The guy with a truck had a concept of a plan
You all laugh, but one time I was young, dumb, and just did what people told me to do.
In this regard, I found myself pulling a grain auger on a much-too-small flat deck trailer. The trailer was maybe 10ft long by 6 ft wide, so we put one wheel of the grain auger on the deck, and one on the external tail light of the trailer which was relatively sturdy. ‘are you sure this is a good idea?’ ‘fuck it, she’ll go. Just go slow’
So I start driving. No immediate problems. Turns out that going down a major, winding hill at the 100 km posted speed limit is not a good idea with an awkward load. It’s also a pretty interesting time to figure out that if you brake, you make the trailer sway worse. Hmm so speed up it is! Started at the top of the hill at about 90 km/hr and came out for it at about 120 km/hr. Lol.
And that’s just one of the times I shoulda died! Whee.
This is also why I mentor the fuck out of any junior I work with. too many stories like this.
I’ve also got a story of other people saying “it’ll be fine” while I should have been thinking for myself.
I used to be a garbage truck driver. I was sent to pick up a bin at some fishing club. It was at the end of a dead end road. I drove my truck to the end hoping there would be enough room to turn the truck around. Of course there wasn’t. That’s when I should’ve just decided to back out, but I didn’t. I asked the members of that club if the garbage truck usually turns around or backs out. They said “sure you can turn it on the grass, they do that all the time”.
So I started turning, one small moment later, I was stuck in the grass. My back wheels just kept slipping and digging in deeper. I putting gravel and wooden boards under the wheels, but nothing really worked. In the end we got like 6 of the fingers to push the truck (10.000+kg) out of the grass… and they fucking did it! It took a little back and forth, but we managed to get the truck out with teamwork.
It was a pretty stupid decision of mine, but I learned from it. It was 10 years ago, but I still remember it well,because it was just and awesome experience of teamwork and humanity.
6 of the fingers
I don’t get that term in this context. What’s a “finger” here?
autocorrect of fisher I assume.
Yes, I have a new phone and the autocorrect is the worst. I’m trying my best to tame it, but it just sucks
Fish finger?
I keep looking at it wondering … Why? The others are common. The truck, however took a little special reasoning.
Underestimating the bed rail loading. I’d love to make a Ford joke, but let’s be real, all truck beds would crumple like that.
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The truck one is one of the only ones that I know is real cause I have seen that photo before.
Don’t know what level of compression they went through to make the photo look like that but it didn’t always.
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Once again the minivan heavy portfolio pays.
*The damage to the drywall was like that from the store it was 75% off and being used to make some patches and fill a small renovation.
Not only did I haul drywall home in a minivan, I even had the foresight to buy a couple of 2x4s to act as rails to slide it on so the edges wouldn’t get chewed up by the rounded rear hatch opening.
Have a camper minivan, and have on a number of occasions pulled the cushions out to haul.
I worked at home depot, and our manager made people sign a form before having a Hi-Lo load a pallet of floor tile into their truck because it would cause their suspension to bottom out. They’d do it, and drive off with zero leeway on their shocks.
We had one guy come in bragging about how his super-expensive hydraulic suspension could handle it. We loaded 2 pallets of tile into his truck bed. I bet he felt every little crack in the road driving to the job site.
You do feel every little bump and odds are your suspension will never be the same afterwords. But that’s why you do it with beater trucks and not anything you actually care about. My dad did the same thing except with landscaping blocks in an old salt truck he picked up for like $200. You can’t break a suspension that’s already broke.
Or that’s the theory anyways. In reality he wound up blowing the same rear tire 3 times on the trip home. Four times if you count the tire blowing again after the truck was parked. We kept having to pull over, dismount the tire, take it home, mount another used tire on the rim, take it back to the truck, and put it back on, and go until it blew again. Every time we had to do that I reminded him that I had told him before hand that he should bring the trailer.
People that make memes and don’t spell check is my least favorite genre
Based on the top two “photos”, they must have just got done typing “generate” a few times, so I guess I can see how the error might have occurred.
Elsewhere in the thread someone shared one of the originals where text that’s mucked up in the above meme is clear as day. The crazy artifacting must come from some bizarre compression or automated touchup by an editing software. Maybe automated upscaling?
A lot of times bad spelling and grammar are both engagement bait ploys. People can’t resist clicking to make comments about it.
How do you feel about punctuation?
I can take it or leave it
Fair, enough
I think they spelled “genera” correctly, but there’s no reason to use the plural here
I thought they meant to use “genre,” which makes more sense because who calls a type of meme a “genus?”
I dunno, Richard Dawkins?
Be the change you want to see in the world
Maybe they have gonorrhea?
Details.
See also: people struggling to fit IKEA packages in their vehicle.
Bonus: while the cursed, multi-directional-wheeled carts roll out from under them.
I prefer stuck mining equipment tbh
They will rent you a fucking truck, it isn’t that expensive either.
in my experience, it’s better to fuck in a van.
Really it depends. Truck fucking can be way more fun, if you can find somewhere to bend over the tailgate while getting railed. It’s really quite exhilarating. But if you’re in the cab, van is definitely better.
Like $20 for the first 90 minutes. Makes it very affordable to not own a truck for the few times a year you might need to haul something home
Rented the biggest truck they had at home Depot.
American trucks are so shit that it still wouldn’t fit the small length of lino I had cut for my bunny room.
Shoulda just tied it to my little car and saved the 70 bucks.
The store nearest me will deliver whatever you want for a $30 flat rate. I have a minivan so I can still carry a lot of stuff myself but for that price it lets me avoid messing with removing my seats so it’s worth it
Genera?
Genre.
it’s very much ai,
generation?`Plural of genre. Still should have been singular “genre” though, unless there are multiple genera of these images.I was thinking of “genus”.
I think the word genre comes directly from the french word (“genre”, meaning “type”), which in the plural form is “genres”. I don’t think “genera” means anything, it’s probably a typo
“Genera” is a plural form of “genus” (i.e. also “type,” but in the fancy scientific sense used in taxonomy).
Derp, that’s what I was thinking of.
They apparently couldn’t be bothered to to type out
Generated?
Yeah…no it isn’t.
Pretty sure that’s Italian for genre. Or a weird typo/autocorrect error/both 😁
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nope. it’s the plural.
The plural of genre is genres. The singular of genera is genus… Which might make sense here, but not as a plural.
Nope. Its genera in this context because they are discussing it as species.
They are pluralizing genus. Its a reference to it being a new “species” of image.
Your assumption of the word they are pluralizing was wrong.
Still wrong because they are refering to an individual “species” of image, so it would be genus not genera.
Have, you lost Ted?
Imagine buying truck just for this moment and then screwed up the loading part.
Best part is, there’s a hitch on the back, so buddy has used it with a trailer, just not this time when it would have been the ideal solution
I bought a locker a while back, like the kind you would find in the employee room of a closing bed bath and beyond. It didn’t quite fit as expected so we ended up just tying the back hatch as closed as it could with a single rope and took back roads the whole way home. I don’t think we went above 20mph for fear of the damage this giant steel box would cause if it fell out. Also got a tetanus shot the next day because I managed to rip my hand on its rusted foot. Good times, I love that locker
Go to the Netherlands and see the same thing, but with bikes. I once brought back a 1,5 meter long wooden pannel under my arm. I didn’t anticipate the wind, which started to push me out of the road.
Believe me, those folks with the small cars had a plan. They just got carried away. Always amazed at what I can get into my Yaris with a little creative thinking.
I loaded a deck joist into my Scion tC when I realized one of mine was rotten (while replacing the boards). I put it through the sunroof into the “trunk” (it’s a hatchback) and drove home like a majestic blue unicorn. It was beautiful.
Got home and my neighbor said, “You could’ve asked!” while gesturing to his pickup truck.
I said, “I wanted to see if it would work!”
I got carried away with a 2004 Chevy Cavalier coupe at Ikea like 15 years ago. I bought a bedframe, nightstand, dresser, and a couple cheap wood chairs.
And then I saw a small cheap couch and decided to grab it impulsively on my way to checkout like it was a pack of gum or something.
I got everything except the couch to just barely barely fit, and I started looking at that huge box for the couch and thought “have I lost my mind” and had to go back in and return it right then and there
/r/miatalogistics
I’ve carried various 6-10’ pipes and poles sticking out the passenger seat of my Miata. Infinite vertical space! lol
We got the 12 ft skeleton into my wife’s Honda Fit. I mean, the box wouldn’t fit so the employees helped us load every single piece in, but we got it all in!
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I don’t actually think a single of these photos are AI generated which is insane.
I was in college and needed to fix my apartment. I didn’t own a car and took the bus to Lowe’s. I called my buddy who had a car.
I’m in this picture.
I’m glad you made it ok! This one looks really dangerous for the people.
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I’m leaning towards real, there’s signs in the background that have coherent text on them, instead of weird, unintelligible, almost-letters.
I’m leaning real too, the one where the guy destroyed his truck bed by ratchet strapping whatever that is to his wheel well is literally in the HD parking lot and that’s exactly what would happen if someone was stupid enough to try it. But the first one with the “Mazda” logo in the background, that one looks fake as hell, so I’m torn lol.
I really hope AI continues to have noticable failures. I have my doubts, but one can hope.
And this one makes absolutely no sense because a single search gives you hundreds of these pictures. It took more effort to generate these than to find them.
In genera, i think this is a pretty good comment.
“I NEED TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE BECAUSE I CAN’T TAKE A LOAD OF TWO BY FOURS ON A BIKE!!!”
*buys car*
*does shit like this*
It’s the pickup, a car designed to carry shit, that is struggling to carry shit that does it for me. Do American DIY shops not do Home Delivery?
You know this picture is fake right?
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That one’s real tho - higher res image here. Truck beds are mega flimsy up top aside from the stake pockets
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I can’t vouch for the others but I just remember seeing that truck pic make its rounds on reddit. Hard to tell what’s real and not with the compression in this pic tho and with all the AI stuff floating around, never hurts to be skeptical!
Yeah, 3 out of 4 AI generated fodder and the 4th is using some weird downscale that manages to also give off AI vibes… I can understand the impression myself…
Nope the others aren’t AI generated either. Same weird filter on all of them to make it feel that way. Seriously don’t know why or how they did it.
Maybe they used an AI service to upscale the otherwise small res picture instead of looking for the original ones.
Absurd fake crunch? Dude the bed is meant to support the weight you aren’t supposed to put a pallet on the bare aluminum frame like that. It’s exactly how it crunches when people put heavy things across the top of their bed like that.
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I have no idea how they managed to make the photo look AI generated with compression and it now has me thinking it’s literally gonna be a style to make real photos look like that, like someone predicted at the start of the AI generated movement.
I think it was more how weird the downscale looked for that one, along with being posted next to AI generated ones.
I still wonder if it was purposefully done to make them look AI generated cause I have compressed photos to 144p and they don’t look that warped and fluid. Like they fed it backwards through an AI generator.
P.S. pretty sure they are all real. Seen these photos on reddit years ago.
They do, it’s not cheap, like $50
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50 bucks is cheap compared to destroying the bed of your truck, and spending thousands on material
That is not limited to Home Depot. I once saw two ladies trying to fit three trollys full with an IKEA bedroom (bed, frame, mattresses, and a stack of PAX wardrobes, plus a heap of smaller items) into a compact car. A very compact car…
I didn’t see anyone link to the original!
The sleeping face tied up in twine is iconic
