C'mon, not ALL of our cars suck, just MOST of them.
I do admit to having owned 5 or 6 BMW's in my day. And I HAVE worked on a VW and an Audi as well. Engineering-wise, the Krauts have got it goin' on! But they sure do rust! My buddy had a 2002 that ran like a watch, even after the frame rusted away and the engine fell to the ground. And I lost more than one spare tire out of my trunk due to rust.
Every country has some bad automotive skeletons in their closet, us included
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I hated my VW's. Why make a car that you have to have $600 in tools just to change your oil? Oh yea cause 2 oil changes in those things cost $600.
I like my american suv. We can vote this year for a new pres but which is the lesser of the 2 evils for this race?
Anyway where does hating americans get you? I dont care if you dont like how I live. We arent asking you to come live in our country.
I got this email this morning You gotta love Robin Williams... Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan what we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin William's plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.
1.) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere" again.
2.) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one sneaking through holes in the
fence.
3.) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would welcome them.
4.) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5.) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.
6.) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7.) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel! for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8.) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9.) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10.) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school.. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan.
"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling,
'You want a piece of me?'"
Okay. I think I flew off the handle a bit. Sorry. I've been in a real nasty mood lately. I didn't mean to start a whole political debate or flame anyone, just been a bit edgey lately. I've had alot of responsibilites put on me in the last few weeks, and haven't had enough time on my board. I'll fix that tonight.
However, I still think Beck's and Heinieken (sp?) suck though
I think that plan is great also.
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Not that I know anything about beer, I just happened to have been in Holland once. The beer comes in brown bottles there, not green like here. I'm not really much of a drinker, if I have 4 drinks in a month, that's huge! But I have friends that are almost raging alchoholics
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Oh. Well it still sucks, and no I don't hate the Dutch, just Heineken, and I don't hate Heineken, just the way there beer tastes. There, is that PC enough for everyone?
I do like saurkrut and those hotdogs with the cheese in them, you know, those biga$$ ones. I also like ST. Pauli's Girl, I think that's a German beer right? See, we can all get along!
Now a car that ran on Beer, that's worth fighting for. you can stand at the pumps all day. One for me, one for you, one for me.......
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Sensei: All good mate. I'm just as edgy at the moment. I have about a week before I run out of money here. And Becks does suck. All the good German beers are kept out of the export market, largely because the Germans drink it all. (At €1 for 1 litre, wouldn't you???). What amazes me here is that you can get Fosters Lager in some pubs. Even the Australians don't/won't drink Fosters.
Fosters £12 for 24 500ml cans, almost 50p a pint!!!
Germans have you beaten. This is one of the cheapest countries in the world to be a student.
Schloss Pilsener. EUR 0.30 for 500mls. And it is reasonable quality, as long as you don't drink it out of the plastic bottles. At the moment, I am drinking Giesler Koelsch, which is about EUR0.35 for 500mls, and that is good, but not great. Next week I am buying a case of Gaffel or Frueh Koelsch, which is closer to EUR0.50 for 500mls. And that beer is the 'decent' quality local beer.
If only you could power your car on beer. (Lightbulb over head, runs off in general direction of engineering lab...)
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u can power cars by beer, u just need to get all the water out of it, n beef u engine up, n fit smaller injectors, or u gonna end up with some thing that should be in ur engine lying on the road!
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