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Originally Posted by jamesqf
The old "big truck compensating for a small penis", writ large.
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Trucks and SUVs actually do look cool, even though they're far from being efficiency-oriented. What few people remember, on the other hand, is that trucks became so popular there due to the taxation structure favoring them, while all that "active lifestyle" BS is just a marketing deal to fool the rednecks and drown them in debt.
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Buy a big, heavy pickup or SUV because it's supposed to be safer, even though statistics show they're generally not.
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Being more prone to rollovers and with a higher weight applied to their pillars, under some circumstances they can actually become a death trap.
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Buy something big and expensive on payments to show your neighbors (and maybe try to convince yourself) that you're doing ok financially, even though you're one paycheck away from bankruptcy.
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Buy something that you don't need, with money that you don't have, to impress people you don't like. I can't remember where I have read this, but it sounds accurate.