Just last week I saw an SUV with the sticker “SLOW AND LOUD” across their entire rear windshield. And indeed, they revved their loud exhaust while waiting at a stoplight.
It’s now becoming a meme in my friend group to call idiots “slow and loud.” It’s honestly really fitting
That just reminded my of a time I highschool. One of the jocks called someone else a retard in front of a kid with downs syndrome. (Our 90s schools etiquette was you could use the word as an insult about someone who wasnt handicapped, as long as there wasnt someone who was handicapped to be offended by it which was kind of funny, because a couple of the kids who were loved calling people retards if they did anything dumb- which was what happened in this case. Jock immediately got called on it, then somwone asked the guy with downs if he was cool, and he said “it was pretty fucking retarded of him to say that, wasnt it”)
Anyway, this led to a campaign of us stealing all the ‘slow children’ signs from all the summer neighborhoods (like 75% of our town is completely empty when its too cold for the beach) and posting them all around the jock’s house. Like at one point, ther was a line 30+ of them screwed the length of his fence, and the stop sign right at the end of his road had 4 on each side, lined up going to the ground.
The n town kept taking them down and redistributing them, and we kept stealing them at midnight, and putting them bqck up.
Recognizing you are slow and loud is BDE though, like an RPG Tank. “Taunt” is an essential skill for a reason, yo.
EDIT: They probably had to rev it to keep it running. Idle set too low, unadjustable, or just an all-around POS vehicle. Stickers are cheaper than fixing-or-replacing most vehicles. This was common-knowlege, not-so-long-ago.
I’ve had vehicles that you needed to keep the RPMs up. Automatics. Shifting into neutral also generally did the trick, so presumably was a transmission issue that I had no interest in diagnosing and paying for. Maybe the torque converter, now that I think on it.
Exactly what I was getting at. Often paired wonderfly with loud-ass holes in the exhaust. These people think its a joy to encounter in the wild … try driving it. Trust me, the driver wishes walking, bike-riding, bus-riding, car-pooling, whatever, were viable for their situation, almost certainly more than you do.
Just last week I saw an SUV with the sticker “SLOW AND LOUD” across their entire rear windshield. And indeed, they revved their loud exhaust while waiting at a stoplight.
It’s now becoming a meme in my friend group to call idiots “slow and loud.” It’s honestly really fitting
That just reminded my of a time I highschool. One of the jocks called someone else a retard in front of a kid with downs syndrome. (Our 90s schools etiquette was you could use the word as an insult about someone who wasnt handicapped, as long as there wasnt someone who was handicapped to be offended by it which was kind of funny, because a couple of the kids who were loved calling people retards if they did anything dumb- which was what happened in this case. Jock immediately got called on it, then somwone asked the guy with downs if he was cool, and he said “it was pretty fucking retarded of him to say that, wasnt it”)
Anyway, this led to a campaign of us stealing all the ‘slow children’ signs from all the summer neighborhoods (like 75% of our town is completely empty when its too cold for the beach) and posting them all around the jock’s house. Like at one point, ther was a line 30+ of them screwed the length of his fence, and the stop sign right at the end of his road had 4 on each side, lined up going to the ground.
The n town kept taking them down and redistributing them, and we kept stealing them at midnight, and putting them bqck up.
Shoulda stripped the heads off the bolts! But otherwise, damn fine work!
Oh this was the whole school doing this.
The comment still stands ;)
Recognizing you are slow and loud is BDE though, like an RPG Tank. “Taunt” is an essential skill for a reason, yo.
EDIT: They probably had to rev it to keep it running. Idle set too low, unadjustable, or just an all-around POS vehicle. Stickers are cheaper than fixing-or-replacing most vehicles. This was common-knowlege, not-so-long-ago.
I’ve had vehicles that you needed to keep the RPMs up. Automatics. Shifting into neutral also generally did the trick, so presumably was a transmission issue that I had no interest in diagnosing and paying for. Maybe the torque converter, now that I think on it.
Exactly what I was getting at. Often paired wonderfly with loud-ass holes in the exhaust. These people think its a joy to encounter in the wild … try driving it. Trust me, the driver wishes walking, bike-riding, bus-riding, car-pooling, whatever, were viable for their situation, almost certainly more than you do.