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[johnnypurple]

Ok, f'list, another REALLY IMPORTANT QUESTION for you. With the gendering of cars - the Suzuki Liana? Male, female or other?

I'm thinking female. Which means, horror upon horrors, that the crack bunny that wandered into my head today may actually turn out to be *gasp* het! In so much as an alien/car pairing can be het, (though maybe it's really

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[wolfy_writing]

I vote female entirely because of the name. Suzuki just seems like a girl's name to me, and Liana doesn't help.

Beyond that, I got nothing.

[mahpantsaregone]

I equate Suzukis wif motorcycles, 'cause I grew up with, you know, Suzuki motorcycles. They were all my dad's, so in that respect, it seems a bit male to me, but I agree with Wolfie, Liana is a totally feminine name.

So there you go. No help whatsoever.

Maybe it's a girl who wears leather things and has a mohawk (mohican?) which she parts on weekdays and looks like normalish hair so she doesn't get fired from her desk job. And she likes motorcycles. The colordy eighties rinnininininnninn ones, not the big glumbdyglumbdy rumble ones. Hmm... she sounds quite nice, actually.

[wolfy_writing]

I totally have the Suzuki motorcycle thing in my head, too! But for some completely arbitrary reason, my brain insists all motorcycles are female (which is why Steampunk Richard can't have a bike named Oliver), so that just makes it seem more female.

[mahpantsaregone]

Ah, see, I was thinkin' about why I thought of them as male. I guess it's 'cause they're just sort of big vibrating things that fit between your legs. But then by that reasoning, they should be dildos. Which are utilized by both males and females.

Hummmmmdiddlyumdum...

[wolfy_writing]

I think it might be partly the vibrator association, and partly my "Girls on bikes" fantasies.

Which have nothing to do with turning Richard Hammond into a female motorcycle racer.

*whistles innocently*

[rhosyndu]

The Liana's female to me. (Mid brown hair, average looking; she does her best and you get back from her what you give.)

Maybe Toby's playing fetch with the rat?

[johnnypurple]

You may be right, re: Toby and the rat. It is a fast little fuckersnap, so I am kind of impressed that he caught it in the first place.

I think the consensus is that the Liana is female. Which I now feel kinda bad about - because in this fic idea there is going to be angst and the Liana is getting the rough end of the stick, so to speak. Maybe it's reading that stupido radical feminist bullcrap article that averysmallthing linked to. It's made me think too much and my brain can't handle that after getting up so gorram early. Methinks the answer is beer!

[rhosyndu]

Beer, you say? What a novel idea...

[johnnypurple]

Yeah, novel, I know. But I thought you'd appreciate it!

So, what's your opinion on Aussie beers? None of that VB crap. No wait. What is it you have over there? Melbourne Bitter? No. Foster's! That's it! Ok, so none of that. I'm drinking Coopers Pale Ale. Or I will be drinking it... when I get off the internet and have dinner. :)

[averysmallthing]

Man drives a Suzuki Liana (Aerio in the US) hatchback, and I call it his girl car. We've always identified it as female.

Getting up before 5am possibly means you're some sort of unnatural being. Like a cat.

I like the idea that you released the rat, and he liked your hospitality so much HE CAME BACK! Either that, or he told his friends. "Guys, they've got the best accommodations at the Purple Inn. You really need to stay there on your next holiday!" You know it's the word of mouth that gets 'em.

[johnnypurple]

Liana! HaHA! Brilliant! Well, maybe he will be interested in reading my fic when or if i write it! :D

Pre-5am is no unnatural. It's not even supernatural. It's just wrong. But I don't usually do it. 5:15 is my regular too early to be true time. *sigh* It's not so bad. I ride my bike to work and because there's very little traffic at that time, I run red lights!

Oh, I like your theory too. But it ended unhappily for the rat now too. After I made that post, Moonwana brought in a dead rat - a trophy. I'm pretty sure it was the one we swept off the verandah. That'll learn 'em! (i hope). *sigh*

[averysmallthing]

That's gonna KILL you're repeat business. Moonwana needs to be retrained in Customer Service.

[cenea]

Agh! I do very much empathise with the rat saga! I've had two in on the same night...I'm pretty sure it was the same one, apart from the second time it was dead-er!

[johnnypurple]

oh god, and i haven't posted about it yet - but he had yet another one in yesterday! my housemate caught it and released it over the back fence (into the paddock) the poor little thing was so terrified it couldn't move. but toby didn't seem too interested in it though. i wonder if he's found a nest or something. *le sigh*

[cenea]

Agh - love the icon - so cute :)

Nests of small furry/feathery things are bad. Florence once brought me in the live and chirping contents of a robin's nest, one by one. Mum and dad were away, and I hadn't a clue what to do with them, so I tried putting them back. Not sure many of them made it *sigh*. That's about the only time I was really mad with the moggy - though I forgave her quick enough ;) Fortunately(ish), she has narrowed her area of interest just to rats, these days!

[johnnypurple]

oh! robins! wow. i only get mad at toby if he catch's native things. introduced birds and rodents are fine by me! though he does catch approx. 100 skinks a week and i don't know, i think they might be native, but i'm not sure. but he loses a lot of them or we take them off him, so i don't actually know how many he kills. pigeons occasionally (introduced). um. it's pretty terrible. it's like we don't feed him or something! at least, that's what he'd say. ;-)