https://twitter.com/twjpdx23/status/1569795584936275968
christ, what a fucking abomination
Larger vehicles pressure other consumers into buying larger vehicles so they don't become invisible on the road. :stonks-up:
If a state government actually tried to ban these monstersized trucks, what would actually happen? The American state has significant capacity for violence, but it never uses it in service for anything good, so I imagine that this would just lead to some strongly worded letters from some far away authority, which every car dealership would just ignore.
DC is trying to make them more expensive to register:
https://jalopnik.com/washington-d-c-wants-to-charge-residents-more-to-regi-1848982897
Why the ever loving fuck would you drive those monstrocities in DC? Isn't DC chronically congested and filled with all manners of demonic cars? Also, DC is build on a swamp, and the closest thing to manual labour is probably somewhere south of the Raytheon areas of NOVA, so why would you even have those things :whywhywhywhywhy:
Actually I've changed my mind, I want more of those trucks in DC, and specifically I want to see Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi both attempt to drive one of them as a show of "everyday-human-behaviour" that those ghouls do for every election. And then i want to see them both try to step out of the car and laugh as every bone in their body simultanously splinters from the impact of them falling.
Was doing some work for the courthouse of a rural county in my state and half the sheriffs vehicles were lifted trucks. We were super confused because when the fuck are the police ever gonna use the truck bed?
if the whole mini-strugglesession (it was pretty bloodless) over sticking lentil beans into the valve stems of these lifted truck monstrosities and not SUV's I'd actually be 100% onboard. (Yes I know the article was talking about Euro-land and yes I know over there SUV's are basically the lifted truck equivalents in your social fascist countries. I'm just late to the party over assuming it's all talking about Burgerica and y'all wanted to run crazy through literally all the neighborhoods, both rich and poor, of the land ruining the lives of probably millions of people and getting mad about it)
Anyways why the fuck do people drive these things.
They drive them usually cuz they are small guys that also are pretty homophobic. I have a friend that commented about us looking pretty gay in my wife's Honda fit, he thought people world be saying that and was worried that some one he knew would see us. also says that a bidet is weird. My guess is his the type that doesn't even touch his anus when washing. Cuz that's gay His also a diesel guy.
They have them cuz they are literally compensating. Diesels suck for off roading. The engine weighs any where from 700-1100lbs more than the standard gas v8 that hd come with, that makes them bouncy afv when offroading. These lifted ones It's all aesthetics. It's all a bunch of homophobic bros in very fancy lad type of trucks. There's no function it's all form. It's too project an image. Stock ones do work. And why are they so big? Cuz a truck that was designed to tow 15-25k pounds and haul 4k lbs is going to be big no matter what. It has to be to handle the weight it was designed to handle. They don't have to be so lifted though. That is purely a design aspect that manufacturers are chasing cuz a chunk of the customer base just wants big truck to look big and manly.
In fairness: Bidets are kinda weird when you think about it.
It's like a water gun specifically for your asshole.
The only thing weird about bidets is how gross I feel after using the restroom at work now that I've started using one at home.
I don't know if there is an emoji for envy, but I'm feeling it
Yeah best way to put it continues to be "If you got some shit on your hand, would you wash it off with soap and water or (mostly) wipe it off on a sheet of paper and go about your day"
It absolutely is
But to be fair, so is the paper that we make to disintegrate just right for absorbing and abrating fresh poop on skin, while treating the skin itself as gently as possible. It's a little like a poop eraser
They are far less weird than the dish rinse faucet that many south east Asians use as a bidet.
cuz they are small guys that also are pretty homophobic.
what, tall guys can’t be homophobic? I love how short guys are presented as this conservative class of people that hate women for not fucking them and tall guys are virtuous good leftists. The guy in the image crossing the street is a small guy and not the owner of this car but you all want to label him the enemy either way.
I do think it's kinda fucked up that it's now bad taste to make fun of almost every physical characteristic except a man for being short.
Solidarity with my comrades of all heights.
never mind the material disadvantages that come with being short such as lower wages and fewer opportunities, we have to also have to attribute homophobia, misogyny, and bigotry to them.
Especially because, if Reddit is anything to go by, being short is a pretty major insecurity for a trait you have no control over.
Sitting in a hot tubDriving to my office job 6 feetapartoff the ground 'cause I'm not gay.
It's an arms race where the larger vehicles have right of way over smaller vehicles so the pressure is to get larger vehicles to not get crushed. Also there's overcompensation and other insecurity issues. :frothingfash:
Absolutely, I can't see shit over a truck at an intersection when I'm in a sedan. Everyone behind me is going to just have to wait. It isn't my fault this guy pulled all the way out into the crosswalk.
The short answer: It's compensating for something, they are trying to buy their way into being a cowboy movie villain in hopes of looking like macho tough guys.
They are literally the coldsteel bio. "Likes: Hurtin' people, Bein' badass..."
I agree. In the US the focus should be the on deflating these. There's literally plenty of them in my area
I've said it before on here, but how are you supposed to load whatever presumably heavy thing into the bed of these things when it's at fucking eye level without slipping a disk? Isn't that the purpose of the rear half of the vehicle?
how are you supposed to load whatever presumably heavy thing into the bed of these things
You're not. That's the point. They're intentionally unusable for anything other than taking up space or committing vehicular manslaughter.
I've never seen a farm or construction company use a lifted truck. They're all for cruising around the suburbs.
The fashion comes from the motorhobby mudding, far as I can tell. Most of them don't actually go mudding - it might mess with their underglow or obscure their Insta@ decal - but that activity is the sole use I'm aware of for a lifted truck.
Why the fuck is it so big?
I'd need to use a ladder to get in that thing.
Don't they usually have a drop-down ledge when you unlock it? I've seen at least one giga-truck with that feature
Makes sense, but if that bloke in the photo is 5'7" then that door handle would be above my head.
Just put a Tesla autopilot in the cab and everything will be fine.
I came face to face with one of these (GMC Denali actually) on my bike yesterday. One of those situations where you're in the cross walk and the right turn lane on the far side is empty but someone pulls in over the sidewalk just as you reach it.
They stopped in time to not hit me.
Fuckers in the bigass trucks never seem to be able to drive them nor park them neither.
