Does anyone have any idea what the weird metro vs. retro advertisement was all about in today's New York Times? All it was was the word "metro" superimposed upon a photo of a 2004 Prius, and "retro" superimposed upon a photo of a hummer. That's it. Edgy new Prius ad? If so, I don't get it. (I tossed my paper, but it's on the same page as the long article about cooperation between the US, British, and Pakistani intelligence services.)
That is weird...maybe it's saying the Prius is more urban chic and the Hummer is just an old oddity? What's really odd is that retro tends to have a positive connotation...
Hmm, most advertising is about sex right? I know what Metrosexuals are but I don't know what Retrosexuals are.
I thought about metrosexual too, hehe, so maybe that's a subliminal plank, as urban chic is pretty metrosexual in itself. But I think primarily, it's trying to appeal to the urban NYC crowd, saying the Prius is a true metropolitan car for a very metropolitan city.
The way I view it, as long as the ad wasn't sponsored by Hummer is: Metro=Chic, New, Trend, Classy, Popular Retro=Big, trend of the past, popular (but not among environmentalists, come on, we ALL know that none of those hot rods do much good for anyone) Did you at least see who paid for the ad? Even if it's in microprint, I think they HAVE to list the sponsor
Re: Mystery Solved Can you paste the texdt of the AP Report? It needs a membership/account to view Thank you. Is that website related to the ad? I mean, it seems like it would be, but... I've seen crazy coincidences before... (The Kennedy and Lincoln things for instance...
Ahhh, I see. So it's essentially saying that anything conservative is stupid and old, and that anything associated with a conservative audience is stupid and old. I for one, like Hank Williams. :mrgreen:
Mais non! It's saying that "This book examines the great political division in America today, not Red States vs. Blue States, but Retro America (the economically "retro" states, dependent on oil, mining, forestry, and agriculture) vs. Metro America (service and high value-added industries). Retro America, the book argues, has used the undemocratic Senate and Electoral College to hold Metro America hostage, winning huge subsidies for its backward economic activities while undermining institutions like education and transportation that benefit most Americans. The Great Divide shows how to create a better future for all states-Metro and Retro-by focusing on the Metro swing states, giving up the Senate, winning back the House, and using the natural majority that truly wants Democratic policies." -publisher's blurb (Curiosity got the better of me and I went digging... Funny, I didn't even notice the ads for the last few days until it featured a Prius!)
if only everything were so easily divided between black and white as folks would like... as comedian lewis black says "what's the difference between a democrat and a republican? a democrat blows, a republican sucks!"
Amen...splitting into black and white is just so silly. It doesn't work that way at all...it's a bell curve, just like so many other things. Of course, as always, I dislike the current trend towards popular democracy. The US never was a Democracy, it was, and is, a Republic. Know what what means? That means minorities get rights. Poor urban people (read: liberal urban people), you lose half the elections, you don't get a power monopoly so you can pillage the rights and powers of people who live differently than you. Yeah, that's tough. Democracy is just two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. If a majority of people voted for killing off people from opposing political camps, would be right just because a majority said so? Are we, as human beings, comfortable with being ruled by a mass of people, not by indivdual humans, the very people that give us humanity in the first place? Hitler did win his election.
Well I do think Prius owners would have a higher average of thinking people and politically-motivated people. :mrgreen:
I don't like the dixie chicks or hank and I don't own a Prius(not yet or a hummer(I drove one, these things are huge and no room on the inside!) wonder what I am LOL
I remember when a Metro, not one on rails, was a 53-mpg model from Geo (!) with a 3-cylinder engine. Many tradeoffs in those days, though I thought for a long time about buying one.
My dad was given a convertible Metro by a family friend since it wasn't really worth anything and they didn't have a need for it. He drives it daily instead of his Tundra when he doesn't need it. I think he's put less than 3,000 miles on his Tundra all year
