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Speedy" Shayne Barr races Nitro RS4 remote controlled Racecars competitively. These cars are nitro fueled, 1/10 scale, and they can go as fast as fifty miles per hour.

Just make them look like they could go fast if they wanted. Perhaps an offset racing stripe, or a "v-tec" sticker. Check out the official Rice Boy Page for more info.

Ever seen a colorfully decalled-to-death crap car (usually a Honda Civic) with no power under the hood, but giving off the impression like it's powerful? Well, most of our remote controlled cars arent either and we have no hopes of competing with this guy. Just put stickers on it and any idion who sees the thing will definately be as impressed as he/she would be if it were the real deal.

Note: "Rice boy" is not a derrogatory racist term; the website deals with this issue. Check it's FAQ before flaming.

You might be a ricer if...

Or check out the Hall of Shame at the Rice-Boy page.

You might be a ricer if...

Or check out the Hall of Shame at the Rice-Boy page.

OMG, that's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Even better than riceboypage.

For more of that, check out the Rice Boy Hall of Shame

Well, some of those people actually know what they're doing. As you say, the ride/handling aspects of a suspension are a balance, and the designers have picked a point that they think gives a good balance between the two. The problem is that the optimum point for a street racer may not be the optimum point for the ordinary drivers those designers were thinking of when they chose that balance point. That means that a street racer may well have some reason to adjust the balance for more handling and less ride.

The people who really need a boot to the head are the ones who manage to mess up both ride and handling in the interests of looks. Everyone knows that getting optimum handling from an ordinary car frequently involves lowering it, so some people will get their cars inexpertly lowered in an attempt to make their car look fast. In the process they kill their ride and handling. There's a wonderful web site ridiculing these bozos, but be forewarned. Some of the cars on that page are scary.

Manufacturers spend millions of pounds developing these cars, but a wanker in an anorak ten years later knows MUCH better how to get the best ride/handling balance out of it, obviously. Do they bollocks.

I used to (heck, I still do) laugh at these people as far back as high school. Mostly the Mustang lovers, but more and more Honda Civics. Lowering the suspension, adding spoilers, noisy exhaust, and of course the obligatory Powered By Honda stickers. I think those racing stickers are supposed to add .0003 hp to the car! They all talk as if they know more about a car's suspension than the engineers at Honda that designed the damn thing.
For a great laugh check out the Riceboy page

Take a really nice (and expensive) 15Krpm SCSI hard drive, and do this to it.

Fucking morons.

Charles Darwin would be proud to see his theory working well! Uncle Ben would be proud, too, to see how technologically advanced rice has become.

*sigh*...

Computer modding seems to me to be the current day version of hot-rodding cars back in the fourties and fifties.

No, it's more like the nerd equivalent of putting neon ground-effects, "Type R" stickers, and enormous wings...on a Honda Civic.

Yes. Case modders are the Rice Boys of the tech world. :wq

You mean like
this?

Have you ever seen this site?

It hasn't been updated lately, but it's great at mocking those jackass street racers who think they are so 31337.

I especially love to mock the morons who put "Type R" stickers on their car, no matter what it is. Listen up fools, unless you're driving an Acura, you can't possibly have a Type R. When you put those stickers on your Neon, it makes about as much sense as putting a "Hilton" sign on an outhouse. But go ahead, keep begging everyone to laugh at you, and we'll happily oblige.

I thought that the room accoustics are impossible to reproduce on any N number of speaker systems and that was the reason why a CD can't ever sound as good as a live performance. That whole higher harmonics hooey sounds a bit ricey to me.

Basically anything thats put on a case that dosen't help performance or is informative in anyway rates right up there with these mongoloids.

Well I think it's pretty damn annoying and presumptuous for one. And it's probably just the start. I don't really wanna sit down and see the annoying "Would you like to change channels to record our spam or stay on the current channel?" prompt everytime I sit down. I turned off the auto-recommendations just because of this.

FWIW, this stuff usually comes through at zero-dark-hundred. Unless you're a night owl, you'll never see it switch over to record this stuff. As for the "suggestions" feature, it's tracked down a few movies I wouldn't have otherwise known were on (Fahrenheit 451 and Colossus: The Forbin Project come to mind as a couple of examples). It beats browsing the listings every week.

(I didn't particulary care for the Lexus promo TiVo ran a while back...I have zero interest in rice burners and wouldn't buy one even if I had Bill Gates' fortune. I think the Beeb doing a promo of one of its shows through TiVo is a better use of this capability than ads for products that don't have much to do with TV or entertainment.)

Ever heard of research?

Heh, give your harddrive the riceboy treatment, eh?

I vote for fog lights, VTEC emblems and 4 inch exhaust tip. That should really boost performance!!!

This is car mod "art"

I would like to compare this to my time driving around town in my GTA (may it rest in peace -- Never let your wife change the oil).

I know my car wasn't the fastest around, but it did pretty well for what it had. The only people that ever attempted to race me were the "over enthusiastic" rice-boys that really belonged in the Hall of Shame. You probably know what I'm talking about. Slow cars with lots of stickers, and TypeR emblems all over them. Coming home late at night, I'd put up with them through most lights before I put the hammer down and left the pregnant rollerskate buzzing like a weedeater far behind, too embarassed to pull up beside me again. Now I realize that SOME "ricers" have put their money's worth in to make truly great performers that would smoke my bone stock ride, just as some of the newer Apples perform very well. Unfortunately the "old-school" Mac zealots I've encountered are so irrational, that you could smoke their A@@es, and they's still pull up to the next (proverbial) light believing that they were faster, and letting you know.

If you want to use Mac, go ahead, knock yourself out. But I have better things to do than listen to endless dribble.

so if you use scsi fine... but what if you dont want to clutter up your computer with all those cables... maybe your into pc mods

You'll actually need more cables to hook up a bunch of IDE drives than to hook up a bunch of SCSI drives. IDE will only support two drives per channel, while narrow SCSI can support up to seven and wide SCSI handles up to 15 drives.

As for riced-out PCs, I won't go there. Case cutouts and neon lights look as ridiculous on PCs as "powered by Foo" stickers, huge-ass spoilers, and fire extinguishers on the A-post look on small, underpowered cars.

This would likely be covered under the right of public performance. It's tricky to figure out exactly where to draw the line though. For example, is the guy in the riced-out Civic playing Who Let The Dogs Out at 150 db at a red light giving a public performance? What about the guy who plays the same CD in a restaurant kitchen after closing?

And change to a LOUDER exhaust system. Louder is always faster....

For more ideas check HERE!

I saw a picture at riceboypage.com about this guy that cut sheet metal and made his own spoiler. Also, this guy I know lived in a town that on Saturday night, all the real rice boys would drive around this one area of town, so my friend and another friend made the cheesiest spoilers and stuff out of cardboard and taped them on the car and drove down there to make them see how ridiculous they look.

www.riceboypage.com

While Macs certainly look pretty, their designs clearly favor function over form -- pretty much every feature serves some function, but is made to have a beautiful form, within the context of serving that function. Compare this to a lot of modded PC cases, which tend to be encrusted with a lot of gratuitous flash -- plexiglass windows to show you the guts of the machine, lights to turn the interior pretty colors, complicated scenes painted on the sides.

Comparing an Apple to the average modded PC case is like comparing a Porche or BMW to a slightly-hotrodded, decal-covered Honda Civic.

Well, one of these guys might.

Well, one of these guys might.

Well, one of these guys might.

Well, one of these guys might.

Well, one of these guys might.

Of course, if you're shopping for a Honda you should swing by here to shop for your accessories to get that bee under the hood buzzing just right. With the right stickers and wings, even a Honda can go fast :)

I can imagine it now. If you've seen The Fast and The Furious motion picture, then it's a natural progression that these devices would be modified by people, and youths because their devices are deliberately underpowered because the government don't want us to commit crimes, hurt ourselves, hurt others, etc. I wonder what a "rice boy" mod to these suits would be? For references, check out Rice Boy Page. Note: "rice boy" isn't slanted towards Asians.

That's funny as hell, liked the tach redlining as the spedo strained to read 89mph.

Reminded me of the rice boy page.

But all the good 'Riceboy mods' are only available for Hondas..... You can wire the trunk release button on the remote starter to the cleverly mounted fire extinguisher to put out the electrical fire caused by improper installation of the car starter

There's a thriving market for Civic mods. Of course kids with far too much money and time on their hands tend to go overboard with their mods, producing some very hilarious results.

A windowed case with holograms and stickers and flashy things is borderline rice.

Riceboys are guys who own low end japaneese cars that have been 'modified'. Now when I say modified I mean covered with stickers from companies whose parts they could never afford and have some other cheap (as in price and quality) 'upgrades'; the standard being the coffee can tailpipe. One tried to race me on the way into work this morning. It was sad. At 80MPH his car just petered out and all but fell apart. I caught up to me at the light and just stared, like some kind of hardass. I just started laughing and pointing. He gets out of his car. He looks like 'The Rock', but weaker and more pathetic. He starts yelling like some fool, telling me he is going to kick my ass. I get out of my car. I am 6'8" and 300 lbs, he isn't. I tell him to get back in his faggoty assed honda, or I am going to fist-fuck him to death right in the middle of the street. He gets in his car and putters off. Fucking riceboy.

You can see more of these examples of lights and case windows on PC's here.

Bwahah I really have to chuckle every time I see a rice boy and his stickered up, lowered, huge-winged 1.3L econocar. Some of them are stupid enough to revs their little tincan engines while sitting next to me at the stop light. Does this fuckhole know that he's sitting next to an angry sounding '93 Cobra? I'd love to respond to his gocart-on-steroids, but I don't do street racing anymore. A few years back I got a hefty fine and license suspension for it.

Eat it, Honda boy. American Muscle has always and will always be king. Although it doesn't help that GM announced yesterday that this is the last year for the Camaro and Firebird. Hopefully GM will bring them back when the market is a little better.

Funny you should bring that up... Just this morning I stumbled across a computer on Bryan's Rice-Boy Page that has a racing stripe, has a clock display that's higher than the processor, and even has a VTEC sticker.

Nyah, who needs karma anyway? It's funny, dammit. Laugh.

Funny you should bring that up... Just this morning I stumbled across a computer on Bryan's Rice-Boy Page that has a racing stripe, has a clock display that's higher than the processor, and even has a VTEC sticker.

Nyah, who needs karma anyway? It's funny, dammit. Laugh.

The same statement above applies to cars, but most people haven't learned yet.

Just like poor little rice rockets (P4) running, say, 20+ lbs of boost to get a high horsepower rating near the redline. The power/torque just isn't there in enough of each gear to run the cars fast enough. A domestic (AMD), with power distributed through more of each gear, will surely propel itself to victory.

This easily applies to processors; the numbers are slowly becoming useless.

Now I'm wondering how long before our buddy BigBlockMopar posts something like this...

You'd have to define "cyclist" - the serious ones know the vehicle code, and well. It's the helmetless redneck riding facing INTO traffic running red lights you need to worry about.

Actually, most of the ones I see violating traffic laws aren't the dirty hippie types,
but the arrogant yuppie "wannabe pro" types.

They're like the riceboys of the cycling world - flashy spandex, expensive bikes, logos slapped all over themselves/their equipment...and absolutely no idea that bikes have to follow the same traffic laws as motorized vehicles do.

C-X C-S

Somehow, this kinda stuff reminds me of the rice boy attitude. You know those Hong-Kong kids who soup up their Civic CXs with Mugen stickers, and racing stripes? :)

'Cuz we all know that clear/glowing cases, and mugen stickers make it go faster!

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Image is everything...

Hot rodder ... or rice-boy? Poseurs that are theorizing about every ounce of extra power when they'd be better off saving their cash and buying a better car? That's why you get the 5" coffee-can exhaust tip. Or the 20" high spoiler that makes the poor car look like a shopping cart? Or the cheesy blue headlights?

You don't know shit about life. Go to www.thejackytouch.com to see real bad taste (beware, even if you can stand goatsecx you may need a barf bag before clicking)

For the non-french readers, click the 4th link on the left ("Jacky Du Mois"), then browse the entries by month. Can't give a deep pointer, the thing uses frames.

Cheers,

--fred

The people who buy this crap are probably the same people who cut the springs on their Honda, bolt on an angry-beehive exhaust, slap on some stickers, light up their dash with neon, put on big shiny chrome wheels that weight 30lbs a piece and then try to drag race me from every damn traffic light!

JUST SAY NO!

Before anyone buys any of this stuff, think about the terrible habit you're starting. Take up crack or heroin, or extacy. There are rehab centers to help you get off of that, but nothing can cure bad taste! Look at this site and you can see how bad this addiction can really become! A five inch tailpipe can't make your car faster or look better, and a hole in your computer case won't either!

I think Jon Katz needs to write a series on it, Stories from the World of No Taste.

Goddammit, I did preview!

Anyways, that link again, as if anyone cares:
http://www.ri ceb oypage.com/shame/hall_of_shame_6/hallofshame6.html

It's been done, although it could have been done better: http://www.ri ceb oypage.com/shame/hall_of_shame_6/hallofshame6.html

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