"Not putting miles on your Ferrari is like not having sex with your girlfriend so she'll be more desirable to her next boyfriend." -Jim Glickenhaus
That quote is pretty messed up.
Indeed. Who lets their girlfriend have another boyfriend?
she's my girlfriend, not my property, she can do what she wants
The flaw in this delightful analogy is that boyfriends don't typically sell their girlfriends to each other.
And that women don't get "used up" because they have sex! Truly delightfully disgusting, that analogy. You'd probably need to own a Ferrari to come up with such nonsense.
A shocking number of people believe otherwise. I heard even more disgusting analogies about this, but one is enough for today.
Re:I Use Cheap Notebooks
by hn92726819 on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:53PM
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That isn't a flaw at all. There was no mention of selling; it could be referring to a car being passed down from generation to generation.
Speak for yourself
When helping clear out a deceased relation's house, we found pretty much every piece of cut glass (wine glasses, whisky glasses, decanters, bowls etc) was chipped. That was a good sign that it had all been used and enjoyed.
Where the fine china situation gets awkward is when parents want to give it to their kids, but it means absolutely nothing to the kids because they never used it.
I took my parents' wedding china and I can probably count the times I've used it on a couple of hands. Though there's more of it than my own stoneware so when I do have a big crowd over, it's been handy a couple of times.
Its like the people with cabinets full of fine china that nobody eats off of for 50 years. My mother was one of those people. Growing up we had a large cabinet of fine place sets that we were always "saving" for some other time. I finally convinced her to start using it one holiday season, and we were actually using and enjoying it for the last few years of her life.
I'm strongly in the camp that there's no point in having nice things if you never actually use those things.