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Chances he will park way too far from the curb while parallel parking? Reverse it and you have your answer.
Sure! A humvee can’t park so far away from a curb: It’s so close to he curb at the other side of the road!
WIN!!!!!!
Parking parallel while curb the from far too way park will he chances?
I dunno… I think people who drive the environmentally friendly hybrids tend to be more of jackasses than the drivers of the Hummers.
The hybrid drivers are condescending assholes and the Hummer drivers are impotent jerkoffs. 6 of one, half a dozen of another.
IAWTP ^
It’s 6 and two 3s
FTW.
Here in California, we have an abundance of both. My favorites are the families here to drive one of each, haha.
I was thinking pompous douchebag, but condescending asshole is good, too
I am inclined to agree. The ones who drive a car they believe expresses an in-depth study their world view (in my experience, hybrid owners and confederate flag bearers in pickups) are the worst. The SUV and Hummer owners I know are, for the most part, decent people who selected their vehicles on practical considerations, not on the supposed moral superiority of states’ rights or environmentalism.
“practical considerations” which often overlook the fact that they’re not the only person in the world who exists. Hey, let’s buy a gas guzzler so if we cause an accident, we’ll survive and the guy in the little car is crushed!
WTF? You really think that a better survival rate is not a good thing to consider when buying a car?
Yeah, except then it’s your fault the other guy dies instead. I don’t want that on my head.
We’d all be safer as a whole if we all drove tiny cars. We wouldn’t be able to do much damage to each other that way.
We’d all be safer if we all drove tanks, too.
Tanks get Gallons per Mile BTW… at $1.00 per gallon that’s expensive!
a dollar a gallon?…where? Oh and smug gases cause global warming!
Some of us need to transport more than 1-2 (small) individuals from Point A to Point B on a regular basis. So-called “SmartCars” (HA!) are utterly useless in such cases.
Large vehicles have practical purposes beyond impact resistance, for some. Looking down your nose at those who make use of them for said purposes only points out your own (imagined) elitism.
If one buys a large vehicle because one truly NEEDS one, then as long as they know how to drive it and give necessary consideration to others on the road, I have no problem with that. It’s with those who think driving larger vehicles means they own the road I have the greater issue.
The way that I see it… this is lol-worthy only in the case of those you
meet on the road. It seems that the larger the vehicle someone
drives, the more indestructible they act. However, in an out-of-car
situation, I’d have to say this probably flip-flops, cuz it’s usually the
pompous guy in the hybrid who being an elitist moron in public.
And of course, just as with most of the graphs on this website,
that is certainly a stereotype and a lot of assumption. I don’t
understand why some people get so bent out of shape over an
exaggeration that is purely for amusement. We should all be able
to laugh at ourselves.
Fail. The text will wrap itself.
Also, to paraphrase Carlos Mencia, a similar sized conventional car will get similar fuel economy, so you’re paying more money for little benefit. The hybrid SUVs make sense, but a Prius or similar just says “I’m an enviro-douche.”
That’s valid and I agree, but it’d be a HELL of a lot MORE valid if I ***EVER*** in my life saw more than one person in a Hummer, invariably chatting on a cell phone while also invariably almost driving over the top of someone in a Toyota.
That pretty clearly demonstrates that you’ve never actually met one of these people.
However, you’re pretty accurately demonstrating why several of us have thought people in the first group are condescending as hell. You might not be in that group, but you’re obviously towards that end of the spectrum.
And if you’re wondering, I drive a 1989 Volvo. I’m hardly defending myself.
I have, and yeah, she’s pretty much got it covered. I tried to convince a friend of mine to avoid getting a minivan because he’s got all of two kids, so they have no need of one. His wife talked about protecting the kids in an accident. I asked if she gave a crap about the people in the other car they’ll annihilate in said accident because she chose a large, heavy vehicle, and she said no, as long as the kids are okay.
The other people are exactly that, “others,” and are none of her concern. I can’t help but think that she’s far from alone. She’s just being honest about it.
yeah, lets look at the guy in the hybrid… he is thinking of the good of the environment, including you… yeah thats a real @#$% move.
the people in SUV’s i have to agree with melissa their only consideration seems to be for themselves. but i guess if you have respect for people who dont have respect for others…you must really love yourself.
as far as the stars and bars are concerned… i see it like the rattle on a snake. it clearly states that the person flying it is a bigot, ignorant, and likely resolves all of lifes problems with alcohol and violence, and probably in that order.
Oh learn what you’re talking about. The manufacture battery packs that the hybrid uses are far more environmentally damaging than the entire lifetime emissions of a properly maintained v8.
The only reason people drive a hybrid is to feel good about themselves. You want to save the environment with a new car? Get a yaris, aveo, or a fit, or some other gasoline or diesel powered subcompact.
So yeah, the only people I’ve ever met driving hybrids are either clueless hippies, or stuck up yuppies.
actually, i believe that was an urban legend propagated George Will. im not 100% sure mind you, because everyone has an angle, and everyone has a reason to lie when money is involved. not to mention the next gen prius will be primarily electric, with a gas engine to recharge the batteries on trips of over 100 miles. chevy is coming out with the volt with a similar design but a 40 mile range.of course then you can argue that most of the electricity in the US is crated using coal, i do not know the equation for estimating the pollution per mile using electricity generated by coal.
Er… How in the world did you come to the conclusion “Bush is to blame” or that he hates hybrids?
As a matter of fact, he pushed for tax breaks for hybrid drivers, and other incentives to get more people to drive them.
He’s passed more intelligent environmental laws than nearly any other president. He’s merely not willing to cripple our economy in order to please Hollywood and the other people who think the world is going to die in ten years if we all don’t become Amish.
Meh, sorry. Shoulda read it better. Not George W, George Will.
Still, it isn’t a myth. manufacture and disposal of the battery packs produces quite a bit of pollution, far more so than a modern engine with working emissions controls.
The thing about electric vehicles is that even though most electricity in the US comes from coal, the source of power can change over time and geographic location. A gasoline vehicle always gets power from gasoline. If we start moving away from coal to cleaner sources of electricity, the electric vehicles in use get an automatic upgrade to that cleaner source as well, while gasoline vehicles would require retrofitting in order to be less polluting.
Here needs one of those audio previews like YouTube.
I drive a Jeep Wrangler, 15 miles to the gallon, before that, a Chevy Suburban, 12 miles to the gallon.
Why did I choose these? Well, I didn’t have much choice in the Suburban, it was my parent’s car, and I had just gotten my license. They chose it because we needed something that could haul all seven of us and our ski boat. The only thing survivability of an accident did was have us choose a Suburban over an Excursion/Explorer. I chose the Jeep because I’ve always liked them, and I’m not always on the paved road. If I could have afforded it, I’d have gotten one of the Hummer H1s.
Unless you hit one of the few buttons I have, I’m one of the nicest, most polite people you will meet. I keep mostly to myself, and don’t go out of my way to preach my beliefs of what is right onto other people. Same with most of the people I know that have the “confederate flag” (it wasn’t the confederate flag, but the flag of one division, and is known as the Navy Jack). However, I can’t say the same about those people who drive around hybrids or support the sham PETA, or anyone else who’s “passionate” about the environment.
True people who care about the environment are the people who are out in it. Believe it or not, Hunting groups are the ones who give the most to conservation of the wild, believe it or not. Ducks Unlimited has done more for waterfowl preservation than any other organization, probably more than the lot of them combined.
first off… hunters rock, and yes i am aware that they are the largest conservators in the US. second off, if you have to drive off road, or if you work out of a truck and have a need for a 4wd or vehicle with a bed or if you have a large family them by all means buy a vehicle that suits your needs.PETA is…i dont like peta,im all for treating animals ethically, happy cows without hormones taste better. the navy jack was the official flag of the confederacy…it is now and always has been associated with the confederacy, which in turn is associated with slavery, and in turn bigotry. that doesnt mean that anyone flying said flag is any one of those things, but it is the common association people have with it, so one would assume with that knowledge anyone flying it would have views in line with that.
The Navy Jack was never the official flag of the confederacy. The CSA actually liked stealing our names of flags, but their national one was called “The Stars and Bars”. They then had “The stainless banner” and “The bloodstained banner”. The similarly designed battle flag was, as the name implies, the official battle flag of the Confederacy. Some units did fly under the Navy Jack right near the end of the war.
Either way, it doesn’t symbolize slavery. That’s a straw man argument used to try and get it banned from places, and so people can feel good about badmouthing “rednecks”. The flag symbolizes the southern spirit, which is the reason people down here fly it. The do it with the views that they’re representing their heritage. As with any group, most of the people aren’t the racist assholes people expect, those are just the loudest people in it; and even they only bear the Navy Jack to show they’re proud of their heritage. I’m exluding the various white supremacy groups that may have displayed the flag at one point, as they’re not the ones that put a decal on the back of their truck.
My response with SUVs were along your comment of “i have to agree with melissa their only consideration seems to be for themselves.” Your current response is different, and much more realistic. As a tip in debates and general persuasive speaking, don’t generalize, you’ll always be called out on the exception. Now if you said that there are plenty of people who buy them for the sole fact of surviving a crash, or being the biggest thing out on the road, or whatever” you’d have been right.
I’m glad some people on the other side of the argument hate PETA as much as I do…I’m all for not being absolutely brutal to animals, but when a group of people decide that animals should be placed on higher priority than ourselves (and then goes around euthanizing them to boot), I tend to think of them as crazy.
I second you, Mr. Squat.
Except I don’t hunt a lot, I fish. Fisherman do more for wildlife then PTA, hands down. We actually care about the environment, because we’re the one’s who would feel the hurt if we lost it.
nawt to mentn how brite teh lites are on teh stoopid suvs
Apparently you’ve never tried to cram enough stuff for a week long trip for 2 adults and a 6 month old into a tiny hybrid car. My “practical considerations” are that my stuff won’t fit. I can’t even go anywhere overnight with my family in a hybrid.
Secondly, why wouldn’t I consider my safety when buying a car/SUV? To not consider it would be asinine . . .
Oh, but *big weepy eyes* you’re supposed to care about the other person more than you care about yourself or your own children! You’re supposed to worry about everyone who’s more concerned about feeling as if they’re doing something “positive for the environment” than you are supposed to care if your own child dies because some hippy freak is too busy turning up her Joan Baez CD and texting her “life partner” about the vegan lasagna she wants to have for dinner to bother to pay attention to the red light she’s about to run right in front of you.
Honestly, come into the collective! We’re all the same here. We’re so much concerned with each other that we no longer have need of things like free thought, individual choices, or the word “I”.
It’s not the fault of an SUV owner if the other vehicle in an accident is made of aluminum foil. Why not look out for your own safety, instead of expecting everyone else to do so for you? Why not be responsible for yourself and your own family, instead of expecting everyone else to do so for you? Are you truly that lazy?
Safety in small cars is way better than you think, Fuzzi. I can pretty much figure on whacking a tree or something in my Honda Fit (see, I don’t drive a hybrid, thank you) and walk away from it. I can’t, however, expect the same if I get mauled by a Hummer. I could just drive a Hummer (provided I could afford the thing, which I couldn’t), but then they’d just make something bigger to displace it and let people feel “safe” again.
Personally, I’d rather drive a car like mine that’s small and relatively nimble so that I can avoid the collision in the first place. Good luck doing that in an Escalade or Tahoe without rolling it over.
If you know how to handle an SUV, it’s not that hard to avoid rolling it, and you also know what to do if it does attempt to roll while doing evasive manouevres. The real problem with SUVs is that your average American learns how to drie in a compact car, and then decides they need an SUV.
My Honda Fit has three times the cargo space as a Prius AND it gets better crash test ratings overall than a Chevy TrailBlazer. Oh, and there have been many reports of 40+ mpg tanks with it, and I spent about $15 to fill my tank from nearly empty yesterday, without a discount card or anything like that.
You have options. Don’t just assume bigger and heavier = better.
Not a hybrid, but I’ve taken several weeklong trips with a Miata trunk packed for two adults… Not with a 6 month old too, but just sayin…
I know I’m not the only person in the world which is why I have a Suburban (think about it awhile). I often volunteer drive on school/church trips and my ‘burban holds the people of two vehicles and the excess cargo that couldn’t fit in the compact cars that come along on the trip. So lets do the math: 8 people at 18MPG = 2 cars at 36MPG each. But wait, there’s more. Since I carry the extra cargo they can’t one of those two cars rents a trailer or puts a rooftop carrier on that lowers their fuel economy down to 30MPG. WIN for the big ‘ol gas guzzling SUV. During nice weather (anything above 45) I ride my 50+ MPG motorcycle into work. Saves gas, uses less space on the road, uses less asphalt in the parking lot. So when I fill up my ‘burban with people AND cargo I get to be the arrogant, pompous ass about saving the environment.
Practical considerations? “Hmmm, after considering the practicalities of the situation, the most sensible course of action seems to be to buy an enormous military vehicle to drive the kids to school.”
Well sure, this is the obvious solution but thanks to the U.S. Firearms and Machine Gun Act I had to demilitarize the 105mm cannon first. All that concrete in the barrel killed the fuel economy.
Level of douchebaggy-ness is usually directly proportionate to the purpose behind their choice of vehicle.
For example, the big city ass that would sooner get a manicure than go for a hike that has a lifted, brush-guarded, roll barred pick up will be a bigger twat than the ass that actually has a ranch in Texas with a gunrack and a ‘Southern Pride’ sticker.
Also, Dodge drivers are douchey, 9 times out of 10.
This is total and complete truth.
Aww, but Dodge’s are so much easier to wrok on than Fords! But Chevy is easier than Dodge…so…
Nevada, actually. And I’m a girl.
And finally: Case in point. Thank you so much for justifying my entire argument..
I thought a previous graph had established that douchebags drive the environmentally friendly hybrids?
That’s the theory, but I just haven’t seen it. I live in Cali, home turf of the Prius, and I haven’t noticed these douchebag drivers at all. I’ve been forced to conclude that our egos have been fabricating them out of some super-defensive need to feel better about the car choices we’ve made.
FWIW, I get about 20 MPG in my convertible roadster, and I’m probably the douchebag driver that all the peaceful Prius owners are complaining about on their blogs.
That’s because you’re from Cali. Most of you drive like morons in the first place, so how would you be able to recognize it?
At the least, they’re more smug and less surly.
A different breed of ass, but still an ass.
Yeah, I’ve always found it to be the exact opposite of what the graph says
I agree, hybrid owners I’ve met tend to be big condescending assholes. If they said compact car I’d let the graph slide. Besides, most Hummer drivers by me are soccer moms that are too busy baking brownies to be a jerk.
Dude, driving a Hummer in suburbia IS being a jerk. Practically no one who ones one has any sort of training to drive something that big, and is just asking for trouble. Leave the jacked up trucks to those who know how to use them and have a good use for them, and get a Volvo with 800 air bags if you need an Armored Personnel Carrier for your offspring.
i agree
especially my carpool, they own two priuses and think they own the world because of it. i.e. not stopping on the interstate for an emergency vehicle, locking doors in barely sketchy neighborhoods
they just want attention and for everyone to know THEY PERSONALLY are “SAVING THE WORLD”.
they are douches
first
Mr. Environmentally Friendly Hybrid Driver is also a Damn JERK!
1) Scowls at others not using Recycled Cotton shopping totes while buying Organic Produce.
2) Thinks he’s being nice by letting another slow driving Hybrid into traffic while holding up 57 other vehicles through 2 light cycles.
3) Composts everything! [kitchen scraps, leaves, dog poop, tampons, grass clippings, newspaper, etc.]
4) Actually thinks the label, “Free Range” really makes a difference in the “quality” of a chicken’s life!
5) Offers BEANO to guests at his parties to “Stop Flatulence and thus Save the Ozone Layer.”
6) Drinks Caffeine Free Organically Grown Herbal Tea made with “Imported Spring Water,” but drinks 3 RockStar Energy Drinks to stay awake at work.
What a jerk. How dare they get upset at other people not caring a lick about the environmental damage?
Composts everything! Man, that would totally affect me seeing as how I don’t live in their house and don’t have to deal with it.
How dare he offer me Bean-o! Obviously, my flatulence is comfortable to me and I love breaking wind at inopportune times. It’s not annoying at all.
Yeah, you know what? You’re an ass.
And, Mickey, you are an Ass Hat!
Not everything is compostable, and it can leave quite a stench.
As to offering Bean-o? It’s incredibly rude to do so, especially using the guise of “saving the environment”.
Let’s face the facts, we aren’t hurting the earth one bit. If we get too much, it’ll just wipe us out and move on. Do I want to be wiped out? no. Does this mean I’m going to change my ways? some, but recycling doesn’t do crap for the environment. Fun Fact: It’s more detrimental to the environment to recycle paper than it is to harvest trees grown for the sole purpose of it. I don’t toss my litter out the window, I toss on a jacket instead of turning up the heat, and I don’t drive unless I have to. Am I a bad person because I use plastic bags at the grocery store (when I use a bag), or because I toss cans, bottles, and paper instead of paying the rediculously high price for recycling service?
Before you start preaching a position, learn it. It’ll save you a lot of time in defending it.
i can see where one and two might be annoying, but five and six are ridiculous instead of funny and three and four do not make someone a jerk. someone living a different lifestyle than yours doesn’t mean that they are automatically an asshole.
Stereotypes are fun, but how is composting being a jerk? I mean, even if it’s useless, I don’t get the jerk angle. I’m far too lazy for that sort of thing, but dude, to each their own. Perhaps you could use a nap.
Hey, now. I’m that small-town hick the graph complains about (from farm country, damn proud Southerner, Republican since I started thinking for myself) and I’ve seen the difference between factory farm and free-range animals, and believe you me there’s a difference.
The following nullifications are based on my own life, the life of a somewhat enviromentally friendly person:
1. We’re doing it to save the entire human race. People will be wishing they listened to us when global warming causes the ice caps to melt (and thus making the oceans larger and flooding low land), domesticated animals such as cows and pigs are extinct due to overkilling, the oceans are barren due to overfishing, etc.
2. 57 people? Come on, you know that’s an exaggeration. Doing nice things for people, like stopping to let them turn onto streets, is just common courtesy: a thing never seen these days because of the stereotypical doucebags that drive the Hummers.
3. EVERYTHING? You are obviously pretty f*cked up if you think this is true. The only people who compost (usually) are botanists and gardeners that use it for fertilizer. The rest of us just throw it away, since it’ll degrade in landfills anyway
4. People who care don’t just put signs up for show; if it’s free-range for the chickens, they’re at least trying.
5. That’s funny, but you’re an idiot.
6. You’re mistaking us for hyopcrites.
7 (my own). If it’s recyclable, recycle it!! Eventually, we’ll be up to our necks in garbage because there won’t be any more room to put everything. Unfortunately, the morons of the world (AKA non-enviromentalists) would rather just do whatever they want and say, “Whatever, we’ll just cut down the forests to make more room. Nobody cares about the other species of the world, or the trees that make our life-vital oxygen for us!!”
In other words, non-enviromentalists are conceited, pretentious assholes that believe humans and humans’ happiness are the only important things in the world. We’re protecting you from yourselves.
As if the car anyone drives has any particular impact on ‘the environment’.
When the scam is exposed, I wonder how many ‘environmentalists’ will understand what happened, let alone admit to being gullible nincompoops? I’m sure it won’t be the self-righteous, non-driving judgmental dipsticks with whom I am forced to deal on a a daily basis.
The battle cry of the environmentalist: “We Believe!”
You are my hero.
Just think, if humans had been industrialized to the point we are during the Ice Age, environmentalists would have said that the cooling was indisputable proof hat humans are ruining the environment.
hat, that, same word.
Actually they did, back in the 70’s.
The big scientific scare and “indisputable proof of environmental damage” was that a new ice age was going to be formed, and canada would be under a glacier by 2010
………..I love you….!
You MUST read my proof of ‘environmentally unfriendliness by yuppies’ in my comment way down there…..we need to have abbies together. Cynical, politically incorrect babies who see the world as it actually is, god forbid
Hybrids – because building a brand new car has zero environmental impact, and when batteries wear out you can grind them up and eat them, they’re not toxic in the least!
Quite true. Your comment is win.
Actually, I’d say its the other way around. Most people in hummers are really nice while most environmentalists are jerks because we’re not conforming to their BS standards.
I know I’m going to get a lot of crap for this, but I speak the truth: man-made global warming isn’t true either.
global warming debate aside, i think that judging a person’s character based on what kind of car they drive is a little silly (and yes, i know that most of the jokes on this site are based on silly stereotypes, i just think that this one is less funny than others). there are jerks who drive hummers and jerks who drive hybrids, but on the other hand there are perfectly sweet people who drive those cars as well.
Very true.
You are one of few people I have met on the internet that has half a brain.
I have the other half, lol
I have the third half! Yay!
I’ll take the fourth half if nobody else wants it.
^^^
Case in point.
why thank you
i try to hold down the fort.
It’s the impatient mommas in minivans that make me nervous on the road. Hell hath no fury like a woman whose kids are late for their extracurricular activities.
How dare you smudge my name like that! *yelling at you out minivan window while talking on cell phone and driving twice the speed limit to ridiculously expensive sport*
I just want to say that by far the biggest douchebags on the road are the ones who drive giant trucks (like F-150s and Silverados) that are raised like 10 feet in the air. That crap is all for show and the most obvious compensation I’ve ever seen.
PERIOD.
I agree.. people in the big trucks and the hybrids are way worse than those people in hummers..
They get some sorta of superiority complex going that allows them to go 60 in a 25 mph zone…
They make me angry
Oh, those people are annoying. I remember back in high school, they had to ban kids from driving cars like that to school because these idiots would not look behind them while they were backing out of the space. Like the world would move out of the way for them or something. Well, three cars actually being backed over, they finally banned jacked-up cars. Most likely because that third accident, there was someone in the car that this truck went right on top of. The wheels of that truck never left the ground, and the front end of the other car was crushed. Of course, then the state I lived in put severe restrictions on the height of car bodies from the wheelbase a few years later, so it’s not so much an issue any more.
This graph is so true, especially if the title is “Chances the guy in front of you will exhibit an dangerous driving.” Except you need one more bar for “talking on the phone.” For some reason, the guy who always cuts me off without signaling is always on the phone in a jacked 4WD pickup with a Confederate flag and/or Texas license plates. And I live up north!
Actually, that’s just how people drive in the South. It has nothing to do with the kind of car involved. People down here in the South just don’t know how to drive (myself included…).
Whatever happened to the Southern gentleman and the real good ol’ boys? Clearly you’re just a Yankee wanting to play Southerner. I bet you drink your tea without sugar and wouldn’t know a fish fry if I slapped you upside the back of the head with a catfish.
‘Probability of jerkiness’ should be ‘improbability of jerkiness.’
Fixed.
They left off Lexus. Every dirt bag in Miami drives one. Makes you wonder what the “L” on the front grille is for….
How about Miata owners? I had a couple of encounters with Miata owners, mentioning their car, and both were A-holes…
Does that make my family a break in the trend, then?
You can tell this graph was made by someone who drives an “environmentally friendly hybrid.” In reality, the chance guy in the hummer is a jerk is prbably between the suv and the redneck truck (so about 60%). And, also in reality, the chance the guy driving the hybrid is a jerk is probably about the same as the hummer.
Lol, I made this graph, and no, I don’t drive a hybrid, though I wouldn’t mind driving one. The truth is, the graph is just a joke. I don’t know why people are getting so bent out of shape about it. Of course there are nice people who drive hummers and trucks with confederate flags in the back. The whole thing is a joke, people. Lol.
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=2976623
If you are out there driving a hybrid-powered smugmobile, you are basically saying to the world: “I have done all I wanted to do in my life, now I’m just wating to die. I have no joy in life so neither should you, drive a hybrid.”
Or “I don’t have a lot of money for gas”.
Unlikely, since every hybrid costs several thousand dollars more than a subcompact gas sipper.
hahahahhahaha WIN
you really don’t understand the concept of investments, do you? I think hybrids are ridiculously overpriced, but if you drive a lot it pays for itself. Now idiots who drive just to the store once a week would be stupid for driving a hybrid. Driving across the country? I’ll take the Prius.
Why? The Prius is most effective in stop and go traffic as it generates electricity when the brakes are applied. Also, above 40 mph, the gas engine has to
kick in. On a cross country tip, you’d like be on a highway with infrequent stop and go, and cruising above 40 mph.
oooh, smart girl. Marry me, we will run our shop together.
Å Prius makes sense if you commute a lot in traffic, if you’re a taxi, and if the government has given you some special treat for driving one. I know a few folks who have purchased them because they have long commutes and 1) they save money on gas in rush hour traffic and 2) they get to use HOV lanes, get tax breaks, etc. The math can work out in your favor $$$-wise, environmentalism notwithstanding.
Nice to know that the liberal mindset is still going strong that anyone they agree with is right thinking and perfect and anyone who disagrees with any of their near-religious socialist babbling is evil and an asshole…
Continuity is soooooooo important.
Let’s all laugh at the entire population of the south and anyone who owns a large car! HAHAAHAHHAHA!! What idiots they are!
Don’t laugh at the south, not everyone down here has a big car, and even though there are a lot of rednecks, most people i know aren’t idiots.
I say laugh at the idiots in the souped-up soup-can Hondas. The ones with different colored fenders and giant Schick Quattro razors duct taped to the tailgate. That sound like a bee farting. hell, they still get better gas milage than a Prius….while they run
uhh… you ever see a Civic? I hate the things, but the one redeeming quality of a Civic is that it absolutely refuses to die. I’ve changed flats and batteries, that is it.
Eh be warned of the new ones though.
All the new cars’s quality has gone downhill.
New Civics have problems within a month.
Yeah, me and my hubby own Full-Throttle Motorsports, and that’s basically what we work on, that and Lancers and Subies. It is odd that we fix other people’s well-running hondas, and yet ours hates us, and refuses to be fixed.
Any ideas for where to find parts for (or someone to work on)
a ‘67 Cougar?
I got the one I wanted(, XR-7, 390 big block, 3 speed manual,
original burgundy color and NO vinyl top. Who thought about fitting a vinyl
top on mucle cars, anyway?!) but i didn’t have 250.000 dollars, so it’s
not exactly “mint condition.”
Of all the mentioned people, the only one likely to stop and help you change a flat is the redneck in the truck. Just y’all remember that.
Wouldn’t that be “all y’all”? Presuming you are addressing the community at large?
Also, I totally agree!
Amen sister! I had to read through a whole bunch of hate before I found yer lil’ gem of a post! Problem is that I look like the redneck I am, so lots of folks here in Montgomery county, MD (mostly gals) tell me that they have a tow truck on the way and they don’t need my help! I try to tell them that I know they’ll be waiting a while because I used to drive a tow truck when I was younger, but they still tell me to get lost.Sometimes ya just can’t win, even if you’re trying to do the right and neighborly thing!
The partisan rot is creeping out of PunditKitchen and infecting the rest of the sites. How long before we’re subjected to cats and dogs singing the praises of Obama and trashing Christians and capitalists?
No need to trash Christians and capitalists…they’re pretty good at doing that to and for themselves.
It is actually fairly balanced between screaming liberal nutjobs and screaming conservative nutjobs. Kinda like our country.
-A screaming liberal nutjob
If one follows the ideology of the “right” to its natural end, there is someone like Hitler, Stalin, and fascism. On the other hand, at the end of the “liberal” rainbow, lies a world of peaceful coexistence. Admittedly, I’m a cynic, but buried way deep inside is a disappointed optimist.
Flip-flop that statement and you’ve got it right.
I don’t see how either of you has got it… Stalin was a leftist, Hitler a right-winger. What they both are is authoritarians, and I have no love for authoritarians of either “wing.”
Yes, funny how the extreme left and the extreme right take
basically the same road to opposite goals.
How was Hitler a right-winger? He was a nazi.The word “nazi” is short for national socialist.
Last I heard socialism was not part of the right-wing value system.
The chart looks backwards, to me……
- JM.
Thumbs up to you, JM! Glad to see I’m not the only one who saw it that way.
It appears to me that this graph was created by a yankee…
Oh, My. Doesn’t anyone remember the SouthPark show where we all learned that folks who drive hybrid cars like to smell their own farts?
Yeap
But like Southpark also sad, hybrids can be very usefull, but people are just not ready for them 
*looks up at quite a few of the comments* Oh blah blah blah everyone’s an ass.
Um…I think this graph is the opposite of how its supposed to be. Every hybrid driver I’ve ever met has been a self centered asshole who constantly preaches about how amazing their gas mileage is and how “green” they are. I am so sick of hearing “green” its too bad too, because it used to be just a color. One I liked.
Also, the confederate flag is a symbol from history and can be construed several ways. Its not always racist. I think many people who put them cars mean it to be, but do a little more research before making such an annoying and assy graph.
THANK YOU!!!! I work at a nuclear naval shipyard, and we get Birkenstock-wearing Prius drivers blocking our gates almost every Monday morning, tossing fliers at us, condemning our jobs that happen to support this whole area and thier yuppie lifestyle. They are so environmentally conscious that they don’t waste any energy by throwing away thier own Starbucks cups *made from paper* or thier littered fliers *made from paper*. But they all drive seperate 5 seat Priuses instead of carpooling, and wear Birkenstocks *made from helpless creatures* and drive off to the yacht club to pollute the water for some cute sea critters. Ugh.
Wow, nice to see that somebody can see the silver lining in confederate revisionism, but not in environmentalism. I guess they both have their dark sides, but only one of them ever started a war, was ever associated with the KKK, or ever supported slavery.
I guess we all pick our poisons…
Started a war? Ummm…you’re way wrong.The South merely tried to secede because of economic disparities.It was the Union that actually went on the march and fired the first shot.Does Fort Sumner mean anything to you?
Maybe you should engage in some historical studies before you make statements like that.
As for the KKK…they have quite a foot-hold in Pennsylvania.Not a Southern state last time I checked.
And supporting slavery? There were states north of the Mason-Dixon that held slaves, even as the war was declared! Again I say, learn your history before you make statements like this!
Talk about revisionism…sheesh!
I am amazed by the idiots who actually say someone is selfish because they think their children are more important than a stranger. And it is their fault that they didn’t sacrifice their children so that others can live. Of course if a soldier sacrifices his life for others, he is a moron…
No, morons are people who are old enough to breed and don’t take precautions to not get pregnant if they can’t handle responsibilities or well, make the bed they slept in.
What about license plate frame that says *your mom’s name* HEART *your dad’s name* = love forever
go home. your comments are boring and self serving to your ego.
I wish I could, but I’m stuck in a cold, smelly submarine missile silo until 4am when the next instructor probably won’t show up on time. And what is your problem, anyways? I don’t recall forcing you to scan the comments for my name and then read them. Please get a hobby. I am not going to therapy over your insults, so move on to someone else.
Oh, and I forgot to add that your comment was full of hair-raising excitement and laughs. They are obviously the best. Your parents didn’t give you much attention, did they? I don’t have much of an ego. I’m tired, I have a gross-looking new scar as of today, and I probably smell like hot slag. *sniff* yup. Big ego. I’ll go parade myself around with a flashing neon sign proclaiming my wonderousness. You can watch, sice you seem to be the only person adding to my ego by paying attention.
What’s the scar from?
Ohhh man I didn’t tuck my welder’s coat sleeve into my glove well enough, and got hot slag all down my arm and armpit while doing overhead tig. I’m sure my safety students had a great time watching my do my ‘omgwtf-that-hurts-so-much-getitoutgetitoutgetitout’ shakey dance, while proving my own unsafety procedure. Very professional. *hangs head in shame*
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Nahhhhhh this graph is definitely more of a correlate of penis size (larger to smaller, obviously) than jerkishness… Jerks come in all shapes and sizes.
Scale down. Scale down. Car too small to fit all your weekend gear, plus kids?…camp in your backyard…drive smaller cars, go slower = fewer fatal accidents, more fender benders – need money? Open a body shop.
Bike ride. Healthier for you. Change your work. Work closer to home. Work out of home. Get creative. Downsize. Get rid of all your *&%T – you know you have tons of it.
Make it, make do, or do without for a change. Save lots of money! You’ll need cash. Limit your contribution to population growth. Have fewer kids, or none and love the ones that are already here. They need you.
Shop smaller stores and local markets. Lower your carbon footprint. Become part of your community or pull it together. More fun. One person can make a difference.
Yes, work closer to home!
Because in this economy, jobs are a dime a dozen.
Why, there are plenty of jobs right outside my door!
I don’t have to commute 18 miles at all!
Ha Ha Ha… Wait, you’re serious about that? That wasn’t just a cliche-ridden, sarcastic joke?
No, no just a joke!
Longer sentences. More words. Fragments make me cry.
Why not ask Al Gore about HIS “carbon footprint”?
Our champion of global causes seems to think that it’s YOUR duty to change the way YOU live in order to save the planet, but he seems content to keep living a lifestyle that we all used to dream about before we were brain-washed into thinking that we should feel guilty about our “impact” on the environment.
And what’s with those bumper stickers that say “This cars output off-set by carbon credits”? These folks are giving their money to someone else so they can drive around with a false sense of self-satisfaction.Do they really think that their money will make up for the damage that they too have done to our environment? Don’t get me wrong…I’m all about the internal combustion engine.Very few things have made our world economy better.I’m just saying that these folks are hypocrites of the worst kind!
Haha. WIN against the stupid Hummer drivers.
A friend of mine was actually almost hit by a Hummer. Thank God that he threw on his brakes in time. Mind you, Hummer man did almost run a red light. When you’re driving a tank, you really ought to be more responsible than that.
“actually almost hit by a hummer ” …. “did almost run a red light” …..so what your telling me that nothing actually happened involving a hummer, and this is justification that hummer drivers are evil….wow
Hit by a hummer? How is that possible? You just get pushed down by the enormous amount of compressed air those primeval bricks shove around, then that thing will drive over you.
The absolute unneeded ground clearance is so enormous, smaller people can just stand under it!
Oh, My. Doesn’t anyone remember the SouthPark show where we all learned that folks who drive hybrid cars like to smell their own farts?
Totally forgot BMWs. They come just to the left of Hummers in this scale.
Biggest Douche Award
Guy who made this Graph
Environmentally friendly hybrid
Confederate Flag Truck
Hummer
SUV
What about the ricer kids with the fart can muffler, stereos blaring some kind of crap music? They sit at a red light, rev their little civic or whatever and try to race anyone who looks at them. I have a house full of them down the road. They run wide open all night up and down the street. I’m hoping to get my 68 mustang running again soon(it’s in a million bits at the moment) just so I can park down at their house at 3am and rev it with open headers.
And then wow them with the pure awesomeness that is the classic mustang.
Ohh, I’m with you. I lived in Kent, Wa, home of the night races. They quit making fun of me though when my hubby beat an Evo 9 in his 67 GTO and i spanked some hideous orange Eclipse with Nos *cheating, I say* in my ugly Volvo v70 twin turbo WAGON with a new t3/4 in it. bwahahaha
Ricers are annoying, but they weigh like 8 pounds. The jacked up truck, the hummer and the SUV are much more likely to kill me, and driving is pretty much the most dangerous thing any of us does on a regular basis. Since apparently everyone everywhere is an asshole anyway, my vote is for those who manage to express their asshattery in small vehicles.
Demetri Martin did this same graph type thing. Only his was funny.
whut? The hybrid guy will be the biggest jerk! at least the humvee guy admits to being one!
“GOOD FOR YOU” *thumbs up*
The person who crated this clearly lives in a city and has never driven.
Oops, they accidentally reversed this.
What about Truck Nuts? If someone already posted that, Sorry, the comments were TL;DR
No no no, jerkishness is not the sole property of the drivers of large vehicles. Bad GraphJam. There are a healthy percentage of jerks EVERYWHERE! As far as I’m concerned anyone who comes at me with a “green” anything has already started pegging the jerkometer. But there are plenty of jerks to go around in every aspect of human life. I am the most laid back person on planet earth, but I can guarantee I’ve been a jerk once or twice. Well, I got better. I’m even on half the meds now.
1/this graphjam == true
Yes,your car is made from 10″ steel beams and old stone-churches
Please. It’s a little tougher than that.
Like a Volvo from the late 90’s?
I actually completely agree with this graph.
Hybrids are important and will be the future of motoring,
but they’re just not there yet.
Chevrolet Volts will be the first really viable one (even though they call it an electric car) for anyone who doesn’t live
in a major city, and can’t allways let it sitt and charge for 10 hours every night.
But even they can’t deliver it before 2010!
Ah. I see you agree with this graph, too.
I’m not gonna read all the comments, but I want to point out that the graph is incorrect. ‘Hummer’ should read ‘BMW.’ Those f*cks are so bent out of shape about their hoods being welded shut they don’t even use their turn signals out of sheer spite.
In Florida, this graph is the other way around, except the biggest jerks are the people in small, trashy cars. They would be just above the snots with the eco-friendly cars, except they don’t MEAN to be rude, they just have no clue how to drive.
You forgot to put BMW above all.
My Ex-husband has a Prius and the largest Suburban he could get… proves my point that he’s an jerk no matter where he is lol.
I’d consider 2 of those to be more likely of being an asshole than someone with a pickup that older than 5 years or nearly any sedan model. Hummer owners and Environmental car owners, Probably a statistic >50% for both. I bet the writer of this graph owns an “eco-friendly” car himself.
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Environmental car owner: Douche who believes that buying a new car with a bio hazard battery is better than sticking with a car that gets 17 or better Mpg. Will nearly always call you names if you point out the fact that a car being manufactured produces more pollution than a single car produces the entire time its on the road, more so with the Hybrids.
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Confederate flag guy: Because you disagree with what they MIGHT mean with the flag means they’re a jerk… Ok buster,
Thank you all for the great reading. Best flaming, idiotic comments on GraphJam ever– and I mean all around. It’s interesting to see that car choice reflects so much on the driver of the car, and that it’s not just considered to be transportation.
My contribution to the flaming would be that I grew up in a Geo Metro with 50 miles to the gallon. Four of us used to go on camping trips and we always managed to get all of our stuff in there. It was not the most comfortable ride, but we managed.
I agree a little bit with everyone here. I compost, recycle, worry for my own safety, drive carefully, am a considerate driver, am a proud Southener, but would never display the flag due to its associations, and find everyone mentioned on this graph annoying when they begin stereotyping/ pushing their way of life on me.
BIGGER CAR. BIGGER COMPENSATION!
SMALLER CAR. BIGGER EGO!
This is ridiculous–If you think something is wrong with people that drive hybrids then you are equally saying you shouldn’t drive a hybrid because if you do your an a hole????? That makes no sense. Please do not be so judgemental–driving a hybrid is responsible and good for the environment. Some people simply care–doesn’t make them an a hole though. Look at the reasons why you might believe that and look at YOURSELF. Maybe when you see a hybrid you hate the driver because it makes you feel bad about yourself because you don’t drive one.
HAHA. I don’t think that about myself. I think “I could drive right over that little thing”.
My Ford compact was sideswiped by an a–hole in a Hummer. He never stopped (probably because he couldn’t afford insurance after spending all that money on gas.)
Hybrid owners might be condescending, self-aggrandizing pieces of sh*t sometimes, but at least if a Prius had hit me, I wouldn’t have the whole passenger side of my car caved in right now, while the other guy drove away with nary a scratch to show for his lack of consideration for the law and the safety of his fellow man….
I disagree with this. I’ve met plenty of decent people with Confederate flags in the back window, and jerks who look down their noses at everyone who doesn’t pay all they have for the sake of Mother Earth.
Amen brother. They really do tend to be smug, arrogant, mightier than though, people that drive so “carefully” that they actually end up causing problems on the highway anyway (like when one going 20 under the speed limit is passed by another going 15 under the speed limit in the left lane).
A lot of southerners look at the confederate flag not as a symbol of white power or any of that jazz but as a symbol of the southern culture. I live in New England and i truly believe that “jerks” down in the south are much friendlier and nicer people. Drive in NYC sometime and tell me that hybrid drivers aren’t jerks.
but this is oppisite for smug people
From my experience, the biggest douche is the arrogant Hybrid driver.
in my experience, people that drive hummers and people that drive priuses are exactly the same
i drive a toyota camry so i have no bias. those who drive environmentally-friendly cars aren’t pompous or elitist or condescending, they just want everyone to go green too. its more of an annoyance that there are still people who drive certain cars to boost their social status while our planet is in a dire condition.
Only crackpot hippie types will intentionally drive slow in the fast lane to try to force others to obey the speed limit, or save gas, or any of a hundred other reasons they appoint themselves everyone else’s overseers. Others do it because they are stupid and don’t know the difference between the lanes or because they are too stupid to get off the cell phone and pay attention to the road. It is the people who think they are environmentally friendly who are most often the jerks on the road.
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