These guys should apply for some Citibank positions.

bringing in the new year of the ox as expected.

kungheifatchoy, biatches

Standard equipment:



Mmmm....luxurious.

Hey, they ARE Westernizing!

Heckuva job, chinee.

Seat heaters make me feel like I pooped my pants. I find the sensation very disturbing.

So now they're learning from FEMA?

Jument: Seat heaters make me feel like I pooped my pants. I find the sensation very disturbing.

How would you know what pooping your pants feels like?

factoryconnection: Security forces all over the place use Segways.

For patrolling, sure, but for SWAT team kind of stuff?

ha-ha-guy: Jument: Seat heaters make me feel like I pooped my pants. I find the sensation very disturbing.

How would you know what pooping your pants feels like?

Everybody poops.

Jument: Seat heaters make me feel like I pooped my pants. I find the sensation very disturbing.

Ya, makes it feel like I pissed my pants. I never use mine. Leather may be cold at first but it warms up at least as fast as the seat heater does once you're sitting on it. I don't get why people want seat heaters.

I only really have a problem with the DVD player if they can't justify the use, which seems hard to do. Navigation system in a car used for rescue operations? I'm having trouble getting upset about that.

Seat warmers are great on a winter morning though when you don't have remote car starters.

Charity robbing? In my totalitarian regime?

Jument: Seat heaters make me feel like I pooped my pants. I find the sensation very disturbing.

Blagojevich? Is that you?

vodka: I don't get why people want seat heaters.

Yeah, and air conditioning. Who the fark wants air conditioning.

Shakespeare's Monkey: ha-ha-guy

How would you know what pooping your pants feels like?

If you're old enough, you know.


/betting I have shoes older than ha-ha-guy.

I'm 47, I like my odds.

/unless you're a historical shoe collector

If these rescue operations are anything like their fire drills, I'd want every possible option installed.

xuanzhiyouxuan: Badly thought out transportation in China?!

I thought those were Koreans.

TMI alert... I have Crohn's Disease which means my shiat is all farked up, literally. So yeah I know what it feels like to poop your pants.

However, I do not talk like a fag.

A Tout Le Monde: xuanzhiyouxuan: Badly thought out transportation in China?!

I thought those were Koreans.

I got it from here. Many more large anti terror drill pics included.

No mention of seat warmers or dvd players in the article. Just some yokel incredulous that a vehicle that the government uses for earthquake response would have a GPS unit in it.

factoryconnection: They'll be rescinded when the home office executes these motherf*ckers for embarrassing the nation and party.

We should try that here. Any public official should be put on trial for betraying the public trust and the death penalty needs to be on the table.

I know they probably don't get a fair trial in china, I just put that trial part in there so I wouldn't sound like a lunatic

Instead of "emergency communication command" they would be much better served by another kind of command:


Exodus
Metal Command

You're gathered here tonight
to heed our metal cry
obeying all our wills
all others you defy
a wall of sonic sound
with amps turned up to ten
our legions are advancing
to battle once again

fists are in the air banging everywhere
thrashing to the sound
faces melting down
it's time to fight for metal tonight
bangers take your stand and obey
our metal command

DRC500free: No mention of seat warmers or dvd players in the article. Just some yokel incredulous that a vehicle that the government uses for earthquake response would have a GPS unit in it.

I think it's more that the county officials are prioritizing pimpin' rides when their constituents are still lacking roofs over their heads.

blazemongr: Jument: Seat heaters make me feel like I pooped my pants. I find the sensation very disturbing.

Blagojevich? Is that you?

Nonsense, poopie pants!

Isn't it odd how when charity and aid workers need off-roaders they always seem to get top of the line models with carpeting and air con rather than heavy duty models like Land Cruiser "troopies" or Land-Rover Defenders?

/Soldiers make do with painted metal and rubber floored interiors so why can't well paid civilians?

DRC500free: No mention of seat warmers or dvd players in the article. Just some yokel incredulous that a vehicle that the government uses for earthquake response would have a GPS unit in it.

According to TFA, one of the vehicles cost $152,042 dollars by itself. In America, a Nissan Rogue is a Nissan Xtrail in a roundabout way. With every possible option attached to a rogue, you'd be hard pressed to get the tag per unit above $32,000. For a Toyota Land Cruiser, with all options available, the price is $75,609. That price includes the DVD players, blue tooth compatible navigation systems and everything else. One can only begin to wonder how exactly they got the price tag that high, short of inventing a feature that gives the driver oral sex while they drive.

/Just sayin'

Nav system? Hope it's this one:



/hotlinked like a Sontaran battlecruiser

Jument: Seat heaters make me feel like I pooped my pants. I find the sensation very disturbing.

It's reassuring to know that I'm not the only one that feels that way.

/those officials sounds like they work for FEMA

DNRTFA, but I can see a reason for the seat warmer (depending on the winters in that part of China) and GPS. The DVD player is stretching, but you *could* run disaster instructions and stuff in that thing. But >150K sounds pretty bogus unless they've loaded it with rescue gear.

Didn't RTFA, but what's so bad about what they are asking for?

If you spend most of your day in a car.. a navigation device is actually a time saver, so no problem there. And why not give them a little comfort? Like seat warmers and a DVD player?

I could see if they were asking for some type of performance sports car, or if they were asking for a bunch of stuff that has ongoing monthly fees (like XM radio or something), sure I could see that being too much.

But if your job was mostly spent driving around in a vehicle all the time.. wouldn't you maybe ask for the vehicle to have a couple of features to make it a little more enjoyable?

I guess it's the part "absolutly necissary" that crosses the line. No.. it's not absolutly necissary, but I don't think it's too much to at least "ask for".

mrh: Didn't RTFA, but what's so bad about what they are asking for?

If you spend most of your day in a car.. a navigation device is actually a time saver, so no problem there. And why not give them a little comfort? Like seat warmers and a DVD player?

I could see if they were asking for some type of performance sports car, or if they were asking for a bunch of stuff that has ongoing monthly fees (like XM radio or something), sure I could see that being too much.

But if your job was mostly spent driving around in a vehicle all the time.. wouldn't you maybe ask for the vehicle to have a couple of features to make it a little more enjoyable?

I guess it's the part "absolutly necissary" that crosses the line. No.. it's not absolutly necissary, but I don't think it's too much to at least "ask for".

Somehow I doubt that millions of charitable Chinese chipped in their yuan to make earthquake rescue "more enjoyable". No, they probably expect things to be done for the people of Beichuan like "rebuilding their farking town that was utterly leveled in the quake". I know you DNRTFA, but how could you possibly think the creature comforts of rescuers/officials are in any way significant when thousands if not millions in the area are wanting for basic necessities?

"Doc that Chink a days pay for napping in the car."

shijjiri: DRC500free: According to TFA, one of the vehicles cost $152,042 dollars by itself. In America, a Nissan Rogue is a Nissan Xtrail in a roundabout way. With every possible option attached to a rogue, you'd be hard pressed to get the tag per unit above $32,000. For a Toyota Land Cruiser, with all options available, the price is $75,609. That price includes the DVD players, blue tooth compatible navigation systems and everything else. One can only begin to wonder how exactly they got the price tag that high, short of inventing a feature that gives the driver oral sex while they drive.

/Just sayin'

A lot of this is tax... to import a car in china you have to pay import duty + VAT + consumption tax, all of which add up to around 50% of the cost of the vehicle. For nicer cars the taxes might be even higher.

Since when is an X-Trail a "luxury car"? The top end one is about £23,000. Range rover it ain't.

Sat nav isn't useful when doing rescues?

farkeruk: Since when is an X-Trail a "luxury car"?
You obviously haven't been to China. Any car that isn't the absolute cheapest crap is a luxury car, and more useful and cost-effective would be portable sat-nav systems like the Navigon I just bought for $250 that can be moved from car to car and used on foot.

In China the government typically buys cars like this then they get used for just about everything BUT official business. I once saw a UNICEF van being used for some obviously not so official UN business, for example.

My guess is that buying these cars is not a legitimate priority, especially with money specifically donated for starving victims.

I bet the passengers will love watching this during an earthquake:

Grrr.... from last post