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|    John David Galt to ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixo    |
|    Re: Would you support a "stick shift onl    |
|    25 May 10 14:22:26    |
      841df4cb       XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism       XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore       From: jdg@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us              On 2010-05-24 10:59, His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and       Chief of Quixotic Enterprises wrote:       > In most parts of the world driving means "stick shift," not automatic,       > which even a monkey can do. The result is that obviously we got a       > bunch of monkeys driving, some of them wanting to be "king of the       > road" and driving SUVs... Of course, this "automatic pilot" driving       > facilitates all the other crazy stuff such as: TALKING ON THE PHONE,       > NO SIGNAL LIGHTS, ZIGZAGGING, which makes driving such a game of       > Russian Roulette...       >       > So is this IDIOCRACY reversible, or we just have to live with it?              Any idiot can drive a slushbox; there's more to know with a stick-shift.       So if you want a restricted license it should be "no stick shifts", not       stick-shift-only.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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