I'm the wrong person to ask, because I have an intense personal bias against BMWs, or rather against the people who drive them, but it's entirely anecdotal and unreasonable. However, I think the point is more that bragging about one's fancy car on one's dating profile is often a sign of douchery and/or penis insecurity.
In that video posted a few days ago, one of the studies looked at car drivers who would stop at an pedestrian crosswalk, BMW drivers were the worst to obey the law.
When I was a road commuting cyclist (back in the days before I found myself back in the suburbs) I noticed that the two worst categories of drivers were a) women in SUVs around school time; they're hassled with a car full of kids, in a giant machine that allows great visibility for the 200m ahead, but absolutely nothing for the 2m around them, they always got a wide berth. B) men in luxury marques around peak hour. Mr. I'm So Important won't be bothered waiting in traffic like good motorists, no! He'll run lights, drive up bike lanes and swerve unpredictably without checking his blindspot. There was little you could do about these ones, at least soccer mums are reasonably predictable. When I saw a BMW or Merc on the road, I would calculate how dangerous they were due to speed. If they were quick then I would GTF off the road. Slow, I'd just do what I was doing, because there's nothing so nice as being able to kick a beemer because he's done something stupid.
I did $15K of damage to a Porsche Cayenne once, with my head. Dude even tried to sue me until I pointed out the three separate road laws he'd broken; he thought pushbikes were for kids in parks and weren't supposed to be on the road.
I'd say that study was behind the times. Newer Audi drivers have surpassed Beemer dicks in aggressive assholishness in the past few years, in my observation.
Look, I don't like having my bigotry reinforced, but I am just saying, when I was on break tonight I watched a BMW swerve around the cones in my store's parking lot to drive the wrong way up a one-way driveway. We put the cones there so people would stop doing that because the giant arrows on the ground and signs saying "Right Turn Only" weren't doing the trick. Cones aren't helping either.
"I have an intense personal bias against BMWs, or rather against the people who drive them"
Translation: I am no better than any of the people my post bitches about regarding stereotypes. However, I am much more self-righteous than most of them so that makes it better.
Awww, hit a nerve, did I? Is it that you drive a BMW specifically or just you're afraid people judge you when you brag about whatever kind of status-symbol car you DO drive?
Anyway, when's the last time you saw you or any of your right-wing brethren suggest for even a moment that the stereotypes and biases you/they have are in any way subjective or irrational?
I am a little bewildered though that you think me saying "Hey, this is a personal hangup I have and it's completely irrational" is actually MORE self-righteous than saying "People just ARE this way it's just FACT." Why is that?
Not sure about other places, but here you pay a $20K premium for that badge. They're average, middle of the road cars, sold as elite luxury cars (M series aside). The only reason you would buy a non-M BMW is so other people can see you driving a BMW, which is pretty much definitional of the douchebag.
Why the hell do you care what kind of car people drive? How can you say someone is a douchebag because they drive a certain type of car? How is your brand of stereotyping any less assholish than a racist or a chauvinist?
1) I am dangerously addicted to Cracked. If I read one article on there, I'm likely to be on the site for a few hours reading mindless movie trivia and obscure music factoids.
2) I disagree with the "Don't message me if you like _ music" one. That has worked out well for me, personally. I find that I am much more compatible with people who have the same tastes in music as me. This is probably partially because I am unreasonably interested in music, but I have had really bad experiences with people when I attempt to put my opinionated-ness about music aside. The person I dated that always wanted to listen to Kittie when we were having sex? What a train wreck that relationship was. But when I saw my wife's music collection early in our dating, I knew it was all going to be Ok. Appropriate:
1) I found this article and then spent an hour link-hopping. I find Cracked even more time-sucking than TVTropes. 2) Ah yes, the High Fidelity relationship philosophy - it's what you LIKE, not what you ARE like, that matters. I'm not gonna sit here and say that's entirely off-base - obviously compatible interests and tastes can do wonders for a relationship. But I think a flat ban on, like, one facet of someone's tastes or interests can really be a detriment. That said, I think that is probably the least blatantly douchey one on that list.
2) i agree. I think that falls under "common interests" and why would I want to be with someone that doesn't have the same tastes as me? My husband and I are like a venn diagram. We have a lot of bands that we like together and some that we don't but at the very least none of the music he listens to drives me up the wall (can't say the same for him, lol).
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Date: 2013-08-05 07:30 am (UTC)I did $15K of damage to a Porsche Cayenne once, with my head. Dude even tried to sue me until I pointed out the three separate road laws he'd broken; he thought pushbikes were for kids in parks and weren't supposed to be on the road.
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Date: 2013-08-05 07:30 am (UTC)Right. It's that he brings it up.
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Date: 2013-08-05 03:38 pm (UTC)Translation: I am no better than any of the people my post bitches about regarding stereotypes. However, I am much more self-righteous than most of them so that makes it better.
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Date: 2013-08-05 04:41 pm (UTC)Anyway, when's the last time you saw you or any of your right-wing brethren suggest for even a moment that the stereotypes and biases you/they have are in any way subjective or irrational?
I am a little bewildered though that you think me saying "Hey, this is a personal hangup I have and it's completely irrational" is actually MORE self-righteous than saying "People just ARE this way it's just FACT." Why is that?
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Date: 2013-08-05 06:57 pm (UTC)"I am [...] self-righteous," that would be technically wrong.
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Date: 2013-08-05 07:25 am (UTC)Not sure about other places, but here you pay a $20K premium for that badge. They're average, middle of the road cars, sold as elite luxury cars (M series aside). The only reason you would buy a non-M BMW is so other people can see you driving a BMW, which is pretty much definitional of the douchebag.
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Date: 2013-08-05 08:57 am (UTC)2) I disagree with the "Don't message me if you like _ music" one. That has worked out well for me, personally. I find that I am much more compatible with people who have the same tastes in music as me. This is probably partially because I am unreasonably interested in music, but I have had really bad experiences with people when I attempt to put my opinionated-ness about music aside. The person I dated that always wanted to listen to Kittie when we were having sex? What a train wreck that relationship was. But when I saw my wife's music collection early in our dating, I knew it was all going to be Ok. Appropriate:
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Date: 2013-08-05 04:21 pm (UTC)2) Ah yes, the High Fidelity relationship philosophy - it's what you LIKE, not what you ARE like, that matters. I'm not gonna sit here and say that's entirely off-base - obviously compatible interests and tastes can do wonders for a relationship. But I think a flat ban on, like, one facet of someone's tastes or interests can really be a detriment.
That said, I think that is probably the least blatantly douchey one on that list.
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Date: 2013-08-05 09:05 pm (UTC)Who wants to stereotype me?