I mean when is "slut" ever a good word?I was parking in the underground car park of my local shopping centre on Wednesday evening last, right after I finished my exam and noticed this guy at the car next to me.
The car was a silver VW Bora and the boot/trunk was open. He was sitting on the bumper/fender at the back talking on his mobile phone.
On the side window of the car he had one of those home made "for sale.. call 56325426" type posters.
When I came back to my car later the Bora was still there and the boot was shut.
On the back right below the Bora name badge was a matching badge that said "SLUT".
It struck me as odd. I mean I know there have been some unfortunate English language direct translations doing the rounds on the web but I think it's unlikely that this is a mistake out of the VW factory in Wolfsburg.
Which begs the question. Who bothers to get a chrome SLUT badge made up for their car? There are companies that specialise in making aftermarket badges, like this one but I couldn't find SLUT in their list of offered items.
So, imagine the scenario... prospective buyer sees the "for sale" sign on the window of the car and arranges to pop around for a viewing. After giving the tyres a good kick, and after opening all the doors and looking in all the corners the prospective buyer stands there, rubbing his/her chin. "Yeah, it's a very nice car and I am really interested.. there's just one thing that's bothering me.. THE SLUT BADGE ON THE BACK".
Talk about making it hard for yourself to sell this car. Strange with a capital S in my book.
3 comments:
VW's are for sissies.
Scubes - that sounds like fightin' ice hockey talk..
It doesn't sound all that weird to me. At least in my circle of friends (and I'm sure more generally in this country and my generation), a "X-slut" is someone who will do anything for X, and isn't fussy about what type of X. Eg. a "chocolate slut" is someone who will do anything for chocolate, and is happy with just about any brand, so long as it's chocolate.
A "Bora slut" is presumably someone who loves Boras and will do anything to have one, no matter what it's like, as long as it's a Bora.
But it seems overkill to get that done in chrome rather than just getting a bumper sticker.
Alternatively, "slut" is the Danish word for "closed". But I guess it's a long shot to think it might have anything to do with that.
When I lived in Denmark I was always a little taken aback by the signs outside shops now and then saying "Slut Sale!" ("Closing down sale" -- using English words like "sale" make you look cool.)
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