> turn off the air conditioning

Yeah, in smaller cars it feels like you're doubling the horse power! Last summer in Halkidiki* I was trying to find this little monastery on a hill in the middle of nowhere, dirt trails and all, in a little Hyundai. The first day we were four adults and a kid, and we couldn't find it, but we did get over a pretty steep uphill with some proper clutch work. The next day we tried again with three adults and a kid (my dad refused to come along that time), but when we got to the strong uphill part the car refused to go. Thinking "this can't be right", I tried a hunch and turned off the AC, and there it went! It turned out we had the AC off the previous time. There really is something pretty sick about AC, if you ask me - at least in a car.

* After the Thessaloniki conference, which is happening again next year, and I recommend both the conference and the tourism there very highly.

hhp

Tiffany, men and women are good at different things. There's nothing wrong with accepting that, as long as you don't use it unfairly. Generally, it's good to know the truth.

And the difference isn't just anecdotal: the "wiring" between the brain's two hemispheres is different in men and women. I don't pretend to know what that implies (and I think few scientists have even tried to get any grasp of it either, yet - maybe due to the social phobia that Vincent described elsewhere), except for this simple and safe conclusion: there is a difference. And by god does that make me happy - homogeneity is death.

I honestly don't know about driving (I think it's mostly a cultural thing - like there are only two female tow truck drivers in the entire state of California, and such a low proportion can't be due [mostly] to physiology), but for example women do make better astronauts, apparently. Sadly, such distinctions are often ignored by people in power who are psychologically weak:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3042836.stm

Don't shoot for "as good as" - relish the diversity, and conquer your own glorious mountains.

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You know what's really funny? Much faster that the "mother" thread (pardon the pun), this thread went from being about cars to being about women...

hhp

yeh Tiff always tickles me.. she cracks me up.. oh don't you miss those Robbie Williams Pepsi lites? the comment about drivers is universal in London. they are all old new drivers and they suck both men and woman. >;)

don't they sell Pepsi Max in the US? I just drove the American car up to RAF Lakenheath to play baseball and on the base they had Sprite, Cheetos and RootBeer... in 12oz cans.. wicked...

Robbie Williams had a concert in Knebworth and it was on TV. Unfortunately Kylie didn't sing with him.

Robbie did have some fit dancing girls for the boys, as he said. I think the men there were all dragged there since it was full of singing girls.. my friend from Manchester went.. she's a screaming girl too.