Anyone with a truck carrying giant flags. If you are in the US, you know what I mean.
They’re in Canada, too.
Not one of our best exports
We breed our own here, too, unfortunately
Are they flying Canadian flags, or American?
Canadian
I’m conflicted by this because the other day, I saw one of these with LGBTQ+ flags and not the typical American, Mexican, Rattlesnake or Trump 2024 flags.
Still, it was on a giant truck clearly not for working on a farm or hauling anything but ass and those giant flags are obnoxious no matter what they are signalling.
Doesn’t help the 1.5C that’s for sure.
Anyone with a truck that doesn’t own a farm or is a contractor.
I guess no one else need to haul shit, huh.
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Lifted trucks. My assurance goes up 10x if they have rims and tires meant for the road.
My friend and I bought trucks around the same time. Mine is a simple tradesman Ram, no bells and whistles, primarily for moving and hauling stuff that can’t fit in my wife’s sedan.
I’m a pretty passive driver. Live and let live, y’know?
My friend had a similar personality when he first got his Tundra (of course with all the extras he can afford). Then he goes and spends $10,000 on a lift, winch, and floodlights. Now he’s like a different person. He drives super aggressively, whipping round corners, weaving through traffic going 20mph over on the highway. He was driving me through some quiet neighborhood the other day and nearly mowed over a cyclist. I asked him what the hell he was doing and he shrugged and said “if she’s gonna ride a bike in the street, she’s gotta look out for trucks. Not my fault if she doesn’t see me”
TL;DR - truck drivers are fine, a truck is a tool like any other vehicle. Lifting your truck turns you into a redneck scumbag overnight though apparently.
I always assume they will tailgate me, and so far, I’ve never been wrong.
Only exception is the older Rangers S10s etc that weren’t insanely large. Anything Dodge in my experience is guaranteed.
Lifted Dodge Ram. They are more likely to be drunk too.
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Dodge and Ram are two different brands and product lines. Rams are the trucks, and Dodge makes muscle vehicles.
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Um, ackshually… I know, it’s pedantic 😩
I also assume they are absolutely God awful drivers.
agreed
Lifted truck rolling coal is 100% an asshole.
(EU) SUVs. Are you insecure and too stupid to drive? GET A CAR 20% larger in every dimension so you can piss off the whole world with your incompetence.
Totally true, I always thought that would be the case but there really are studies that confirm this.
Where I live an SUV is a must or everybody will bully you in the road. Public transportation drivers are just bad people here.
Or do you have a genuine reason that makes them advantageous?
I have an SUV because:
- my mother in law has mobility issues and struggles to get in/out of a saloon.
- my wife has neck issues and the higher driving position is better for her
- I like it (ok, that could make me an arsehole)
Truth is that mine (BMW X1) is at most 5cm bigger in any dimension, if at all, than the car on which it is based (Mini Cooper). The extra size is an optical illusion.
Well then just block all roads and murder people while you are at it. A ok.
Did you read my post?
Would it be correct to sum up your post as: my family is so handicapped they can only drives SUVs, i am an asshole and need to talk about my COMPACT SUV because people in my life do not talk about it enough?
That’s similar to why I hav an SUV. My dad has mobility issues and has a scooter to help him get around. The SUV is higher off the ground making it easier to get in and out while the larger cargo space can hold the scooter and anything else (groceries, luggage, etc).
Also - the mass and form of an SUV makes them a good option in terms of safety. Smaller vehicles get crunched like pop cans, and trucks get sandwiched by their own bed if you hit a solid object.
Making yourself safer by making everyone else less safe still seems like an asshole move to me?
Bumper height should have been regulated on city roads, then we wouldn’t have gotten this escalation. Work truck, sure. If you need one, you need one. But people who drive a massive gas guzzler to park it at the office and go up the elevator to work?
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Sure, but not caring that you are the problem makes you an asshole, right? That was the original question. So the point stands.
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Yeah time to buy a rifle and shoot you in the head because it makes everyone that is not an asshole and you safer…ever considered that?
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“I do not care if it makes other less safe”
So after you have stated that you are literally an anti social sociopath you ask how permanently removing you from societly would be good for everyone else. Ok. I put this as blunt as possible so it is easy to understand, but obviously you need coloured pictures and a helper?
Not sure that makes any difference really. As I said, the actually difference between my (admittedly mini) SUV and its corresponding saloon/hatchback is a few cm at most. Also, they all meet the same safety standards.
The difference between a proper car (BMW, Renault, etc) and a crap one (Dacia, Hyundai, etc) will make more difference than whether it is an SUV or a saloon. In either case, if the car was is newer than ~2000 it will be infinitely safer than what our parents shoved us into anyway.
Actually no. SUVs are great at murdering the drivers of other cars, they do not in fact protect you any better. Its just a big blow up dick for assholes.
NL here: Imported American trucks. You do not need a car that costs €5000/month in fuel alone that you cannot use practically in any way that a van, a regular car or even a bakfiets could do more cost-effectively. The only people who go through the effort to get such a vehicle are compensating for something, and a Dodge Ram in The Netherlands is only useful for dick measuring, and the most significant thing it’ll ever move is the owner’s fragile ego.
We look at those people the same in the US too tbf lol
At least the European car market still has regular cars. Turns out that if it’s cheaper and easier to build and sell trucks, car manufacturers will make only trucks. So too many Americans buy trucks and SUV’s, not because they want to, but because that’s the only thing they can buy.
So too many Americans buy trucks and SUV’s, not because they want to, but because that’s the only thing they can buy.
That is…insanely inaccurate lol. “I wanted to buy a car but I could only find trucks for sale” is not a thing in this country whatosever.
In NL they have a lot less legitimity, there are no mountains, no huge private farms, no vast plains with subpar roads.
Yeah, they don’t even fit in a regular parking space, it is ridiculous to drive one in the Netherlands
They don’t fit in parking spaces here either! I’m constantly saying that they should park in the back of the parking lot
Anything that makes VRROOOOOOM VROOOOOM noises when it doesn’t need to is almost certainly driven by an asshole.
Idiots on motorcycles who rev in neighborhoods and parking lots are some of the biggest assholes.
Yes the giant ‘mufflers’ were bad enough, lately I’m seeing & hearing poorly tuned expensive sports cars. Mass incompetence or intentional noise maker? These thing are backfiring like crazy.
Ram Trucks. according to research, these vehicles are the most likely to be driven, and wrecked, by a drunk driver. People who instinctively idolize an animal that solves it’s problems by smashing them with it’s face… probably not the best people to drive near.
Living in Australia where US trucks really don’t go on our roads well, I can attest to Ram drivers being the most dreadful drivers here. As we’ve come to call it, Emotional Support Vehicles.
It’s got nothing to do with any weird animal symbolism bro. Thing is, dodge will finance absolutely anybody. And dodge makes a fun vehicle until it breaks down.
do rams break down alot? because my father daily drove one for like 20 years without it breaking down
It’s like 50/50 lol. My brother has a 20+year old Ram, no problems. My Ram went tits up after 4 years. But my Charger ran like a champ until I sold it. If I’m ever in the situation where I can justify a fast car again, it will definitely be a another hemi. As far a trucks go tho, I’m a die hard GM fan these days.
Sadly I really like how the classics look and therefore want one.
But I don’t drink, at all. And I definitely don’t idolize rams. That’s a pretty funny generalization to make though.
Among Truck drivers, Rams are usually the objectively worst vehicle for doing trucking activities on a per yearly model basis. So it kinda makes sense the dumbest people with trucks aren’t the ones who know anything about truck capabilities either.
Anything with truck nuts attached
Hold up. Truck nuts on a Prius or PT Cruiser is fucking hilarious
I once saw them on a stroller.
And yes, truck nuts are objectively funny. Ironically on trucks when the driver is obviously compensating for something. And regular funny on everything else.
One of my friends has truck nuts on his 70’s moped, and it gets a laugh out of people wherever he goes.
Or hear me out… put truck nuts on a sport car
This is acceptable.
For giggles I kinda want to put them on my minivan.
For a minivan, hilarious.
Generally people who do that are of a particular political affiliation. They would feel emasculated when told they have made their truck Transgender as the truck was not made with balls.
As doing this shows just how small of a micro penis they have.
Oversized trucks and new BMWs. Every fucking time…
BMWs, all the time
Agreed… They will never let you in, never set their indicators… Nightmarish, ignorant drivers…
BMW. Eveytime. No blinker use either.
The BMW drivers have chilled out a little… It’s the audi driver these days that are complete tools.
This. Audi is the new BMW.
They have blinkers ?!?
Only if you pay for the subscription fees.
If you ever think you are doing a worthless job … think about the poor guy who installs the blinkers in a BMW factory.
They don’t pay the subscription fee.
That would be my first choice. Same experience.
huge trucks/ pickups
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Big ass lifted trucks with the double back wheels my god. I feel so embarrassed for them
They’re so hilarious. The dual rear wheels increase the weight capacity for hauling… Then they jack the truck up, reducing the weight capacity.
We have a truck with dual rear wheels and a flat bed. It lives in the yard and is only driven when we or a neighbor needs to move something big, as it should be.
Preach, I call them “birthing hip trucks” lol
Any truck but Dodge Ram in particular.
Ram trucks are the official vehicle of domestic abuse.
I play games online with a guy from Norway and he was telling me somebody from his town had an imported Dodge Ram.
And I said let me guess - he revs the engine at stop lights, spins out of every single parking lot, and roars through town like a maniac. “How did you know?” They all drive that way! I guess even in Norway they do. I think maybe they get a manual with the vehicle.
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The tesla autopilot feature drives like an asshole too. If I’m in the HOV lane with no one behind me and I see a Tesla coming up in the rear view, I know that’s it going to come bombing up behind me at 90 MPH and not slow down until it’s like ten feet away. As someone who has been rear ended on the freeway like that, it makes my butthole pucker every time.
