Why are Jeeps so Angry?

[Dead2009]

Theyre angry because theyre always left out of parties.

 

[tvguy]

Angry Jeeps aren't a problem here. But NextDoor and the Neighborhood Facebook pages are filled with complaints about people with pickup trucks with diesel train horns on them. Horns that the drivers like to blow for extended periods while driving.

 

[BrianL]

Angry Jeeps aren't a problem here. But NextDoor and the Neighborhood Facebook pages are filled with complaints about people with pickup trucks with diesel train horns on them. Horns that the drivers like to blow for extended periods while driving.

To be clear, I never said the Jeep's were a "problem" - I just think they look kind of silly, and there seem to be so many of them. Those horns would be a huge problem!

 

[kdonnel]

Angry Jeeps aren't a problem here. But NextDoor and the Neighborhood Facebook pages are filled with complaints about people with pickup trucks with diesel train horns on them. Horns that the drivers like to blow for extended periods while driving.

My neighbor has one. You can hear it from about 3-4 miles away.

Tied for obnoxious with the Tesla boombox feature where they can play any sound they want out the horn speaker.

 

[mrodgers]

And yeah there's definitely a Jeep culture. I've seen a Jeep festival on the road last year, so many decorated in various ways (the ninja turtle one was neat). I've typically only seen events like this for beetles, low-riders, or general antique cars, so Jeeps was a first.

I live in Butler PA where Bantam started. You saw a Jeep get-together. I have the annual Jeep Festival to deal with, LOL. I stay out of town that weekend.

 

[mrodgers]

It’s a cult. DH was talking to a few owners and they’re obsessed.

Saturday August 28 in Ocean City, Maryland, there was a jeep event. When we arrived unaware at 930am there were already at least 100 jeeps lined up to drive an obstacle course on the beach starting at 11. And they continued to arrive throughout the day.

I have a few short i-phone videos but I can’t figger out how to post them here.

Cult isn't the correct word and has negative connotations to it. It's a hobby just like any other vehicle hobby of motorcycles or classic cars. The gathering of them isn't any different than women getting together to play cards. You just can't all fit around the dining room table with the product of the hobby.

People are "obsessed" about Jeeps. There's also a forum out there on the internet where people are also "obsessed" about Disney. I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware of that. Are those people a cult?

 

[BrianL]

Cult isn't the correct word and has negative connotations to it. It's a hobby just like any other vehicle hobby of motorcycles or classic cars. The gathering of them isn't any different than women getting together to play cards. You just can't all fit around the dining room table with the product of the hobby.

People are "obsessed" about Jeeps. There's also a forum out there on the internet where people are also "obsessed" about Disney. I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware of that. Are those people a cult?

I mean...kinda, yeah.

 

[RedAngie]

Cult isn't the correct word and has negative connotations to it. It's a hobby just like any other vehicle hobby of motorcycles or classic cars. The gathering of them isn't any different than women getting together to play cards. You just can't all fit around the dining room table with the product of the hobby.

People are "obsessed" about Jeeps. There's also a forum out there on the internet where people are also "obsessed" about Disney. I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware of that. Are those people a cult?

Yes. That is also a cult.

 

[C&Jx2]

Jeeps are the vehicle of choice for those dealt a bad hand in this world.

Okay but why is this hilarious and true?

 

[mikehn]

I like the concept, but why are they sooo ugly?

 

[Sinder]

Cult isn't the correct word and has negative connotations to it. It's a hobby just like any other vehicle hobby of motorcycles or classic cars. The gathering of them isn't any different than women getting together to play cards. You just can't all fit around the dining room table with the product of the hobby.

People are "obsessed" about Jeeps. There's also a forum out there on the internet where people are also "obsessed" about Disney. I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware of that. Are those people a cult?

You do know that was just a joke and all in good fun right? You don't really need to take that comment so seriously.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Cult isn't the correct word and has negative connotations to it. It's a hobby just like any other vehicle hobby of motorcycles or classic cars. The gathering of them isn't any different than women getting together to play cards. You just can't all fit around the dining room table with the product of the hobby.

People are "obsessed" about Jeeps. There's also a forum out there on the internet where people are also "obsessed" about Disney. I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware of that. Are those people a cult?

Strange comparison I might say to what is being talked about. Women playing cards and behaviors of certain car owners. Playing cards (which by the way isn't just women..) is not at all the same as what's being talked about. On a different thread we're talking about the documentary on Amazon Prime about LuLaRoe. The behaviors of those involved def. seemed cult-like. I don't know anyone who would think that's the same as individuals playing cards together.

FWIW Prius owners typically get the cult-like description, Subaru owners too.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Angry Jeeps aren't a problem here. But NextDoor and the Neighborhood Facebook pages are filled with complaints about people with pickup trucks with diesel train horns on them. Horns that the drivers like to blow for extended periods while driving.

There's two neighbors that when they pull up picking up whomever they are picking up use their horn several times. It's not even that loud like what the horns you're talking about but it's still annoying. Like have they not thought of using a cell phone to say "we're here" or better yet just watch out the window for them? But nope disturbing the cul-de-sac is deemed the only way I guess. Horns in general can just be annoying. I use one when I have to but other than that nope I don't need the Dukes of Hazzard horn or the incredibly loud horn you're talking about.

 

[Sinder]

cult-
a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
"a cult of personality surrounding the leaders"

Seems to fit many "things" jeeps and Disney included

 

[Moliphino]

I always find it funny that almost every suv or truck commercial shows them racing through forests on narrow trails, climbing dangerous looking mountain roads, frolicking in the deserts or racing along the beach, dodging waves coming up on the sand. And for the old-fashion, 'regular' cars, those are so often portrayed being driven through crowded city streets in a Steve McQueen Bullitt-like fashion. Most car, truck, suv commercials depict driving and driving activities that I have never seen nor heard of anybody I know doing. Everybody I know drive the smaller or jumbo suv's, trucks and 'regular' cars in a rather mundane, normal fashion, going from point A to B, stuck in traffic, looking for parking places, etc. But I guess those ads get the juices flowing as to what powers these vehicles theoretically might possess and people buy into them. Or else, they would change the themes.
I've never understood why some drivers drive with their fog lights on all the time. Fog lights are not supposed to be on when it is not foggy out. And, when it is foggy, the regular lights should not be on, sort of defeats the concept of fog lights. And then we have those with their wuss lights on all the time, the off-road lights that would be used when really no other cars are around. I think it is a case of 'my lights are brighter and more irritating to others than yours are'. Fog light when not being used in the fog and the wuss off-road lights are blinding to say the least.

Some cars just have super bright regular headlights. Not sure why they want to blind oncoming traffic, but I guess they do.

 

[BrianL]

Some cars just have super bright regular headlights. Not sure why they want to blind oncoming traffic, but I guess they do.

With the Jeep I mentioned I could not tell if it was the regular headlights or some fog lights or whatever - it was too BRIGHT to tell!

 

[tinkerdorabelle]

Personally I love the looks of ALL the Jeeps, happy, angry, lifted, huge tires, tops off. Love them all!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Some cars just have super bright regular headlights. Not sure why they want to blind oncoming traffic, but I guess they do.

It's not even oncoming. I regularly get blinded from cars behind me. I have tinting on my back window so that saves me but not in my side mirrors. There are times I have to hold my hand up to where my side mirror is so I'm not being blinded by the lights behind me.

Car manufacturers have def. made brighter lights and from a safety aspect of seeing further ahead or more to the side I get that but it's almost like they went too far because if you're causing a safety problem for other drivers that's a problem you've created that you didn't have as much anymore (because that would have been likely to be someone's highbeams than just normal headlights).

 

[Moliphino]

It's not even oncoming. I regularly get blinded from cars behind me. I have tinting on my back window so that saves me but not in my side mirrors. There are times I have to hold my hand up to where my side mirror is so I'm not being blinded by the lights behind me.

Car manufacturers have def. made brighter lights and from a safety aspect of seeing further ahead or more to the side I get that but it's almost like they went too far because if you're causing a safety problem for other drivers that's a problem you've created that you didn't have as much anymore (because that would have been likely to be someone's highbeams than just normal headlights).

Yeah, tailgating and blinding me from behind is a great way to make me go even slower because I can't see.

 

[BrianL]

Yeah, tailgating and blinding me from behind is a great way to make me go even slower because I can't see.

Yeah, exactly. I was going to get over to let him pass, but he rode up on me and then I really couldn't see well to change lanes. I figured this guy would whip around me on the right anyway, which he did.