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One of these has definitely hauled more than the other, and i guarantee you it's not the ford.

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[–] johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@SlamDrag @TDCN I live in Australia. We’ve had ‘utes’ (utility vehicles) since forever. Pickup trucks. They’re common as muck. Literally every tradie has one. Feels like about 50% of vehicles are a ute.

They’re a car with a flat panel on the back. You can put all your tradie stuff in them and bang them about a bit.

We do not need these ridiculous F150s. Which, by the way, no tradesperson is filling with concrete. Because they’re precious and fucking expensive.

[–] johnnydecimal@hachyderm.io 5 points 1 year ago

@SlamDrag @TDCN And the entreaty to ‘shit on the oil company vs. the tradesperson’ is bullshit.

Ford makes these vehicles because they know people will buy them. Stop buying them. Until then, I will freely shit on all those who do.

(I live in the inner city here in Australia. I walk everywhere. I’m fucking sick of car drivers thinking that they own the earth, being given priority everywhere, taking up all the space, driving these monstrosities in our towns.)