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> 50 = boomer < 25 = millennial

For everything else, there’s MasterCard

What is your unpopular flim opinion

I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds

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I mean, it is, but it’s still good.

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But imagine how drunk they’d get if they did that.

Obi,
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Dutch/I think some Belgians also do 3. I’m sure there’s some random place in France that would do that also.

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Happened to a friend of mine, terrible.

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Ok this one then. https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/233798f0-4115-4bca-80ac-d945aeb9c35d.jpeg

Or maybe a van which does all of the above and also keeps your stuff dry and locked away.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/8e0b8355-ae28-4da7-a392-84049a33f092.jpeg

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Ford F150 max payload: 1508kg

Renault Master max payload: 1,610kg

I mean the whole rest of the world seems to manage just fine without these, and we have tradesmen as well? The cabins can be as clean or dirty as you need, I’ve seen everything, loading trash or debris is also fine. If you’re really carrying mostly gravel or other type of stuff like that then you’d have something specialized for that with a much bigger box than on your pickups, or rent it for the job.

But looking at your other comments in the thread I see that you’re just set in your ideas and just looking at finding justifications for niche cases where it might be a superior vehicle, which I don’t deny certainly exist, but that’s not the problem, the problem is these are a dime a dozen if not the majority on your roads, and they’re not at all good as normal vehicles whereas the vans are. Also they’re honestly just superior in pretty much every way, flat bottom, low load-in height, can accept pallets, stuff stays dry, locked, engines are efficient and not crazy oversize and gaz-guzzling, they have good viewing angles at the front (e.g. you would see a child in front of the vehicle), etc etc etc.

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I think we do agree, it’s hard to tell sometimes haha. I base my view that they’re not needed by 99% of the population on the fact I see much less than 1% of them on our roads (thankfully) and everyone seems to be doing just fine.

I get it, they’re kind of a middle ground trying to do it all but it fails at doing so imo and in the process, creates dangerous and polluting vehicles, compounded by the fact they’re getting bought on whim or as social status but then never see the use they’re supposed to be made for, just terrible all around.

But indeed I don’t deny they can be good specialized vehicles, I just think these cases are <1% of the population like if you’re chasing bears in the arctic or something, and certainly trades people etc would generally not need them and be better served by alternatives.

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And if you do chances are you’d happily take other people’s cheap toasters and repair them just for the fun of it.

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Ok but that guy in the back clearly had the nicest design, just look at the dynamic in the lines on that wheel.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/f22ce697-166c-4871-b0fa-2d578cf29837.jpeg

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I don’t have a guide but a simple rockwool system is great and pretty easy to manage. Results are explosive.

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Well if we all participate we can get a bigger house. I feel like a commune is forming.

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I use cameras for a living and basically never shoot anything for fun anymore (if anything I’m shooting for my portfolio if I’m not getting paid), because there’s just no joy in it anymore, but landscapes are the exception I’ll always feel happy with getting photos of footage of the beautiful places I visit.

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More importantly they participate in Eurovision so really that says it all. I for one welcome our down under cousins to the continent.

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I think that’s pretty natural? If you weren’t getting any of the movie there’d be no points and we’d just read the subs on a kindle or something.

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There was no internet access in bed kind of thing when I was a teen and I still did the same thing, I just used books and the radio instead.

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In Europe we have vans, they use barely more fuel than regular cars (at least until the really big ones) and can be used for just about any trade.

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Yep in Italy is dirt cheap but the further away you go the more the American style stays cheap while the Italian style becomes “gourmet” and gets more expensive.

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What a beautiful blue. Can you imagine if we all had different coloured ballsacks?

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-> Seatbelt

-> Phone in holder + plug

-> Vape out + plug

-> Select destination in GPS

-> Stare into the void and contemplate the utter futility of existence

-> Select Music or podcast

-> Prepare any drinks or snacks for the trip

-> Drive off

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GREAT way to stand out from the crowd, just look at all the attention they’re getting on that poster.

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I love my metalhead brethren to bits but you gotta say this has real “let’s be different by being like everyone else” energy.

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It’s just momentum. Chrome was THE advised browser for a long time and people are just used to it.

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It gets used for all of that but I think it’s also more literally the feeling you get standing near a tall edge and picturing what it’d be like to jump. Translated from the French “l’appel du vide” I believe. I have it very strong, all the forms…

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