Dude, the strange thing is I get it. I visit Jalopnik. I am a designer so I love cars from an aesthetic point of view and I appreciate the engineering of cars. I hate Jeremy Clarkson but love watching top gear. So I know the overwhelming opinion of car purists is that stick is best.

It's weird. I'm a guy who's normally secure in his manhood not to be one of those guys always obsessed with his manhood. But I can't drive stick and it's the one and only thing that I feel unmanly about - which yeah like you said is pretty patronizing to women. But I can't help it. Not that I've tried hard to learn so…

You misunderstood me. I'm not embarrassed whilst attempting to learn, I'm embarrassed on the odd occasion it would have been convenient for me to know how to drive stick because the reason is I've been too lazy to put the practice in. Autos are ubiquitous here in NZ, I've only been embarrassed several times and have…

I know. My ex - who ironically enough let me learn to drive auto in her car - used to get so pissed off at me when she eventually tried to teach me manual years later.

I know this will sound totally naive and blasphemous to driving purists but I love driving and am happy with auto or even better the flappy paddles transmission on my ex's car. I've no inclination to drift. My initial post was in solidarity/sympathy with the OP. I would like to be proficient at stick one day, I just…

Yeah you see I do trace it back to who taught me. But the subsequent disinterest it totally on me.

Don't be sorry!

See other replies. I have driven stick on a bigger "easier" vehicle, but smaller ones I just think what is this shit?

Haha, I find it unessesary. See other replies for a bit more context.

I'm from a third world Pacific Island and live in NZ. Autos are commonplace in NZ.

Lol, thanks for the advice. All I had available when I learnt to drive was autos. I love me some flappy paddles and to be in control of the gear changes. Compared to that, the extra bit of mechanics and the extra pedal seem like some unessesary steam punk contraption.

I'm a guy who never learning to drive stick. It's fucking embarrassing. I love driving but the times I've tried to learn manual, I've just gone wtf? I found it too un-intuitive and quit.

To me it's not even about wishing him harm or contemplating whether people like him test my anti-death penalty resolve. To me he's a fucked up sick person and I pity his soul.

I just read the description of the original, as well as the awful expression of that bald guy in the screen grabs, and couldn't bring myself to watch it. I'm a guy and I knew I'd feel embarrassed by it for some reason.

But I don't get what Jones is supposed to do? Not everyone who uses cocaine is an addict who is on the path to destroying themselves and others. Is he supposed to say " yeah everybody, I like to party with illegal drugs!". How the fuck would that be in his interest? It's not "repugnant shit" we're talking about. It's…

I do this sometimes. Not really ashamed of it. It (shouting expletives) almost always involves the few teams I really care about; Liverpool fc, the English national team, and the two teams I watch the most : the NZ Warriors rugby league team and the NZ national rugby league team.

damn! Yeah my only parallels were the lying - I'm lucky I guess? The lying and the fact I worked in career I didn't like for a decade to help provide for all her aspirations like a mortgage and kids growing up in the relatively expensive suburb she had grown up in.

It's interesting. A lot of people thinking it's fake but for several different reasons - like there's something we all can't put our fingers on.

When my ex left me claiming there was no one else, she left the recently purchased iPad with me - it was a present for her when we were together but she kind of left everything she thought might be contentious in asset separation (I totally considered the iPad hers, so it was weird she left it). She didn't stop to…

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