[opendtv] Re: Barriers eroding to LCD TV adoption

  • From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:53:22 +0100

I believe that you've misplaced a decimal point. IF such issues drive SUV
acceptance, and IF Freud was right (increasingly problematic) the purchase
of SUVs by males is to "compensate" for their "inadequacies" in other areas.
Last time I checked, buying an SUV does not make anything on a male's body
actually bigger (maybe the belly.)

When I'm on the road, it's mostly on a bicycle.  I have been amazed for
decades the guys who, when matched up with me at a stop light, will go out
of their way to leave rubber when the light changes (charge out from the
light.)  I usually say something like "Wow! leaving a bicycle in the dust
must make it almost possible to know what it feels like to be a man."

Of course, on occasion, when I'm at a similar intersection on a motorcycle
...

John Willkie

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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Barriers eroding to LCD TV adoption


Craig Birkmaier wrote:

> The SUV craze has largely been driven by safety issues, with a
> generous dose of "following the crowd."

And here I thought it was caused by a large number of males
feeling they needed to boost the size of their "member," sort
of as an adjunct to their daily intake of Viagra. How else do
you explain the overly aggressive looking, massive, vertical
grilles? Or maybe it's to ensure the maximum possible wind
resistance, to make ourselves more dependent on Arab oil?

It's women who use "safety" as their excuse. If they're so "safe,"
how come they keep flipping over? Saw one getting T-boned right
in front of my face, at a stop light, only a couple of weeks ago.
Someone in a small compact car ran into its side. The SUV would
have flipped in no time except that it was saved by hitting a pole.
A few months prior, at the same intersection, a similar beached
whale was lying on its side. Amazing pieces of junk.

Bert


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