Yeah, that’s going to make the PR top ten list for sure. via Fark.
When Sonnie Martin recently broke down in Calgary in her Hummer H2, she said she was met with a string of horns, fingers, obscenities and rude comments.
“On that day, I was embarrassed to be a Calgarian,” she wrote to the Calgary Herald.
However, the letters in reply weren’t sympathetic.
“She drives one of the most potent, aggressive and ostentatious symbols of conspicuous consumption possible,” wrote one person…
Evidence of the seething hatred for the vehicle can be found at the Sierra Club’s hummerdinger.com or at FUH2.com, a Web site with 3,636 photos of people giving Hummers and their drivers the middle finger.
and, of course, at Ihumpedyourhummer.com, one of my personal faves. And what was the Hummercommunity’s response to this pervasive anti-Hummer sentiment?
“For people to point at the Hummer and say, ‘Bad, bad, bad,’ that’s retarded,” says Andy Drever, who sells between 18 and 25 Hummers a month at Shaw GMC, the only licensed Hummer dealer in southern Alberta.
Yep: don’t hate them because they drive Hummers. Hate them because they’re assholes.
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I never liked SUVs, much less why people who never get off the road actually buy these things (and that was when those things still COULD get off road without breaking down).
Being in NoCal right now I see tons of Hummers etc. driving arouind (not to mention coughing up a storm I am sure is due to the smog) and my sympathies to the Hummer Crowd ihs really zero.l
If you’re THAT insecure go and get a therapist but stop endangering everybody else on the road (not to mention the environment).
That’s a truly awesome image. I especially like the spider-web-ray-thingies.
The image is from The Economist, actually.
The thing that’s so unforgivable about Hummers is that they have ZERO utility. When whining that some trucks use that much gas, Hummerers have to realize that trucks can actually carry things, tow things, be of some use. Hummers are only useful as penis replacements.
I love, too, the fact that Mrs. I’m Lording It Over You In My Hummer actually expected sympathy when the appalling contraption broke down. Use your FEET, bitch!
I drove the actual Hummer–the green blotchy one with rim drive and a diesel engine. It was okay–but if they ever invade Canada we can stop ’em dead just by hiding in the forest where the trees are closer together.
The H2 is a Chevvy Tahoe with a hundred extra pounds of fibreglass. The H1 was for the sort of person who shows up to Neighborhood Watch in combat gear, but since the supply of 30-year-olds with the emotional maturity of hamsters is limited, they had to gradually morph it into the H3, also called a Toyota Landcruiser only $10k+ more expensive!
Yep, they are the cubic zirconium of the car world. If they were actually made with depleted uranium plating and could fry your nuts off with the residual gamma rays, then that would almost make me forgive them and pity the drivers.