>> ^Payback:

Oddly enough, that's not a "mod". It's standard equipment on Rolls and optional on Bentley.


Indeed you are right!

http://videosift.com/video/Rolls-Royce-retractable-hood-ornament

>> ^ponceleon:

Last night on No Reservations, they showed a Rolls Royce with a retractile hood ornament so people wouldn't try to steal it...


Oddly enough, that's not a "mod". It's standard equipment on Rolls and optional on Bentley.

I'm not against it either, I just don't understand why they would bother...
Also, what happens when you leave it out in the rain? and then the sun, does the leather shrink?
Or is the idea that, a car this expensive never leaves the garage?

>> ^Throbbin:

I like it.
As long as I know that the buffalo was killed in a humane manner, and the meat didn't go to waste and actually helped feed a family, and they got a fair price for the skin - I'd be cool with it.
I've always wanted an ivory keyboard. One day...

A thousand upvotes descend upon you!
>> ^Seric:

>> ^gwiz665:
Well that certainly is decadent... mmm.

Jambe! The chocolate icing!

>> ^gwiz665:

Well that certainly is decadent... mmm.


Jambe! The chocolate icing!

Edit: I couldn't believe these hadn't been sifted - http://videosift.com/video/Futurama-Hedonism-Bot

>> ^blankfist:
I can't afford a Bentley, but that doesn't mean I have less liberty. Contrary, if I worked really hard to buy that Bentley by saving religiously, but could never afford it my entire life because the more money I made the more direct tax I had to pay, and property tax, and income tax, etc. then in the end one could make the argument that "redistribution" is theft and takes away individual liberty.


I think the counter argument I and most liberals would give is that if a homeless guy gets a preventable illness, and can't afford the preventative treatment, he gets sick and maybe dies, which is a pretty severe imposition on his liberty.

Consider we look at the moral calculus of doing the opposite of the health care plan. Let's say there's a bill that will scrap Medicaid entirely, and use the saved revenue to provide a tax cut for people making $1 million/yr or more.

Certainly, we're providing more "liberty" to the rich in the form of cash, but we're depriving the poor of even the most basic assistance with medical costs, which would certainly result in an increase in the number of people dying from preventable illness, and vastly reduce the liberty of the poor.

To put it in Republicanized^* rhetoric, I'm not so concerned with who gets how much liberty, as I am in making sure the total sum is as big as possible by efficiently redistributing liberty from those for whom there are diminishing returns (e.g. Bently vs. Mercedes) and giving it to those who get the most bang for the buck (e.g. going from dying of preventable illness, to living a complete life).

* Republicanized in that this is how Republicans talk about income, they don't care about who's rich and who's not, they just want the GDP to grow as much as possible.

@jwray: More money doesn't mean more liberty. Liberty isn't something that can be purchased. More money allows you to afford to do more, but that has nothing to do with liberty.

I can't afford a Bentley, but that doesn't mean I have less liberty. Contrary, if I worked really hard to buy that Bentley by saving religiously, but could never afford it my entire life because the more money I made the more direct tax I had to pay, and property tax, and income tax, etc. then in the end one could make the argument that "redistribution" is theft and takes away individual liberty.

With the imminent release of the 2010 model, I had to come back and watch this one. I didn't realize it was 7 minutes long--all music. They really chopped it back in 1985. It brought back memories with friends. Also, a hilarious comedy bit by Bette Midler on her "Mud will be FLUNG tonight"Album. It was strictly comedy with maybe two musical numbers.....but she came off a hilariously funny riff with the following..."WE are the rich....we are the famous...." I look forward to the new one.....With the Divine Miss M's background position in this '85 version and her busy schedule, the resident diva will be Barbra. We don't need the last name.......This new woman whose name out diva's all the women in the first one....Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, Patti Austin, Dionne Warwick, Tina Turner....I will be tuned in this Friday for the opening ceremonies for the OLYMPICS in Vancouver to see this new version. AND PLEASE REMEMBER---this money is for people who never had anything before the earthquake, and absolutely nothing now. And the saddest, the orphans. Let's help them. Buy ten copies and hand them out. I live in UTAH--have nothing to do with this organization, but we need to help. And we need to not stop in Haiti....there are so many places that are so bad we would think they set it up and then ran behind a jungle wall an hopped into a Bentley and went home.....JUST HELP

Phil Juiptus: What kind of a hellish quiz is this?

Stephen Fry: Fair point.

Pj: What one is the odd one out? None of them! bahahahhahah.

Sf: Aren't we clever.

Sf: Hey, is that me?

Pj: That's you.

Sf: Ohhhh bugger you. I don't sound like that.

--New scene--

Sf: Would that it where.

Pj: would that it where stephen, would that it where?

Sf (interjecting): Going all rob.. robinson, are would that it where, would that it where, oh sushen ticthen(?)

Pj: one for mother and only son.

--New scene--

Pj: You'd be rampaging through down town Tokyo, "BAHAHHAH", "no a museum!"

--New scene--

Pj: Stephen what are you doing in that bathroom? "I'm putting it to go one way, I'm putting it to go the other. I'm the master of the bath, hahahahah"

--New Scene--

Pj: Stephen doesn't have beer googles, he has madeira pas nez. (madeira glasses)

Pj: "Oh your a cracker, more madeira?" "a small sherry?"

--New scene--

Sf: Your the ones who suggested coins, I'm saying a kettle for example, or any other cooking...

Pj (interjecting): One one has a kettle like that! what you plugging? Look at it. We don't all live in a fluffy Duffy Dickensian world of charm like you.

Sf: well,

Pj: Oh there goes the kettle, and on the aga.

Sf: Its a perfectly sensible way of cooking food and preparing meals, and it keeps the kitchen warm.

Pj: No wonder fucking twinnings had you pal.

Sf: I feel a man...

Pj: of proper kettles, and porcelain tea, bahahh, china. England! Cricket!

Alan davies: Can you do an advert where you're cleaning a kettle with some brown sauce.

Sf: I jolly well will now.

Pj: Stephen fry, for HP, bahahhahaha

--New scene--

Sf: so we have had two blueffs, I should do that shouldn't I? ahah

Pj: would that it where Stephen, would that it where.

--New scene--

Sf: thats not the kinda thing I like...

pj: he actually had a bentley skateboard made of tea tray, "fine, original Birmingham wheels"

Sf: I had a space hopper. Well I did.

Pj: Baha baha baha baha, "nearly to (a place even I can't make out)" Baha baha baha. Mother, a bicycle next time for the love of god.

Pj: Your like nine feet tall!

Sf: well...

Pj: Your knees must have been here, bahaha.

Sf: Not when I was 8.

Jimmy Carr: Turns out it was just a terrible hemroid..

--New scene--

Sf: When I went to university, me and my friend hugh laurie shared a house, and we had a bit of work doing, and our plasterers, do you know who they where?

Ad: Cannon and ball.

Sf: Charlie higson and Paul whitehouse where our plasterers.

Ad: and you where there inspiration, for so many characters.

Pj: steven the fellas in the hall are awfully funny.

Sf: Right, I'm telling, you're bad.

Pj: what do you say we listen in on them, and, err, nick a few jokes.

So where's my power point for translating from English to English?

Man, when Emergency on Planet Earth came out in 1993, I thought this guy was the best. What a wank he then became. 'Did you kick my f*cking Bentley?'

If he's going to smoke cigarettes inside a 170,000 pound Bentley he deserves to be headbutted.

Seems we were both wrong. It wasn't DJ Khaled either. He happens to be some random Pakistani business dude.

They said he was rushed to the hospital for a self inflicted gunshot wound, but he didn't make it and died five hours later.

http://cbs2.com/local/Bentley.pursuit.chase.2.931277.html

The comments are hilarious. From Wiki:

"He assaulted a women and is police chased him in his bentley all over los angeles for 5 hours. Currently on LA tv as we speak.

he did it for the lulz

We on tv?

reports indicate he may, in fact, be an hero

yea nigga"

I don't know which video it was, but some gangsta rapper was rolling down the street in his Bentley with a suitcase full of EUROS! The nerve.

There is a common feeling in Europe that the Euro is highly inflated and unsustainable.

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