Pickup Truck Guy: A Brief Psychoanalysis
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Published 2024-03-20
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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
- Pickup Trucks 1: • Why Absurdly Large Trucks Are Terribl...
- Pickup Trucks 2: • Pickup truck guys spoke. I listened.
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Resources:
- www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/wattssl01.h…
- www.chevrolet.com/trucks/silverado/1500
- www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/whats-the-ma…
- www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/christi…
- news.yahoo.com/whats-causing-the-growing-political…
- www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44053828
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Images
- Ford Transit By Alexander Migl - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127335720
- U-Haul pickup By Mike Mozart from Funny YouTube, USA - UHaul, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87493420
- Home Depot pickup By Mike Mozart from Funny YouTube, USA - Home Depot, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87493978
- Video: Police in Washington arrest Proud Boys leader Tarrio, WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 12, 2020) (REUTERS)
- Lifted pickup at Iowa state fair By Carol VanHook from Altoona, Iowa, United States - 2007IowaStateFair (3), CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63402439
- Dodge Ram 2500 quad cab By order_242 from Chile - Dodge Ram 2500 Quad Cab 2008, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34726690
- Trump convoy By Anthony Crider - Alamance County Trump Convoy and Ride (2020 Sept), CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=96260576
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All Comments (21)
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What I never understood was that truck owners buy a vehicle that admittedly is macho and appealing, but gets terrible gas mileage, then the owners complain about the cost of gasoline.
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CityNerd has found the infinite engagement glitch.
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The lady not wanting the bed scratched is too relatable… in my 20s I was moving from one apartment to another and me and my gf asked her dad if he could help us move some large furniture with his huge ass truck. Dude refused insisting it would scuff the bed liner. The fucking BED LINER! Dude the entire purpose of the liner is to get scuffed instead of the bed like dude wtf
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So I regularly haul organic vegetables and meat to customers. Also do a lot of car camping because I hate paying for hotels when traveling. Found that the most utilitarian vehicle is an old Honda Minivan with all the seats taken out. More useful space that is protected and air conditioned. Minivans are basically the pickup trucks for Middle Aged Asian people who own nail shops, restaurants and massage parlors .
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"Emotional support vehicle" I'm sorry but I'm stealing this one.
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The “4-5 empty seats in your car” guy is soooo close to getting it.
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So...wait. Where, exactly, am I supposed to hang my truck nuts? Check and mate.
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City nerd has discovered rage bait as a highly effective way of engagement boosting
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My favorite description of the clean, shiny, never-hauled-anything, luxury pickup is "Parking Lot Princess."
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The Pickup Truck Guy is the guy barreling down the highway at 20mph over the speed limit with headlights brighter than the bald spot on his bear boyfriend's head tailgating you.
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Living in Texas I see a lot of pickup trucks about 90% of which have nothing in the bed and no passengers.
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As someone who drives a full size pick-up truck for work (I'm a contractor) the guys who make driving a truck their personality are insecure about themselves. They want to be perceived as "macho" and "tough" but they hardly ever use their trucks for doing any dirty work. Don't even get me started on lifted trucks that never see the off-road Also most of these 'pick up' guys are just kind of dumb too. They have little to no self awareness and just project on everyone else
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One point I'd like to make is that there simply ISN'T a small pickup anymore. If you want something of a reasonable size, you are looking at a 20+ year old truck.
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I used to own a truck, it was wayyyyy more expensive than owning a car. Not just for the gas, but the maintenance as well, everything for a truck just costs more as they tend to be bigger. If you’re trying to save money, the last vehicle you wanna get is a truck.
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The difference between the empty seats in my car and your (general) empty pickup bed is that I actually have friends who sit in those seats once in a while
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I was in the 5th grade when I realised most 'adults'' were still children with the same chip on their shoulders when they were kids.
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"Yank tanks" is definitely the most insightful distillation of US culture from a foreigner that this American has heard in awhile.
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The biggest crime is that Americans don't have easy access to the much more practical Kei trucks available in Asian markets.
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Of all the times I've seen a pick up truck in my life, only 1% of the time did they have anything in the back.
