My minivan is proof of virility and demonstrates that I am not compensating for anything. It also moves a hell of a lot of lumber when the seats are folded down.
Try that in some bubble shaped car-based SUV or a short-bed pickup.
Try that in some bubble shaped car-based SUV or a short-bed pickup.
Person 2 says "ha that reminds me of a character in a story".
It's two people joking in a subthread.
Why do people constantly equate what car someone drives with the size of their reproductive organs? I usually only see this from people who reflexively look down on people who own more expensive vehicles than them.
It's weird.
Live your life. Who cares what you or anyone else chooses to drive. I promise you, whatever vehicle you drive, nobody sane actually cares.
If you drive an oversized SUV which you have further lifted off the ground, removed the muffler from, and make exhaust that gives everyone a headache, people are going to assume you are a creepy asshole with no self respect or respect for your neighbors. The vehicle becomes a kind of enraged roar of emotional insecurity, from the "everyone else needs to always be thinking and talking about me, and it doesn't matter why" school of human interaction.
Or maybe it's just you being weird with your city-dweller assumptions?
(Though they should also be paying their fair share for the environmental costs of the CO2 emissions they pump out which are putting us on a path toward literal un-livability of the Earth, to which end gasoline should probably cost like $15/gallon.)
Using outrageous hyperbole in this manner might be even more weird than your original baseless assumptions.
> fair share... of the CO2 emissions they pump out which are putting us on a path toward literal un-livability of the Earth
Your hyperbole is putting on a path toward literal un-livability of the Earth. It's making me nauseous because of how weird it is.
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> compact SUVs, full-size SUVs, and pickup trucks all result in a significantly higher probability of pedestrian death when compared to a similar collision involving a car. Compact SUVs increase the probability of death by 63%, pickups increase the probability by 68%, and full-size SUVs increase the probability by 99%
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221201222...
I assume those children grew up to become maladapted adults with Cluster B traits. This manifests as antisocial nuisance behaviours such as rolling coal.
I see people in Cybertrucks and some other electric trucks--they don't have local pollution, but between the weight and the height, I'm living pretty dangerously. You always notice the big cars in the miata, but the big, heavy electrics is when I started feeling about as protected as a cyclist in it.
Still, I don't think they're creepy assholes who want to murder me or have emotional issues or whatever. I think they just like their big dumb truck, just like I like my ridiculous small car. I don't have to drive this car, it's impractical, it's dangerous, if someone kills me that'll probably ruin their day, but I do it because I like it. I'm not psychologically deranged with a death wish. Sometimes people just like different things.
I can infer that you do not ride a bicycle very frequently. Once you do, you quickly learn which kind of vehicles act most aggressively around you.
More than drivers being aggressive towards me (helps I wasn't slowing them down, which I know can make some people aggro), I noticed that I was invisible to many drivers and had to be very cognizant of that in turning lanes and when needing to be out of the bike lean due to construction, etc.
Minivan --> probably has a lot of kids. Seems like a fair connection!
/s
You load big furniture on the roof of or haul building materials in or tow something with a car and the same demographics that said you didn't need a truck to do those things gawk at you with judgement like they're watching a homeless man prepare to cook a pigeon he just nabbed.
It hauls whatever needs hauling, and it's quite pleasant to drive in all weather.
(And I dare say that it has competently done a lot more off-road duty than the majority of SUVs and pickup trucks ever will.)