Sometimes, the parents forget to pick up the kids so the teachers get to decide if they leave a child all alone with no help or if the teacher works unpaid over time
Greatest country in the world...
SoftestSapphic 65 points a year ago
boonhet 2 points a year ago
Here the kids just walked or cycled home. Bus if you lived further away or didn't wanna cycle in the winter. But I grew up in a small town in Estonia in the 00s. It may have been literally feared at the time by people not from our town, but generally nobody would hurt a 7 year old and even once you got older, usually people's beefs were with kids from the other towns nearby, not locals.
NatakuNox 2 points a year ago
I work in child care and the regulations behind this are fucked. There's no gray area and staff risks prison time for not following them. I get how these laws and regulations get implemented. Even "good parents" will think it's completely reasonable to be late to pick up your children. Once in a while isn't a problem but when you are in charge of hundreds of kids and too many parents have that mentality it creates a cascade of issues for staff. (child care works have lives too) so please contact the school/facility if you are going to be late and don't be late constantly.
shalafi -4 points a year ago
No. Bullshit. When I got cut loose from 70s-80s elementary I was on my fucking own. We could walk, ride, skate, whatever. We did not require a fucking adult to care for us. Bell rings? GTFO! BYE!
pineapplelover 10 points a year ago
Idk maybe teachers these days care idk
Duamerthrax -19 points a year ago
oh, they definitely don't care about the kids. They care about getting arrested or sued.
AA5B 24 points a year ago
It’s always money.
When I first moved to the town I live in now, I was impressed by the all new schools. However I eventually realized they replaced a bunch of older neighborhood schools with a smaller number of bigger schools. They saved money by providing a worse educational experience and making walking less likely.
We walked to my kids elementary school but the town saved money by not plowing the sidewalks in winter, nor forcing residents to. Our walk would require walking on a major street - until my ex went full Karen and made them plow
When my kids got to middle school, we were in “walking” distance so there was no bus. However that was a full mile including crossing a six lane road whose light was always broken, and they didn’t spring for a crossing guard . We ended up choosing a private school in a different town, so there were no buses nor walkability
Regional school districts are now common. More kids goto schools that are not even in their towns
baggachipz 8 points a year ago
If only there were free public transport provided to every student outside a small radius of the school. That would make things so much simpler!
Seriously, I can’t wrap my head around this. Back in my day, pickup lines simply didn’t exist. You walked or you took the bus.
slaneesh_is_right 3 points a year ago
We walked and biked even skied to school in the winter. Some kids had quite the journey. Now my nephew is 8 and and there are like 20 cars waiting in front of the school, or the closest they can drive. They also complained that it's pretty dangerous because of all the traffic, not realising that they are the traffic. No car would be there without them. It's madness.
Dozzi92 2 points a year ago
Back in my day, the early to mid 90s, there were still pickups. There was a shorter line, it was easier, because there were fewer people.
Where I live now, and where I lived then, there was cutoffs for the bus, like a mile or more. My town now, barely anyone is a mile from anything. There's one bus for the school, and they use it for underprivileged and disabled students. Everyone else is on their own, and so if you live a mile from school, having your four or five year old walk sometimes isn't feasible.
We live about a mile from school. I drive halfway and park and we walk the other half, because I cannot stand the pickup line. But some people go, drop their kid, and head to work, and so it's completely understandable that they use the pickup line.
Trainguyrom 2 points a year ago
If only there were free public transport provided to every student outside a small radius of the school. That would make things so much simpler!
Just gonna throw this out there, while yes car=bad and carbrain is real, sometimes its just administrative bullshit that fails to consider the realities of their student's and/or parents' needs and living situations.
When my kids started school, because my youngest is special needs and other specifics they both started around the same time in different grades. For the majority of the student body my town's school district will simply bus between different schools plus a couple of specific designated points so that everyone who lives within city limits is within about half a mile of a place that the buses pick up and drop off. They require a parent/guardian present at pickup time for 3k-Kindergarten bus pickup and dropoff. For students in special ed they instead get to take the special ed bus which has extra staff and seatbelts and only picks up and drops off at the home and also requires a parent/guardian present. Both do pickups and dropoffs at about the same time. I'm sure you can see where this is going.
Since my wife has been a stay at home mom (primarily due to daycare costs exceeding what she would realistically make) and can't be in 2 places at once^[citation needed]^ we were forced to do our own pickups and dropoffs instead of bussing. I'm sure there's similar levels of bullshit if your kids are in different grades putting them at different schools because the local school administrators seem to be really good at not fully thinking things through like that and usually require experiencing the consequences of their actions to change course on a decision
baggachipz 1 point a year ago
You’re describing an exception, which is of course real and necessary. The vast majority of a school pickup line is simply carbrain and some vague “mama bear” bullshit.
Trainguyrom 1 point a year ago
I was going to say we don't know for sure why so many parents choose to drive their kids, but it turns out after a quick Google that there has been at least one study into this matter, and it seems a large portion of the surveyed respondents can be attributed to carbrain (vague "stranger danger" and "risk of bullying" as listed reasons, which the bullying risk may be real or perceived but that's hard to empirically determine) but also a significant number drive their kids due to "traffic danger" indicating that it is poor road design pushing a significant portion of parents to choose to perform school pickups and dropoffs by car. And most of the remainder drive their kids to and from school out of "social convenience" (which is probably where my specific instance falls) so based on this one study based on a survey of almost 300 parents we could actually reduce the number of cars in those lines by a significant portion by making other options than driving more convenient for parents, but a large number state they're primarily concerned about pedestrian safety which is more of an infrastructure challenge than a direct "car brain" challenge
I really wish I was better at reading studies because that is some fascinating data that I'd love to play with some more and see what other conclusions I could tease out of it
TheJesusaurus -22 points a year ago
How do you envision kids being picked up after school? Free for all?
Edit: yes I'm doubling down, the people in the replies are idiots.
Obviously walking, biking, or taking the bus is better. Let's assume that covers 95% of children 95% of the time.
Now what?
I was asking what to do WITH CARS that are picking up kids REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT ANOTHER KID MIGHT TKAE THE BUS
baguettefish 44 points a year ago
In my childhood in Germany kids didn't need to be picked up or dropped off, we either walked or took public transit (not dedicated school buses either). As far as I can tell that's still the case where I live. It's a very different urban design that facilitates it, and it results in more human lives in my opinion.
fluffykittycat 15 points a year ago
America's choking to death on cars
freebee 7 points a year ago
We had in elementary school this thing called "the line". End of school day kids would gather at different recognizable points on the playground ("the basketball hoop" or such). Every point had a teacher and/or parent waiting. Then they made all kids hold hands two by two and started walking... Every line went to different corners in the neighbourhood, dropping kids off at home and even seeing they get in / someone is home... I'm pretty sure over 85% of all kids got home every day with this incredibly innovative technology... of volunteer parents. Kids that couldn't get dropped of at home for some reason (no one home or so) continued back to school where they could play for 1 or 2 more hours until they got picked up... Didn't realise I lived in a fairy tale land until internet times.
Especially kindergarten/elementary school should just be in the neighbourhood itself unless it's a really really really tiny town (in which case the innovation would be called: BUS).
TheJesusaurus 0 points a year ago
I live in the UK and walk my children to school every day. There is still a line for school pickup/drop-off because not everyone is so lucky.
This isn't even an American phenomenon.
Some amount of people will be driving cars to pickup and drop-off every day, even if it's minimized and even if it's not always the same people.
So it stands to reason they should do it in some kind of orderly fashion as dictated by the school for the safety of, get this, THE CHILDREN ARRIVING BY FOOT, BIKE OR BUS
balance8873 1 point a year ago
We're also talking about five year olds walking 1-2 mi at the end of a long day. Older kids, fine, but 5 is pretty young. I don't think my parents were comfortable with me walking/biking home alone until 4th grade.
There's also plenty of other valid use cases, such as if you are taking your kid to something after school. Or they have an activity which causes them to stay late. Or you don't want them to take the bus cause you're already in the neighborhood and why not pick them up as a treat (when I was growing up, buses didn't have a/c - riding in anything that didn't have a bunch of smelly sweating kids was definitely a treat)
prole 2 points a year ago
2 miles would be in the bus zone.
I don't know why people are pretending this is impossible, it's exactly how it worked when I was in public school. In the US.
Everyone walked or took a bus. Maybe there was like one or two kids who had some sort of special circumstance that required them to get picked up.
tyler 1 point a year ago
Even if they're within walking range only 25% of kids walk. 50% are driven by private car, and 25% take the bus. So you literally have 50% of kids that are within walking range still getting dropped off/picked up by private vehicle.
For your other use cases, that's why other countries use public transit rather than publicly funded school buses that only run twice a day. It's just a massive waste of money.
kboy101222 1 point a year ago
Meanwhile we have busses that don't always go anywhere close to everyone's houses (or if they do, they may take multiple hours to get there after dropping off a hundred other kids), almost non-existent sidewalks in most suburbs, dumbasses who don't watch for people on bikes, and a court system that's regularly faulted the person on the bike for getting hit.
Greatest country!
Also, at least where I live, you have to have prior permission to ride the bus. Your parent is going to be late picking you up? Guess you're waiting outside cause they didn't pre sign the permission slip!
TheJesusaurus -6 points a year ago
Ok that's lovely. And the ones who are being picked up individually by their parents? They don't wait in a line?
SkunkWorkz 16 points a year ago
Well in my country if a parent comes picking up their kids by car they have to park their car and walk to the school to pick their kids up. Waiting in your idling car in front of the school while taking up the lane is not allowed.
TheJesusaurus -3 points a year ago
Yeah that's why places that routinely have some car pick up come up with ways to manage it, like having dedicated pickup lanes to move parents and children through quickly safely and efficiently.
freebee 6 points a year ago
And just like that you turn even more area around a school into child-unsafe asphalt wasteland, facilitate the private car pick-up further and thus encourage even more people to do the less good way of how to get kids to school. Sometimes fixing a "problem" only creates more, bigger problems. This is one of those times.
Olgratin_Magmatoe 15 points a year ago
I envision walkable communities
TheJesusaurus -6 points a year ago
Yes that would be lovely, until then though? We don't bother having queues or rules because Reddit doesn't think anyone should have a car?
Olgratin_Magmatoe 7 points a year ago
Yes that would be lovely, until then though?
"You're not allowed to criticize the status quo unless your solution can be done instantaneously"
because Reddit doesn’t think anyone should have a car?
This is a strawman argument
howrar 2 points a year ago
It's not a criticism of people participating in a shitty system and have little say in the matter. It's a criticism of a system that forces people to make shitty decisions.
BackgrndNoize 7 points a year ago
Ever heard of a thing called a school bus
TheJesusaurus -4 points a year ago
Yes, that doesn't look like a school bus to me though. I assume if he tried to use the school bus lane they'd manage to catch him.
fluffykittycat 5 points a year ago
Get rid of this car oriented school design and make walking and biking viable again. Also school buses
fatboy93 4 points a year ago
Because other countries exist?
I used to walk to school, later bike to school, went to school in a bus etc.
Only times I got picked up/dropped off was when I was sick or had issues with other modes of transport
TheJesusaurus -3 points a year ago
What country are you assuming I'm assuming exactly? Wasn't aware there was only one country with both schools and cars
tyler 1 point a year ago
you're getting downvoted because your numbers are drastically off. I posted a comment below, but in the US 33% of school kids are dropped off/picked up by car. Not 5%. That number jumps to 39% if you're including those driving themselves to school. The average number of kids in school is 512 (in the USA) so that's ~169 kids getting picked up and dropped off each day. Essentially 169 cars, maybe fewer depending on how many ride together. If the number was 5% (it's not) then that would only be ~26 cars. Which is still a line, but not a long one.
You made up a small number to pretend like the problem isn't as bad as it is, and now you're using a strawman to make it seem like we would still need cars for the made up number you gave. The conversation isn't about needing cars, it's about having car lines due to so many cars. If it were actually as small a number as that then no, we wouldn't have lines like this, because that's about the rate that developed european countries have for pickup/dropoff car rates. And those people are the ones telling you it's not a problem in their country.
TheJesusaurus 0 points a year ago
At no point have I made up any numbers not strawmanned anything in this conversation. Piss off
shalafi 1 point a year ago
I'm American and just commented:
When I got cut loose from 70s-80s elementary I was on my fucking own. We could walk, ride, skate, whatever. We did not require a fucking adult to care for us. Bell rings? GTFO! BYE!
When my step-son was in elementary, 20-years ago, anything outside of a bus or parent's car was a non-starter. Fucking pathetic.
balance8873 0 points a year ago
You're never going to win against these people. They all seem to think that if they downvote people enough the economic realities of cars will shift and magically the world will change while they do literally nothing to actually change it.
copd 0 points a year ago
Just commenting to support and remind you upvote/downvote counts are not representative of correctness.
I'm british and although it's easy easy to believe we all walk and get thr bus, the TRUTH is 6% of our schoolchildren have fully complete end to end transport paid by the state (yes taxis) - this is usually due to negligence of the parents.
There is a real requirement for kids to be picked up by cars and removing that option will only hurt the education of the innocent child.
People on this site are very quick to binary extremism and would immediately struggle if given power of choice over others in real world scenarios.
tyler -1 points a year ago
I think the point others are making is that 6% is essentially nothing. In America it's 39%. That is just percentage using cars to go to school. Not using public funds at all. https://www.bts.gov/...
So now imagine 33% (car dropoff from that statistic, vs driving yourself) of your students' parents sitting in a car line outside the school. In a school with 512 students (USA average) that is 169 cars waiting in line. In Britain, with the same school size, that would be 30 cars in line..if a line existed at all, because it looks like in Britain 9 of 10 children using the HTST program actually share the taxi so it's only ~12 cars in line.
With these numbers you wouldn't even notice a line, which is why many people in this thread are talking about it like it's crazy. It's not that nobody uses cars in other countries, it's that it's so insane the number of cars us Americans use.
Notably, those numbers for America don't actually describe the full picture. If you dig down into that spreadsheet you actually see that 20% of American schools report that over 50% of students are dropped off by car each day. The survey doesn't go any higher than that, so the actual percentage of students dropped off by car each day actually might be much much much higher than 33%. So in a full quarter of the US we have more than half the school being dropped off and picked up by car each day, and we don't even know how high that percentage goes! Finally, 69% of schools reported that their students do not have access to public transit, so it's not even possible to get to a state like Europe has. We do have school buses, but that's essentially the same thing as your taxis, except even worse cause we're paying for them for almost 90% of schools! So not only are at least 33% of students getting dropped off by car at school, but we're still paying for private school buses for those students, even if they're not used or needed.
So in summary: 6% is really nothing. American's pay for 90% for school buses alone. 33% of students are still dropped off by car, even though school buses might be available. Finally, 69% of schools don't even have access to public transit.
The statistics around walking/biking infrastructure is even more telling. 22% of schools don't even have sidewalks to walk to the school. 59% don't have crossing guards. 65% don't have speed bumps or tables. 80% don't have bike lanes.
FunctionallyLiterate 21 points a year ago
This month.
ThePantser 93 points a year ago
Small penis alert
FunctionallyLiterate 46 points a year ago
But he's got YUUGGGEEEE balls! You can see them in the back hanging from the trailer hitch.
MelodiousFunk 8 points a year ago
Gender-affirming care.
mysticalone 7 points a year ago
sockenklaus 6 points a year ago
That was my initial thought... Nice pickup line btw. Do you have more? :)
LemmyKnowsBest 5 points a year ago
At my son's kindergarten all the parents walked to pick up their kids because that's how the school was, in a small walkable neighborhood. One dad had a fishing t-shirt on that said "Master Baiter." Kinda similar personality as this RAM/WAR truck guy.
ShaggySnacks 4 points a year ago
“Hey baby, can you show me where music class is, cause I feel like playing in A minor.”
The Epstein and co pick up line.
Jhogenbaum 56 points a year ago
Hey... I'm so glad that guys kid is NOT homeschooled...
RagingRobot 5 points a year ago
Idk I bet that kid has easy access to guns maybe they should stay home
justcallmelarry 55 points a year ago
Huh? What is it good for?
Tar_alcaran 48 points a year ago
Absolutely nothing!
FunctionallyLiterate 13 points a year ago
There's got to be a better way.
UltraMagnus0001 3 points a year ago
Um, money duhhh. Just sell to both sides and instigate.
silasmariner 1 point a year ago
Grab that cash with both hands and make a dash
zbyte64 1 point a year ago
Where I am at there's triple digit hear warnings, so there is a logic to this. On the other I have used my bicycle to pick up my daughter under such conditions so it is possible, but then she rightfully complains about the heat.
NikkiDimes 3 points a year ago
Oh HEAT. I went through that whole thing thinking hearing and that the ambient noise levels were above 100dB...
skisnow 36 points a year ago
Lucky I’ve not encountered him, the urge to talk to him like a 5 year old would be too great.
“What a big truck you have! And it’s so high up! I bet you have to do a big jump to get up there. And look, it says “WAR” on the front, that’s fun! Did you put that on yourself, or did you ask a man do it for you?”
moseschrute 3 points a year ago
invertedspear 5 points a year ago
Specifically he swapped the place of the R and the M and then rotated just the M so it’s a W. Surprised I don’t see that more often with the idiots around here and their punisher stickers on their compensators.
Sculptor9157 4 points a year ago
Taps disabled sign
QuinnyCoded 5 points a year ago
checkmate liberals
greedytacothief 30 points a year ago
I... I would not be brave enough to drive around in a "truck" like that. Like mad props for never out growing your edge lord phase.
TigerAce 28 points a year ago
How does one like that get a kid? Like, what woman is into a guy like that, and how does it biologically work with insemination when you have a tiny micro penis like that? I bet the kid is from the milkman or something.
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TigerAce 7 points a year ago
There's nothing wrong with having a small penis. There are great ways to compensate, by learning other skills in the bedroom to pleasure your partners. Buying a massive truck isn't the right way to pleasure a partner, it's only to show how sad and insecure you are like your other testosterone junky micropenis Chad friends with their mega trucks.
So when you say you have a small car, I'd say you're doing just fine.
SaveTheTuaHawk 1 point a year ago
learning other skills in the bedroom to pleasure your partners.
There are no partners here...
TubularTittyFrog 1 point a year ago
lots of women are into big trucks and expensive cars.
have you ever dated? IME majority of women want a guy with an expensive car. finding a woman who doesn't care about that stuff is difficult.
I drive a hybrid and I've had many dates be disgusted with that. They want a man who drives a 'manly' car.
There’s nothing wrong with having a small penis. There are great ways to compensate, by learning other skills in the bedroom to pleasure your partners. Buying a massive truck isn’t the right way to pleasure a partner, it’s only to show how sad and insecure you are like your other testosterone junky micropenis Chad friends with their mega trucks.
Trainguyrom 2 points a year ago
lots of women are into big trucks and expensive cars.
There's always exceptions to the rule, but the things dudes think attract women and what actually attracts women are so often two entirely different things. Most women have little interest in expensive cars, huge muscles or fancy gadgets, they're instead interested in a man with decent hygiene who can listen and be financially stable (all things that a lifted pickup with extra-edgy stickers and whatnot communicates the opposite of)
TubularTittyFrog 1 point a year ago
in my dating experience most women car very much about how much money a man flaunts. i have never dated a woman who dind't make a huge fuss over my car, my house, my non-designer dog.
every single woman i meet wants luxury everything, they want to spend five figures on a dog and they think i'm a POS for having a $500 rescue dog.
All the women I know who don't care about that stuff are already married.
Trainguyrom 1 point a year ago
So funnily enough a majority of my friends are feminine-presenting and several of them are single so I hear a lot about their experiences with dating guys and almost universally their primary concerns are hygiene and listening abilities (and past that concerns for their ability to budget and be financially stable), because that's how low the bar is for men.
Given how consistently the only people I ever see saying that women like big trucks/expensive cars happen to be men, and every women/feminine presenting person I know never even mentions vehicle choice when talking about what they do or don't like in a potential partner, plus the memes posted by women consistently matching this opinion, I have to believe that that's the case.
How are you meeting these dates who scoff at your sound financial decisions? What are your filters for a potential date? I strongly suspect you may be inadvertently filtering your dates either by where you meet them or expecting certain characteristics (or potentially you might be doing something that scares away non-gold diggers) so that most of who you date happen to be overly veign
SaveTheTuaHawk 2 points a year ago
have you ever dated? IME majority of women want a guy with an expensive car.
America has an epidemic of gold digging whores.
I did well with my GMW and my Bolex.
boonhet 1 point a year ago
Expensive (in terms of my country, anyway) car got me the worst woman I've ever dated (and later married. The things you do for love. For both the gold digger and more importantly, the child the gold digger coaxes you into having). Go back a few comments in my profile if you want details because I shared them with other people who said they've suffered under narcissists too, but it cost me well over 100k in under 2 years. Minimum wage in my country is under 900 euros a month to give you some perspective. She did not work a day in the same time frame, but I worked 200+ hours most months.
Stay true to yourself and keep driving that hybrid. Don't give in to it. The woman that's out there for you won't care about it. But if you drive a nice car or truck, you'll attract gold diggers that distract you from the actually good things in life. And if my advice sounds misogynous, it's really not. It's not exclusively women who are gold diggers of course. I recently read a thread on my country's subreddit where a woman was in just about the same situation I used to be in, looking for advice. Her husband was an absolute freeloader and wouldn't even help around the house because she wouldn't sign over half the house to him. House that she'd bought before their relationship.
TubularTittyFrog 1 point a year ago
i've never met a woman who didn't shit on me for my lifestyle choices. especially if that are positive.
all my girlfriends i dated just wanted the standard american lifestyle. And every woman i meet who wants to date me wants that too.
I dont' know where anyone is finding women that admire people who drive hybrid cars or compost. i certainly do not ever meet them.
boonhet 1 point a year ago
I've met a few. One in particular cared more about the environment than anything I could offer her.
Unfortunately we were both busy and barely saw each other. I then went and met someone who only liked me for the car I drove. First girl was last year MD student, the other one was pretty much a bum who gets pregnant when she finds a man who can provide for her, to lock it down.
I didn't have the nice car for the first one. She actually liked talking to me without me having to pretend I was someone I wasn't.
So I'm still sure that even for you there's someone out there. But the sad fact is that we many never meet these people or other circumstances can fuck things up for us.
TigerAce 0 points a year ago
You're not dating the right women man. The ones I date don't care about that stuff. They care about having shared interests, talking about emotional stuff, building a connection. My previous 3 partners I broke the relationship because they didn't respect my boundaries, they all want me back. They loved the sex, my previous partner, one who had many before me, told me I could give her the best orgasm ever, by far. The ones before also said I performed beter then they ever had. All because I learned techniques, even though I'm above the Dutch national average size wise. Size does help a lot, but it's about what you do with it. While my best technique is oral. I try to learn her body, her triggers, and play with that. Edging is really great, plus knowing to find the g spot, and of course the clitoris. But the whole body is covered with sensitive spots, knowing which one to stimulate when is key. Watch some tutorials from Nina Hartley, I learned a lot from it. Also there was a program on state television when I was younger called "neuken doe je zo" (this is how you fuck). I can't remember the other tutorials but there are more. Just don't use porn as a reference.
All my previous partners don't care about cars, expensive presents, etc. They care about my brain and how I treat them: with care and respect. I can be vulnerable and don't mind taking about hard things so they all still come to me when they are feeling down because even though we broke up I'm still there for them during hard times. And they are there for me too.
If anyone only cares about money and fame, they are just using you and not the right partner.
TubularTittyFrog 1 point a year ago
I can only date women who want to date me.
I can't date women who don't find me attractive. I'm glad for you you got to date women who don't care about that stuff. I don't have that opportunity in life. I date women who ask me what car I drive and how much income I make within minutes of meeting me.
TigerAce 1 point a year ago
Where do you meet them? Tinder is not the best place to meet the right women. I've had more luck with other apps like ok cupid. Also when I go to parties I meet nice women but only at the right parties with the right crowd. Standard clubs are not the right place imo. I prefer to go to subculture events / and underground parties.
Edit: I'm not saying it's easy, I find it super hard too.
candyman337 25 points a year ago
(obligatory DO NOT ACTUALLY so I don't get removed)
Bet if you shot up this jackass's car he'd be a lot less prepared than he fucking thinks
shalafi -8 points a year ago
You might be, very unpleasantly, surprised. The vast majority of us who carry guns train and are well versed in the law. Remember, when you hear crazy stories on the news, they are only reported because they are crazy." Normal doesn't make the news.
LaserTurboShark69 23 points a year ago
Just a little higher and they'll be able to pass over the children unscathed. Problem solved
NigelFrobisher 22 points a year ago
I love the sunglasses and hat on an overcast day look too. Such manly.
glitch1985 11 points a year ago
Uv rays don't care about clouds
balance8873 5 points a year ago
You picked on the one thing that's actually justifiable
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Credibly_Human 14 points a year ago
Kids who never grew up, but in a bad way
hungryphrog 15 points a year ago
That car is also very likely to make a kid never grow up in yet another way.
balance8873 4 points a year ago
Could also kill a shorter adult, I bet they don't have visibility on anyone under 5'6"
limelight79 14 points a year ago
I've inadvertently ridden my bicycle through a couple school zones during drop-off times - and I'm sure pick-up times would be even worse.
Cycling around cars has an element of risk that we all know and accept. But that risk goes WAY UP in school zones at drop-off time. You'd think drivers would be looking for kids, people, etc. as they drop their precious off IN A SCHOOL ZONE. But, no.
For example: One started to pull out in front of me - I was in the lane, riding past, and she was pulling out of the school's driveway. I avoided her with some vigorous braking, then she had the gall to pull up at a light and tell me I should be careful.
Hazmatastic 9 points a year ago
It's a bunch of stressed, impatient parents who just want to grab their kid and get out, but are apathetic to everyone else trying to do the same. If all these other people weren't here they could do this so fast, why won't everyone get out of their way? It's a highly concentrated dose of the "Im gonna get mine and the rest of you can fuck right off" mentality. And, like most shitty driving behaviors, it feeds into itself. It makes good drivers make bad decisions because, if they don't, they're not going anywhere. "No one is letting me in, so if I dont cut someone off, I'm going to be stuck here another 15 minutes" type shit. I dont know why well-built pickup and drop-off areas aren't required for building schools past 1990, but here we are.
Washedupcynic 3 points a year ago
When I leave my home street, (on my bicycle,) I have to make a left hand turn. This means that I don't proceed through the intersection until it's safe, and I turn from the middle of the lane. My bike also has blinking turn signals, because people are dumb and don't understand hand signals for turns. I had one of my neighbors behind me honking and screaming at me because I wasn't turning fast enough for her liking. I screamed at her that I wasn't turning until it was safe, and she could eat my ass. Then I got off my bike in the middle of the road and proceeded to dance the running man for 30 seconds before getting back on to attempt my left hand turn again. Fuck cars and the people that drive them.
frostysauce 0 points a year ago
Yes, sure. And everyone clapped. And your name: Albert Einstein. And all that.
y0kai 17 points a year ago
I used to live there (16 miles out of town, in the sticks) and the school bus still came. I had to walk a mile to get to the stop, because they didn't like dirt roads. But then I got chased by a dog and my parents complained to the right people so I only had to walk like 1/4 mile to the stop from then on.
But yeah, that's probably still not an option everyone
panda_abyss 9 points a year ago
Looks like some of the trucks in my suburban neighbourhood that have never carried anything bigger than a Costco bag of dog food and an ikea chair, nor have they ever been more off road than parking on the grass at the park.
FunctionallyLiterate 3 points a year ago
The only place they could afford after buying that monstrosity & it's got all the comforts of an outhouse.
BootLoop 1 point a year ago
I was, for that school actually. Next farm over was a different school and across the street was a different one again. But instead of not sending a bus like this person suggests it would've just been a different bus from a different direction.
DioramaOfShit 10 points a year ago
I need some new insults to use. Everything i grew up calling these people is not okay to use anymore (fag, retard etc.) The more offensive the better. Thanks for the help.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass 9 points a year ago
Piss baby.
HerrVorragend 5 points a year ago
How about "refag" or "fatard"?
DioramaOfShit 2 points a year ago
I like these
DioramaOfShit 3 points a year ago
I agree. Weird to me too. Probably weird to my grandma that she can't use the n word though so who knows? Maybe they're right.
shalafi -4 points a year ago
The N word doesn't compare, not to me. GenX always saw that word as evil. But the F and R words (can't believe I had to type that out) were general insults.
"NOAWW! I was called those words as a child and it HURT me!"
Words didn't hurt me. Getting my ass beat down on the playground, while the teachers watched, hurt me. Perhaps, grow a spine? (Not you DioramaOfShit.) (Can't believe I had to type that as well, but here we are.)
DioramaOfShit 1 point a year ago
You seem to have an excellent sense of humor.
realitista 1 point a year ago
Micropenis
NewSocialWhoDis 9 points a year ago
As if he'd ever see a kid walking in front of that thing.
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brucethemoose 7 points a year ago
See those long A arms?
Unlike most “big dick trucks,” this has a decent looking suspension, widened stance and big tires (and small rims) of a prerunner. If this guy lives out in the desert, he likely has some fantastic fun with it.
If I’m not mistaken (and I could be), that’s a “small” base truck, like a Ranger or whatever the equivalent dodge is, as opposed to a hulking F150. These are better for building up like that because they aren’t so freaking big to start.
What I don’t particularly like are the lifts that are terrible off road, like feet off the ground to the point where they’re tippy, yet have no suspension travel and can’t even park.
LORDSMEGMA 7 points a year ago
You know that thing has never seen anything wilder than a mall parking lot
brucethemoose 2 points a year ago
Desert offloading is a popular thing in the US southwest. I’d do it as much as I could if I lived there, and had a truck like that.
To be clear, unlike most lifted trucks, I’m just saying it has a plausible use. You could be right.
Fluffy_Ruffs 7 points a year ago
That's a Ram I'm afraid. Dodge has no small/midsize truck in North America.
brucethemoose 3 points a year ago
RIP my truck taxonomy skills.
brucethemoose 0 points a year ago
Look, I like off-roaders! Right? Desert racing trucks are the coolest thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nR1-J676ao
And that includes solid axle/mixed variants like the rock crawling Ultra4 trucks!
https://www.speedhunters.com/...
(Though I noticed some are going independent front more recently).
Old land rovers and land cruisers are equally cool, hence they still use them in Africa almost exclusively. But the land rovers are better because they don’t use leaf rears!
I love rally cars and Dakar the multi axel Russian trucks. I love small pickups too.
…But lifted, full sized trucks are so boring. They’re literally everywhere in this part of Texas, to the point where they advertise mass conversion shops on billboards. They’re usually macho assholes on the road, and even stock-ish ones tend to be customized and slob into parking spaces or stick out of places.
I loathe them. I couldnt care less about them. Hence, I know what older RAM 1500s look like, but I don’t really keep up with the style changes for the RAMs/Chevys/Toyotas or whatever, other than observing how ridiculously big and tall their front grills have gotten.
…Hence this one threw me off. The grill is tiny! It makes it look small, when in reality the owner/shop likely ripped it out for that front skid plate (which looks way better).
brucethemoose 3 points a year ago
Yeah…
I hardly ever see Rangers in Texas, to the point I actually point them out like a rare car. But a ton of the traffic is full sized pickups.
mean_bean279 2 points a year ago
The moss on the wood retaining wall say this isn’t near a warm/desert climate.
That said, it’s a RAM TRX. Great truck for dune jumping and pleasantly reliable. My only complaint with them is that it’s a whole lotta horse power for a truck whose tires limit it to 104. I love going fast in my fun cars, but the sacrifices Baja trucks (raptor and TRX) make are just pointless to me. Great resale values though.
panda_abyss 5 points a year ago
Is that Snake driving that truck? I see the eye patch.
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Gammelfisch 4 points a year ago
Only in the USA, the rest of the 1st World is normal.
MangioneDontMiss 8 points a year ago
the US is 1st world?
captain_aggravated 3 points a year ago
By definition.
MangioneDontMiss 1 point a year ago
here i am in the US and i have no idea how the US fits the defintion. A high standard of living is an important part of the definition and when only about 10-20% of the population fits into that bubble, I'm not sure if the definitions fits.
captain_aggravated 1 point a year ago
The definition of the First World is "The United States and its allies in the Cold War." The Second World is the Soviet Union and its allies. The Third World is everyone else. This definition places Finland and Switzerland in the Third World.
The connotation of "third world" meaning where we go to shoot those "for less than the price of a cup of coffee a day, you too can give food and water to this desolate brown child" commercials came later.
ZILtoid1991 1 point a year ago
We will soon have to lobby out a reclassification for them. They're more and more like a 3rd world dictatorship.
Gammelfisch 1 point a year ago
LOL! +1...It's a mixed bag.
mrgoosmoos 3 points a year ago
I assume that's an entirely separate street just for personal pickup? because I don't see room for a school bus to drive by
Tetragrade 2 points a year ago
G.I Joe type whip
NGC2346 0 points a year ago
I'll play devils advocate here, but in a free society, cant people ride the vehicule they want as long as it's legal ? Although his truck is ridiculously large, it's not like the majority of people drive those.
I just feel like there's way worse in life than Johns enlarged Dodge Ram.
orioler25 4 points a year ago
Except, John's enlarged Dodge Ram makes him statistically a greater danger to everyone and their kids. In daily life, John is a more relevant danger to me than pretty much anything else. If John is in the USA, the children at this school are most likely to die of a car collision -- with increased fatalities correlated with popularity of trucks like John's -- or a firearms incident, funnily enough also subject to a statistical correlation with light truck ownership. Between 19 and 24, vehicle collisions are the number one cause of death regardless of gender; only beat out by poisonings and suicide as you get older. Again, light trucks are correlated with higher rates of fatalies. If you're in those age groups and don't have a substance abuse or mental illness disorder, John is the most likely thing to kill you in your life.
People like John are apathetic about the casual brutality of such a vehicle, that is in fact the point of the hypermasculinity molded into it. I don't want him around me, and I don't want him around my kids. He chose to be dangerous and individual rights doesn't mean you can threaten others with impunity. That's why neglect can land you with murder or manslaughter charges.
DNS 1 point a year ago
You can ride any vehicle you want, but will also be opened up to criticism in your decision. No need to drive a massive dodge ram thats 5' lifted. There was a study that shows those type of trucks cannot see pedestrians in front of them, posing a risk to school children and distracted drivers.
The real issue is Big Auto circumventing laws to make these massive vehicles to avoid paying additional taxes on fuel efficient cars.
At my kids school, there's quite a few lifted vehicles with pristine paint jobs, letting others know that they never take their car out on trails let alone use it for what it's made for. Pathetic pavement princesses.
UnfortunateShort -5 points a year ago
I mean, it does look kind of cool. Can't go wrong with matte black
Tracaine -10 points a year ago
Why is everyone making fun of some guy's truck? Further, OP why are you being a creeper and posting pictures of people online without their consent?
I guarantee no one here knows this man, he might be the nicest dude ever and just happens to like monster trucks or something. What the hell is wrong with you people? How about mind your own business instead of gossiping about someone who is (probably) just a random dad waiting to pick up his kid and go home to make dinner. Fucking weirdos.
UndergroundGoblin 9 points a year ago
Found a Truck owner.
Ifera 1 point a year ago
Because Lemmy is a most of the time a kind, left leaning socialist utopia, unless it is about cars, and men. And if it is about both, boy oh boy. And if you added AI, you'd get a trifecta of negativity.
It is gross to me, seeing so many up voted comments body shaming, some stranger for the car they drive, but the in-group bias is massive.
I wonder if they would be this gross if it was a woman driving the car.
slaneesh_is_right 0 points a year ago
Picking up a child in the child killer 3000 that says WAR on it. Yeah, probably a really nice guy
SandraBollocks 8 points a year ago
like two peas in a pod
ExistingConsumingSpace 7 points a year ago
Voucher schools exist because christofascists found another way to gut funding from public schools and place it in private hands.
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