For context this was in response to someone saying their cybertruck was heavy duty
oh no no NO no no I am sorry my dear @thebirdtm you are NOT underselling one of the most seminal pieces of television of my entire childhood like that on MY watch.
“How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it” GREAT question.
To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear’s Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that’s about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.
And it’s only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits…
(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)
…that they decided to drown it. Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be “driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out. You will concede that’s rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world…
…and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck…
…only for the ropes to snap…
…and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.
(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it – I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)
Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.
Or at least the wrecking ball.
But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.
Still, I feel it’s criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! đ
Wait NO-
Well, that was uncalled for. Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.
Or at least, given that buried it wasn’t…
…to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat…
…and be fueled up.
"be fueled up”, pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.
Look at that thing, you say.
Let’s be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that’s not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.
And again, you are right.
The battery was disconnected.
Sorted that, tho
“You can’t be serious.” Oh darling I sure can! “Well the presenters can’t then” no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It’s at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!
I grew up watching Top Gear and it shaped me in many ways. My adoration of old Toyota Hiluxes is one of them.
The Toyota Hilux is absolutely the small god of endurance and defiance (and possibly masochism).
yes I’m reposting about a small god truck are you kidding me
i donât understand a single sentence in this and iâm ok with that
I havenât stopped saying âitâs called quantum jumping, babeâ
I would genuinely like to know who to blame for making these children so disconnected from the concept of imagination that they think the simpler explanation for what theyâre doing is that theyâre projecting their consciousness into one of infinite realities where fictional characters are real.
topical
WHY IS IT TOPICAL
Me shouting at my rash ointment
great post everyone
I feel like all of these tiktok shifting people are just experiencing the stage of makdaptive daydreaming where you tell yourself that itâs real to make it feel more real. This is pretty dangerous because as the name says, maldaptive daydreaming is maldaptive. It can get to a point where that is all they do and all they have fun with, this is what happened to me when I was 13 and lead to me having almost no friends and failing two grades in a row because it was all I did.
Daydreaming can be a healthy coping mechanism but not the way these kids are doing it. Back when I still had tiktok I even saw people that were like âI spend so much time shifting I dont need real friendsâ or âIâm gonna give up on this reality and just stay in the ones I shift toâ and they dont realize how ridiculous and unhealthy they sound because theyâre on 5 layers of internet fake quantum theory and a whole online community telling them its real.
my generation just drugged ourselves into paranoid schizophrenia, gen alpha is out here gaslighting themselves into dissociative disorders
Iâm pretty sure that these folks are Gen Z.
Only time will tell what mental issues gen alpha would cook up en masse ngl. But I bet itâs going to be from their fried attention spansâŚ
WASHINGTON â Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday night that his country would respond to President Donald Trump’s decision to enact a 25% tariff on Canadian exports to the U.S. by implementing a 25% tariff against $155 billion in U.S. goods.
Trudeau’s comments came just hours after Trump signed an executive order implementing tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China. Trump’s order implemented a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada â excluding Canadian energy products, which would face a 10% tariff. He also implemented an additional 10% tariff on imports from China.
it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, âbut I am le tired⌠well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILESâ even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internetÂ
tbh i still start sentences with âhokay, soâ at least 3 times a dayÂ
same, aggressively so. I also still use âwtf, mate.â
who doesnât think this is STILL AS HILARIOUS as it was when we all watched it over and over and over again 15 years ago?
Iâve reblogged this before and will doubtless reblog this again because MY ENTIRE GROUP OF FRIENDS WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THIS VIDEO IN 2002/2003 THAT WE COLLECTIVELY BANNED ANY MENTION OF IT EVER AGAINÂ
AND YET
WE ARE NOW GROWN-ASS ADULTS IN OUR THIRTIES
AND IT STILL GETS QUOTED FROM TIME TO TIME
I HAVE THE WHOLE THING MEMORISED
TO THIS DAY, MY MOTHER REGULARLY SAYSÂ âBUT I AM LE TIREDâ BECAUSE OF A VIDEO I SHOWED HER IN FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL
THIS IS AN ICONIC PIECE OF INTERNET HISTORY AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERS
my wife and I still regularly say âhokay soâ, âbut I am le tiredâ and âand some big meteorâs like âwell fuck thatâ.â Fucking iconic.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE AND IâM SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS POST BECAUSE IâVE SEEN IT NOW AND I CANâT STOP FUCKING LAUGHING
God how has it been that long
Happy Anniversary to this twenty year old flash epic!
if you are on SSDI/Medicare, please contact the ACLU or an appropriate law firm to file a class action suit against the federal government for breach of privacy.
[image text: Attn: Treasury Secretary Scott Bressent granted representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system!
Response post: As a SSDI and Medicare client, I filed a request for a class-action breach of privacy lawsuit request with my state ACLU today. Please file in your state]
I will be contacting the Florida ACLU tomorrow but I also submitted a form to Morgan & Morgan, because the Morgans fuckin’ hate Republicans, so it could work.
This is not just about your rights (though that’s obviously the most important part), but about slowing down this fascist government. We need to be suing them into oblivion.
amhrancas 