Mini-van drivers are not happy people, especially the men.

[The Boys]

Don't Drive a Mini-Van



Here's a word of advice for all those young couples out there debating whether to buy a mini or not: don't. You'll be sorry if you do.



Mini-van drivers are not happy people. Especially the men. In fact, men who own - or who are forced to own- mini-vans are probably among the most dangerous people on the road, and definitely people you don't want to be around if their McDonalds order gets screwed up. They are bitter, angry, defensive people and when they get behind the wheel, look out.



I'm not kidding. Watch the average mini-van driver sometime - he'll be attempting to set the new land speed record, and if you're unfortunate enough to be stuck in front of him, he'll ride your ass until you start going fast enough for him, somewhere around 140 miles an hour. If you piss him off he'll go twenty miles out of his way to follow you and cut you off. I think signal indicators must not be standard equipment on mini- vans because I have yet to see one signal his intention to turn. And watch out for the little four cylinder vans - these guys try to compensate for their lack of horsepower by gunning the life out of their little engines in an attempt to be the first away from the light.



I haven't always hated mini-vans - but an experience I once had made me observe the habits of mini-van drivers more carefully. I was visiting my parents, who live in a bedroom community of a major city, and because everyone who lives in this town makes a lot of money in the Big City, the town is a veritable yuppie paradise, with huge bleak housing developments and trendy supermarkets. And mini-vans. Mini-vans as far as the eye can see. On this day, I took the on ramp to get onto the highway, one of those large circular ramps that make you pull a sharp right all the way around until you can join up with the highway. Because of the nature of these ramps, your speed is limited to no more than say forty miles an hour, otherwise you'd likely lose control of the car. Behind me was a middle aged man in a mini-van. I know he was a middle aged man because he was close enough to me for me to see the gray hairs streaking out of his scalp and the look of perma-rage that had molded his face into something resembling The Terminator.



I couldn't merge onto the highway at that point because of a tractor trailer bearing down on me, but this didn't seem to register with my pursuer. As I gained speed and waited for the truck to pass me, the mini-van roared past me - on the shoulder - and when I looked over the guy was staring straight ahead with his middle finger displayed prominently as an indictment of my driving skill.



I have to say, this bothered me for some time. I hadn't done anything wrong, as far as I could tell. I am not a prudish driver, I can speed with the best of them, but when merging onto a high speed highway from a semi- circle on ramp, clocking 120 miles an hour isn't what I consider wise. For some time afterwards I wished I'd had the presence of mind to bash into him - I was driving an old beat up heap anyway, it wouldn't have been much of a loss - just to see him explain to the police why he was driving on the shoulder.



As it was I watched this guy for some time - he rode the tail of every poor car he came across, and even the fast lane wasn't fast enough for him. He lurched from lane to lane, roared past people, honked his horn and played a dangerous game of cut-me-off, cut-you-off with someone for nearly three miles. If I'd had a cell phone I would have reported him, but the last I saw of him he had left the highway, and pulled out right in front of an oncoming car who had to slam on the breaks and skid to avoid hitting him.



From that day on, I became a little more wary of mini-vans, and, I have since discovered, for good reason. This maniac wasn't an isolated case. Every day I encounter some Road Warrior in a Windstar, and every time it's some haggard looking man in his mid thirties or forties, wearing wrap-around sunglasses and an expression that would wither houseplants. Every time he doesn't just single me out, but rather menaces anyone unfortunate enough to get in his way. Even the jaunty yellow "Baby on Board" triangles don't deter these guys from careening down winding roads and running red lights and speeding at twice the legal limit through residential zones. Whenever I see a mini-van now I cringe, and try to get as far away from him as possible.



Why should this be? Why are a disproportionate number of mini-van drivers so reckless and malevolent when they get behind the wheel? I have a theory that explains it. The problem is not with the actual physical design of the mini-van - it's just a car, after all. The problem is with what it represents, and what precipitates people buying it.



Every man who drives a mini-van is someone who went from swinging bachelor to family man. Every man who drives a mini-van had it forced on him by his wife, who probably demanded that they get one "for the kids" and who revels in the "soccer mom" mentality - even if it is extremely unlikely that she'll ever have to cart eleven other kids around. And every guy who drives one, no matter how diligent he is with maintaining the aura of "cool", tells the entire world that he's a henpecked family guy who probably hasn't had a blow job since college.



It's fairly evident that no man would willingly drive a mini-van. No single guy ever thought "Hmmmm...Porsche 911 or Dodge Caravan?" Men love the power and beauty of their machines, they couldn't care less about room for a car seat. Men have always adored their vehicles almost as much as they adore women, men have always, since the time of Henry Ford, imbued their cars with the symbolism of status and achievement, of sex appeal and prestige. The fact that the majority of women really don't care what kind of car a man drives is irrelevant to the typical male fantasy of landing a babe because of one's flashy new sports car. And because of this, because of how much of men's egos live under the hood, it's a travesty to the male psyche to bundle all that masculinity up in a turquoise mini-van with a VCR in the back that plays cartoons.



Worst off are the guys who once tooled around on motorcycles and now find themselves chugging along at the speed limit in a great long bus of a car and Barney piping through the stereo system. They may be excellent and diligent fathers, but when their last refuge, the last place in which they can truly feel like a young and virile guy is invaded by juicebox - not cup - holders, it's no wonder they lose their minds.



Women, of course, have no such problem. They love their mini-vans. Mini-vans are at once a symbol of their fertility and a victory trophy, proving that their domesticity was enough to overcome the Harley loving ways of their man. More than that, a lot of women choose to make childrearing their career, the thing they devote the most energy and passion to, and so for them, chauffeuring a kid-limousine is flattering to them, something they want the neighbors to see them doing. But every woman whose career is parenthood has a husband whose it isn't, who has to go out and work to pay for the mini van but who doesn't get the same joy or satisfaction from being seen behind the wheel of one.



What would you think of a woman who drove her kids around in a ferrari? Would you think of her as a good mother or would you think she has other priorities? By the same token, what would you think of the ad executive who drives a mini-van? Men need concrete examples of their masculinity, just as women need concrete examples of their femininity, and more often than not, the most visible place these concepts are challenged is in the kind of car each drives. Nothing challenges a man's sense of masculinity more than turning him into a woman - which is what we expect him to become if he want him to embrace the mini-van lifestyle with enthusiasm. Like it or not, men don't belong in mini-vans and they know it, rebel against it, and make life miserable for the rest of us because of it.



Another problem with mini-vans, as opposed to other large, functional vehicles, lies in the fact that their image screams "kids". It's a car designed to accommodate kids, or at least that's the perception. Good parents don't shove the kids into a Gremlin, good parents splurge for the Voyager with all the kid-friendly accessories. It's like a badge of merit, a sign that says "This thing costs more per month than my first apartment did but look, I'm a good parent". The trouble is, it doesn't mean anything of the sort. It doesn't mean you're a good parent, it means you are kid-centric and too concerned with what other people think. In fact, in my estimation, it means you aren't as good a parent as you should be.



This is a point that's hard to get across. A parent's number one job in life is to provide an excellent role model for their child to want to grow up into - not to spend his or her life catering to the child and rearranging everything in favor of the kid. If you really want to drive a Sebring or a PT Cruiser, do it - the car seat will still fit back there - and more importantly, it'll show your kid that the purpose of adulthood is to earn and enjoy the things you want, not to grow up only so that you can then subjugate yourself to the wishes and desires of an infant. This is crucially important. When a family buys a mini-van, the subtle message is that the kids wear the pants in this family, and that adult sensibilities are of no importance. This can't be good for anyone.



Most people who drive mini vans have two children, not twelve, and absolutely do not need that much room in their vehicle. When I was a kid, my brother and I were driven around in a Chevette for God's sake, and it was more than adequate. And for all those soccer moms who insist they need it to drive the team around - don't these kids have parents? What did sports teams do before the advent of large yuppie-mobiles? You shouldn't have to buy a certain kind of vehicle just because other parents can't be bothered to take their own kids to practice. Equipment, dog cages, strollers, car seats - somehow people without mini-vans still manage to lug these things around, and so can you.



There just isn't any need for a mini-van. Buy a jeep or a station wagon or an SUV if you really need all that room, but ask yourself honestly whether you're want a mini-van because you really need one or because it's "the thing to do". Most importantly, buy something that makes you feel like something other than an indentured parent. Be an adult first and foremost, put your happiness first and buy the kind of car you don't mind paying through the nose for. Don't end up like my frustrated friend, taking his anger out on the road with the very thing that caused his anger in the first place. You'll be happier, your kids will be happier...and drivers everywhere will thank you.

Found this on the Internet

The End

 

[JOSHNAUDI]

Source - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

Credit - purdue.edu

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics

Summary:
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7[SUP]th[/SUP] ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing(3[SUP]rd[/SUP] ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
Contributors:Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, Russell Keck, Joshua M. Paiz, Purdue OWL Staff
Last Edited: 2014-03-06 11:05:00

Guidelines for referring to the works of others in your text using MLA style are covered in chapter 6 of the MLA Handbook and in chapter 7 of the MLA Style Manual. Both books provide extensive examples, so it's a good idea to consult them if you want to become even more familiar with MLA guidelines or if you have a particular reference question.
Basic in-text citation rules

In MLA style, referring to the works of others in your text is done by using what is known as parenthetical citation. This method involves placing relevant source information in parentheses after a quote or a paraphrase.
General Guidelines

• The source information required in a parenthetical citation depends (1.) upon the source medium (e.g. Print, Web, DVD) and (2.) upon the source?s entry on the Works Cited (bibliography) page.
• Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List.

In-text citations: Author-page style

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:
Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).
Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:
Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London: Oxford UP, 1967. Print.

In-text citations for print sources with known author

For Print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author?s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.
Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3).
Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).
These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry in the Works Cited:
Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley: U of California P, 1966. Print.

In-text citations for print sources by a corporate author

When a source has a corporate author, it is acceptable to use the name of the corporation followed by the page number for the in-text citation. You should also use abbreviations (e.g., nat'l for national) where appropriate, so as to avoid interrupting the flow of reading with overly long parenthetical citations.
In-text citations for print sources with no known author

When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number.
We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming" 6).
In this example, since the reader does not know the author of the article, an abbreviated title of the article appears in the parenthetical citation which corresponds to the full name of the article which appears first at the left-hand margin of its respective entry in the Works Cited. Thus, the writer includes the title in quotation marks as the signal phrase in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader directly to the source on the Works Cited page. The Works Cited entry appears as follows:
"The Impact of Global Warming in North America." Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. Web. 23 Mar. 2009.

We'll learn how to make a Works Cited page in a bit, but right now it's important to know that parenthetical citations and Works Cited pages allow readers to know which sources you consulted in writing your essay, so that they can either verify your interpretation of the sources or use them in their own scholarly work.
Author-page citation for classic and literary works with multiple editions

Page numbers are always required, but additional citation information can help literary scholars, who may have a different edition of a classic work like Marx and Engels's The Communist Manifesto. In such cases, give the page number of your edition (making sure the edition is listed in your Works Cited page, of course) followed by a semicolon, and then the appropriate abbreviations for volume (vol.), book (bk.), part (pt.), chapter (ch.), section (sec.), or paragraph (par.). For example:
Marx and Engels described human history as marked by class struggles (79; ch. 1).
Citing authors with same last names

Sometimes more information is necessary to identify the source from which a quotation is taken. For instance, if two or more authors have the same last name, provide both authors' first initials (or even the authors' full name if different authors share initials) in your citation. For example:
Although some medical ethicists claim that cloning will lead to designer children (R. Miller 12), others note that the advantages for medical research outweigh this consideration (A. Miller 46).
Citing a work by multiple authors

For a source with three or fewer authors, list the authors' last names in the text or in the parenthetical citation:
Smith, Yang, and Moore argue that tougher gun control is not needed in the United States (76).
The authors state "Tighter gun control in the United States erodes Second Amendment rights" (Smith, Yang, and Moore 76).
For a source with more than three authors, use the work's bibliographic information as a guide for your citation. Provide the first author's last name followed by et al. or list all the last names.
Jones et al. counter Smith, Yang, and Moore's argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (4).
Or
Legal experts counter Smith, Yang, and Moore's argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (Jones et al. 4).
Or
Jones, Driscoll, Ackerson, and Bell counter Smith, Yang, and Moore's argument by noting that the current spike in gun violence in America compels law makers to adjust gun laws (4).
Citing multiple works by the same author

If you cite more than one work by a particular author, include a shortened title for the particular work from which you are quoting to distinguish it from the others. Put short titles of books in italics and short titles of articles in quotation marks.

Citing two articles by the same author:
Lightenor has argued that computers are not useful tools for small children ("Too Soon" 38), though he has acknowledged elsewhere that early exposure to computer games does lead to better small motor skill development in a child's second and third year ("Hand-Eye Development" 17).
Citing two books by the same author:
Murray states that writing is "a process" that "varies with our thinking style" (Write to Learn 6). Additionally, Murray argues that the purpose of writing is to "carry ideas and information from the mind of one person into the mind of another" (A Writer Teaches Writing 3).
Additionally, if the author's name is not mentioned in the sentence, you would format your citation with the author's name followed by a comma, followed by a shortened title of the work, followed, when appropriate, by page numbers:
Visual studies, because it is such a new discipline, may be "too easy" (Elkins, "Visual Studies" 63).
Citing multivolume works

If you cite from different volumes of a multivolume work, always include the volume number followed by a colon. Put a space after the colon, then provide the page number(s). (If you only cite from one volume, provide only the page number in parentheses.)
. . . as Quintilian wrote in Institutio Oratoria (1: 14-17).
Citing the Bible

In your first parenthetical citation, you want to make clear which Bible you're using (and underline or italicize the title), as each version varies in its translation, followed by book (do not italicize or underline), chapter and verse. For example:
Ezekiel saw "what seemed to be four living creatures," each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10).
If future references employ the same edition of the Bible you?re using, list only the book, chapter, and verse in the parenthetical citation.
Citing indirect sources

Sometimes you may have to use an indirect source. An indirect source is a source cited in another source. For such indirect quotations, use "qtd. in" to indicate the source you actually consulted. For example:
Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "social service centers, and they don't do that well" (qtd. in Weisman 259).
Note that, in most cases, a responsible researcher will attempt to find the original source, rather than citing an indirect source.
Citing non-print or sources from the Internet

With more and more scholarly work being posted on the Internet, you may have to cite research you have completed in virtual environments. While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work (reference the OWL's Evaluating Sources of Information resource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited.
Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines:

• Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).
• You do not need to give paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser?s print preview function.
• Unless you must list the Web site name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, likeCNN.com or Forbes.com as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.

Miscellaneous non-print sources

Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo stars Herzog's long-time film partner, Klaus Kinski. During the shooting of Fitzcarraldo, Herzog and Kinski were often at odds, but their explosive relationship fostered a memorable and influential film.
During the presentation, Jane Yates stated that invention and pre-writing are areas of rhetoric that need more attention.
In the two examples above ?Herzog? from the first entry and ?Yates? from the second lead the reader to the first item each citation?s respective entry on the Works Cited page:
Herzog, Werner, dir. Fitzcarraldo. Perf. Klaus Kinski. Filmverlag der Autoren, 1982. Film.

Yates, Jane. "Invention in Rhetoric and Composition." Gaps Addressed: Future Work in Rhetoric and Composition, CCCC, Palmer House Hilton, 2002. Presentation.

Electronic sources

One online film critic stated that Fitzcarraldo is "...a beautiful and terrifying critique of obsession and colonialism" (Garcia, ?Herzog: a Life?).
The Purdue OWL is accessed by millions of users every year. Its "MLA Formatting and Style Guide" is one of the most popular resources (Stolley et al.).
In the first example, the writer has chosen not to include the author name in-text; however, two entries from the same author appear in the Works Cited. Thus, the writer includes both the author?s last name and the article title in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader to the appropriate entry on the Works Cited page (see below). In the second example, ?Stolley et al.? in the parenthetical citation gives the reader an author name followed by the abbreviation ?et al.,? meaning, ?and others,? for the article ?MLA Formatting and Style Guide.? Both corresponding Works Cited entries are as follows:
Garcia, Elizabeth. "Herzog: a Life." Online Film Critics Corner. The Film School of New Hampshire, 2 May 2002. Web. 8 Jan. 2009.

Stolley, Karl, et al. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006.

Multiple citations

To cite multiple sources in the same parenthetical reference, separate the citations by a semi-colon:
. . . as has been discussed elsewhere (Burke 3; Dewey 21).
When a citation is not needed

Common sense and ethics should determine your need for documenting sources. You do not need to give sources for familiar proverbs, well-known quotations or common knowledge. Remember, this is a rhetorical choice, based on audience. If you're writing for an expert audience of a scholarly journal, for example, they'll have different expectations of what constitutes common knowledge.

 

[hedgehog]

IF YOU ARE A MAN DRIVING A MINI-VAN you are pussy whooped :0008

 

[The Joker]

IF YOU ARE A MAN DRIVING A MINI-VAN you are pussy whooped :0008

Nope. It probably means you are a father. But, you wouldn't know anything about that.

 

[Morris]

IF YOU ARE A MAN DRIVING A MINI-VAN you are pussy whooped :0008

It's pussy whipped??but the more important question is why do you continue to be an ass?

 

[MadJack]

It's pussy whipped??but the more important question is why do you continue to be an ass?

He prejudges everybody and then puts them into a category even if he's never met them.

I'm sure there are a lot of men driving minivans that would like to show him who the pussy is.

 

[hedgehog]

He prejudges everybody and then puts them into a category even if he's never met them.

I'm sure there are a lot of men driving minivans that would like to show him who the pussy is.

Hell would freeze over before I would drive one, an SUV is much more comfortable:shrug:

real men drive trucks, women drive minivans

 

[The Joker]

Hell would freeze over before I would drive one, an SUV is much more comfortable:shrug:

real men drive trucks, women drive minivans

 

[smurphy]

real men with small penises drive trucks

I've heard that as well

 

[Morris]

Hell would freeze over before I would drive one, an SUV is much more comfortable:shrug:

real men drive trucks, women drive minivans

Your original statement was a direct shot at Joker. Don't try to twist the words to get out of an ignorant comment again!

 

[SixFive]

Source - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

Credit - purdue.edu

I'm more familiar with APA citations since that's what you have to use in nursing school. At least the boys said he found it on the internet which is a step in the right direction :toast:

I had a minivan when the kids were little. It sure saves you a lot of pain when you have a bad back. Little kids can crawl up in a minivan, click the button to shut the door, and buckle themselves in. All you have to do is initially open the door for them. Little kids can not even crawl up into a tall SUV much of the time. You also don't have to do all that leaning over shit in the backseat to get them situated. The cupholders are nice for their drinks, and I know a lot of them now even have boob tubes to occupy the rugrats if you so choose. I would do a lot of things if it saved my back from hurting (call me a pussy/pussy whipped, or whatever insult you choose) :0008

 

[BobbyBlueChip]

I've found that my hello kitty sticker on my minivan keeps my road rage in check when I'm driving

 

[Cie]

Here we go again. I think we are currently between steps 2 and 3

Hedge makes inane comments making himself appear small and dumb
Hedge is mocked for said comments
Hedge affirms his original position and makes offensive comments
Hedge is overrun by criticism and quits the board
Hedge returns stating he is not the bad guy his critics make him out to be and vows to clean up his act
Hedge is accused of being full of $hit
Hedge asks that critics of his views ignore him
Hedge makes inane comments making himself appear small and dumb

 

[JOSHNAUDI]

Here we go again. I think we are currently between steps 2 and 3

Hedge makes inane comments making himself appear small and dumb
Hedge is mocked for said comments
Hedge affirms his original position and makes offensive comments
Hedge is overrun by criticism and quits the board
Hedge returns stating he is not the bad guy his critics make him out to be and vows to clean up his act
Hedge is accused of being full of $hit
Hedge asks that critics of his views ignore him
Hedge makes inane comments making himself appear small and dumb

I think all that is missing is a repeat button

 

[The Joker]

I think all that is missing is a repeat button

 

[Wineguy]

Here we go again. I think we are currently between steps 2 and 3

Hedge makes inane comments making himself appear small and dumb
Hedge is mocked for said comments
Hedge affirms his original position and makes offensive comments
Hedge is overrun by criticism and quits the board
Hedge returns stating he is not the bad guy his critics make him out to be and vows to clean up his act
Hedge is accused of being full of $hit
Hedge asks that critics of his views ignore him
Hedge makes inane comments making himself appear small and dumb

:mj07::mj07::mj07:

I drove one as a Company Car for 10 years, including Dodge Grand Caravan and Ford Windstar. Perfect for hauling Customers during day and kids at night and weekend. And, it was free. So, no complaints here.

 

[Sportsaholic]

Sorry I'm late, I was in a meeting.....I like Mini Vans, guess I'm a pussy......:0008

 

[JOSHNAUDI]

 

[hedgehog]

Here we go again. I think we are currently between steps 2 and 3

Hedge makes inane comments making himself appear small and dumb
Hedge is mocked for said comments
Hedge affirms his original position and makes offensive comments
Hedge is overrun by criticism and quits the board
Hedge returns stating he is not the bad guy his critics make him out to be and vows to clean up his act
Hedge is accused of being full of $hit
Hedge asks that critics of his views ignore him
Hedge makes inane comments making himself appear small and dumb

I stand by my original comment...Did you read the article? :shrug:

Every man who drives a mini-van is someone who went from swinging bachelor to family man. Every man who drives a mini-van had it forced on him by his wife, who probably demanded that they get one "for the kids" and who revels in the "soccer mom" mentality - even if it is extremely unlikely that she'll ever have to cart eleven other kids around. And every guy who drives one, no matter how diligent he is with maintaining the aura of "cool", tells the entire world that he's a henpecked family guy who probably hasn't had a blow job since college.

 

[The Joker]

I stand by my original comment...Did you read the article? :shrug:

Every man who drives a mini-van is someone who went from swinging bachelor to family man. Every man who drives a mini-van had it forced on him by his wife, who probably demanded that they get one "for the kids" and who revels in the "soccer mom" mentality - even if it is extremely unlikely that she'll ever have to cart eleven other kids around. And every guy who drives one, no matter how diligent he is with maintaining the aura of "cool", tells the entire world that he's a henpecked family guy who probably hasn't had a blow job since college.

So what you're saying is.......

You went from swinging bachelor man - to a man that had kids - ignored his kids - stayed a "swinging bachelor man" - your kids have been "fatherless" their entire lives.......

Well, I suppose my question is......are you insulting guys that drive minivans, but in the process pointing out how shitty of a father you are to your kids?



Oooooookay.



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