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The study made some strong remarks about the kind of people who would modify their car's exhaust. If psychopathy and sadism aren't bad enough, apparently loud truck owners would do even worse.

  • A professor in Ontario, Canada, has released results of a study of people's attitudes toward loud vehicles.
  • Having asked undergraduate business students whether they think such vehicles are "cool," the result, not totally surprisingly, was that many of them do.
  • Respondents also scored high on the "psychopathy and sadism" scale, but the study was only for cars. Truck and motorcycle owners, the study suggests, might score even worse.

A new study by Western University in Ontario says that if you've got a car with a modified exhaust system, odds are you're a guy and probably also psychotic and sadistic. Slapping a Cherry Bomb glasspack on your Monte Carlo doesn't (necessarily) mean you're a Ted Bundy–level psycho, but the data someone points to a personality that enjoys inflicting unpleasantness on others. The study—catchily titled, "A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism"—was commissioned by professor Julie Aitken Schermer, who heard many a loud car in London, Ontario, and wondered what kind of person would want their car exhaust to be louder than normal. She probably could have saved a lot of time by simply looking up Cadillac Escalade-V registrations. ...

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

And importantly, it shows that you are not phased by the discomfort you are inflicting on others

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (3 children)

In my experience most of them enjoy discomforting and upsetting others. It gives them some kind of ego high.

[–] ICastFist 36 points 5 months ago

"I annoy, therefore I exist" - Annoying assholes

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Where I work, I have to talk to customers through a window using a mic/speaker, and I have a customer who has like 50 "too loud? too bad!" stickers plastered all over his car, and he used to constantly show up blaring music at absurd volumes.

He'd walk up to my window and I couldn't hear a damn word he said, and when I told him I couldn't hear him he couldn't fucking hear me either. It took several visits before he learned to turn his music down before coming to my window. He's the dumbest customer I've ever had, I stg.

There were also a couple times where a customer actually opened his door and turned his music off themselves so that they could tell me what they wanted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Real life trolls then? Makes sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Yep, next do the people that listen to music on the train without headphones.