Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I learned this from US Weekly or People or whatever that magazine was was that my wife left in the bathroom last night.

I hope you got your wife one hell of a Valentine's Day present as a preemptive apology for outing her as a bathroom reader.

I also hope that magazine never made it back to the coffee table, and will not ultimately be donated to your dentist's waiting room.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
New research suggests that SUVs and light trucks are at least as dangerous as cars -- not just for other drivers, but for their own drivers too.

What a bozo he is - never met a cause he couldn't call an effect.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
What a bozo he is - never met a cause he couldn't call an effect.

I suggest you call up Ted Gayer -- the Georgetown professor who wrote the study -- and point that out. You might save him some embarrassment. Also, you should call Kip Viscusi, the Harvard professor who edits the journal where it appeared, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. I'm sure he'd be glad to hear about it, too.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I suggest you call up Ted Gayer [rest of bimore-bashing omitted]....

Does that fact that his name makes me laugh mean that I am immature? Or homophobic? Both?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I hope you got your wife one hell of a Valentine's Day present as a preemptive apology for outing her as a bathroom reader.

I also hope that magazine never made it back to the coffee table, and will not ultimately be donated to your dentist's waiting room.

Season 9, The Bookstore.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I suggest you call up Ted Gayer . . .

Don't have to. I was referring to Easterboy's guesses:

"The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty does not speculate much about why SUVs and pickup trucks crash so much more frequently than regular cars, but the guesses are obvious. First, SUVs and pickups are styled to look cinematically menacing, and thus bring out the worst in drivers, visually egging them on to be hostile and aggressive. Second, owners of SUVs, especially, may falsely believe their vehicles have superior handling or road-holding power. Actually SUVs as a group are less stable than regular cars--as evidenced by roll-overs--because their high centers of gravity more than wipe out any benefits that four-wheel drive may confer. Finally, those sitting at the wheels of SUVs and pickup trucks may drive like lunatics, yakking into the cell phone all the while, because they themselves have fallen for the propaganda about SUVs being safer than regular cars."

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Season 9, The Bookstore.

Coltrane?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Coltrane?

Mom?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by bilmore
Don't have to. I was referring to Easterboy's guesses:

"The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty does not speculate much about why SUVs and pickup trucks crash so much more frequently than regular cars, but the guesses are obvious. First, SUVs and pickups are styled to look cinematically menacing, and thus bring out the worst in drivers, visually egging them on to be hostile and aggressive. Second, owners of SUVs, especially, may falsely believe their vehicles have superior handling or road-holding power. Actually SUVs as a group are less stable than regular cars--as evidenced by roll-overs--because their high centers of gravity more than wipe out any benefits that four-wheel drive may confer. Finally, those sitting at the wheels of SUVs and pickup trucks may drive like lunatics, yakking into the cell phone all the while, because they themselves have fallen for the propaganda about SUVs being safer than regular cars."

During a recent snowstorm here, someone from the State Patrol was on one of the local news stations urging SUV drivers to drive more carefully because SUVs do not handle the snow (and in particular cannot brake as well) as most SUV drivers think they can, and SUVs were therefore involved in a disproportionate number of accidents.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
During a recent snowstorm here, someone from the State Patrol was on one of the local news stations urging SUV drivers to drive more carefully because SUVs do not handle the snow (and in particular cannot brake as well) as most SUV drivers think they can, and SUVs were therefore involved in a disproportionate number of accidents.

How . . . um . . . poignant.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
During a recent snowstorm here, someone from the State Patrol was on one of the local news stations urging SUV drivers to drive more carefully because SUVs do not handle the snow (and in particular cannot brake as well) as most SUV drivers think they can, and SUVs were therefore involved in a disproportionate number of accidents.

SUV drivers fail to realize that having 4-wheel drive has no effect on an automobile's ability to stop on snow. In fact, a bigger SUV will take a much longer distance to stop than most sedans. But hey, they can accelerate faster!

[leagleaze]

Is it already time for the SUV debate again?

Goodness, how the time does fly.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Mom?

God?


Mitch: And from now on, stop playing with yourself!
Kent: It is God!

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Is it already time for the SUV debate again?

Goodness, how the time does fly.

I wasn't commenting on SUVs. Just the general stupidity of the average human being. I thought that THAT debate on the FB was constant and perpetual?

Edited to add that: actually, it's not a debate...people are stupid.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
During a recent snowstorm here, someone from the State Patrol was on one of the local news stations urging SUV drivers to drive more carefully because SUVs do not handle the snow (and in particular cannot brake as well) as most SUV drivers think they can, and SUVs were therefore involved in a disproportionate number of accidents.

You miss my point about Ty's point about Easter's point. I doubt SUV's make people into testosterone-charged idiots. I think many testosterone-charged idiots buy big SUV's. Cause. Effect.