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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 01:50 PM
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Better get runflats before you get runover
Persuasive advertising from the caring folks at Goodyear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HydefnJL0qo

Double whammy for the unlucky chap at the end.
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 01:55 PM
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love the end
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 02:13 PM
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...but run-flats suxor.
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 02:48 PM
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The engineer-ish guy was hiilarious. The way he paced out the distance between cones and realinged one of them. I work with people like that.
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 03:37 PM
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ouch to the last one
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 06:23 PM
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that was great... i considered runflats so i didn't need a spare... but too expensive..
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 06:46 PM
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that was great... i considered runflats so i didn't need a spare... but too expensive..
..don't forget the ride sux too.
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 07:11 PM
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..don't forget the ride sux too.

Freakin LOUD too when they start to wear down. I would never buy them.

Oh and at the video
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 08:06 PM
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My worst fear on the last one. I hate working under my car, even with jack stands.

Oh and AAA > *
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 08:29 PM
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My worst fear on the last one. I hate working under my car, even with jack stands.

Oh and AAA > *


My ego > *

I would never call AAA for a flat tire.
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 09:36 PM
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Good commercials...
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Old Oct 18, 2006 | 12:53 PM
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My ego > *

I would never call AAA for a flat tire.


I can understand a woman calling AAA for help *ahem* as in the commercial *xcuse me* (j/k) , but a dude calling AAA to change a flat ain't a dude.
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Old Oct 18, 2006 | 12:55 PM
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I can understand a woman calling AAA for help *ahem* as in the commercial *xcuse me* (j/k) , but a dude calling AAA to change a flat ain't a dude.
another Man Law
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Old Oct 18, 2006 | 01:08 PM
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Ha LOL
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if AAA could do it faster than me I'd call them. But by the time they'd get there I could be done and long gone.
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