When I lived in Texas, they also all had those ginornmous bumper guards designed for law enforcement. I don't see those so much in Georgia, where I live now. Got hit from behind by one of these jerks in Austin. Luckily, very slowly, so no major damage done, but they're designed to take you out.
Luckily, some good news: The U.S. Department of Transportation is issuing new regulations designed to address oversized vehicles in light of statistics that show a significant increase in injuries and deaths from people in smaller vehicles.
The USDT is taking an interesting approach by focusing on the design of the front slope of the vehicles such that it makes it structurally difficult to design a vehicle that can meet safety requirements by accommodating the new design requirements in a vehicle over a certain size. The agency is addressing the slope of the front of the vehicles because the drivers of the vehicles can't see pedestrians in front of them.
I live outside of Austin, Texass (but not a Texassan from NM) and these fools have no idea how stupid (ignorance can be fixed, stupidity cannot) they look and act. They are over compensating for their manhood, which, evidently, is in the teeny tiny range. Thankfully I’m retired now and don’t have to go into Austin every day. When we moved here 33 year’s ago it was a great place to live and the political atmosphere was great, now, not so much. The only thing good about Austin is they do have good medical care; when you’re getting older, that matters.
Agree. I do like CM and H‑E‑B. They’re both owned by the same family. I shop at the CM on Westgate and H‑E‑B on Slaughter and Congress. I take backroads into Austin, no HWY 71 for me, it’s too crazy, totally insane would be the correct word.
As I've gotten older I don't enjoy driving as much as I used to. But I don't remember 71 being too traumatic. The loop around Houston was like being in a Mad Max movie, though.
Sadly, when I lived in Austin, the traffic tended to be too slow for me to get freaked out, lol. People can only do so much damage at 5 mph, even with those nasty bumper guards!
Oh, it has changed dramatically and not for the good. It’s too peopley (new word) for me. They zoom and don’t use their blinkers and I have seen it backed up for miles. I took the loop around Houston one time, years ago, never again. It’s most likely even worse now. Now we have the toll roads and that’s not too great either and of course Hwy 183, which is as bad as 71. We are considering moving back to NM, but not Albuquerque or Santa Fe, as they are as bad as the Austin area.
On the 2-lane road in front of our neighborhood, we hear them first, followed by them roaring past. First words that we say to each other is “teeny peeny”. Sometimes they fool us and it turns out to be a souped-up Dodge Charger, but it’s usually an oversized pickup. They aren’t fooling us with their display of non-existent manhood.
There should be more discussion in our society about this phenomenon. My wife says it every dang time, it always makes me laugh. Anything noisy and big is a sign of overcompensation. Our whole society needs therapy.
I so agree! My friends and I laugh at those and refer to them as “those honkin’ big butt pickup trucks.” Which is a mild way of putting it.
Surely they cause accidents- partly because they block your entire field of vision when you’re unlucky enough to get behind one; and partly because the driver is usually showing off with it.
I would be totally gobsmacked if I heard an entitled owner of one of those complaining about the price of fuel. Good grief. 🤦🏼♀️
You took the words right out of my mouth. But I’d add in the emotionally and maturity stunted old guys who insist on driving their 1970 Mustangs or Chargers or any of the 60’s and 70’s muscle cars with souped up exhaust systems as well. They ALL suffer from tiny dick syndrome. And watching a bunch of Gen Z and Alpha bust a gut laughing at the “dinosaurs in their dickmobiles” is hysterical!
Agreed. We have a backyard mechanic in our block who works on these types of vehicles, and as soon as he moved in and set up shop a bunch of the neighbours went over and had a chat with him. Told him in no uncertain terms that as long as he shut everything down no later than 7 pm on weeknights or 9 on weekends he’d enjoy living here. Not sure exactly what else they told him, but he keeps the revving and burnouts down to a VERY dull roar, doesn’t inconvenience us much, though it’s still irritating to listen to a motor tune up!
I agree wholeheartedly with you, Walter. I am a 70 year old woman, beekeeper, retired landscape/horticultural services company owner/operator, turtle rescuer, and I own a 2006 Toyota Tundra, manual transmission, that I love dearly and will never give up. The newer Tundras are offensively huge and ridiculous, but the Ram Tough (hahaha) trucks are the worst. You can't even reach into the bed of the truck because of the unnecessary height. Also, Ram trucks have the worst reliability record.
Being somewhat of a contradiction: a gearhead, tool-loving, outdoorswoman liberal who also loves the cultural arts, avant garde jazz, classical, folk and world music. I think there are other women (and men, too) out there like me who would love a small pickup for work. I often grumble about how stupidly outfitted these trucks are, plush upholstery instead of vinyl or leather seats, stupid carpeting instead of vinyl flooring with optional mats on top, and other accoutrements that are totally unnecessary, quickly trashed, and testicular. I gently take issue with Veggie Annie about the 'small penis' criticism, as the drivers of these monster trucks are often also misogynistic, not liberal, bigoted, and obviously oblivious to protecting the environment. But the icing on the cake is/was the popularity of large, dangling, commercially available rubber scrotums/testicles that pickup drivers had hanging off the back of their trailer hitches, which I found ludicrous, stupid, and quite offensive. I still see them from time to time, especially in very rural areas. These guys definitely have some sort of performance issues. It is way past time for smaller pickup trucks for the myriad tradespeople like me.
Hilarious and dead-on. A lot of cliches - every one true. And, at least here in Florida, almost every compensatory truck has identified with 45 with banners, flags, and stickers. A total picture of inadequacy.
You can't be talking about me and my 2015 Chevy Silverado work truck with a V-6 yet I feel guilty in merely owning my truck. (I call it Moby) it's a white whale. I don't feel like I'm compensating for my non functioning man unit in driving it. I can't say I approve of your whitewashing all big trucks with the same brush. Stereotyping may seem like fun in some respects but it just boils down to prejudice of a different ilk.
I hate those vehicles except when they're used for work. I get it -- farmers and contractors etc need a big-ass truck. But I have always driven small cars. Once I was forced to take a loaner van when whatever little car I had was being repaired. I think they thought I'd love it. I felt like I was steering a house down the road. No, I did not like it!
Yeah I think the main issue is not that these men have small dicks (I believe they do) but that they are so ashamed, steeped in toxic masculinity, and overcompensating for it by ruining the planet (and they are often the same virulently misogynists taking away women’s rights). I mean, women love a man who is hung like a frickin’ hamster but is confident in his masculinity and supports her equality and cares about whether this planet and its inhabitants survive past 2030. (That guys a liberal and probably a fantastic lover.)
We live in a working class neighborhood, where it seems every man in the county with a small member has apparently moved down the street from us. In this child laden area, which those same youngsters use to walk to school, the speed limit is 25mph. I can personally attest to some vehicles driving over 100mph past our home. (former cop)
As most have done, we too comment about the compensatory size of the trucks zooming past. We have used a child friendly acronym for them:
...DFBT's
Dumb Fucks in Big Trucks
I've even told my three other brothers what I call these tiny Johnson'd men & they uncomfortably laughed, as all three own huge trucks. I'm in a Hyundai Santa Cruz that I use like a big farm truck. I might get smirks & laughs from asshole Chevy, Ford & Dodge owners, but I grin right back & wave... at boy/men with infant sized dicks driving themselves to the poorhouse. 🤣
It's truly a disarming thing to say to those guys. They'll make a lot of noise and scream profanities at you and jam their racist flags in your face, but the minute you point out they're overcompensating, they get really quiet.
We had one follow us in our handicapped van because we simply honked at him in traffic. Ran us down for miles to pull up beside us, like you said, screaming at us "cripples" (my disabled daughter's van), "someone should do something about you people." I invited him to step out, like all DFBT cowards, he declined, leaving $100 working of chickenshit rubber on the road behind him.
There is an old British film called Personal Services where some of the 'ladies of the evening' see a fancy car pull up and a rather unattractive man gets out and all the ladies start commenting "BCSD, BCSD", meaning "Big Car, Small Dick". I'd say that women's perspectives are universal and based upon a modicum of experience.
When I lived in Texas, they also all had those ginornmous bumper guards designed for law enforcement. I don't see those so much in Georgia, where I live now. Got hit from behind by one of these jerks in Austin. Luckily, very slowly, so no major damage done, but they're designed to take you out.
Luckily, some good news: The U.S. Department of Transportation is issuing new regulations designed to address oversized vehicles in light of statistics that show a significant increase in injuries and deaths from people in smaller vehicles.
The USDT is taking an interesting approach by focusing on the design of the front slope of the vehicles such that it makes it structurally difficult to design a vehicle that can meet safety requirements by accommodating the new design requirements in a vehicle over a certain size. The agency is addressing the slope of the front of the vehicles because the drivers of the vehicles can't see pedestrians in front of them.
That’s encouraging news! Once again this is an important topic that gets little to no attention in the media.
I live outside of Austin, Texass (but not a Texassan from NM) and these fools have no idea how stupid (ignorance can be fixed, stupidity cannot) they look and act. They are over compensating for their manhood, which, evidently, is in the teeny tiny range. Thankfully I’m retired now and don’t have to go into Austin every day. When we moved here 33 year’s ago it was a great place to live and the political atmosphere was great, now, not so much. The only thing good about Austin is they do have good medical care; when you’re getting older, that matters.
"The only thing good about Austin is they do have good medical care..."
And Central Market :-)
Agree. I do like CM and H‑E‑B. They’re both owned by the same family. I shop at the CM on Westgate and H‑E‑B on Slaughter and Congress. I take backroads into Austin, no HWY 71 for me, it’s too crazy, totally insane would be the correct word.
As I've gotten older I don't enjoy driving as much as I used to. But I don't remember 71 being too traumatic. The loop around Houston was like being in a Mad Max movie, though.
Sadly, when I lived in Austin, the traffic tended to be too slow for me to get freaked out, lol. People can only do so much damage at 5 mph, even with those nasty bumper guards!
Oh, it has changed dramatically and not for the good. It’s too peopley (new word) for me. They zoom and don’t use their blinkers and I have seen it backed up for miles. I took the loop around Houston one time, years ago, never again. It’s most likely even worse now. Now we have the toll roads and that’s not too great either and of course Hwy 183, which is as bad as 71. We are considering moving back to NM, but not Albuquerque or Santa Fe, as they are as bad as the Austin area.
On the 2-lane road in front of our neighborhood, we hear them first, followed by them roaring past. First words that we say to each other is “teeny peeny”. Sometimes they fool us and it turns out to be a souped-up Dodge Charger, but it’s usually an oversized pickup. They aren’t fooling us with their display of non-existent manhood.
There should be more discussion in our society about this phenomenon. My wife says it every dang time, it always makes me laugh. Anything noisy and big is a sign of overcompensation. Our whole society needs therapy.
Expand this idea to include all expensive high status show off vehicles.
True.
I so agree! My friends and I laugh at those and refer to them as “those honkin’ big butt pickup trucks.” Which is a mild way of putting it.
Surely they cause accidents- partly because they block your entire field of vision when you’re unlucky enough to get behind one; and partly because the driver is usually showing off with it.
I would be totally gobsmacked if I heard an entitled owner of one of those complaining about the price of fuel. Good grief. 🤦🏼♀️
They're the only ones who complain about fuel. That's the official vehicle of the conservative ideology.
A rather Freudian analysis of American male inadequacy.
The whole nation sometimes seems like it's overcompensating.
You took the words right out of my mouth. But I’d add in the emotionally and maturity stunted old guys who insist on driving their 1970 Mustangs or Chargers or any of the 60’s and 70’s muscle cars with souped up exhaust systems as well. They ALL suffer from tiny dick syndrome. And watching a bunch of Gen Z and Alpha bust a gut laughing at the “dinosaurs in their dickmobiles” is hysterical!
My main issue with those cars is when they’re so noisy they wake up people who are trying to sleep.
Agreed. We have a backyard mechanic in our block who works on these types of vehicles, and as soon as he moved in and set up shop a bunch of the neighbours went over and had a chat with him. Told him in no uncertain terms that as long as he shut everything down no later than 7 pm on weeknights or 9 on weekends he’d enjoy living here. Not sure exactly what else they told him, but he keeps the revving and burnouts down to a VERY dull roar, doesn’t inconvenience us much, though it’s still irritating to listen to a motor tune up!
at least he listened a little, that's better than most.
Driving a giant truck and complaining about the price of gas.
Yup, that’s what they do.
Amen … and most of the drivers are over aggressive on the highways … get em off the roads.. leave them on the farm covered in cow dung !
Absolutely.
I agree wholeheartedly with you, Walter. I am a 70 year old woman, beekeeper, retired landscape/horticultural services company owner/operator, turtle rescuer, and I own a 2006 Toyota Tundra, manual transmission, that I love dearly and will never give up. The newer Tundras are offensively huge and ridiculous, but the Ram Tough (hahaha) trucks are the worst. You can't even reach into the bed of the truck because of the unnecessary height. Also, Ram trucks have the worst reliability record.
Being somewhat of a contradiction: a gearhead, tool-loving, outdoorswoman liberal who also loves the cultural arts, avant garde jazz, classical, folk and world music. I think there are other women (and men, too) out there like me who would love a small pickup for work. I often grumble about how stupidly outfitted these trucks are, plush upholstery instead of vinyl or leather seats, stupid carpeting instead of vinyl flooring with optional mats on top, and other accoutrements that are totally unnecessary, quickly trashed, and testicular. I gently take issue with Veggie Annie about the 'small penis' criticism, as the drivers of these monster trucks are often also misogynistic, not liberal, bigoted, and obviously oblivious to protecting the environment. But the icing on the cake is/was the popularity of large, dangling, commercially available rubber scrotums/testicles that pickup drivers had hanging off the back of their trailer hitches, which I found ludicrous, stupid, and quite offensive. I still see them from time to time, especially in very rural areas. These guys definitely have some sort of performance issues. It is way past time for smaller pickup trucks for the myriad tradespeople like me.
Hilarious and dead-on. A lot of cliches - every one true. And, at least here in Florida, almost every compensatory truck has identified with 45 with banners, flags, and stickers. A total picture of inadequacy.
Glad someone has said it!
Thanks for reading!
You can't be talking about me and my 2015 Chevy Silverado work truck with a V-6 yet I feel guilty in merely owning my truck. (I call it Moby) it's a white whale. I don't feel like I'm compensating for my non functioning man unit in driving it. I can't say I approve of your whitewashing all big trucks with the same brush. Stereotyping may seem like fun in some respects but it just boils down to prejudice of a different ilk.
A V-6 utility vehicle isn’t what I described. I didn’t whitewash all vehicles, I was talking about something very specific.
I hate those vehicles except when they're used for work. I get it -- farmers and contractors etc need a big-ass truck. But I have always driven small cars. Once I was forced to take a loaner van when whatever little car I had was being repaired. I think they thought I'd love it. I felt like I was steering a house down the road. No, I did not like it!
Yeah I think the main issue is not that these men have small dicks (I believe they do) but that they are so ashamed, steeped in toxic masculinity, and overcompensating for it by ruining the planet (and they are often the same virulently misogynists taking away women’s rights). I mean, women love a man who is hung like a frickin’ hamster but is confident in his masculinity and supports her equality and cares about whether this planet and its inhabitants survive past 2030. (That guys a liberal and probably a fantastic lover.)
Agree100%!!
We live in a working class neighborhood, where it seems every man in the county with a small member has apparently moved down the street from us. In this child laden area, which those same youngsters use to walk to school, the speed limit is 25mph. I can personally attest to some vehicles driving over 100mph past our home. (former cop)
As most have done, we too comment about the compensatory size of the trucks zooming past. We have used a child friendly acronym for them:
...DFBT's
Dumb Fucks in Big Trucks
I've even told my three other brothers what I call these tiny Johnson'd men & they uncomfortably laughed, as all three own huge trucks. I'm in a Hyundai Santa Cruz that I use like a big farm truck. I might get smirks & laughs from asshole Chevy, Ford & Dodge owners, but I grin right back & wave... at boy/men with infant sized dicks driving themselves to the poorhouse. 🤣
It's truly a disarming thing to say to those guys. They'll make a lot of noise and scream profanities at you and jam their racist flags in your face, but the minute you point out they're overcompensating, they get really quiet.
We had one follow us in our handicapped van because we simply honked at him in traffic. Ran us down for miles to pull up beside us, like you said, screaming at us "cripples" (my disabled daughter's van), "someone should do something about you people." I invited him to step out, like all DFBT cowards, he declined, leaving $100 working of chickenshit rubber on the road behind him.
It's scary and unacceptable that so many people feel entitled to behave that way and use that language. I'm glad it didn't end up being worse.
There is an old British film called Personal Services where some of the 'ladies of the evening' see a fancy car pull up and a rather unattractive man gets out and all the ladies start commenting "BCSD, BCSD", meaning "Big Car, Small Dick". I'd say that women's perspectives are universal and based upon a modicum of experience.
🤣