</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from HippoSleek on 4:21 pm on Jan. 14, 2002
Since I hate quotes w/n quotes here, I will just respond as they are written and take the liberty of paraphrasing:
1) Your link b/n ethnicity and criminal propensity -
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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Actually, if the afformentioned mexicans were the ones coming after me, i'd most likely get stabbed before i got shot.
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I dunno - maybe I'm reading between the lines, but a racial slur + mention of "most likely" stabbing or shooting (both crimes, btw) seems to equate to an implication of criminal tendencies. Or maybe it's just me?
2) Yes, I will tell you that 99% of people with lowriders are not Latino. Note that "Lowrider Magazine" is also sold in Japan and printed in Japanese and features... Asians. I would also relay my personal experiences from living in three of the four border states with Mexico and note that even in the lowrider capitals of the US, a shocking number are owned by white kids from the suburbs with lots of disposable income and very little taste. Or I could note that lowriders are found all over our great nation - not just in areas where there are Latinos. Or you could do me one better and document how you arrived at this 99% conclusion of yours?
3) Nittos suck. Seeing as how your are research inept, I can't expect too much, but for a review try:
http://www.240sx.org/links/product-review/wheels/tires/
Oh wait - there, 4/5 users said they suck - on a 240! Just like every autoxer, drag-racer, and road racer, 240 owners will tell you Nittos suck, despite the fact that they sponsor a lot of cars at HIN and take out full page ads in Import Tuner, SuperStreet and SCC. Now about the wheels - I noticed in your other post that you were buying Axis in 17" or larger - the Ne-O. Assuming you bought those in a 17x7, your wheel weighs in at nearly 21lbs! My factory alloys are closer to 16lbs. Thanks - I'll keep what I have - especially in light of the fact that we run the same size contact patch. Better quality? NO - but they are a decent looking knock off of a nice wheel.
4) Riceboyishness = wings plus body kits plus wheels plus racing seats plus boomin' systems minus any performance upgrades. A show car with a racing seat is just stupid - a useless acessory (as your car couldn't generate the lateral g's to necessitate it (especially w/ Nittos)) - which is the hallmark of the rice movement. (btw: headers DO get points in shows).
5) Going to a 240 board for wheel/tire info. First, it was a directive, not a question. The correct question you should have asked yourself was - where do you go for wheel and tire fitment issues? You failed to do that yahoo search - which would have yielded that answer without taking time for someone else to run the search and plug your numbers into the boxes. And don't kid yourself - they don't sell "240sx" tires, especially on 17" rims. Your question was not about clearance or anything remotely relating to the car... but nice try.
6) Beliefs espoused: 1) lowriders are driven only by Mexicans; 2) Mexicans are spics; 3) spics would stab or shoot you; 4) your mouth is a good place for your foot. If you don't think you've made these beliefs more than REMOTELY clear (see initial quote regarding 99%, not "most") then you are even stupider than I initially thought.
I'll level with you - I don't really like to squabble on messasge boards, but there are two things that I just don't let go by - racism and lies. Your posts have included racial stereotyping and slurs. In my mind, that's racism and I don't care to see it in here. If you want to chat with your friends about it, it's a free country, but in an open forum such as this where it has the potential to offend members it is not appropriate. What you do with your car is your business - show or go - I really don't care, but after your actions I feel I'm not going overboard in picking on you.
If you didn't mean anything harmful or stereotypical we can be done with this. ADMIT you meant no harm, APOLOGIZE to any that might have inadvertantly taken offense, and try NOT to make a comment that could be taken that way in the future. If you can't do that, I doubt your sincerity and will take everything you said in the worst possible context. So?
</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>Well, congratulations for reading FAR TOO MUCH into next to nothing, I was hoping i'd come back to this thread and not see a post from you, since you're such a PC thug, and will make a mountain out of the tiniest mole-hill, i guess it can't be helped.
2. As for the 99%, i'm definately sure it's not COMPLETELY correct, considering i pulled the figure out of my ass, but when i look at a lowrider magazine and see almost ALL latino's, and definately all latino models on the cars, that tells me something. As for Japanese lowrider, i'd like to see that, considering the fact that i've read Lowrider for over a YEAR and never seen a mention of a Japanese lowrider magazine anywhere in it.
3. A larger wheel weighs more? *GASP!* Who'd have thought? And i fail to see what the Ne-O's are a "cheap knockoff" of.
4. Matter of preference, and i bet i'd see more poinrts powdercoating my existing headers than id see buying new ones.
5. I never said they were, but there are MOST LIKELY people here running 17's with both a 40 sidewall and others with a 45 sidewall, i was looking for input from both.
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(1). No, if you'd do a little reading comprehension i said that MOST lowriders were driven by latinos, never all.
(2) I never implied anything of the type, someone said "whoa ho ho! you cant say mexicans on here, PC thugs (i guess he meant people like you) will come lynch you!", so i retorted with something worse, he seemed to get the joke, too bad your ass is a little too tight for it.
(3). Reading comprehension again here, big guy, mistert said "watch out, theyll shoot you, string you up! feed you to the sharks!" i made the comment that if the same "mexicans" i mentioned before were the ones coming to get me, i'd most likely be stabbed before i was shot, a reference to the fact that latinos are more likely to use knives instead of guns compared to other ethnic groups.
I didn't mean any harm, but damned if i'll apologize because someone had their panties in a bunch and couldn't see a joke (which you'll remark, was in bad taste) for what it was.