Most Annoying Thing Ever

[Ghosty]

"well britain lost the revolution lololololol"

What annoys me about that statement is that the revolutionaries were British aswell qq

Yep. Paul Revere shouted "The Redcoats are coming!" instead of "The British are coming!" or "The English are coming!" because all the colonists considered themselves just as British and English as the royal army.


What annoys me a lot is when people always shrug off my interest in NASCAR because of where I live whenever I try to have a discussion about it. "Oh, you're from the South; that's just a Southern thing, just a bunch of rednecks driving in circles."

e_e

Yes, I grew up less than 10 miles from the hometown of NASCAR's 10-year-consecutive Most Popular Driver. Yes, my dad knew people growing up who were direct relatives of people who drove in what became the Sprint Cup. But the drivers who have won the past 11 championships in both major series are from Michigan, California, Indiana, Nevada, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, New Jersey, New York, and Washington (the state not DC). It's not just a little Southern sport.

There are actually only 10 drivers from the South currently racing in the Cup, and only three (Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Jeff Burton) have 5 or more career wins. The rest of them have only 10 wins combined. This is out of about 50 active drivers, 2 of whom are from other continents and 6 of whom (with over 160 wins and 10 major championships between them) are from either Bakersfield or Riverside in California.

You guys with your 300-pound linebackers beating each other up for 3 hours and your handful of guys staring at each other all day and occasionally hitting a little ball with a big stick can have fun. I'm stickin' to the racecars.