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[yelena-r0ssini.livejournal.com]

The whole article is actually pretty excellent.

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[trog.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with BMWs?

[yelena-r0ssini.livejournal.com]

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.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Much like the scourge of adult males who wear white ball caps, often reversed, it's more of an indicator than a problem with the object itself.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

...and cargo shorts.

[caerfrli.livejournal.com]

ball caps are to hide baldness, often in men who drive BMWs

[telemann.livejournal.com]

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.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

A plus!

[electricnight.livejournal.com]

Funny!

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

They're the car of choice for douchebags.

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.

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

...the point is more that bragging about one's fancy car...

Right. It's that he brings it up.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

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.

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

Hey! My husband wears cargo shorts :( (No ball cap, though. They're lousy sun protection.)

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

I especially like the #11 translation.

[joshthevegan.livejournal.com]

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:

[hookemnick.livejournal.com]

"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.

[hookemnick.livejournal.com]

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?

[hookemnick.livejournal.com]

Why in the fuck do you care what other people wear? How is this at all an indicator of what kind of person they are?

[hookemnick.livejournal.com]

Or maybe people just like wearing ball caps...

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

oversized with ripped pockets and frayed seams? No offense but i have come to the conclusion that beat-up cargo pants are the sweatpants for millennial men

[yelena-r0ssini.livejournal.com]

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.

[senshifan.livejournal.com]

oversized with ripped pockets and frayed seams? No offense but i have come to the conclusion that beat-up cargo pants are the sweatpants for millennial men

What about women? Because I totally have a pair of pants like that which I've had for about 9 years and I refuse to stop wearing them.

[senshifan.livejournal.com]

You're really fucking defensive about this, bro. You might need to spark a doobie and chill or something...

Or are you the type of person who wears baseball caps and drives a non-M series BMW? In that case I can understand your frustration. :)

(I'm joking, btw.)

[hookemnick.livejournal.com]

Lol I obviously wear ball caps and cargo shorts. No BMW though. I just don't get the selective stereotyping. If I said anyone with jeans hanging down to their knees is a moron that would make me an asshole. But for some reason it's ok to call anyone who wears ball caps or drives certain cars douchebags. Ya feel me?

And you're right...I guess it's time for a brownie break :)

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

outside? to the bookstore or library? to meet a friend for lunch? at a nice coffee shop?

Everyone has their "comfy clothes" and there's nothing wrong with that. What I'm talking about is the decision to wear the *same* beat-up crappy looking comfy clothes regardless of the environment every. single. day..

[yelena-r0ssini.livejournal.com]

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?