How much longer before Hummer goes belly up? And how happy will you be?

[Gabi Hayes]

only thing that will sadden me will be the loss of jobs.

I have a visceral reaction every time I see one of those war pigs on the road, and those commercials are among the very most repugnant on TV, with the co-opting of pop songs/TV-movie themes to get one's attention.

[leomcgarrysghost]

1. Hummer stretch limo

Seen one of those? Be happy to see that in a flaming wreck, complete with the toasted asshole who wanted it.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. can you say....ya know, I was going to post something not nice about this vehicle, but

agent Mike is looking

[patrice]

9. Thanks for making environmentalists look bad. n/t

[leomcgarrysghost]

12. Sorry

Sometimes post before I think - just hate those damn things and I'm old and grumpy.

[patrice]

16. I hate Hummers too.

Especially when one full of drunk partyers drives by my friends and I (our street corner anti-war demonstration is right near a major entertainment district here) and they scream at us about what a great man Bush is (amongst other obscenities). This happens more than just a little.

So I share your feelings.

This board is a very tricky place, **not saying the OP is**, but many posts are just bait and replies get fedback into other blogs, especially over at freeperland.

Thanks! for not being all insulted by my post. :hi:

[leomcgarrysghost]

17. Only human

I'm new too, so I'm gonna say something stupid from time to time. I'll get the hang of it.

[patrice]

21. Pardon my manners . . .

WELCOME! :hug:

I'm old and grouchy too.

[leomcgarrysghost]

23. Thanks

Glad I'm not the only one.

[Rosemary2205]

13. Rush needed something to talk about on Monday. nt

[MadMaddie]

2. I will be ecstatic...never liked it

[Kerrytravelers]

3. I pity the drivers.

To be that insecure is truly a sad thing.

[leomcgarrysghost]

4. Yeah, it means they got "small feet".

[Gabi Hayes]

11. how tiny are THIS guy's feet?

[leomcgarrysghost]

22. That guy wears preschool girls ballet slippers.

[Kerrytravelers]

14. Bwwwwaaaaahhhhh !!!!!!!! **snort**

:rofl: :rofl:

[patrice]

Cool! LOL!

:rofl:

[Webster Green]

6. Hummers are a great example of what's wrong with the US..

A big old package of arrogance and greed.

[Gabi Hayes]

25. don't forget terminal venality

[AzDar]

31. Aiyyyyyeeeee! That picture! She nauseates me......

(sorry,way too much caffeine this a.m.)

[Fresh_Start]

7. I live a few blocks from the high school in my town

some low-intelligence family has given their child a hummer to drive to school with. I know its a child because its not in the teacher parking area.

[Lautremont]

8. I'll be very happy to see the end of those things.

[AlCzervik]

10. the smaller Hummers are Tahoes with different sheet metal.

u think owning a hummer is it's own punishment because i think many people have the exact same reaction when they see one---"What a tool"

[Gabi Hayes]

15. I googled "hummer penis"

and found this T shirt



''Why do so many people in other cars and people walking on the sidewalk hold up two fingers a couple of inches apart and point at my SUV and laugh? ''

from the Stop Elmer Fudd site

http://www.elmerfudd.us/suvfaq.htm

lots of funny QandA

[patrice]

24. OOOoooooo!!! Now, I'm NOT above using that one!

Thanks!

[Benhurst]

18. I always laugh when they drive those things around in CSI Miami,

David Caruso in particular. They look like such assholes.

[leomcgarrysghost]

19. Stupid show anyway

Who wears black in Miami sun anyway? Caruso must be like a dumpling steamed loads a times.

[Benhurst]

26. And how many professional women would go around in high-heels and

show cleavage when working on a crime scene? Nice to look at, but hardly realistic. But then American TV is crap anyway.

[leomcgarrysghost]

27. I didn't think about that

I was just wondering why Caruso was bent over like Quasimodo in the show. I think he was hunching to look serious but not sure. But yeah, you're right, some scientists.

[Leopolds Ghost]

37. Who wears black in Miami sun anyway? "Who, Indeed!" -- David Caruso

(waggling eyebrows for extra dramatic effect)

"I don't know whether my staff Hummer means my coworkers think I have a small penis, but I WILL find out, because... (drumroll) It's my job to find out. And I'm VERY good at my job."

[Gabi Hayes]

20. Is this him?

[Leopolds Ghost]

28. In my progressive little town, a guy named Manuel has two stretch Hummers parked in his yard

He drives them for a living.

I saw two more on the streets of DC. Must be junior prom season.

[Gabi Hayes]

32. would that little town be right over the border from DC?

and did a certain figure named Root Boy Slim once live there?

he was in the same fraternity as the chimp, doncha know?

my favorite story about him, which he turned into a song on his first LP

''After graduating from Yale, Root Boy bummed around Washington D.C. for a number of years in different jobs, including one stint as driver for a Good Humor truck. One day he took a lot of LSD and went to the White House and climbed the fence. (He later explained that he "was looking for the center of the universe.") He was apprehended by the Secret Service as he ran up the lawn toward the White House. He was the first intruder since the War of 1812 to get completely over the fence.''

the song: Used to be a Radical

[Leopolds Ghost]

39. Perhaps.

You ever heard of Klaatu on Usenet? He used to live with Root Boy Slim
during the "lost years." Other people that live or used to live nearby
include Matt Drudge, George Pelecanos, John Walker Lindh, John Fahey, the Fruitarian organization, and Catman.

[Gabi Hayes]

40. no Klaatu knowledge here

sigh....

used to have me some of those ROOT glasses

[RB TexLa]

29. They get better mileage than my SUV

[leomcgarrysghost]

30. No one *needs* an SUV

Unless you live in mud. If you live in mud, you get a pass.

[RB TexLa]

38. No one "needs" a car, or "needs" a bicycle either

No one "needs" more than one set of clothes. No one "needs" a computer.

[depakid]

43. Wastefulness and arrogance

are very much American values- ones which our children will pay dearly for in the coming decades.

If ever a country deserved its post peak oil fate, it's America.

[Porcupine]

48. Scale matters. It really does.

Eat a teaspoon of salt and you're fine. Eat a cup and you're dead.

Our environmental impacts as US citizens are so large that they overshadow dozens of lives of your average Bangledeshi. Owning a Hummer puts you into destroying more environment than scores of others.

[Auggie]

33. I'll be happy. But Hummer is owned by GM. Only thing I could see

killing it would be high gas prices or some kind of national emergency where gas is rationed for an indefinite period of time.
A dim hope is that it'll become so politically incorrect people will stop buying it.

[Gabi Hayes]

34. course, when GM is bought out by Honda, or somebody. they'd

probably cancel it.

[leomcgarrysghost]

35. GM is way behind

They got rid of the electric car and haven't got anywhere near getting hybrids out there like Toyota.

[ContraBass Black]

42. Buying GM would be far more trouble than it's worth for a company like Honda.

They already have an established, large, and well performing factory network in the United States.

[Auggie]

44. GM will never be bought out. Well, maybe not for a few decades.

Who would want the liability of paying retirement and health care costs to their millions of retirees?

[onehandle]

36. There is a Hummer dealership in the biggest mall in Georgia.

No, not across the street, or across the parking lot...

IN THE MALL AT A MAIN ENTRANCE.

This is in a very red suburb North of Atlanta.

Tells you a lot about the mentality here.

[DemInBuckhead]

41. OMG, I was at Mall of Georgia about two months ago

The second thing that struck me (after the fact that traffic
is horrific to just get into a parking space) when I was there
was that dealership. Right on the side of their entrance just
like you say.

We enjoyed the movie we saw there, and then we were happy as
hell to be heading back into the City of Atlanta when we were
done.

[onehandle]

45. Traffic is horrible outside of the Perimeter in most of the suburbs.

Especially after 4 on weekdays and all weekend. People who live out there imagine that Atlanta is bumper to bumper, 24 hours a day, but like Bush they're intellectually uncurious. Atlanta is easy to get around in outside of rush hour proper. I have a friend in Alpharetta who tells me it takes 20+ minutes to get to his nearby grocery store in the evenings and has to hunt for a parking space when he or his wife gets there.

We were shocked to see the Hummer dealership in a Mall. I thought that a dealership just had them on display, but nope, it was the dealership.

[WinkyDink]

46. The "loss of jobs" is a weak argument, once used by the Republicans to argue

against a luxury tax: yacht-SALESPEOPLE would lose their jobs.

I don't think the demise of one model of an automobile would have any greater deleterious effect than the usual on-going changes in the declining U.S. auto industry.

[Gabi Hayes]

47. I was considering the laboring jobs....assembly line, subcontractors, etc.,

and speaking only in support of those poor people; not the greedheads who profit by making a trogmobile like that, instead of allocating their RandD towards cars of the future, that would have allowed them to compete with the non-quarterly-bottomline competition who are about to swallow them up/spit them out before we know it.