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Video for impatient non Hybrid drivers

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by driveprius, Dec 29, 2005.

  1. driveprius

    driveprius New Member

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    If you haven't seen this music video, it's really nice. It sort of reminds me of how it feels trying to take it easy on the gas pedal in a Toyota Prius while less patient drivers of non Hybrid vehicles around me suffer from "Wasted Space Anxiety."

    http://www.jcbsong.co.uk/jcbvideo.asp


    Definition of "Wasted Space Anxiety": This is the tendency to keep accelerating until you are sure there is no space between you and the car in front for another driver to bud in front of you. This anxiety can extend to the few cars in front of you. If you can see that there is a huge open space of no cars in front of the lead car in front of you, you'll desparately need for someone to fill up this wasted space. So either you start honking your horn, blinking your lights and cursing at the cars in front of you or you find a way to pass them.
     
  2. TonyPSchaefer

    TonyPSchaefer Your Friendly Moderator
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    Hey that's a really cute video and song. Thanks for that.
     
  3. tripp

    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    Great little tune. KMO posted a link to it a week or so before the holidays began. Ya gotta love a song about a kid, his dad and a digger.
     
  4. Rancid13

    Rancid13 Cool Chick with a Black Prius

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    Cute video, but I have to admit that about 3/4 of the time I had no idea what the guy was saying/singing. It's the accent that throws me off...way off. :)
     
  5. driveprius

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    It's not only the accent but use of British figures of speech. Here are the words:

    Artist - Nizlopi
    Album - Single
    Lyrics - Jcb

    Well, I'm rumblin' in this JCB.
    I'm 5 years old and my dad's giant sitting beside me.
    And the engine rattles my bum like berserk
    While we're singin, 'Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work!'

    My dad's totally had a bloody hard day
    But he's been good fun and bubblin and jokin' away
    And the procession of cars stuck behind
    are gettin all impatient and angry, but we dont mind.

    An' we're holdin up the bypass
    oh
    Me and my dad havin a top laugh
    oh woah

    Sittin on the toolbox
    oh
    And I'm so glad I'm not in school, boss
    So glad I'm not in school

    Oh no...

    And we pull over to let the cars pass
    And pull off again, speedin by the summer green grass
    And we're like giants up here in our big yellow digger
    Like zoids, or transformers, or maybe even bigger

    And I wanna transform into a Tyrannosaurus Rex!
    And eat up all the bullies and the teachers and their pets
    And I'll tell em I'm 8, my dad's b.a. barakas
    Only with a JCB and Bruce Lee's nunchuckas

    And We're holdin up the bypass
    oh
    Me and my dad havin a top laugh
    oh woah

    Sittin on the toolbox
    oh
    And I'm so glad I'm not in school, boss
    So glad I'm not in school

    And we're holdin up the bypass
    oh oh

    Me and my dad havin a top laugh
    oh woah

    I'm sittin on the toolbox
    oh oh

    And I'm so glad I'm not in schoolbox
    So glad I'm not in school

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    Said I'm Luke, I'm five, and my dad's Bruce Lee. Drives me round in his JCB.
    I'm Luke, I'm five, and my dad's Bruce Lee. Drives me round in his JCB.
    I'm Luke, I'm five, and my dad's Bruce Lee. Drives me round in his JCB.
    I'm Luke, I'm five, and my dad's Bruce Lee. Drives me round...
     
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    Neat video. Here is another one: A tour of Paris by car.

    http://mirror.rtor.net/rendezvous20_04.mov

    Claude Lelouch, "C'etait un rendezvous", 1976[/URL]

    From the Porte Dauphine to Sacre-Coeur in less than 8 minutes in a Ferrari 275/GTB. Top speed in excess of 200 km/hr (125 mph). Count the number of red lights the car is running. Legend has it that they had some film left over after making a movie and it was just enough to do the run.

    It takes a while to dowload even with a broadband connection, but it is worth it. Don't even think about it if you have dial up.
     
  7. IsrAmeriPrius

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    He drives like the guy who rear ended me on Monday.