Do You Name Your Car Or Is That Gay AF - And Other Things

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And other inanimate objects like phones and computers and whatnot

I named my PC Theseus because I've only ever done piecemeal upgrades over ten years, always keeping at least a few parts, creating a Computer of Theseus

I really haven't named my car yet.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I named my first couple cars, but that's about it

Don't usually name other inanimate objects either. What's the point?

 

[Xetzyr]

I name my vacuum cleaners... Jaws... Tubby... and Fred.

 

[Nekromantik]

I gave my dad's trucks dinosaur names when I was little. It kind of makes sense to name a car or a computer; you have to yell something when you're trying to fix them.

 

[Blender]

My car shares the same name with my pussy: Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

 

[Derp Potato]

Beyond, "Piece of shit" or "Just wait till I sell your stupid ass" I don't.

 

[Bassomatic]

Some of them.
The car I've had the longest, I've never given a name.
Some of my cars over the years have had names : A deep red Pontiac G8, the grapist because it ripped like a bat out of hell out of the hole and the WKYN skit.
My jeep was just called by it's chassis code XJ
My Jaguar goes buy the jagggggggggggg or bad kittah
My black and tan Camaro was the Black Pearl.

Other stuff, never much named.

 

[MaxiMax]

I gave my GPS a name.

She's called "Françoise". It's french. And it's a bit of an outdated name so it's funny souding in my opinion.
I gave her a name because she's the worst GPS in the world and so I yell a lot at her when I'm travelling. She's just really really dumb and it's always hilarious to drive with her on : she always picks the worst road to go somewhere, she's often lost, she wants me to take road which don't really exist, loves to make me take detours and to lead me into one way street without any reason. She's also very good to make me take the wrong exit on the highway only to make me enter the same highway a few meters after. And she also has a knack for fields. She often lead me to a field and asked me to just go accross... always for no reason since there was a perfectly fine road near it and leading me to the same place than... the field...

I've lot of stories about me, her and our travels together. It's always an adventure and I never know what crazy thing she will want me to do this time. But I'm always in stitches when I'm driving with her so I always put her on and just follow what she asks me to do because it just better than just driving normally in my opinion.

All of my friends know about her and know about her name.
And my duo with her is so famous that even people I didn't know had heard about it.
Me and my lack of sense of orientation, and Françoise and her weird ideas and adventurous sense... we make a pretty good team. But not a very efficient team.

 

[sasazuka]

My brother bought a blue Chevrolet Spark and was looking for name suggestions so I suggested "Sparkster", as in the main possum character in the Sega Genesis game Rocket Knight Adventure, since his armour is the same colour as the car.

He didn't use it.

 

[Lunete]

I call my car "lil guy."
I don't know why but I do.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

I'm pretty sure my truck is possessed by the ghost of a sassy black woman. It also responds well when I get verbally abusive with it so it may actually be Tina Turner.

 

[Carmilla]

As far as I'm aware, people who name their cars are more prone to road rage. The reason being that they take it more personally if someone cuts them off, for example. It has something to do with the idea that giving an inanimate object a name personifies them a bit.

So, in short, you probably shouldn't. Though I may just be confounding correlation with causation there.

In any event, I don't.

 

[timecop]

i call my car "faggot"

 

[CIA Nigger]

I like to call it "fucking piece of shit" or "shitbox"

 

[Count groudon]

The first bow I ever got as a kid I named Red Rum because it was a red metal longbow and I thought it'd be cool. I also named my old ATV Zues because it was yellow and that made me think of lightning. I have a very long history of giving my things autistic names.

 

[The Shadow]

I've named cars, bikes, a few guns.

All are named after the mothers of fellow Kiwis.

 

[polonium]

i name my computers after AIs from fiction ( :autistic: ) mainly so I can find them on the network.

My family name all their cars but I generally don't. My current car is a new-ish silver Subaru outback, as-yet un-named and it will probably remain so.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I want to get a lime green AMC Gremlin and name it the Toad Chode.
All of my instruments have names. My trumpet is Mateo, my pocket trumpet is called The Problem Child becasue it has some technical issues, my guitars are Nebby and Orcrist, and my ukulele is Captain Stubing. I suck at every one of them but I love them all.

 

[Russian Civil War]

That’s possibly the gayest shit you can do on this entire planet.

I call mine ‘Jimmy”

 

[soy_king]

My car is named Henrietta, because it's white and old.

And yes, naming a car is pretty gay.