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Right. The corruption happens when they spend it.
I sort of feel bad for folks with pickup trucks that have very large capacity tanks. Sort of. I know a few of them are actually used as work trucks and/or for hauling stuff and those are the ones with my sympathy. The other 99% that are essentially penis extensions, I don't feel any of their pain at the pump. Yes there are a lot of monstrous SUVs around here too, and they annoy me too, but not like the poseur pickups do. Pay, suckers. Pay!
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Agreed, and those people tend to agree to. Go on any of those forums and the mantra is "gotta pay to play", so they aren't looking for sympathy from anyone. If anything, high fuel prices further expresses what they are going for; a display of excess spent.
Many, many pickups passed me like I was standing still on my drive home from Montana yesterday. I do 5 MPH over the limit, but they were doing more like 15-20 over. No sympathy for the full size, lifted pickup with mudders doing 85 MPH.
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03-09-2022, 02:58 PM
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Agreed, and those people tend to agree to. Go on any of those forums and the mantra is "gotta pay to play", so they aren't looking for sympathy from anyone. If anything, high fuel prices further expresses what they are going for; a display of excess spent.
Many, many pickups passed me like I was standing still on my drive home from Montana yesterday. I do 5 MPH over the limit, but they were doing more like 15-20 over. No sympathy for the full size, lifted pickup with mudders doing 85 MPH.
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I talked once with a friend who's a pickup lover. That time he told me he was running out of fuel on the road so he drove as fast as he could so he could make it to the gasoline station before he ran out.
This goes to show that a lot of people don't understand vehicle dynamics. I told my friend that going 90mph down the road actually used more fuel per mile than just going the speerd limit.
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03-09-2022, 03:11 PM
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I feel sorry for the migrant workers who require a pickup for their job but won't get a pay increase to cover the fuel.
The yahoo down the street with the jacked up RAM, 33" wide traction tires noise extraction exhaust, nothing at all.
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03-09-2022, 03:12 PM
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Right. The corruption happens when they spend it.
I sort of feel bad for folks with pickup trucks that have very large capacity tanks. Sort of. I know a few of them are actually used as work trucks and/or for hauling stuff and those are the ones with my sympathy. The other 99% that are essentially penis extensions, I don't feel any of their pain at the pump. Yes there are a lot of monstrous SUVs around here too, and they annoy me too, but not like the poseur pickups do. Pay, suckers. Pay!
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Their CPA will allow deduction options for their fiscal year, as long as they have a 'paper-trail' of receipts and odometer readings. Mine did.
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03-09-2022, 03:35 PM
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I sort of feel bad for folks with pickup trucks that have very large capacity tanks. Sort of.
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03-09-2022, 07:53 PM
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I talked once with a friend who's a pickup lover. That time he told me he was running out of fuel on the road so he drove as fast as he could so he could make it to the gasoline station before he ran out.
This goes to show that a lot of people don't understand vehicle dynamics. I told my friend that going 90mph down the road actually used more fuel per mile than just going the speerd limit.
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The forums are full of senior members with lots of reputation and no knowledge.
Here's my favorite example post;
https://www.jeepkj.com/threads/the-o...10#post-577132
and a quote from the thread;
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I drive a JEEP.
I have never been concerned about my gas mileage.
It is what it is, if I want better.....I won't drive a JEEP
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03-10-2022, 01:12 AM
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The other 99% that are essentially penis extensions, I don't feel any of their pain at the pump.
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So I was walking the dog and stopped at a gas station to get a cup of coffee for me and some appetizers for the dog, and I see a middle-aged MILF boarding her truck. Shall we imply her husband is not getting the job done?
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Yes there are a lot of monstrous SUVs around here too, and they annoy me too, but not like the poseur pickups do. Pay, suckers. Pay!
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Apart from that newer generation of crossover SUVs which are nothing but a minivan on steroids, what's the difference?
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03-10-2022, 11:14 AM
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Perhaps you were suffering from a stereotypical bias. The women of today are not the women of our youth. Autobahnschlieger is an example if her statements are true.
Many TRUCKS here in reno are owned by females, if a hot pink RAM is an indicator, black being #2 with a fuzzy dash cover.
Btw does MILF mean something different in your country?
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03-10-2022, 11:21 PM
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Perhaps you were suffering from a stereotypical bias.
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AFAIK the stereotypical bias was pointing out a truck as a "compensation" for a small penis. But I see a lot of trucks driven by women, yet I don't remember having ever seen any equivalent stereotype regarding some feature of their bodies when they drive a truck or a traditional body-on-frame SUV. Maybe should Ford now try to sell the Ranger for recently-licensed girls with tiny boobs?
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Unfortunately, nowadays it's harder to talk about anything with most of the so-called "modern" women. Some are just frustrated about random problems and looking for a way to screw every man around, as if it would compensate their frustrations. Well, I also know some old women who behave in such a destructive way, even in my own family
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Autobahnschlieger is an example if her statements are true.
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I never talked with her about anything other than cars, motorcycles or any related stuff.
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Many TRUCKS here in reno are owned by females, if a hot pink RAM is an indicator, black being #2 with a fuzzy dash cover.
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Rio Grande do Sul has a strong tradition with rural influences, so expect to see many trucks owned by females in Porto Alegre. Including some obscure Chinese-made ones registered in Uruguay once in a while. But many women here used to be more favorable to body-on-frame SUVs, even though nowadays most of the SUVs available in Brazil are of the crossover type and so it got a considerable amount of the traditional SUV buyer toward trucks.
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I guess MILF has the same meaning everywhere.
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03-11-2022, 05:05 PM
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Yes there are a lot of monstrous SUVs around here too, and they annoy me too, but not like the poseur pickups do. Pay, suckers. Pay!
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Apart from that newer generation of crossover SUVs which are nothing but a minivan on steroids, what's the difference?
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They annoy me less.
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