POLITICS ARE LIKE DRIVING
POLITICS ARE LIKE DRIVING
It’s “R” to backwards and “D” to go forwards.
(Sarah Palin)
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My goodness, how true! Here’s hoping for zero to sixty in 77 days!
Hee! with lower emissions, too!!
This is really clever. I don’t know how anyone can actually argue otherwise.
It’s actually a lot funnier coming from a random poster than it did when Hillary Clinton said it. Easier to take seriously.
Actually…
Politics is like driving: “R” gets you out of the jam you were put in while in “D”.
But then again if you hit a tree while in “R” then “D” is useful…it really is like politics!
Umm… okay, I’ll give you this one!
Nice
I prefer manuals though. No “D”, just my own decision until I have no choice but “R”
Sounds like me. XD
yeah, i have no “D” either, just “R” and “1-6″… things are more fun that way.
Yeah, when the car is driving off a cliff!
It takes a special kind of thinking to point the car in a backwards direction and then claim you’re driving forward. Maybe the ’short’ bus is in order.
because theres only one left & RIGHT. damn liberals.
Now that I look at it, I probably should have had that first line say ‘Politics=Driving’ instead of what it says now. :-\
actually you are right
the verb should be IS – you got caught by the “s” trap
= would have sufficed
Still funny!!!!!
grammar fail
Tairii, no harm done. This is PK afterall and it’s funny.
Your caption are funny.
I read it like lolspeak, not reading fur teh gramerzez. I loled ’cause it fit the picture nicely.
Hahahahahahah. Lol.
Dude, that’s fantastic. I laughed in the middle of class.
Yeah, that’s actually funny. It got me to lol too. Original too, for me anyway.
You shouldn’t be browsing the internet in the middle of class anyway, that stuff’s too expensive. What? You spent so much on tuition that now you don’t even have enough money left to pay attention?
Don’t you love how everyone on the internet is a comedian?
Seriously… whatever happened to respect?
Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto. It makes me sick sometimes. What a breath of fresh air—someone with common sense!
Driving’s actually “hold down clutch and select whichever gear you require,” but who would expect Americans to understand cars…
automatic transmission much?
Autos are boring.
A stick shift stirs the soul.
Driving in Portland, in the rain, surrounded by California transplants that don’t understand rain is excitement enough, thank you.
If I could afford an entertainment sports car, though, it would be stick.
Hmmmm, reminds me of a quote I read somewhere.
“Four wheels move the body, but two wheels move the soul.”
Depends on what you use for the four wheels…
My motorcycle isn’t that exciting, but it is fun.
The vast majority of modern cars world wide are automatic, grampa. Put down the buggy-whip and step away from the Victrola.
As a person who looks down on people who can’t drive a stick let me say I thought this was pretty dang funny.
I thought the same thing.
I actually prefer a stick for real driving, but an automatic for the daily commute. I learned on a stick. As my dad said, “It’s only driving if its a stick. Otherwise, it’s just steering.” That being said, in the morning when I’m not fully encaffeinated I prefer just steering.
I’d rather just steer my Volvo — yes, I’m a liberal who drives a Volvo, but that’s because I have a daughter and they have the highest safety rating of any manufacturer — then drive my father-in-law’s 3-speed-on-column ‘74 Ford without power steering.
But I miss my ‘93 5-speed Civic that I could gear to 35 mpg…
I prefer a manual tranny for Boston driving. I want to know the engine speed when avoiding all of the other Boston drivers! I’ll have to move to manual someday…but not until I’m arthritic, thank you!
You pretty much need to be able to drop right into gear at the green light, lest the guys behind you go batshit.
*sigh*
I miss the Hub.
When you say “world wide”, do you mean “in America”?
In the rest of the world, automatic gearboxes are rather rare – in Europe they’re actually rather looked down on as not quite being real cars. In the UK, you have to get a special limited driver’s license if you only know how to drive an automatic.
Take a look at this Wiki page, and you’ll catch my drift:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear_box#Manual
That said, this caption was absolutely hilarious and right on the money.
World wide? Srsy? The only countries where I’ve found automatic cars accounting for more than a tiny percentage of those on the road are the US and Japan.
Actually, Australians have a good bit of autos too.
However, Australians are naturally slack…So it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Besides, why worry about stick-shift when there’s MEAT on the bbq?
*sigh* Thank the Maker for being an immigrant.
Yeah, i’ve found that at least more than 50% of the cars here (as in
Australia) are auto. I thought it was like that everywear but apparently
not. And yes you do need a special licence if you can only drive autos
Automatics are for wimps. Sonny.
Hey, I’m an American and drive a standard. BTW, R still goes backwards and do you really think Palin drives stick? The joke is funny as long as Americans don’t need to be idiots to fit your world view.
Ahh if it’s a Viper I guess she does drive stick…is that clutch I smell?
Hmm…. this is a comment ripe for DeathWormNexus and his wang.
Helloooo? DWM? Where you be?
No one has said the Word of Summoning. Allow me: “Transmission Nazis!”
Okay, I’ll admit that I’m a transmission snob. But I get panic attacks at the mere thought of driving an automatic during winter in the Midwest.
Wow, a whole new breed of Nazis
And a thread that messed up my username, where is the love!?
Now for your feature presentation. My wang. It dances, it sings, it spits on the homeless, it is politically incorrect and extreme.
*watches it skateboard into the air and then crash into a tree* Pardon my while I pick up my dignity.
Indeed… America’s been producing cars for a *much* shorter time than the rest of the world… so what if they managed to engineer an automatic transmission? It’s a silly thing and will never catch on.. Especially with wankers who would rather play with their knob than get where they’re going.
I rather enjoy watching a wanker playing with his knob.
I know, imagine the inconvenience of actually being in control of which gear you are in.
I have a stick, and, honestly, it does nothing but hinder me in most cases. It’s good if you need it for something specific, but most people have stick-shifts if they’re ever going to need one.
Yeah, it depends on where you drive. I learned on a stick, but haven;t had one for years. Mostly I just drive crap cars because that’s all I can afford.
Not if you drive a hybrid.
Somehow, you equate “D” with going in the right direction, and I simply don’t see that that’s the case.
Drive.
Into a lake?
off a cliff? i vote yes.
… Are you even old enough to drive? If not, chances are, you aren’t old enough to vote. Thank the maker.
Unprovoked attack?
It’s about time we got out of reverse!
R for Russia.
D for ???
Djbouti?
Dingbat?
Denmark? Deutschland? Dominican Republic?
D for Denmark?
Ding-a-ling?
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR
Dubai. Look it up, if you’ve never heard of it. XD It’s a logical answer.
Democrats in the driver’s seat = No oil in engine fail.
And engine that doesn’t need oil is a win when (not if) the reserves run out.
You design me an engine that does not need oil to run, and I’ll fund a prototype.
Also, there is an “if”. The reserves will only run out IF we can’t find a better solution to provide energy for transport. Then again, nothing looks promising.
it’s been done. several times. pull your head out ov your ass and take an actual look at the world around you for once.
Yes, but are you going to float me a loan to buy those overpriced electric cars that get about 40 miles to the charge? Or the overpriced hybrids that still need oil to run? Or the non-existant fuel cell cars?
yes, electric cars are expensive. 40 miles to the charge, however, is epic bullshit. and the price would come down quite a bit if the companies making them could get to the point ov assembly-line production that the oil-burners have simply by virtue ov having been around longer.
Calm down and use some facts.
The Tesla Roadster electric vehicle can travel 244 miles on a single charge, but it also takes 3.5 hours to recharge the vehicle. It also can accelerate 0-60 in less than 4 seconds with a top speed of 125mph.
However, it also costs $109k (base price) and needs a battery replacement every 100k miles or 5 years. It also uses Li-ion batteries which are not cheap.
The biggest cost involved with electric vehicles is the battery, not the production. Besides, larger manufacturers have produced electric vehicles before. GM spent over $1billion developing the EV1, but only 1117 cars were produced between 1997 and 2000. GM decided they would never make a profit and decided to buy back their “lease only” vehicles.
Having driven the EV1 for five years, I’m always amused by
the armchair experts who just *know* what’s needed to make
electric cars practical someday.
Hint: stop worrying about range or charging speed. As long as
I had enough to do your daily driving – and I nearly always did -
an overnight charge gave me a full ‘tank’ the next morning.
What if I needed to get to Vegas (from SD)? I’d drive to the airport.
Plenty of range for that too.
For a company that routinely spends billions (plural) on new
vehicles, $1B was a cheap way to get rid of the California ZEV
mandate. The only flaw in GM’s plan was that while they may
have made only 1117 EV1s, they leased virtually every one they
made and there was a long waiting list. This despite almost
zero advertising and an actively hostile sales force. I’d say that
was a pretty successful market trial that GM found just a little
embarrassing.
Paranoid? Maybe. Got a better explanation why they recalled working
cars from satisfied, PAYING owners and crushing them?
It’ll be like computers: Several years of very high prices, and by the time they’ve been around fifteen years their price will come down to reasonable levels. The plug-in hybrid will be a great next step, but the coolest, easiest new vehicle will be Tata Motors compressed gas powered car. Click my name for the good news.
That AIR car really does sound quite amazing. Very low speed and not very practical, but the concept is pretty dern cool.
Actually, it is rather neat. Although I see it as more of a “mechanical hybrid” rather than an “air engine”
Compressed air motors have been around for a long time, take a look at your dentist’s office.
The article says it will reach “interstate speeds” with the aid of it’s auxiliaryfuel burning unit, and will still get unbelievable mileage.
Sheesh. That was uncalled for.
But let me reply.
The only engines (IE internal combustion engines; motor usually refers to electric motors) that do not run on oil instead use an oil substitute (ethanol, chicken fat, vegetable oil, etc), but none of the substitutes have proven to be effective.
Sure, we could go back to steam engines, but those are much heavier and produce much less power.
As for electric, they do not use “engines” they use electric “motors” for movement. Electric vehicles have yet to overcome the energy storage issue. Batteries are heavy, and cannot hold enough charge, not to mention inefficient. Fuel cells are better, because they store electricity as chemical energy, but those are still not feasible, as hydrogen is a dangerous fuel (would need to be compressed to be able to store enough, and god help you if you get into an accident and rupture the fuel storage tank).
The internal combustion engine really is a brilliant design, and is quite efficient. Though it has gone through more than 100 years of research and refinement. Design me an engine that runs on grass (without a chemical conversion) and we’ll make a ton of money.
Existing batteries are inefficient? Really?
Even the old lead-acid battery has about an 85% energy efficiency, and the power grid is about 95% efficient. The source-to-wheel efficiency of the fuel cell is, at best, about 35%: 70% for an electrolyzer and 50% for the fuel cell, assuming a hydrogen infrastructure that, unlike the power grid, does not already exist.
The best automotive internal combustion engine efficiency I know of is the Toyota Prius, which is about 32% efficient tops, not including the losses in drilling, shipping and processing oil and gasoline, also a dangerous fuel.
As for range, the GM EV1 had a 125 mile range, which was certainly enough for my daily driving (I could leave home every morning fully charged.) And it only had a nickel-metal-hydride battery pack. If you really need more (and you probably don’t) there’s lithium-ion, which can easily double it.
Yes, that’s right, although you have it a bit backward. The previous driver forgot to put oil (AKA regulations) in the engine, nearly ruining it. He will be removed from the driver’s seat and replaced with someone who knows how to take care of a car.
No, he’ll be replaced with someone who will park the car and neglect it until it rusts from the inside out.
These are cars for the rich only, only government officials will be allowed to drive them…
Government officials aren’t rich.
And I see FOUR lights !!!!!
Epic ST:TNG quote of the day!
And Clay Aikin is not gay !!!!!!!!!!
Neither will anyone else when they get done with them…
Hm.
1921-1933: Twelve years of Republican presidents left us in the greatest economic crisis the country has ever known.
1933-1953: Twenty years of Democratic presidents leave us with a bustling economy, the world’s strongest military, and make the US a superpower.
1981 – 1993: Twelve years of Republican presidents left us with a weak economy and a massive national debt.
1993 – 2001: Eight years with a Democratic president left us with a healthy economy and a huge budget surplus.
2001 – 2009: Eight years with a Republican president will leave us with massive debt and a devastated economy. Again.
How many times do Democrats have to clean up Republican messes?
/Happy days are here again!
True.
We’ll see. There’s still a few hours before we find out.
One good working definition of insanity is trying the same failed strategies over and over while expecting different results.
I didn’t know you’d stopped being Democrat. ;P
Haha, nice one, except the evidence presented shows the routine and horrible failures of Republicans, and how the Democrats have continually found ways to fix your messes for you. Your welcome.
Don’t be so naive. I’ve been on both sides, and I can say that both sides aren’t correct 100% of the time. Both have corrected each other an even number of times, and neither system can function alone. They must both exist to balance each other out, or something bad would most probably happen.
And by the way, I prefer republicans in office because they happen to not rip as much money out of my pocket for improving the lives of people I don’t even know without my consent. Charity should be my choice, not the government’s.
No, you’re welcome. It’s called grammar. Use it. — your belongs to you. you’re is a contraction for “you are”
You never know what will happen, there was a large following for McCain that didn’t make the news very often.
Though by your own definition, both the Republicans and Democrats are guilty of being insane: they keep fighting the same strategies over and over.
And for the record, I voted third party. I wasn’t expecting different results from either of the same parties.
History FAIL (Big letters for big failure.) It’s the Congress that actually carries out economic policies. You’ll find that the Democratic Congressional majority synchs up pretty good with economic weaknesses.
Nope, just the opposite actually. Democratic control of congress is a good predictor of economic success. It’s when Republicans get a hold of the reigns that things turn to crap. Trickle down and deregulation have been proven to be failures, again and again.
Show me the facts, and they’re sources, and I’ll believe you. I swear I will.
Now you did it, you asked Seth for facts. Don’t you even know Seth?
Funny. The current economic downturn pretty well coincides with the Dems taking over Congress a few years ago. You want proof, look at current events. No history lesson required.
Excellent quip! I’ll be sure to use that on my demoralized Republican colleagues tomorrow.
I drive a stick.
I drive a car.
I drive a car stick.
I drive a stick car
I drive real slow in the driveway.
I draw stick figures.
I stick drawings on my fridge.
YAY! Soon as I finish coloring inside the lines, I’ll send it to you.
Sweet!
This pic fails. the Viper is only available with a manual transmission.
Must be why she’s looking down with a vacant grin on her face.
“What is your opinion on motoring Mrs Palin?”
“Fast cars are fast!”
There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women
who drive a sports car!!
oops, that was to be in quotes, as misquoted by MS. P
Revvin’ up her 2012 Presidency campaign !!
That would be awesome, if we could get Palin to completely destroy two GOP campaigns in a row I’d make my year.
Hit the link for at least ONE example of a custom performance place that will put an automatic in a Viper.
.
Who’s to say she hasn’t had it customized?
Who’s to say that it’s hers?
Also, who’s to say that she’s actually driving it?
Totally agreed.
I once saw someone driving backward and thought, “Huh…he’s going the wrong way, but geez, doesn’t that look badass….”
Was he driving backwards the correct direction? Or going the wrong direction and backwards at the same time? Cause it’s very impressive to see someone going the correct direction backwards (for extended periods of time).
This was very clever except for one thing that ruined it: it’s “politics is like driving”.
“Yeah-keep to the right”
And “Three lefts make a right”
also could be seen as R=backwards or republican and D=forwards or democrat
hehehe
Captain Obvious strikes again ^^
Just as smart as the reference in his name! ^^
lulz
If politics is like driving, you don’t live anywhere near reality.
Well, you’re sort of right. I live in Florida.
Lotta Ghost Cars there in Retirement land !
( Ghost Car- a car seeming to being driving down the road with no one at the wheel, doing 35 in a 70 zone with the left turn signal on for the last twenty miles. Occasionally old knuckles are seen holding the steering wheel)
W00T! A fellow Floridiot! Wanna go and screw up the vote again?
If politics is like driving, you’re bound to have an accident no matter who is behind the wheel.
Unless it’s driving a star ship, perhaps?
Strangely, I was not offended. This is loltastic.
This is why I walk everywhere….
Well, a piano could fall on you…
In this case politics is only like driving if you’re dyslexic. What do you think has been happening these last 8 years? All I know is my parents don’t dread getting the bills, and I’m sure the people of Iraq can actually walk the streets without worrying they’ll be killed. Clinton didn’t do anything for them. Bush DID something, and it made a difference.
But we didn’t go into Iraq to save Iraqis, we went in to find WMDs. Where are they?
Some things have more than one reason. Binary thinking fails.
Actually, we went into Iraq to secure the second-biggest oil reserves in the Midle East, the better to put political and economic pressure on their southern neighbors, who have the biggest reserves, Also, Iran = bracketed.
That was the plan, anyway. The Rumster screwed the pooch with overoptimistic planning, however.
That was an evil plan then, and that was not how it was sold to the American public. We have no right to go invading other countries to “secure the second-biggest oil reserves in the Midle East” as you say. That goes against international law, common decency, Christian principles, and good sense. It is NOT the kind of thing honest people accept fro their country, which is why Bush had to lie about his reasons, I guess. Might does not make right.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a first. ‘Christian Principles’? You may be the only democrat I know who isn’t an atheist who doesn’t believe in the sanctity of human life. Way to go!
Oh, and might does make right, because we have the nukes, and what are THEY gonna do about it?
Jk, but what about Saddam funding the attack that killed hundreds? Go look at that imploding tower on YouTube. I know someone who was in it.
saddam didn’t fund it. upper-class saudis did. you know, the same upper-class saudis that’ve been butt-buddies with the bush family for decades? yeah, them.
Yeah, and NASA faked the moon landing…
yes, it’s a conspiracy theory. but every now and again, one ov them turns out to be true. we’ll see what history shows us once we’re no longer dependent on their donations, shall we?
Sorry!! WRONG!!! The only problem with WMDs in Iraq is that they did have them, only you stupid Americans had to go and broadcast your intentions so clearly to the Iraqis that they knew what was coming and so either sold the WMDs (Mainly made by France and Russia, hence the fact that they didn’t want to go to War, just in case if the WMDs were found Evidence pointing to France and Russia would have been found), destroyed them, or moved them elsewhere, much as happened to the Aircraft during the First Gulf War, in which Saddam, did a lot of bellycrawling to Iran in order that he could stash his remaining aircraft (i.e. all those that weren’t blasted out of the sky or blown up before they had a chance to take off) in Iran to keep them away from the
Your sanity, I question it.
Where are you from? All I can tell is that it isn’t USA, France or Russia, and it probably isn’t UK, Australia or Poland.
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The evidence points to them never having had any WMDs, survailance of Iraq was excessive for some time before declaration of war, they wouldn’t have been able to get your mythical WMDs without someone noticing.
“the people of Iraq can actually walk the streets without worrying they’ll be killed”
You’re kidding, right? How about the total for the last three days:
Monday 3 November: 21 dead
Baghdad: bombs kill 7; gunmen kill 1; 1 body found.
Diyala
Khanaqin: gunmen kill 3 women from the same family.
Baquba: suicide car bomber kills oil chief’s guard; car bomb kills policeman; car bomb kills 2 policemen and 10-year-old girl.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 1; roadside bomb kills child; 2 bodies found.
Sunday 2 November: 23 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills policeman; 2 bodies found.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: gunmen attack house, kill mother and two daughters.
Buhriz: roadside bomb kills Sahwa leader and his family (wife and 4 children); another bomb hits minibus, kills 1 passenger.
Tameem
Kirkuk: 2 children (7-year-old Muhammad Khundaer Muhammad and 9-year-old Ahmed Hamid Jelu) are blown up by bomb as they play football.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 1 in drive-by shooting; child’s body is found.
Baaj: husband and wife found dead in their house.
Anbar
Rutba: 4 bodies found.
8 Iraqi children are killed on this day.
Saturday 1 November: 5 dead
Wassit
Kut: gunmen kill 1.
Ninewa
Mosul: US plane opens fire on car, kills 2; another civilian killed in separate incident.
Babil
Hilla: body found.
(Source: IraqBodyCountdotcom)
You think they had it worse under Saddam?
No, because the bodies just disappeared into the night and no one knew what happened. See also: Despotism, tyranny, total control of a dictator.
I LOVE THIS!!!
I’m so glad Vipers weren’t even available with a slush box. Opens up a whole new realm of possibilities on this image for us car snobs.
Politics IS like driving – more crashes happen while you’re turning left.
too bad there’s so little evidence to support that statement in political terms.
Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Clinton…..
Johnson, Carter,
Clinton,Clinton.
Why two Clintons? Only one of them was ever president.
Since I wasn’t alive for the other two, I can’t comment on them easily.
and what did any ov them do that was so horrible? and what have any republican presidents in the past few decades ever done right?
wait, do crashes happen more often when you drive left? As in car sense, not political sense…
yes, because ov the way our lanes are arranged; more chance ov getting hit by someone running a red light. it’s the opposite in england.
HOLY COW THAT’S AWESOME!
Epic win for the Republicans!
“Epic win for the Republicans!”
Please don’t turn on the TV to see that the Democrat candidate won the biggest share of the popular vote since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. I think it might break you.
Win.
wow very clever i would have nevwer thought of that! good one!
FAIL because that car is a manual
So it goes R for republican backwards, D for drive forwards, and N for Nader neutral?
JFK invaded Vietnam…
OMG WINRAR!!1
But don’t most car wrecks happen in “D”?
Independents take the train because it’s more eco-friendly.
lol.Automatic cars
R = republican
D = democrat
people, you get it now??
Obama for change !
mccain, sorry ol bud, but your arguments truly made no sense with todays ideals. You should’ve tried in the 70’s…
yeah, but with sarah palin he still had no chance
Or, if you were in D since 2004 and still sliding down the hill, shift to L.
Haha, now that is sharp!
I was doing fine, had in D for drive and decided to go to R for race!!