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Countries are like cars
The USA car is big and powerful, even now. It used to be much more powerful, but these days so many of its parts hate its other parts -- many green parts don't like the violet parts, and most of the violet parts despise the purple parts (insisting that there is actually a big difference between violet and purple). This mutual hatred has gotten so bad in some parts that the upholstery fabric has patches torn out and the bodywork in areas is bare of paint and now rusting. The hatred isn't just restricted to color though, softness, shininess, weight, and opaqueness are all sources of mutual animosity.
Most of the parts have become equipped with weapons because they've become afraid of one-another. The parts shoot at each other at the slightest provocation, it seems, because about 7,000 parts are destroyed each year this way, and the car has become riddled with bullet-holes. Passengers used to like to ride in the grand luxury of the USA car, but more and more they look at it and shake their heads. It is becoming too dangerous. Part of the reason the parts have come to fear and hate each other is because of the lights. Instead of illuminating things, they've have been showering the car with red-colored sparks, which unfortunately are constantly setting fire to things and igniting weapons caches, making parts suspicious of each other. And the red color of the sparks tends to distort the light and shadow and make some colors look wrong.
The USA car has another really big problem, common to a lot of cars these days. The fuel pump is supposed to pump fuel to the engine to keep it going, but lately it has been siphoning most of the fuel off through pipes to big bladders in the Switzerland car and some cars in the Caribbean group. The engine has begin to sputter and cough badly now, starved of fuel. So bad has this become that most of the USA car's movement is now mere inertia -- it is slowing as the engine weakens.
Maintenance isn't keeping up with all the damage from bullets, fires, and wear either. Unlike many of the other fast cars where repair devices are fed by fuel direct from the tank, the repair devices in the USA car have to be fuelled by the parts being repaired, even though many parts don't have access to it. This had led to them turning paint and rubber and lubricant and fabric into fuel for the repair devices, worsening rust and other problems.
Some time back the tires on the right-hand side blew out causing the USA car to lose a lot of speed and to veer terribly to the right. This has taken it in a big curve around so that it is now starting to head back the way it came!
But the USA car's problems are nothing compared to those in the Greece car, where its fuel pump siphoned off *all* the fuel and the engine stopped completely. It was loaned some fuel by other cars, but the fuel pump took almost all that too, while blaming all the other parts, saying that the upholstery should be turning its fabric to fuel and the body should be turning its paint to fuel, and the bearings should be turning their lubrication to fuel. Those parts do, under protest, but the fuel pump continues to take most of that too! Weird!
A similar thing happened to the Iceland car, but the parts there became angry at the fuel pump and started bypassing it.
Syria is a pretty peculiar case. It has most of the same problems as the other cars, but added to those, the steering wheel has got a box of matches. It hates most of its own car and and is throwing lit matches about the interior almost at random. Many of the other cars think it is only a matter of time before that car is engulfed in flame. Stupid steering wheel! Doesn't it know its job is to steer? Does it think this will end well?
In the Australia car the interior lights are acting very strangely. They shower sparks everywhere, like most other cars, but they've directed a steady stream at the steering wheel, seeming intent on setting fire to it. Another odd thing about the Australia car is the way new parts are often thrown into a rusty bucket and towed behind the car instead of being allowed to become part of the car.
You know, I don't understand why so many of the parts in many cars hate each other. Don't they realise they are all just car-parts? They can't all be the same because then the car wouldn't work. The weirdest thing is that most of these parts say they are proud of their car, but in reality that's a lie, because they actually hate much of their car while professing this strange, delusional patriotism.
And what is it about these fuel pumps stealing all the fuel? Don't they see that they are just fuel pumps? All the fuel has to pass through them, true, but by stealing it they are choking the engine. What did they think would happen? They actually hate almost everything about their car while somehow pretending to themselves that they love it.
The lights are one of the worst parts. If they produced good, clear light instead of this constant stream of inflammatory sparks the other parts might be able to see the fuel pump's theft and the damage to the upholstery and paintwork. Also parts might notice that most of the hate results from the fires ignited by the sparks and realise they don't actually need their weapons. I mean, jeez! When has a weapon saved a part from a random shot by another part? Anybody can see that the cars that don't have lots of weapons are not riddled with bulletholes and don't have lots of weapon-related deaths... or they would be able to see this if it wasn't for the sparking red lights.
Most of the parts have become equipped with weapons because they've become afraid of one-another. The parts shoot at each other at the slightest provocation, it seems, because about 7,000 parts are destroyed each year this way, and the car has become riddled with bullet-holes. Passengers used to like to ride in the grand luxury of the USA car, but more and more they look at it and shake their heads. It is becoming too dangerous. Part of the reason the parts have come to fear and hate each other is because of the lights. Instead of illuminating things, they've have been showering the car with red-colored sparks, which unfortunately are constantly setting fire to things and igniting weapons caches, making parts suspicious of each other. And the red color of the sparks tends to distort the light and shadow and make some colors look wrong.
The USA car has another really big problem, common to a lot of cars these days. The fuel pump is supposed to pump fuel to the engine to keep it going, but lately it has been siphoning most of the fuel off through pipes to big bladders in the Switzerland car and some cars in the Caribbean group. The engine has begin to sputter and cough badly now, starved of fuel. So bad has this become that most of the USA car's movement is now mere inertia -- it is slowing as the engine weakens.
Maintenance isn't keeping up with all the damage from bullets, fires, and wear either. Unlike many of the other fast cars where repair devices are fed by fuel direct from the tank, the repair devices in the USA car have to be fuelled by the parts being repaired, even though many parts don't have access to it. This had led to them turning paint and rubber and lubricant and fabric into fuel for the repair devices, worsening rust and other problems.
Some time back the tires on the right-hand side blew out causing the USA car to lose a lot of speed and to veer terribly to the right. This has taken it in a big curve around so that it is now starting to head back the way it came!
But the USA car's problems are nothing compared to those in the Greece car, where its fuel pump siphoned off *all* the fuel and the engine stopped completely. It was loaned some fuel by other cars, but the fuel pump took almost all that too, while blaming all the other parts, saying that the upholstery should be turning its fabric to fuel and the body should be turning its paint to fuel, and the bearings should be turning their lubrication to fuel. Those parts do, under protest, but the fuel pump continues to take most of that too! Weird!
A similar thing happened to the Iceland car, but the parts there became angry at the fuel pump and started bypassing it.
Syria is a pretty peculiar case. It has most of the same problems as the other cars, but added to those, the steering wheel has got a box of matches. It hates most of its own car and and is throwing lit matches about the interior almost at random. Many of the other cars think it is only a matter of time before that car is engulfed in flame. Stupid steering wheel! Doesn't it know its job is to steer? Does it think this will end well?
In the Australia car the interior lights are acting very strangely. They shower sparks everywhere, like most other cars, but they've directed a steady stream at the steering wheel, seeming intent on setting fire to it. Another odd thing about the Australia car is the way new parts are often thrown into a rusty bucket and towed behind the car instead of being allowed to become part of the car.
You know, I don't understand why so many of the parts in many cars hate each other. Don't they realise they are all just car-parts? They can't all be the same because then the car wouldn't work. The weirdest thing is that most of these parts say they are proud of their car, but in reality that's a lie, because they actually hate much of their car while professing this strange, delusional patriotism.
And what is it about these fuel pumps stealing all the fuel? Don't they see that they are just fuel pumps? All the fuel has to pass through them, true, but by stealing it they are choking the engine. What did they think would happen? They actually hate almost everything about their car while somehow pretending to themselves that they love it.
The lights are one of the worst parts. If they produced good, clear light instead of this constant stream of inflammatory sparks the other parts might be able to see the fuel pump's theft and the damage to the upholstery and paintwork. Also parts might notice that most of the hate results from the fires ignited by the sparks and realise they don't actually need their weapons. I mean, jeez! When has a weapon saved a part from a random shot by another part? Anybody can see that the cars that don't have lots of weapons are not riddled with bulletholes and don't have lots of weapon-related deaths... or they would be able to see this if it wasn't for the sparking red lights.