brief synopsis of the day. woke up at 10...stayed in bed
internet in bed...the epitome of human evolution.
looking for a new boot panel for my golf was my challenge. the story behind this is this.
i recently bought a new car. a 2003 mk4 VW golf. when i bought the car it was cos i was skint. seriously broke. i'd been driving my (UN)trusty 2004 Renault Megane Diesel for a year and needed to sell it so i could get some money back and buy a cheaper car...enter golf junction left.
so the golf i bought needed a bit of work. the door had a bit of damage(barely noticable), the boot latch wasn't 100%(soon fixed) but most annoyingly for me...the boot had been keyed. the mark ran the full width of the car down to primer. even worse it had been touched up with the wrong colour. anyway after every marketed scratch remover had been tried i went about getting quotes for a panel respray.
after an afternoon(two afters in one sentence...intriguing) of driving between all the repairs places in a 20 mile radius i came up with the cheapest (trustable-crucially) quote of 175 euro.
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surely a typo...
€175
nope not a typo
so off to the interweb i went in search of a boot panel in the right colour.
now i'll be the first to admit the golf in silver is a common car...(its what pisses me off so damn much about the fucking thing) ... but i never truly expected the can of worms that was lying in wait.
so as it turns out there were two different silvers put on the mk4 golf. how fucking annoying. not only that but the two are nigh on indistinguishable unless side by side. this makes calling scrapyards really shameful when you have to ask for colour codes. but anyway this got me thinking. fair enough there are many shades of blue or green. but why vary silver...silver is always silver.
then i thought...don't be stupid silver is a colour and has shades...but white shouldn't...(note to self...stop thinking of silver as sparkly white)...or black come to think of it...which brings me back to my renault..which was black and the most fuck-tardedly difficult colour to match ever. why...because renault had 30...and i'm not exagerrating...30 different variations on black over their whole range.
so... what is the deal with this constant change. why does renault not have a certain black they always use...and vw a certain silver. why this constant change...
what made vw sit down and say...
"Da, i am wery much liking our silwer for das golf. but mein designers eye thinken that it shoud be slightly bluey but not enough to make it wery noticable ya?
(i was trying to phonetically sound out your quintessential German accent, i failed and created a lisp...my bad, phonetics not my strong suit)
is it they're constant need for unnessecary engineering. their slightly OCD personalities, They're engineering moustaches taking over their brains or even perhaps their W's confusing themselves back from being v's to being w's again...(on a side note if w is said like v in german...why volkswagen and not wolkswagen?) however my own opinion is its the constant need for NEW. at the turn of the year VW needed to be able to say LOOK at our NEW paint colours, it has NEW things so you will buy it over the car with less NEW things.
and this seems to be the same with everything.
Buy this NEW Macbook Pro...its exactly the same as your old Macbook Pro...but now with a NEW SD card slot
Buy the NEW Samsung, its exactly the same software and hardware as your old Samsung but with a NEW shell
buy this NEW Can of Lynx (Axe for americans)...its exactly the same as the old one but with a NEW graphic on the can.
the market of NEW really pisses me off. its what stops me buying a rugby jersey, 6 months and theres a NEW one.
its what has stopped me buying a first gen iPhone. cos the NEW ne with the same interior but a white back was only a few months off.
and its what is stopping me getting a macbook-pro. NEW USB 3.0 is on the way.
now while this annoys me. New is good, like a new bodyshape of a car or a new safety feature or a new type of medicine. its the annoying NEW that gets to me...and is stopping me getting my keyed boot sorted :(
Jonnie out
PS
On an after note...just as i was about to hit publish i got an emergency callout to my friends stricken peugeot 206. some bolloxs let the tyres flat and engraved a local placename into the front wing (a place name you say...how retarded...i dissagree...how original i say...i commend his work but think he should learn how to spell said place name :P)
anyway after getting the car to safety i assessed the damage. "needs a new front wing" i said in my best mechanics voice using lots of whooshing noises to indicate expense. so now i need to source not only a boot..but a front wing for a peugeot...in what colour noone but the imaginary people ask...why SILVER...why do you ask *facepalm*
Jonnie out
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