is this ricey
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Originally posted by Choku Dori
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Do a search for "rice" and you'll find many threads discussing its definition.
Nihon ni doko ni sundieru?
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Do a search for "rice" and you'll find many threads discussing its definition.
Nihon ni doko ni sundieru?
Reason I asked is, somebody called my Subaru seat belt shoulder pads "ricey". I didnt really know how to take it since I didnt know what it meant, but the way it was said, it had to be something bad. I think my seat belt pads are quite practical, considering they are both on the shoulder straps of my 4-point Willans harness! (They tend to chafe pretty bad when I drive naked)
Its the only thing that could be considered "ricey" on my car, so they were really trying with that one. I could understand if I had one on each of the stock seatbelts. Maybe there is a better term to describe when somebody fakes the funk of their cars performance? If you want to talk about rice, I am in the heart of rice. Japanese people tend to do things to their cars that makes no stinkin sense at all. Most of it comes in the form of having so many stuffed animals and fake flower looking crap on the dashboard it could be classified as a driving hazard, to having so much neon and strobes in the interior of the vehicle it blinds everybody within a 20ft radius to include the driver (it makes even LESS sense when they have the Gotti tint on all the windows), or, it comes in the form of stickers with sayings on them in poorly interpreted english. But DAMN, do they have the power under the hood to leave anybody who laughs choking on bits of Yokohama rubber. Can't really laugh when you got blown away by a Silvia that has a "Sexy performance style, drive like wind speed" sticker on their rear window. I have actually seen dumber things get 4 page stories in Americas tuner magazines. Stock Hyundais with an NX kit and a pseudo carbon fiber panel interior. I cant even count how many Civics I have seen that get placed in mags just because they have indiglo gauge faces and a PS2 in the center console.
I think the word we need to use is "stupid". Blowing $300 on euro style tail lights, rather than buying a boost controller or putting the money toward a pump and injectors or a bigger turbine is just stupid. Placing stickers on a car for parts it doesnt have or OBVIOUSLY has (anybody who cares already knows a Civic is powered by Honda!) is stupid. Installing a carbon fiber hood on an otherwise stock car is stupid.... you want to drop weight to make a car go faster?... tell all of your boys to get the hell out of the back seat. (Most of the idiots who I have seen with "ricey" cars tend to rev up on you at stoplights when they have a car full of people.) Dont put a big *** drift wing on a car that doesnt have enough power to get sideways! Dont put a boost gauge on a naturally aspirated vehicle! Its just stupid! You dont need a gauge to tell you that you are running a big fat ZERO for boost!
Some people dont know, some dont care. Some think that the best aftermarket parts are found at Wal-Mart and Autozone. Really its just personal preference as to what is done to a vehicle. I say, go ahead, cover your car in MOMO stickers and HID foglights. You will learn soon enough that looks dont create horsepower.
If you want to know the true meaning of RICE, pick up an Option magazine. In every issue, there are more pictures of under-hood shots and how-tos than there are of actual cars.
To Choko Dori:
I live in Aomori.
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Originally posted by amnzamudio
Well, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. www.riceboypage.com gave me all the info I need. From what I read, "Ricey" is having to do with anything projecting the image of high performance rather than actually being high performance.
Reason I asked is, somebody called my Subaru seat belt shoulder pads "ricey". I didnt really know how to take it since I didnt know what it meant, but the way it was said, it had to be something bad. I think my seat belt pads are quite practical, considering they are both on the shoulder straps of my 4-point Willans harness! (They tend to chafe pretty bad when I drive naked) Its the only thing that could be considered "ricey" on my car, so they were really trying with that one. I could understand if I had one on each of the stock seatbelts.
Maybe there is a better term to describe when somebody fakes the funk of their cars performance? If you want to talk about rice, I am in the heart of rice. Japanese people tend to do things to their cars that makes no stinkin sense at all. Most of it comes in the form of having so many stuffed animals and fake flower looking crap on the dashboard it could be classified as a driving hazard, to having so much neon and strobes in the interior of the vehicle it blinds everybody within a 20ft radius to include the driver (it makes even LESS sense when they have the Gotti tint on all the windows), or, it comes in the form of stickers with sayings on them in poorly interpreted english. But DAMN, do they have the power under the hood to leave anybody who laughs choking on bits of Yokohama rubber. Can't really laugh when you got blown away by a Silvia that has a "Sexy performance style, drive like wind speed" sticker on their rear window. I have actually seen dumber things get 4 page stories in Americas tuner magazines. Stock Hyundais with an NX kit and a pseudo carbon fiber panel interior. I cant even count how many Civics I have seen that get placed in mags just because they have indiglo gauge faces and a PS2 in the center console.
I think the word we need to use is "stupid". Blowing $300 on euro style tail lights, rather than buying a boost controller or putting the money toward a pump and injectors or a bigger turbine is just stupid. Placing stickers on a car for parts it doesnt have or OBVIOUSLY has (anybody who cares already knows a Civic is powered by Honda!) is stupid. Installing a carbon fiber hood on an otherwise stock car is stupid.... you want to drop weight to make a car go faster?... tell all of your boys to get the hell out of the back seat. (Most of the idiots who I have seen with "ricey" cars tend to rev up on you at stoplights when they have a car full of people.) Dont put a big *** drift wing on a car that doesnt have enough power to get sideways! Dont put a boost gauge on a naturally aspirated vehicle! Its just stupid! You dont need a gauge to tell you that you are running a big fat ZERO for boost!
Some people dont know, some dont care. Some think that the best aftermarket parts are found at Wal-Mart and Autozone. Really its just personal preference as to what is done to a vehicle. I say, go ahead, cover your car in MOMO stickers and HID foglights. You will learn soon enough that looks dont create horsepower.
If you want to know the true meaning of RICE, pick up an Option magazine. In every issue, there are more pictures of under-hood shots and how-tos than there are of actual cars.
To Choko Dori:
I live in Aomori.
Well, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. www.riceboypage.com gave me all the info I need. From what I read, "Ricey" is having to do with anything projecting the image of high performance rather than actually being high performance.
Reason I asked is, somebody called my Subaru seat belt shoulder pads "ricey". I didnt really know how to take it since I didnt know what it meant, but the way it was said, it had to be something bad. I think my seat belt pads are quite practical, considering they are both on the shoulder straps of my 4-point Willans harness! (They tend to chafe pretty bad when I drive naked)
Its the only thing that could be considered "ricey" on my car, so they were really trying with that one. I could understand if I had one on each of the stock seatbelts. Maybe there is a better term to describe when somebody fakes the funk of their cars performance? If you want to talk about rice, I am in the heart of rice. Japanese people tend to do things to their cars that makes no stinkin sense at all. Most of it comes in the form of having so many stuffed animals and fake flower looking crap on the dashboard it could be classified as a driving hazard, to having so much neon and strobes in the interior of the vehicle it blinds everybody within a 20ft radius to include the driver (it makes even LESS sense when they have the Gotti tint on all the windows), or, it comes in the form of stickers with sayings on them in poorly interpreted english. But DAMN, do they have the power under the hood to leave anybody who laughs choking on bits of Yokohama rubber. Can't really laugh when you got blown away by a Silvia that has a "Sexy performance style, drive like wind speed" sticker on their rear window. I have actually seen dumber things get 4 page stories in Americas tuner magazines. Stock Hyundais with an NX kit and a pseudo carbon fiber panel interior. I cant even count how many Civics I have seen that get placed in mags just because they have indiglo gauge faces and a PS2 in the center console.
I think the word we need to use is "stupid". Blowing $300 on euro style tail lights, rather than buying a boost controller or putting the money toward a pump and injectors or a bigger turbine is just stupid. Placing stickers on a car for parts it doesnt have or OBVIOUSLY has (anybody who cares already knows a Civic is powered by Honda!) is stupid. Installing a carbon fiber hood on an otherwise stock car is stupid.... you want to drop weight to make a car go faster?... tell all of your boys to get the hell out of the back seat. (Most of the idiots who I have seen with "ricey" cars tend to rev up on you at stoplights when they have a car full of people.) Dont put a big *** drift wing on a car that doesnt have enough power to get sideways! Dont put a boost gauge on a naturally aspirated vehicle! Its just stupid! You dont need a gauge to tell you that you are running a big fat ZERO for boost!
Some people dont know, some dont care. Some think that the best aftermarket parts are found at Wal-Mart and Autozone. Really its just personal preference as to what is done to a vehicle. I say, go ahead, cover your car in MOMO stickers and HID foglights. You will learn soon enough that looks dont create horsepower.
If you want to know the true meaning of RICE, pick up an Option magazine. In every issue, there are more pictures of under-hood shots and how-tos than there are of actual cars.
To Choko Dori:
I live in Aomori.
BTW, Aomori ga kireina machi! Asoko ni ikitai
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Originally posted by sjwwrx
I was always told "opinions are like a$$holes everyone has one". I think that if you like then keep it on there. I was going to take the wrx and put it where the subaru was. I'm sure to some people they that might be ricey but ohh well. I am not going to cuz i am afraid the r and the x might break i think they are connected. Hey if that is a hoak then they did a damn good job how about that reflection on the bumper???!!! oh what the hell!
I was always told "opinions are like a$$holes everyone has one". I think that if you like then keep it on there. I was going to take the wrx and put it where the subaru was. I'm sure to some people they that might be ricey but ohh well. I am not going to cuz i am afraid the r and the x might break i think they are connected.
Hey if that is a hoak then they did a damn good job how about that reflection on the bumper???!!! oh what the hell!
you have to break teh X off its connected to the R
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Re: Re: I am enlightened!
Originally posted by Choku Dori
Well said!!! :banana:
BTW, Aomori ga kireina machi! Asoko ni ikitai
Well said!!! :banana:
BTW, Aomori ga kireina machi! Asoko ni ikitai
i probably spelled that all wrong!!!
anyways its the only phrase i learned - supposed to be "please drive your car around one time"
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It's fine, I understand it
I was just saying that Aomori's a beautiful town, and that I'd like to visit it someday (I went out with a girl who had family in Aomori, but I guess I didn't go out long enough with her to meet them
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It's fine, I understand it
I was just saying that Aomori's a beautiful town, and that I'd like to visit it someday (I went out with a girl who had family in Aomori, but I guess I didn't go out long enough with her to meet them
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Hmm I'm just tired of the whole "R" thing. What is R anyway? I went to WAL-MART and they sell tons of R-Racing stuff. What does the R stand for??!?! Retarded? Real? Reboot? Really? Maybe Rugby Racing hehe! I'd change it back to WRX or just take it off IMO.
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Jesus christ Pi, looks like you threw a raid grenade into an ant colony...
3 entire pages on this...
And one jackalope who can't bend his mind around the fact it's real (I drove behind the damn thing on a canyon run before I ever saw this thread... It's real buddy... now get on here and apologize for being a little *****)
It's causing such an uproar I say you leave it on just to fan the flames... No matter how ugly it looks...
-DE
3 entire pages on this...
And one jackalope who can't bend his mind around the fact it's real (I drove behind the damn thing on a canyon run before I ever saw this thread... It's real buddy... now get on here and apologize for being a little *****)
It's causing such an uproar I say you leave it on just to fan the flames... No matter how ugly it looks...
-DE
