Truckoids lmao.
Bakkieoids doesn't sound as smooth though, RIP South African lingo using -oid
The wild part is that this might be 100% serious. Lifted trucks are seen as a status symbol in vast amounts of Amerikkka.
my friend's brother moved to a smallish town and got a brand new one-ton truck because "everybody in town has a truck". he works in accounting
Even with blue collar work it's kinda funny. Construction sites are filled with pickups that people only commute to the site with. Like they need a few pickups on site for stuff, but not everyone needs one on hand.
My neighbour is a contractor and he drives his pickup to his work pickup as well, lol.
and that everyone should have a truck.
:kombucha-disgust: no.
My first car was a mini truck (not a micro truck), like in the vein of the 90s Tacoma or nissan hardbody.. tbh, it got OK mileage (almost 30 mpg IIRC) and it was pretty useful. It was also the perfect size. I kinda miss it lol
If i had the money to start a car company I’d start one that just makes small trucks like that. They’d be a hit
Unfortunately everyone who can afford cars nowadays are wretched boomers who think anyone with a car that won’t flatten a pedestrian with a light nudge is a Soviet sleeper agent
They are awesome and pretty much all 99% of truck owners need anyway. Like, hauling junk to the junkyard, helping people move, and especially, being able to throw gear in the bed and drive to wherever was really nice. I got into mountain biking at one point and it's just so easy to chuck everything in the back.
I kinda want a truck but like I just want to be able to move a couch or a bed or a large TV without renting some bullshit
don't worry though I'd never be able to afford one
It's serious I've sent her on my tiktok feed. She thinks it's pretty badass.
Oh I don't doubt it. It's not exactly like people don't do stuff that's uncomfortable and potentially dangerous for status symbols in other areas of life.
Yeah this is wildly dangerous. There's going to come a point where these trucks are going to be too big and cumbersome for normal road driving and get a lot of people hurt and or killed.
They drive like any other car. They are just huge. And getting to tall. But like it was always people want them large as a status thing. Especially small people. It's always tiny guys driving huge trucks
Same with Bakkies (South African trucks, smaller for now) in South Africa.
So many people bought fake raptor kits for their Ford Rangers that Ford South Africa decided to make the Ranger raptor a real thing and it's become a record seller lmao
I few years ago I was visiting some family in Tennessee, and I was kind of surprised to hear them, chuds as they were, argue that having a lifted truck was a sign of braindamage. Can't remember the specific wording, but supposedly the lifting absolutely wrecks the ability for the truck to actually haul anything that can't fit in the bed, which means that anyone with a lifted truck is probably only driving it for the aesthetic.
The closest thing to dirt this pickup truck will see is the blood of the children it runs over.
Not editing in the Mario jump sfx when she's using the trampoline smh
I am 100% certain this user was commenting which what is colloquially known as "a joke" and it appears to have gone over many peoples' heads
how ridiculous does the truck need to be for it to be obvious that it's a joke, like, what if it were jumping around with flashing neon lights all over it, would a deadpan "I need my truck for work, guy" still be taken seriously
it's your right to believe this guy is defending needing to use a trampoline to enter a work vehicle but you don't have to get mad about being erroneous in that belief :shrug-outta-hecks:
is there a point to not getting a joke and getting mad about it? is there a point to anything? no
Lmao, check the profile. He works in education software. Like at least make a throwaway profile where you cosplay as blue collar. Maybe it's satire tho.
The work van is what most actual workers use, because it is enclosed and protects what you are hauling. Just saying.
i saw a small pickup with a big bed a couple days ago and i was surprised how happy it made me to see it. too many f-150s where i live (relatively poor suburbs).
One of my old coworkers had a beat up old 2-door sierra with an extended bed. That thing probably hauled more things than any of these so-tall-the-tailgate-turns-into-steps child splatterers.
Trucks like that are expensive, its full crew cab probably long box, but so is the 6 inch lift kit they got on it lmao. That's another $15K just so you can be even bigger.
I just hope these big trucks never come to South Africa, the boers would love them and buy them by the millions, there are already too many ranger raptors and hiluxes on the roads.
