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May 27, 2009

The Ultimate Argument Settler: The 5 Best Worst Parallel Parking Videos Of All Time

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Man, I drove a rental car this weekend, you guys. That's right, A RENTAL CAR. Ballin'. Driving is great. It's weird that no one ever drives and everyone in America is so insistent on walking and riding bikes all the time. Everyone. Anyway, out on the open road, the power of an iron horse carrying you swiftly through the black forest (that's what I call the highway, because I'm an idiot, and also no I don't), you're reminded of all the pleasures that accompany the automobile life. One of them being the pleasure of watching someone who doesn't know how to parallel park trying to. Lots Of Love.

And did you know that it is an international pleasure? While I was looking at these videos (after the jump), it's funny how they are from all over the world. The international language isn't music or love, it's making fun of people who fundamentally cannot do something that you think is easy!

After the jump, the five best worst parallel parking videos from around the world. WILKOMEN! (That is a foreign word I know.)

There were actually a few pretty good ones I didn't include in this scientifically created list because people who post videos of bad parallel parkers can relax with the misogynistic "More Evidence That Women Are Stupid" titling system. This is all about laughing at people for being bad at stuff regardless of their gential orientation. You can look those ones up yourself, you racist (against women?).

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Not all of those spots were so easy to get into! Dude in the last video is a certifiable bad-ass though.

Posted by: ben (waiting for the perfect GIF) at 05/27/09 3:31 PM  | Reply
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so you're telling me people are now filming me being shit at parking? WORST FEAR REALISED

Posted by: ol dirty bus stop at 05/27/09 3:44 PM  | Reply
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Where's Lucile Bluth?

Posted by: etc profile link at 05/27/09 3:50 PM  | Reply
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Really, Yakety Sax makes everything better. The last guy really deserves to have his car bashed by annoyed onlookers though - what a douche!

Posted by: Bubbles profile link at 05/27/09 3:53 PM  | Reply
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Agreed, when you're posting a 5-minute video of someone repeatedly failing to park (or do anything else, really) correctly, speeding it up and setting it to Yakity Sax is just the humane thing to do.

Posted by: tps12  in reply to  Bubbles's comment at 05/28/09 10:23 AM  | Reply
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Speaking as someone who lives in DC and doesn't own a car partly because I am terrible at parallel parking (and you know, the environment and shit), number three is just pathetic. You can practically fit two of those cars in that space.

Posted by: Julia profile link at 05/27/09 4:13 PM  | Reply
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I credit my time in DC as the only reason I know how to parallel park. I lived next to a Hummer driver who - daily - would hit both cars in front and back attempting to park, and then put out cones to protect the outer corners of his douchemobile.

Posted by: Sammy profile link  in reply to  Julia's comment at 05/28/09 8:11 PM  | Reply
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I dont even get where the yellow car is trying to go, but those creepy hysterical laughing jovial foreign people make me want to be involved in the whole damn scenario so much that I feel scorn towards the yellow car driver anyway.

Posted by: mohnosaurus profile link at 05/27/09 4:23 PM  | Reply
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I loved how the woman in the fourth video got out to see that she was about 5 feet away from where she should be.

Posted by: Anono profile link at 05/27/09 4:30 PM  | Reply
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that last guy doesn't give A F*CK!!!

Posted by: Becca profile link at 05/27/09 4:49 PM  | Reply
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You mean "fuck".

Posted by: wubdub profile link  in reply to  Becca's comment at 05/27/09 5:25 PM  | Reply
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well, naturally.... i surely didn't mean fick or feck or fack or fock or fyck....

:(

Posted by: Becca profile link  in reply to  wubdub's comment at 05/27/09 6:36 PM  | Reply
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I am terrible at parallel parking, like I'll park farther away just so I don't have to even think about it, but I am pretty sure I could have pulled off getting that space in that little yellow car.

Posted by: Girl Friday profile link at 05/27/09 5:03 PM  | Reply
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Here you go:

Posted by: Nazhgalia profile link at 05/27/09 6:26 PM  | Reply
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Willkommen.

Posted by: Professor of German Science at 05/27/09 6:38 PM  | Reply
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Willkommen.

Posted by: Professor of German Science at 05/27/09 6:38 PM  | Reply
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Also, what is "gential orientation?"

Posted by: lurker profile link  in reply to  Professor of German Science's comment at 05/30/09 5:54 PM  | Reply
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All of this would be solved if cars could just drive sideways.

Posted by: Mark at 05/27/09 11:31 PM  | Reply
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Global warming.

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