This green Ford Falcon was at the Lake George rest stop when we took a break while out cycling this morning. The front of it is cut off because I was trying to take a photo of it while looking like I was taking a photo of the hill behind it, as I didn't want the driver to come and ask me why I was taking a photo of his car because then I may have gone into a spiel about how much green Falcons shit me and the driver was much bigger than I am and he was in a V8 and I was riding 7kg of carbon fibre and wearing lycra with a bit of foam on my head.
So what's wrong with green Falcons? Well green, especially this particular shade of emerald green, is the colour of rain forests and tree pythons and the environmental movement and Kermit the frog. None of these things have anything in common with cars (you will recall that Kermit rides a bicycle). Sure, there are plenty of worse cars than Ford Falcons. Like F250s. And Hummers. And 1975 Trabants. But the bottom line is that just about any car in this shade of green creates a visual and mental dissonance that makes my brain hurt. When our world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December, I think that in addition to setting some emissions targets that show how ridiculous our proposed CPRS is, they should also pass an international law banning the use of this shade of green for any vehicles except pedal cars and the Fiat Punto.
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