I know a bunch of you guys drive Hondas, but this is hella-funny. I see those ricer asses with only 2 upgraded wheels all the time.
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~attse/honduh.htm

LOL....that's spot on.

How about this one? The sound effects had me laughing for a while.

Whilst I see cars with tiny engines and huge bodykits all the time. The best bit is when you get dull looking cars with decent engines.
A friend of mine used to have a Mk. I Ford Fiesta with a 2 Litre Zetec/CVH hybrid engine and a T3 bolted on (Garret that is). The car looked completely stock (save for the old XR2 pepperpot alloys) and we always used to love driving round town and pulling up next to some twat in a BMW who thought their car was the new hotness. Boy they were wrong!
I know it's childish but when you see the looks on their faces when the car they paid £25,000 for (or financed), couldn't keep up with an 18 year old Fiesta it somehow makes it worthwhile. There was usually a screaming girlfriend in the passenger seat for good measure as well. Of course, nowadays with all the speed cameras he doesn't bother anymore, he's got a Ford Focus company car now.

That reminds me of The Insanity Test. Don't laugh!!!

Am I the only person who has never laughed at that thing? Or is that the point, that it's so not funny, they really think you'd be insane to laugh at it? (no offense )

I don't know, but it took me about ten seconds before I started laughing maniacally. But, then, I'm a sucker for silly.

Yes, I drive a Honda, too. But I have no illusions about its capabilities. And I have no intentions of sinking a ridiculous amount of money into performance parts.

I thought the voice representation of the Civic's engine in ricin's link was *very* accurate.

I understand that I drive a Civic, not a race car. Hell, mine's an automatic, cuz I'm lazy.

Hey, hey. I saw that. My alias has nothing to do with ricers, it's the toxin made from Ricinus Communis (Castor bean), and I've been using it for about 10 years.

And I have no intentions of sinking a ridiculous amount of money into performance parts.

I think you're missing the point. I also have no intention of sinking ridiculous amounts of money into performance parts, but I'm about a million times more likely to do that than to sink any amount of money into pseudo-performance parts (like spoilers on a stock Civic), misused performance parts (like a big exhaust on a stock Civic), or flash (like stickers and body kits). People seem to make these modifications to their cars solely to make the car appear as if it's souped-up without actually doing anything to actually make the car ``faster''. In other words, pretty much the definition of poseur.

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I've been using it for about 10 years.

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The nickname or the toxin?

Yeah, but...

The definition of a poseur is someone who wants to be part of a "scene" but doesn't have the goods to deliver. (Sound of "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" playing in the background.)

The thing about the riceboy scene is that jacking your car up and putting spoilers and ground effects on it, and then slapping a Type-R sticker on it... Those *are* the things that make you part of that scene. So these guys aren't poseurs, they're actually practicioners.

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I don't know, but it took me about ten seconds before I started laughing maniacally. But, then, I'm a sucker for silly.

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http://www.homestarrunner.com

Just check out the StrongBad E-mails.

It would have to be EXTREMELY low doses for me to last 10 years.

LOL. awesome.

Homestar runner is the best.

Hours of entertainment.

poseur: a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person

Unless those people are intending to be folks who own cars that have stickers on them and no real performance upgrades, then they're poseurs. It seems to me that they want to appear to have a ``fast'' car.

But if they do intend to be sticker-car people, then that's just sad.

This is getting way off topic, but for more flash cartoon goodness theres also oddtodd.com.
A trilogy (so far) of the life of the cartoonist after he's been laid off.
Worth a gander (not a duck).
http://www.oddtodd.com/cartoons.html
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My alias has nothing to do with ricers...

I wasn't implying that it did. I was simply referring to your post.

I think you're missing the point...

I'm not missing the point. I include the modifications that make a car look faster along with those that actually make it faster, in the category of "performance parts." I have no intention of modifying the way the car looks, either. And if I had a car that I did want to modify, I would probably leave it looking as stock as possible, anyway.

I have a Honda Civic because Hondas are good solid cars. This is actually my 3rd. I could care less about people who modify them because they are the easiest and cheapest to do so with.

Edit: I much prefer the car's stock look, anyway.

Okay, I see I have a slightly different sense of humor. I was urged by many of my friends to check out Homestar Runner, and I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen. I understand that this may be the point of the site, but personally, it was horribly un-funny on any level.

Yeah, I saw it that way too, but I wasn't sure with the at the end. I was going to mention that, if you were just simply referring to my post, to ignore the reply. So, since that is the case, ignore my reply.

You're just humorless, apparently.

I thought it was hysterical, but as I said, I'm a sucker for silly.

huh...
Thats the first negative response to Homestar that I've ever been a witness too.
Maybe its more niche humor than I previously thought.
Kinda like Benny Hill.

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People seem to make these modifications to their cars solely to make the car appear as if it's souped-up without actually doing anything to actually make the car ``faster''

You are correct in the literal sense here, but you have to try and see things from their viewpoint.

I consider myself to be on exactly the opposite end of the spectrum from the "ricers" -- but I do not criticize them in the least.

Their "thing" is to have what they consider to be a cool looking car -- with wings, spoilers, flare kits, big wheels, etc. They want the car to be an attention getter. It does not have to be fast.

My "thing" is to have a car that looks completely ordinary -- but is full of hidden surprises. It does have to be fast.

Is my outlook "better" than the ricers? Not a bit. Different strokes, and all that. That ricer put just as much time, money, and labor-of-love work into his car as I did to mine. We just seek different goals, that's all.

tanstaafl.

Thats the first negative response to Homestar that I've ever been a witness too

Well, my girlfriend also thought it was stupid, so I guess that just means we're compatible!

I usually enjoy a wide range of humor, but that particular site doesn't strike me a funny in the least, but that's just me.

If I believed that they believed that body kits and whatnot made their cars look cool and they were totally uninterested in making their cars work better, I'd agree with you. But I believe that what they really want is to have a ``faster'' car but they believe that the shortcut to that is to make it look faster. Which to me is just stupid. If they'd save the money that they spent on that chromed oilcan exhaust tip, the made-from-leftover-barrels airfoil spoiler, and the body kit to make their Honda look like a teeny Ford GT-40, they might actually be able to afford a real performance upgrade.

I'd also be less derisive if the body kits, etc. that they tend to use weren't the most godawful ugly, poorly made looking things ever conceived. The ones I've seen that looked nice were really just the finishing touch on an otherwise nicely modified car. Most, though, look like the person has a wreck, replaced body panels with ones that were malformed rejects from a different model car, and then had another wreck.

Me, I'm not interested in making my car look different. I'm also not interested in making it ``faster''. I'm somewhat more interested in making it more fun to drive, but, honestly, I don't even have the time to put into that. But rest assured that any modifications I do make will have a purpose. And the first one will always be to install my empeg.

Just so's you all know, it's not just the japanese imports that get riced. I was walking into work one day last week, and saw a riced up Kompressor. I nearly had a heat attack at the thought that someone would actually do such a thing to a Benz.

Oh, I guess you've never visited fark.com then...When the Monday listing for the new SB E-mail shows up, it's about 40-60 split of whiners saying StrongBad sucks, and the other half going "STFU and leave if you don't like it, if you hate it so much, why did you even click the link loser?"

I fall in the 10% that just sits back and laughs at all the people on the board.

Modified is modified. It's not a "ricer" or "rice burner" unless it IS a Japanese economy car. A category that any Mercedes Benz vehicle could never fit into.