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.
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.
Cudos to the “My good gas mileage car can do this” crowd, though.
My VW Passat hybrid has carried more material on the roof rack than I’d be happy to admit.
At least Menards offers a truck you can rent temporarily to transport your large items home.
Home Depot has trucks that can be rented for a similar price, lol.
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…
Bunnings shopper: “Finally! A worthy opponent! OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!”
People that make memes and don’t spell check is my least favorite genre
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.
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?
I think they spelled “genera” correctly, but there’s no reason to use the plural here
I thought they meant to use “genre,” which makes more sense because who calls a type of meme a “genus?”
Details.
A lot of times bad spelling and grammar are both engagement bait ploys. People can’t resist clicking to make comments about it.
How do you feel about punctuation?
I can take it or leave it
Be the change you want to see in the world
i have sn 8ft long trailer with a 4 ft long tailgate that csn extend the 8ft to 12ft yet i still had some 12ft long corrugate roof panels delivered by the store as they have s forklift to unload with
Same with IKEA, even though you can look up the exact box sizes online there are still people trying to fit a sofa into a Fiat 500.
They have a home delivery service tho.
People spend thousands of dollar for their furniture, but dont want to pay the extra 75$ it takes to have strong people come and bring their furniture home.
Delivery starts at $19 at my local IKEA, as long as you’re within a certain radius from the store.
Dude I still try to fit everything into an overcrowded bus and carry it home from the bus station
trying to fit a sofa into fiat 500
Sex tape?
Unless your kink is failure and incompetence I would not recommend
What, like the back of a Volkswagen?
The accord driver 100% planned that out. Now if it was a good plan is up for debate.
I didn’t see anyone link to the original!
The sleeping face tied up in twine is iconic
The genus of these pictures is Artificilias. The species is intelligentia.
I don’t actually think a single of these photos are AI generated which is insane.
I personally don’t know if they are real or not (they certainly don’t seem like it SHOULD be real). But maybe the text artifacts on the license plates and signs in the original post are just sponge tooled/liquefied to censor out businesses or a random person’s car identifier.
I’m leaning towards real, there’s signs in the background that have coherent text on them, instead of weird, unintelligible, almost-letters.
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.
I’m glad you made it ok! This one looks really dangerous for the people.
And this one makes absolutely no sense because a single search gives you hundreds of these pictures. It took more effort to generate these than to find them.
I really hope AI continues to have noticable failures. I have my doubts, but one can hope.
“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?
They do, it’s not cheap, like $50
If you’re buying $1000 worth of lumber $50 to ensure it gets home undamaged (and without damaging your car) is cheap. I’m pretty sure you can also elect to cut the boards in half to better fit them in a smaller vehicle.
You know this picture is fake right?
You’re getting downvoted for speaking the truth. If the truck’s absurd fake crunch isn’t obvious enough for people at least recognize the car behind it blending into the clip art quality wood layer.
Absurd fake crunch? Dude the bed is meant to support the weight you aren’t supposed to put a pallet on the bare aluminum frame like that. It’s exactly how it crunches when people put heavy things across the top of their bed like that.
Trucks aren’t magical. They still have limits.I think it was more how weird the downscale looked for that one, along with being posted next to AI generated ones.
Ya’ll are right, I know how beds work but that original picture is so crunchy it looks fake without having seen the higher res image that _bcron posted. The post was funny but that particular shot just stood out funny to me, glad to be corrected
That one’s real tho - higher res image here. Truck beds are mega flimsy up top aside from the stake pockets
This helped a lot, what I thought was the blending of the car behind especially. Thanks for correcting me
I can’t vouch for the others but I just remember seeing that truck pic make its rounds on reddit. Hard to tell what’s real and not with the compression in this pic tho and with all the AI stuff floating around, never hurts to be skeptical!
Yeah, 3 out of 4 AI generated fodder and the 4th is using some weird downscale that manages to also give off AI vibes… I can understand the impression myself…
Nope the others aren’t AI generated either. Same weird filter on all of them to make it feel that way. Seriously don’t know why or how they did it.
Maybe they used an AI service to upscale the otherwise small res picture instead of looking for the original ones.
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.
It’s great having a work van.
Your not putting a stack of sheet in the back of a van.
What van are you thinking? Work vans do this all the time.
Yea you are? Sprinters or Crafters easily fit a stack of sheets, at least in the EU they do
I’m honestly baffled as to where they got that idea, most commercial vans are built around standard pallets and wallboard sheets. Mercedes Sprinter and Vito will, the Transit including the Transit Custom will, the Toyota Hiace will, it’s pretty much a standard feature.
As in plasterboard sheets? I don’t see why not if hand loading, plenty of vans will fit a 2400x1200 sheet (my Transporter fitted a bunch of plywood with room to spare). Loading one with a forklift is harder due to no side access long enough to fit 2400mm but that’s a problem shared with tub back utes. If however your plasterboard pallet is side accessible a van with barn doors (like you’d buy if pallets were a priority) will allow you load it in fine.
Not with that attitude.
