Follow up to jeep-coffee-cunt:
I hate SUV’s a lot. The drivers are the most ignorant road users and the people fail to understand the tiny roads here don’t accomodate these pricks. I had considered going the extra step and start burn them like some hippies do in the States.
Jeff “Free” Luers, who is serving a ten year sentence for the firebombing of SUV’s at a dealership, which was revised from twenty-two years and ten months, describes why the ELF exists and why they have kept by the guidelines that were initially published for the movement
I just took some photos of people parking in handicap spaces instead.
There is this from organizedrage.com:
The owner of a vehicle refused to move out of a handicapped zone in a shopping centre in Clarinbridge this morning.
The woman, who was not displaying a handicapped parking permit, moved into the clearly marked spot in her imported 2005 GM Hummer vehicle. Despite being informed that she was illegally parking in a handicapped zone, she refused to move. When asked if she was aware that her action was preventing disabled drivers and the elderly from safely parking and potentially causing harm, her response was ‘I don’t care’. She then proceeded into the shopping centre.
I remembered an old piece on RTE about SUV’s and who is driving them. The results are sickening, possibly worse than I expected and they have to be recorded for posterity. Some of the low-lights:
“We are on the top floor of Brown Thomas, we can see the whole of Dublin. What kind of SUV are you driving”.
The lady describes a Land Rover Project Kahn (€185000) as a work horse. She doesn’t know what it cost, you would have to ask the husband, she just drives what is given to her and doesn’t mind. She has to go get her hair done and collect dry cleaning before collecting the kids.
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Woman from Foxrock who owns a €1300 euro handbag and a BMW X3 (fail):
“It has a button for off-road driving which I don’t tend to use”.
In Foxrock “every other car at the school is an SUV. They are very trendy and everyone wants to have them… I like to be out and about, going to nice restaurants, bars, clubs, knowing who is who and what is what”
Writer guy: “New Yorkers are 7 generations removed from poverty … in Ireland the nouveau riche have moved on and are buying paintings from Irish artists and the nouveau-neouveau-riche are buying SUV’s”.
Women in SUV’s apparently “feel safer because they are up above the ground, you are protected, you are sending out a threatening signal” … “it is like sex in the irish city”. I knew someone who went to a sex and the city finale party in Drumcondra, irony much ?
In conversation the Foxrock x5 advertising lady says: “It is about what I want I don’t care about what other people think”
Writer guy: “I find that an un-acceptable attitude that you dont care about other people”
woman “I didnt say that”
it is these kind of people they are talking about
independent.ie
SUV’S. DO I hate them, because I secretly love them?
“Ambivalence was used by Freud to indicate the simultaneous presence of love and hate towards the same object. During the oral stage the main object the child relates to is the mother’s breast. During the first sub-stage of this stage, there is no ambivalence at all towards the mother’s breast, since the only concern of the child is oral incorporation. In the second sub-stage, named oral-sadistic, the biting activity emerges and the phenomenon of ambivalence appears for the first time. The child is interested in both libidinal and aggressive gratifications, and the mother’s breast is at the same time loved and hated. It is being loved when it is a source of nutrition and pleasure, and it is being hated when it is a source of frustration. By the mechanism of projection, the baby fears similar aggression in others, mainly in powerful adults. Thus, the experience of biting can take an aspect of destructiveness. The more the child bites with anger, the more he attributes the same impulses to others. Since the oral activity is still the main source of pleasure, and the mother’s breast is genuinely loved, the addition of a sadistic component now turns in real ambivalence.”
Freud thinks so!
No! It wont happen. The sight of them makes me angry. The cars themselves would be ok if they were functional. The Range Rover is piloted like a ship, mainly by middle aged women and men in pink shirts.
The BMW X3 devalues BMW and the X5 is used to pull cement mixers
the X6, wtf is that?
The ugliest thing in the rear view is debatable, it is either a Range Rover (top of page) or the VW Tourareg:
Give me the batmobile any day.
I seen this earlier and thought of you:
I hate when people (particularly) SUV’s park in handicap zones. This is a picture of an SUV owned by a gymnast instructor that keeps parking in a handicap zone.
http://politicalfingers-kmuzu.blogspot.com/2010/07/parking-wars.html
Thanks for the post … made me mad and happy.