coordination, open-mindedness,etc. - messages picked up by females. - Hayk Hakobyan
Dunno what the car is, but the model is hot! :D - Ron
Noah, dancing is not the exclusive determinator. IT is only one of many :) In politics and show business - the examples you tampered - I have to say it doesnt much work, as you said:) the reason being that it is either not visible or relevant to what they do (like in politics) or everyone is/becomes good at it (like in show business)! In both cases advantage ceases to be a relevant advantage. - Hayk Hakobyan
my sister is a professional ballerina. She is in the Joffrey. The general behavior of most in the ballet world is one of deciet and sexual disfunction. from wife beaters to cheats... to drug problems. It is not a positive trait for women to see in a man. you are right that there are many variables. Certainly Barishnokov does well... but he does well because he is powerful and he did not do as well with the ladies when he was younger... despite what his bravado might say - Noah David Simon
on the other hand men do like to see Salome dance and will cut off John's head for it. Dance is confusing. At first it might seem like Michael Jackson is "The King of POP"... but that sexual tension is not there for Bill Gates. I'll take the car over dance skills. Thanks, but no thanks. As Freud said. "Let us call a spade a spade" - Noah David Simon
"Drive fast, speed turns me on." - Will Smith, Parents Just Don't Understand - Hutch Carpenter
CHICKS DIG THE CAR! no science can prove that. no feminist will ever convince me otherwise. - Noah David Simon
"This website pays tribute to Space Quest: the wacky sci-fi humor adventure computer game series by Sierra On-Line, starring space janitor Roger Wilco! SpaceQuest.Net is the ultimate Space Quest resource website, containing everything you wanted to know about Space Quest, and then some. Put on your Astro Chicken flight hat and enjoy.." - Anthony Citrano
And this, this is why I am such a geek. <3 - Pete Delucchi
me too - played every single one of them, and quite a bit. - Anthony Citrano
My dad left my older brother and I alone in the house while he went on a European vacation for three weeks in 1989. He left us $400 in cash as a budget for the entire time. He left, I took $75 and went to Babbage's and bought Space Quest IV and proceeded to play it the entire time. My older brother took the remainder and threw a rager at the townhouse. The following week we visited my uncle to get some cash to tie us over until dad came back. - Pete Delucchi
Sierra Promised a SQ7 for a while but it petered out. - Anthony Citrano
I haven't played all of them, but just picked up the Space Quest Collection at my local BigLots store yesterday for $6! I've got some catching up to do. - ThisGuyDoug
They're great games, Doug, and especially excellent and imaginative when considering the memory and technological limitations they worked within. These days some games are 1,000 times the size and nowhere near as cool. - Anthony Citrano
Nas reminds me of a giant pile of carrots poured in front of my apartment in kensington market back in the day and all the people who passed illmatic tapes around like gospel. - chantelle via twhirl
Jay-Z FTW Nas has some good songs tho on street disciple - Cecil Sandus
an extra on the DVD of this concerns the film crew tracking down the tail-gating metalheads to find out what they are doing today & how they ended up. it's an understatement to say it's a bit fascinating. - M. Donaldson
M.Donaldson...I've been wanting to see it. - Anna Haro
"Every time we slip effortlessly into a daydream, a distinct pattern of brain areas is activated, which is known as the default network. Studies show that this network is most engaged when people are performing tasks that require little conscious attention, such as routine driving on the highway or reading a tedious text. Although such mental trances are often seen as a sign of lethargy - we are staring haplessly into space - the cortex is actually very active during this default state, as numerous brain regions interact. Instead of responding to the outside world, the brain starts to contemplate its internal landscape. This is when new and creative connections are made between seemingly unrelated ideas." - Ginger Makela via Bookmarklet
The favorite jobs I've had are ones where I'm doing repetitive physical labor -- making lattes or pressing clothes -- because it releases my brain somehow. When I was in college, I got most of my ideas for papers while I mindlessly pressed clothes. - Ginger Makela
My dad has long wondered why more smart people don't do physical labor just for this reason... that it unlocks the mind in a why little else can. - Clare Dibble
If I want to talk to my kids about something, I do it while we are playing catch or doing something similarly repetitive. It's the surest way to get them to open up. - Todd Nemet
I do my best thinking in the shower or while trying to get to sleep. Sometimes staring out the window is good, but not as much. I've been doing lots of repetitive physical labor lately, and don't have much in the way of ideas to show for it. - Gabe Schaffer
I made a bunch of those, left them on cars, and blogged about it, Jason lol - Mona N.
If I made these, I'd use the toughest glue I could find. These losers would have to sand them off. - Harvey Simmons
+1 they figured out how to monetize their start up ;) - Michael W. May
I did in California. I haven't here in Arizona yet. Maybe because of the concealed carry laws, or maybe just because I haven't found the need to as much yet. I should make up a handful and put them in my car though. I have been tempted a few times. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
I could not love these more. Not possible. I need to get these for my sis. :D - Ayşe E.
I hear its illegal. Probably one reason the site Jason linked is better :) - Lindsey Smith
Can we get some "I Drive Like And Idiot" stickers for our 'friends'? - Kate Kapetanakis
Try being an Asian driver, Kate. We get yelled at!!! ;) - Mona N.
I need to buy a bunch of those and put them on peoples cars'. - Justin Yost
i need a box of these, just dealt w/ a benz that did this to me today - had to crawl through my passenger door to get in - always tempted to do petty damage but never have, this would be fitting and humorous ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Between these and those cell phone business cards I am going to be baning friends all over the place... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Ya, this post's kind of a goldmine. I wanna 'like' it, for the links everyone's leaving. :) - Mona N.
Can someone work up a sticker for Hummers? I parked next to one this weekend and was desperately trying to figure out how to write "You're an effing tool" on it. - Carla Thompson
We still use mud bricks here. LOL Hey Mona! =D - Ron
The craft of Japanese handiwork is amazing. I was dating an architect for a while who'd ask me a trillion questions -- none which I could answer LOL. ADOBE FTW! ;) Hi Ron! - Mona N.
Watching now. Thanks for posting. Japanese construction is truly amazing. - Ray Grieselhuber
They didn't use nails, wow. A friend's father, is a woodcraftman (?). His trade, passed down through generations, and brought his skills here. He specializes in amazing custom Japanese baths. :) - Mona N.
"Charlie Northfield, 48, fled the capital Banjul and then evaded a series of police check points as he made an audacious dash through the West African jungle for the Senegalese border.
He shaved off his hair and beard to evade authorities and hid in a series of vehicles on the 125-mile journey to the Senegalese capital Dakar.
At one point, his 4X4 suffered a puncture on a hazardous road through the bush and he had to swim across a flood-swollen, crocodile infested river with his clothes in a bucket." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
OMG!!!!!!!!! hahahaha...this takes me back. - Anna Haro
Glen Danzig scares me. He's so short and angry. - Bren
at a bbq few days ago, a friend said Danzig and the Misfits think they are vampires. weird thing to bring up after playing this on Guitar Hero. - Rodfather
Most coveted job title on Earth right now, huh? So, now you're on the squad, what's the minimum bribe to get you gushing forth to the guys on the merits of being able to tag our own (or each others) posts? - Slippy Lane
Congratulations!! Smart move by FriendFeed. :) - felix
“An ex went for a regular massage. It was her first time at this establishment, and the receptionist suggested that she get her massage from George. She called me two hours later to ask me if it was okay that a Chinese guy in scrubs had brought her to orgasm six times. I was more impressed than anything.” - Andrew Trinh
Andrew, where the heck can you find barber shops that offer sexual stimulation, so I can stay the hell away from them? Seriously, that's NOT what I want to go to the barber shop to get. "Buddy, ya want a happy finish with that haircut?" DO NOT WANT!!! - Raoul Pop
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