From: finnegan@corsair.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Kenneth Finnegan)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: Are all Americans Stupid???
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:04:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr14.150409.12693
Reply-To: finnegan@navo.navy.mil
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In article <1992Apr14.140550.20408@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>, kerrat@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Adrian T Kerr) writes:
|> Well where do I start?

Step 1.  Learn how to read.

|> Perhaps the title is a bit abusive but from the articles I have read here and 
|> elsewhere I have not seen anything to suggest the average American has an IQ higher |> than your average chimp!

You must be an expert on chimpanzee IQ's.

|> Where are the statistics that say 55mph is the safest maximum speed a four wheeled vehicle can travel at? In Britain the maximum allowable speed on motorways is 70mph and this is woefully slow! In Germany there is a recommended speed limit of 80mph but if the conditions permit then it is lawful to travel at any speed your vihicle is capable of. In a recent article in a European motoring magazine a Lambourghini Diamblo was driven legally at 204mph on a German autobhan.To be honest I don't need to be a

What are you ranting about?  Our speed limit on most interstates is 65mph.  The
average speed that I have observed in my area is between 70-75 mph.  My personal
average on my daily commute is closer to 80mph.  You are obviously an ignorant,
outspoken idiot.

|>  drive at 200mph but it is reasonably safe then why not? A limit of 90mph however would seem a very acceptable limit for modern European cars ( not bloody automobiles as stupid Americans splutter on about ) capable of cruising at 100mph very safely ( I ha|> ve personal experience of this since on most journeys on British motorways I travel above 80mph in as much safety as the other road user's ).

Oooohhhh! 80mph?  See above.

|> Surely my sense of homour has momentarily disappeared but I am sure someone in one of the auto news groups was disscussing how to put her lipstick on whilst riding her motorbike! 

Get a life. And a new sense of humor.

|> Other articles relating to engine braking and such nonsense are plain ridiculous. If you remove your foot from the accelerator then believe it or not you will go slower!

Return to step number 1.  Learn how to read the articles instead of just the
headers.  Well, while you are at it, learn to read the headers as well.  The
discussion was not about whether the vehicle would slow down or not.  Believe 
it or not, we can figure things like that out for ourselves.

|> I would have continued this assualt on you national pride but I have to go for some coffee now.Keep up your good work it gives us a great laugh! 

I don't consider this an assault on national pride. I consider this a case of
an idiot gaining access to the Internet.

I won't recklessly generalize the British by assuming you are a fine example of
the educational system "over there".  I know better, because I've met many fine
British individuals at conferences here.  You would be considered a jerk in
any nationality.
   
Kenneth
finnegan@navo.navy.mil

BTW, if you were kidding, a single ;-) would have sufficed.  Even then, it
still would not have been very funny.