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[–] Lulzagna 11 points 22 hours ago

I bought a table saw during COVID. They only allowed pickup in the parking lot. You couldn't rent vehicles because we were on lockdown. I had no choice but to pick it up with my Jetta.

People were laughing their asses off at me unpacking it and barely fitting it in the trunk. Styrofoam was going everywhere as I broke it. Had to throw all the packing material into a dumpster.

So embarrassing.

[–] CaptnNMorgan 47 points 1 day ago (7 children)

People that make memes and don't spell check is my least favorite genre

[–] agless 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Based on the top two "photos", they must have just got done typing "generate" a few times, so I guess I can see how the error might have occurred.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Elsewhere in the thread someone shared one of the originals where text that's mucked up in the above meme is clear as day. The crazy artifacting must come from some bizarre compression or automated touchup by an editing software. Maybe automated upscaling?

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 11 points 1 day ago

A lot of times bad spelling and grammar are both engagement bait ploys. People can’t resist clicking to make comments about it.

[–] Thteven 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How do you feel about punctuation?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think they spelled "genera" correctly, but there's no reason to use the plural here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I thought they meant to use "genre," which makes more sense because who calls a type of meme a "genus?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I dunno, Richard Dawkins?

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[–] Treczoks 17 points 1 day ago

That is not limited to Home Depot. I once saw two ladies trying to fit three trollys full with an IKEA bedroom (bed, frame, mattresses, and a stack of PAX wardrobes, plus a heap of smaller items) into a compact car. A very compact car...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cudos to the "My good gas mileage car can do this" crowd, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

My VW Passat hybrid has carried more material on the roof rack than I'd be happy to admit.

[–] rockSlayer 154 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The guy with a truck had a concept of a plan

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

You all laugh, but one time I was young, dumb, and just did what people told me to do.

In this regard, I found myself pulling a grain auger on a much-too-small flat deck trailer. The trailer was maybe 10ft long by 6 ft wide, so we put one wheel of the grain auger on the deck, and one on the external tail light of the trailer which was relatively sturdy. 'are you sure this is a good idea?' 'fuck it, she'll go. Just go slow'

So I start driving. No immediate problems. Turns out that going down a major, winding hill at the 100 km posted speed limit is not a good idea with an awkward load. It's also a pretty interesting time to figure out that if you brake, you make the trailer sway worse. Hmm so speed up it is! Started at the top of the hill at about 90 km/hr and came out for it at about 120 km/hr. Lol.

And that's just one of the times I shoulda died! Whee.

This is also why I mentor the fuck out of any junior I work with. too many stories like this.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] tino 22 points 1 day ago

Go to the Netherlands and see the same thing, but with bikes. I once brought back a 1,5 meter long wooden pannel under my arm. I didn't anticipate the wind, which started to push me out of the road.

[–] PineRune 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I worked at home depot, and our manager made people sign a form before having a Hi-Lo load a pallet of floor tile into their truck because it would cause their suspension to bottom out. They'd do it, and drive off with zero leeway on their shocks.

We had one guy come in bragging about how his super-expensive hydraulic suspension could handle it. We loaded 2 pallets of tile into his truck bed. I bet he felt every little crack in the road driving to the job site.

[–] Fosheze 25 points 1 day ago

You do feel every little bump and odds are your suspension will never be the same afterwords. But that's why you do it with beater trucks and not anything you actually care about. My dad did the same thing except with landscaping blocks in an old salt truck he picked up for like $200. You can't break a suspension that's already broke.

Or that's the theory anyways. In reality he wound up blowing the same rear tire 3 times on the trip home. Four times if you count the tire blowing again after the truck was parked. We kept having to pull over, dismount the tire, take it home, mount another used tire on the rim, take it back to the truck, and put it back on, and go until it blew again. Every time we had to do that I reminded him that I had told him before hand that he should bring the trailer.

[–] Macaroni_ninja 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Same with IKEA, even though you can look up the exact box sizes online there are still people trying to fit sofas into a Fiat 500.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude I still try to fit everything into an overcrowded bus and carry it home from the bus station

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The genus of these pictures is Artificilias. The species is intelligentia.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink 1 points 6 hours ago

In genera, i think this is a pretty good comment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I don't actually think a single of these photos are AI generated which is insane.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was in college and needed to fix my apartment. I didn't own a car and took the bus to Lowe's. I called my buddy who had a car.

I'm in this picture.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It's great having a work van.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Once again the minivan heavy portfolio pays.

*The damage to the drywall was like that from the store it was 75% off and being used to make some patches and fill a small renovation.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (19 children)

"I NEED TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE BECAUSE I CAN'T TAKE A LOAD OF TWO BY FOURS ON A BIKE!!!!"

*buys car*

*does shit like this*

It's the pickup, a car designed to carry shit, that is struggling to carry shit that does it for me. Do American DIY shops not do Home Delivery?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine buying truck just for this moment and then screwed up the loading part.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

I bought a locker a while back, like the kind you would find in the employee room of a closing bed bath and beyond. It didn't quite fit as expected so we ended up just tying the back hatch as closed as it could with a single rope and took back roads the whole way home. I don't think we went above 20mph for fear of the damage this giant steel box would cause if it fell out. Also got a tetanus shot the next day because I managed to rip my hand on its rusted foot. Good times, I love that locker

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (15 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

My wife's mum was helping me move everything from a two-bedroom unit, in a Toyota Yaris hatchback. Completely filled the car with stuff. It took maybe six or seven trips back and forth, but we got it done eventually.

This was before I had a drivers license or much money, so I couldn't just rent a truck, nor could I afford to pay a mover.

[–] 200ok 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

See also: people struggling to fit IKEA packages in their vehicle.

Bonus: while the cursed, multi-directional-wheeled carts roll out from under them.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They will rent you a fucking truck, it isn't that expensive either.

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