aND sO i WIPP3D A hUMMER AGAINST THE WALL...

... and HERE's THE VIDEO on YOU-BOOB-TOOB!

YouTube - Crash Test of Hummer H3 (2007)

So... I go to work for a couple days, and I come back & missed one of the bestest donnybrooks ever to hit the forum.

JB, Azrial, GMG, Canuck, TopCop, Cap'n even... I AM SO PROUD OF YOU! I could just HUG ALL OF YOU!!!

But... my grand-dad wouldn't approve of all that girl-y hugg-y stuff. so I won't.

mnem
I want to develop a more nipple-oriented OS. Ideas?

 

Well... as an owner of a 2006 Hummer H3 Luxury Edition.. After 4 years of ownership.... THAT is EXACTLY what I'd like to do with mine.... Only with someone else at the wheel.... Or one of the crash test dummies! You know... Those guys that make those commercials?

 

Uhhh Huh. Looks like Bob there is ahead of me; I see him going for the reach-around...

mnem
Dunno how SAFE that OS would be, tho.

 

Mnem, you are sick &%%$... Anywho, NOW THAT RICK WAS A BIG JERK AND CUT ALL of our entertainment!!!!!!!


I must start another new thread...

 

Thanks Mnementh!

For my part I was just making the stretch, reaching out if you will to other less fortunate notebook computer owners and trying to achieve a dialog, even an understanding, that despite their chosen machines weaknesses and fragility, that we still had the great spirit of mobile computing to bind us!

But sadly, my overtures of peace were rejected! I found out that ultimately, they were only interested in playing games. Perhaps one day our two peoples can try again, when they have matured. :cry:

 

I dunno JB... seems to me we should be able to get at least another page or two out of Whack-A-Hummer and Yellow Bob there... but thanks for the compliment.

mnem
Agitating-ily.

 

That sounds like an episode of Dr Who right there... *SnickerSnort*

Good luck widdat.

mnem
I'll keep the Jim Beam over here until you're ready to try again. No need to thank me, just my way of bein' neighborly...

 

Hey, all I did was translate sgttoughbook's words into a language htWingNut, the "EnvyAce" could understand.

 

yeah I couldn't get the Dirt 2 playing on a laptop (uncomfortable much?). that is what my xbox and desktop are for. I'd rather play on the plasma or my old school Sony FW-900. for on the go gaming on my toughbooks I got Peggle, fallout 1 and 2, and the longest journey.

 

does that "sticker" say think before you dive?

 

Uhhh huh. Nobody in here but us chickens... *Whistles n0nchalantly*

I think I know where Bob wants to go diving... good thing he's got them rubber gloves. :smile:

mnem
Unlit. But that can be fixed real quick...

 

You know... I just spent 5 minutes watching that video over and over again... can't say as I'll EVER get tired of it.

An interesting side note; the H2 in that video gets the same abysmal (for a truck) full frontal and side frontal crash rating as the Chevy Avalanche (AKA the PlasticFantasticPickupTruck)... maybe BECAUSE IT IS THE SAME VEHICLE UNDERNEATH.

Gah. And we'll be cleaning up the Gulf for 40 years so people can drive these SuckUVees that AREN'T EVEN A REAL HWMVEE, just a rebranded Chevy.

Way to go GM... The vision of your new management is clear: drop the Saturn product line, but continue making Hybrid H3s.

mnem
Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?

 

You sir are an optimist. I strongly suspect that it will be a lot longer than 40 years, if ever, before the Gulf is restored to pre-BP condition.
As for the H3, Mrs Dogfish and I had the "pleasure" of a non-optional upgrade to one of those last year on our western sojurn (Jeep Liberty or similar). With apologies to Rick, 28 days and 6800 miles in that unmitigated piece of crap, not to mention my daughter's embarrassment at being driven around San Francisco in a bright red "screw the environment" special was, to be polite, an interesting study in American values. Fortunately, we got it dusty enough in the South Dakota badlands to write "RENTAL" on the back window which stayed visible for the balance of the trip. That car is just wrong in so many ways.
CAP
"No, darling, we have not plugged the hole yet."

 

Cap'n -

I can imagine; I always felt the latest generation Blazer (The Chevy truck under the H3 skin job) was a bit cramped to begin with; I'm sure it didn't get much better for the addition of all the added "Cadillac style" accessories they've been p!mped up with. As for Rick - he seems to be similarly disenchanted with his H3, so I don't believe any hurt feelings.

Recently one of those painted up in Longhorns Orange fell prey to my spray can; I WISH I could have been there when the owner saw it.

For those of you who are unaware, here in TX there are a disturbing number of pickup trucks (that part I'm sure is not news) that have been graced by their owners with a molded plastic nuts@ck dangling from the trailer hitch area. The first time I saw it I laughed; after 10 years or so the phenomenon has lost its bucolic charm. As a result I've taken to keeping a can of blue spray paint in my trunk JUST FOR THEM. So far, I've used up 7 cans.

mnem
How many BP Executives does it take to plug the hole? LET'S FIND OUT!

 

Yup... I'd like to ram mine into the wall too... I'm looking into a hybrid (NON-GM) maybe a Ford....

Anyway... I have WAY too much equity in mine to wreck it.... Now... If I was up-side-down with Gap insurance.... That would be different.

 

Rick ,My boss has a Ford Fusion Hybrid, loaded with Sync. It's a really great car as long as you can take the "Powered by Microsoft" badge on the center console. The rear view video in the console is pretty trick. As far as I know he has had only one "fatal error and needs to shut down" event while driving. The quality is certainly there, and the mileage has averaged 41+ for over 6 months including a lot of high speed interstate driving which is supposed to kill the mileage on hybrids.
CAP

 

You know guys...

If You're seriously considering buying a hybrid "for the environment" do a little research first. The manufacturing carbon footprint on these things is about 4x that of a conventional vehicle due to ultrarare-earth metals used in the construction of the batteries and the electronics involved. Once they go to that great recycling plant in the sky, the process produces toxic byproducts similar to that of paper production and heavy-metal disposal all rolled up into one, and the real-world life of the batteries is already proving to be about half what Toyota originally suggested with the Prius.

Added to that is the fact that to get those "fabulous MPG" ratings they speak of, you have to first charge them from household current, which is actually about 50% less efficient than using the onboard generator. There is NO PLACE IN THE COUNTRY where a significant part of your electricity is NOT generated by coal (clean coal is a LIE - It does NOT EXIST) or nuclear or BOTH. This more than outweighs any lessening of the operational carbon footprint saved by driving the vehicle. Charging from the electric grid is NOT FREE, PEOPLE.

Bottom line - The way they produce Hybrids right now, they are just a ploy to cash in on the whole "green" movement; there is nothing "green" about them except the great stinking piles of cash the manufacturers get from all those wannabes.

You want to decrease your REAL carbon footprint? Save a 6 or 7 year old Saturn or Corolla from the crusher and plug a new or low-mileage used motor into it and drive THAT for another 3-5 years. You will not only save a lot of money, you will save more carbon footprint than every Toyota Pious ever built, and you won't get caught up in that whole ignorant arrogant Hybrid driver thing that made up a whole episode of South Park...

mnem<~~~Eco-Dwagon~~~<<<

 

I didn't say I'd buy one, just that I have a little experience with the Ford and it seems to be remarkably well built. I don't know about the plugging in part, I don't think you can plug the Fusion in, I know my boss doesn't and he still gets 41+ MPG. Cap, for several reasons, drives a 2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport with 178K on the clock. I've had a few of them and they are the best cars I've ever owned, and I don't buy them new. I figure the cost, just buying them, runs me about a thousand a year. I've owned a lot of cars, some of them pretty high end German ones,and even a Ferrari 250 Lusso back in the early 70's, and the Jeeps made in the mid to late 90's into the early oughts are some of the best built cars ever. Oh, by the way, my boss could care less about the environment or the cost of gasoline. He just wants to limit his use of it so he personally sends less money to our good "friends" in the Middle East.
CAP

 

well spoken dwagon

 

I would not bother with a hybrid at this point either, especially considering the cost initially when you can get a used Nissan/Toyota/small econo anything that will get high 30's or even 40's for much less money and does not make much more of a carbon footprint. But I tell ya, I drove a Tahoe Hybrid and it would get about 24-26 on the highway @ 55-65, but the cool part was driving it in downtown Charleston @ less than 25 on only the electric motor. People would stop and stare and wonder why the thing was not making any noise at all. It was kind of an eerie silence...

 

No... I am not buying for the environment... (Though I am concerned about it.) You confuse me with my future brother in law! I was just looking for something that can haul a 4 X 8 sheet of plywood if I need it... .or a load of 4 X 4s.... All while getting better than 14 MPG...

 

Hummer H3 Gobi Roof Rack. Goes with your Gobi Modem.

Hummer H3 Performance Chips

 

I was just looking for something that can haul a 4 X 8 sheet of plywood if I need it...

Maybe a Volkswagen Jetta? It seems to work for others.

 

The question stands... Will the plywood stay on top AFTER I WHIP IT AGAINST THE WALL?

 

Here's a vehicle made out of plywood. Talk about failing the crash tests.

Futuristic Plywood and Resin Vehicle by Jonathon Henshall Yanko Design

 

Bah, my truck gets 7mpg and I love every mile of it! haha

 

You know... I did a LOT of drywall work out of the back of my old Chevy Nova hatchback when I was young and had no sense, and my partner drove a Datsun hatchback with all the paint & supplies.

Why the frakk can't we buy a hatchback ANYTHING that isn't a shoebox anymore?

mnem
Things that make you go HMMMMMM...

 

I guess that would depend on the type of tie-downs used.

 

Why can't we buy a real station wagon anymore???

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I think this should be a forum title or at least a sig;
"Toughbook, because anything else makes you a *****."

 

Pssssttt... TC...

We call that a Minivan now. Here's the food chain...

MiniVan - station wagon for parents who don't want to admit they need a station wagon. "99 bottles of beer in the back... 99 bottles of beer..."

Suburban/SUV - MiniVan for people who don't want to admit they need a MiniVan. "Honey, where are the kids?" "Look under the floormats; that's where you lost them last time."

Hummer/Escalade - SUV/Suburban for people who can't find their pen!s and need an extension. Like giving/getting a really good hummer, it's fun for a gurl and a boi.

Compact SUV/Crossover - aw Fsck it. it's just a d@mn station wagon. Only stupider.

mnem
More cowbell.

 

I hear you, I'll still remember the day we got our wagon for our family vacation, luckly Mom was there to document our purchase of it.

 

Ah, yes: the Wagon Queen Family Truckster. "You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it".

Of course, it was actually a highly customized 1987 Ford Crown Victoria Country Squire wagon (mine was a 1990 CVCS).

 

You know, I just bought that movie for a BUCK off eBay/Buy.com. I figured at that price, it's a nice dumb movie that can't offend anyone to use for testing purposes on my service calls... still trying to remember when Chevy Chase was still funny. I mean, of course SNL and the original Weekend Update... but what... was it Spies Like Us or Fletch lives?

I remember liking Spies Like Us, but the scene that really stands out in my mind from that movie was Gregory Hines tweaking out with "Flame Touch-Up"...

Discuss.

mnem
Would STILL happily drive the '71 Vista Cruiser he traded in on that POF...

 

Ahhhhhh... Chevy Chase is painful to watch anymore. Anything he touches now last 3 episodes and is then canceled.

X2 on weekend update... Many memorable lines.... And his exaggerated Gerald Ford was funny at the time.

 

Yes... he's getting a bit more play lately as a villain... he always did have a certain "Wessonality" than lent to such roles. As for his Gerald Ford impression... that, it has been argued, may have single-handedly cost Ford his re-election.

Under any circumstances, I believe history has painted Ford much more poorly than he deserved because of the pardon; as a stark-raving liberal, I will admit he was one of very few Republican politicians I have real respect for.

mnem
*FLUMP!!!*

 

My favorite spy comedy is " The Man Who Knew Too Little" with Bill Murray, still makes me laugh out loud when I watch it.