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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby Specop_007 » Wed 24 May 2006, 22:11:57

Damnit! Seeing all this pent up childish rage from the ecolibtards makes me want to trade in my Expedition for an H2, just to piss'm off a little more. :lol:
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby threadbear » Thu 25 May 2006, 00:23:50

Flip off hummers? Like flip them off a cliff? That might be considered poor etiquette, but you CAN give them the finger. :)
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby Liamj » Thu 25 May 2006, 01:27:50

I like a straight out sneer with eye contact more than a digit. Am batting a hundred lately on them looking down and away first... even they now know they're selfish, weak and stupid for burning their childrens future to protect their lardy arses.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'D')amnit! .. pent up childish rage .. ecolibtards .. piss'm off .. :lol:

What, you still here specop?!? Haven't you flounced off the site in a huff half a dozen times already? You're worse than herpes, herpes isn't even supposed to have any honour.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby TommyJefferson » Thu 25 May 2006, 10:54:56

You people remind me of these guys from the movie Easy Rider.

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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby holmes » Thu 25 May 2006, 11:27:58

Hey its not the SUV. Its where we are going!
In 2022, New York City is populated with 40 million people, half of whom are unemployed. The air is smoggy and sooty, and the sun bakes everything, everyday, at 90 degrees. Overpopulation and the destruction of the environment may have rendered human life cheap, but food--that is, real food--is quite expensive. A jar of real strawberry jam costs $150, if it's available--supermarkets don't exist anymore. The government now dispenses rations of food substances made by the Soylent corporation: Soylent Yellow, Soylent Red, and the newest product, Soylent Green.


But even these Soylent products are in short supply. Riot police are always dispatched when Soylent is distributed, because violence kicks in when the food runs out. Thorn (Heston) is a member of this modern, beleaguered police force, which pilfers every crime scene for the necessities of life. When Thorn is called in to investigate the death of a Soylent Corporation executive, his take is a treasure trove: a towel, a bar of soap, paper, and some real food--celery, a couple of apples, and half a pound of beef.

But what at first seems to Thorn a clumsy robbery soon seems a highly-managed assassination. But ironically, it is the death of Thorn's aging friend, Sol (Robinson), one of the few who still remembered what food was, what plenty meant, that cracks the case and unmasks a conspiracy. It is only through Sol's death that Thorn understands what the world has lost and what it has become...

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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby holmes » Thu 25 May 2006, 11:42:00

Hello this is a public service announcment brought to you by Soylent Green Enterprises...
Humans consume 40% of the Earths Primary productivity.
But we will have SUV's!
Remember, your childs flesh is tommorrows veal and thank you and have a great day!


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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby mattb » Thu 25 May 2006, 12:38:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'I')m not yelling at you I just want to know wtf is "green". explain. Thank u.

poor choice of words i guess, I didn't anticipate such a reaction!
I guess that word green is slightly loaded and ambigiuos. It's certinly thrown around casually without much thought.
i would think it would be used to describe a product, lifestyle or choice that the person using the term deems to be at least marginally ecologicaly responsible on some level.
Coal technology certinly isn't the only way to power an electric vechile, as I'm sure your aware. there are options with smaller ecological foot prints available and not in as wide use as the coal technology that provides most electricity generation.
Realistically we'll never be able to power our needs, transportation, agriculture, lights for sport stadiums, etcc. without impacting the planet in some fashion. So is that reason enough to voluntairly revert back to the dark ages? I for one wouldn't be willing to impact my quality of life that drastically when I feel there are options available to immensily mitigate our wanton energy consumption while still maintaining the current lifestyle for many, many years to come.

And just because there aren't more strigent safeguards in place, or enforcement is severly lacking, or noone cares enough, is that reason to abandon the pursuit of alternate energy sources and transportation solutions that would allow us to maintain current lifestyle?
But all that's moot, as the society as we know it today is coming crashing down when we run out of energy, right? I really don't think we'll see that in our lifetime, or the next 200 years for that matter as humans as a whiole are all about maintaining comfort levels at all costs and won't take kindly to being forced to ride a bike or walk to work. Something has got to give, and human greed and malfesence will dictate that it'll be our environment that suffers.
Right now I'm on a big electric car kick, I'm trying to alert anyone that i know to their potential to slow the disasterous impact our presence is having on this planet. i really think that's the best that we can hope for.
The idea of an electric hummer is something of an oxymoron, a contridiction of ideas intended to spark debate. but there's no reason why we couldn't have zero emmissions vechiles in place of current choices available to the consumer.

There is no such thing as a sustainable future, it's mearley a matter of how long the target envelope is, 100 years, a thousand, etc... responsible lifestyle choices can extend that envelope but in the end we will bleed this planet dry, I don't belive there's any way around that.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby holmes » Thu 25 May 2006, 12:59:37

Matt, Im with u, man. sorry to jump on u. I just hate the orwellian jingoism. I like the electric car thing too. Just on small compact vehicles used in a power down paradigm. Coal is good if the CO's would take a 1 million paycut off their 30 million a year salary each year and invest in scrubbers. They have proven time and time again they are against our mother earth. They are to blame and I despise them. The north and east are centers of ecological collapse. also Health collapse. The diseases and sicknesses are increasing en mas. Also mental disordes from overpopulation and pollution. Mercury deteriorates the brain.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby Specop_007 » Thu 25 May 2006, 15:08:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Liamj', 'I') like a straight out sneer with eye contact more than a digit. Am batting a hundred lately on them looking down and away first... even they now know they're selfish, weak and stupid for burning their childrens future to protect their lardy arses.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', 'D')amnit! .. pent up childish rage .. ecolibtards .. piss'm off .. :lol:

What, you still here specop?!? Haven't you flounced off the site in a huff half a dozen times already? You're worse than herpes, herpes isn't even supposed to have any honour.

Look, more ecolibtard crying! Do you need a napkin for the tears? Cuddle on moms shoulder a bit, it'll be ok. :lol:
Otherwise, I dont recall ever "flouncing" off the site in a huff. I do recall watching ecolibtards make complete and utter fools of themselves. Which is pretty common around here. Sadly, even herpes has more intelligence then you.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby holmes » Thu 25 May 2006, 15:23:54

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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby oowolf » Thu 25 May 2006, 18:59:30

What society? The braindead, sheeple, comsumeroid zombie, sleepwalking-to-armageddon society? Horrors! NO! Don't EVER do anything that might tip off your thoughtpolice masters that you might be awake!!!!

Now, being a social pariah, this is how I go about it. I operate on the principle that the "owners" of such vehicles are insecure, adver-ganded, creepazoids who need the ego boost of a phony-macho cruismo-titanic combined with the ooh & ahh factor of "conspicuous consumption" i.e. YA YA, I'm better than you (how puerile, and yet, how effective this all works with a population suspended in permanent, retarded adolescence!).

I start out with a putative "high five" that quickly turns into a Nazi salute; then I give a two handed "double bird" that turns into two BIG thumbs down. I love the puzzled expressions I get from the befuddled "more-money-than-brains" doofusses.

Immature? Improper bahavior for a 57 year old? Let me tell you what's REALLY immature and improper--oh, wait, you probably already know.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 25 May 2006, 19:02:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', 'Y')ou people remind me of these guys from the movie Easy Rider.

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What a scene, that was. Amazing casting for those redneck killers. That lean one up front, the trigger guy, has this huge thing on his neck. I have to wonder if that was put there by the movie people or if that guy really went around with a ping pong ball sticking out of his neck.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby oowolf » Thu 25 May 2006, 19:07:41

REAL MEN DON'T DRIVE. REAL MEN WALK.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 25 May 2006, 19:27:44

More on the Easy Rider thing. When this movie was made was back when Neil Young was singing Southern Man, that is stuff like "I heard screaming and bullwhips cracking". Those crackers down south were the bad guys in those days anywhere outside the region. Pretty much the past, I guess. Plus the playing field was leveled by those southern rockers. Music is a big equalizer.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby holmes » Thu 25 May 2006, 19:54:56

Im loving it all Spec included. See Im no playa hater. Im rocking out to Neil Young, Live Rust. Half acoustic half electric. "look at Mother nature on the run in the 21st century!"

It seems I have a whole different opinion on what strength is. Sure big machines are powerful... until their blood runs out.
Red Cloud had unlimited strength. No need for fuel. except pure Buffalo, trout and venison. The fuel Mother earth gave us straight up. Puanchy guts will not be a show of strength in the years to come I imagine.
The horse and legs. Bikes are also a sign of strength. Im in the wrong paradigm.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 25 May 2006, 19:56:00

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'R')EAL MEN DON'T DRIVE. REAL MEN WALK.
REAL MEN HAVE DEEP CALLOUSES ALL OVER THE BOTTOMS OF THEIR FEET FROM WALKING BAREFOOT FROM BIRTH!
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby holmes » Thu 25 May 2006, 19:59:49

we need to take a cue form those elite Indians. Not the puke ones. all races have pukes. They were the symbol of patriotism, nationhood. They would never have allowed the treason and gluttony that we all ahve allowed. Red neck "super patriots" included. All traitors. They died defending against treason that they knew was coming. Strenght.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Thu 25 May 2006, 20:03:41

hOLMES, fOR pRESIDENT!
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby holmes » Fri 26 May 2006, 12:31:46

I would love to be president! Sadly I would get very few votes and A TON OF HATE MAIL! LOL. But man Id be a strong leader. In fact I have solutions to all the problems. and none involve cattle cars and gas chambers. Just simple old power down.
There would be riots en mas from the addicts.
ALL welfare ended only truly needy get help.
Veterans get Cash and increased health benefits.
Deportation of ALL traitors and illegals starting immediatly.
Hate the country and land you go. Illegal good bye.

I truly feel the disciplined free thinker warriors would love a MODERN Ted Roosevelt type president.

Then I would have goals on decentrlaizing the power grids.
Hydro, wind, solar and a few nuclear facililities.
address population issues and consequences with massive doses of truth and examples.
Buffalo hunting culture brought back en mas.
Corporations and energy sector slapped to the back of the bus. Shut up spoiled traitors!
USA made Nuetral country again.
I can go on and on.
I would be hated by 70% loved by 30% Id imagine.
You dont like to live in a symbiotic existence with a systems approach to life then get the fuck out.
Ecological economics implemented.
Problems yes. Cant sacrifice and are always a whiner you get stompped on.
Problems would just get solved. a little ma nature sure can clean the weak out of the gene pool.
Its all about jsut getting back to being a human being again. Borgs would just need to go away. I would be the perfect candidate to do it. It would be seen as the Borg wars in our history.
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Re: Is it socially acceptable to flip off Hummer drivers yet

Unread postby holmes » Fri 26 May 2006, 12:41:38

Prison system ended. Chain gangs and executions implemented. Drugs legalized. In for drugs your free. No help tho for any one killing themselves through food or drugs or whatever. Health care given to the healthy and responsible.
Rape a child your snuffed out with a 2 cent bullet.
Personal responsibility, low energy use, healthy, conservation minded and disciplined get benefitted.
Clean this stye up.
Man I could free up some serious cash thats getting flushed down the sewer each year. Just consider all thats getting flushed is really us. The slow plunge.
WE need a power down president! Its not about Want its NEED at this point. Hehe.

Miliary industrialized complex slapped to the back of the bus BEHIND THE People. I would nuter that fucking abomination ASAP!
Borders militarized. Fire and brimstone on illegals and their cretin employers.
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