Laugh at Rice


You know its gotta be bad when the chicks you are trying to impress start laughing.



Instead of spending all his money on ghetto shit, he could of had a nice paint job and looked 10x better.



Ugh.... what will they think of next!?

Quoted: www.laughatrice.com/images/Gallery8/rice4.jpg Ugh.... what will they think of next!?

What the hell is that??

ETA: Focus??

LOL!

I'm starting to see a lot less of it around here. Either it's going out of style, or those POS cars are falling apart.

Ricers. Shit.

I laugh at them when at a light they gun their motors and want to race me.

ME, in my 13 year old 4WD TRUCK that has ZERO mods or bolt-ons.

Yep, lotsa balls (and brains) in that world.

Quoted: Laugh at Rice www.laughatrice.com/images/Gallery7/rice3.jpg You know its gotta be bad when the chicks you are trying to impress start laughing. www.laughatrice.com/images/Gallery7/rice4.jpg Instead of spending all his money on ghetto shit, he could of had a nice paint job and looked 10x better. www.laughatrice.com/images/Gallery8/rice4.jpg Ugh.... what will they think of next!?

we have our own version of rice over her too, it sucks Cars like that should be burnt to the ground with the owners still inside

$100 says that at least half of the "laughers" on that site are actually the owners of the cars!

Wow. This is why destructive devices are legal.

Ugh.... what will they think of next!?

I saw one that took the cake a few weeks ago.  It was a black Honda Civic (2-door) which had a Subaru WRX STi hood, wheels and wing ... and a Ferrari rampaging horse emblem on the grill where the Honda "H" normally is found.  

I dont know who these people are who make sites like this, but the last pic is of a Ford Focus.

Ricers really do crack me up.  My F150 manual, with 215 HP, will quite literally blow most of 'em away.  I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.  Silly, silly little people in silly, silly little cars.

I own a 98 Subaru 2.5RS... it's the factory bright blue with gold wheels and the big grocery cart wing.  I bought it thinking I was going to change the wheels out ASAP.  It still hasn't happened, a couple planes took out a couple buildings, soon after I lost my job, and new wheels were moved low on the priority list... The car is bone stock minus me removing the intake silencer.
I should make my own bumper sticker that reads "This is the commuter; my racer is a supercharged 5.0".  I had probably 2 or 3 idiots a week that wanted to race me thinking my car was a new WRX.  They look very similar to my car.  Either I've become immune or less people want to race me now.  I'm down to about 1 idiot a month.
The ricers of this generation are the racers of the last.  The difference is, we spit on the fools that would go out and spend big $ for a beautiful car that goes fast.  We even had our priorities straight... #1 Horse Power, #2, uhh, I know something comes after that....  It wasn't that long ago when 5 to 30 friends and myself would roll out to familiar racing friendly streets to see if our cars went faster then some other jerks car.  We would laugh the imports out of the area.  They would line up and race each other and none of us would watch, not caring if that "slow car" could beat another "slow car".
Vin Diesel, you are the man, you make good movies, but your damn fast and furious movie spread the stupid disease across the brains of many a youth.  Now we pay the price with our streets littered by "wannabe fast" Honda civics, Toyota mr-2s, VW GTIs, Saturn sl-1s, ford focus, and even Subaru’s thinking their cars are fast enough to race built mustangs, corvettes, and z-28s.
I used to toy with them when I drove quiet and carried a big supercharger (under the hood).  I had no traction in 1st and most of 2nd, so to save rubber I'd let them pull a head by a half a car length then once I was firmly in 2nd past about 3k on my tac (about 35 to 40mph) I would nail it and pull them like they threw out an anchor.  It was a fun way of letting them know they were simply flies on my window.
As much as I laugh about the idiot kids "Ricing" out their cars, I chuckle when I see an preppy older man on a Harley or anytime I see a Hummer at the grocery store, all spick and span polished and probably garaged every night... "Rice" on the street is not our only problem ya know...

Slo5oh....
drive quiet and carry a BIG supercharger

I had this license frame made to put on my Corvette because I am sick and tired of those little nim rods always trying to race me. I thought better of it though after it was suggested I would probably get keyed if I had this on my car at the "mall" or somewhere like that. Now it hangs in my garage paying homage to my old rice killer, big block El Camino SS with 4.10 gears and positraction.

I grew up on old-timey Ford 302 cid engines with 300+ horsepower and dual exhausts that sounded like the gates of hell when idling.... these rice-rods with their fart-mufflers do NOT impress me, especially when my 6 speed four door Maxima takes most of them.  Pretty sad when the ricer-wannabes get smoked by a bone-stock 4-door sedan.

Plus, there is some jackass in a Civic in my neighborhood who (a) has a fart-muffler, (b) drives around at 10pm constantly, and (c) cannot upshift below 6000rpms.  It's like a reverse mating call that screams "I'm a loser! I'm a loser! I'm a loser!"

these people on this site are a bunch of asshats, most of them drive mommys lumina, minivan or daddys BMW with fake hoodscoops and other crappy cars so they should shut the fuck up and look at their own cars the fucking hypocrates

f'n losers!

you can buy a BMW off the showroom floor for the same money, OR LESS... and it's got class and can do the speed w/o any problems.

Quoted: Ugh.... what will they think of next!? I saw one that took the cake a few weeks ago.  It was a black Honda Civic (2-door) which had a Subaru WRX STi hood, wheels and wing ... and a Ferrari rampaging horse emblem on the grill where the Honda "H" normally is found.

No... no... NOOOOOOO!!!

Quoted: f'n losers! you can buy a BMW off the showroom floor for the same money, OR LESS... and it's got class and can do the speed w/o any problems.

A BMW costs the same as a Honda Civic with $3,000 in modificaitons?

I've been out of the loop..

Woops, methinks we pissed off two ricers...

Quoted: Woops, methinks we pissed off two ricers...

Some people around here seem to think that "ricer" = "any japanese car. period."

I disagree.

whats gonna be funny is when all the ricer shitheads try to sell their car and can't get jack shit for it because of the crap they've stuck to it.

Quoted: Quoted: these people on this site are a bunch of asshats, most of them drive mommys lumina, minivan or daddys BMW with fake hoodscoops and other crappy cars so they should shut the fuck up and look at their own cars the fucking hypocrates +1. Closed minded judgemental people. Expecting the world to accept us with our choice in firearms yet badmouthing other people who are harmlessly exercising their own freedoms. Dillholes.

How true this is.

and for what its worth, i dislike the ricers because, in my opinion, its stupid to spend money to 'look fast'


And before anyone calls me a hypocrit, I've got a almost-falling-apart but still running '89 cavalier z24 that I have because it was cheap and *I* don't have parents that'll buy me a car.  The reason i'm not a hypocrit is because I don't slap a bigassed wing from autozone on the car and go around acting like its the fastest thing on four wheels.


eta:  they can drive whatever they want, i don't really care.  but i'll still laugh at them 'cuz i think they're ugly.

Quoted:...Closed minded judgemental people. Expecting the world to accept us with our choice in firearms yet badmouthing other people who are harmlessly exercising their own freedoms.

sure we may talk a bit of shit about 'em, but are we going out of our way to BAN and/or restrict them from owning them?

I heard a line in an old western movie that went something like, "He's got a forty-dollar saddle and a ten-dollar horse."

It was later explained that a grunt level cow hand was paid $20 per month plus meals while on the trail, thus a forty dollar saddle cost him 2 months pay. The ten-dollar horse? Well, that's self explanatory.

some things never really change, do they?

People who put thirty pounds of useless tactical gear on their ARs are dinguses too, if that makes the resident ricers feel any better.

Me, I just wanna get an old Dodge convertible and tune the hell out of it.

Cars were so much better in the 60s and 70s. And I say that not having even been born then!

Quoted: Quoted: these people on this site are a bunch of asshats, most of them drive mommys lumina, minivan or daddys BMW with fake hoodscoops and other crappy cars so they should shut the fuck up and look at their own cars the fucking hypocrates +1. Closed minded judgemental people. Expecting the world to accept us with our choice in firearms yet badmouthing other people who are harmlessly exercising their own freedoms. Dillholes.

Lemme fucking guess - you two have wings on your carz, neh?

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: these people on this site are a bunch of asshats, most of them drive mommys lumina, minivan or daddys BMW with fake hoodscoops and other crappy cars so they should shut the fuck up and look at their own cars the fucking hypocrates +1. Closed minded judgemental people. Expecting the world to accept us with our choice in firearms yet badmouthing other people who are harmlessly exercising their own freedoms. Dillholes. Lemme fucking guess - you two have wings on your carz, neh?

Please never say neh again. It reminds me of stupid otaku.

{insert woooooooo wooooooo thread here}

I guess my WRX is rice?

Quoted: the young nascar fan's dream ride... www.laughatrice.com/images/Gallery18/g18p10.jpg

Felony Car Abuse in the 1st

It should be a law...

Quoted: I guess my WRX is rice?

No, it isn't rice. Rice isn't japanese/american/european, it is the silly bullshit people do to their cars to try and make them LOOK fast.

Like putting stickers all over your car like "R" type or "S" type or "Powered by Honda", that shit is rice. Or putting a huge wing on a car that can't go over 90mph and the wing only slows them down. Or putting a glue on hood scoop on a car or truck, all that is rice. It is just a term that was derived from Japanese cars because the tuner crowd started it.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: these people on this site are a bunch of asshats, most of them drive mommys lumina, minivan or daddys BMW with fake hoodscoops and other crappy cars so they should shut the fuck up and look at their own cars the fucking hypocrates +1. Closed minded judgemental people. Expecting the world to accept us with our choice in firearms yet badmouthing other people who are harmlessly exercising their own freedoms. Dillholes. Lemme fucking guess - you two have wings on your carz, neh? Nope, the only car that I've had with a wing on it was a Mustang. Right now I'm shopping for a new body style Cadillac DeVille, should have it in a few weeks (no wing). I'm hardly what someone would refer to as a "ricer". I just get sick of ignorance and hypocrisy once in a rare while.

It's not hypocrytical to rip these guys for being morons...

HYPOCRYTICAL would be to try and ban them from doing what they are (P.S. I was KIDDING about the "car abuse' post -> it's a JOKE) ....

You have a right to make an ass of yourself

I have a right to call you one (or let you peel out in front of a cop when you wanna 'race' my Z28 or GS-850 (Suzuki bike, 'ancestor' of the GSXR series))...

I love it.  When I drive my 1931 Ford without a hood, the ricers stay away and don't play.  A shiney 350 chevy hangs out of the hood in front of a 700R-4 trans, B&M pro-stick controlled.  

Those damn ricers sound worse than my chainsaw, quite comparable to my leaf blower.

Did you notice the dorks who are pointing their fingers? Pots & Kettles and glass houses?

I didn't notice any pics of the dork's custom fabrications.  

Of course, I laugh at ricers too and expect that they laugh at my choppers.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I guess my WRX is rice? No, it isn't rice. Rice isn't japanese/american/european, it is the silly bullshit people do to their cars to try and make them LOOK fast. Like putting stickers all over your car like "R" type or "S" type or "Powered by Honda", that shit is rice. Or putting a huge wing on a car that can't go over 90mph and the wing only slows them down. Or putting a glue on hood scoop on a car or truck, all that is rice. It is just a term that was derived from Japanese cars because the tuner crowd started it. Cars were getting non functioning scoops, wings and all kinds of other useless crap long before Japanese cars had made much of an impact on the US car market at all. The recent trends are definately dominated by Japanese cars though. I actually think that this stuff is ridiculous looking, but I am not about to go around acting like I am better or smarter than the people who choose to buy and install these parts. I am in the process of rebuilding a 1974 Maverick four door, people have asked me why would I bother working on such a POS, and I just remind them that I have not asked for thier help working on it or driving it. I realize it is a slow, ugly grocery getter, but I like it, and that is enough for me.

Liking certain cars and disliking other cars is classic American culture, it always has been. You like your Maverick and that is fine. Most probably don't but you don't give a shit, you are doing it for you. That still doesn't mean other's can't say what a weirdo you are for fixing up a 4-door Maverick.


The same applies to the ricer culture, it is not that anyone wants to BAN them as suggested earlier it is just that the whole ricer culture is very irritating and abrasive to a lot of people. I happen to be one of the people who absolutely hate the damned ricer fly by I seem to get on a daily basis driving one of my cars. I had some idiot kid in a Neon ride my ass for about 2 blocks a few days ago trying to get me play cat and mouse. He had about a 5 foot wing on the back of his car and loud fart can. In my estimation the car was probably about a 17 second quarter mile car, VERY annoying to say the least.

Plus it's fun to make fun of stupid assed shit like this:










Go here and listen to the rap, FUNNY as hell:


www.modenstudios.com/realricers.html

Quoted: I grew up on old-timey Ford 302 cid engines with 300+ horsepower and dual exhausts that sounded like the gates of hell when idling.... these rice-rods with their fart-mufflers do NOT impress me, especially when my 6 speed four door Maxima takes most of them.  Pretty sad when the ricer-wannabes get smoked by a bone-stock 4-door sedan. Plus, there is some jackass in a Civic in my neighborhood who (a) has a fart-muffler, (b) drives around at 10pm constantly, and (c) cannot upshift below 6000rpms.  It's like a reverse mating call that screams "I'm a loser! I'm a loser! I'm a loser!"

Nah its sad when this : beats them

You Might Be A Ricer If…

   * You have more exhaust decibels than your engine has horsepower.
   * You have aftermarket FRONT wheels for racing but stock rear wheels.
   * Your engine makes twice as much horsepower as torque.
   * 17" rims up front, 13" out back on your FWD.
   * You ever painted your wheels to match the same color of your car.
   * You put your automatic car in neutral at every stoplight in order to roll it back and try to fool other people into thinking you have a manual transmission
   * DuPont gave up trying to figure out the shade you were asking for.
   * Your mod list includes stereo equipment, shifter handle, MOMO steering wheel, PIA driving lights, exhaust tip, but no REAL engine parts.
   * A chameleon lizard undergoes fewer shade changes than your custom paint scheme.
   * Your rims and tires are so large, that you have to install the tire / wheel from underneath the car because it simply won't fit in the wheel well going in from the side.
   * The dealer laughs when you bring your car back in for service under warranty, and you've only had it 6 months...
   * Your tires / rims stick out from the lip of your car by more than 1."
   * Your paint job is from the WRONG end of the color spectrum.
   * You installed spacers on your STOCK wheels and tires to get them to stick out past the fender.
   * You see cars like yours in a Shriner's Parade for Children and clowns are driving them.
   * You bring an empty Maxwell House coffee can with you to compare size when you shop for an aftermarket exhaust system.
   * Your Eclipse GS-T hardtop has a "SPYDER" emblem on the rear...
   * Your sum knowledge of suspension is: "the more negative camber, the better the handling."
   * You push your car through the staging lanes.  That way, maybe you can break into the 16s by keeping the motor cool between runs.
   * You add a super tall rear wing, and a hundred pounds of aftermarket ground effects, neon and stereo yet you gut the interior and yank out the rear seat for weight savings.
   * Your rear wing AND your rear window have a third mount brake light...
   * The back lighting in the gauges in your A-pillar gauge pod work long before the actual gauges are hooked up.
   * You cut 4 coil springs and scrape the chassis on the ground. Sparks are cool when you corner at normal traffic speeds!
   * You have to find a way to drive AROUND speed bumps in a parking lot.
   * You install clear corner and brake lights.
   * You install colored bulbs in your aftermarket clear lenses.
   * You ever put neon on the bottom of your car, and then busted it on the first speed bump you went over.
   * You painted the UNDERBODY of your car to match
   * If your rear spoiler is taller then you are.
   * if you can fit fist fuck your exhaust tip
   * You have more stereo WATTS than engine TORQUE!
   * If your tailpipe extension is the most expensive mod you’ve done to your engine yet.
   * Your tailpipe extension fell off during a quarter mile race and you went three tenths of a second faster due to weight savings.
   * EVERY car in your class has a turbo pushing double digits worth of boost.
   * You spent $5,000 on the engine and you can not out run a stock Camaro, Firebird, or Mustang
   * You want the 'wastegate' sound, but don't want to install a turbocharger system.
   * You think Nitrous Oxide on your Hyundai Sonata puts you in the same performance league as the Chevy Corvette.
   * The automatic version of your car runs 2 seconds slower in the 1/4mile.
   * If the 1970 Plymouth Daytona Superbird has a smaller spoiler than your car does.
   * You think the Del Sol is a sports car...
   * A torque converter does NOTHING for your car.
   * You think a deep farty noise = the sound of high performance
   * If you think that horsepower is far more important than torque
   * If you have ever claimed that switching to a cone filter has given you more than 5 HP.
   * If you have ever considered installing more than one set of fog / driving lights.
   * If you claim that the aftermarket cold air intake system you just installed doubled your horsepower or took 2 or more seconds off of your E/T.
   * Your baseball cap is always on backwards when you drive (the first sign of mental retardation, wearing your clothes backwards... BE).
   * You spent all night on the Internet trying to find a company that makes a turbocharger system for your Hyundai...
   * If you removed your side view mirrors and put them at the TOP of the door / window frame.
   * If you think the Fugees are 'speed' music.
   * MOMO is 'absolutely required' to go fast.
   * Your four cylinder has a dual exhaust system installed.
   * Your four cylinder has four exhaust pipes ("Hey, one for each cylinder!")
   * The color of your interior upholstery hurts the cones and rods in other people's eyes.
   * If you cannot drive your car in snow as the ground effects create a plow effect.
   * If you have installed driving lights to compensate for headlight blackouts / tape.
   * If you think that 180 horsepower and 185 lb/ft of torque are impressive for a ‘mildly’ modified engine.
   * If you have stickers on your car for parts that you could not point out if asked where those parts are installed.
   * You think pushrods are a bad thing…
   * Your car has more decals than you do the quarter in seconds.
   * Every Honda you EVER owned, all the way back to your 1978 Accord was either a V-Tec or a TYPE-R.
   * You took your rear seat out and gutted your interior for weight savings but you installed 400 pounds of electronics, neon, DVD, Sony, etc.
   * If you gutted the interior to save weight on a car that you will never take to the track…
   * You lean your seat so far back when you are driving, that every time you hit a bump, its your back and not your butt that hurts.
   * You have hydraulics and sixteen switches on a car you claim runs low 10s on the street and corners better than a Porsche.
   * If you can estimate that your car makes more than 250 HP without ever running it at the track or getting a dyno reading.
   * You claim that you can get a titanium block for your engine.
   * If you have ever thought Hyundai and "performance" went hand in hand
   * If you've ever gone to a parts shop or speed warehouse and asked for a 1" to 6" exhaust adapter...
   * If you've ever contemplated adding "TYPE-R" stickers to your Sonata…
   * If you've removed more than 1/2 of the coils from your springs by cutting them yourself ...
   * If you have more neon lights on your car than a strip club...
   * You put Kanji on your Ford ZX2, Ford Probe, or Mercury Cougar ...
   * You own a "TYPE-R" Hyundai or Mazda.
   * You couldn't afford headlight masking, so you just painted them with flat black Krylon and it's peeling.  Badly.
   * You claim that polishing your intake gave you 5hp.
   * You own a V-TEC Hyundai or Mazda (especially a V-TEC rotary engined Mazda RX-7)
   * You have neon INSIDE your car or in your ENGINE compartment
   * You ever claimed that high gas mileage made your car superior in performance to V8s.
   * If it takes you 8000rpm to reach 30mph from a dead stop at WOT.
   * You think yellow plastic interior trim makes your car cool
   * You spend $500 for a giant hand welded tube for a muffler with the weld marks extremely visible
   * If you paint your drum brakes to simulate Hi-po calipers
   * If you install fake hi-po caliper / disc simulators
   * You have a front wing.
   * If you lower your car and add ground effects but retain the stock 14inch wheels with disc style wheel covers
   * If you equate the sound of performance with the sound of a Weed Eater™
   * If you think bolting a fake muffler to one side to simulate dual exhaust is cool
   * If you think colored head lights work better
   * Clear tail lights and turn signals. They’re colored for a REASON!
   * If you take mom's 4 door Honda accord and do any kind of mod to it
   * You drive a Ford Escort station wagon with Kanji, wide tires, and Limp Bizkit stickers on the rear hatch
   * You claim you lost the race because you had a passenger in the car.
   * You claim how if you went from a roll you would have beat him.
   * You claim you lost because you missed a shift... and your car is an automatic.
   * You claim you lost because he must have been on the juice..
   * Flying past the person who is 10 car lengths in front of you after they have put on their brakes.. and claim a victory.
   * after losing you flip your opponent off... rev your motor and fail to break the wheels loose even around a corner.
   * Tell everyone about how you lost the cop because of your "driving skills."
   * you are a white kid driving an import.. wear baggy pants/hat turned around, walk with a fake limp and end every sentence with "yew know wha I'm sayin?  Relate."
   * Your idea of aiming a handgun is raising your arm over your head, pointing the gun away from you, and then just letting your wrist fall to the side to where the gun is almost sideways ...
   * drive around in a $20,000 import with $10,000 in mods.. and still live with your parents.
   * You can relate to every line of the song "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" by the Offspring
   * you take offense when I say.. "your sister is like your car.. small, tight and hard to get into."
   * You are a skinny, backwards hat wearing, dog chain wallet, 2 ft wide pants leg, Limp Bizkit looking white boy fag with a badly applied peroxide hair color treatment  and temporary rub-on tattoos!
     

--------------------------------------------------- The following submissions to the list are from Chris (GreenMitsuE1)------------

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     You've spent more on graphics and decals than you have in gas, for the whole year
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     You sound like you're going 90, but you're creeping past 25
   *

     You upgraded to the "big bore" 2 inch exhaust
   *

     You lose 2 mpg by installing a body kit
   *

     Your wing is so large that if you go faster than 65, your bumper drags
   *

     You think "displacement" is something that happens to homeless people
   *

     Yugo's give you a run for the money
   *

     You continuously run red lights because they are invisible thru your red window tint
   *

     15's are considered HUGE rims
   *

     You can reach back and defrost the rear window by hand
   *

     You will race anyone, anytime, and already know that you will lose
   *

     You think Moby is one of the greatest composers of our time
   *

     You spend all your money pimping it out because spending money to make it faster is a waste
   *

     Your little sister is the only one impressed with your car
   *

     When you win a race, you don't really win, it's just that the other guy felt soooo sorry for you
   *

     You think your mom's Corolla is fast
   *

     The cross section of your exhaust tip is bigger than the contact patch of your tires
   *

     Your aftermarket tach is bigger than your fist
   *

     You bought the big ass tach to try to scare off the fast cars
   *

     But all it does is let people know how hard you have to push it to exceed the legal speed limit
   *

     You rev on school busses
   *

     Hell, you rev on people in electric wheelchairs
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     You buy and install custom rims a pair at a time
   *

     YOU REALIZE THAT ALL OF THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND YOU STILL THINK YOU'RE COOL!!!
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     You've entered a 12 step program called "How to come to terms with your limitations"
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     The bill of your hat gets caught when you roll the window up
   *

     You really want to kick my ass right now
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     You cut 2" holes in your rear bumper and don't know what they're for
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     You cut 2" holes in your rear bumper and DO know what they're for
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     You go to the auto paint store and pick out the most retina burning color you can find
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     You buy race gas to drop you from 17.02 to 16.9 in the quarter, and then tell all your friends how fast you went
   *

     You add a second battery to power all the neon, and the mini disco ball
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     You add a wing on TOP of your car, 'cause wagons need down force too
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     You've ever painted bare, raw fiberglass black and said "Look! It's just like carbon fiber!"
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     You get pimped out props from the mini truck crowd
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     You still only get dates from high school girls
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     You actually own a pair of light up glasses from Checker Auto
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     When you install your super phat wing, you put the pointy ends up
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     You purchase and install a body kit, one piece at a time
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     You saw the "Rice Boy" magazine in the back of Sport Compact, and inquired about a subscription
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     Your brother is pissed cause you stole the muffler off his dirt bike (it was a direct fit!)
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     Your dad is worried cause you bought a car with less displacement than his lawnmower

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www.goingfaster.com/spo/you_might_be_a_ricer_if.html

I work with one.

Bought spinners, is paying me to order him a body kit.

Im telling him not to do it, it will get wrecked, or broken into.  If not your going to end up selling for for a quarter of what you got in it.

No one listens to me.

Quoted: No thier are really people who want to ban them, I have seen newspapers in several cities with articles about banning the loud "ricer" tailpipes and large wings, they claim that the tail pipes cause noise pollution, and that the wings are an obstruction to teh drivers outward visibility. I doubt they will be able to do much about the tailpipes, because it would cause a ruckus with the motorcycle crowd (Harleys and crotch rockets), but I wouldn't be surprised to see park bench wings banned in some sities. Banning features on cars has been going on for years, in the fifties, it was illegal in many places to have a car that set to low to the ground, in the sixites there were places where "lake pipes" were made illegal. It is certainly a part of car culture to love one type of car, and hate another (I actually despise the ricers), but I also will be the first one to defend those guys right to do whatever they want to to thier cars. You mentioned a 31 Ford with a chevy motor, in years past that was considered an annoying vehicle that only a stupid teenager would bother with, in the fifties the over 30 crowd probably wondered why anybody would bother hopping up an old 31, when for the same moeny you could just go buy a T-Bird or Vette. Hell as late as the eighties many people considered street rods to be abominations that destroyed classic vehicles, just like many people today consider building a 69 Camaro into a drag car to be heresy, when fifteen years ago nobody would have given it a second thought.

I think we agree, we think ricers are silly as hell but don't think they should be banned, I'm with that.

I love when people put a giant wing on the back of a front wheel drive car. They must feel real cool!

Dont have a LOT of rice around here...

But I tell anyone who tries to rice something that my lug nuts require more torque than their engine puts out.


(Did I read that here? Hell It came to me in a convo one day, god I love that line)

I made my coworker read this thread too.