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Originally Posted by RCBS
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Sheep. you missed my point entirely. as for your GMC's, we have about eight to ten of these trucks in the fleet where i work. the man who maintains that fleet drives a Toyota. bigger is better does not always apply, even if it is an american creedo. i'm sure if the american public demanded better economy out of our vehicles, Toyota would gladly build you a "flex fuel" vehicle. the american public doesn't WANT to give up that extra legroom or power, hence the new 14mpg Tundra. look on the roads...every day i see some woman driving an excursion or suburban--by herself. we don't THINK we should have to give up size or power in the name of fuel economy, because fuel has always been availible cheaply. ...things are changing, even if most are too blind to see.
and EU healthcare--you win cause i ain't spending anymore time on ya. BUT, try parking your motorcycle unattended & unlocked in a major US city like everyone in Germany does, and see how long before it's gone. if you've traveled abroad in europe, i'm sure you'd have noticed that people aren't self rightious ***-hats like they are here...well, maybe France but they're a bunch of sissys anyway. if you will excuse me, i have to call my health insurance company that thinks my impacted wisdom tooth surgery is cosmetic.   |
Well you're right about one thing, most Europeans don't sound anywhere near as self righteous or negative as you do. I haven't cared for their political maneuvering in the past but even the French people seem pretty nice to me, and I go there a lot. I'll be leaving tomorrow for Nice for a 3 day trip there. I'm a pilot and can spend my layovers pretty much anywhere in Europe and this time of year, Nice and Rome are my first 2 choices, switching to Berlin or Frankfurt in the summer. Nice folks everywhere, just like in most US cities.
And what does "sheep" have to do with anything? I also agree with you (obviously, since I do own a Taco) that bigger isn't always better. Many of those women you see alone in a Suburban probably agree with you too and cringe every time they have to fill the beast up with fuel just like you would. But what you don't seem to see or want to understand is that those lone women in Suburbans are frequently moms who are enroute to pick up their 2 kids and 3 of their friends to take them to basketball or soccer or dance or...practice. The friends kids mothers are working, so car pooling in one big Suburban makes a lot of sense. My sister had 3 Suburbans over the years to go along with her husband, 4 kids and 2 dogs she routinely transported. Sometimes she took it to the store and back all by herself but owning and insuring and maintaining an additional, smaller car just wasn't in the budget. It would have been real nice to get a smaller vehicle and now that she's down to a husband and 1 kid and one dog she's traded for a Lexus, but there are still times when they have to take 2 vehicles when kids friends or classmates want to come along too. But the Lexus is much more comfortable and fun to drive than a Suburban so she traded anyway.
I suppose if I had spouted off about a subject I knew nothing about like you did about socialized helathcare I might want to change the subject away from that too, and I fail to see how motorcycle security is relevant to this discussion at all. But since you insist on displaying your ignorance about yet another subject you obviously have no real knowledge of, I had to chuckle while reading your post because as it happens I recently bought a new Suzuki SV650 motorcycle and it's parked out front right now, unlocked, not too far from my 325I in the garage, but also unlocked and with the key in the ignition. Of course I don't exactly live in a major city up here in Maine, but it IS the USA and I've never had anything stolen. When I'm in Europe I've noticed that many parked motorcycles have these huge link chains with padlocks on them wrapped around the wheels. That seems awfully inconvenient to lug around to me and I've got insurance anyway so I don't plan to bother with one. Maybe they are commonly used in major US cities too but I know they are commonly used in Europe since every time I pass a group of parked motorcycles I check them all out pretty carefully and have been ever since I decided to buy one.
Instead of just mentioning the 14mpg Tundra as yet another way to express your contempt for American people, why not give some credit where credit is due to GMC for making their full sized trucks get better mileage than that? Or might that interfere with your anti everything American bias? And according to sales of the new Tundra, maybe the American people are a little smarter than you think they are because from what I've heard, the Tundra isn't selling well compared with the full sized GMC's and Chevy's, or even Ford's. Instead of stating what "we" Americans do or think, maybe you should restrict yourself to what YOU do or think, because that's all you really seem to know much about.