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**Suvuseh** · 03-13-2010, 07:19 PM

On topic. I thought Cars was better than I'd been expecting.

They're tin-top racing cars. In the US these race round ovals and the series is called NASCAR. Elsewhere they race round road-courses (as the US calls them) and are called Touring Cars.

How someone can complain about a US, child-oriented animated film about a racing car resembling the prominent US racing series is beyond me.

NASCAR is...well, it's different. For one thing, it's hella boring unless something goes very wrong and a car crashes, in which case people get their jollies watching a guy burn to death. Otherwise, they just go around in circles forever, which sucks. NASCAR is also the favored sport of redne--er, red-staters, who in their NASCAR-going incarnation are somehow even more embarrassing than your soccer/football hooligans. Those Budweiser-swilling fatties out to stick to punkin-chunkin'. Most other Americans really don't care for the sport.

WRT Australia, I never even knew they still had the Queen on their currency (do Aussies know whose face is on our $20 bill, without Google?), and I was fully cognizant that they are an independent country. A former colony, sure, and specifically a prison colony. I'm aware that they still have some problems with dingos eating babies, and I heard from an Australian student at my college that some of the aborigines still wallow in drunken squalor like many of our natives do. That's about it.

03-13-2010, 07:19 PM	#13
Suvuseh Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 405 Senior Member	On topic. I thought Cars was better than I'd been expecting. They're tin-top racing cars. In the US these race round ovals and the series is called NASCAR. Elsewhere they race round road-courses (as the US calls them) and are called Touring Cars. How someone can complain about a US, child-oriented animated film about a racing car resembling the prominent US racing series is beyond me. NASCAR is...well, it's different. For one thing, it's hella boring unless something goes very wrong and a car crashes, in which case people get their jollies watching a guy burn to death. Otherwise, they just go around in circles forever, which sucks. NASCAR is also the favored sport of redne--er, red-staters, who in their NASCAR-going incarnation are somehow even more embarrassing than your soccer/football hooligans. Those Budweiser-swilling fatties out to stick to punkin-chunkin'. Most other Americans really don't care for the sport. WRT Australia, I never even knew they still had the Queen on their currency (do Aussies know whose face is on our $20 bill, without Google?), and I was fully cognizant that they are an independent country. A former colony, sure, and specifically a prison colony. I'm aware that they still have some problems with dingos eating babies, and I heard from an Australian student at my college that some of the aborigines still wallow in drunken squalor like many of our natives do. That's about it.
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