And I couldn't help but recycle the "you're old . . " line. Me and a friend were in a taxi coming back from Liverpool and when were stopped at a set of traffic lights he spotted two middle aged women in the car next to us, so he winds down his window, signals for them to do the same, which they do, before screaming the above insult at them until our car pulled away. Good times.
and it reminds me of what seemed a fairly basic and common cultural occurrence where I grew up (Louisville, KY btw), which is yelling at people from cars. Preferably, but not limited to, the summertime.
Being both a one-time instigator and recepient, I'd have to say it's totally classic as long as it's somewhat jokey. Maybe yelling "You're Old!" isn't so jokey, but I still think it's kinda funny. Then again the times I've been yelled at with "Hey faggot!" aren't so funny either (then again that's only happened in Chicago - Louisville yellers seem to be less homophobic).
So most of the time I was yelled it was sort of a "Hey!" or "Woooh!" kind of thing, either from friends or complete strangers (usually on a Friday night on Bardstown Road). When I yelled, it was usually incomprehensible gibberish designed to confuse random pedestrians (although occasionally the "Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?" joke was yelled at people in Jaguars or Rolls-Royces), and not that mean-spirited, generally.
Okay, so yeah maybe it's lame, but these little stupid spur-of-the-moment pranks of my teenage years are the few things of that time that make me chuckle, and not cringe. So what do y'all think? WOOOH!
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)
Other times just crazy nonsense sounds or two people yelling in harmony always gets very confused looks from people.
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)
(Double D Dud spoiler)
― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
The other great story I have like that is about Chris from Monkey Steals the Drum on a similar taxi ride. Chris never drinks much and got utterly fucked in Liverpool. The other three Monkey members were in the backseat dozing off, but oh no, not our Chris, who spent the ENTIRE journey home proclaiming in a loud voice stuff like -
"If _I_ was a taxi driver, I wouldn't be taking this route, no . . ""If _I_ was a taxi driver, I wouldn't have one of those orange airfresheners, no, I'd have a lemon one""If _I_ was a taxi driver, I wouldn't be in fourth gear, no . ."
I believe the guy overcharged them a fair amount.
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)
Tarts. they love it.
― Withnail, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Or similiarly: a bunch of boys drive by and yell something out the window but they're travelling really fast so what you hear is "mmmfmfmmf ASSH-- mmfffmmmfmmfmmfrr!!"
― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)
If witty and not too mean, and not about a woman's body, it can be classic. But it almost always isn't.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)
It's good to be back home/ backyard/ spherical/ it's good to be back home/ tadpoles
Me and my father are gay/ in the mind/ of a teenage boy in a rusted out Chevrolet/ or better yet/ maybe he just/ hates himself/ and can't figure out/ exactly what/ he should be doing.
― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Yelling insults at people while driving--either at pedestrians or at other drivers--is obviously stupid, rude and obnoxious. Mind your own business. On the other hand, yelling in general, because you're happy/drunk/high, is OK. I grew up in the south and I certainly heard my share of idiot redneck yelling at people out of cars, and it's not something the region should be especially proud of, a very uncivilized thing indeed.
― Jess Hill (jesshill), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)
anyway, i don't think it's probably too much of a stretch to imagine that the people who think shouting things at people from cars on this thread are male, white, middle class, and straight (at least looking/acting)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)
One time, when I was about 10 or 11, my brother and I walked outta Ehrler's with milkshakes in January, and some teenage girls yelled "Ice cream is for summer!" at us.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)
dud, dangerous but sometimes fun if it's a friendly recognition of mankinds existence
― schnell schnell, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― schnell schnell, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)
I think that it's a case of yelling things at people from cars = classic, being yelled at from a car = dud. I don't drive anymore, so my own self interest is going to put me firmly in the latter camp.
― -M, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)
I've been yelled at in the "black, working class, and straight" part of Louisville, too. Not sure if there's a "Hispanic, upper class, and gay" section.
I thought all the male, white, middle class, and straight (at least looking/acting) posters would be on the "sex with carrie brownstein" thread.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)
i have a very vague recollection of some mates turning a car over for some reason but i have no idea what that was about, that was ages ago in bradford, i thought it was pretty dumb
― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)
As for my own experiences, I've had things shouted at me, sure, but I've never once been able to suss out a single word.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)
However, all the other 1000+ cases of yelling from cars were alright. Once, a convertible full of bikini'd babes honked at me and went "WOOT WOOT!"; that TOTALLY made up for the other thing.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)
ooh that's a good one.
The only time i can remember this happening to me was when I was walking into a Rite Aid for beer. I was on my way to a late night pool party so I had changed into cut-offs, but I was still wearing a tux shirt from a bartending gig. A group of snotty girls yelled "NIIIIIICCCEEE SHORTS D00D!!!". Since they were caught by the traffic light I was able yell back something along the lines of "you should see what's in 'em!!" which made the parking lot security guard lol. So that was pretty classic.
― will, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)
Excellent repartee. And I like the concept of a late night pool party.
― Hard like armour, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:07 (eighteen years ago)
Dud, plz, because riding a bicycle in any southern state, city or no, is apparently an invitation for people to either to try to angrily run you over, or yell at you, "Get a car!" out the window. I am neither exaggerating nor joking.
― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)
yeah man, it's the same on the Gold Coast in Aus.
― Drooone, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)
Full of aggro surfie fucks.
― Drooone, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)
i really wish we lived in an ideal green world where i could yell stuff about farts at random ppl on the moving sidewalk from the window of my dymaxion car and have it always come off as good natured fun but humanity isn't there yet so i won't
― A B C, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)
SCRUBBERS!!!!!
― the next grozart, Friday, 25 May 2007 03:36 (eighteen years ago)
Scrubbers! That reminds me. Dawdling out the front of a pub one night at closing time, I witnessed a girl scream from a taxi at a group of guys "LICK MY LETTUCE, YOU C*NTS". It was accompanied by some highly unsavoury hand gestures.
― Hard like armour, Friday, 25 May 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)
I've never yelled anything at a stranger from a passing car - until today. For some reason, I yelled "Ya Pooper!" at a 9-year-old with glasses and a XL shirt, who instantly reacted as if he had been struck by lightning. I don't even know why I said it. Sorry, kid.
― Z S, Friday, 7 September 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)
some dudes in a convertible in georgetown, dc yelled at me like heeeyyy baby
so i discovered i still have this reflex (it's totally a reflex) to say certain things in french because i yelled TA GUELE at them, then when i got home had to google to find out what the hell i just said
― cnn and the holograms (daria-g), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:26 (sixteen years ago)
dammit daria, you should have gotten their numbers.
― ian, Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:35 (sixteen years ago)
Classic if there's girls in the car, they yell fun/nice things, dud if it's all guys, they yell aggro crap, and esp dud if it happens a minute after I was nearly hit by an suv running a red.
― Niles Caulder, Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:41 (sixteen years ago)
think i need to chill out, some stranger just said 'alright mucka' out of his window to me and i damn near almost stabbed him with my keys for doing so. urgh horrid dud.
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Saturday, 17 October 2009 12:01 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=2139
i think the early-ilx universe just collapsed on itself
― goole, Friday, 27 November 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago)
i was in england for three days in september, and while walking my girlfriend's gran home from the local shop onthe last evening i was struck (quite hard, tbh) by an egg thrown out of a corsa full of 15 years olds. would have been funny except for the 85 year old it missed by inches.
i don't think england is a very nice place now.
― Louis Cll (darraghmac), Friday, 27 November 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago)
this thread would have been a real sb holocaust
― velko, Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:44 (fifteen years ago)
thot that was jw for a sec
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:45 (fifteen years ago)
saw some yahoos in a hummer doing this bs at some lady in hollywood tonight
― velko, Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:47 (fifteen years ago)
i still get "LANCE!!!" or w/e from a-holes when i'm riding my bike
i mean we're averaging at least once a month
― itdn put butt in the display name (gbx), Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago)
i got "get a haircut" a few weeks ago when i had longish hair. I shouted "I'll cut you". But it was ignored.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Saturday, 28 November 2009 05:54 (fifteen years ago)
got a facebook group for you all http://www.facebook.com/pages/Screaming-at-Random-People-as-You-Drive-By/90648952710?ref=nf
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago)
someone yelled "your tire is flat" at me the other day even tho it was clearly not. i still looked down at it and they all laughed their 17 year old asses off.
― Shackleton Crater (jdchurchill), Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago)
ownd :/
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 3 December 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago)
"white guyyyyy!" yelled @ me 20 min ago
― am0n, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)
from a person in a car
― am0n, Thursday, 15 July 2010 22:58 (fifteen years ago)
bbbbbbbbbut?
:-?
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 15 July 2010 23:09 (fifteen years ago)
lol
― am0n, Thursday, 15 July 2010 23:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.lcet.org/images/sized/images/mainimages/the_big_reveal-757x332.jpg
― buzza, Monday, 2 August 2010 08:19 (fifteen years ago)
This always happens to me when I'm out running at night. Three times in an hour yesterday. And it's never anything interesting, usually some riff on "Run Forest Run" or "118-118". The best I've had is "Forgot your trousers mate!", which is itself quite poor.
Anyway, dud.
― seandalai, Monday, 2 August 2010 22:28 (fifteen years ago)
what is 118-118 about
― goole, Monday, 2 August 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)
Popular advertising campaign for UK directory enquiries. Features blokes running.
― ailsa, Monday, 2 August 2010 22:33 (fifteen years ago)
oh yeah running at night is like some sort of catnip to carbound ne'erdowells
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)
I have gotten "you look like you like to get fucked up the ass, boy" and "are you gay or what, kid?"
― sb a bit of ilx everyday by using this 1 weird old tipping thread (crüt), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 00:38 (fifteen years ago)
the homophobia doesn't hurt me so much as the ageism
some dude downtown yelled "haaaaaay giirrrrrrrl" when i biked by
i guess i was flattered
― pies. (gbx), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)
you sure they're not just clumsy pickup lines tho crut?
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)
walking anywhere in Los Angeles is an invitation for this sort of thing.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:00 (fifteen years ago)
maybe the first one was, but the second was from a lady!
― j0rdan sgt's tartan shorts club ban (crüt), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:01 (fifteen years ago)
well, she did ask 'or what' tbf
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:05 (fifteen years ago)
i just hit a double in this game: first I discovered that someone wrote "I <3 C0ck"** on the windshield of my father's filthy car, and when i crossed a momentarily empty street minutes later had someone from a distance shout "jaywalker!!" at me, with all the enthusiasm you might yell "kidnapper!" or "thief!" at someone.
**Although this obscene message would unconsciously direct me to get dinner at El Pollo Loco (Crazy for Chicken), so it's all good I suppose.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:09 (fifteen years ago)
Can't believe it took almost a month of living in New Brunswick before someone yelled something out their window at me. (YO. GOTTA SLICE FOR ME? [I was carrying a pizza box])
― Is it remotely possible that Shannara might have been good? (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:22 (fifteen years ago)
Years ago my mom, seeing a boy and girl sharing a bicycle, rolled down her window to shout "how cute!" only to get the ol' Eff You from them.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:29 (fifteen years ago)
Based on the cold wave of fear I feel when anyone yells something at me from a car, I'd say this is a Capital-Fucking-D Dud.
― from now on small breasts will never be the cause of your embarrassment (corey), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:26 (fifteen years ago)
^^^THIS
Because the only time I've been yelled at from a passing car, it was quickly followed up by a half-full can of beer pelting my head.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:28 (fifteen years ago)
A couple years ago I was driving with a friend who has stretched earlobes. We were stuck in traffic in a carpark when a minivan with a mom and kids in it pulled up next to us. The mom started loudly saying things about my friend and urging her kids to do the same. Soon they were all yelling "freak!" at him. What sort of a parent does that? It was so weird.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:31 (fifteen years ago)
the kind of parent that's actively auditioning for an interview with louis theroux
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:32 (fifteen years ago)
idgi - does he have some show about crap parents now?
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:34 (fifteen years ago)
his general schtick is 'oh dear you're terribly awful', and he likes to zone in on the kids so yeah i stand by it
― "It's far from 'lol' you were reared, boy" (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:38 (fifteen years ago)
this happened to me just now! it was a bunch of kids who all yelled something simultaneously that i couldn't understand while i was unlocking my bike. ah, new jersey
― the numbing/spicy queen of the conservative band (donna rouge), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:53 (fifteen years ago)
I had to drop some stuff off at a school the other day....someone screamed "ho" at me - on a playground full of children. At that point you just want to get in your car and chase them down yourself or get the police involved.
― I Don't Like Your Game (u s steel), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 06:49 (fourteen years ago)