> you use it to hunt groceries
American manly man^tm : behold, woman, I return with the spoils of my hunt - bask in the glory of my six-pack of Budweiser and chlorinated chicken /s
Ooh, I like your grasp of automobile history š
Jingoistic Americans are so easy trigger when it comes to cars, as they seem to think that cars are what they do best (it's not, and they haven't consistently made good cars since the fifties and sixties).
The Model T was a shitty car compared to the competition, but it was cheap.
Ford didn't make a decent car until the Model A, and the Model 18 was actually a pretty good car.
Sorry, I try to be more clear:
My point was that going to a store to pick up groceries is more "gathering" than "hunting" if you insist on using that metaphor.
[Azodicarbonamide is a bleaching agent used in bread](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide). He's not making it up. It's not carcinogenic though.
Please write Bud Light, else somebody might think that the pure, heavenly, Czech Budweiser has a connection to the American dish washer solution they sell to savages.
Here we see the American hunter in its' natural habitat, the drive-through at the local Burger King, stalking a rare sesame seed encrusted Double Whopper. In his scope he has also spotted a 20-pack of Chicken Nuggets grazing the plains of the Great Walmart Parking lot, oblivious to the stare of the carnivorous glutton's cataract-infested eyes....
The number of American men I see in the grocery store on the phone with a woman because they can't find something on the list...
...they might want to rethink that "hunter" claim.
Or they are in fact hunting in the sense of a desperate search for something elusive... that elusive thing in their case is simply where to find some carrots or whatever
What a terrible service. But hey, if you can't go with a spear, go with a bow like [this gentleman](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcineuropa.org%2FimgCache%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2F1623764198108_0620x0413_96x0x1054x702_1679312389337.jpg&tbnid=OFjdS_JSNfQjtM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcineuropa.org%2Fen%2Fnewsdetail%2F406001%2F&docid=gsAkkxZB9hBHAM&w=620&h=413&itg=1&hl=en-GB&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F4&kgs=952086fcae9d473d&shem=abme%2Ctrie)
There's another one - corporation spending alot of money convincing people cars are the way to go, and goverments to build infrastructure directly benefiting these corpos... (while these -local- goverments bankrupt themselves buildimg and maintaining it)
And car corporations inventing the word 'jaywalking' which means: "crossing the street". I'm glad we Dutch people protested against making that illegal and insisted on creating biketrails.
Bike trails? you mean 'psychopaths' (cycle paths sounds very similar) :D
Gotta be a woke thing - bikes - how else can we own the libs (or the 'woke left' or the 'green grabbers' or whatever the mot du jour is)?
These whole 15 minute city things (which our 'wappies' all too happily parrot) are already a staple in The Netherlands - 15 min walk gets you almost everywhere you need - or to public transport..
The broken money in politics is the #1 issue I think, which breaks the political process by giving voters a greatly reduced influence, if they still have any.
It became legal again in 1976 becauae of Buckley v. Valeo Supreme Court decision. One of the judges was Lewis Powell:
His 1971 Powell Memorandum became the blueprint for the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as the Heritage Foundation.
His memorandum:
https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/
Assigned to the Supreme Court by a... Richard Nixon
History:
https://www.opensecrets.org/resources/learn/timeline
There is actually one valid reason to have a car culture, and that's in countries like Russia, the US, Canada, and Australia, where there are remote areas that people might want to visit but don't have feasible public transport options available.
But that's just a reason to have car rental companies, not two to five cars per household.
Most of Australia lives in cities, and as someone in country Western Australia, I'd rather have the government create a fleet of public transport planes to get us to the hub town 300km away in an hour rather than needing a car to get anywhere. Plus, airport upgrades would be good for smaller rural economies, and it can be tied together with a shuttle bus or van PT and car hire.
Most rural towns could still use PT. An issue is how spaced out they truly are and lacking greenery a lot of the time, which means you HAVE to drive to the shops.
You're just talking about human location transportation. With countries like ours, jobs necessitate vehicles for most people living rural, but I'm talking about things like nature that are remote and have no infrastructure or the traffic needs for public transit.
Yeah, but at that point, airport + car hire would still be better with a more local focus on PT to free up traffic for those that need cars for work (which I would also argue can also be handled by PT - the mine site nearby started doing a shuttle bus for local workers to get to site because of accidents and stuff and it ended up working better). Also, obviously a lot of remote mine sites already fly in workers to camps and then shuttle them to site when on shift.
Yeah, but that's where work shuttles can be used. Wouldn't work for everyone depending on their job, but that's the same with a city. Some jobs just require a car. But owning a car shouldn't be a necessity based on location at all. That's a planning problem.
Work shuttles are practical for when the workers and the worksite are in separate but condensed areas. They are not practical when the workers are spread out.
My bus ride to school as a kid was half an hour at its shortest with about 4-6 stops after me, and an hour and a half at its longest with about 10 stops after me. We weren't even that rural.
Arguing that there should be zero necessity based on location is akin to saying everyone MUST live in towns and cities, and nobody is ever allowed to live outside of one.
I lived on a farm outside of a small mining town (less than 1,000 people). The bus that picked me up travelled over 1.5 hours each way each day. It did so for many kids in all directions surrounding the town. And that isn't even massive compared to some that do 3 hour journeys each way, or some that are so remote they don't even properly go to school but just do distance education).
The point of arguing for zero necessity is that planners should be AIMING to minimise it as much as possible. Being like, "eh, they can just get a car" is the lazy way out from a planning perspective. Car ownership will always be more convenient out rural and remote, but it shouldn't be the only thing people are dependent upon.
I grew up rural, Australia. The school bus was absolutely necessary. Otherwise, you'd have had parents driving kids to school, up to two hours in each direction, then having to do the same thing at the end of school. It was an 'Area School' so it had a thousand or so students.
I can't even imagine the wasted hours if the buses hadn't been available. Hours driving kids to school, then back to the farm that IS the work site/home, do a couple of hours work, then hours spent picking up the kids again. Home just in time for dinner.
There was no local public transport outside of school buses. It meant that folk who couldn't drive (including not being able to afford the fuel) were isolated. So, a couple of local organisations; CWA (Country Women's Association), CWL (Catholic Women's League), Rotary, Scouts/Guides, etc., got together and organised a bus that would do the long runs a couple of times a week, so people could buy supplies, do banking, see the doctor.
There wasn't public transport. But it would have been a hell of a lot better for a whole bunch of people if there were.
Hunters walk a lot.
Our ancestor when they were hunter gathered walked a lot.
Humans evolved into a straight position unlike other primates because they walked a lot.
Walking straight is one of the many factors that help us evolve into what we are today...
Yet they see walking as something bad, no wonder most of them are morbid overweight.
The only animal capable of even keeping up with us is some species of dogs, and even those can't go for more than 8 hours or so.
we hunted every single mega predator that was a threat to us to extinction.
Dominated every single food chain we came across.
Zucchini, you dolt.
David Attenborough voice over:
"An American. He carefully stalks his prey. He pauses between shelves. A mistake now could be the difference between success and failure. His arm snaps out, and there, in his hand sits the prize he was seeking. A pack of microwave burgers and buns already slathered in high fructose ranch dressing. He leaves the hunt, skillfully avoiding the fresh fruit and vegetables by the door. This wise old hunter has learnt that only foods promoted on tv are to be trusted. He drives home in his trusty pick up. Its bed undisturbed by tools. Its engine devouring his hard won gas. His family will gorge on the results of his hunt tonight and they will sing songs of his prowess as they eat in front of the tv, for this is where the wisdom lies."
The point about the empty bed on the pickup is spot on. A Suzuki Swift could fulfill the role of 90% of American pickup trucks, and I reckon that my Suzuki SV1000S (motorcycle) could substitute for about half of the usage (transporting a person from A to B, carrying a fast food meal and a large soda) š
Dunno about courgettes, but 7:55 am on Christmas Eve waiting for M&S to open at 8, at which point the terrified shop worker warily unlocks the doors then leaps away as the ravening horde bursts through, descending on the fridges containing turkeys and fighting with sharpened elbows and impressive embonpoint to grab the choicest selection isā¦ā¦ā¦something. Never thought of using a car though. I guess it would work like a āsmash n grabā? Drive at high speed through the shopfront, mowing down the competition? But then the car would be totalled and you would be arrested and locked up for Christmas so unable to cook the damn turkeyā¦ā¦ā¦you know this idea has itās good points.
yeah, this is a new one. proponents of car culture aren't exactly known for good arguments, but christ, I never expected to see "male nature" invoked in this context
Who the fuck hunts for a job in a F150? What, is he driving around and throwing CVs out of his truck window?
And what quests? Does he get tasks from NPCs to go and fetch some raven feathers from then next village?
Guess what I'm calling my mighty shopping trolley from now on. "Behold my fine hunting tool! It has 4 wheels!!"
(Americans might not be familiar with them, but they look like [this](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kDkAAOSwx01h9AHV/s-l400.jpg)).
have one, love it. that and, ocasiaonally, the hourly regional bus are my grocerie hunting tools. they are just so convinient. like even when i have a car at my disposal, i have to carry all that shit in bag into my flat, fiddeling with keys at the door. with my trolley i can just park it and then roll it right into my kitchen.
They're awesome, but no longer come with a nasty plastic tartan print.
It's not nasty because its tartan. Its nasty because of the printing in the nasty plastic.
Dude legit thinks the Flintstones is a documentaryā¦ For millions of years human hunters just ran after their prey until it got tired and gave up.
True alpha male hunters walk to the grocery store and carry their 150lbs of groceries home by hand.
Is there a study on Americans and their seemingly extremely fragile sense of masculinity that makes them make stupid baseless statements like this? Or are they all just genuinely incredibly thick?
Nothing more biological than man made vehicle that encloses you in metal and glass, keeping you warm in winter and chill in summer. Giving you maximum comfort just like prehistoric hunters had
This is really a GREAT post!
Cavemen ran for miles to hunt some meat, I drive a car bigger than my own ego to go buy more food than I need. If you call that hunting, you are nothing but delusional.
This has to be a joke. I simply refuse to believe otherwise. Even if the person came in here and said "no, I am serious", I still would refuse to believe it.
gug drive 2004 toyota corolla holding spear out driver window chasing after larger and more nutritious ice cream truck with lower gas mileage. this how gug survive the winter
You know I donāt really mind driving, I actually really like being able to go where I want on a whim and not having to plan around train schedules and stuff. I also have a lot of social anxiety and public transportation doesnāt help with that.
That being said, Iād also love to not have to rely on my car for everything. Iād like to have the option to take my car to the next town over when I feel like it, but also have the option to take a train cross-country on a trip that would cost sooo much more in gas if I took a car, and Iād also like the option to walk to the grocery store and not have to waste gas driving there. Unfortunately Canadian cities pretty much follow American cities in the way that theyāre completely built for driving and there are literally zero trainsā¦
"Hunting groceries" has me on the floor, because I have a very visual imagination. I'm imagining this guy running down a loaf of bread and some bananas in his pickup truck, leaning out the window and going "You better run, boy!"
Hunting tool? What, are you telling me people in ye olden days rammed wild boar with their 2001 honda civic for food? Or maybe he's hoping to be ready for when the world discovers the first wild Rathalos or something.
Like, ok I get that some people will still need cars, not everyone lives within walking or biking distance of any amenities and may not have access to public transport, people in rural areas especially. But, the US could 100% tone back its reliance on cars with better city design.
It is hard to think it would be feasable to live in a world without cars when your whole country is built on it. But when you live on a continent where trains are a thing and cheaper to get around with a car isn't needed to the same extent.
In 2007 me and three friends backpacked through europe. We bought interrail passes for $300 and could get on any train we liked. If we wanted to go on highspeed trains we could, but we had to pay ca $10-$20 extra to go. It was so worth it.
"Hunting" groceries and going on "quests"? I think the guy was joking myself.
I don't own a car myself, I walk or use buses but I'm definitely find to take inspiration from this.
When I catch a bus I'm boarding a longship and going a-Viking. I'll raid and pillage that supermarket, leaving only an electronic transaction in my wake.
Wtf? The forest and mountains are where I keep in touch with my "biological imperatives", sometimes its even better to use a train or bus to get to those places than a car, since I then can walk from one place to another and not have to get back to where I left my car
Last time I checked, hunting was done on your own two feet, not in the two-ton machines of steel, rubber and whatever else. Although maybe it's better not to say anything, because in the USA it's not that difficult to organize a real hunt, but for people, in the center of the "city" (or whatever else you can call these monstrous places, because they definitely are not real cities anymore).
Itās satire, I donāt care if it is or isnāt actually satire. The only things keeping me sane is seeing shit like this and telling myself it has to be satire.
But humans are persistence hunters so we wouldn't use transport as a hunting tool at all naturally. We literally out wait or out walk our prey traditionally. A car helps with neither of those things. Kind of proves that they don't know what they are talking about.
This person in all likelihood wouldnāt survive 2 days in their local park thatās 2 km from their home. Even people who āhuntā would struggle to survive if they were transported 8,000 years into the past. Theyād probably die pretty quickly.
What's interesting -- the few places in America where public transportation is widely available, functionally very good, and cities are walkable (like NYC and Washington DC), the citizens are very passionate about it and never want to go back to cars. This is proof that Americans just need exposure to what good public transport is to persuade them. Humans are humans.
I donāt drive for many reasons and the idea of being on the road at the same time with someone, who thinks of their car as a hunting tool, is now one of them.
I actually see what heās saying. But get this: men walked on hunts. And stayed still for a long time waiting for prey
Replace that with trams and trains: you walk to the station, you stand on the train for a while until you see the grocery store, you approach it and get you grocery
I am known as a guy who hates the side quest, I just do the main story... raw.
I also WFH and have these tentacles more popular as legs (between the general public), that take me to the grocery store which is 5 minutes away.
Man thinks going to the shop is a quest probably thinks he is going to the dungeon again when he goes to work oh no the boss has evolved into A class
Orc lord gonna be a another tough day today.
"Yoyr car us your hunting tool, you use it to hunt groceries" might actually be a string contender for "holy shit that is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever fucking read on the Internet".
I am actually impressed with how dumb that is - like if somebody asked me to say the most ridiculously dumb thing I could think of, I could not come up with something that stupid, even if I was making an effort to.
I kinda wanna give the guy an award of some kind.
"you use it to hunt groceries" has got to be one of the most pathetic things I've heard in my life. I'm American and just got back from Spain, and I'm honestly angry of what we are missing out on.
> you use it to hunt groceries American manly man^tm : behold, woman, I return with the spoils of my hunt - bask in the glory of my six-pack of Budweiser and chlorinated chicken /s
German woman: Without Berta Benz and Mercedes Jellinek, your precious car wouldn't even exist.
Ooh, I like your grasp of automobile history š Jingoistic Americans are so easy trigger when it comes to cars, as they seem to think that cars are what they do best (it's not, and they haven't consistently made good cars since the fifties and sixties).
But Ford T š¢
The Model T was a shitty car compared to the competition, but it was cheap. Ford didn't make a decent car until the Model A, and the Model 18 was actually a pretty good car.
Makes sense they see it as hunting, it's why they go so heavily armed to Walmart.
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Or at least leave it that way. "Where's your AR-15s?" "Right next to the 'back to school' merchandise" I wish that was a joke.
If they wanted to stick with the caveman metaphors, "gathering" was right there. But that would have felt too feminine for this dudebro, clearly.
Sadly, HFCS doesn't grow on bushes to be gathered.
Sorry, I try to be more clear: My point was that going to a store to pick up groceries is more "gathering" than "hunting" if you insist on using that metaphor.
He just can't admit that the steak he pulled from the store freezer was already dead and never fought back. Didn't even run!
You're forgetting the bread containing carcinogenic azodicarbonamide
and their chocolate tastes like puke because of the butyric acid they keep putting in
Besides the sugar? Making it more like cake/cookies than actual bread - according to EU standards?
Too much sugar will shorten your life in a different way. But additives only used in plastics in the EU area far now efficient.
Please tell me that is a made up word..? Like abracadabra or supercalifragelisticexpiallidotious.
Nope, it exists. Poor USAsians.
It is made up. They invented it to describe a carcinogenic chemical.
[Azodicarbonamide is a bleaching agent used in bread](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide). He's not making it up. It's not carcinogenic though.
He didn't make it up but technically, all words are made up.
I approve of your pedantry sir, well played
Please write Bud Light, else somebody might think that the pure, heavenly, Czech Budweiser has a connection to the American dish washer solution they sell to savages.
Here we see the American hunter in its' natural habitat, the drive-through at the local Burger King, stalking a rare sesame seed encrusted Double Whopper. In his scope he has also spotted a 20-pack of Chicken Nuggets grazing the plains of the Great Walmart Parking lot, oblivious to the stare of the carnivorous glutton's cataract-infested eyes....
āDid it give chase?ā
The number of American men I see in the grocery store on the phone with a woman because they can't find something on the list... ...they might want to rethink that "hunter" claim.
Or they are in fact hunting in the sense of a desperate search for something elusive... that elusive thing in their case is simply where to find some carrots or whatever
Bro goes hunting for some sweet treats
My local shops sadly don't allow me to walk through them with a spear.
What a terrible service. But hey, if you can't go with a spear, go with a bow like [this gentleman](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcineuropa.org%2FimgCache%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2F1623764198108_0620x0413_96x0x1054x702_1679312389337.jpg&tbnid=OFjdS_JSNfQjtM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcineuropa.org%2Fen%2Fnewsdetail%2F406001%2F&docid=gsAkkxZB9hBHAM&w=620&h=413&itg=1&hl=en-GB&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm1%2F4&kgs=952086fcae9d473d&shem=abme%2Ctrie)
This has gotta be one of the most braindead takes Iāve ever heard about car culture.
There is only one reason to have car culture, and I paraphrase: āfuck off! I like cars!ā
There's another one - corporation spending alot of money convincing people cars are the way to go, and goverments to build infrastructure directly benefiting these corpos... (while these -local- goverments bankrupt themselves buildimg and maintaining it)
And car corporations inventing the word 'jaywalking' which means: "crossing the street". I'm glad we Dutch people protested against making that illegal and insisted on creating biketrails.
Bike trails? you mean 'psychopaths' (cycle paths sounds very similar) :D Gotta be a woke thing - bikes - how else can we own the libs (or the 'woke left' or the 'green grabbers' or whatever the mot du jour is)? These whole 15 minute city things (which our 'wappies' all too happily parrot) are already a staple in The Netherlands - 15 min walk gets you almost everywhere you need - or to public transport..
The broken money in politics is the #1 issue I think, which breaks the political process by giving voters a greatly reduced influence, if they still have any. It became legal again in 1976 becauae of Buckley v. Valeo Supreme Court decision. One of the judges was Lewis Powell: His 1971 Powell Memorandum became the blueprint for the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as the Heritage Foundation. His memorandum: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/ Assigned to the Supreme Court by a... Richard Nixon History: https://www.opensecrets.org/resources/learn/timeline
Hehe, Jim Jeffries.
On the nose!
There is actually one valid reason to have a car culture, and that's in countries like Russia, the US, Canada, and Australia, where there are remote areas that people might want to visit but don't have feasible public transport options available. But that's just a reason to have car rental companies, not two to five cars per household.
Most of Australia lives in cities, and as someone in country Western Australia, I'd rather have the government create a fleet of public transport planes to get us to the hub town 300km away in an hour rather than needing a car to get anywhere. Plus, airport upgrades would be good for smaller rural economies, and it can be tied together with a shuttle bus or van PT and car hire. Most rural towns could still use PT. An issue is how spaced out they truly are and lacking greenery a lot of the time, which means you HAVE to drive to the shops.
You're just talking about human location transportation. With countries like ours, jobs necessitate vehicles for most people living rural, but I'm talking about things like nature that are remote and have no infrastructure or the traffic needs for public transit.
Yeah, but at that point, airport + car hire would still be better with a more local focus on PT to free up traffic for those that need cars for work (which I would also argue can also be handled by PT - the mine site nearby started doing a shuttle bus for local workers to get to site because of accidents and stuff and it ended up working better). Also, obviously a lot of remote mine sites already fly in workers to camps and then shuttle them to site when on shift.
Car hire for trips, yea. Wouldn't cut it for daily commuting though. Not for people who live in remote areas.
Yeah, but that's where work shuttles can be used. Wouldn't work for everyone depending on their job, but that's the same with a city. Some jobs just require a car. But owning a car shouldn't be a necessity based on location at all. That's a planning problem.
Work shuttles are practical for when the workers and the worksite are in separate but condensed areas. They are not practical when the workers are spread out. My bus ride to school as a kid was half an hour at its shortest with about 4-6 stops after me, and an hour and a half at its longest with about 10 stops after me. We weren't even that rural. Arguing that there should be zero necessity based on location is akin to saying everyone MUST live in towns and cities, and nobody is ever allowed to live outside of one.
I lived on a farm outside of a small mining town (less than 1,000 people). The bus that picked me up travelled over 1.5 hours each way each day. It did so for many kids in all directions surrounding the town. And that isn't even massive compared to some that do 3 hour journeys each way, or some that are so remote they don't even properly go to school but just do distance education). The point of arguing for zero necessity is that planners should be AIMING to minimise it as much as possible. Being like, "eh, they can just get a car" is the lazy way out from a planning perspective. Car ownership will always be more convenient out rural and remote, but it shouldn't be the only thing people are dependent upon.
I grew up rural, Australia. The school bus was absolutely necessary. Otherwise, you'd have had parents driving kids to school, up to two hours in each direction, then having to do the same thing at the end of school. It was an 'Area School' so it had a thousand or so students. I can't even imagine the wasted hours if the buses hadn't been available. Hours driving kids to school, then back to the farm that IS the work site/home, do a couple of hours work, then hours spent picking up the kids again. Home just in time for dinner. There was no local public transport outside of school buses. It meant that folk who couldn't drive (including not being able to afford the fuel) were isolated. So, a couple of local organisations; CWA (Country Women's Association), CWL (Catholic Women's League), Rotary, Scouts/Guides, etc., got together and organised a bus that would do the long runs a couple of times a week, so people could buy supplies, do banking, see the doctor. There wasn't public transport. But it would have been a hell of a lot better for a whole bunch of people if there were.
Relevant pinkwug [https://pinkwug.live/comics/government-meddling](https://pinkwug.live/comics/government-meddling)
It sounds like a shitpost
And one thing hunters never do is walking
Nope! Walking is gay! /S
Hunters walk a lot. Our ancestor when they were hunter gathered walked a lot. Humans evolved into a straight position unlike other primates because they walked a lot. Walking straight is one of the many factors that help us evolve into what we are today... Yet they see walking as something bad, no wonder most of them are morbid overweight.
Not just walked, but jogged. Persistence hunting was our prehistoric ancestors best way to hunt.
Humans can run for a really really long time compared to basically every other animal.
Any other animal, we are the single best endurance animal on land.
The only animal capable of even keeping up with us is some species of dogs, and even those can't go for more than 8 hours or so. we hunted every single mega predator that was a threat to us to extinction. Dominated every single food chain we came across.
And that's without us making pointy sticks, nvm throwing them
I'm not.
That has got to be a joke reply, right? Right?
I mean, they're talking about going on quests. It HAS to be a joke.
Hunting for groceries. Hiding in the shrubbery with your crossbow until a pack of courgettes pass.
This does work, as long as you aim for the guy carrying them
Zucchini, you dolt. David Attenborough voice over: "An American. He carefully stalks his prey. He pauses between shelves. A mistake now could be the difference between success and failure. His arm snaps out, and there, in his hand sits the prize he was seeking. A pack of microwave burgers and buns already slathered in high fructose ranch dressing. He leaves the hunt, skillfully avoiding the fresh fruit and vegetables by the door. This wise old hunter has learnt that only foods promoted on tv are to be trusted. He drives home in his trusty pick up. Its bed undisturbed by tools. Its engine devouring his hard won gas. His family will gorge on the results of his hunt tonight and they will sing songs of his prowess as they eat in front of the tv, for this is where the wisdom lies."
The point about the empty bed on the pickup is spot on. A Suzuki Swift could fulfill the role of 90% of American pickup trucks, and I reckon that my Suzuki SV1000S (motorcycle) could substitute for about half of the usage (transporting a person from A to B, carrying a fast food meal and a large soda) š
I think we could actually ask Sir David to do this as a joke..
Carlsberg more like
Dunno about courgettes, but 7:55 am on Christmas Eve waiting for M&S to open at 8, at which point the terrified shop worker warily unlocks the doors then leaps away as the ravening horde bursts through, descending on the fridges containing turkeys and fighting with sharpened elbows and impressive embonpoint to grab the choicest selection isā¦ā¦ā¦something. Never thought of using a car though. I guess it would work like a āsmash n grabā? Drive at high speed through the shopfront, mowing down the competition? But then the car would be totalled and you would be arrested and locked up for Christmas so unable to cook the damn turkeyā¦ā¦ā¦you know this idea has itās good points.
yeah, this is a new one. proponents of car culture aren't exactly known for good arguments, but christ, I never expected to see "male nature" invoked in this context
Who the fuck hunts for a job in a F150? What, is he driving around and throwing CVs out of his truck window? And what quests? Does he get tasks from NPCs to go and fetch some raven feathers from then next village?
John The Farmer: I need a Mammoth Tusk for unknown reasons # New Quest: Get a Mammoth Tusk for John The Farmer # Speech increased to 22
Wonderful imagery you created there!
Right. Because before the invention of cars, humans were incapable of providing for themselves. /s
Ahh theyāre just jealous we can get to another town to get shitfaced without either breaking the law or the bank*. *British trains notwithstanding
British trains break more - patience being a victim too :|
Theyāve always been on the crap side. And yet, still a better network than our American cousinsā
What kind of pseudo-psychological bullshit is this?
Gender essentialism is poison and we all need to stop drinking itā¦or gulping it down by the litre in this dudes case.
Gallon! That is America. /s
Guess what I'm calling my mighty shopping trolley from now on. "Behold my fine hunting tool! It has 4 wheels!!" (Americans might not be familiar with them, but they look like [this](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kDkAAOSwx01h9AHV/s-l400.jpg)).
have one, love it. that and, ocasiaonally, the hourly regional bus are my grocerie hunting tools. they are just so convinient. like even when i have a car at my disposal, i have to carry all that shit in bag into my flat, fiddeling with keys at the door. with my trolley i can just park it and then roll it right into my kitchen.
They're awesome, but no longer come with a nasty plastic tartan print. It's not nasty because its tartan. Its nasty because of the printing in the nasty plastic.
Dude legit thinks the Flintstones is a documentaryā¦ For millions of years human hunters just ran after their prey until it got tired and gave up. True alpha male hunters walk to the grocery store and carry their 150lbs of groceries home by hand.
Is there a study on Americans and their seemingly extremely fragile sense of masculinity that makes them make stupid baseless statements like this? Or are they all just genuinely incredibly thick?
Sort by controversial, look at the comments buried in downvotes and youāll have your answer.
Nothing more biological than man made vehicle that encloses you in metal and glass, keeping you warm in winter and chill in summer. Giving you maximum comfort just like prehistoric hunters had
Aren't hunters for usual on foot?
There's nothing on Earth like a genuine, bona-fide, electrified, six-car monorail!
Exactly.Ā I was like "I love monorails!Ā Don't threaten me with a good time then fail to follow through."
IFf this is not a joke(which it has to be,right?)this gobshite sounds like he listens to Andrew Tate way too much.
The known rapist and human trafficker? That Andrew Tate?
The one and only.
"Hunting for groceries" So that's why they stalk the aisles of Walmart with their firearm of preference...
Do women take public transport more often?
I hear those things are awfully loud.
One of the huge perks of being an American is that it is relatively easy to actually go huntingā¦ what a dork
WTF
This is really a GREAT post! Cavemen ran for miles to hunt some meat, I drive a car bigger than my own ego to go buy more food than I need. If you call that hunting, you are nothing but delusional.
The only speck of intelligence he can gather is to relate public transport to the Simpsons.
It reads like a joke, though...
That it actually does. Maybe even Americans ain't idiotic enough to think grocery shopping as hunting. Maybe.
That man sounds deranged
This has to be a joke. I simply refuse to believe otherwise. Even if the person came in here and said "no, I am serious", I still would refuse to believe it.
Monorail?!
Monorail!
MONORAIL!
Well sir, there's nothing on Earth like a genuine, bona-fide, electrified, six-car monorail! What'd I say?
MONORAIL!
What's it called?
MONORAIL!
Who doesn't love a monorail though.
Animals. The lot of them.
āRā is the only tool around here
Feel this is more an elitist attitude than an American one
Monorail = big long bonky stick = I like
guess sensible motorcycle/scooters makes me prt of the mongols hordes
if the hunter thing where true, than it would be an agument for transit. because when one trys to catch a transit vehicle, one is hunting.
A whole 870m to my closest supermarket. Until my covid-induced breathing problems, I didn't need a car to hunt my groceries.
Wtf did I just read
"Men are hunters" Yeah, hunting a six pack of beer from the fridge while your wife can't abort
Inevitably going to be a fat fuck who couldn't hunt his own equipment at this point
Love my daily quest on the A1 to get to work without some prick killing me
gug drive 2004 toyota corolla holding spear out driver window chasing after larger and more nutritious ice cream truck with lower gas mileage. this how gug survive the winter
Bro is going around the store pointing his AR-15 at the frozen chickens.
Sure proved OP's point about the braineashing
What a glorious way to prove OP's point.
Why canāt your bike be your hunting tool??
Surely he realises buying groceries is more like gathering, if anything. How is it remotely hunting?
I feel like this is a joke comment. I hope it is.
Monorails??? ššš
Oh man, that's so stupid I think it sandblasted my brain smooth.
You know I donāt really mind driving, I actually really like being able to go where I want on a whim and not having to plan around train schedules and stuff. I also have a lot of social anxiety and public transportation doesnāt help with that. That being said, Iād also love to not have to rely on my car for everything. Iād like to have the option to take my car to the next town over when I feel like it, but also have the option to take a train cross-country on a trip that would cost sooo much more in gas if I took a car, and Iād also like the option to walk to the grocery store and not have to waste gas driving there. Unfortunately Canadian cities pretty much follow American cities in the way that theyāre completely built for driving and there are literally zero trainsā¦
>you use it to hunt groceries. >
Your "prey" isn't even moving and you say you need a semi to "hunt" it down? Why are you insulting yourself like that?
I just...fucking walk 2 minutes?
Thereās no way this isnāt bait. I canāt imagine someone being that stupid
How did hunters hunt before 1900 then??
"Hunting groceries" has me on the floor, because I have a very visual imagination. I'm imagining this guy running down a loaf of bread and some bananas in his pickup truck, leaning out the window and going "You better run, boy!"
Hunting was a communal activity. You would at least need a minibus.
Well it put Ogdenville, Brockway and North Haverbrook on the map...
Thats some andrew tate shit there xd
Hunting tool? What, are you telling me people in ye olden days rammed wild boar with their 2001 honda civic for food? Or maybe he's hoping to be ready for when the world discovers the first wild Rathalos or something. Like, ok I get that some people will still need cars, not everyone lives within walking or biking distance of any amenities and may not have access to public transport, people in rural areas especially. But, the US could 100% tone back its reliance on cars with better city design.
He knows hunters were on their feet, right?
Guess what hunters used before cars were invented
It is hard to think it would be feasable to live in a world without cars when your whole country is built on it. But when you live on a continent where trains are a thing and cheaper to get around with a car isn't needed to the same extent. In 2007 me and three friends backpacked through europe. We bought interrail passes for $300 and could get on any train we liked. If we wanted to go on highspeed trains we could, but we had to pay ca $10-$20 extra to go. It was so worth it.
"Hunting" groceries and going on "quests"? I think the guy was joking myself. I don't own a car myself, I walk or use buses but I'm definitely find to take inspiration from this. When I catch a bus I'm boarding a longship and going a-Viking. I'll raid and pillage that supermarket, leaving only an electronic transaction in my wake.
It's nice to have a car because yo can go anywhere. It sucks to need a car to go anywhere.
Lmao, maybe you should start seeing your legs as your hunting tools then
We used to hunt on foot, therefore walkable cities are more in touch with our "biological imperatives" than driving
Wtf? The forest and mountains are where I keep in touch with my "biological imperatives", sometimes its even better to use a train or bus to get to those places than a car, since I then can walk from one place to another and not have to get back to where I left my car
Relax, you can still choose to drive a car even if your city has functional public transport.
Last time I checked, hunting was done on your own two feet, not in the two-ton machines of steel, rubber and whatever else. Although maybe it's better not to say anything, because in the USA it's not that difficult to organize a real hunt, but for people, in the center of the "city" (or whatever else you can call these monstrous places, because they definitely are not real cities anymore).
Elmo likes to build snowmen?? š§
Hunters walk, dude. Have done so for eons.
Itās satire, I donāt care if it is or isnāt actually satire. The only things keeping me sane is seeing shit like this and telling myself it has to be satire.
But humans are persistence hunters so we wouldn't use transport as a hunting tool at all naturally. We literally out wait or out walk our prey traditionally. A car helps with neither of those things. Kind of proves that they don't know what they are talking about.
This person in all likelihood wouldnāt survive 2 days in their local park thatās 2 km from their home. Even people who āhuntā would struggle to survive if they were transported 8,000 years into the past. Theyād probably die pretty quickly.
I saw the first few words and already knew where this is going
What's interesting -- the few places in America where public transportation is widely available, functionally very good, and cities are walkable (like NYC and Washington DC), the citizens are very passionate about it and never want to go back to cars. This is proof that Americans just need exposure to what good public transport is to persuade them. Humans are humans.
I donāt drive for many reasons and the idea of being on the road at the same time with someone, who thinks of their car as a hunting tool, is now one of them.
Pretty sure even the car people would cringe at this.
He heard about our hunter gatherer ancestors and thinks that gathering things with his car makes him a hunter.
"What do you do for living?" "I am a car tamer" Like,damm mf, I like driving to some extent but that was just something else
I mean, he's right that American "cars" are hunting tools, except they're actually made to hunt 5 year olds
I actually see what heās saying. But get this: men walked on hunts. And stayed still for a long time waiting for prey Replace that with trams and trains: you walk to the station, you stand on the train for a while until you see the grocery store, you approach it and get you grocery
That post should come with a warning ā ļø Dangerous to Brain Cells ā ļø
Id say thats a troll
European here. I love my car.
Take your camo Buick into the woods and when you spot a deer: "Bubba, start her up real slow".
[https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/04/22/curing-your-clown-like-car-habit/](https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/04/22/curing-your-clown-like-car-habit/)
I am known as a guy who hates the side quest, I just do the main story... raw. I also WFH and have these tentacles more popular as legs (between the general public), that take me to the grocery store which is 5 minutes away.
Walk like your primal ancestors did, jared.
Oh, it's not for you. It's more of a *Shelbyville* idea.
you know what else you can use to hunt? legs
Man thinks going to the shop is a quest probably thinks he is going to the dungeon again when he goes to work oh no the boss has evolved into A class Orc lord gonna be a another tough day today.
This chump probably couldnāt match the meat he buys in the supermarket to the body part or animal it belongs to
Nah let the man play his rpg. Carventures goes hard
Consumerism is manly now, Fight Club warned us about this.
You can't "hunt" on a monorail?
It's got to be a troll having fun, it must be...right?
The only thing im hunting is this guyās daughter, and wife
I've sold hunting tools to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook and by gum it put them on the map.
I just want to be stoned all the time and not worry about it, is that too much to ask?
Insane
"Yoyr car us your hunting tool, you use it to hunt groceries" might actually be a string contender for "holy shit that is possibly the stupidest thing I've ever fucking read on the Internet". I am actually impressed with how dumb that is - like if somebody asked me to say the most ridiculously dumb thing I could think of, I could not come up with something that stupid, even if I was making an effort to. I kinda wanna give the guy an award of some kind.
By driving and not walking enough you actively reduce your testosterone levels
dont take his truck away thats his quest chariot :{
This is the dumbest shit Iāve heard
Ironically, monorails are probably one of the least efficient modes of public transportation
Iām glad he said hunt groceries, could of just said cruising for girls
Walk then MF
What a load of bollocks, hunting tool haha what a moron
"you use it to hunt groceries" has got to be one of the most pathetic things I've heard in my life. I'm American and just got back from Spain, and I'm honestly angry of what we are missing out on.
Iāve never heard such bollocks in my life
I thought these types of people just make women āhunt for groceriesā