Honestly, it just feels like a matter of time before we’re gonna see tractor sized vehicles around in cities and people are still gonna say they NEED them for groceries. Yet when I actually visited America and we went grocery shopping with a pickup the size of my room back home, I got the experience of having shopping bags on my lap in the passage seat for the first time ever. Like where else you gonna put it? The trunk? The back seats??? Oh you jokester! There’s like legit no space inside these things.

  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    5 hours ago

    These absurd large cars (factory setuo tho, no lift kits here) have been increasing on our roads in the Netherlands.

    I was told we pay some hefty taxes when importing these gas guzzling beasts from american origin.

    But it seems when a company does the importing it doesn’t count for some reason? These big built beasts with crawling tires the ones with treads running up the sidewalls cost a mere €50.000 when a regular old vw golf starts at €35.000.

    And the fuckers are so tall you can’t even reach the bed without a damn step.

    We don’t need those cars here because we can’t fit them. I wish all these contractors would just get vans like normal contractors do, where you can lock your shit and fit loads more in an enclosed space.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      It doesn’t count for the same reason it doesn’t in the US I bet. They count them as work vehicles so they’re taxed and regulated differently. At least in your country a company has to buy them. Here anyone can just buy them and get the benefits.

    • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      But it seems when a company does the importing it doesn’t count for some reason?

      If lobbying is legal in your country then political representation is literally for sale which allows the rich buy to special privileges.

  • BlueLineBaeEnglish
    111·
    7 hours ago

    I can’t tell you how much happier I was to move to a neighborhood in the city where the grocery store was a 5 min walk away. I always see old ladies with a wheelie cart walking home from the store. And one day I said Fuck it I’m getting an old lady cart! And it’s the best! I can comfortably buy more groceries and walk them home. Only time I ever need to bring the car is if we’re buying cases of beer or something else large.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      6 hours ago

      Walking to the groccery store is my weekly routine that gives me peace. Even if its completely miserable weather wise i always feel better after the walk. I tend to buy less junk too as I have to carry every ounce home, which also helps ensure I don’t let food go off. I have a lot more respect for my food and my effort now that I walk to get my grocceries.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    6 hours ago

    …I honestly don’t understand this meme. Where do you live that people are using huge vehicles to fit all their groceries? I guess I’ve seen it visiting a friend’s family that lives out in the country. The “big” grocery store was an hour away, so they would get like several weeks of groceries at a time. Maybe I’m just not understanding the point of the meme.

    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      As I understand it is that the 240t dumper obviously is not being used for groceries, because (supply side) no grocery shop or even wholesale gives out groceries in that scale and (demand side) no household needs as much haulage; simply put, current trucks are as ridiculous to everyday life as these dumper trucks are to standardised roads and shops.

      Same gist, but more explicitly gendered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZByvjgem6E

      • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        5 hours ago

        Maybe I misunderstood the OP. I thought they were saying they were in a huge truck and the person they were with got so many groceries that it filled the truck bed and full-size cab and they even had to have groceries in their lap. I get they’re trying to be critical of large vehicles, which I’m all for, but the way they went about it is so confusing that it pulled all my attention trying to figure out the bizarre context they were trying to manufacture in order to say big truck bad.

        It seems like a tremendous amount of groceries would actually be the extremely rare case where having a truck might serve a purpose. You know… once.

    • LANIK2000@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      The Americans I visited live in Indiana. Tho it’s less about them actually buying a lot (about a week’s worth), but rather that when talking about cars and how ridiculously huge their’s is, they always say that they need it for hauling and groceries. Meanwhile the rest of the world doesn’t experience this problem.

      And on top of that you can’t put anything into the trunk (or bed I suppose…) and the back seats are just barely spacious enough to fit a rifle case. So if you have around 6-8 bags of stuff, you’re gonna put some into the passenger seat. It’s especially funny, because even my mom’s tiny 3rd gen Clio fits more inside. Picking me up from the airport with barely space for my luggage was another fun one. But they insist on buying these expensive awkward vehicles.

      • WoahWoah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Ah, I see. Well, let me say this: seeing a grocery store parking lot filled with giganti-merican vehicles is always obnoxious.

        But why couldn’t you use the truck bed?? It’s like the one time they could have actually put it to use! You’d think they’d be all about it. Like guys (and it’s always guys) that carry a pocket knife and someone actually needs a knife for once. They practically cry they’re so happy.