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Good. Urban apartment dwellers LARPing as ranchers and cattlemen are one of the most asinine and embarrassing aspects of 21st century America. We used to have

by rsync 4y ago

Good. Urban apartment dwellers LARPing as ranchers and cattlemen are one of the most asinine and embarrassing aspects of 21st century America. We used to have a term for individuals like this: all hat, no cattle … … imagine being so childish and shameless as to ignore that moniker.

birdyrooster 4y ago
You’ve just described a gigantic contingent of Texans
- atwebb 4y ago
  I was thinking Tennessee, though they are probably pretty similar nowadays.
  - selimthegrim 4y ago
    G.W. Bush clearly thought so
  - monetus 4y ago
    Cherokee and mulungeon cultures are starting to be a bit more prominent in east Tennessee at the least. The accent diversity is really something else too - but yeah, plenty of Texan mentalities here I think.
bumby 4y ago
>We used to have a term for individuals like this: all hat, no cattle … The phrase I've heard in cattle country is "dimestore cowboy" or "drugstore cowboy"
- cafard 4y ago
  In Colorado when I was I kid, one heard "goat roper".
JTbane 4y ago
I like the term for urban lifted trucks and Jeeps: mall crawlers.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
  Parking lot princess
MisterTea 4y ago
> … imagine being so childish and shameless as to ignore that moniker. Childish is the key word here because that is exactly what these people are: man children. How else do you explain the decals/stickers of guns, skulls, political drivel, or American flags (in case you're stupid enough to forget what country you live in) plastered all over them? Its like a little kid saying they want the biggest bike and decorate it with stickers, streamers and a playing card in the spokes. But lord help you if you tell them this fact of life as they'll have a temper tantrum in public. Most of these trucks are used for commuting and have picked up in popularity. Commuting to work I see so many on the road these past few years. I always check for legit truck use by looking at the beds and hitch receivers/hitches and they're usually pristine.
throwaway0a5e 4y ago
What if I bought a Tacoma (I briefly considered a Colorado but didn't feel a GM product was befitting of someone of my income and good taste) instead of a half-ton because I think full-size trucks are for backwards hicks who need to compensate for something and I don't like projecting that image are exempt? Am I exempt? (This comment is satire but it should hit annoyingly close to home for a subset of readers.)
effingwewt 4y ago
Being raised in Texas and living in California, we have here what we call 'pavement princesses. They buy old or new big trucks, lift them, hard-wire the brights permanently engaged. Most have never been in mud, much less used for work. People in big work trucks (oilfield workers and actual rancherd/farmers etc) never act like these LARPers do. They also drive like assholes, riding ass and being aggressive. I love aiming their brights back at them with my side mirrors. Legit had one guy scream at me for it in a drive-thru. Apparently blinding me is fine, but how dare I blind him so bad he had to turn off his lights...in a well-lit parking lot. I get out my car in a Jack In The Box drive-thru and who is behind me? Some old guy (60+) in a brand new truck with not a scratch on it. Lifted with pretty powder coated lift kit. LED lights on the outside and wheelwells. My mind was blown I'd expected it to be some douche kid. Also he had some stickers that read 'Yeet truck'. An old man. I don't know if they have a Facebook truck or what, but these guys take pride in being assholes. At least in Texas you will get a ticket for brights. Here in California they just run rampant. I haven't been back to Texas in about two years now, but when did this go from something to be laughed at to something people aspire to? Asshole-as-a-culture? edit to add- people are now using aftermarket headlights, which is fine, but they throw away the instructions that show how to properly set them so they aren't pointing straight ahead. Damn near as bad a brights. Also never ticketed here so it runs rampant. I told the last officer to pull me over for my tint being too dark that it's the only way to not be blinded at night. I'd rather pay the ticket. Let me off with a warning, which was nice.

by rsync 4y ago

birdyrooster 4y ago

You’ve just described a gigantic contingent of Texans

atwebb 4y ago
I was thinking Tennessee, though they are probably pretty similar nowadays.
- selimthegrim 4y ago
  G.W. Bush clearly thought so
- monetus 4y ago
  Cherokee and mulungeon cultures are starting to be a bit more prominent in east Tennessee at the least. The accent diversity is really something else too - but yeah, plenty of Texan mentalities here I think.

bumby 4y ago

>We used to have a term for individuals like this: all hat, no cattle … The phrase I've heard in cattle country is "dimestore cowboy" or "drugstore cowboy"

cafard 4y ago
In Colorado when I was I kid, one heard "goat roper".

JTbane 4y ago

I like the term for urban lifted trucks and Jeeps: mall crawlers.

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
Parking lot princess

MisterTea 4y ago

> … imagine being so childish and shameless as to ignore that moniker. Childish is the key word here because that is exactly what these people are: man children. How else do you explain the decals/stickers of guns, skulls, political drivel, or American flags (in case you're stupid enough to forget what country you live in) plastered all over them? Its like a little kid saying they want the biggest bike and decorate it with stickers, streamers and a playing card in the spokes. But lord help you if you tell them this fact of life as they'll have a temper tantrum in public. Most of these trucks are used for commuting and have picked up in popularity. Commuting to work I see so many on the road these past few years. I always check for legit truck use by looking at the beds and hitch receivers/hitches and they're usually pristine.

throwaway0a5e 4y ago

What if I bought a Tacoma (I briefly considered a Colorado but didn't feel a GM product was befitting of someone of my income and good taste) instead of a half-ton because I think full-size trucks are for backwards hicks who need to compensate for something and I don't like projecting that image are exempt? Am I exempt? (This comment is satire but it should hit annoyingly close to home for a subset of readers.)

effingwewt 4y ago

Being raised in Texas and living in California, we have here what we call 'pavement princesses. They buy old or new big trucks, lift them, hard-wire the brights permanently engaged. Most have never been in mud, much less used for work. People in big work trucks (oilfield workers and actual rancherd/farmers etc) never act like these LARPers do. They also drive like assholes, riding ass and being aggressive. I love aiming their brights back at them with my side mirrors. Legit had one guy scream at me for it in a drive-thru. Apparently blinding me is fine, but how dare I blind him so bad he had to turn off his lights...in a well-lit parking lot. I get out my car in a Jack In The Box drive-thru and who is behind me? Some old guy (60+) in a brand new truck with not a scratch on it. Lifted with pretty powder coated lift kit. LED lights on the outside and wheelwells. My mind was blown I'd expected it to be some douche kid. Also he had some stickers that read 'Yeet truck'. An old man. I don't know if they have a Facebook truck or what, but these guys take pride in being assholes. At least in Texas you will get a ticket for brights. Here in California they just run rampant. I haven't been back to Texas in about two years now, but when did this go from something to be laughed at to something people aspire to? Asshole-as-a-culture? edit to add- people are now using aftermarket headlights, which is fine, but they throw away the instructions that show how to properly set them so they aren't pointing straight ahead. Damn near as bad a brights. Also never ticketed here so it runs rampant. I told the last officer to pull me over for my tint being too dark that it's the only way to not be blinded at night. I'd rather pay the ticket. Let me off with a warning, which was nice.