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Maribor, Slovenia.
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If this is step 3, I’d love to see steps one and two.
You’ve
got to admire the guy (or gal) that can manage to do something like
this. I mean, if you’re going to lose your car — why not do it in
style and lose it to the sea? Imagine the bragging rights you get at
cocktail parties.
Man: "Yeah, I used to have a Clio. Fine car. Nice handling. Too bad I had to lose it to the sea."
Woman: "The sea? How did it get in the sea?"
Man: "Well, let’s just say that some people like to drive on
"roads" and follow "laws" and refuse to "endanger their own lives and
the lives of those around them." But that ain’t me, baby. I’m just a
good-looking rebel who plays by his own rules. That’s just who I am."
Woman: "Have intercourse with me."
More pictures here: The Old Clio and the Sea.
(Thanks BoĊĦtjan and Keyser Soze!)
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You know, using up all your aggression during your routine everyday work, especially while driving a car is a Slovenian speciality (which should by all means be patented), that makes this nation a very peaceful one. To be honest, it is not exactly a make-love-not-war nation, but at least it has a crash-cars-not-other-nations idea, which is probably better than nothing. Comparing Iraq war and Slovenian roads should demonstrate that the collateral damage of this unique ideology is somewhat smaller.
Lost a car in a river in Cyprus once! Well some mates did, actually. They got pissed and decided to take my 4×4 for a rough ride in the middle of the night. Trouble is that got got stuck. It eventually took thirteen hours to winch it out, but not before a bunch of us spent several hours in almost freezing water trying to get it going. At one point the police and fire brigade even talked about getting a helicopter. But this idea had to be scrapped as they told us that it would need explicit permission from the president (!), who was asleep, and that, anyway, the pilot was on holiday! Photos of the car made the front page of several newspapers with the obligatory ‘Check this out…Dumb Brits!’ captions!
RE: Dr. S’s comment: my wife was just commenting on this cultural
trait yesterday: that Slovenians are generally so peaceful EXCEPT when
behind the wheel. Your geo-political analysis puts a positive spin on
it. I once drove a VW Westphalia into the bubbling, magma-filled caldera of an active volcano. Didn’t get me laid, though.
So the theory is that the level of driving agression is inversely proportional to the size of one’s sexual organs/ prowess.
Or that drivers get more and more insane the further south you go from Austria.
DrS Untill you get to be that collateral damage.
Passing the red light on Smartinska in Ljubljana, running over 4 people
And while commuting from Maribor to Ljubljana for over a
crossing it (myself included) is by no means a suitable stress
reliever.
year, you see A LOT of these kinds of things. Getting a drivers license
should include getting a psychological evaluation and an IQ test. :P
Reminds me of my wild days! ;)
Re to JS: I wouldn’t know about that and I also wouldn’t talk about your theories aloud in front of male inhabitants of the Balkans (one might get to a conclusion about a correlation between geographical position and the Size
But speaking of compensation I couldn’t help noticing that drivers of the most luxurious cars usually aren’t very tall, to put it mildly :)Re to BigWhale: I completely agree and I also tend to be a very peaceful driver (or so I imagine and I’m not saying this because of the JS’s first theory). I was just making an observation.In fact an IQ test for getting a drivers license would probably also solve all the traffic jams, wouldn’t it? 
An IQ test tells nothing about the person, JS
Did I say otherwise?And I’m very aware that putting those 2 theories really close to each other is not exactly the sharpest thing I could have done.Then
again, I wonder how that Clio managed to get all the way OVER THERE.
Unless there was a ramp around, so a few people pushed it while it
still floated.
Yeah, that’s weir about the clio being so far. I doubt the tide would have helped much, it’s not that high in the Adriatic. Dr.
S: Very funny! I also find Americans to be very courteous drivers,
especially compared to Slovenians. But they are much more aggressive in
all other ways, including playing sports. I never needed shin guards
for soccer before…
It has to have something to do with the genetic predispositions I guess
Some unreasonable frustration that either evolves into aggression or turns into the maddness within 
Perhaps that makes us a nation of poets? 
"Perhaps that makes us a nation of poets? :)"Nope, that would be the alcohol. Which might have something to do with crazy driving skillz, too.
hobbits on crack
Americans mostly obey traffic signs. Let’s face it. 4 stop signs on
all roads that lead to the intersection. He, who get’s there first can
drive thru.This would be a joke here. :P
I think bad driveing proves that Slovenija is really in the Balkans and
NRE despite the fact Slovenes are often as blonde or blonder than
Swedes!
The kinetic energy of a car at high speed is often underestimated. A drunken fool who didn’t see the ocean and happily drove on at 50k would do that.
That’s exactly where every French car belongs.