“If you’re talking about icy roads then you’re talking about just adding weight and momentum to a situation where stopping isn’t happening easily. Consistently best-rated winter drivers are almost always AWD sedans.”
“Some people have brought up snow and ice conditions, which, fuckin’ lol. First off if you’re regularly driving in snow deep enough to justify a pick-up and you don’t have a plow attached to the front then you 1) work on a farm or for the Forest Service or 2) are a fucking moron”
“Your personal experience isn’t the same as sales figures and consumer surveys. If you think it’s great that a bunch of middle managers are out there buying four tons of steel with the acceleration of a 1990s Ferrari to pick up their kids from school, then whatever.”
“MYSTERY and MUTE both come from the same root—‘myein’, a Greek verb meaning to shut.
In the case of MUTE, the sense is of the mouth being kept shut.
In the case of MYSTERY, it’s the eyes—as the original mysteries were secret rites only ever seen by a handful of initiates.”