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in general...!!! and quite a number of my friends are really into it, so sometimes i have to watch rally or formula 1, just to please them... and its killing me... i would like to understand this passion about cars..... but its so strange for me... |
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I understand how cars work, and how to repair them, and fix them up to some extent (adding an enhanced air intake, new muffler, oil change, tire rotation, a minimal tune up), but I drive a 4x4 86 toyota 4 runner, dirty and rusty and all that good stuff that adds charecture to a car (hahahahaha). I know some people who obcess and blow all their cash on souping up their cars though, street racing is pretty popular where I live, its all kinda silly IMO. But my friends acura is a hot ride, fast as hell. I dont know, I think its ok to some extent, but taking anything too seriously is bad I think. Cars for me are just for transportation, if I bought a zippier car I would probubly trick it out a little bit, but I wanted to save my money to get music gear.... ;*) |
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cars suck i'm 24 and i still don't have driver's license. I'm planning on never getting a car! And also i don't want to own a mobile telephone. But i fear at some point in time the circumstances of my life will force me to buy a mobile phone and maybe even a car... but i'll delay it for as long as possible. And i'll never like cars for sure... i'll only admit they can be convenient, but i never had and never will have a passion for them. So yeah... i can relate. |
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haha im the exact same way surrounded, i never want to get a cell phone or buy a car of my own, they both seem like a huge waste of $ and aside i dont want to pollute the environment |
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by the way my 90 geo storm w/195,000+ miles was sold, for those who remember |
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Car freaks are the lowest filth imaginable. I pee on their graves. |
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Cars are waste of money and resources, but untill the pricess of electric cars come down, or something better comes along I am going to have to stick with what Ive got. Having a car in the US is very important, public transit, out side of new york, is horrible and unrelyable and places are far away. I cant imagine getting around without a car, thats why I bought one, it would be fucking impossible to get around here without one. Back when I was in highschool I rode my bike to school and didnt really have to travel that much out of my home town, but now I have to commute to LA and other places far away. Only way you could manage to get around here is to be a kid and have your mommy drive you around everywhere or bum rides, or be lucky enough to have a job close to home. I wish I could ride my bike to work, but thats like a 40 mile commute every day.... I think cell phones are awfull, the internet is a much handier and way of communicating, instant messaging and email. I think the messaging thing is funny as hell, because when i see kids doing it I just say, why not just do that on a computer, it doesnt cost you 1.00 per message... |
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if your passion is automobiles then your life must be seriously dull. |
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a friend of mine only recently moved to Washington, to work there for a year and the first thing he noticed was how important cars are for Americans in a status-way: you are nothing if you do not have some form of car. |
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i used to race cars-when i was young and stupid, dont give a fuck about cars anymore dont know why i liked it then, could be adrenalin or somethin' |
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when youn think of it, it is insane that there are still cars. in more than a century's time, cars have hardly really evolved. they still pollute. they still lead to an false sense of freedom. if you ever catch me driving a car you can shoot me i do love formula 1 and rally though, hehe. a bit hypocritical you might say, but i think the situation's entirely different. closed circuit, only so many races per year. it is much more regulated. |
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cool dudes !! hehe i personaly had a cell phone, but not anymore, its dangerous imo (mentaly and physically) and i dont have a licence neither... but i m not afraid to get one as i think cars can be convenient in some ways, and im not that xtrem in my opinions i just cant understand how anyone can be passionate by cars... |
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i was passionate at your age :) not anymore do you just dislike cars, or you dont like to drive around as well? |
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Travis Hates Car Culture... i went to an elite private high school (ranked one of the top 5 in the US for academic quality, not prestige.. it doesn't have a reputation as being trendy for the children of powerful people to attend, but it does attract the children of the mostly rich) and that's all everyone talked about.. even our students newspaper had 2 luxury sportscar articles per paper (and the paper is just several pages long). so sick of cars. prolly why at age 20 i don't have a driver's license. i have a learner's permit for ID purposes and so i know how to drive. another reason i don't have a license is its super expensive: $250 driver's training (mandatory in my state), plus $2000-4000/year car insurance cos i'm male and live in a mostly racial minority and lower economic class county. fuck the system. |
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"$2000-4000/year car insurance"-thats a lot we pay about $600 per year, lucky us hehe |
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i dont mind being in a car, but my friends can drive real fast (they like to show ;) tunning tunning tunning *trainspoting* :) |
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want to hear something even more fucked up netlon..... there is a man who made a series of tires so durable that they could never wear, life long tires.... and it had been testing and certified life long wear and right before the man was going to sell them, ford bought the copyright and the plans for something like 10 million dollars, and thanks to ford motor corp., we have to keep buying ridiculously overpriced tires that pollute. fuck, I really want a solar cars to evolve and become something usable that goes at least 50mph, solar power.... costs nothing, no way a 3rd party person can get filthy rich from it, but noooo, we always have to have 3 parties profit from something, ie hydrogen. Buy your hydrogen stock now boys and girls. Stock tip for the day. Buy water stock and hydrogen stock, things in this world are finite, and some bastard is going to monopilize these things somehow. I wonder how long before the oil runs out, you know people in high places are going to milk the world before they move on to hydrogen. I bet gas will be something lik 10 bucks a gallon or some crazy thing like that... scientists dont even know for sure if the oil is finite or not. |
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all future wars will be fought over water, or more likely, the lack of. |
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Of course oil is not finite. It comes from decaying organic matter. That it takes thousands or millions of years to form is a minor inconvenience. When the oil starts to run out the Bush family and others will have themselves frozen until such time as more oil forms. |
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You mean drinkable water. A bigger problem for you Netherlanders is going to be the rise of the sea level as the ice caps melt. |
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this topic is teh happyness look on the bright side topic! hehe ;*) At the rate we extract oil fleetmouse, we meaning people ALL over the world, I think it has to be coming out at the pace of a small trickle 50 years from now. Everything, if you look at it, is finite in some way or another. Air, water, oil, food, everything is intwined in a delicate balance, if something is taken or added to the equation, it will be gone |
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*points everyone out to the Mos Def song "New World Water", recorded about this topic in 1999* |
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I love fast cars. My best friend's family is rich and I get to drive all his dad's cars. ex: -Ferrari ( maranello, modena spyder, f60, enzo, etc) -Lamborghini diablo, countach -Dodge Viper -Aston Martin ( db7, vanquish) -etc They're so much fun, especially while listening to some upbeat d&b or techno ( sasha) |
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yeah my friends or friends parents are also quite rich and have those kind of cars... like Ferrari f40 lancia stratos (?) (- my friend is telling me those shits right now =) aston martin vantage porsche carrera 4 stop it you bastard :) |
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hahahha, jeez a lot of people with rich friends here My rich friends dad has a shelby cobra stock car with a fiberglass shell. That is a beast of a car, and an incredible drive. |
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i forgot to tell how proud i am yerk yerk yerk : / |
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hm yeah... i hadn't even thought to mention the polution yet (there are many reasons i don't like cars ;-)). But indeed it is ridiculous that people just keep buying more cars every year... everyone knows polution is growing, the world oil-supply is shrinking etc... this is not a secret, and yet people keep buying and driving new cars... like lemmings walking towards the cliff. |
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mobile phones dangerous? i never heard that... probably something about the radiation huh? I just love the fact that when i leave the house i cannot be reached ;-) hehe, peace at last. I would hate the thought of people being able to contact me 24h/day. |
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"Having a car in the US is very important, public transit, out side of new york, is horrible and unrelyable and places are far away." in the netherlands things are much better. I think (even though at some days you wouldn't think it...) we even have the best public transportation system in europe... or was it even the world? Don't remember.... but fact is you can get just about anywhere by train, tram, subway and bus. Even the smallest town with a population > 100 in the middle of nowhere usually gets a bus to stop there several times a day. |
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well before i started as boat engineer i was a mechanic for renault and honda for seven years. but my love for cars has gone down toilet due to little spotty pric*s in there maxed out 1.1saxos burning up the streets and the knob who broke into my lovely civic by peeling down the door!!and nicking everything inside. c*nt. |
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I've had my license since 16, but I don't really like cars... I don't even know what make or kind or whatever our car is. As long as it has four wheels and a tapedeck, I'm happy. |
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cell phone kills it has hurt my head and in fact its scientificaly proved that the radiations kill mouses ambryos mickey !!!! 95 pourcents of the embryos die if they re near a cell phone so i wont put that thing close to my brain anymore !! |
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wow... one more reason to not buy one :-) if mice die from it... jeez... that can't be a good sign can it? Maybe in 20 years time all those cellphone users will have developped some form of cancer... Actually i had noticed the radiation... anyone ever tried listening to a walkman when someone is using a cellphone near you? You can actually hear the radiation fuck up the sound :-/ krrr kkkrrr krrr... beep beep krrrr... something like that. |
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"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Anyplace is better Strating from zero got nothing to lose Maybe we'll make something But me myself I got nothing to prove You got a fast car And I got a plan to get us out of here I been working at the convenience store Managed to save just a little bit of money We won't have to drive too far Just 'cross the border and into the city You and I can both get jobs And finally see what it means to be living You see my old man's got a problem He live with the bottle that's the way it is He says his body's too old for working I say his body's too young to look like his My mama went off and left him She wanted more from life than he could give I said somebody's got to take care of him So I quit school and that's what I did You got a fast car But is it fast enough so we can fly away We gotta make a decision We leave tonight or live and die this way I remember we were driving driving in your car The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder And I had feeling that I belonged And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone You got a fast car And we crusing to entertain ourselves You still ain't got a job And I work in a market as a checkout girl I know thing will get better You'll find work and I'll get promoted We'll move out of the shelter Buy a big house and live in the suburbs You got a fast car And I got a job that pays all our bills You stay out drinking late at night See more of your friends than you do of your kids I'd always hoped for better Thought maybe together you and me would find it I got no plans I ain't going nowhere So take your fast car and keep on driving You got a fast car But is it fast enough so you can fly away You gotta make a decision You leave tonight or live and die this way |
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;) |
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I have a car, its a dull renault clio diesel, it does about 110 to 115 MPH at max. No flashy spoilers or whatever, just transportation. I like to fly low in that thing though. :) |
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i like to walk in the night.. :) |
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cars are essential - public transport is shit, underfunded, always late, unreliable & dirty i hate those petrol heads (usually to be found at parties where everyone only knows someone) who talkn about cars, then women, then cars, then women, then cars etc, usually come with car magazine to read and have fake cockney accent (a la jamie 'phukka' oliver) - WANKERS! & tracy chapman - not big nor clever but seen in 1990 as something everyone was pretending to like for some reason, some trendy shit folk nonsense - urgh |
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Cars are fun to drive. And public transport is hideous! |
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some cars look nice, most dont, its sick how our world could become so addicted of these killers. i really like driving as a passanger, but its got to develop::: traffic sucks, searching parking lots sucks, gas sucks, pollution sucks, repairs suck, police suck, insurance sucks, ohh, if cars just could give blow jobs... |
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i enjoy watching WRC Rally |
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When im not drivin those cool cars ( which is 99% of the time) I like being in the backseat of a car or on a train listening to my discman. |
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I'll probably never get a driving license because I used mental hospital to avoid the Great Red Army. I hate cars anyway. They're waaay too big for one person, and imagine all the spare space we waste, the streets are getting narrower because of the cars, damn cars. And the smoke and pollution. And you can kill yourself/other people easily. I've been hit by a car 2 times, believe me, it sucks. It'd be another talk if I had one of the supercool Max Damage's Carma cars... I'd splash pedestrians to bloody pieces of raw meat and yell 'YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHAAAAAWWWWW!!!!!'... 300 points... 2000 cunning stunt bonus... stunning cunt? |
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i LOVE fast cars, and i especially LOVE driving them! =0) i have a fairly high preformance vehicle (swedish as a matter of fact) and i drive it at high rates of speed on many occasions, everyday as a matter of fact! =0) never been in an accident, and i talk my way outta every speeding ticket i ALMOST got and surely deserved.....ahhahhaha |
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swedish car? ok, could you tell us more please? (i drive a swedish one myself ehhehe) |
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eh.. i dont hate cars so much as the people who drive them.. people are annoying enough on foot.. the last thing they need is a big deadly machine to drive around.. having said that, the only reason i have a car is because my moms house is a 45 minute drive from where i go to school and work.. i'd love to live in the city and walk or ride my bike around.. ..but i also like to drive home and be away from everything.. |
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I drive a saab but avoid driving it when its not necessary. always buy used cars, no point in not buying cars used because if you buy a new car it just gives them more $ to use to make more polluting pieces of shit and it continues the chain. what im saying is if you have to have a car get it used so they dont get wasted. buying new cars when theyre not necessary is stupid. i also hate driving and seeing all the gas in the winter, it makes me want to hold my breath the whole time im outside driving. if only i could ride my bike everywhere, im too lazy to do that, when im older hopefully i'll use either public transportation or a bike of some sort. Annual Carbon Emissions Average: -Bus- .1 Tons (per person) -Toyota Rav4 EV- .8 Tons -Ford Mustang- 2.1 Tons -Dodge Ram- 3.1 Tons -Bike- Zero Tons |
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I got that info from Adbusters Nov\Dec 02 issue by the way. |
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