Your pejorative, based on a cultural stereotype, detracts from the point you want to make. You'll end up spending more time justifying your use of that pejorative than persuading others to not focus on needless and worthless optimizations.
It also confuses people like me who thought it would be something more interesting, like making an allusion to a potato ricer, or some wordplay related to Rice coding.
Good point, I didn't realize that people that put racing stripes on their cars to make them go fast were a protected group. Back to the lab on this one..
As you apparently haven't done any research, you might start with the relevant Wikipedia article. It starts "Rice burner is a pejorative describing Japanese-made—or by extension, Asian-made—motorcycles and automobiles. The term is often defined as offensive or racist stereotyping."
In your continued research, please examine the full etymology of the term rather than your most proximate use and address how "rice" became part of the pejorative.
Bear in mind also that the practice of putting stripes on a car to give the appearance of speed is 40+ years old. They are called "go-faster stripes", and the practice is applied to a much wider range of people than your example. Most of the people who follow the practice are not "ricers", so your definition here is necessarily incomplete, and I would say negligently so, though apparently due to ignorance and not malice.
To highlight some of the history, consider a 1968 usage: "A Show surprise was the hotted up Rapier H120, breathed on by Holbay, jazzed up with Epilogue Earls Court Yankee-style go-faster stripes along its flanks" or the a 1989 book on the 25 years of the Mustang: "There were no significant changes from 1976 through 1978, only a selection of dress-up kits, go-faster stripes, and big, bad snakes splattered across hoods." The term even entered more widespread use. Quoting from "The limits of administration" (1976), "British Rail and the Canadian Post Office have responded to criticisms of delay and inefficiency by adopting 'go-faster' stripes as their motifs."
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 21.1 ms ] threadIt also confuses people like me who thought it would be something more interesting, like making an allusion to a potato ricer, or some wordplay related to Rice coding.
In your continued research, please examine the full etymology of the term rather than your most proximate use and address how "rice" became part of the pejorative.
Bear in mind also that the practice of putting stripes on a car to give the appearance of speed is 40+ years old. They are called "go-faster stripes", and the practice is applied to a much wider range of people than your example. Most of the people who follow the practice are not "ricers", so your definition here is necessarily incomplete, and I would say negligently so, though apparently due to ignorance and not malice.
To highlight some of the history, consider a 1968 usage: "A Show surprise was the hotted up Rapier H120, breathed on by Holbay, jazzed up with Epilogue Earls Court Yankee-style go-faster stripes along its flanks" or the a 1989 book on the 25 years of the Mustang: "There were no significant changes from 1976 through 1978, only a selection of dress-up kits, go-faster stripes, and big, bad snakes splattered across hoods." The term even entered more widespread use. Quoting from "The limits of administration" (1976), "British Rail and the Canadian Post Office have responded to criticisms of delay and inefficiency by adopting 'go-faster' stripes as their motifs."