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To: elmatador who wrote (109558)	1/8/2015 12:12:44 AM
From: carranza2	1 Recommendation Recommended By 3bar Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219927

I've had the pleasure of owning a couple of extraordinary German vehicles, one of which I remember fondly as probably the best I've ever owned. I'm talking about a 1972 BMW 2002, which was fun, fun, fun to drive. I had no money then and limited mechanical skills, but the mechanical systems were very easy to work on, so I did a lot of the repair work myself despite my limited skills. Since necessity is the mother of invention, I simply learned what I had to learn. In fact, most of the cars I've owned have been very good. I have very few complaints. All of my cars save for the very first one have been either German, Japanese, or Swedish. Two of each. I drove someone else's Alfa Romeo 164 back in the day, and it was a lot of fun to drive, too. But it spent a lot of time at the shop. Glad I didn't own it. Funny, I remember the car but not the name of the girl who owned it. There is a lot of randomness involved in vehicle selection. One might buy a car with great reviews and reputation, only to learn that it's a rare lemon. The experience will indelibly color one's opinion about the brand. The point is that there is some truth in cliches and stereotyping otherwise they wouldn't exist. The difficulty lies in keeping an open mind when dealing with specifics. In other words, one should never conflate the macro with the micro, and vice versa. And certainly be able to know the difference.

To: elmatador who wrote (109558)	1/8/2015 1:27:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By Follies Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219927

ElM, you are obviously mathematically illiterate. <This is just stereotypes> You can find examples of women who are more like men and men who are more like women too, but that doesn't mean that women and men are more or less the same as you claim any more than the average German is the same as the average English, Italian, Swiss and Italian. Do you know about normal distribution curves? Of course there are examples of amazing English chefs, charming German police, hopeless Italian lovers, unpleasant Swiss. That doesn't make the averages untrue. Finding an exception doesn't mean the generalisation is false. These didn't happen. You should read news reports more carefully. <shooting boys with their hands up nor shocking a man in the pavement to death while he cried: "I can't breath!"> You are a racist and are making stuff up about we wonderful Anglophones to denigrate them in prejudicial discrimination. Mqurice