• @[email protected]
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    271 year ago

    I’m in the same category. I know it’s about cars, but I picture a forklift. What is it about forklifts that forces this association?

      • @Kelo
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        11 year ago

        This video is comedy gold, nice find

    • TheSaneWriter
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      81 year ago

      It might be that they are machinery that moves heavy things, so our brain makes the association with heavy machinery.

      • @BowtiesAreCool
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        71 year ago

        Forklifts are heavy themselves, even the small ones weight as much or more as a sedan and way up. It is quite literally heavy machinery.

    • Zagorath
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      21 year ago

      Man I thought I was orange-pilled but I’m definitely in the second category here. Always thought “heavy machinery” was like construction equipment.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      11 year ago

      My doctor always told me “Nothing more dangerous than a string trimmer”

  • Gormadt
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    171 year ago

    As someone who operates heavy machinery for a living and takes medication that says to “use care” when operating machinery: it’s basically a see how it affects you thing.

    I drive my forklift like shit either way, so there’s that.

  • Uriel-238
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    141 year ago

    I’ve had this conversation with more than one girlfriend, typically talking about the conflict between having a migraine, taking medication to not hurt and the boss wants her at work pronto (45 minute commute by car).

    (I’m sick – and infectious – and too nauseous to walk without meds) + (boss wants me at my station) is also an expression that has seen action from time to time.

  • BIFF
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    21 year ago

    To be fair, a civic del sol is a step away from being a mountain bike with extra wheels and doors, so I recommend that it be exempted from the “heavy machinery” category.

      • BIFF
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        11 year ago

        if you’re comfortable lying under 1,100kg.

        I’ve sat under much more than that, but I was in a vehicle moving through a tunnel. The seats were comfortable enough.