AMEN!

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[niyad]

1. Exactly.

[SheltieLover]

2. No kidding!

[uponit7771]

3. yep

[jaxexpat]

4. Except that you getting kicked out of your big truck club if you get 15 mpg.

Anything more than 9 mpg is almost "Japanese" in that crowd.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

5. Whenever I see one of those ridiculous jacked-up trucks

with the enormous tires that extend 6" past the truck itself, I always say to myself : "Over-compensating much ?"

[dchill]

6. VERY. Much.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Yep, someone with a teeny weenie problem.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. Eenue weenie teenie weenie short Dick man!

[maxrandb]

17. OMG - I remember this song was popular in the overseas discos when I was in the Navy

Always thought Democrats missed the train when they failed to make this Donnie Dipshits theme song.

[Wounded Bear]

7. K & R...nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Same here.

For me, a car has always been something with four wheels that gets me from place to place. My first two cars were VW Beetles, a 1959 convertible (yes, really! My sons were quite impressed when I told them that) the second a more ordinary 1968 Bug.

About two decades ago when I decided to purchase a Subaru Outback with four wheel drive, I somewhat regretted it, because of the (to me) crappy mileage. Probably about 22 mpg. Given that I was living in Overland Park, KS, at the time, I didn't really need four wheel drive. My current car is a 2017 Honda Fit, manual transmission. Because driving a manual is almost as good as 4wd in most circumstances.

Yes, I understand why many people prefer an automatic, but even they come in very fuel efficient cars these days.

And I can't imagine spending ridiculous amounts of money for a vehicle.

[Dial H For Hero]

18. A "ridiculous" amount of money for a vehicle is relative to each person.

Speaking personally, I recently purchased a $25,000 used sports car strictly for the purposes of recreational driving. Is that “ridiculous”? Given that I can afford it, I’d say not.

Why would the same not apply to a $70,000 pickup, presuming one was in a position to responsibly fit it in one’s budget? Of course, it would be different if one overextended one’s credit to purchase it, just as it would be if someone making only $30K a year purchased a brand new car.

[Piasladic]

19. money, money, money -must be funny

in a rich man's world. Yes, it is "ridiculous."

[Dial H For Hero]

20. How so? Just last week, I paid $1500 for a sword. Was that also "ridiculous"?

[Piasladic]

21. yes. -nt

[Dial H For Hero]

22. Why?

[Piasladic]

23. I'm guessing the phallic symbolism is wasted on you

Quite simply, I find it wasteful. Sure, you can admire your sword in a place of prominence in the living room and tool about recreationally, but the only one you are satisfying is yourself.

It's your money. You can do as you see fit. I find it a ridiculous, selfish waste.

[Dial H For Hero]

24. It's a 15th Century Japanese wakizashi (short sword). I appreciate its craftsmanship and history.

It will certainly be displayed in my living room. As for only satisfying myself with it, what's wrong with that?

I'm quite honestly baffled by your description of it as "wasteful" and "selfish". And as for phallic symbolism, I would point out that sometimes a pencil is only a pencil.

[Whiskeytide]

25. You're right. It's relative. But the point ...

… of the meme is that if you can afford a $70k truck that gets 15 mpg, and you chose to fit that into your budget, you have little credibility complaining about gas prices going up a couple of bucks. That’s a valid point.

[Dial H For Hero]

26. Regarding the meme, I quite agree. I was simply addressing the assertion that spending $70K

on a vehicle was “ridiculous” when quite obviously it can be a perfectly rational decision.

[mwooldri]

10. There's work trucks...

... and then there's wank trucks. I have a truck that would have cost $70k new (I didn't buy it new) that gets horrible gas mileage (yes it does run on gasoline). It was bought for doing a specific job. A daily commute it's not. A Wank Truck is one that is pimped out, jacked up and used as a daily commute vehicle.

Trucks are tools. Yes they can be fun toys but #1 they are tools to do a specific job.

Mind you my daily driver is a Freightliner Cascadia... As a company driver I'm thankful I'm not paying that fuel bill.

[djacq]

12. Thank You!

Alternating between two hybrid vehicles; one for local and the other for commuting to work.

[SergeStorms]

13. Any truck that has a.....

"Big Ass Truck" decal on the windshield and has brackets welded to the bed to hold Trump flags, American flags, and any other type flag that designates you as a reich-wing bonehead, will never be considered a "working" truck by me.

It's just an ostentatious boy toy that screams, "I have too much money (or credit) and too few brains".

Go ahead, you freaking doorknobs, put unnecessary mileage on your "Big Ass Truck" depreciating it's value, and waste hundreds (if not more) of dollars in fuel just to classify yourself as a intellectually inferior dipshit with nothing better to do.

Freaking babies!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

14. Yeah, but just like with their gun fetish, RWers cherish their sacred right

to drive unnecessarily big, ugly, gas-wasting vehicles.

[SergeStorms]

15. And they all have....

four-wheelers, snowmobiles, and every other man-toy that sucks gasoline like crazy. It's their gawd given right to drive all over nature and pollute the air, land, and sea to their heart's content.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

27. You forgot my pet peeve...

leaf blowers.

[SergeStorms]

28. Ahhhh, the most annoying of all.

How nice it is to have your sleep interrupted on a crisp fall day by the annoying sound of a leaf blower.

I'll vote right along with you on that one!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

29. That sound is one of the many annoying intances of noise pollution that drive me nuts.

However, it wouldn't be quite as annoying if not for the fact that they're so often being used for no good reason. Where my parents live, for instance, they have a low-skilled grounds-keeping team. They butcher the shrubs, cut the grass way too low, spray poisons indiscriminately. And, instead of composting or shredding and making use of the leaves, they blow them into the street. Or bag them up and take them to the landfill. !

And 99% of the time when you hear the irritating whine of the leaf-blower, you look out the window, and the guy is just randomly blowing tiny bits of nothing around. And when he actually has something to blow, like leaves, after the first few passes it would be far more efficient to use a rake. But no, he'll spend and hour chasing three leaves around with that damn leaf blower.


This is why I don't own guns.

[MissMillie]

16. 15 mpg would be a generous estimate for a truck like that

however, some people (not all) use those vehicles in their work.