You have got to be joking.UnkleRukus wrote:
There aren't as many of those "behemoths" as there are actual trucks that are a necessity.Dilbert_X wrote:
As for ethanol farming, the govt subsidising fuel production so dumbasses can drive everywhere in 10mpg behemoths is just as unethical.
Nope, of all the trucks I see on the road, maybe 1/15 are those "behemoths" you guys keep talking about. The rest are just people who have trucks and use them as intended, regularly.DrunkFace wrote:
You have got to be joking.UnkleRukus wrote:
There aren't as many of those "behemoths" as there are actual trucks that are a necessity.Dilbert_X wrote:
As for ethanol farming, the govt subsidising fuel production so dumbasses can drive everywhere in 10mpg behemoths is just as unethical.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
Yes, all those people commuting to desk jobs in F150s need 500hp to move their briefcase from their driveway to the car-park at work.
And then there are the behemoths which were never even intended as utility vehicles.
And then there are the behemoths which were never even intended as utility vehicles.
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Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
You've never lived in a place where it can dump 2 feet of snow 6 months out of the year have you.Dilbert_X wrote:
Yes, all those people commuting to desk jobs in F150s need 500hp to move their briefcase from their driveway to the car-park at work.
And then there are the behemoths which were never even intended as utility vehicles.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
All the same, you don't need a H2 to navigate a snow-covered road.
H2s are actually pretty shitty 4x4s. Most, if not all luxury SUVs are.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)
More of a pesticide/agriculture thing but its all part of the same cycle. Kinda creepy.
More of a pesticide/agriculture thing but its all part of the same cycle. Kinda creepy.
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If you're going to get a gas guzzling road legal monster truck. Get an H1.RTHKI wrote:
someone doesnt watch top gear
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
Wow guys, the world must look really small from your giant sky castles of fucking judgement.
"No reason for people to eat all this meat."
"No reason for all this ethanol usage."
"No reason for all these big trucks."
"No reason to have any guns."
Welcome to fucking CAPITALISM. China is just to the north of most of you, go there and be happy.
"No reason for people to eat all this meat."
"No reason for all this ethanol usage."
"No reason for all these big trucks."
"No reason to have any guns."
Welcome to fucking CAPITALISM. China is just to the north of most of you, go there and be happy.
You're still espousing reactionary viewpoints on this.
1) It is unnecessary and unhealthy to eat red meat to excess. To my knowledge, this thread hasn't ever called for banning meat products. It's also unhealthy to eat a box of donuts every morning, but I don't see anybody here campaigning for an end to pastry.
2) Corn ethanol is a disaster on multiple fronts, including logistics, efficiency and ethics.
3) There's no reason for you to drive around a big truck everywhere you go unless you actually do something with it. Almost all of these these pristine pickup trucks you see on the road with nary a day's work in all their time in service seem to be found with a pudgy, middle-aged man-child in the driver's seat.
4) Personally, I think there's plenty of reasons to have guns. But having guns gives us even more reasons to heavily regulate them and sponsor more safety training. This isn't FEMA and the FDA stepping in and telling your grandpa how many jelly beans he's legally allowed to consume per day. This is just common sense.
5) You can't just say "BUT CAPITALISM" and lump everyone who doesn't agree with questionable or harmful business practices with the communists and socialists. If you want a pure, libertarian paradise, go live on a boat in the middle of the ocean and make your own rules.
1) It is unnecessary and unhealthy to eat red meat to excess. To my knowledge, this thread hasn't ever called for banning meat products. It's also unhealthy to eat a box of donuts every morning, but I don't see anybody here campaigning for an end to pastry.
2) Corn ethanol is a disaster on multiple fronts, including logistics, efficiency and ethics.
3) There's no reason for you to drive around a big truck everywhere you go unless you actually do something with it. Almost all of these these pristine pickup trucks you see on the road with nary a day's work in all their time in service seem to be found with a pudgy, middle-aged man-child in the driver's seat.
4) Personally, I think there's plenty of reasons to have guns. But having guns gives us even more reasons to heavily regulate them and sponsor more safety training. This isn't FEMA and the FDA stepping in and telling your grandpa how many jelly beans he's legally allowed to consume per day. This is just common sense.
5) You can't just say "BUT CAPITALISM" and lump everyone who doesn't agree with questionable or harmful business practices with the communists and socialists. If you want a pure, libertarian paradise, go live on a boat in the middle of the ocean and make your own rules.
lol wtf. still, for china, that's pretty light.
Wow, i thought war man had some ignorant posts. A+ you just posted on par with wo'man.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
seriously why are people responding to extra medium's posts
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
No of course not, the only place it snows is North America and I haven't lived there so no.UnkleRukus wrote:
You've never lived in a place where it can dump 2 feet of snow 6 months out of the year have you.Dilbert_X wrote:
Yes, all those people commuting to desk jobs in F150s need 500hp to move their briefcase from their driveway to the car-park at work.
And then there are the behemoths which were never even intended as utility vehicles.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
I don't know. In this thread, he's been repeating the same thing ad nauseam, expecting different results each time.Spark wrote:
seriously why are people responding to extra medium's posts
Sarcasm is lost on the internet, good try.Dilbert_X wrote:
No of course not, the only place it snows is North America and I haven't lived there so no.UnkleRukus wrote:
You've never lived in a place where it can dump 2 feet of snow 6 months out of the year have you.Dilbert_X wrote:
Yes, all those people commuting to desk jobs in F150s need 500hp to move their briefcase from their driveway to the car-park at work.
And then there are the behemoths which were never even intended as utility vehicles.
The point is, they are quite necessary. In my area, and in many other areas. Especially when the majority of people (Out in the sticks and the countryside.) heat their homes with firewood or wood pellets. Trying to fit any reasonable amount of either of those fuels into the back of a station wagon or a hatchback has been tried, and you end up ruining y6ur shocks.
Or when you live 15 miles away from the closest store, or gas station and the municipalities don't exactly take care of the roads. Prius's and electric cars don't fare too well when the pot holes are a foot wide and four inches deep. Which also tends to happen on the main roads due to the amount of ice we get.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
Don't delivery companies deliver? Don't trailer rental companies rent trailers?
It seems stupid to be driving a truck all year for the one day you need to pick up logs.
I think its an excuse really, like Sh1fty planning to buy a truck in case someone asked him to move something someday.
It seems stupid to be driving a truck all year for the one day you need to pick up logs.
I think its an excuse really, like Sh1fty planning to buy a truck in case someone asked him to move something someday.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
There's shifty trying to compensate for something and then there's living in rural Finland.Dilbert_X wrote:
Don't delivery companies deliver? Don't trailer rental companies rent trailers?
It seems stupid to be driving a truck all year for the one day you need to pick up logs.
I think its an excuse really, like Sh1fty planning to buy a truck in case someone asked him to move something someday.
I think that there are situations in which people really need a bigger and heavier vehicle, although too many people think they are in this kind of situation
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This post is ironic on a few levels.Extra Medium wrote:
Wow guys, the world must look really small from your giant sky castles of fucking judgement.
"No reason for people to eat all this meat."
"No reason for all this ethanol usage."
"No reason for all these big trucks."
"No reason to have any guns."
Welcome to fucking CAPITALISM. China is just to the north of most of you, go there and be happy.
Delivery companies deliver, but it costs more. Rental companies rent trailers but that also costs more. Why not spend the money on a vehicle that you can skip the middle man with.Dilbert_X wrote:
Don't delivery companies deliver? Don't trailer rental companies rent trailers?
It seems stupid to be driving a truck all year for the one day you need to pick up logs.
I think its an excuse really, like Sh1fty planning to buy a truck in case someone asked him to move something someday.
It's not just that one day either, it's many days. Picking up fertilizer (huge market for that, the whole everyone needs a perfect green lawn thing. Not to mention the multiple dozens of large and small farms in my area.) Say you need to pick up a new piece of equipment, lumber for the deck or addition you're doing. Building supplies in general. A lot of the time material suppliers wont deliver unless you purchase a certain amount. Purchasing furniture is another thing having a truck is beneficial for.
Thanks to Craigslist, one can find hundreds of ads per day for free or cheap things that you cant go and pick up without using a truck.
A lot of people in my area comb Craigslist and the thrift stores for cheap hardwood furniture, or antiques which they fix up and resell for a nice profit
This argument is silly really, as I do agree that those who purchase obnoxiously large trucks for no reason at all (ronin Patton is a good example of doing this) Is a waste of money and resources. The potential one has of owning a truck is great. Frankly there is more versitility in owning a smaller second hand truck such as a Ford Ranger, or a Chevy S-10 than owning a crew cab GMC Sierra with chromed out rims that the owner spends a day washing when there is a spec of dirt on it.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
Yeah dils whole truck rental argument is stupid. Yeah it applies to a good amount of truck owners, especially in a urban environment, but not everybody, like he seems to think. I remember him telling me I should rent a truck every weekend to cart a snomobile around, as if that's reasonable.
After about a month or two you would have spent enough money to buy a used truck.
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
Can't you get smaller trucks? I think the F150 is the biggest you will find here, and I've seen like 2
and I live in the country
and I live in the country
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You can, used now. All of the small trucks besides the Tacoma have been pulled off the market this year I believe. I hear that they are going to re-introduce them in a year or so though. The only option for a small truck that would really work for me right now is a Dodge Dakota and Toyota Tacoma, and the Tacoma is priced way to high for what you get. Besides the GMC Sierra and Chevy Silverado 1500 get the same mileage as a Tacoma anyway. And I think the new f 150s are supposed to be better.