I'm really sorry guys and girls, its time for a rant. I was (and still am when writing this) watching "The most annoying TV moments we love to hate part 2 on BBC 3. And something came up that really annoys me. The thing(s) in question is Global Warming, Green Peace and 4x4s.
Ill start with Global Warming: I dont get the whole deal with it. Its plastered all over TV, "we're destorying the planet etc". If its that bad, why havent NASA invented a machine that takes in CO2 and pumps out good clean O2. Why (and this is where Green Peace come into this) then are people jumping on the "save the planet" bandwagon. Every time I walk down to college I get pestered from people who have slighty unkept beards, who have slighty too short trousers, who have a slighty strange smell about them. Now dont get me wrong, more wind farms are great and I'm all for cleaner energy sources as being asmatic. But what is the deal with attacking cars, 4x4's in particular. I'm a petrol head through and through, my first word was car for petes sake. the internal combustion engine has been with us for about 100 years give or take, why start attacking it now. yes cars are bad but only when you give numbskulls licenses. a car on its own does not hurt people. The moment you give someone who you know shouldnt be at the wheel a set for keys then its a recipe for disaster. But thats not worrying Green Peace, according to them we should be driving G Wizz's. So if we crash into each other all that would happen is if we're lucky is a piece of cracked plastic. This will turn British roads into a giant bumber car arena. The governmen is allowing them to bend and twist their arms by slapping cars that fall within the "gas guzzling" range with increased tax (was 200GBP but now I believe gone up to 400GBP). This includes most cars but more importly the 4x4, the farmers car of choice.
The car that was been a symbol of manliness. If you havent taken a 4x4 through a field then your a wuss. As of a few years ago 4x4s were found in area's where farming in a major business, out of Green Piece's sights. The moment some muppet decided to take little johhny to school in the husbands big landrover killed the 4x4 and its tough image. Then within a week every mum were jocking for postion outside the school gates in their Chelsea Tractors. The BMW X5 is just one the namby pamby "4x4s". These mums sit outside the school in these big cars that they cant see over the dam bonnet, gabbing on their mobile phone, pumping the air with nastiness. Now I'm not calling for 4x4s to be banned, just for them to be returned the place they once were, the place where they were loved not loathed. The place where you saw your local farmer and you smiled because you know he wa using his 4x4 to trek across his fields to get to his cattle, to herd the cattle back to the farm so they could be milked ready for your breakfast ceral the next day. The only time you saw a 4x4 it was caked in mud. However these new "soft roaders" run away and hide at the site of a puddle!
TopGear tried to show the people of Gloucesterhire that you dont need a 4x4 by going across Botswana in 2 wheel drive cars that really shouldnt of been working, they are still the only people to drive across the Makgadikgadi Pan non stop. I'm really sorry about that,
I justed needed to get that off my chest, and I know its Italics I pressed a button and couldn't get it to go back, I'm using my mums laptop and its dark.![]()
clyde46