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This monster truck is excellent for running
over other vehicles and small animals.
My new dog, Sasha, is a little on the agoraphobic side. I take her out
on her leash to the front of my apartment building, hoping she will
pottie outside, but she always balks. Sometimes she will sniff the grass
a bit. This usually lasts a maximum of one minute. Then she starts pulling
me back to the front steps, wanting to go inside. Let me rephrase that —
whining and insisting that we go back inside.
I took her out this morning, as always hopeful that she would do better
with the outdoors. We weren't out in the yard more than 30 seconds when
this big-ass truck went by — the type with the oversize wheels and the
engine that sounds like an old fashioned railroad locomotive.
It scared the hell out of her. She is scared even of normal automobiles
and motorcycles, let alone something like that.
I guess I never really thought of it before, but you know, those big
trucks are just stupid. I'm sorry, but I call a spade a spade when I run
into it. They are noisy, dangerous to other vehicles if involved in an
accident, and it takes the creation of about two new off-shore oil wells
to fuel them for a year.
Umberto Eco said it best I think, in his essay "Travels in Hyperreality."
America is obsessed with Bigness. If there's More Of It, we're All For It.
If trucks are good, then huge trucks are better. If you want a burger, why
not go for one so big that you can't even get your mouth around it. And,
strangely, if you want to live nicely, then living richly is even better.
And we wonder how we get into such messes as the current real-estate/banking
fiasco. It might pertain to blame Wall Street and the banking industry. But
they are really only reflecting our culture of conspicuous consumption.
(Richard has written well of this in a recent post.)
Well, I do know one thing. Monster trucks can scare the hell out of puppies.
I don't like them. I wish they'd just go away. Fall into some strange time-
warp thing back to the 50s.
:sst: they are uglyPoor Sasha :awww:
I don't assume that a thing like the above depicted was moving around on your road? You're talking about "normal" trucks, aren't you? Like a Ford Ranger or something?You're right, of course, about the super-size everything. Here in Europe we were close to adopting huge cars and trucks too – until the carbon oxide consciousness came upon us. Now my government changed the whole tax-system concerning vehicles. We're punished when riding fuel non-efficient cars and rewarded when driving fuel efficient dittos.Now all of a sudden the 4X4 trucks are rare. It's okay. I support that.Here you see my monster truck. 60 miles per gallon of diesel.
Subaru?
Toyota
We have big trucks here. I'm used to those. The Ford F-250s and F-350s and such. The one that passed by wasn't as big as the truck in the photo, but it wasn't a normal truck either. Probably an old F-150 that had been substantially modified. Except for the compact trucks like the Ford Ranger, the full-sized trucks are amoung the worst vehicles for gas mileage.Allan, you ought to pimp your ride. Get a new chassis for your Toyota, soup up that biofuel engine (a Honda racing engine running ethanol?), get some really big tires/wheels, and a lot of bright running lights.OR, you could dress up like a giant chicken and ride a unicycle down the street. That might get you noticed even better. 🙂
OR, – even better – I'll build that Fred Flintstone car I've been dreaming of ever since I was a kid. Low mileage and heavy wheels. That'll give them something to talk about.Just keep your dog out of the way.
I couldn`t see a sign on the front clearly. And nowdays cars all look alike. In the past, during 70s, you could tell the difference only by the shape of it 🙂
You're right. They are all created in the same wind-tunnel. Physics above beauty. But it works. Those 70ies cars broke down all the time – or maybe because I could only afford the rubbish back then 🙂
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