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I’m an Anti-Braker
Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I don’t really feel like discussing it, but I want to put my position out there. Please be respectful. This is a really long post, but please read the whole thing.
I’m taking the brakes off my car. This isn’t a rash decision, so please listen up.
A few weeks ago I saw a car accident - two people went through an intersection at the same time. Both slammed on their brakes at the same time and collided. Fortunately no one was seriously injured.
But then it occurred to me - if they had just gone through the intersection, they wouldn’t have collided. The brakes CAUSED the accident!
So, I decided to do my own research and what I found was *staggering*: Hundreds of people every year are seriously injured by unnecessary braking. One time, I was driving in the snow and I just lightly tapped my brakes and it caused my car to COMPLETELY LOSE CONTROL. My brakes could have very easily gotten me killed. Even more astoundingly is how often brake pads will warp and distort rotors, causing bumpy rides and squeaky wheels.
And you know what? I also found that decades ago brakes weren’t even used! People would control their vehicle’s speed with downshifting and engine braking. Maybe it’s just coincidence, but back when engine braking was used there were almost no automotive fatalities. There were NEVER brake caused car accidents.
After doing some more digging, I found a nefarious plot - Mechanics: The very people who we trust to work on and care for our cars - get PAID to install and change brakes! You might THINK they care about our safety, or our cars - but they’re just in it for the $49.99 brake pad installations.
So I talked to my Mechanic about taking the brakes off my car and I was disgusted by how poorly he treated me. He accused me of being ignorant, when I was the one that looked up how much rotational torque brakes can put on your rotors. He didn’t even know how much torque a rotor can take before being warped!!! He said “rotors are designed to be compressed, that it isn’t actually a problem” just completely dismissing me.
Then he had the NERVE to say that my personal choice had consequences, that I would affect everyone around me. Well I’ve had it with him, I’m looking for a new mechanic. The problem is that so many mechanics are bought and paid by the automotive industry that ALL of them are insistent about my car having brakes. Most of them won’t even look at my car for other reasons, saying that a brakeless car could cause damage to their shop and other cars. What a bunch of bullshit, they just don’t like those who believe in alternative braking techniques.
Now of course big government is getting involved, saying that I *MUST* have brakes. That this isn’t just about me, and that I could hurt people. What happened to personal freedom? What happened to liberty?
So all I’m saying is, do your research. Don’t just listen to the NTSB and big automotive. I made a personal decision for my family, we just said no to brakes. We’ll be using natural remedies like Gravity, and putting our feet on the ground to stop. After all, if that was good enough for me when I was on my bike as a kid, it’s good enough for my children in my car.
Please keep the comments respectful!
Legal Disclaimer: I am not a mechanic and should not be considered a valid source of information for automotive inquiries.
Legal Disclaimer: I am not a mechanic and should not be considered a valid source of information for automotive inquiries.
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Vicki Brown • 4 days ago see moreWaiting, sadly, for the people who don't understand satire when it hits them over the head with a clue-by-four.-
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MichaelZWilliamson > Kat • 4 days ago see moreI make clue by fours for people to mount on their office walls.-
Shelby > MichaelZWilliamson • 3 days ago see moreLOL, before I became disabled, I worked mostly as a customer service rep in some fairly large call centers. In one of the places I worked, we had a small, foam rubber "baseball" bat decorated with the words "clue bat." We passed it around to people who were stuck on calls with some of our more...challenging customers, in case the rep needed to take a little of his or her frustration out on a cubicle partition.-
Desil > Shelby • 3 days ago see moreI worked in the National Park Service. We had favorites. Things tourists would ask. For instance; in the Ca especially in New Mexico is a big sign It reads ; "The remainder of the caves remain unexplored." . The inevitable question; "How far do the caves go back". Answer;" We don't know. No one has ever come back".-
K DC > Desil • a day ago see moreyep, I worked horse concession in parks, was required to wear a knife, I had a fixed blade that was fit for Dundee and I wore on my calf. The conversation went:What's the knife for?
Emergencies.
What kind of emergencies?
Ooooh.......Bear.Do you ever lose riders?
Eyup.
When?
Lost 4 yesterday.
What happened?
Oooo. BearAnd the other fun one, Towing a riderless horse (for real reasons)You lost a rider.
Eyup.
What happened?
Oooooh....bear.Come to think of it, alot of conversations ended with "oooooh.....bear."
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Lisa Cady Lannom > Shelby • 2 days ago see moreI LOVE IT!! I actually REALLY needed the clue-bat for a floor super that was anything BUT. He wanted me to be off the call exactly at my quitting time, or WELL before. If I ended my call 5, or even 10!, minutes prior to shift end, I was supposed to hit the answer key then immediately hang up so as not to go over.After getting yelled at by him, where other reps AND the customer could hear (I wonder if she ever called in to complain?!) I told the shift super. he backed off. However, he didn't need a clue bat or clue x four, he needed a full 2 x 4 !!! -
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Patrick Nance > MichaelZWilliamson • 14 hours ago see moreI wrangled horses in Grand Teton National Park. A few touron questions (touron being an hybrid of tourist and moron); 1) "Does my horse have a gear shift?"; 2) "Can you drive to the top of the Grand Teton?"; 3)Regarding the view of the Tetons from the floor to ceiling lodge windows) "Are those mountains that high or are these windows really magnifying glass?"; 4) "Are those real moose?"... just a sampling. You really don't want to hear the answers given... they were less than tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek...
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Robert Moore Mod > Vicki Brown • 4 days ago see moreI've gotten a couple nasty messages, interestingly enough.-
Rick Santorum > Robert Moore • 4 days ago see moreThere's no scientific evidence that brakes are even necessary—and even if there were, I'm going to distract myself with this pretty rainbow and sudden topic avoidance to prove that God exists because "Hello, RAINBOW!"-
Lauren Chiodo-Benmuvhar > Rick Santorum • 3 days ago see moreThere is, however, lots of evidence that's been covered up by the government and Big-NTSB about how brakes really-for-real-in-real-life are the cause of autism! ;-)-
Amy Goodchild > Lauren Chiodo-Benmuvhar • 2 days ago see moreI read 100% of autistic kids' parents used brakes when riding in a car while pregnant. Tell me that's just a coincidence ;) -
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John Stein > Lauren Chiodo-Benmuvhar • 21 hours ago see moreWake up sheeple! Every autistic kid has ridden in a car with brakes! The signs are all there! -
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Chuck Larlham > Lauren Chiodo-Benmuvhar • 3 days ago see moreLauren: don't you find it embarrassing to be that stupid, especially in public?-
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Chuck Larlham > aj4coco • 3 days ago see moreYeah - I don't think she was being sarcastic. If she was... Lauren, I apologize.-
Cyanocitta > Chuck Larlham • 3 days ago see moreDude, there's a winky-face emoticon in her post. -
Acorn > Chuck Larlham • 3 days ago see moreNot only was there a "winky face" but she said BRAKES cause AUTISM! Big clue-by-four to her sarcasm. -
Calton > Chuck Larlham • 7 hours ago see more"If she was..."Man, that was an ass-covering that failed.
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Hertzy > Chuck Larlham • 2 days ago see moreI knew it was just a matter of time before a Big Brake shill showed up to ridicule our convictions. -
P. Alex Kenlon > Chuck Larlham • 2 days ago see moreChuck: don't you find it embarrassing to be that oblivious to when people are playing along with a piece of satire? Especially in public?-
billmarvel > P. Alex Kenlon • 2 days ago see moreGo easy on Chuck, you and the others here so ready to pounce because you "got" the satire.
I suspect that Chuck is a victim of a growing disorder, SOS -- Satire Oblivion Syndrome. Its effects extend not only to satire but also to irony and even to casual sarcasm. The causes and origins are not yet completely understood, but it is believed that part of this epidemic is traceable to upbringing, to parents who were too serious, the so-called helicopter phenomenon. My own suspicion is that genetics play a role, too. That part of our brain that ordinarily gets satire is gradually becoming irrelevant -- how can satire play a useful role in this strange, over-the-top world in which we find ourselves? -- and thus evolution has found a way to dispense with it.
Then, vaccinations probably play a role, too.-
Yastreblyansky > billmarvel • 2 days ago see moreAlso, Poe's Law: There is no satire of the right wing so crazy that it could not be an authentic right wing statement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... As they keep pushing the envelope it just gets harder and harder to tell, even with the wink emoticon.-
David Miller > Yastreblyansky • 21 hours ago see moreDon't you really mean "no satire of the left wing...". While there are some right wing Bible-thumpers that insist that they live like "God intended them to" and refuse modern medicine, the U.S. counties with the largest percentages of non-vaccinated kids are mostly populated with upper crust liberals that voted heavily for Obama (ex. Marin county, CA).Mississippi, as a counter example, has the highest vaccination rates in the country, even though it's one of the poorest states. It's not poor rednecks in the hills that are refusing vaccines anymore.-
Yastreblyansky > David Miller • 20 hours ago see moreThose Marin County people may call themselves "liberals" and vote for Obama but to me they are certainly not of the left--"liberaltarians" at best, who believe they have the right to endanger the community for their own selfish purposes. Their "liberality" is all about issues that don't involve any tax money, not the issues that define the left.And then the politicians that came out in favor of some kind of parental choice on vaccination are all, like Christie and Paul, of the right. Robert Moore's elegant satire was of people like that.As for the Mississippians, good job! They have indeed set an example on this issue. -
William Woodruff > David Miller • 13 hours ago see moreyou can say what you want that is a fair point, people not getting immunized are more often named starchild and shit
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billmarvel > Yastreblyansky • 2 days ago see moreYas -- I vividly remember the late 1960s and 1970s when it was impossible to satirize the left. I suspect politics in general immunizes one from satire.-
Frank DiSalle > billmarvel • 2 days ago see moreYeah, bill, I remember when those idiot leftists kept insisting that the war in Vietnam was a big waste of lives and money!And then they claimed that homosexuals, blacks and women should be treated as equals.Crazy times!-
billmarvel > Frank DiSalle • 2 days ago see moreYou remember the left a little differently from me, Frank. And I lived among them for several years. My recollection was they were all for offing the pig and revolution now and bombing, say, the math building at the U. of Wisconsin. And then they sort of dithered out in sex and drugs. Anyway, the fight for civil rights started before the 1960s and continues today.
Not here to defend the far right, which I find as odious as the far left. The tide against the war turned only after the vast American middle turned against the war. And that had more to do with the draft and body bags than with any leftie chest-banging.-
Frank DiSalle > billmarvel • a day ago see moreSome lunatic who bombed a math building represents the entire left wing...Well, OK, I'll give you that one, providing that you admit that Timothy McVeigh represents the entire right wing. -
The Oracle at DelFly > billmarvel • 12 hours ago see moreMost of those, even age 21+, didn't vote. Didn't want "the man" to know that much about them. Or didn't want to get jury duty, perhaps.
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ZPT205 > billmarvel • 2 days ago see more100% of people who don't get satire have ridden in cars with brakes. -
Smarter than Your Average Bear > billmarvel • 2 days ago see moreHis parents used cars with brakes - isn't it obvious? Rapid deceleration due to braking upsets the quantum energy field not yet born child's brain (Deepak told me so) causing a lifetime SOS;) -
The Oracle at DelFly > billmarvel • 12 hours ago see moreSOS is another side effect caused by exposure to brake fluid.
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Sam McNamee > Chuck Larlham • 3 days ago see moreOk ... on the count of three ... deep breath and RELAX! -
MTBway2B > Chuck Larlham • 2 days ago see moreDo you find it embarrassing how you didn't recognize the winky smiley? -
paulalovescats > Chuck Larlham • 3 days ago see moreSee the funny stuff after her post? ;-) Turn your head to the left and look at it again.(Then again, Chuck himself might be Poe-ing) -
browniepoints > Chuck Larlham • 2 days ago see moreOne could ask you the exact same question Chuck. -
chibi > Chuck Larlham • 21 hours ago see moreI think failing to understand a joke complete with smiley is worse... -
Random non-part voter... > Chuck Larlham • 2 days ago see moreI would imagine not as embarrassing as you thinking she's serious.
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