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    Image of LuciferV8 LuciferV8
    10/14/09

    In reply to Drive-In Car Museum: As Meta As It Gets
    I'm staying the hell away from the side with cars hanging on cables.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    10/14/09

    In reply to Drive-In Car Museum: As Meta As It Gets
    You're welcome.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    10/14/09

    In reply to Drive-In Car Museum: As Meta As It Gets
    Everyone knows that in the perfect automobile museum the display looks like this and there's no point in looking at cars by driving through them because any true car enthusiast will spend hours on details of a single car.

    Crackpipe.

    On a side note, if anyone can ID the car in the pic, I will love you forever.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    10/14/09

    In reply to Drive-In Car Museum: As Meta As It Gets
    If it's for exhibiting China's finest automobiles, they could make it a lot, lot smaller.

    That, and I love how the origami-inspired architecture also echoes the pre-crumpled nature of the Chinese cars I've seen so far. It's like they made a perfectly square and flat building, then bumped it a couple of times at the mall. Then grabbed a corner with a big pair of pliers to try to straighten it out. Oops.

    Tethering the cars to the down-sloping display ramps isn't half as productive as leaving the cables off.

    Displaying the cars in such a way that only the underside is easily visible to level viewers is like taking your cat to a show, but shaving its ass first.

    Let the Americanization of China commence. Now that we have you lusting for cars and cheap power, continue to rape your countryside for coal, and continue to seek entertainment venues which are tailored for people who are too fat and lazy to get out of their cars. NEMESIS! I SHALL HAVE YOU!
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    Image of YankBoffin YankBoffin
    10/14/09

    In reply to Drive-In Car Museum: As Meta As It Gets
    I would have no interest in a museum where you had to stay in your car to see everything. You would just miss too much, even crawling along at idle. I've been on nature trails in Florida that allowed allowed people to either go on foot, bike, or travel in a shuttle. We walked, and we spotted alligators, horseshoe crabs, and other neat animals and such that the people in the air-conditioned shuttle were completely oblivious to. I feel traveling in a car museum in a car would result in the same issues. You'd miss those chrome details and technical novelty that only comes from walking right up to a car, peering down that character line, admiring the gauge clusters, and, if no one's looking, dragon the heck out of it.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    10/14/09

    @YankBoffin: You are assuming there's anything to contemplate in a Chinese auto museum. In fact, if you don't speed through the museum without disobeying all traffic laws you are wasting time!

    Frank Lloyd Wright would approve.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/14/09

    In reply to Drive-In Car Museum: As Meta As It Gets
    I hope that's not a one-way ramp. Or maybe I do.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/14/09

    In reply to Drive-In Car Museum: As Meta As It Gets
    It's a cool looking building. I like how they've acknowledged the inevitable realities of Chinese build quality and designed it to be precollapsed.
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    Image of superbadd75, now I remember why I left... superbadd75, now I remember why I left...
    10/14/09

    In reply to Drive-In Car Museum: As Meta As It Gets
    Sounds crazy. Why would anyone allow driving in a museum? Just insane.
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    Image of Jagvar Jagvar
    10/14/09

    @superbadd75, with electrolytes!: They tried this in the Louvre, but had to end it when someone ran over the Venus de Milo with a Citroen. Knocked the arms clean off.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    04/15/09

    In reply to Angry Chinese Bus Driver Makes GTA-Style Hit On Motorcyclist
    I saw a guy in an A6 hit a lady on a bicycle at an intersection in China. She was crying in pain, on the ground. The driver got out and yelled at her for scuffing up his car and ordered her to move her bike, which was blocking his car. What a world we live in.
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    Image of LandofMinos, Prediction, probability of procuring a poncy Prius for purchase. Piss off! LandofMinos, Prediction, probability of procuring a poncy Prius for purchase. Piss off!
    04/14/09

    In reply to Angry Chinese Bus Driver Makes GTA-Style Hit On Motorcyclist
    I've seen some disturbing videos on LiveLeak regarding big vehicles v motorbikes. One of them involving a truck and moped that ended like that graphic; a lot of red on the road. I won't link but search for yourself.


    A friend of mine nearly got squashed by a bus in the same way when he was riding with a group in Israel. The bus driver was quite apologetic and a little bit shaken up and understandably so, there was a time when being a bus driver in Israel was just as dangerous.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/14/09

    In reply to Angry Chinese Bus Driver Makes GTA-Style Hit On Motorcyclist
    Under the bus, that's where I'm slidin'

    Under the bus, I tried to go by, then

    My wheel, his fender

    This is, the end...


    On the bus

    Everyone's lookin' forward

    Under the bus

    I ain't lookin' forward

    And everything ain't okay

    Gonna die before Monday

    They're all watchin' us...


    I can't fucking do this anymore. Sorry, it's just a bit wrong. Though I'm mildly amused by the fact that one Replacements song just seems to work for so many situations.

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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/14/09

    In reply to Angry Chinese Bus Driver Makes GTA-Style Hit On Motorcyclist
    Hmmm, wonder if anyone will ever see him again.
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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    04/14/09

    In reply to Angry Chinese Bus Driver Makes GTA-Style Hit On Motorcyclist
    This is the greatest tragedy involving a bus since that Rock of Love Bus show was allowed on the air.....
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    04/14/09

    In reply to Angry Chinese Bus Driver Makes GTA-Style Hit On Motorcyclist
    There's a joke in here, somewhere, about Chinese busses getting hungry again right after they've already eaten.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    04/14/09

    In reply to Angry Chinese Bus Driver Makes GTA-Style Hit On Motorcyclist
    Two wheels good, four wheels bad. It´s proven.
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