Cars. Automobiles. Vehicles. Things with engines. On four wheels (sometimes three) that often get covered in ice during winter and, if you get leather seats, are too hot to sit in during the summer. Yes, our four wheeled friends are so much a part of our everyday life that it takes the release of Disney Pixar’s ‘Cars’ to actually make us consider the fact that cars might have feelings too.
Which they don’t.
And that’s a good thing because if certain cars had feelings they would almost certainly see themselves as hideous, nutrient-guzzling windbags with no friends either on the road or in the driveway. It would likely drive them to self harm, presumably by slashing their own tires while sitting in a puddle. Who knows? It’s rarely a good idea to personify inanimate objects too far as they are likely to take on a terrifying edge the next time you clamber into one to pop down to the shops.
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Dear reader, you are about to enter a peculiar dreamworld where nothing seems real. You are about to enter a time in the Earth’s history when everything seemed to run in slow-motion and cascade around your ears like a Bible end-game.
We travel back to New York and the day that is now simply known as 9/11. It was our generation’s JFK moment when pretty much every human jaw hit the ground and each heart slowed, pumping thick blood.
The memory of that day couldn’t get any more surreal, right? Wrong. That’s because, on that fateful day, there was a cheap rental car tearing across America and in it, you could find Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Marlon Brando. Feel like you’re on drugs? Wait ’til you hear about the burgers.
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As we all know, it’s rude to insult the dead. They’re dead. They can’t hear what you’re saying, and they can’t be rude back. Plus, it’s probably quite disrespectful, because, you know, they’re dead. Come on. What kind of person are you?
Anyway, the point is that we’re not going to say anything rude about Heath Ledger‘s English accent in The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, because he’s dead, and it would be a cheap shot. Instead, we’re going to list some other attempted accents, that may or may not be worse than Heath’s, whilst kind of hinting that perhaps they were better. What we’re not going to do is come out and say that his accent was totally rubbish. We’re not that cruel. We would never say that. Ever.
The man’s dead.
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