Hummers -- What's the point?????

[Bleacher Creature]

Before people jump to conclusions, I'm dead serious.

I was out driving today and I literally saw 6 or 7 Hummers. I really want to know -- what's the point? I've always driven smaller cars -- even when I could afford something bigger. I like being able to maneuver them, fit into smaller spots, and get decent gas mileage.

Those things are just ridiculous to look at -- they are audacious and overbearing. So someone, please give me a sense as to why someone would think they needed something like that.

[RetroLounge]

1. No Sex Threads!

:spank:

RL

[xmas74]

2. That's the first thing that jumped into my mind!

[Huckebein the Raven]

4. You're not the only one

[xmas74]

7. I bet you were thinking about it.

[Huckebein the Raven]

12. LOL. Why I don't know what you are talking about

:think:

[xmas74]

14. Mr Innocent

[xmas74]

15. dupe

[Locut0s]

3. lol

[Bleacher Creature]

5. I saw that coming a mile away.

But I really am serious -- should I change the title??

[Lucky Luciano]

10. LOL

no sex threads! That is kind of the point.

Parry boys often know that party girls like bad boys - the kind that have tatoos and piercings. These girls ESPECIALLY like bad boys with money and driving a Hummer is very suggestive of this. There will be a never ending line of women waiting to sleep with such men.

[cornermouse]

6. I saw a white Hummer limousine last week.

It was rather odd.

[CanuckAmok]

8. The H2 is a huge joke...

It's a poorly designed truck built on an already-existing conventional truck platform (Suburban).

The H1 (the original HUMVEE) is a very capable and well-designed utility vehicle. AS it's considerably more expensive than the S2, you will find that this is the one purchased py someone with more of a practical "need" for such a vehicle.

I love to go 4x4ing... If I could afford a gov't surplus H1, I'd get one...in diesel.

[no name no slogan]

33. You'd like this site

www.fuh2.com

It rips the H2 to shreds. Go visit if you haven't already. :P

[CanuckAmok]

38. Been there...

My personal pet peeve is sanctamonious asshats who are also driving, and therefore also contributing to global warming, consumption of finite resources, clogging the roads, endangering lives, and contributing to the factured nature of suburban society, feeling smug about flipping off some guy in an H2.

I call them the "Toyota Pious".

Basically, if you drive anything, you're part of the problem (and I include myself in that blanket condemnation). The difference between driving an SUV and a hybrid Honda is a matter of degrees.

All of a sudden, if you drive an SUV, you're an asshole. Seems like an unfair and convenient generalisation, to me.

[bridgit]

9. same as hair dye...

vanity

[Bouncy Ball]

31. Yeah but at least my hair dye doesn't drive around polluting the

environment and getting 2 miles per gallon. LOL!

[bridgit]

43. who can be sure = a comment you'll hear in a hair salon routinely...

"is it starting to burn yet?"

:cry:

i draw the line at botox

:toast:

[Locut0s]

11. It's not a car it's a statement. Either..

I'm rich and I want you to know it

or

I'm rich AND right wing and I want you to know it.

or

I'm trying to compensate for some insecurity.

or

Fuck the environmentalists and "tree hungers"

or maybe they just like huge honking cars?

Or some mix of those.

[caledesi]

30. You got it L. That's what it's all about. nt

[benburch]

13. They only LOOK tough!

[creeksneakers2]

16. I think they look like construction equipment n/t

[forgethell]

17. Status,

what did you think it would be??

[Bleacher Creature]

19. A small BMW convertible displays status.

Why does driving a car that, in some cases is actually wider than the road, display status better???

[forgethell]

46. There is no

accounting for taste. Why should they eat lobster when they want steak? In short, you'd have to ask one of them. But status is the reason.

[Coastie for Truth]

18. I wouldn't buy one - I'd buy a used fire engine

Hummers only look macho.

But a fire truck --- Now that's macho and public service at the same time.

I always wanted to drive a fire truck and save lives. (The closest I got was driving a Coast Guard Cutter and recovering bodies)

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[ben_thayer]

20. Stupidest justification I ever heard

was from some brain-dead suburban yuppie mom who said "Whatever I hit- I win!"

Incredible...:eyes:

On edit... I'm with Canuck. The H1 is an awesome utility vehicle!

[liberalpragmatist]

21. I thought this was a thread about humming

A thread expressing annoyane at people who hum.

Seriously. Maybe I need more sleep.

[khashka]

22. The point is they are audacious and overbearing

and really cool and kinda military. And boys with tiny penises can't live without 'em.


Khash.

[Schema Thing]

23. Even when it's about the vehicle, a Hummer thread is a sex thread

...and that should answer your question. ;)

[FloridaPat]

24. Wasn't this the vehicle you got a business tax break if you bought it?

I thought I remember it. The tax break just about paid for the vehicle. In other words, it was almost free. Good reason to by it.

[Huckebein the Raven]

25. I believe it was vehicles over a certain weight

but yes the H2, the Cadillac Escalade, and other vehicles like that qualified for the tax break

[caledesi]

26. It's a "macho" thing. Here in Tampa, I see a lot of them...

Want to "key" every one of them. Here's the difference"


My husband and I USED to take vacation in my hometown (Newport, RI) and a few years ago, we commented on the plethora of VW Beetles.


Okay, not too many Beetles here.

Makes me sick. :puke:

[caledesi]

27. It's the ultimate "neocon thing ala Ahnold S. - disgusting.

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. Because "Nothing says ASSHOLE quite like a Hummer"

:hi:

[Theres-a]

44. Bingo!

[Bouncy Ball]

29. Personally, I find smaller cars far more satisfying to drive.

My next car will be a Toyota Corolla. Wish I could afford a Prius or something hybrid.

Back in college, I drove a VW Rabbit. My best friend had a Corolla. I used to love to drive both of those cars. You really know you're driving in a small car, especially when they have no power steering.

You can fit into tight spaces, negotiate your way through traffic more easily, etc.

I LOVE small cars.

[Orsino]

32. For all those Republicans...

...itching to go fight the War on Terr, but who have "other priorities." It's for them to drive on the way to the polls to vote for @$$holes who short-change the troops and cut veteran's benefits. So they can feel all military without having to sacrifice anything more than their ill-gotten money.

[imenja]

35. hey, some DU members drive Hummers

I did a car poll a few months back and there were about 4 people who indicated that they had Hummers.

[Orsino]

39. Perhaps they were HINOs?

If someone needs all that space and power for a good reason, I won't hate on him/her.

I will, however, take a dim view of anyone trying to justify that many gallons per mile, especially as a commuter vehicle--but maybe, just maybe, there are jobs for which they really are well-suited and efficient.

[imenja]

40. what reason would that be?

I can't think of anything short of foreign invasion.

[Orsino]

41. Well, perhaps...

...their mileage is better than a comparable truck or bus, or perhaps they can pass through terrain that stymies less MAHNLY vehicles?

I'd be dubious of such claims.

Or maybe they're for people just want to LOOK like Republican @$$holes, but aren't!

[imenja]

45. it;'s status

I see no other reason. If you want a tough, off road vehicle, I don't see how a Hummer serves that function. They are too wide and I would think they'd be extremely cumbersome. I understand that people who live in areas with a lot of snow have a reason for a four wheel drive SUV. The Hummer I don't get.

FYI. I don't hate people who drive Hummers, though I resent their choice to do so. I hate the cars.

[imenja]

34. All Hummer drivers need to be sent to Iraq

Where they can put those vehicles to use. Assholes. I hate those cars.

[democracyindanger]

36. Overcompensation nt

[SarahB]

37. Pointless in terms of the vehicular kind.

Other kinds, well, um, that's a personal matter.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

42. Hummers are yet another way for rich people to gloat about

how much money they have.