Thirty-seven car pile-up at Nascar race. Gnarly video

[Bucky]

I finally found out what "Nascar" stands for, too. This is old school dingage

<<== click the pic. It's dingage, not carnage.

Heh-heh... "car-nage"

[wuushew]

1. how is this a political topic?

:shrug:

[MsUnderstood]

3. Bucky I don't think he's from round here

This is obviously a political topic...the waste of the fuel and resources combined with the environmental impact added to the injury and medical expenses show everything our country should be battling to fix!

[Bucky]

6. It's not. It's a general discussion. I think it's interesting but you don't have to.

If I was contributing to a "political discussion" I would have posted in a forum called, I dunno, "General Discussion: Politics."

[Phillycat]

2. Why is this in GD?

[Bucky]

7. I didn't realize there was a Nascar topic discussion. What does GD stand for anyway?

Oh, yeah. "General Discussion."

[Phillycat]

10. General POLITICAL discussion

Non-political topics go in the Lounge.

[Bucky]

13. And this is distinguished from "GD: Politics" exactly how?

I don't know if you've surveyed GD thoroughly, but plenty of social commentary that's not strictly political ends up here. I appreciate your attempts to keep the board focused, but the focus may be a little too narrow in this case.

[Phillycat]

15. You are wrong.

The mods and admins have been very clear about this. GD: Politics was originally created for the elections and stuck around because GD is so huge that they thought it wouldn't hurt to keep an extra forum to divert traffic. Skinner posted about this several times. I don't know how long you have been here, but I am absolutely positive about this. GD has always been for political discussion only. Social commentary is included, yes, but only with political implications. I'm not trying to be a hardass. I'm telling you the truth.

[Fierce]

4. Y'know, if they really were still stock cars,

I might watch it.

[madokie]

8. no kidding, my brother had an old 40 chevy stock car way back when I was a todler

long time ago. he let us drive it around in the field

[Bombero1956]

9. and he went back to the 1960's

for footage of the way it once was. Today the field is limited to 43 cars and nobody wears street clothes behind the wheel. If memory serves me this was a race where most of the regular drivers refused to drive because they wanted to organize themselves into a semi union. Bill France scrambled to find drivers to make up the field and ended up with local nitwits who didn't know a gear shift from their elbow. Besides that, it was Talladega.

[RedStateShame]

5. Non-Athletic Sport Created Around Rednecks?

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Maybe it shows Laura Bush running the stop sign......................

[Bucky]

12. !!!

:rofl:

[Ron Green]

14. This racing is to modern NASCAR as Lefty Frizzell is to

Toby Keith.