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I have lately been pretty convinced that 70% of pickup drivers don't actually need a truck but instead use it to compensate their insecurity about their small dicks and their fragile masculinity.
I can't wait til we as a society get over shaming small dicks. I don't have a dick but it's cringy to me when people use "small dick" as an insult like this.
For me it's not so much trying to insult them for having a small dick, but insulting them for caring so much about having a small dick they feel the need to compensate.
Doesn't matter that their dick is small, just that they're so insecure about it they need to try and tell the world it's not true.
Well, you're not exactly contributing to a world where that insecurity is eliminated. And besides, you'll never win an emotional debate with rational arguments.
It's very weird that you care so much about the size of other men's penis. It's equally weird that you care what someone else drives.
Are we at a point in society where we can no longer do anything as long as some internet keyboard warrior doesn't think we should?
Two male apes park next to each other:
"You don't fit into the sociocultural group I'm a part of, AKA THE BEST GROUP, because you are not sending the right social signals! Therefore YOU ARE NOT A VERILE MATE FOR THE HOMINID FEMALES!"
"NO! CLEARLY IT IS YOU WHO WILL NOT SEED THE NEXT GENERATION OF OFFSPRING! Based on all the information I've gotten about appropriate social signals for my gender, age, ethnicity, cult, location and socioeconomic status, I am displaying the appropriate signals! So I shall point at you and say WEIRD!"
It's not about actual small dicks, it's just a symbol for insecure men
Well, I kind of agree with you, but also what I intended to say is that I think most pick up drivers don't feel masculine enough, whether it's due to a small dick or something else making them feel like they aren't "real men", so they compensate their insecurity by driving unnecessarily large cars.
Yeah, I maybe should have left the dick part out. A man can have a small penis and still not be insecure, and a man with a huge one can still be insecure about their masculinity and try to fix that insecurity with a stupid truck.
We'll get over it when egos and genetalia lose any correlation.
Not that soon, I'm afraid.
Absolutely. All you have to ask is why they need to own a truck and they instantly get overly defensive. I'm not saying there aren't cases where you need to own truck but the vast majority of cases people bring up don't even require a truck much less owning one.
Let's just get inspired by oats jenkins and his idea for redoing the traffic system and add a truck license, and you'll have to renew it every six months, just so they don't keep it forever
The license would be given to people that have genuine need for a vehicle like this, and don't have access to one (so if your job gives you a truck you can have it, it would have the job license on it, but then you cannot have your own license)
Otherwise they would just tell you to go fuck yourself because you don't need a truck like this
I live in Europe where trucks are fairly rare but you still see large SUVs, 4x4s and vans around. My own feeling is that certain classes of vehicles should be considered commercial for the purposes of insurance, taxation, VAT, inspection, tolls, permitted usage and everything else. The legislation already exists for commercial vehicles so extend it to these kind of vehicles.
So is someone must have a stupidly oversized vehicle purely for personal reasons they can enjoy all the bullshit and restrictions that goes with it. Doesn't stop them complying but making it more onerous to do it will take demand for these vehicles off the market entirely.
I agree, I think we could even go further and make vehicles of a certain size use cargo lanes on the highway.
My wife is European and lives in the US and she thinks the fact that giant SUVs and trucks can have such a vast size differential to compact cars, so that she is eye-level with their bumper, and that both use the same license and same lanes, is incredibly dangerous.
My wife insisted on getting an SUV for her car. It's a hybrid, but it's still an SUV. I really wish she hadn't gotten it. It's too big for me, I won't drive it. I can't tell her what to do with her money, but I didn't like that she got it.
But why?
She says she likes being higher off the ground and feels safer in a big car. I'm completely the opposite.
Someone I work with has never not owned a truck, mostly because "they don't need the hassle of renting one when they need to do yardwork and buy a fridge from the store" or something.
So spending an extra $20,000-$30,000 every 10 years is totally worth those occasional trips and avoiding renting a tailer/pickup from home Depot maybe twice a year.
The $1,400 it cost me to buy a 5x10 utility trailer was money well spent. It has easily paid for itself over the years. I sold my last pickup years ago. If I need to use the trailer, it takes 5 minutes to hook it up. Having space to store it and a legit need for it are key factors here as well.
Well at that price I'd argue it's pretty reasonable, comparable to a used Toyota.
The pick up trucks I see on sale are closer to 60-80k.
An extra $20-$30k, as in instead of a $30,000-$40,000 car or SUV they get a $60-$80k truck
Its a mystery how some of these people are broke af and how they would be more wealthy if they invested the cash in better stuff than blowing it all on impulsive purchases, lottery, and eating out.
You fools! They'll have to move some furniture 5 years from now then who'll be laughing!!!
The small business doing the hauling, because the truck owner won't risk scratching the bed of their lovely pickup.
Also, with large vehicles more generally, there's this awful snowball effect where people go "I get to sit up high and it's bigger, so I feel safer! Besides, when I'm in a regular car I feel like I'm going to get crushed like a beer can."
This of course ignores that:
Also it's an arms race. They feel safer because they're comparatively above smaller cars, but then when everyone is riding tall trucks that additional feeling of safety becomes moot as you no longer have the additional height/visibility over everyone else.
And conversely, the reason they feel less safe in smaller cars is because of the comparison to larger cars on the road. They aren't solving anything in a larger vehicle, they're just perpetuating onto others what gave them small-vehicle anxiety in the first place.
The whole concept is stupid, basically.
I have a truck to haul things. Trash, lumber, kayaks, bikes, and I've moved friends and family members at least 6 times. It's a 1995 and it spends most of its time parked though, it's not a daily driver. And I really dislike all the tall and massive trucks now. I want a bed that's actually low enough to be accessible.
I have one because I'm 6' 7" and I don't fit comfortably in much. One of my managers is super small, but drives a lifted Ram. I have yet to see him get into it but it must be funny to see.
That seems low.
Coworker straight up admits he feels safe in his truck, he feels like he gon die if he drives a smaller car
I don't even drive any vehicles. What's that supposed to mean?
Dong is infinite
Probably going to get hit.
Btdt on the bicycle.
I only need a truck to haul stuff a few times a month. But that's often enough.
Did you at least buy a smaller truck with the same bed size? or a van?
I drove smaller trucks for about 20 years. I actually just got a small cargo van (NV200), but still have my Colorado after the dealership offered me $100 in trade-in.
You can just say fragile masculinity without the body shaming
I have a pickup. My wife says she likes my penis size. I question your hypothesis. Today, I used it to haul fire wood and tow a broken down ATV. Yesterday, I brought kayaks up to my family cabin. It gets used. Pre-COVID, it was part of the first leg of my commute. I’m not going to have a separate vehicle just to drive to the train station. That’s absurd.
Lol not only do you have poor reading comprehension, you have also failed to get anyone to believe what you just said. If i may provide some advice, if someone say something on the Internet that doesn't apply to you you do not have to get offened by it. Have a nice day friend.
You:
Also you:
I don’t like trucker hate. Owning the most popular vehicle in the US doesn’t make people compensators. It makes them practical.
Hauling firewood and towing an ATV with your penis is quite impressive. I think it's more proper to call it the third leg of your commute, though.
People who need a pickup truck to haul their humungous penis are few and far between
I want a pickup truck because they are very aestetichally pleasing to me
People can down vote you, but they can't argue with this.
You must be the only pickup driver in existence that's figured out that all your pathetic justifications can be debated, but your opinion on what you want cannot be.
Sure it can. A large vehicle is more likely to kill someone outside of the car. So, by unnecessarily choosing to purchase a large vehicle, you are needlessly increasing the chance of killing someone else.
Not to mention the climate impacts.
To be clear, the fact that you want a pick up truck can’t be debated, but whether you should be allowed to purchase one and use it on a public roadway, solely because of your desire to have one- is another thing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tall-trucks-suvs-are-45-deadlier-us-pedestrians-study-shows-2023-11-14/
Yes I can. For the same reason I would argue against someone saying they want a faulty muffler because the sound is very aesthetically pleasing to them. Your sense of beauty doesn't come at the expense of everyone else.
I'm the same, i like the way my truck looks. Is it great these days? Nope it's an old 08 with a little rust, ok a lot but hush, i love it anyway. Do i need a truck 97% of the time? Nope but that 3% of the time i do its amazing. And those people i pull out of random ditches in the winter will appreciate it I'm sure.
My cousin has a pickup and I won't lie, it's very handy to have one truck you can use in the family. He's made ramps that fit his truck perfectly, makes loading and unloading furniture from it a breeze. He's added hooks for snatch blocks, I swear he can tie down literally anything. We wouldn't have that if we rented because the truck would be different every time. He's probably moving someone in the extended family once a month. Granted he owns his own contracting company so he uses it daily. That all said there is value in a few generous people having trucks around. Emphasis on the few, especially in urban areas.