Comments on: I bet this guy wishes his airbag hadn't deployed

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:04:00 +0000

Yeah, I lost quite a bit of skin on my hands when mine deployed.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:48:00 +0000

Ze just wants to hate on red-necks who drive big trucks, is what it comes down to.

Omniscient, are we?

By: CLamb

CLamb — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:16:00 +0000

I don’t know who is responsible but popular use of the term “airbag” is a great public relations success. It gives the impression of a nice fluffy pillow. What really happens is that the shock wave from an unstable high explosive pushes a person back into the seat. The bag part is there only to keep the pressure on for a few more seconds.

By: Joshua Bardwell

Joshua Bardwell — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:29:00 +0000

Please don’t miss the forest for the trees. I can always add details to the story to change the balance–such as the fact that I work out of my home and so don’t commute. I typically drive less than 10,000 miles a year. The point is not whether or not my specific energy consumption is more or less than another person’s. The point is that the hate that @boingboing-2cb003b410ba24d03b9fc7fee7e2ad8a:disqus is putting out has nothing to do with the details. Ze just wants to hate on red-necks who drive big trucks, is what it comes down to.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000

How do you spell videos?

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:13:00 +0000

Now THAT would be wasteful and irresponsible. Unless their replacement vehicle gets 100+ MPG, it would probably be better just to keep the existing guzzlers in service.

By: James Agenbroad

James Agenbroad — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:50:00 +0000

A friend was thrilled when he was around the border between the areas where people say Y’all for the second person plural and where they say you’uns. He heard somebody use y’all’uns.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:22:00 +0000

Or even better, jam something in the top of the door, and bend it away from the frame enough to get a coathanger in.
Bonus, after you’ve nicked the stereo the owner can just bend the door back by hand*

Well, I thought it was quite a polite way of breaking into my car, a replacement door costs more than a cheap stereo.

*(well, I had to use my knee as leverage)

By: random

random — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:59:00 +0000

Joshua Bardwell, I choose you.

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:50:00 +0000

odds are you drive an only-slightly-more-fuel-efficient car than a truck owner. Oh? Your vehicle gets 37 mpg instead of my 22?

22 mpg vs 37 mpg is not ‘slightly more fuel efficient’- it will use 40% less fuel to do the same mileage.

It won’t take a great mileage on your vehicle to outweigh any energy savings you make by not using central heating/air conditioning.

By: Dr. Chronobiologist

Dr. Chronobiologist — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:41:00 +0000

The only intelligent entity in this video is the vehicle.

By: Joshua Bardwell

Joshua Bardwell — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:57:00 +0000

I’m … just … bored … with hypocrisy. If you live in a first-world country, then it doesn’t matter whether you drive a Prius or ride a bike: you already consume far, far more energy than your global share. But odds are you drive an only-slightly-more-fuel-efficient car than a truck owner. Oh? Your vehicle gets 37 mpg instead of my 22? Fantastic. Now let’s look at all your other energy consumption. I burn wood instead of running central heating in the winter, and I run fans through much of the summer instead of running central air. Do I now have your permission to own a truck?

But that’s missing the point, because it’s not actually about mpg. It’s just about hating on whatever convenient target lets you most easily ignore your own issues. I’m just not impressed anymore with petty tribalism, classism, racism–whatever -ism it is that applies, and that’s what’s going on here. Hippies hate on yuppies. Nerds hate on bros. Burners hate on ravers. In-group. Out-group. Blah blah blah. Tell you what: find just one person you really dislike, and hate the shit out of them. At least then it’s personal.

By: agonist

agonist — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:36:00 +0000

I’m unclear what was supposed to happen. It looks like what I would expect to happen happened and yet people are surprised?

By: timquinn

timquinn — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:34:00 +0000

I own one of those foreign little ones. May I keep it? It gets good milage, actually.

By: Ernest Valdemar

Ernest Valdemar — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:18:00 +0000

I dunno ’bout that. Judging by the YouTube videos I’ve seen, Russia is still a major competitor in the Assholympics. Americans are especially weak in the Leaping Off of Buildings events, as well as Freestyle Motorway.

By: Cajun Exile

Cajun Exile — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:52:00 +0000

The black spot on the dirt road is the contents of the crushed oil pan…

By: BigHank53

BigHank53 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:44:00 +0000

There’s a huge dark splotch on the ground where he landed that doesn’t appear in the frames just before. Looks like he tore the oil pan off, spilling a couple gallons of refined dinosaur. Also not good for the warranty.

By: Samuel Zavala Azpurua

Samuel Zavala Azpurua — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:33:00 +0000

thats silly, all you gotta do to break into a car is jab a screwdriver in between the glass and frame on any of the windows and wiggle it around. the glass should promptly shatter and not even trigger the alarm if you do it on a back window.

which is why i doubt anyone would go the long way ’round to open the door, trigger the alarm, make noise, lights flashing etc.

Experience: had my car broken into before.

By: C W

C W — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:11:00 +0000

Don’t worry, mom’ll buy him a new one.

By: C W

C W — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:10:00 +0000

Well, it would’ve then done ~minor~ frame damage.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:09:00 +0000

I dunno. Most young medics and scientists I know have something bordering on a psychotic attraction to dangerous tomfoolery.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:39:00 +0000

Isn’t an airbag just a one-sided pillow fight?

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:36:00 +0000

My old boss favoured “y’alls” as the plural. I think he was from Louisiana originally.

By: lgpitman

lgpitman — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:24:00 +0000

You notice there are no WIMMEN out there acting like goofy pre-pubescent idiots.

Actually, now that I think about it, there are no wimmen commenting on it either. Guess they were all at home doing brain surgery and science projects.

By: Ronald Pottol

Ronald Pottol — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:19:00 +0000

Thus the comment about he was supposed to be doing 35, and instead he was doing at least 50. He overshoots the landing ramp, and jams the frame into the ground hard enough to set off the air bag, I figured it was a write off just because of the airbag deployment.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:08:00 +0000

I rarely hear all y’all. But if someone was going to use it I think it be more like this, “Hey, all y’all gotta watch this!”, implying it is being said not by the person attempting the stunt, but by someone else.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:58:00 +0000

Shouldn’t that be, “Hey, all y’all watch this!”

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:57:00 +0000

You call it beat up and old…it’s a 2nd gen V6 with an open air intake from the sound. And I bet it’d still be driveable after that. My wife had one and it was a tough sonofabitch. She had a past tendency to jump curbs…

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:54:00 +0000

Regionally speaking, it’s “Hey y’all watch this!”

By: wrybread

wrybread — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:49:00 +0000

I thought it was, “hey, hold my beer…”