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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
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10:11a - It's not rocket surgery.
Msnbc.com has a recurring feature, "Ads of the Weird". This week's column discusses an Australian PSA which implies that men who speed are deficient in the sausage department. (I know, I know, a clever idea that no one ever thought of before!)
The comments are full of everyone's Personal Philosophy of Driving, which (like driving itself) turns wanky and obnoxious immediately:
Or maybe people just like to drive fast and it has nothing to do with being macho or manly. Driving fast doesn't mean you have to drive stupid, and I think it's just as likely that people driving BELOW the speed limit cause an equal number of accidents as SOBER drivers driving ABOVE the speed limit. If you don't like someone driving fast behind you, GET OUT OF THE WAY. Especially if you're in the left lane people c'mon, learn how to drive.
John B
Aaaaand they're off. After wading through a couple pages of this, it's enough to make me want to give up driving forever and dust off my trusty old bicycle, rather than chance sharing the road with some of these people.
current mood: Suicidal (112 comments |comment on this)
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10:46a - Hummers always lead to wank, don't they?
Over in Sensible Erection (often NWS), someone posts an article about a guy who bought a Hummer, only to find it vandalized as an obvious "blow for the environment."
All hell breaks loose, to the tune of over 300 comments. Debates on the environment flare up, the rule "thou shalt not mess with thy neighbor's ride" is graven into stone, and everyone who owns even a relatively fuel-efficient car is told to fear vegan bicyclist vandals, who would surely be as justified in such vandalism as these guys were. And that's the sane discussion! (Look for any post by the user Tamp if you want to see the not-so-sane discussion.)
SE doesn't really have the means to link to individual threads in the post, so I can't really point to individual wanks, but the whole damned post is a big sticky mess.
(Firefox users who want to try to follow all the debates -- you poor, crazy fools -- will probably find this Greasemonkey script very helpful. I recommend unchecking the option "Show controls to jump to new comments," though, because it will make the page wicked slow.)
current music: Harmony Heifers: "Leather Pants of Evil" (26 comments |comment on this)
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