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Smoking_Dragon posted:What's worse, somebody still living with their parents at age 30 or somebody who never learned how to drive?? they are invariably the same person
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May 30, 2014 18:32
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I miss my jeep  (
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May 30, 2014 18:34
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naem posted:I miss my jeep are you a rapist?
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May 30, 2014 18:34
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May 30, 2014 18:35
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Smoking_Dragon posted:What's worse, somebody still living with their parents at age 30 or somebody who never learned how to drive?? when they never leanerd to drive because they are autistic and MOM I NEED YOU TO TAKE ME AND MY SMELLY FRIENDS TO AN ANIMAY CON
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May 30, 2014 18:36
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One down, five up, like the Lord intended. Unless this was a topic restricted to those shift with their hands.
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May 30, 2014 18:37
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Smoking_Dragon posted:What's worse, somebody still living with their parents at age 30 or somebody who never learned how to drive?? This is some sort of quantum super position of loserness, soon as you try to look at it the entire thing collapses into a fuckup singularity.
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May 30, 2014 18:44
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I'm not some fat retarded American so I drive manual.
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May 30, 2014 18:45
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has anyone made the "i blew a trany in my car on the way to work today" joke yet?
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May 30, 2014 18:46
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I feel like driving a manual makes you more "in control" of a car, you know what I mean? Sometimes I feel like a pilot with my stick shift and multiple pedals and whatnot.
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May 30, 2014 19:36
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I got my first manual car almost a year ago. It was awesome when I lived out in the country and only encountered traffic when I went into town for groceries. It was all windy empty roads, some paved, some dirt. Now I live in congested suburbs and it kinda sucks. If I allow enough space to let my car creep along in traffic, someone immediately shoves their car in front of mine. I still feel badass, though, even though no one I know can drive my car. Upside: no one can ask to borrow it! Also, I drove my brother-in-law's automatic for a while recently, and while it was soothing, it also made me feel braindead. It's a CVT with no tach, so I didn't even get to see/feel gear shifts. I drove a CVT auto for ten years, too. How quickly things change............ you were warned fucked around with this message at 19:44 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 19:41
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Manual is awesome, except when you buy used. The previous owner was really, really hard on the clutch. On the plus side, at least in North America, a manual transmission car is less likely to be stolen because relatively few people know how to drive it.
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May 30, 2014 19:47
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I drive a manual Ford pickup but I make deliveries in an automatic work vehicle. At least once a week I will try to reach for the gear shift in the work van
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May 30, 2014 19:47
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Bacon Hat posted:auto with a +/- selector to the side of D. sorry tryhards, best of both worlds the slow response time paired with still having to manually shift for no benefit. clearly the best of both worlds
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May 30, 2014 19:51
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People who complain about driving stick in traffic make me lol.
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May 30, 2014 19:52
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+/- shifters in autos are a joke because they just override your commands. "Oh actually you want 3rd right now"
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May 30, 2014 20:03
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tango alpha delta posted:Manual is awesome, except when you buy used. The previous owner was really, really hard on the clutch. true, though there's very little car theft in NA period
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May 30, 2014 20:42
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There is one and only one purpose for those stupid - / + shifters in autos and that is for descending steep grades. Otherwise they're totally useless.
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May 30, 2014 20:44
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Manual is fine if you're in a more flat/rural area but holy god I drove a manual once in the Bay Area and it loving sucked dick. Having to stop/start on a 45 degree hill every 10 ft in traffic is stressful as poo poo. Not to mention bumper-bumper traffic for an hour stragiht. Auto for life (or as long as I live here).
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May 30, 2014 20:46
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Bacon Hat posted:auto with a +/- selector to the side of D. sorry tryhards, best of both worlds gonna make me cry dude also, btw, no
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May 30, 2014 20:47
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The Casualty posted:People who complain about driving stick in traffic make me lol.
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May 30, 2014 20:49
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I've never owned an automatic and i don't find driving in traffic a problem, my guess is either everyone bitching is a big sissy or driving a slushbox poisons your brain. i wouldn't know, and i don't want to know.
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May 30, 2014 20:50
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I drive through beltway hell routinely with a manual. Would never buy an automatic unless it's a CVT. If you know what you're doing with a clutch, starting on hills isn't that scary. If you don't know what you're doing with a clutch, driving on hills is a great way to spend a lot of money on new clutches.
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May 30, 2014 20:52
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It's looks like real manuals are being replaced with sissy switches (paddles). Bunch of bs....it's getting harder and harder to find stick shifts.
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May 30, 2014 20:56
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azreal posted:It's looks like real manuals are being replaced with sissy switches (paddles). Bunch of bs....it's getting harder and harder to find stick shifts. buy a motorcycle 
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May 30, 2014 20:57
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spengler posted:I drive through beltway hell routinely with a manual. Would never buy an automatic unless it's a CVT. I will admit that getting in/ out of parallel parking spots on steep slopes has a pretty mighty pucker factor when you drive stick. One time I got boxed in with about nine inches of room on a 30° downhill slope and I thought I was going to gently caress my whole front end. I'd rather drive for hours in lovely traffic than parallel park on a huge hill.
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May 30, 2014 21:02
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modern manual cars have hill hold/assist anyway so if you're bad at hills there's really no excuse now
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May 30, 2014 21:02
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I don't know how to drive a manual and it doesn't bother me in the least.
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May 30, 2014 21:02
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The Casualty posted:I will admit that getting in/ out of parallel parking spots on steep slopes has a pretty mighty pucker factor when you drive stick. One time I got boxed in with about nine inches of room on a 30° downhill slope and I thought I was going to gently caress my whole front end. I don't mean to get on a high horse but that was scary for like a year when I was 16, like you learn and practice and you get over it
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May 30, 2014 21:07
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gently caress the ROW posted:How familiar are you, exactly, with the gear wars, OP?
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May 30, 2014 21:07
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Stick shift makes it too hard to eat, check email, and drive at the same time.
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May 30, 2014 21:08
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May 30, 2014 21:09
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azreal posted:Idgi The thing people don’t realize about the gear wars is that it wasn’t really about the gears.
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May 30, 2014 21:10
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Xaris posted:Manual is fine if you're in a more flat/rural area but holy god I drove a manual once in the Bay Area and it loving sucked dick. Having to stop/start on a 45 degree hill every 10 ft in traffic is stressful as poo poo. Not to mention bumper-bumper traffic for an hour stragiht. Auto for life (or as long as I live here). I regularly drove up and down Divisadero in an old 5-speed. Driving in Chicago is so boring now.
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May 30, 2014 21:12
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Manual in the car, auto in the truck.
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May 30, 2014 21:15
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I got my first manual this past August. My dad had to drive the car off the lot because I didn't know how to drive one. After a 30 minute crash course I was on my way. The next day was the absolute worst rush hour traffic I had ever seen in Houston so that was fun. Baptism by fire is the only way. Manuals forever and always amen
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May 30, 2014 21:16
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I didn't know how I would feel driving a manual car but now I cant see myself driving anything but. Automatics are boring.
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May 30, 2014 21:17
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I had a manual worked on by a mechanic named Manuel.
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May 30, 2014 21:17
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Auto is for people who are not coordinated enough to be driving in the first place
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May 30, 2014 21:19
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ahh yes I definitely am gonna manually do something that I could program a computer to do more effectively than me, seems like a good thing to pay attention to i also type documents on a typewriter with a manual line feed button, and i do my taxes on pen and paper
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