Edit: What do you judge them for?
Blue line American Flag sticker/apparel, especially if it’s set inside the Punisher logo.
White shoes or white pants.
Intentionally sagging pants.
Any kind of religious paraphernalia
Maga hat
Crosses.
99% chance it’s performative.
Globally? American flag
Cybertruck owners. That is all.
I’m amazed nobody has mentioned a confederate flag (or confederate anything) yet. My first assumption would be that they’re racist and proud of it.
At this point that falls in line with MAGA gear to me, which lots of people have mentioned
Good point. At the risk of making it sound cool, I’ll say that confederate flags are the OG MAGA gear.
Beats headphones.
“Oh yeah those look cool. Did you want something that sounds good though?”
I used to work retail and was helping a college aged guy pick out some new headphones. He was deciding between some Beats and some Bose headphones. I literally asked him “do you want something that sounds good or looks good” and was amazed he actually said “looks good”. So I reluctantly sold him the Beats.
Sometimes the headphones are just a public statement of “Don’t talk to me please.”, and the music is just secondary. In that case, the looks may win.
Hah, I appreciate the honesty though 😂
One of those big trucks but they are immaculate, clean, scuff free. So not used for they are meant for: working.
Now they are just taking up space and being dangerous to the public just to try and help prop up someone’s ego.
Had a lot of those come through when I worked at Lowe’s. Many were indeed working trucks, but they were towing monster loads, not throwing shit in the back.
I call those brodozers, and I hate those drivers. I’ve damned near gotten hit by them so many times cuz they can’t see shit over their hood
I love that my dinky hatchback has more get up and go then they do, they get so fucking offended when you zoom off from a light next to them.
Do you judge people driving clean, scuff free vans as well or only truck drivers?
I use my truck for work but other than having a roof rack you probably wouldn’t be able to tell it’s a work truck from the outside. When it gets dirty, I wash it, and when it gets dents or scratches I fix them. I don’t want it to look like a beater.
A 4x4 truck with its big wheels and high ground clearance are features that allow the truck to move off-road. These features have the unfortunate side effect of making them dangerous to other road users, and very uneconomical / environmentally unfriendly. They also take up a lot of space.
Work vans are and most cars are capable of driving on a building site or track.
Hood height, engine size, and the physical exterior dimensions of many vans are similar to those of pickup trucks. When used for work, it often just comes down to personal preference. One key difference is towing capacity - most vans are limited to around 750 kg, whereas trucks typically offer much more. Mine can tow up to 3000 kg.
Edit: Also, rear visibility in a van is much worse due to the enclosed cargo area. With a truck, you pretty much have 360-degree visibility.
most vans are limited to around 750 kg, whereas trucks typically offer much more. Mine can tow up to 3000 kg.
Yeah that’s bullshit. Vans that can do the max of 3500kg are common as fuck. You probably looked at the wrong spec. 750kg is the max for a trailer without brakes, regardless of type of car. There are usually two numbers on the spec sheet, one for max towing weight for unbraked trailers and one for braked trailers.
True, my bad. Many of the most commonly used vans here can tow 2500kg as long as the trailer has brakes. Anything more than that is rare though. Even many of the other mid-size pickups can’t tow 3000kg.
It may depend on local laws. Here the total weight of the combination (car + trailer) with a B+E driving license is 7000Kg, and 3500Kg for a car. That means you can have a van with 3500Kg capacity plus a 3500Kg trailer. So naturally there are vans that are built to match the max spec.
Snapchat.
Any kind of of bumper sticker collection on the trunk(boot) lid.
One sticker with a snarky or clever saying is fine, but I do instantly judge anyone with a collage as a tacky person with poor taste and no sense of boundaries.
It matters not if I tend to agree with the advertised messages, it’s just a huge red flag to me.
I also think a collage of bumper stickers looks tacky. I wouldn’t condemn it in such strong terms as you used, however.
Brand clothing plastered with logos of the brand.
I immediately know you’re vacuous and live your life for the image you have for others instead of focusing on yourself.
Same, sort of. For me it varies, some is supposed to be a status symbol and that I find lame.
But some are signals about a person; Bass Pro, fisherman; Backwoods, down to smoke; Burton, snowboarder; Venture, skateboarder; etc. These I see more as a band shirt, like “hey I like that thing/band too, wanna hang out?” These I actually like, they can be informative.
And some are just free shirts from work itself, vendors to your work, events, etc. Maybe they just got off and are still in “uniform” (if you can call a company t-shirt a uniform lmao), maybe their job sells a lot of Kawasaki and they sent shirts to the dealership they work at, this falls more into the informative category and indicate possible hobbies. Same with the event shirts, it’s more about a memory of the event, it indicates possible hobbies like running or biking, and hell a free shirt is a free shirt.
Hell even the status symbol shirts, I guess do the same thing in signaling something about a person, but imo it signals that
you’re vacuous and live your life for the image you have for others instead of focusing on yourself.
My wife’s Filipino and that’s just their style, like they’re stuck in the 80s.
A tesla
Always remember
the car, the coil or the autistic savant?
