02-13-2009, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At the Gates of Hell
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Baby Got Back?
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02-13-2009, 12:08 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Calgary
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maybe its to balance the car equally, you know how much and engine ways? Does it maybe help with traction in the winter time?
sorry for the 3 posts to say 3 different things
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02-13-2009, 12:35 PM
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#23
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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I always thought it was a status thing with some Japanese / Asian cultures. The back seat is considered more prestigious.
Maybe they pretend they have a chauffeur?
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02-13-2009, 12:36 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss
Does it maybe help with traction in the winter time?
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Only if she is a poster girl on the 2009 Krispy Kreme Calendar.
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Reason: Added linky
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02-13-2009, 12:37 PM
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Norm!
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Maybe they look at their wife and feel shame.
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02-13-2009, 12:38 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Its an asian thing. I find it pretty sad that the male children have precidence over their mother. Welcome to Canada, stop treating your wives as second class citizens.
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02-13-2009, 12:54 PM
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ALL ABOARD!
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I've seen it happen with babies in the back and no babies.
It probably does have something to do with what Daradon wrote.
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02-13-2009, 01:00 PM
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Voted for Kodos
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My wife rides in back for longer trips in order to tend to our daughter easier. On most trips around the city, she's in the front with me.
Some cultures have the women in the back as an extention of the "ealk a couple of steps behind" practice. I don't know for sure, but I think this practice has more to do with them trying to be modest (in their definition of the word) then them implying status or importance.
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02-13-2009, 01:09 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by CGYTransplant
But...you get carsick because your eyes and your balance centre (inner ear) are giving you conflicting information on your spatial location and how you're moving, and your brain can't figure it out. The better the view of the horizon, the easier it becomes for your brain to sort through the information, and the less carsick you get.
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For some reason I thought it was the other way round this entire time.
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02-13-2009, 01:13 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: in transit
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironhorse
I always thought it was a status thing with some Japanese / Asian cultures. The back seat is considered more prestigious.
Maybe they pretend they have a chauffeur?
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I believe it is a cultural/status thing, but opposite from what you suggested.
More like, "No, woman. Get your ass in the back seat."
See it a lot in Vancouver, that's for sure.
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02-13-2009, 02:47 PM
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#31
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
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I hate you for posting that, even with the warning the lure was just too much
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02-13-2009, 04:48 PM
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#32
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hell
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cuz they just don't stop talking!
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02-13-2009, 06:59 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Jose, CA
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I lived at the International House when I went to San Jose State University a few years ago and ended up being good friends with someone from another country. Anyways, neither one of us had a car, but his roommate did, so the 3 of us would go places together sometimes. Well, one time, I remember trying to sit in the front and calling "shotgun" and his response was "In my country, if you are a woman, you only sit in the front seat if you are the wife or a prostitute". I thought he was joking, but then I realized he was serious and yup that's what they do in his country. His roommate (an American) and I thought that was pretty crazy.....
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02-13-2009, 07:07 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: CP House of Ill Repute
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They're in the backseat because the guy probably has his golf clubs in the trunk.
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