I don't think your SUV counts as an SUV. It's too small.
Joanna
ravi wrote:
>On 20 Jul, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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>> SUVs are asshole mobiles and it is a
>>shame to even be seen in one. The only time I rode in one was when I
>>visited my friend in New Jersey who owned some overpriced
>>monstrosity whose
>>name escapes me with a myriad of gadgets inside. She was basically
>>a good
>>person, but always status-conscious & doing everything to keep up
>>with the
>>Joneses, so she must have felt "obliged" to shell over 50 grand on
>>an SUV
>>when everyone in New Jersey seemed to own one.
>>
>>Based on my casual and unscientific observations, SUV drivers are more
>>likely to be assholes than drivers of other types of vehicles. <...>
>>
>>
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>Well, you may be right... I own a mini-SUV (Toyota RAV4), I do live
>in New Jersey, and I have been told multiple times that I am an
>asshole [sic], typically by pedestrians walking past me during anti-
>war marches, etc.
>
>;-)
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>Ignoring the possibility that I am being defensive, I think you guys
>are trying to build a philosophy around a peeve. We have the same
>thing in the motorcycle world regarding you "cagers", especially the
>ones driving Volvos. I have similar theories about country music and
>its fans, guys with moustaches, people who eat American Chinese food,
>people who eat meat, people who think Casablanca is the greatest
>movie ever made, Beatles fans, countries where people drive on the
>right side of the road, people who say "I'm going to let you
>go" (when what they mean is that they want to go) or use phrases like
>"running errands", "the both of you", people who think Manhattan is
>New York, people who top post on Usenet or mailing lists (this I
>think may even be empirically provable ;-)), people who use Outlook,
>Mac users (of which I am one), and most importantly Platonists.
>
> --ravi
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