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Who would win in a race - my Honda Element or Zorf's minivan?


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YouGotAStuGoing

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Mar 26, 2010
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Minivan all day. Although I do love a good underdog.

This whole car thing reminds me of the car I used to drive before getting my current one. It was an '04 Pontiac Montana. Bumper held on by duct tape. Speedometer and gas gauge didn't work quite right. Needed new brakes, new shocks, had a bunch of weird rattles, and the only thing that didn't make noise was the horn. But by god, could she fly.
 

Zorf

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maclean

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Weekend's an hour away and it's going to be 22 and gorgeous, so just have the car talk out of your system by monday lads
 

BonkTastic

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Wait, am I that old that I am mis-remembering? Homer is the one making speed holes in his car, not Krusty...

It's from the Clown College episode where Homer becomes the regional Krusty knock-off who does swap meets, kids birthday parties, and all the other crap Krusty wouldn't touch with a 10-foot clown pole.
 

maclean

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Wait, am I that old that I am mis-remembering? Homer is the one making speed holes in his car, not Krusty...

I was confused by this too. Homer was dressed up as Krusty. Though for a minute I was convinced this image was created by mixymashy AI
 

BonkTastic

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I had to drive a 1991 Transport in high school. It was amazing that I was able to get a girlfriend in it.

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Haha, oh jeez, I remember those things. :laugh:

It looks like the kind of car that people in 1991 thought people in 2050 would drive. It's the "B-Movie Space-Suit" of minivans.
 

branch

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Haha, oh jeez, I remember those things. :laugh:

It looks like the kind of car that people in 1991 thought people in 2050 would drive. It's the "B-Movie Space-Suit" of minivans.
Yeah it looks like something you'd see at Epcot. Truly one of the worst looking vehicles of all time.

Disclaimer: I wasn't driving this in the 1990's where it would have been acceptable. I graduated high school in 2006 :laugh:
 

branch

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While a top contender, this award is, and always will be, held by the Pontiac Aztek

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and for the souped up version
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What's funny is my dad thought these looked really cool too and almost bought one as well. Thankfully this time I was old enough that my opinion mattered enough to dissuade him.
 

Caeldan

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While a top contender, this award is, and always will be, held by the Pontiac Aztek

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and for the souped up version
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Those lunchboxes on wheels are 100x worse than an Aztec for design. At least you could get a functional camping tent set up on the tailgate of an Aztec.

 

saskriders

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Sep 11, 2010
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There are two main problems with that metric: 1) going back to our minimum wage discussion earlier, the minimum wage has also been steadily increasing, but at a lower rate than the economy as a whole, i.e. the fact that someone has more in absolute terms does not change the fact that someone else is benefiting much more off the situation. Letting an insignificant amount trickle down to the poorest is the best way to keep a system in place; 2) I think it is worth considering what the baseline is - over the past few decades but how much did colonial society hammer them into the ground before that? What hope do people have of achieving a lifestyle comparable to ours in countries where all their resources are controlled by multinational corporations that export the profits after divvying up a tiny percentage among local lackeys (who are also rewarded by receiving all criticism for the state of things)? Basically they can either try to escape to the "West" or become one of those lackeys themselves.

According to the World Bank

  • According to the most recent estimates, in 2015, 10 percent of the world’s population lived on less than US$1.90 a day, compared to 11 percent in 2013. That’s down from nearly 36 percent in 1990.
  • Nearly 1.1 billion fewer people are living in extreme poverty than in 1990. In 2015, 736 million people lived on less than $1.90 a day, down from 1.85 billion in 1990.

And that 1.1 billion fewer is despite the population increasing by 2 billion


Does all this mean there are no problems with capitalism? No of course not.
Does this mean that growth for the middle class in the west has been as fast for the rich and those in developing countries? No, those two aren't mutually inclusive.

But just because there are problems with the current system doesn't mean we should ignore all the good it has done and pass it of as some great evil. Instead we should just find ways to reform it so that the wealth it generates is more evenly distributed.
 

coladin

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We needed a new lounge thread.

Poll question reflects urgent business.

@mysens doesn't stand a chance!

For those who are in their 40s, remember when a fast car was 0-60 in 8 seconds? A quarter mile in the 15s was serious business. 14s? Almost supercars territory.

I think minivans are comfortably in the 6s for 0-60 now and in the low 15s.

Crazy...and more efficient too
 

slamigo

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Dec 25, 2007
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Can't bring a Honda Element to a minivan race. Jeez. Might as well walk around with a sandwich board sign that reads "kick me in the nuts".
 
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