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[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

For the civilised counties that's 1.75 meters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Whaaaaat? That’s my height!!! That tank is what? 2 meters? And you tell me that’s a civil car? Like everyone can drive it? Don’t need to go to the army? 😳😳😳

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wow that girl is 3 meter tall what a beast

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

No it is the distance from the car lmao. Well tank.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

That’s a weird looking tank

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How else are the owners supposed to compensate for their 2cm dicks?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The insidious thing about the small dick energy is that it isn't about the efficacy of the unit. They don't care that they "can't" provide pleasure (which, let's just not dig into that for arguments sake, but I would contend the existence of lesbian sex sort of contradicts the whole correlation of dick mass to pleasure output, let alone the whole can of worms that is all the other miriad of genital and gender configurations). They view sex as transactional, performative, superficial, and perhaps even competative. It's all about them. Even if they had a supreme dick, they couldn't weild it. They're stunted, and frightened. They don't understand even basic communication, which I would argue that sex is at it's core, just a type of communication. That kid in class that mocks the topic because they don't understand it and that frightens them? So they try to tear it down and belittle the topic? Those are the kids that grow up to drive these trucks, and evidently run nations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

They view sex as transactional, performative, superficial, and perhaps even competative

I'm proud to be a filthy casual sex enjoyer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I might print this comment on sticker paper for reasons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Use their fingers?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Who ever wrote that meme text has definitively been huffing too much exhaust.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i swear it used to be 5’10”….
but, i have been feeling taller lately…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m 190cm and was never tall but I’m a giant among my little brother’s friends (adults)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

I feel you, I'm 235cm and was always the short one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

Yeah I’m just here to fuck cars idk

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yank tanks are multiplying on this side of the Pacific now too. I’m 6’3” and feel like a little toddler next to one. Just as easy to run over, no doubt.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got ran over by a car while on my bike at a roundabout bike & pedestrian crossing: I'm so glad it was a normal sized Opel instead of a tank. Only got a bruise on my butt and even my bike just needed the front wheel realigned. If it was a F-whatever monstrosity I would've been hurt much, much worse.

Personal vehicles in cities should be limited anyways and public transportation/pedestrian & biking paths encouraged. I hate the dust rising from stud tires grinding asphalt.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@gurnu @FrostyCaveman
I think the majority of streets don't need to be thoroughfares for cars. We could block and barricade most streets so that bicycles and pedestrians can pass through but cars can only get in and out by a single route. Anyone who isn't visiting a home or business in that neighborhood just wouldn't turn off of the main road. Rat running, the use of parallel side streets to avoid traffic and police speed enforcement also causes a lot of problems. #FuckCars #Urbanism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

You don't have to mention people when replying to them, they'll get a notification automatically.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It happens when people come from mastodon.

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[–] [email protected] 229 points 2 days ago (4 children)

There's diagrams that show the visual impairments such trucks have. They are worse than semi trucks and even an Abrams tank.

https://i.redd.it/kftiwovba73b1.jpg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Above a certain height, trucks should be mandated to have the engine behind, like eurotrucks.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 days ago (32 children)

I don't get how these people even feel comfortable driving something where you can't see the road that's in front of you for 10+ meters out. I just wouldn't feel safe, there could be any kind of obstruction you can't see on the road from 10m away but will still fuck up your day and/or life.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If that's supposed to be understood by Americans, they probably should have put the units in football field-school busses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Length is measured in hotdogs, width is measured in hamburgers

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My redneck ranch family has run over so. Many. Of their own dogs

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How else are they going to advertise their tiny cocks without public indecency charges?

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Should require a CDL to drive something that big. It's a bus sized front end.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

And transit busses have a flat front end and a large wind shield.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I agree but I think that car hoods should be higher. If you're hit by one of these you'll die slowly of organ pulverization. It'd be better to be hit in the head and die quickly of head pulverization. It's just that the poor truck cannot reach that high so it needs to be BIGGER. Maybe stick some spikes on there too, and have an optional extended package for saw blades!

(/s in case it wasn't apparent)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How much fuel does it burn in comparison to normal European car?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

And then some

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