Ha, it's ok. Most people are being honest and encouraging - which a pleasant and welcome surprise considering what the internet can be like. Like I said in another post, I get it- car culture is so ingrained in western psyche that I'm the odd one out. I'm understanding and accepting of that. That's why it's…

Yeah I could drive a Manual Nissan Safari around the slopes of a farm I used to help out on - would do hill starts etc. But "little" city cars I just couldn't be bothered.

Auckland is a long way from Altanta, but I would have totally taken you up on the offer. :)

Oh I will. Just not a priority. It's embarrassing that I don't know how to on the odd occasion when it would have been useful but I live in a world crammed with automatics so it's not really an issue 99% of my driving life.

Yeah you sound like someone I'd like to learn from. But to be fair to my teacher.....it was me who gave up because we were never really doing it properly. It was more like a "hey we can have the use of a manual on our holiday in 2 weeks, shall you try and teach me in the one afternoon window we have to learn?" kind of…

Cheers. I'm 36 years old and have other priorities, but because of comments like yours I know I will enjoy driving stick once I decide to put the effort in and practice.

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.