>>>>Don't you guys over in the USA fear for your very lives every time you drive? On all the US movies it seems that as soon as a US car hits anything else it immediately bursts into flames.
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>>>>This even extends to non motor vehicles. In an episode of the Simpsons once, during a street go-cart race with Bart, one of the carts crashed and burst into flames, even though there were no combustibles on board.
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>>>Right before our cars burst into flames we run over a fruit cart, sending pedestrians scattering.
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>>>And whenever we witness something upsetting we throw up.
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>>That's just after bursting through a 6th storey parking lot window, just knowing that you'll rotate 360, have exactly the right speed, and make a perfect landing on a conveniently-sloped ramp, or moving rail-road car, THEN hiting the fruit cart.
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>It's also easy to walk across the top of speeding trains and buses.
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>Here is a language violation you have probably heard, too -- people saying 360 degrees when they mean 180. "My attitude took a 360 degree turn." Uh....

Aye, but not in this case. If the car only did a 180 it would land on its roof - no good.

I've noticed, BTW, that snowboarding and BMX event commentators are brilliant at their 180-times-table.