This suggests that Maximum Overdrive was Jurassic Park for motor vehicles.
I’m sorry, but that is misleading as hell. American and European trucks are bred for different purposes.
American trucks are bred for long hauls on largely straight roads. They can go for hours without a break. A European truck needs more breaks and a lighter load, and they would indeed take great internal damage if they tried to keep up with the Longsnout.
The European Shortsnout is not bred for looks, but for agility! They navigate the windy roads of Europe in a way that would be way too risky for the powerful, but more clumsy American truck. It is true that the European overheats faster at high speeds, that is the very reason that breaks every 4,5 hours are mandatory for both the truck and the handler and a day of driving can never be longer then 9 hours.
So, all in all, appreciate all of our trucks and our shared history, and be the responsible owner that gets the right breed for the right job.
To be fair, the US does have shortnose trucks as well, they’re just a breed kept mainly for very local work where, like the above says, they are working in places with lots of turns, shorter drives, and plenty of stops. I see them used for garbage pickup a lot, where a longnosed Mack wouldn’t be able to fit much less maneuver, and the short nose prevents them from getting rubs (raw skin or even open sores) on their snouts.
I would also like to point out that the tags have got it backwards. The wild trucks (which I’m pretty sure are extinct in the wild now) that all modern breeds stemmed from were shortnose trucks. We had known about automobiles and domesticated several species, but the truck species was not discovered until close to the start of the 1900’s, in Germany, which I BELIEVE was the first country to breed them in captivity, although England was the first country to really start using them for work. I managed to find a photo of taxidermied specimen
As you can see, it resembles both long and short nosed breeds, as well as the far more common house truck used by individuals instead of for commercial work.
As to the aggression, while the mack longnose LOOKS aggressive, they’re generally gentle giants (although please do give them space on the road! not seeing you in their blind spot is NOT the same as aggression!), it is actually the smaller house truck that is often trained by their handler to be aggressive: the keyword being TRAINED, they are also not naturally aggressive. The only time I have seen a mack be commonly aggressive is when they are pulling 2 gravel trailers, and I would be cranky if I was being overworked, too. If you see them hauling that kind of load, just give them space, and you’ll be fine.
I feel like somebody should add something about the Australian variants.
From my understanding of Australian wildlife:
Does anyone know if/how American School Busses are related to trucks?
Pics for reference:
The classic long-nose schoolbus
But short-nose varieties exist, I remember when they first started appearing in my district!
@dreorzen While school buses ARE in the automobile order, they are actually part of the Van family, not the Truck family, due to their passenger capacity. As you can see in the photos, they have no cargo bed or hookup, and are not really built for object transport. But they DO excel at carrying passengers, particularly children (although certainly not limited to just children)
They’re known to be exceptionally protective of any passengers, and if you look closely on that second image you can actually see a specialized appendage that is (I think) unique to school buses- a small, red, octagonal fan, which they extend when there are small creatures around them that they are acquiring or releasing. Much like an angler fish’s bioluminescent bulb appendage, this fan (along with several bioluminescent patches on top of their faces and on their hindquarters) works to mesmerize any other vehicles in close proximity, to where those vehicles will cease movement until the bus lowers the fan. It’s super fascinating behavior, and little wonder why we trust our children to these gentle, protective giants.
@bunjywunjy this seems like a post you need to see
This post is exactly what I like about tumblr.
Informative? Useful? Interesting? Yes. Explained in a silly manner? Also yes. In the end, are you delighted to have learn stuff? YES!
I need to check the notes to see if someone brought up Monster Trucks; the show ponies of the truck family.
How do I explain to you people that interracial relationships are okay
Not every white person dating a POC is fetishizing. White people can be respectful and responsible when it comes to culture and relationships and not everyone has bad intentions.
Asian people can date Black people without you saying shit like “your kids will be so pretty” they’re not dating for pretty kids. They’re dating bc they like each other.
Someone can dress their partner in clothing from their culture if they want. Someone can take their partner to cultural events if they want.
People in relationships can share cultures, experiences and love without it being toxic or skin deep.
Their partner isn’t culturally appropriating. Their partner is being shown the ultimate form of love, bc their partner trusts them and loves them enough to share their history and heritage.
Yeah, dating someone from your culture is nice bc you automatically have similar experiences. But you’re not limited to dating people with the same experiences. Loving someone is sharing and growing and being together.
Interracial relationships aren’t always toxic, and some of y’all need to stop projecting onto other people.
👆 THIS 👆 👏👏👏
Calling ineterracial relationships toxic or fetishizing just seem like anti race mixing or racism with extra steps
I want more DnD movies with the same cast, but they play totally different characters every time, except for Xenk, who is the only recurring character in the entire franchise
being a fan of media that requires critical thinking skills and cant just be broken down into “this one bad this one good” is so hard like can you imagine the fucking takes im seeing
people who want to live in lighthouse - i hear you, i understand you
but i raise you
living in water tower
safer (you not gonna die horrid death so easy), not so cursed but still ominous, you are alone bc you are in a tower but you can do groceries no problem, just chilling above everything else
and look at those beauties!! (from Poland <3)
as an american i was very confused by this post until i got to the images because our water towers look like this, which, as you can imagine, is a completey unsexy place to live
I think everyone has both “hard” headcanons (things that are so integral to your understanding of a story that you can’t enjoy content that contradicts them), and “soft” headcanons (things that are mutable, where you aren’t strongly attached or you’re open to alternate interpretations) and if you aren’t sure if something is one or the other you can just read a fic where the author disagrees with you and see whether you react with “Huh, that’s interesting” or “I have been overcome with a creeping sense of existential wrongness.”
it’s been said before and it will be said again but i’m begging you all nicely to restrain yourselves from being so casually aggressive and rude and obnoxious in the tags & reblogs of a complete stranger’s posts. no one wants to know that you hate [tv show that op giffed]. no one wants to know that you hate [character that op drew]. no one wants to hear you being ugly and negative for no reason. say what you want to say in your own post. don’t hit the reblog button. blacklist relevant tags. unfollow or block relevant accounts. log out. shut down. get help.
Would you expect anything else? (also this will bite us in the ass so bad, yay)
[ID: A comic titled “Back on his bullshit”, of Arthur Lester and John Doe getting shown around by Marie. Arthur looks bashful with his hat in his hands as Marie warns, “And don’t open that door.” She walks away and the door clicks shut behind her. Arthur and John’s gazes slide to the side. They dash out of frame. We catch up to them at the door, which they are climbing like cats as flies and odors drift out from it. End ID]
Damn imagine that episode from john’s perspective. just vibing waiting for Arthur to wake up so they can go find his mason dad-in-law, and then all of a sudden Arthur gets up? and starts walking? and so john asks him what the fuck he’s doing, as is his right as the seeing-eye brain passenger, but arthur doesn’t respond? and then he walks to the ladder??? and john’s like oh okay maybe we’re gonna get a midnight snack I do enjoy a midnight bowl of cereal and then Arthur just fuckin. Falls. Straight down. Doesn’t even touch the ladder. Just smack on the floor below. And listen. Arthur is clumsy as shit, but you’d think he’d be better than this, surely. But before John even PROCESSES that, arthur walks to the door they were EXPLICITLY told to leave closed, and he just. Opens it. Waltzes on in. And what the fuck there’s a woman just tied up in here??? And now Arthur is walking up to her???? And ope okay now Arthur’s untying this woman. Cool. Super cool night they’re having. And then FINALLY arthur fucking TALKS to him and john waits for arthur to perhaps explain himself but he immediately makes it clear that he has no clue what the fuck is going on. And now john has to explain that yes, arthur. You threw yourself down a ladder and proceeded to untite the eldritch monstrosity living in this nice old lady’s house. Excellent work. Now we have to deal with this I guess. God forbid we get a single night’s sleep.
Every now and then I’m reminded Real People with Actual Jobs use tumblr and I’ve always been legitimately curious what all you weird adults are up to when you’re not on this site and with tumblr’s New Poll Feature I can finally get an answer! (or the closest approximation of an answer possible with only 10 available options h a)
What job do you currently have (or plan on having in the future)?
Tbh I think fandom generally needs to get better at sitting with the uncomfortable fact that a story/fanwork/meme/whatever can hurt one person and help another
This is why I think “tag warning” culture is kinder and more constructive than cancel culture / “no problematic content” culture. One size does not fit all, but if we learn to be more aware of the fact that the same thing can be emotionally validating or cathartic to one person and upsetting to another, and pick up a general mindset of thinking before we post, “what might people need a heads up for in this content?”, we grow more compassionate, more thoughtful, and more understanding of the differences in people’s experiences.
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like “posts that a gnome would make” or like “are you a phone”
“average cat owner spends 3 years in prison” factoid actualy just statistical error. average owner spends 0 years in prison. Miette’s mother, who kicked her body like the football and went to jail for One Thousand Years is an outlier adn should not have been counted
go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish
(listed almost every/every game as one option in case you skipped out on some of the multiplayer ones)
please reblog after you vote for Maximum Data, even if you voted no! if you voted for one of the other options, tag your favorite game(s)!
I am just very interested in the presence of the zelda fanbase :>
please note that, for the sake of this poll, remakes count as one game. so like, if you’ve played the original ocarina of time and master quest and the 3ds version, that counts as one game.
