| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 13:41:37
when i'm driving, i'm not happy unless i feel like i'm in a car chase from some cheesy 80's movie, crashing into garbage cans and shopping carts,
the way i feel is, it's not my fault that the driving laws aren't conducive to my expert driving skills. i should live in Germany.
I guess floop WAS right!
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| 35 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| floop |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 12:27:16
quote:
Originally posted by oddball
Talk about a domino effect. There just isn't any time to react.
unless you're an expert |
| oddball |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 11:57:27
I live in Germany and drive on the Autobahn daily. Germans generally are way too aggressive on the Autobahn...freaked the hell out of me. It seems to be some sort of competitive sport. All it takes is seeing one accident though and the need for speed dies. Talk about a domino effect. There just isn't any time to react.
Erik |
| VoVat |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 11:14:40
So you have to drive in tune to the music you're listening to?
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 00:21:26
it's hard to speed listening to stalk of wheat, maybe some erratic happy lane changes and all, but speeding, nope, uh uh, not gonna happen. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 17:48:52
I'm honestly not a big fan of driving fast. I will sometimes, if I'm in a hurry or on a road that's conducive to it. I usually keep it around the speed limit, though. I'm a wuss. But you already knew that. <g>
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 06:16:47
he's getting some sort of forum peoples parents to be his bitches...coincidentally enough im willing to loan my dad at a very reasonable rate |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 06:06:01
quote:
Originally posted by floop
your dad sounds like my kind of guy
 "It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's"
LBF's mom not enough for you?
I guess floop WAS right!
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| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 05/18/2005 : 00:10:46
I'm still learning the whole driving thing (shutup Cheese) - love being a passenger in a fast car though (but has to be out on the open road - not racing up to sit on another cars ass in traffic). In fact I think it's one of the contributing factors to the whole problem - I daydream (the whole car chase/running from the law thing - BIG favourite) and find trying to concentrate on the learning how to operate the damn thing interrupts the fantasy.
The first bit of my last holiday just prior to getting bust speeding was a slice of heaven. Still, getting bust on Route 66 just after leaving Vegas on new years day because you're "testing" to see just how fast the car will go is a good one to add to the list.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 18:33:45
Sir Rock should try that
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 18:25:27
i prefer driving drunk, my car doesn't go very fast so i compensate by getting blitzed. ;) |
| Erebus |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 18:21:36
quote:
Originally posted by benji
i too like driving fast, but in new zealand, the roads a rarely straight enough for long enough to actually get up any great speed.
the fastest i've ever been is only 170km/hr, but that was damn stupid now that i think about it.
so it's more a thing of driving fast for the conditions which gets my blood flowing.
once did a 300km drive over very mountanous terrain in 3 hours which would normally take a good 5 hours. but my car had just been broken into and i was absolutely fuming.
almost flew over a few cliffs, but man it was great fun.
Yes. I'm the paranoid driver in the city, but the Sierra Nevada mountains have hundreds of miles of serpentine, cliffside two-laners which are great fun, not for flat out high-end speed so much as for finding the line through mile after mile of graceful curves. But you can't forget to keep an eye peeled for idiots, boulders, and deer from hell. |
| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 18:08:21
I've actually been on the Autobahn. When I went to Europe two winters ago. Pretty much scared me away from Europe for the next couple of years.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 17:47:18
So, Sir Rock, when do you fly to Germany so you
can teach those Autobahn drivers a thing or two
about speed?
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| benji |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 17:45:39
i too like driving fast, but in new zealand, the roads a rarely straight enough for long enough to actually get up any great speed.
the fastest i've ever been is only 170km/hr, but that was damn stupid now that i think about it.
so it's more a thing of driving fast for the conditions which gets my blood flowing.
once did a 300km drive over very mountanous terrain in 3 hours which would normally take a good 5 hours. but my car had just been broken into and i was absolutely fuming.
almost flew over a few cliffs, but man it was great fun.
and also so many goddam police everywhere that chances of getting caught are pretty damn high.
 Join the Cult of Cartman! Respect my Authoritaah!!! |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 17:35:21
i won't have to. i'll let my 8 year old nephew beat you, in his go-cart.
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 17:30:45
Yeah, lets see you do something about it, tough guy.
Edit: In retrospect, that comment makes no sense.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 17:26:31
big talk for someone who's only gone 90mph
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 17:24:29
Sorry, did I type small children? I mean to type floop.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 17:22:21
he's a young man now, and can make his own choices. if he wants to run over small children, who am i to judge?
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 17:20:07
quote:
Originally posted by Sir Rockabye
School is for suckers.
I prefer to spend my time speeding and running over small children.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do.
I hope you're proud of youselves, floop and his ilk. You have
ruined this young man, ruined him! Now, where's the emoticon
for sobbing?
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 15:38:11
School is for suckers.
I prefer to spend my time speeding and running over small children.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 15:22:07
I think 90 is around as fast as I've gone more for the limitations of the car than cowardice.
Next up we start comparing dents right?
As serious as your life |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 15:00:25
i kid. for the record, i do not endorse reckless driving of any sort. and people should drive within the confines of their skillz.
also, stay in school!
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:59:05
quote:
Originally posted by Sir Rockabye
The fastest I've gotten up to has been around 90-ish mph.
that's the fastest you've gone????? pussy
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| darwin |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:56:17
I remember when I got my license I knew that I could wipe out one ticket by going to traffic school. So, I spent my first few months speeding everywhere I went until I was busted doing about 75 in a 55 on the way back to school from lunch. Sorry, kathryn I don't have good traffic school story. It was just boring. |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:55:03
speedsters "in the know" know that you can do Traffic School online now. one of the best inventions of the 21st century. i've been doing online traffic school for the past 5 years or so.. it literally takes about a half hour. you submit everything online, in the privacy of your own home..
next time you get a ticket, see if online traffic school is available in your county. it almost makes getting traffic worthwhile..
(but yeah, i could tell you some stories from back in the day. wasting an entire 8 hours of my existence. many times. did i mention i have a bad driving record?)
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:55:03
Oh, jeez, The Sir's here. First the tattoo thread, now this.
I'm gonna start a "Stay in school and out of trouble" thread.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:52:34
I like driving fast, but I've only been driving for about two months. The fastest I've gotten up to has been around 90-ish mph. I've still got my permit, so I'm wary about breaking the speed limit. I don't want to have to wait until I'm 21 to get my license.
Some brains just work that way, that's what chemicals can do. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:49:37
This thread should quickly morph into a "Traffic School Horror Stories"
thread, compliments of those forum members who've been busted
by the California Highway Patrol (you know, the nice folks who brought
you Erik Estrada) and had to go to traffic school early on a Saturday morning,
along with their boss, who decided this would be a fun way to bond and
ended up spending the entire fucking day with an obese chatty woman
who kept "regaling" the class with tales of her former life as a speeder
but then she found jesus and stopped speeding and started teaching
truants such as ourselves. That would be my story. Floop, being
a denizen of the Los Angeles area, could add some flair in the form
of stories about LA traffic school "classes", which, I understand, are taught
by struggling comedians and other types.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:38:39
your dad sounds like my kind of guy
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:36:58
im a really annoying slow driver im afraid, (although my driving does tend to be mood dependent-the worse the mood, the better/faster the driving) it comes from years of being driven around by my dad who felt it was his duty to race every car on the road, even if it meant the engine exploding... |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:35:16
drinking too much coffee probably contributes to matters too
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
| PsychicTwin |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:30:28
I have a tendency to drive fast, but this is particlarly exacerbated by loud, raucous music...("Planet of Sound" is a good example of a song that involuntarily transforms my foot into a cement block. Maybe it's the suppressed urge to stomp it up and down.) |
| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:24:59
I just got a 'sporty' car and love driving fast when I'm sure the law aint around.
Catchin' blue in his eyes that were brown
-bRIAN |
| floop |
Posted - 05/17/2005 : 14:12:55
if i owned a sports car i'd probably be in jail by now
"It's somethin' 'bout these motherfuckin' West coast G's" |
