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Cerritos to Glendale in six minutes

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-bESEq8bKc

SHOT with the Flip and then speeded up to 150 frames/sec in Virtual […]

Show work where necessary

MUPPET A (in red truck) is doing 71mph. Muppet B (in silver truck) is doing 71.01mph. Assuming they both left Long Beach at the same time, how long until I blow my lid because they’re holding […]

An open letter to the Long Beach Police Department

Dear Long Beach Police Department:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if I was to blow through a stop sign/red light, or drive at night without lights, or drive on the wrong side of the road, or drive down the middle of the road blocking other traffic, or drive across junctions causing other motorists to slam on their brakes, or weave back and forth across lanes, or (and this is my all-time favourite) drive down the wrong side of the road at night with no lights, you’d be writing me tickets from now til 2020. Right?

So why is it that I see cyclists […]

Giant chrome wheels…

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The Hummer: a tribute

WITH the happy, happy news that the shitty, penis-compensating, road-hogging, only-in-America-could-these-things-be-considered-cool Hummer is finally being put out of its misery by GM, here’s my own tribute to this lane-clogging piece […]

RIP Merv the Perv

Me and my first car, a Y-reg Polo

MERVYN GUNDY died this week aged 70. Known as “Merv the Perv” to generations of learner drivers in the Ross/Monmouth area, he taught me to drive over a period of 51 weeks and four tests (yes, four*) from January 1989-January 1990.

Looking a lot like actor Freddie Jones, Merv got his nickname from his habit of pointing out random women on the streets and saying, “she’s a virgin” or “she’ll ‘ave you, ‘er husband told me”.  He also had one of those nasal spray things that he called his “virgin tickler”. More reminiscences from Flynn:

Singing ‘virgins, […]

How to drive in the rain: A guide for Californians

LIGHTS ARE FOR FAGS AND COMMIES

So whatever you do, don’t switch them on regardless of how crappy the visibility is. Remember: If you see a car with its lights on, the driver’s probably a Democrat or member of Al-qaeda. Or both.

DON’T LET THE WEATHER GET TO YOU

Just because it’s raining at the kind of rate usually associated with Burma in the monsoon season doesn’t mean you can’t get on with your usual activities. Feel free to talk on the phone, text, check your email, eat, shave, put on makeup, drink coffee, search your glove compartment for your iPod/iPhone, play with your iPod/iPhone and […]

What's that word again?

THIS morning the skies opened and dumped about an inch of rain on Long Beach in the space of an hour. But by the time I left for work the weather had calmed down. “Ah,” I thought, “this looks easy”. Then Ev rang to say that there’s a tornado warning for Long Beach and could I hang around? Hang around for what, exactly? The tsunami? A couple of minutes later the warning was switched to Orange County which actually was hit by the tornado. Anyway, after assuring Ev that in case of a massive tidal wave I’d make sure to save […]

Crash on the 710

NOT spectacular, I know, but it broke up the tedium of listening to the squealing wiper blades that were making my […]