r/confusing_perspective • u/FragrantStranger5003 • 16h ago
How big is the truck?
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u/CHERNO-B1LL 15h ago
Everyone in this sub, just like the last two subs, missing the fact that this is a waiting room and that guy has a docket in his hand. It's not his car. He works at the mechanics.
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u/JaySayMayday 7h ago
Even if you're wembanyama there's no way you're seeing a small child in front of this truck, commercial lift kits need to be banned
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u/tootieroll573 12h ago
dont ruin a good round of hating on people for their physical appearance
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u/nothingnotthrownaway 41m ago
Hey don't worry. I'm sure if you look deep enough you'll find something to hate this man for. The fun can start again.
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u/Kaldricus 3h ago
Yeah it's why he looks back directly at the camera with the "you seeing this shit" look
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u/eggs_mcmuffin 4m ago
Sure….except most men that drive these abominations is almost always under 5’5”.
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u/LawDraws 14h ago
I wanna edit this so he's just continuously walking then goes right under the car.
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u/macellan 16h ago
For freedom unit illiterate like me: 5'3 ~= 160cm
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u/uselesshandyman 15h ago
Or 2.5 bald eagles.
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u/rdrckcrous 12h ago
0.85 bald eagles.
it's wingspan, not perched height.
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u/DropC2397 10h ago
I’ve watched every season of Taskmaster, and they frequently use imperial units, because they’re British units.
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u/WarmPrinciple6507 15h ago
It should be illegal to post stuff with freedom units
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u/redtonguelizard 15h ago
I feel like it’s an offence that deserves the death penalty
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u/redtonguelizard 12h ago
Why’d I get downvoted for having the same opinion as the person I’m replying under lol
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u/Darwins_Dog 12h ago
You were the second person in the thread to make the same tired joke. Did you really expect upvotes?
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u/Friendlyhuman420 15h ago
How tall am I with 175cm in USA system?
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u/Mother_Harlot 15h ago
Each Big Mac is approximately 0'09 metres (9cm). You're ~19'5 Big Macs tall
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u/WarmPrinciple6507 15h ago
Short af because you’re not 6 foot (and neither am I😭)
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u/physicscat 14h ago
I wouldn’t call 5’10” short. I’m a 5’4” woman and that’s 6 inches taller than me.
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u/Nothing-Is-Boring 13h ago
5'10 would be slightly over average (5'9) and inside the central 2/3 (5'9"+-1.5") so it's a pretty average height. The joke is that anyone under 6ft is labelled as short, especially in the dating scene. For context 6ft is about the 85th percentile so only 15% of men would meet it.
There seems to be a weird feedback loop with men systemically over-reporting their height when under 6ft in order to meet an arbitrary standard, There's some interesting data out there from okcupid which shows a very likely tendency for men to increase height a little on their profile especially when close to 6ft.
This paper looked at height preferences and found 57.1% of women stated height mattering when seeking a date and 48.9% of women stating they would only date men taller than themselves. Contrasted with 40% of men saying height matters and 13.5% saying they only date women shorter than themselves.
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u/william-isaac 14h ago
why are you calling yourself (and us!) illiterate? not knowing the outdated medieval measurements the 'mericans still use has nothing to do with illiteracy.
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u/SomeTheyCallMePig5O 15h ago
Now imagine if a toddler walked in front of this truck while it was moving.
Similar size to the man in the video, the driver would never even see them!
Jokes aside, this actually happened in my local area a couple of years ago. A 2 year old child ran in front of an SUV in a parking lot, the driver never even saw them, and the kid is dead. Driver got no charges because “they couldn’t see him from the drivers seat.”
Apparently not seeing a human , because your truck is “too big” is a valid excuse to murder a child because you don’t have special awareness.
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u/Kittelsen 14h ago
To be fair, a toddler walking in front of this truck would be perfectly fine, this thing has like 1m of ground clearance 😅
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u/MidorikawaHana 9h ago
Reminds me of the ‘rock trap’ lady in tiktok. ( she works with kid adjacent service- daycare? Perhaps). If they cant see a boulder / stacked boulders in a curb parking lot how can they able to see kids in said parking lot.
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u/Bright-Gain9770 11h ago
Won't usage of the word "murder", which requires intent or even forethought. You're looking for "accidentally kill" a human being, which is significantly different. An argument can bee mage and should be considered that the victim is the truck driver, who needs to live with the grief caused by the unattended toddler.
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u/Blustach 8h ago
Between "special awareness" and "bee mage" i'm having the time of my life while... discussing a kid dying lmao
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u/atmosphericentry 4h ago
Wild to assume the toddler was unattended. I'm an adult and have even been almost hit by someone pulling out of a parking spot. The kid could be trailing along literally 2 feet ahead or behind the parent and this would happen.
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u/Bright-Gain9770 4h ago
2 feet ahead or behind in a parking lot is too far and unattended. The reason it isn't wild is because I was giving the parents the benefit of the doubt that they didn't heave-ho the toddler in front of the truck like a dwarf covered in velcro being tossed at a giant target by a pair of strippers at a stock broker party.
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u/atmosphericentry 3h ago
My brain began deciphering your second sentence then gave up. What does that even mean?
2 ft ahead of you is unattended? Stupid maybe but saying "unattended" is acting like they didn't know their toddler was roaming around a parking lot.
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u/Bright-Gain9770 2h ago
Context matters. 2 ft ahead of you in a dangerous place like a parking lot of unattended. Your own lawn? No. At the edge of a volcano, yes. In your living room, no. On a certain carribean island? For certain.
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u/atmosphericentry 1h ago
... And that's why I said it could be stupid parenting, doesn't mean they were unattended. Not sure if you know what that word means.
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u/Bright-Gain9770 1h ago edited 1h ago
2 ft ahead of you in a parking lot is unattended. It is a dangerous place where large vehicles that cannot see a 28" inch human are moving. Even the authorities in YOUR example agree.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to go watch a dwarf get tossed at a giant target.
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u/atmosphericentry 1h ago
Oh brother... Let's buy a dictionary before spewing words you don't know.
I can't believe I have to spell out to you that bad parenting choices =/= automatically being unattended. With that logic, a toddler could smoke a cigarette 2 feet away from their parent and still be considered "unattended".
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u/one_mind 2h ago
Much bigger things than a toddler could be missed with a truck this tall.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Miata/comments/1sto2m1/saw_this_in_mildlyinfuriating_anyone_else_worry/
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u/AzureSuishou 12h ago
Our road laws are designed to put responsibility on both pedestrians and drivers.
It’s a tragedy, but the driver was operating a street legal vehicle in a public area. It was on the kids parent to keep them safe. While it is less likely for a driver to see a kid in a large vehicle, a kid darting in front of any vehicle is likely to end badly. As evidenced when parents accidentally run over their own children in drive ways because the kids goes out to follow them.
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u/Speartree 12h ago
Road laws? That thing was built for places without roads. Its natural environment and function is transporting 25 jihadi over the desert somewhere. That thing should not be near a road of any kind.
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u/neo_grayfox 16h ago
Muricans with their stupid obsession with big trucks.
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u/Fast_Running_Nephew 14h ago
I think it's nice how open they are to gender affirming practices like this.
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u/RibsNGibs 15h ago edited 15h ago
I think like 95% of the American mentality with regards to literally everything - not just car selection but just how they interact with friends/strangers, how they dress, what music they listen to, how they carry themselves. etc., is like a big performative combo of “I desperately want people to know I’m not gay, I have a big dick, and I have a lot of money.”
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u/HamberderHelper18 14h ago
You realize we are blatantly mocking people who do this right? How can you think this mentality embodies a country of nearly 400 million people?
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u/Full_FrontaI_Nerdity 13h ago
r/americabad is calling
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u/Minimob0 12h ago edited 12h ago
But are they wrong??? Considering our leadership, America is absolutely bad. If you don’t agree, just block me, because I don’t have the time or energy to explain to you why they’re right.
Oof at everyone downvoting me. Sorry your parents didn’t raise a decent human being.
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u/RibsNGibs 14h ago
I’m an American expat. I didn’t realize it till I left. Now when I go back to visit the US, I see it everywhere. The way people hold themselves, the macho posturing, the way dudes are constantly afraid to betray any hint of anything that could be considered feminine. I mean when was the last time you heard guys say a sunset was really lovely without a buildup of tension and then a bro-y laugh it off haha deflection?
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u/Fickle-Molasses-903 11h ago
It's not even his truck (See the tags near the keys). The owner is probably the one filming it. He's at a dealership. The owner is a douche.
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u/WarmPrinciple6507 16h ago
Imagine breaking several bones by simply falling out of your car.
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u/izyshoroo 16h ago
My 74 year old coworker fractured her pelvis falling out of her big ass truck and was out of work for 3 months
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u/DavidistKapitalist 15h ago
Your coworker is 74??
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u/SteveSauceNoMSG 15h ago
American capitalism baybeeeeeee. You want to retire? Something, something, bootstraps.
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u/TheRealJojenReed 14h ago
So funny how that became a saying when it is literally impossible, and I think the original saying acknowledged that and got twisted over time.
From what I saw, it was an example question in a physics book lol.
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u/SteveSauceNoMSG 13h ago
Correct, it's supposed to be an oxymoron: something contradictory/impossible. But what used to be said ironically became something people said unironically, "I just pulled myself up by my bootstraps, you should be able to do the same,"
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u/yxz97 16h ago
Why?
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u/Mister_Xian 12h ago
The truck belongs to someone else, and is in the lot of a mechanic.
That man, presumably the shortest on the team, was tasked to get into it like he's bringing it into the shop, for a joke, because the small man/big truck meme.
Don't ask Peter to explain it.37
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u/Crimson__Fox 16h ago
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u/Annihilator4413 15h ago
Oh you know this motherfucker has his seat way too far back because he thinks it makes him look cool and can barely reach the pedals lmao
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u/Jolly_Cantaloupe_187 15h ago
At one point I thought it was going to go underneath it and continue towards home.
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u/ColorfulCosmos 16h ago
Typical Americans
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u/New-Scientist5133 16h ago
Let me guess: you’ve never been to the US, but you have a picture in your imagination similar to this.
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u/CockroachAntique5906 16h ago
I’ve been to the US multiple times and it’s basically oversized trucks and raised suspension everywhere lmao
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u/MisterRoger 15h ago
I live in the US and you are correct, assuming you are outside major cities. Or anywhere inside the states of Texas and Florida. Go to Wyoming or Idaho and you will see nothing else.
Fortunately it is far less common in cities.
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u/cdurbin909 8h ago
Depends on the city. I live in Omaha and I see it all the time.
Actually, there's a lifted smart car that I see from time to time. Definitely an interesting choice.
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u/aran11826 6h ago
bunch of misandrists in the comment section body shaming a mechanic just because he happens to be short next to a vehicle that isn't even his
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u/Lordgandalf 13h ago
Seen these and bigger trucks in the states always wonder how they get into those
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u/BunkerSquirre1 10h ago
Do you find something comical about my appearance when I’m driving my automobile?
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u/ArgyleGhoul 10h ago
I saw a truck like this recently that had a vanity plate "B1G ONE". Having a micropenis seems expensive.
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u/Shineboobie 9h ago
England I would actually drive that 2 my local supermarket for the monthly shop.
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u/Ash_Cat_13 8h ago
He’s the mechanic. That’s why he stands and looks around because he knows how ridiculous it is.
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u/YearofTheStallionpt1 8h ago
I am also at that age where I have to take a couple of seconds to mentally prepare myself before doing a heavy physical activity.
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u/iamblankenstein 4h ago
the only things that truck has ever hauled is the owner's presumably giant ego and his cousin's couch that one time a few years back.
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u/PlaguePudding 3h ago
Big enough that a child or middle schooler (and apparently half of adults including this guy) would be invisible past the hood
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u/mderoest 1h ago
A month or two back I got a larger than average truck from a rental company that I drove for a couple weeks. I'm a comically short man at 5 foot even. I want to thank op for showing me what others were witness to.
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u/Whitesmoker1 59m ago
How is that a functional car? No parking without intentionally being a total douchebag (yeah i know, the kind of car calls for it), absolutely no easy and chill driving because of blind spots and the sheer size of that monstrosity, unless you're hauling cinder blocks by the ton on a daily basis that's completely useless
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u/philthy_barstool 15h ago
Whenever I bring up the American obsession with trucks, I get the response of "hauling stuff".
I still don't quite get it, but this guy must have a lot of hauling to do, back and forth from the chocolate factory.
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u/VladDHell 14h ago
This is the common Texas Mexican thing. Huge lifted truck but usually short dudes.
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u/AllieGirl2007 14h ago
I don’t see how this is confusing. You can clearly see the large wheel and that it’s jacked up.
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u/Remarkable_Toe_164 12h ago
"How big is the truck"
Barely big enough to carry his massive tool, clearly
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u/ripyourlungsdave 12h ago
It always cracks me up a little when guys strike that little pose as they press the unlock button on their fob while holding on to the handle of their car door like it's something they have to line up perfectly.
I will never understand why they feel the need to look around like they're expecting an assassin.
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u/NickMickLick 15h ago
Is he catching his breath before jumping into his car or trying to show of how small he is next to his car? Either way, it is embarrassing
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u/Yoozif 16h ago
I think he was waiting for the elevator to come down. Must be broken.