.

... or Escaladed

Now that's a flame out!

I was worried about having to slap box with a musically challenged geezer, but as long as he's looking for a "pale" *** I should be alright.  

(Nobody tell him OK?)

Phew

As someone who’s really not a fan of SUVs: holy Jesus.

it's not surprising how angry people get about comments regarding their vehicle choice.  Full disclosure -- I have a midsize and a subcompact sedan.  But I'll admit in neither case did I purchase the most fuel-efficient model.  So I'm not that different regarding the fuel efficiency of my vehicles.  If someone pointed out to me that I could get from point A to point B just as easily and more efficiently in a Prius or an Accord, I wouldn't lose my ****.  It is what it is.

And I don't know why people get so upset when non-SUV owners state something that should be obvious.  For people in small vehicles, the number of SUVs surrounding us when we park or drive around town is often inconvenient, and occasionally somewhat hazardous.  Sure 18-wheelers or panel trucks are even bigger.  But there aren't nearly as many on the road in these parts.  

again, it is what it is.  I'm not suggesting that the government regulate light trucks and SUVs any more than it does, or suggesting that people stop buying them.  I'm just suggesting that the rest of us need to be careful pulling out of parking spaces, or driving past crosswalks, or more careful when we can't see past the vehicle in front of us.  Which is generally good advice for anyone behind the wheel at any time.  

Well, if it makes mff feel better, I traded in the X5 for an X3 this last go-round.  Just doing my part...

Bah, bimbo!

Easily slap you down, any arena.  But especially, intellectual.

flimbro said:

Now that's a flame out!

I was worried about having to slap box with a musically challenged geezer, but as long as he's looking for a "pale" *** I should be alright.  

(Nobody tell him OK?)

Phew

"musically challenged"?

There's a tone-deaf Maplestockian, if there ever was one.  

(Do Re Me Mo Fo)

flimbro said:

Now that's a flame out!

I was worried about having to slap box with a musically challenged geezer, but as long as he's looking for a "pale" *** I should be alright.  

(Nobody tell him OK?)

Phew

How about, trade in your lawn and electronics, for an Ethiopian hut?

ctrzaska said:

Well, if it makes mff feel better, I traded in the X5 for an X3 this last go-round.  Just doing my part...

 I'm not suggesting that the government regulate light trucks and SUVs any more than it does...

NO--that's exactly what should be happening.

In any enlightened, *liberal* society. 

Really, fellow fools--you think it's a historical quirk that Trump tri-umphed???

Check it out, Clintonistas--

Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About 

Sheesh, fatso--even off me best tone,

me speed and compactness

put you in ground no time.

flimbro said:

Now that's a flame out!

I was worried about having to slap box with a musically challenged geezer, but as long as he's looking for a "pale" *** I should be alright.  

(Nobody tell him OK?)

Phew

Spoiled privileged entitled effs

may be in for a big-*** reckoning.

anytime, dufus

flimbro said:

Now that's a flame out!

I was worried about having to slap box with a musically challenged geezer, but as long as he's looking for a "pale" *** I should be alright.  

(Nobody tell him OK?)

Phew

gotta love

Amerika

meanwhile, the communities of Kansas, Upper Hudson, Maplehood and Northern Jersey are reporting mild if uninspiring spring temperatures.  crocuses will surely bloom.  later, mosquitoes. 

semi-digression (lap it up!):

you think you are Russell Crowe;

but, all, just Woody Allen clones

I'm sorry, to be so rude.

But would so easily

bury you.

mff said:

Sheesh, fatso--even off me best tone,

me speed and compactness

put you in ground no time.

flimbro said:

Now that's a flame out!

I was worried about having to slap box with a musically challenged geezer, but as long as he's looking for a "pale" *** I should be alright.  

(Nobody tell him OK?)

Phew

You

ignorant

ageist. 

hollow

shallow

spineless

NEast American

puss

.

My god, @jamie, have we hadn’t enough of this dude?

Tom_Reingold said:

My god, @jamie, have we hadn’t enough of this dude?

I think somebody finally put the cover over his bird cage so he would go to sleep.

Yes!!! Or gave them their proper med dose. 

TJ said:

Tom_Reingold said:

My god, @jamie, have we hadn’t enough of this dude?

I think somebody finally put the cover over his bird cage so he would go to sleep.

Tom, this Toronto Globe and Mail article refers to a 2015 study — and a rate that’s three times higher (though the LTV category includes more than SUVs). It also cites a primary reason for the difference that I don’t think has been mentioned here. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find the original study itself.

Researchers at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute have concluded that a pedestrian hit by an LTV (light truck vehicle, which includes minivans, pickup trucks and SUVs) is more than three times more likely to be killed than one hit by a car – less due to the vehicle's greater mass than due to its height and the design of its front end. A pedestrian hit by a passenger car will, with luck (a relative term), be struck in the legs and sent over the hood. An LTV will probably strike a pedestrian with its blunt hood – for adults, at the level of the torso, home of the vital organs; for kids, the level of the head.

The LTV will then knock 65 per cent of adults and 93 per cent of children to the ground, where they have a good chance of being run over.

ETA: I see now that your original link touches on this.

flimbro said:

You intimated they were dangerous vehicles that kill people as a public service. 

Thanks, flimbro, for my morbid morning chuckle.

Gee, I hope mff wasn’t tossed.  I was rather enjoying watching someone with a wildly overinflated sense of self-importance and forensic ability bury themselves in a pit of manic outrage over a plague he has no hope of seeing eradicated.  

Maybe I’ll get a bigger SUV next time because, well, I can.

One observer’s manic outrage is another’s tour de force. 

DaveSchmidt said:

One observer’s manic outrage is another’s tour de force. 

I’d like to think there’s a finer line between Howard Beale and a four year old with internet access.