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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 00:58:24 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   I know nobody cares but it's funny to see the boomer wealth dream. The crap they stuff your inbox with in this market is actually kind of sad and bleak. The guy who can afford to plonk down $100 million on this fancy new jet will......happily sit there and watch cable television with the missus (shown after a 4-year ozempic course and some lipo) on a wonderful 1080i 20" LCD TV you'd buy for $82 at walmart next to the diapers

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 00:59:23 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     I like how they framed this one. He's gotten in a fight with her and she's taking pics for her old-lady tinder profile while he stews in his irritation, planning on revenge-fucking that new secretary at work

     It's just funny to me how the industry markets these insanely expensive jets, and in the end they're nothing better than a nice $120,000 RV with some turbines and a nice cockpit. They don't get to enjoy those elements, they don't get to have fun flying it, so they end up sitting in this cheesy trailer in the back and tell themselves it's luxury. IDK, we don't deal with many jets like this but the older ones are better to me: More woods, leathers, less of this modern vegan leather shit.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 01:05:02 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     .......yeah nobody who buys this for a personal jet is going to use a coffee cup that small and gay. This is like what you see when a euro company brings over their corpo jets

     Also very cool how the primary control point up front looks just like a MadCatz yoke for the Xbox 360

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 01:09:34 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     If you guys wanna shop for it, here's the newest, best thing gulfstream has. They just certified it, no idea what real street is on it, supposedly starting around $80 but that's probably a base model without anything handy, and they hardly make those.

     What's funny is that my job will maybe, possibly sell one of these in 50 years. Depreciation is funny like that, I've pushed to include the original dealer pamphlets like these with the old things, but nobody seems to have a copy. Sad to think of all that ephemeral lost forever

     At least they have a normal HUD. There's a system that you have to wear like the apple goggles and it's just not going to catch on no matter how hard they try https://www.gulfstream.com/en/aircraft/gulfstream-g700/

   • Wignatia (lawrencegerald@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 01:09:45 JST Wignatia

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot The second photo is actually really nice and well-composed, and does a great job of conveying wordlessly what they're trying to sell. Probably boomers still see themselves as looking like this, ready to jet off to luxurious locales to consume next product, but they are elderly and obese now. These ppl are in their 50s and are solidly GenXers, my exact cohort. A lot of GenXers, if they achieved any career and financial success, threw in with the boomers mentally and culturally. That woman looks fantastic, that is exactly how I am trying to age. No hair dye and plastic surgery, keep your figure and wear stylish attractive age-appropriate subtly expensive clothes. Whoever styled this photo series is good.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 01:16:57 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Wignatia

     @LawrenceGerald I'm joking about it, it's pretty good but there's something that I absolutely HATE about these pics for nice planes. You don't notice it until you cross-shop the smaller things like TBMs and cirruses:

     None of these jets ever haul the family around, it's always a sterile, lonely old couple in a cavernous mausoleum of a cabin

     Maybe that's going away now, but I really loved this little photo series Daher used to have where it showed the back of one with a mom reading to her kids, everyone wrapped up cozy in some blankets. Had a real road trip vibe, send the message that you had people you loved, and the product would bring them joy and memories to last a lifetime. $100 million dollar jet doesn't mean all that much if nobody will think fondly of you in 100 years - a dozen grandchildren of your own is worth far more than baubles.