I feel the same way. But TBF I live in a country that voted for brexit. Essentially voted for sanctions against ourselves FFS, even though it should clearly have seemed like a horrible idea to everyone at the time. It’s not the same as electing an actual fascist but I’m just saying that Americans aren’t the only electorate that makes terrible decisions based on ignorance, xenophobia and misinformation.

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Lol mate look I’m thinking you gotta go Hilux or transit. Yeah you can’t get everywhere on a transit especially if it’s muddy, but you can have a workshop in there. Like I say, throw some solar panels on the roof, a decent battery, inverter, you can have 2k of 240v easily. Also when it’s raining you can sit in it all have a cuppa. I know they are fuckin bland vehicles, but it is what you make it. 4wd transit might make you feel better about it? But I’ve only ever seen a couple

It should probably go to furry coders.

Yeah I know what your saying, I’m thinking the last decent pickup truck was a Hilux around twenty years ago. I’ve never had one but I’ve had mates who did and who really reckoned em. I’ve driven one on a farm I worked on, it was old and not road legal but it was an amazing farm motor. But yeah, the new ones are too wide imo. Like you, I fuckin hate it when I’m trying to get back from work and it’s school run, all the parents picking up their kids in pristine, huge trucks that they don’t even know how to drive!

But yeah, if you just want functionality I’d say grit your teeth and get a transit. An swb transit will get anywhere in a city, plus you can put a workshop in back. You might wanna tail lift being a mason, I dunno. But lithium leisure batteries are getting crazy cheap at the mo, put a 500w solar panel on roof and regulator charging lithium battery and you’ll run a 2kw inverter no prob. You’d prob get all the bits for under £500 and then it’s just a bit of wiring. I have a similar setup myself, except I live in it

Yeah that sounds like a pretty decent solution. I know someone who did something similar to a Volvo estate. Bit crazy though that we’ve got to modify old vehicles to get a suitable work motor - seems like a gap in the market. VW made some sensible size pickups back in the 80s - but like the jumbuck they are old now. I hate to say it, but you might do better with a transit or sprinter. It’s enclosed space but you’ve got room for tools n stuff.

Yeah, el Caminos look proper cool. TBH I thought my jumbuck looked pretty cool too. And it was really useful, at the time I was hauling a lot of wood and it drove just fine with a heavy load. I think it was maybe a 1.2 petrol engine iirc. They are pretty cheap if you can find them, I sold mine with 6 months MOT for about £500 . But yeah, parts are tricky, which isn’t great with a work vehicle

I used to have a proton jumbuck, really useful little pickup. But they’re hard to find in the UK and getting parts can be tricky.

I used to have a proton jumbuck, it was a really handy pickup and the same size as a regular car. But it’s hard to find parts for em in the UK. It’s a shame there aren’t many sensibly-sized pickups.

But yeah, I kind of think most people who have massive ones that only get used for school run and supermarket are knobs.

I know it’s not cool to take the piss out of someone’s appearance - but the fucker really does look like some of his ancestors were potatoes.

You know it was the French revolution that popularised the guillotine as a means of dealing with wealthy elites?

But yeah I don’t see how Tesla is going to ever repair the damage to their image, unless they can kick musk out and that doesn’t seem likely.

Yeah, fascism seems to be flourishing all over. I’ve never got the impression that France was any worse than anywhere else though.

Yeah, I mean who is their market now? Anyone who isn’t a nazi or ignorant isn’t going to want to be seen driving one. And I get the impression that right wing folks are more into fossil fuels.

Yeah I migrated when they did the API thing. It’s quieter here, but I kinda prefer it. Welcome mate

I had one a few days ago for the first time in many years, it wasn’t as good as I had remembered.

Lol he may not actually know he’s sharing these with everyone. I’m which case he’s in for a disconcerting moment when he realises.

TBF many people are more intimidated by emails. My mum, for example, is in her 70s - she’s okay with using a smartphone but she doesn’t trust ‘internet stuff’. Won’t put her card details in, doesn’t trust emails - which is fair, because a lot of emails are bullshit or scams. She grew up with telephones though and feels safer using them. Possibly why so many phone scams target older people. I’ve tried to educate her.

This attitude doesn’t make people dumb. A bit ignorant, maybe, but I feel like ‘dumb as shit’ is a bit harsh.

Yeah that’s a fair point. Thing is, I don’t know what to do about this shit (Gestures to world). I used to get involved in a lot of direct action when I was younger but I’m a bit old for that now. And I can’t really say that all the times I got battered by the police, arrested on airbases, shit like that - I’m not sure I made any difference at all. Some of those actions made headlines but those were mostly negative. And I know people say “Vote!” - but I do, and that doesn’t seem to help either.

So yeah, sometimes I just don’t use the stove for a while. I just feel a bit fuckin defeated.

Sometimes when it gets overwhelming I don’t do any news or social media at all for a few weeks. It seems to help my mental health, particularly when every bit of news suggests that everything is going to shit.

I had smack and crack habits off and on for almost twenty years. Never stole anything (aside from occasionally shoplifted food). I always worked and paid for my shit. However there are an awful lot of people out there who use their habits to justify shitty behaviour, so yeah, I’d err on the side of caution.