Cool Video :JD vs. Kubota Cabs

[Iowachild]

The "big three" using deceptive advertising???
Some would have us believe it's only those minor brands that do such things!

[Dargo]

I'm an admitted fence sitter between JD and Kubota and I gotta admit that that little video was honestly pretty weak. I was expecting a real comparison; not smoke and mirrors. Also, as someone else pointed out, the Kubota cab is pressurized as well. C'mon JD, if you want to sway people you gotta do better than that for a comparison!

[BillyP]

Originally Posted by Dargo

C'mon JD, if you want to sway people you gotta do better than that for a comparison!

Do they? Deceptive advertising has been going on for years and getting worse by the day. It must be paying a premium, huh?

[Dargo]

Originally Posted by BillyP

Do they? Deceptive advertising has been going on for years and getting worse by the day. It must be paying a premium, huh?

Ouch!

[johnk]

It's almost like voting in the upcoming elections with all the " Negativisms." They try to make one look really bad so it sticks in your memory instead of leaving the other brand out and showing the smoke test with just the JD. The world is entering Dire Straights I think. What ever happened to the 60's and 70's???? Life was much simpler then...

[ovrszd]

Simpler Life. You mean like this???

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter AND I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in icepack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym)
instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.

Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home.

I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes? We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA, AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T- SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING

[randy41]

i wish i could afford either one.

[Bedlam]

My cab is custom. Plywood, and used aluminum windows,drywal screws(pultipurpose threaded fastners) duck tape,used door hinges and some cheap plexiglass. No heat or ac and plenty of gaps everywhere but sure beats the snow and rain coming in.
Total cost..with paint, 23 dollars.
Al

[turbo36]

Originally Posted by Deerlope

I doubt anyone would be gulible enough to beleive that the test was fair.

Why do you think the test wasn't fair?

[JimParker]

Originally Posted by ovrszd

How did we ever survive?

I can remember Saturdays when I was in 4th-6th grade. We'd get up early to watch those "dangerous cartoons" (Mighty Mouse - banned because the "power pills" encouraged us to take drugs, Road Runner (banned because it encourages kids towards violence, and Bugs Bunny - banned because of stereotyping, violence, etc).

When the cartoons were over, but before the parents were up, we would fix a lunch, and then take off to go hike along the creek that ran through the university campus. We would spend all day building dams (oops - banned because of 'wetlands management'), sliding down the clay banks and splashing in the water (banned because of erosion, etc.), and generally having fun as kids.
Nowadays, someone would surely have reported my parents to the child welfare group because they allowed us all that freedom (sorry, I mean "neglected us so severely"). Yep, those were the good old days!