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So on the back of the winning success of my worst person thread which escalated *really* quickly.
I'm trying my hand at this based on what I've seen on the lucky motorcyclist thread.
I have a theory about cars.
They don't like crap music. And this depends on the car and the music.
So I have a friend who has a BMW. Typically quite reliable and trustworthy vehicles. But they like proper music. Rock.
They don't like hip hop and all that rubbish. As a result (and my friend plays that stuff all the time in his car), the thing is constantly breaking down or playing up. If he played ACDC and Queen in there, it'd be fine.
I have a Honda. I listen to Rock from the good years. ACAD, Queen, Stones. My car expects to have drivers from those eras. And so it never, ever goes wrong and I never, ever have a crash.
My wife has an Audi. Again, normally very reliable but she plays Leonard Cohen in it so it essentuially revolts and always has something wrong with it.
What crap music do you play in your car and how often does it go wrong or crash?
I'd love to see a graph of this.
Define "all that rubbish"... Anything but dinosaur metal or dad rock?
Sounds like your car is deaf.
Best ask the mechanic to do it a hearing test.
I remember the first time I did acid...
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My car is abused by a varied mixture of stuff dependant on the outside weather, what mood i'm in, whether i'm in a rush or have time to admire the view and wish to pootle along so that can cover the musical spectrum of Techno, Tech-House, Ambient, Folk, Traditional Scottish, Electronic, Funk, Breaks, Folktronica, Hip-Hop, Indie, Modern Contemporary, World Music, Soul, Disco, Alternative.
My VW never goes wrong but i'm a mechanic to trade so i guess i am mechanically sympathetic when it comes to driving as i can visualise exactly what the engine and car is doing etc so drive accordingly, unlike my brother who is so mechanically inept that he cannot even hold a spanner correctly, i even wonder sometimes if we have the same mother and father, he has all the mechanical aptitude of a one legged no armed blind leper and i would not trust him to sit in my car never mind drive it anywhere, he also has no real interest in music and this may be the correlation between breaking down and bad musical taste.
Yeah, any music where you can't understand what they're saying or it sounds like someone shagging a dustbin.
I'm sure there are cars out there that love that sort of music and as a result they drive just fine when you're listening to someone punching a knife drawer repeatedly. I dunno, a Vauxhall Nova or a Kia.
Similarly these cars would burst into flames if you played any Led Zep in them and as I said originally, this is a car versus music thing.
You can't buy a big saloon with a huge diesel engine in and then play JLS in it, it'll just snap it's bonnet string. It's just as important as putting the right oil in or wearing a hat or not. The car knows and behaves accordingly. The insurance companies don't show you this information but I want it out there. What I gather from this thread will be fed back to Churchill.
'What music do you like? Is it meaningful and coherant or is it a lunatic's interpretation of a crazed badger stuffing a ripe pomegranite into a blender?'
Watch the lucky motorcylist videos. The people playing crazy, Russian rap music all have accidents. That's a link right there.
sounds like someone shagging a dustbin.
Sounds like a good idea for a film...
...oh wait. Harmony Korine already got there:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488163/
My poor car rarely gets to hear anything other than Radio 4. It cruises around sedately and occasionally sets its own cruise control, falling into a deep slumber.
On long journeys it gets a variety of dad rock, folk and bluegrass and even some SOAD, at which point it perks up a bit and lets its 2.5L turbo diesel growl a bit.
Leonard Cohen though!
They should test for that shit at every accident.
Although if someone just killed him instead and then burned everything he ever created the world mortality rates would plummet.
My cars a ford. The CD players broken so doesn't play music