Did you guys know that all the eagle talons, mitsu eclipses ere made in the US, so does that make them domestic??

 

lol what do you call the people that half *** there mods and pretend to be street racers?do you call them ricers? cause if you do then you are putting 2 completely different things (by your own deffinition) in the same catagory

 

Yeah, I'm sorry guys, but you're both wrong (NuYorka and AudiCross). Rice doesn't refer to country of origin any more than tuner doesn't refer to country of origin. They both refer to the style of the modifications to a car. Regardless of whether or not *you* beleive rice applies to all Jap cars, MOST people don't:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rice
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...rm=rice+rocket
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ricer

And where did you get that "tuner" refers to European cars? Quite logically, I've always thought it came from the root word "tune" (and my feelings are confirmed here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tuner), which means it can refer to ANY car that's tuned (there goes that root word again). I'd actually really like to see your reasoning behind it.

 

first of all, urban dictionary isnt a credibly source. terms such as rice and tuner are terms coined by the general populous that uses the vehicles they were termed for. there can be multiple reasons for using a term for something, hence "fu(k" being used for intercourse or as a way of expressing anger etc.

rice is what people accept as japanese cars. why? becuase rice is a huge part of their diet, a big part of their society as a whole. and its something people chose to identify their cars. they could have used fish if they wanted, but it was not chosen. it is partially chosen for its background and relationship, but also got its astetics. it is a word, short easy to day. can be manipulated into multiple parts of speech (rice, ricer...) and still retains the general meaning and emotion that it was ment to imply

tuner is what is generally accepted for european cars. people dont want to keep saying "your car is a european car" they would much rather say :your car is a tuner." it is short and easy to say. and again, it is what wass chosen. we could call em bricks with turbos or sausage cars. but we dont. it wouldnt be recognized and accepted as tuner is accepted.

asking the logic behind why a word is chosen is very irrational. most words are not based on logic. humans are not logical. we have emotions and certain words evoke certain emotions and images. words like "ricer" and "tuner" evoke images in us. if they had been caled "fishers" then by now, when we hear fisher, we would think of a japanese car. but we dont.

stick that in ur pipe and smoke it.

 

Ok I've smoked it, and here's what came to me:

Urbandictionary is the most credible source for slang. Reason being people vote on the meaning they know, so the accepted meanings get pushed up to the top. There's no absolutely-credible source on slang, and this is the best we got. You said it yourself, "rice" and "tuner" are terms coined by the general population, and the meanings shown in urbandictionary reflect the meaning the general population has for those words. It's as simple as that. Just because you made up a very nice story about how the word "rice" came to be, doesn't mean this is the meaning of the word today. Your definition differs from the general population, and when it comes to slang, general population is ALWAYS right since they're the ones that control the meaning of the word. I'm sure it originated from the fact that Jap car were the first ones to be riced out, but it no longer applies just to Jap cars.

As far as the tuner thing, it's even more silly. I've just shown you that what is generally accepted is not what you say it is. The link I gave shows that the majority of people say, "yes this is what we believe the word tuner refers to", and nowhere does it state anything about it being European cars only. In fact, this is the first I've heard of your meaning (but definitely not the first I've heard the word tuner being used), and to be honest, I can't imagine myself going, "You wanna race? Let me bring out my tuner!", pull up in a 1983 Volvo wagon, and go "What? It's a TUNER - it's European".

I'm passing the pipe back to you, that was a good toke.

 

That civic is clean as hell... gotta love Rota Slipstreams!

EDIT: A pic of my old DA, before the cage, and JDM headlights, and Flat Black GSR fat-5's....

 

i only make fun of cars that are slower then mine. ie when you see one of those ugly hondas with a huge fart can or some other car wiht a busted exhaust to make it louder. in my mind i think of it as a pos if all it has is show and no go. and i dont think you can call evos and sti's rice, the are functional parts only on that car

 

Mmmm. smoke. i cant. athsma. but i can eat it.

most people. general. "There's no absolutely-credible source on slang" if you read up on the poasts from this bulliton, you will see how i say "in my mind"
terms like there are open for concideration from people. is is their opinion on what is said. i apploagize that i used "generally accepted" if you go different places, the general population will have different views on words. here, and recent articles i have read and people i have conversed with seamed to follow with how i interpreted those meanings.



"I'm sure it originated from the fact that Jap car were the first ones to be riced out, but it no longer applies just to Jap cars" first of all, using a word or a form of the word in its defenition isnt exactally correct. but not here to point fingers. second of all, i never said it applies only to japanese cars. but if a car is a ricer, it is a japanese car imo and in the opinion of the people i have spoken with on this forum. any car can be "riced out" or want to be a "ricer" but it wouldnt be one unless it is a truly japanese car. hence using the terms for their place of origination. the same way you cant say a european car that looks like an american car is a domestic. it goes against the meaning of the term.,

if you go north, to washington, you wouldnt use the terms "hella or hecka" becuase they arnt used ther. if you came down here to cali, you wouldnt use the term "pop" for soda. because it isnt used here. slang changes whereever you go, no matter what., and you adapt your speaking patterns to go along with that populous.

now u can either have a brownie or a pipe. ur choice

 

thanks, the wheels were speedys though, an off brand but still good.

AudiCross: so what you are saying is that all japanese carsare ricers, but not all ricersare japanese?? ok once again all the DSMs, eclipses and talons made in the US by dodge/mitsubishi and sold under the mitsu and eagle name? rice or not? made in the us, that makes them domestic. but you would still call them ricers, even if they were completely stock and your grandma was driving it, and that would make here a ricer, even though she isnt racing or trying to, doesnt have half assed mods, and is 90 years old she is by your deffinition a ricer, does that make any sence???

 

ugh no. as i said, a domestic car cant be a ricer imo. it can be "riced out" used as a descriptive term, but it cant be a ricer because it isnt form japan. some japanese cars are made in america. doesnt make em domestics. if a japanese couple has a kid in america, does it make the kid american? no he or she is japanese. if a car origniated and was designed and produced by a japanese based company, its a ricer. riced out would be a term used to describe a way of style that those cars tend to be given by their owners.
if a grandma drives a civic, her car is a ricer. imo. she isnt a ricer becuase she isnt puting on the general style and sound that ricers often have.

so if its not a japanese car, it cant be a ricer. retorting to ur first statemend. made in teh US doesnt make em domestic. created by US based companies and produced initially by US based companies (ford, dodge, chevy) makes them domestic.

no offence to anyone, but before you make a comment on something someone says, read all they have said. or else you sound like someone that everyone says "search" becuase the info is allready all there, you just didne read it or understand it.