• Pirky
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    I have a hitch receiver on my sedan. I’ve been tempted to get a set for it because I think it’d be funny.

    Edit: I’ve also thought about taking it a step further. My car also has a wiring harness for trailer lights. What if I drill in some red/yellow LED’s into the nuts so they’ll light up when I brake or use the blinker?

  • @[email protected]
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    271 month ago

    Never thought about it, but modes of transport are usually referred to as she/her, so this totally checks out.

    • @[email protected]
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      530 days ago

      Machinery of any kind is often gendered in the feminine. Particularly when you are either mad at the machine for not working or you are begging it to work.

      • @[email protected]
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        429 days ago

        The machine spirit cares not for our trifling concepts of gender and binaries. It demands only loyalty to the omnissiah and purity of mind.

        • @[email protected]
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          129 days ago

          The machine spirit cares not for your loyalty. It only wants to grind YOUR spirit into dust while destroying your mind. Cthulhu trembles in fear.

      • @[email protected]
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        229 days ago

        Always cracked me up when my uncle would yell at whatever he was working on, “come on, you whore!”

        • @[email protected]
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          229 days ago

          Well, that seems pretty mild. Having been a toolmaker, I have often threatened machines with being reduced to tiny little chips or slag and I will create something better from scratch.

    • @Worx
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      29 days ago

      A thing has nuts.

      You get inside it.

      Also works for tops :)

  • NutWrench
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    221 month ago

    Because that’s what it means to be a MAN! Bolting fake testicles onto your truck.

    Bunch of striving, alpha-male wannabe, Oakley-wearing Thumb heads.

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    201 month ago

    To be fair, all trucks probably come with many nuts (and bolts) by default, so what’s 2 more?

  • @[email protected]
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    1029 days ago

    Oh I’ve been looking for an excuse to post this.

    You thought regular truck nutz were bad? Well wait until you see the XL version!

    • @[email protected]
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      129 days ago

      /uj many conservatives and even many progressives unfortunately ask the doctor or comply with the doctor’s suggestion of gender surgery for intersex babies. It’s rare for sure but not that rare.

      I think even many progressives would not because they’re biggoted against intersex people but fear of the uncertainty in parenting that child. Instead of sitting in the discomfort they would rather just fall back to what they know.

    • @[email protected]
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      929 days ago

      I mean, I think a lot of us aren’t pissed off about it but think it looks stupid as fuck. And like, that’s just my opinion man.

    • MapleEngineer
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      29 days ago

      I don’t get pissed off about it. It projects small dick energy. It makes me laugh that all these beta males are driving around in transgender trucks.

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          The funny thing is that saying something is unhinged doesn’t make it so any more than saying that someone is angry makes it so. You’re reading your own emotions into interactions with other people. That’s unhelpful and unhealthy. You should consider not doing that.

      • @[email protected]
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        229 days ago

        Imagine how insane you have to be to do an entire podcast on truck nuts because they offend you. It’s like when conservatives get all pissy when someone says happy holidays instead of merry Christmas

    • @[email protected]
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      129 days ago

      There are stereotypes of certain personalities who’d attach nuts to their truck, and people are choosing to be associated with them by installing truck nuts. It doesn’t mean they fit the stereotype, they might be nice normal people who do it for their own reasons. But public perception is they think nuts hanging off a truck is funny (dumb) or manly (cringe).

      Sharing my view with a troll who doesn’t care 🤷‍♀️

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    529 days ago

    Best truck nuts I’ve ever seen were two large hex nuts (i.e., for a bolt - but a very large bolt - the bolt would have had to have been an inch/2.5 cm in diameter, at least) hanging from the hitch. Wish I’d taken a picture, it was hilarious.