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New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

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Re: New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

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My wife calls them pr-audis.. it’s particularly bad in New Jersey where no matter what road, time of day, how fast you’re driving, there’s always a praudi driver on your rear who seems to be really angry you are in front of them.

What exactly is the pun being made here?

Re: New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

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post #11
post #5

My wife calls them pr-audis.. it’s particularly bad in New Jersey where no matter what road, time of day, how fast you’re driving, there’s always a praudi driver on your rear who seems to be really angry you are in front of them.

What exactly is the pun being made here?

Proud, I think.

Re: New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

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post #11
post #5

My wife calls them pr-audis.. it’s particularly bad in New Jersey where no matter what road, time of day, how fast you’re driving, there’s always a praudi driver on your rear who seems to be really angry you are in front of them.

What exactly is the pun being made here?

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Re: New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

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That’s definitely something you notice on the German autobahn. The ones that are 1mm on your rear bumper or constantly give you “Lichthupe” are often smaller Mercedes, BMW or Audi. I have rarely seen sports cars like Porsche or Ferrari behave that way.

Re: New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

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Everyone who drives slower than me is an idiot, everyone who drives faster than me is a maniac [1] [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWPCE2tTLZQ (George Carlin)

I do recommend counting cars you overtake and those that over take you.

Turns out I was overtaking 10 cars for every car that overtook me. I've calmed down since then as it really put it in context how fast I was driving.

Re: New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

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The study was actually titled "Not only assholes drive Mercedes. Besides disagreeable men, also conscientious people drive high‐status cars." Treehugger implied that they couldn't print the title because of the word "asshole", but maybe it was because the title contradicts the message that they're trying to send with the article?

Probably, even the author is not specified. A Finnish professor of social psychology found that

I don't know where the original paper is either, but Finnish news cite a person called Jan-Erik Lönnqvist as the professor.

Re: New Finnish study confirms that BMW and Audi owners drive like idiots

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post #11
post #5

My wife calls them pr-audis.. it’s particularly bad in New Jersey where no matter what road, time of day, how fast you’re driving, there’s always a praudi driver on your rear who seems to be really angry you are in front of them.

What exactly is the pun being made here?

Thanks for asking, I also wondered about it.
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