Edit: What do you judge them for?
Intentionally sagging pants.
If somebody has a tattoo of something related to video games. i find it very childish, yes you may like mario but it’s not ok to ink it on your skin in your thirties. Also those hideous large shoes like osiris or globes, at least in my country only addicts and poser skateboarders who are also addicts wear them. And dreadlocks, im sorry but i cant stop thinking how dirty they are, matbe its a misconseption.
being more general i despise adults, like above 35s, and old people who dress like they’re 20. Skinny jeans, jordans and shoes like that, and sportswear/hypebeast shit. Get your life together, your wife left you and you see your sons two weekends a month but this wont help.
https://ajamaicaexperience.com/history-of-dreadlocks/
https://hairspeaks.net/6427/why-did-dreadlocks-start/
Q: Do dreadlocks require special care? A: Yes, dreadlocks require regular maintenance, including washing, conditioning, and retwisting.
Q: Can dreadlocks be removed? A: Yes, dreadlocks can be removed, but it is a time-consuming and potentially damaging process.
Q: Why do dreadlocks sometimes smell? A: Dreadlocks can smell if they are not properly washed and maintained. Regular washing and conditioning can help prevent odor.
often from not having time to properly dry to scalp, or not realizing the hair wasn’t dry*
Q: Are dreadlocks a sign of neglect? A: No, dreadlocks can be a deliberate and well-maintained hairstyle.
*I added this
I’m 50 and still skate, gonna were what ever the hell I like. Please feel free to judge away.
Feel free to do whatever you want man, im not gonna stop you. They asked and i answered just for fun, i just think this way but you’re never gonna see me bother anyone neither in real life or online for their choices. It’s just that this comes to my mind when i see it. Have a nice day
Globally? American flag
Being Religious.
Big lifted truck with spacers, no tow hitch, and a perfect unlined bed. Why the fuck do you have a big shiny truck and flake on your promise to help your friend move because you don’t want to scratch your precious unlined bed. I’ve had more luck asking a rando with a squarebody Chevy and made an even better better friend.
A MAGA hat. I judge them for MAGA.
Cybersecurity people with iphones. Not strictly judging them but it is a grim reminder that even the “professionals” barely understand the technological privacy dystopia we live in.
Perhaps they do, just don’t have enough energy to care about it in private life anymore and just go for convenience like the majority.
Perhaps
I work in IT and I harshly judge anyone else in IT who willingly chooses an iPhone.
When I started with my current company they gave me my choice of iPhone as a company phone (basically last year’s model at no cost, or I could pay a bit and get the latest model)… when I asked if Android was an option I was told “oh, no… Android is open source, so it isn’t secure”. If I didn’t need the paycheck I would have quit right then. I just stared at my boss and didn’t know what to say. I mean, I knew what I wanted to say, but I also didn’t want to tell my new boss that he’s a dumbass.
So now I carry 2 phones and last year I broke my Android phone and had to use the iPhone as my daily driver for a couple of months. I figured I’d come to appreciate the iPhone but no, there was almost no redeeming qualities.
Rolex. Evincing pathological narcissism or psychopathy.
Not all of us ars like that, you know.
Awfully judgemental of you to think poorly of us folk who just happen to like precision, appreciate good engineering or maybe have a small penis and require lavish symbols of wealth and status to prove we’e a more valuable human being than you in symbolic caps lock.
My rolex justifies my existence and represents how worthy of everything i am and anyone who disagrees is a jealous underling rolexless peasant demon.
We’re just better people because we purchased an overpriced obsolete piece of 19th century technology and put it on our wrists.
This time measuring device i display on myself will show my toxic paternal figures and all those peera that disapproved of me that i am not a small child that’s starved for validation, but a big man who is extremely confident.
Also, since i have a rolex, I’m more entitled to all ypur money than you are. Give me your money. You’ll just squander it.
Note to self: buy a 3 dollar casio digital watch and write ‘rolex’ on it with a sharpie. Next time someone with a real one is spotted, compliment their taste, try to force things in common and call them my hero. Request autograph when they leave.
One of those big trucks but they are immaculate, clean, scuff free. So not used for they are meant for: working.
Now they are just taking up space and being dangerous to the public just to try and help prop up someone’s ego.
Had a lot of those come through when I worked at Lowe’s. Many were indeed working trucks, but they were towing monster loads, not throwing shit in the back.
We have a few of those here in the Netherlands and it’s so ridiculous it’s almost sad. These big American trucks really aren’t fit for Dutch roads. They’re too large for the roads, they don’t fit in any parking lot, and they look ridiculous next to any normal car. I could sort of understand that a farmer would have them, but even then it can’t be that useful because it must be a hassle any time the truck needs to pass through a city or village.
Yeah I should have said: I’m from the Netherlands as well. And my gripes are only valid here I think. The roads here are NOT made for these monster sized units. Parking one of them means you are half way parked on the curb, meaning pedestrians and wheel chairs can no longer pass.
I’ve seen cases where these “parked units” block the flow of traffic and even trams!! #useless
Do you judge people driving clean, scuff free vans as well or only truck drivers?
I use my truck for work but other than having a roof rack you probably wouldn’t be able to tell it’s a work truck from the outside. When it gets dirty, I wash it, and when it gets dents or scratches I fix them. I don’t want it to look like a beater.
Yeah Sorry, I should have said I’m not American. I’m Dutch. I’ve been to the USA and these things “fit” better in a car-centric society. At least there is room.
But even there I still question it’s usefulness, you cannot see right in front of you. You’d miss wheelchairs, children, etc. And van’s can usually carry more the the flatbed of a truck.
I’m not American either - I’m from Finland. I’ve been to the Netherlands, and I can’t quite imagine owning a truck there either.
However, your criticism was about clean, scuff-free trucks broadly. If you had said that you judge people for owning a truck when they have no practical need for one, I wouldn’t have any issue with that. But that’s not what you said.
I don’t own one of those gigantic American trucks, but a mid-size one - think Toyota Hilux, Ford Ranger, Mitsubishi L200, Nissan Navara, or Isuzu D-Max. The external dimensions and hood height on those are comparable to similarly sized work vans. So when someone needs a vehicle capable of hauling cargo, it’s basically a choice between a truck and a van - and there’s not much difference between the two in terms of pedestrian safety.
I’d even argue a truck might be safer, because you generally have better all-around visibility. Vans tend to have very limited rear visibility due to the enclosed cargo area. You could argue that a van is more convenient for hauling certain types of cargo, but that’s a separate discussion about practicality - not safety.
Well I agree. My first reaction was a bit tongue-in-cheek. On purpose to conjure a very specific image; A person owning a huge monster truck without the intention of using it for it’s intended purpose but for propping up one’s ego.
A Toyoto Hilux is not something I would consider. More along the lines of: https://www.hotcars.com/the-sickest-lifted-trucks-weve-seen-in-2020/
Or these:
p.s. Vans have camera’s these days, allowing you to even see the ground underneath your fender. So even better then you could ever get with just your mirror’s.
A 4x4 truck with its big wheels and high ground clearance are features that allow the truck to move off-road. These features have the unfortunate side effect of making them dangerous to other road users, and very uneconomical / environmentally unfriendly. They also take up a lot of space.
Work vans are and most cars are capable of driving on a building site or track.
Hood height, engine size, and the physical exterior dimensions of many vans are similar to those of pickup trucks. When used for work, it often just comes down to personal preference. One key difference is towing capacity - most vans are limited to around 750 kg, whereas trucks typically offer much more. Mine can tow up to 3000 kg.
Edit: Also, rear visibility in a van is much worse due to the enclosed cargo area. With a truck, you pretty much have 360-degree visibility.
most vans are limited to around 750 kg, whereas trucks typically offer much more. Mine can tow up to 3000 kg.
Yeah that’s bullshit. Vans that can do the max of 3500kg are common as fuck. You probably looked at the wrong spec. 750kg is the max for a trailer without brakes, regardless of type of car. There are usually two numbers on the spec sheet, one for max towing weight for unbraked trailers and one for braked trailers.
True, my bad. Many of the most commonly used vans here can tow 2500kg as long as the trailer has brakes. Anything more than that is rare though. Even many of the other mid-size pickups can’t tow 3000kg.
It may depend on local laws. Here the total weight of the combination (car + trailer) with a B+E driving license is 7000Kg, and 3500Kg for a car. That means you can have a van with 3500Kg capacity plus a 3500Kg trailer. So naturally there are vans that are built to match the max spec.
Here’s a great video by Fort Nine that explains how and why the shape and size of these trucks are a threat to everyone outside the vehicle.
This applies to vans just as well though. This Ford Transit is little over a meter longer than a Toyota Hilux so these pictures are roughly to scale.
But the front/hood is much shorter in length. Also, people driving that type of van are much more likely to be doing so in a professional capacity and are significantly less likely to be asshole drivers fucking around with their phone while driving. People are bad drivers at baseline quite frequently, but if someone is on the job in a van used for commercial purposes, they’re more likely to at least be paying attention and not speeding everywhere.
Edit: I marked up your image to illustrate the point made much more eloquently in the video. Because of the length of the hood, the truck has a much longer distance of road obstructed from view in front of it, and this is with a standard truck that doesn’t have one of the very popular lift kits (and assuming that the driver is relatively tall.)
If there’s a 70 cm tall child standing in front of the vehicle, then in either case the child either would or wouldn’t be visible - there’s effectively no difference. It doesn’t really matter whether you can see 2 or 3 meters more of the road surface from one vehicle or the other. In both cases, the hood height is the same, and that’s what determines the safety in the event of a pedestrian collision.
Also, with a van, the rear visibility is greatly reduced compared to a pickup. You could say that can be compensated for with cameras - but that same argument applies to the front visibility as well.
Let’s also keep in mind where this discussion started from: a commenter was taking issue with clean, scuff-free pickups as if a work truck couldn’t look like that.
Ford makes (or at least made) and E-350 van. It can tow anything your truck can. And seat 11 people. And keep your equipment secured and safe from the elements. And it has a backup camera.
What’s your point? That thing is bigger than my pickup.
The point is that both of your points are factually incorrect.
Which points exactly?
City trucks
“Parking lot princesses”
I call those brodozers, and I hate those drivers. I’ve damned near gotten hit by them so many times cuz they can’t see shit over their hood
I love that my dinky hatchback has more get up and go then they do, they get so fucking offended when you zoom off from a light next to them.
Yeah I see them parked at my office and always think - someone drove that enormous truck here, then went up the elevator to their office job. What the fuck?
I apologize for the misandry but also we have a saying down here - the bigger the truck, the smaller the cock. If you don’t need a work truck for your work, you ought not get a work truck, it’s stupid expensive and gas guzzling. I judge you.
It’s not judgement so much as a red flag, but those sunglasses that are like a solid cylinder wrapping around your head. They’re popular with manosphere dudebros, which is unfortunate because I actually kind of like them.
Lifted pickups that I know cost more than a modest house. It’s the same as buying a sports car, except you’re also posing as a humble working man simultaneously.
College students with sports cars: I assume they’ll be in debt forever.
Or they’re spoiled brats.
Brand clothing plastered with logos of the brand.
I immediately know you’re vacuous and live your life for the image you have for others instead of focusing on yourself.
Same, sort of. For me it varies, some is supposed to be a status symbol and that I find lame.
But some are signals about a person; Bass Pro, fisherman; Backwoods, down to smoke; Burton, snowboarder; Venture, skateboarder; etc. These I see more as a band shirt, like “hey I like that thing/band too, wanna hang out?” These I actually like, they can be informative.
And some are just free shirts from work itself, vendors to your work, events, etc. Maybe they just got off and are still in “uniform” (if you can call a company t-shirt a uniform lmao), maybe their job sells a lot of Kawasaki and they sent shirts to the dealership they work at, this falls more into the informative category and indicate possible hobbies. Same with the event shirts, it’s more about a memory of the event, it indicates possible hobbies like running or biking, and hell a free shirt is a free shirt.
Hell even the status symbol shirts, I guess do the same thing in signaling something about a person, but imo it signals that
you’re vacuous and live your life for the image you have for others instead of focusing on yourself.
My wife’s Filipino and that’s just their style, like they’re stuck in the 80s.
Harry Potter merch
Ford Ranger drivers, and to a lesser extent large dual-cab utes in general. Cashed up bogans to a man. They just have a reckless disregard for other road users and take up far too much space. They’re all registered as ‘commercial’, so they’re a tax dodge as well.
I used to drive an old red Ford Ranger 5-speed for a job and I loved it. Small truck compared to modern though. Shame it’s got that rep in Oz.
curious about the rangers…why do you hate them?
I don’t. Just the dickheads driving them. It’s beyond me why they choose that particular vehicle, but there’s definitely a pattern.
Sounds like local subculture thing. Rangers are the small trucks that polite truck guys own around me.
Probably. It’s a fairly different market in Aus than in the US, although we’re seeing an increase in Dodge RAMs and the like being imported, usually by the same cashed-up bogans that have apparently decided that Rangers aren’t compensatory enough. I realise even those are fairly ‘small’ by US standards. Y’all are insane with your trucks as daily drivers.
I don’t know what they look like over there, but in the US, Dodge Rams are often oversized trucks. The mirrors stick out like they’re trying to high five every vehicle (though useful if you’re towing.) They’re often lifted, dually (double back tires) with oversized exhaust. Drivers sometimes like to “roll coal” which means to spew thick black diesel exhaust everywhere. It’s as obnoxious as it sounds. Is that what you’re seeing there?
Pretty much that, except ‘rolling coal’ would get them a massive fine over here. Edit: not a fine initially, but they’ll tell you to fix it, but it is finable ($495 and 2 demerit points)
You probably could get fined for it over here, but that’s going to vary by each county within each state. I don’t live in California, but they’re known for much stricter emissions regulations for instance. Where I live, they don’t even test or regulate emissions.
Cigarettes
