The thing I hate the most about my province (Quebec), the passion people have for pickup trucks. It’s a fucking obsession, and it’s a subject that cant even be discussed, the right of owning one of those is almost the first article of our constitution.
I don’t mind passion from a hobby perspective. Some people are passionate about sports, coding, radios, plants, stamps etc. It’s okay to be passionate about cars and trucks, just don’t daily drive these if you want people to respect you. Same with stanced cars.
The problem as I see it is that these modded ones are pushed as still being practical when they are really only big toys. Have you ever noticed that jacked up trucks rarely have caps or toolboxes on the beds? The extra height takes away the utility of the bed and loading/unloading anything is a pain in the ass. They pour all this money into making their truck less useful.
I’ve driven big F-250s for work. They have a time, a place and a purpose. And that is not as a daily driver for most people.
'Round here we call em pavement princess. Drive like they own the place, but never done a day’s work.
Very accurate
Ontarian here. I’ve been all over Canada, it’s everywhere.
Et je commence à voir beaucoup de “coal runner”, ou/et avec des pneus surdimensionné suspension élevé etc… Toutes des modifications illégale mais pourtant t’en vois partout. Sont-ils si riche qu’ils peuvent se payé des contraventions en continu où la police fait rien ?
J’en ai vu un sur le boulevard Pi-IX, le gars a “enfumé” une quunzaine de personnes qui attendaient l’autobus. Sérieux.
Moi aussi je me demandais comment autant de gens peuvent se payer des tanks de même, vu le prix, jusqu’à ce qu’un ami qui travaille en administration m’explique que la plupart des gens qui en ont font juste s’enregistrer une entreprise et le mette dessus. Même pas besoin de faire des vrais affaire avec ton entreprise, tu déclares des revenues négatifs et tu ramasses plein de crédits pour ton char. Bref, c’est nos impôts qui finance les gros chris de pickup du monde.
Have you been to Alberta? Lol it’s way worse
Driving through curvy roads in manitoba I was being passed like I was standing still by lifted trucks…way over driving their headlights
Ben câlisse, comment ma apporter mon épicerie à maison sans un char d’assault?
J’ai plus souvent rencontrer ça dans les régions. J’ai un pick-up mais par nécessité. (4 flos)
On en voit de plus en plus en ville. Les gens utilisent leur pickup pour aller à l’épicerie. Mon voisin travaille de chez lui sur un ordi et a un pickup.
This is why I drive a small pickup truck, I’m compensating for my quite large penis.
I’m so sorry to hear that 😢
Can you donate half of it for people in need? I’ll gladly take on that burden for you, my friend 🧔♀️
Yank tanks truly are the peakest of cringe. I’d be embarrassed to show up in one of those things
“Yank Tank” 😂
Still see plenty of those out in western Canada.
Seeing more and more in Australia as well. Way too big for our roads.
We seem to have been invaded by them in the last 2 years or so. I don’t see why regular utes and 4wds have been fine until now, but suddenly every tradesman needs one of these.
Fun Fact: it’s because of US CAFE standards imposed on auto makers. It’s not that people don’t want small and mid-sized trucks; it’s that it has been illegal to make them since 2012, the last year of the actual Ford Ranger.
Thanks Obama!
Hopefully the “rolling coal” thing at least didn’t come along with them?
I seen a comment that they were covered by the instant tax right-off and so their dealers were pushing them to business owners and tradies who were more than happy to buy
2-ton codpiecesoversized vehicles. Seems to check out from my experience with them.I’m a registered tax agent. This isn’t really true - but, it’s exactly what someone needing a 2-ton codpiece would say.
If you use a passenger vehicle exclusively for work / business, then you can claim depreciation on it’s total cost up to a maximum of ~$66k (last year… this limit is indexed each year).
Vehicles with a carrying capacity of > 1 tonne are not subject to this limit as they’re “commercial” vehicles rather than passenger vehicles.
So if you had a $100k to spend on a new car, then a landcruiser wagon / SUV will be less tax effective than a RAM ute because you can’t claim a deduction for the entire cost of the ute.
That said, no one actually chooses between those types of vehicles on the basis of the tax deduction available - you either want a ute or you don’t. The choice is always between a hilux size ute and a ram size ute. Additionally, I don’t have a list but I’ve heard tell that very few of the bigger utes actually have a carrying capacity of > 1 tonne once you subtract the potential weight of passengers.
so that’s where all jan-sixers went
I shit you not… I saw a cooker waving a Trump 2020 flag last week.
there is one guy in town with a big “Miss me yet” tRump flag mounted on the porch next to an american flag. Only one I’ve seen around here. Probably his mom’s house. drive by it about every day. that’s dedication or something. has a big red truck too. I am so tempted to steal it but won’t risk getting shot. maniacs. I just flip the bird like a good citizen and follow court proceedings.
They’re popular in Mexico as well. Ultimately they’re a US creation though.
they were a thing when I lived in Texas in the late 70s. A guy I worked with had a big yellow Ford with 5’ high tires. Everyone had pickups. I had a Datsun pickup with DOHC sounded like it would blow up at 60 but smoothed out again at 70. commutes were wild
They are an undeniably infectious disease.
Eastern Onterrible too
But mah freedumb #rigpiglets
You are just mad u cant afford it on your measly europoor salary. Americans stay winning.
You’re going in my cringe compilation
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I really hope you used AI to generate that text, because god damn what a waste of time otherwise.
Didn’t read regardless
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After seeing this bullshit, I have an offtopic question: can you block accounts on Lemmy? Pretty sure I never want to read any other line of this guy in my life.
Found that function in about 0.75s. Click the username. Now click “Block User” which is on the top line.
I think you mean “Americans stay in debt”. Most of the idiots you see driving these trucks are paying half their paycheck for what is essentially a billboard advertising their small penis.
The only people impressed by your truck are children. Everyone else can tell that you are trying to compensate for your ‘inadequacies’
We are all laughing at you behind your back.
My penis is too long, so I am not allowed to own such a car.
My car is half as big and still has the same cargo space actually.
Is this a trick question?
The obvious choice is the truck. Take the truck and sell it. And then buy a bike, car and down payment on a house.
Pfff that car ain’t even street legal in my country.
Some dude drives on of those where i live. I’ve never seen it move, it’s always parked on the same spot where it doesn’t fit. Completely with aouthern state flag and stickers that say that only gay cops pull him over and how every car that is not a v8 is for girls. I’d be so embarrassed to drive that thing.
So by his logic a Lamborghini Aventador is for girls.
And a dodge challenger, Chevy Camaro, all of the Nissan Z series and all of the skyline series, the delorean dmc-12, most mustangs, Acura nsx, Subaru wrx sti, the list is literally hundreds of cars long.
All of these cars are definitely too much car for that dude I can guarantee it.
Welcome to America, where everyone hates everyone
How could you say that? I hate you for it. (/s)
too bad the truck doesn’t have nuts
No more cars!!
I wonder which one they’re referring to?
/c/ThatsTheJoke
Both
I keep finding you.
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Бездната ги повика душите на грешните и душите на невините. твојата дрскост ќе биде казнета со вечни маки, чии слични само богови ги доживеале.Tranalated this means The Abyss called forth the souls of the sinful and the souls of the innocent. your insolence will be punished with eternal torments, the likes of which only the gods have experienced.
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I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn’t prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He’s done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn’t have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He’ll never change. He’ll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn’t keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn’t be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer? What a sick joke! I should’ve stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!
Definitely not the correct place to ask, but does anyone know what brand or model ebike that is?
Gazelle AMI c7 HMS
A Dutch bike in my Murica?!?
Man, wish I could get an Omafiets without it being so expensive I’m afraid of it getting stolen
Get a good lock and bike insurance?
Easy Choice
Ain’t that the truth. I’m constantly fighting this fight in my own city where we only get bike gutters, not even lanes. Complain complain complain from the people who claim they care about the neighborhood.
My car is closer in size to the bicycle than the truck.
Also, most of these trucks around here have an orange triangle at the back and are driven by teenagers.
I kind of am an elitist though
Well I’m 30 and I have 3, I’m really happy for everyone that doesn’t need and therefore just dont own cars, must be enormous savings per month on top of the lesser impact on the climate.
Edit: Aaaand there comes the car hate- ya’ll are talking about not imposing shit upon others, yet here you are judging me and my wife for not making it by without cars because of specific circumstances 🤷♂️ aight hypocrites.
As long as you dont drive a deathmachine through a populated city, nonconsentually transfering risk from yourself onto others, nobody ought care my friend. We all need farmers and miners and whatnot. Y’all could drive a turbo boosted afterburning steamroller with JATO assist as an emergency break for all we care, as long as its not harming others.
Most of the buddies I have who are both bike commuters and motorheads have their fun at the track or on the mountain roads. I’d take a 3000$ beat up Miata over these land yachts any day. I don’t understand the kind of people who roll coal to the whole foods parking lot in their spotless F690-compensator-edition. It seems as antisocial as it is unfun.
But thats my personal frustration you see. I can’t drive fun cars like that anymore because selfish pricks have made the roads less safe for everyone other than themselves.
I also have 3, three lifted Dodge Rams.
And the point of this comment was what specifically?
