It's just an ordinary Lancer

That's funny, a similar thing happened to me while I was visiting the 17th/21st Lancers in England while I was test driving a Scorpion light tank.

It didn't catch on fire though.

my beard trimmer has a heftier sound than this whizzing lancer.

also i didn't see him hit a single hooker

Upvote! BUT, the stock model lancer is infamous for being one of the worst winter vehicles. The company trying to compensate with the evolution perhaps?

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>> ^kulpims:
^not a dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/B1-Lancer

lulz! and you're right.
the Tu was by no means a mere dupe, but a decided improvement in many respects.

just that, even short-timer non-rocketjocks in the usaf, like me, would recognize the similarity.
and hopefully now see it as a testament to the mutual admiration, and paranoid brinkmanship, of the cold war.

^not a dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/B1-Lancer

gotta' hand it to the soviets.

they had really good aeronautical engineers.

and even better spies.

These incidents involving American troops are far too common for the fault to be evenly split down the middle in all cases.

During the first Gulf War I saw some footage of a spotter calling in an air strike on what was obviously (even through the camera) a Bradley and not a BMP (as the spotter called it). Plane came down and killed 9 American soldiers in about a quarter of a second, pilot (over the radio), "I believe that was a friendly, over." Spotter (to camera crew), "Damn I was afraid of that".

3/4ths of American combat casualties in the first Gulf War were from friendly fire.

I visited with the 17/21st Lancers in England not long after Gulf war I, some of the Scorpion crews told us a story about how when their Colonel met up with his American counterpart in the neighbouring regiment the US Colonel looked at the Scorpion and said, "What the hell kind of Bradley is that?"

In the 2nd Gulf war the British forces refused to serve alongside American troops, which is why they had their own separate domain (Basra and surrounding area).

In my experience working with US soldiers they are barely literate, under educated, lazy and incompetent. I have no doubt that most or all of the blame in most of these cases lies with the American troops because of an overreaction to the pathetic hit ratio of ground forces in Vietnam (1 confirmed hit per million rounds expended for small arms). Now troops are trained to shoot before they think and this is the consequence.

well, doc. you were abolutely right. i am, in fact, a rockstar.

i'm late. stoned. cigarette dangling out of the corner of my mouth. so self-involved that i'm talking about myself at someone else's event. promoting the work of some other asshole. and i expect to be overpaid handsomely for this weak performance.

but you didn't have the balls to post your own photo, so you really didn't give us much to work with, in your Q&A:

21. List your five most cherished possessions.
(blahblahblah preamble, pretending to be deep):
My PC
My Lancer ...

yeah. i'd be lost without mine, too.

Here is Doc_M's response to his roast questions. Use it for ammunition.

1. What do you do when you are not at the computer?
Work... usually in the lab. Otherwise, music, tae kwon do, golf, etc.

2. What is your favorite of your posted videos?
I think, either the HBO intro from the 80's for nostalgia or of course this for the shear "holy crap" effect.

3. How many avatars have you had since being a member? What were (are) they?
I might be the only one who can say this, but 1, you're looking at it.

4. What non-self-involved site do you visit most often?
Neatorama.com and Gizmodo.com... I'm easily entertained... and a geek.

5. If you had a time machine, would you go to the future or the past? And why?
Past... very... as in millions of years.

6. What is your ratio of pairs of shoes to underwear?
3:30 or something like that.

7. Is that underwear boxer, brief, or birthday?
A little from column A, a little from column B.

8. Do you run a Mac OS, Windows, or Linux?
Vista. Oh, I'm gonna get grief for this one...

9. Would you most prefer to be involved in a monumental one-of-a-kind hiking expedition, working on a breakthrough cure for a debilitating illness , or presenting the discovery of a revolutionary new way to parse data?
How about finding a breakthrough cure for a debilitating illness while on a monumental one-of-a-kind hiking expedition? Heck, Ventnor is all about that kinda stuff... granted, he's kinda on the rich side.

10. What is your favorite ice cream topping?
Peanuts

Favorite (non-ice-cream-related) spice?
Rosemary or perhaps turmeric.

11. Are you a breast, butt, or legs man?
Face, but a perky rack is a nice bonus.

12. What kind of pet(s) do you have? Include name(s).
I used to have fish. They never told me their names.

13. What scares you most about Rosie O'donell?
The open threat of Kooshballs of mass destruction. That and she's nuckin' futs.

14. What is your favorite kind of soup?
French Onion... hands down.

15. What is your most frequented source of news?
Drudge hehe... I'm gonna suffer for that one too.

16. What is your beverage of choice?
Starbucks stuff when I'm feeling less poor, Coke when I'm feeling more poor, Rob Roys when I'm out on the town.

17. Have you ever been arrested?
Nay, but I once killed a man with my bare hands ... ok, that's not true, but if it were, that'd be far more interesting.

18. What’s your go-to move for making a good first impression?
Good old fashioned confidence is a powerful thing.

19. How would you describe your coif: bangs, balding or rug?
Mop on even months, spiky on odd months.

20. Is your face clean-shaven or do you have a beard, a goatee or a mustache?
Clean.

21. List your five most cherished possessions.
I really don't value "stuff" too much, but I guess I could say the "stuff" I would not like to lose any time soon includes:
My PC
My Lancer
My crate of vinyl
My piano
My WoW character <.< >.> <.<
22. What religion, if any, did you practice as a child?
Christian

23. What about now?
Same

24. What is your favorite memory?
Sitting in my dorm window after my last final in college. It was one of those perfect moments.

25. What was your favorite childhood television show?
Fraggle Rock!

26. How would you describe your personal style/sense of fashion/taste for life/artistic flair?
Hoodies, more or less trendy T-shirts, and jeans.

27. What is a reason not to go to Burning Man?
I was at Flaming Woman that day.

28. Who is your favorite Sift Hero?
QuantumMushroom. Isn't he everyone's hero?

29. Do you have any image(s) of yourself online that you're willing to share?
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e194/GenGradPSU/Me.jpg

30. What goal to you have while a Videosift member?
Inform/entertain/rock the boat a bit.

31. Do you upvote comments more for their originality, sense of humor, or self-deprecation?
Humor for sure. Also information, insight, and stuff I particularly agree with.

They are FINALLY releasing the Skyline GT in the US and I. MUST. HAVE. ONE. ... someday that is, $80,000, but hey 450hp AWD!!!
http://www.caranddriver.com/carnews/11023/spied-2009-nissan-skyline-gt-r.html

I've been waiting for them to release this car in the US for 8 years. Too bad it's so dang expensive.

Went 105 (dats 170kph!) in my Golf, omnistegan, felt great. I think I coulda pushed it to 120-130 (modded it a bit in college), but my cop-free stretch of deserted straight highway ran out before I could find out. Anyway, at about 95, it feels like it's a little too fast for a car like that. Starts to glide a little too much. It was safe where I did it and I'm a good driver, but still, any speed over 100 is really starting to get crazy. Haven't tested my Lancer with that yet, guess i fear for my license.

lol, should I be admitting I went that fast in writing? um, I was um, on private property, yeah, that's the ticket, private highway property... on an Indian reservation...