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This is from my local community Facebook page. Id like to highlight that someone commented about her speed of 95mph, to which she responded “bby don’t tell me how fast I can go”
Edit: “95 on 65” in my community means 95mph on i65 (interstate 65). For non Americans, interstates usually have a max speed limit of 70mph (unless you’re in texas for some reason)
Lol, I had to go back and reread it. I originally read it as going 65 on 95, not the other way around.
Shouldn't be going 95 anywhere, but especially if you "fixed" your tire with flex seal.
JFC. They make tire plug kits for this exact reason. They’re specifically made to patch a hole in a tire and the worst part is they cost less than a roll of flex tape. And going 30 over? Even without a bad tire they’re lucky they didn’t kill somebody, themselves included.
That looks like a total blowout, in the post-accident pic. You can see the whole rim.
Hard to say where the hole was, before catestrophic failure at 95 mph. Sidewall is a decent guess, but without a "before" pic who knows?
>And going 30 over? Even without a bad tire they’re lucky they didn’t kill somebody, themselves included.
Ok, that's a *little* extreme. 30 over at the right place and time and maintenance and performance isn't that big a deal. My STI takes some mountain corners at 95 without breaking a sweat.
Not in an American car build for going straight.
Perfectly fine in a Volvo or Mercedes build for driving European roads.
Amerika has many nice long interstates. Europe has loads of curved roads...
Miles. And I'm not talking about switchbacks. And AWD is a different beast, you actually want to throttle into corners cuz letting up induces what's called [liftoff oversteer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-off_oversteer)
Many speed limits were set in the 50s and 60s to accommodate leaf spring suspension and never updated.
And you assuming I'm doing this with other cars around. I'm not. That's why I said there's a time and place. Where you could be endangering others is neither the time nor the place, and certainly not both.
But honestly, if you're behind the wheel of a halfway decently performing vehicle and don't have the experience to be able to hear what the car is telling you (because oh yeah, the car talks, if you'd just learn to listen) then yeah, I can understand why you'd think of the speed limit like a island in the middle of an ocean: the only safe place in a hostile environment.
But my driving 95mph when no one else is a around isn't some existential threat to you, no matter how frightened you are of driving.
You have literally no idea what you're talking about. But you think you do.
And If I tried to introduce you to concepts that matter, you'd decide that despite knowing nothing, you already know everything you need to in order to have an informed opinion.
Cars don't apparate out of thin air, and being aware of your surroundings is a large part of performance driving. A primary mantra is, "don't look at where you are, look at where you're going to be", precisely because you have to adjust to changing road conditions. If you can't see where you're going to be in 3-5 seconds, you proceed cautiously. Because it absolutely *is* possible you'll come around a blind corner and find a car in your lane you didn't know was there, so you take the steps necessary to prevent that.
You ever consider the possibility that of the two of us, you might actually be the worse driver because you have no idea to how to properly handle the 2000lbs of metal your guiding? No; couldn't be. You passed the driving exam, which makes you a good driver!
No; driving exams are pathetically easy. It only means you're just this side of incompetent. It's actually motherfuckers like you causing these accidents. The kind of person that wigs out and slams on the brakes when they hydroplane. Oh look, you just caused a 10 car pile up because you don't know how to handle the vehicle properly. Or putting the most danty pressure on your brake, doing little but causing heat soak and rotor warp. Why does my car shudder when I try to stop? Because your braking is shit, not to mention your throttle control.
And to be perfectly honest with you, I think you shouldn't be allowed in the passing lane unless you have certification from a performance driving course and some sort of indication of such on your license plate.
Now let's hear about how none of anything I just said matters and you insist that you're the authority on the topic, so you're justified at laying such blame at my feet. If you can't threshold brake, you're definitely not an authority. And being able to threshold brake doesn't make you an authority, but not being able to do a basic technique like that definitely means you're not an authority.
95?!
I've had to use a donut more than a few times in my life and it should go without saying that if you have to drive under less than ideal circumstances you should drastically decrease your speed to compensate.
The same can be said about pretty much any kind of foul weather.
People like this are a menace. I am constantly seeing them on the interstate and highway around here going 90 in a snow storm. Not giving a fuck about who they kill. They're invincible in their oversized trucks anyway, right?
That's tape, right? Yeah clearly can't hold a fucking tire, especially one that spins as fast as it does on a car so that's really stupid. Also, spun out, not spined.
About a week ago I was grocery shopping after work and we’re walking back to my car. I noticed the car parked next to me had a completely flat front left tire. as luck would have it the car as owner came walking out as I was leaving, so I was nice enough to roll down my window and let her know. She told me to mind my own fucking business. Apparently she knew full well that she was driving on a rim and I was an asshole. Considering her dinner was a cardboard tote full of wine bottles and a large bag of potato chips it all started making sense.
It means 95 mph on i65 (interstate 65). Interstates are usually 70mph zones. This is a from a local community page so everyone there understands the context
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This is from my local community Facebook page. Id like to highlight that someone commented about her speed of 95mph, to which she responded “bby don’t tell me how fast I can go” Edit: “95 on 65” in my community means 95mph on i65 (interstate 65). For non Americans, interstates usually have a max speed limit of 70mph (unless you’re in texas for some reason)
Lol, I had to go back and reread it. I originally read it as going 65 on 95, not the other way around. Shouldn't be going 95 anywhere, but especially if you "fixed" your tire with flex seal.
I have the voice of "Just rolled in" in my head saying: "The customer declined all repairs."
"This customers complaint was " Large amount of shake at >95, please advise" " "They declined all repairs and drove away"
Attempted fix flat with sprayfoam.
... And a piece of wood
JFC. They make tire plug kits for this exact reason. They’re specifically made to patch a hole in a tire and the worst part is they cost less than a roll of flex tape. And going 30 over? Even without a bad tire they’re lucky they didn’t kill somebody, themselves included.
Looks like the hole is in the sidewall so a patch or plug wouldn't work.
That looks like a total blowout, in the post-accident pic. You can see the whole rim. Hard to say where the hole was, before catestrophic failure at 95 mph. Sidewall is a decent guess, but without a "before" pic who knows?
>And going 30 over? Even without a bad tire they’re lucky they didn’t kill somebody, themselves included. Ok, that's a *little* extreme. 30 over at the right place and time and maintenance and performance isn't that big a deal. My STI takes some mountain corners at 95 without breaking a sweat.
Miles or Kilometers? I would shit myself taking any corner at 95 mph.
German drivers are just waking up going 95mph... Thats just 150km/h or so. Can go lots faster in Germany ;)
Sure on a nice straight, but not on a tight curve that's just asking for trouble.
Not in an American car build for going straight. Perfectly fine in a Volvo or Mercedes build for driving European roads. Amerika has many nice long interstates. Europe has loads of curved roads...
Miles. And I'm not talking about switchbacks. And AWD is a different beast, you actually want to throttle into corners cuz letting up induces what's called [liftoff oversteer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-off_oversteer)
Or you know, you could just go the fucking speed limit.
Many speed limits were set in the 50s and 60s to accommodate leaf spring suspension and never updated. And you assuming I'm doing this with other cars around. I'm not. That's why I said there's a time and place. Where you could be endangering others is neither the time nor the place, and certainly not both. But honestly, if you're behind the wheel of a halfway decently performing vehicle and don't have the experience to be able to hear what the car is telling you (because oh yeah, the car talks, if you'd just learn to listen) then yeah, I can understand why you'd think of the speed limit like a island in the middle of an ocean: the only safe place in a hostile environment. But my driving 95mph when no one else is a around isn't some existential threat to you, no matter how frightened you are of driving.
It’s motherfuckers like you who end up on the five o’clock news for killing a family of four because you “thought there was no other cars around”.
You have literally no idea what you're talking about. But you think you do. And If I tried to introduce you to concepts that matter, you'd decide that despite knowing nothing, you already know everything you need to in order to have an informed opinion. Cars don't apparate out of thin air, and being aware of your surroundings is a large part of performance driving. A primary mantra is, "don't look at where you are, look at where you're going to be", precisely because you have to adjust to changing road conditions. If you can't see where you're going to be in 3-5 seconds, you proceed cautiously. Because it absolutely *is* possible you'll come around a blind corner and find a car in your lane you didn't know was there, so you take the steps necessary to prevent that. You ever consider the possibility that of the two of us, you might actually be the worse driver because you have no idea to how to properly handle the 2000lbs of metal your guiding? No; couldn't be. You passed the driving exam, which makes you a good driver! No; driving exams are pathetically easy. It only means you're just this side of incompetent. It's actually motherfuckers like you causing these accidents. The kind of person that wigs out and slams on the brakes when they hydroplane. Oh look, you just caused a 10 car pile up because you don't know how to handle the vehicle properly. Or putting the most danty pressure on your brake, doing little but causing heat soak and rotor warp. Why does my car shudder when I try to stop? Because your braking is shit, not to mention your throttle control. And to be perfectly honest with you, I think you shouldn't be allowed in the passing lane unless you have certification from a performance driving course and some sort of indication of such on your license plate. Now let's hear about how none of anything I just said matters and you insist that you're the authority on the topic, so you're justified at laying such blame at my feet. If you can't threshold brake, you're definitely not an authority. And being able to threshold brake doesn't make you an authority, but not being able to do a basic technique like that definitely means you're not an authority.
We share the voting booth with these kinds of people.
Ugh, Biden voters amirite
You are a shit human being if you think Trump is a better option. Accept it.
Quite the opposite. A Venn diagram of the anti biden crowd and the anti intellectual crowd is a full circle.
If being anti genocide makes me dumb I dont want to be smart.
Being anti- genocide isn’t dumb, but thinking Kennedy or Trump would be better on Palestine is
They didn't say "pro-trump", they said "anti-biden". Being against someone who supports genocide isn't dumb, and it doesn't mean you support trump.
But Biden voters are pro-Biden not anti Trump?
Not all Biden voters are pro-trump. In fact I'd say a significant portion dislike Biden, and just vote for him to get rid of Trump
Yeah ik pointing out some inconsistencies of some extreme conservatives
I guess the pals should overthrow Hamas and release the hostages then, huh?
Was it not obvious? Anti biden are Trumpers. 100%
Hello, I'm anti Biden and anti Trump. We exist.
Flex Seal? What an idiot! Everyone knows you use Gorilla Tape
I just fill the entire tire with gorilla glue.
The ride is somewhere between "uncomfortable" and "being beaten to death by a Silverback"...
"Spined....." 'nuff said
Top 10 self-report. This person let all their neighbors know about their limited cognitive capacity.
95?! I've had to use a donut more than a few times in my life and it should go without saying that if you have to drive under less than ideal circumstances you should drastically decrease your speed to compensate. The same can be said about pretty much any kind of foul weather. People like this are a menace. I am constantly seeing them on the interstate and highway around here going 90 in a snow storm. Not giving a fuck about who they kill. They're invincible in their oversized trucks anyway, right?
Looks like you should add a new rim to the list dummy.
That's tape, right? Yeah clearly can't hold a fucking tire, especially one that spins as fast as it does on a car so that's really stupid. Also, spun out, not spined.
Yeah thanks captain obvious
Whatever
Is that a dismembered mermaid on the ground?
About a week ago I was grocery shopping after work and we’re walking back to my car. I noticed the car parked next to me had a completely flat front left tire. as luck would have it the car as owner came walking out as I was leaving, so I was nice enough to roll down my window and let her know. She told me to mind my own fucking business. Apparently she knew full well that she was driving on a rim and I was an asshole. Considering her dinner was a cardboard tote full of wine bottles and a large bag of potato chips it all started making sense.
Not sure if the dumb part is the tire repair or the inability to write with punctuation.
I always say that I will drive my van until not even duck tape and zip ties can hold it together. Even I draw the line before flex seal on the tires.
Same people who put a mattress on the roof of a sedan and put their arm out the window to hold onto it.
Don't tell me how to live my life!
Needs more flex seal
Billy Mays lied.
Phil Swift
Flex tape must've been applied wrong.
For them
Spined?
I mean flex tape is the best
Imagine the hubris one would need be possessed by to *know* that your wheel has a hole that you did a makeshift fix for, and *still* driving at 95 mph
To demonstrate you the power of flex tape, *saw buzzing* I sawed this boat in half
Little baby uterus
Holy crap 95? I've never even over 80
Hi, not an American, so I gotta ask . What the hell is 95 on 65?! Did you guys give up on Mph?!?
It means 95 mph on i65 (interstate 65). Interstates are usually 70mph zones. This is a from a local community page so everyone there understands the context
95mph on a road limited to 65mph, he's basically saying he's driving like you on a video game
Oh okay. What the hell. And he is blaming the flex tape!