Uncle, you are doing the nasty to me, right in my mind’s eye. When I read what you wrote there, I immediately thought of my favorite Dali painting, “Grand Piano Being Sodomized by a Bust of Voltaire.”
I have now clicked the link. It’s worse than I imagined. Just think; Georgie Patton thought you were pimp-like just for having a pearl-handled revolver.
“Tacky” isn’t the same either. “Poshlust” is more than just in bad taste, it’s the type of bad taste you get when someone lower class is attempting to act higher class without the enculturation necessary to pull it off successfully. So things like, say, plastic lawn flamingos, while tacky, aren’t poshlust.
Thanks, Stormy! I did read at the Wikipedia link, and Nabokov just about nailed it. You’re right, there’s low bad taste, and there’s just egregious Godawful brain-hurting wrongness, which is poshlust.
After looking at those awful guns, and reading justthisguy’s comment I looked up Salvador Dali. I now remember why I dislike that type of “art”. Gawd, I should become an “ArTeest”. If suckers will buy that junk surely they’d buy the crud I could come up with. Jeez. I wonder how much LSD it took for him to paint that crap! That would be a problem. I’m drug-free, and I just don’t think I could warp my mind enough for that stuff without drugs…
May 5th, 2010 at 10:48 am
Uncle, you are doing the nasty to me, right in my mind’s eye. When I read what you wrote there, I immediately thought of my favorite Dali painting, “Grand Piano Being Sodomized by a Bust of Voltaire.”
May 5th, 2010 at 10:52 am
There’s a Russian word for this, which sadly has no English equivalent: Poshlust
May 5th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Those guns make the baby John Moses Browning cry.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Stormy, what do you mean it has no English equivalent? If you use British English, “poshlust” makes perfect sense.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:25 am
I have now clicked the link. It’s worse than I imagined. Just think; Georgie Patton thought you were pimp-like just for having a pearl-handled revolver.
May 5th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Further: Any homosexual, or Southerner, or Southern Homosexual (I’ve known some) would tell you that there is another word for that, which is “tacky.”
May 5th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
That is the kind of weapon that should stay in the closet.
May 5th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Dear Mexican Drug Cartels,
Stop trying to vajazzle your handguns.
Love,
The Rest of The World
May 5th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
The word is pronounced more like ‘pose-LOW-zsht’
May 5th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
“Tacky” isn’t the same either. “Poshlust” is more than just in bad taste, it’s the type of bad taste you get when someone lower class is attempting to act higher class without the enculturation necessary to pull it off successfully. So things like, say, plastic lawn flamingos, while tacky, aren’t poshlust.
May 5th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Thanks, Stormy! I did read at the Wikipedia link, and Nabokov just about nailed it. You’re right, there’s low bad taste, and there’s just egregious Godawful brain-hurting wrongness, which is poshlust.
May 5th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
After looking at those awful guns, and reading justthisguy’s comment I looked up Salvador Dali. I now remember why I dislike that type of “art”. Gawd, I should become an “ArTeest”. If suckers will buy that junk surely they’d buy the crud I could come up with. Jeez. I wonder how much LSD it took for him to paint that crap! That would be a problem. I’m drug-free, and I just don’t think I could warp my mind enough for that stuff without drugs…
May 5th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
@SoupOrMan
Thanks for the laugh–you owe me a keyboard sans margarita. lol
May 6th, 2010 at 12:16 am
You’re welcome!