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Back to the Future Feelings – This Vehicle is Packed
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MANURE! I HATE MANURE!
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Horse manure’s not that bad. I don’t even mind the word “manure”. You know, it’s “newer”, which is good, and a “ma” in front of it. Ma-newer. I mean when you consider the other choices, manure is actually pretty refreshing.
K
Was there a kid on a skateboard at the scene?
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Prolly going to tow it to a dealer, mclarens are notorious for problems (so I’m told)
B
This is likely exactly what’s happening. Farmers can sometimes be quite wealthy, either through good business decisions or family wealth. Farmers hate unreliable machinery. They also want to service their own machinery. But either through ignorance or stupidity, this guy thought it’d be a good idea to dump huge bands on a known-unreliable and basically unserviceable car for the ego and vanity. Surprise, surprise… It’s having problems. Farmer is upset, cursing the world for building this car, and cursing the dealer for selling it to him. And now he’s in baby rage mode, as farmers often do. He’s got a point to make and he’s going to do it in the most farmer way possible. Because that’s who farmers are. I don’t like farmers.
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100% what I think he’s doing. Cars acting like shit so he’s covered it in shit to take to the dealer and give it back.
K
Or someone parked in his driveway and refused to move in a timely manner
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Yeah thats a 720, not a cheap McLaren by any means. I cant imagine the owner of one putting a shit-ton (ha) of shit on it for any reason.
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There’s a cheap McLaren?
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Relative to how much they cost, yes.
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To a McLaren F1 even a Brand New Ferrari os cheap
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As someone who keeps bees on a farm, the farmer told me the best way to make a small fortune farming is to start with a large one! I live in a community surrounding by farms, some of them guys are ballin’
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Maybe he should start his own car company? Show that McLaren idiot how it’s done.
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Literally how Lamborghini got started.
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I dunno.. I’ve seen this trend in the UK where influencers just pull up into pretty farm fields and do influencer shit. The farmers often get fed up and “remove” the offending car from their land. I think this is also equally likely. That or a rich d bag neighbor pissed this farmer off
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Certainly possible, but I’d say likely a much more remote possibility. Farmers are usually busy and are more likely to call the local sheriff (who they’re likely drinking buddies with) to come deal with such rambunctious youth quickly. Though he’d give them quite the earful before he did so. Retaliation against a rich D-bag neighbor is also unlikely. A rich d-bag neighbor will have money, and that’s one of the few things a farmer respects (and fears). The farmer would get taken to civil court and need to pay out damages to their neighbor for damage to their vehicle, and the farmer would know that they have the lawyers to do this, and if a judgement is granted, the farmer has plenty of property and equipment to be executed in order to pay off that judgement.
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>money, and that’s one of the few things a farmer respects You must know very different farmers than I do.
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For real. I don’t think a rich d bag neighbor building a mc mansion next to a farmers field earns them must respect from said farmer
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You sure make a lot of assumptions about a situation you know absolutely nothing about. Did you ever think that maybe someone parked on his land illegally and he might be towing it away with a gift on top? Or any of 100,000 other possible explanations?
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Let’s just say I have a lot of experience with farmers and their daughters.
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“BewilderedAnus” doesn’t like their ex.
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And pegs
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>I don’t like farmers. Found the John Deere exec.
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And I just watched a video on YouTube, and it seems like many farmers are “family farmers,” aka great-great-great grandad put in the work, and I’m here capitalizing on it 100 years later, knowing nothing about farming. This is at least the case in the US. I know the video is the UK, but we share a common stupid ancestry.
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I don’t hate farmers. I simply don’t like them. Even a farmer could respect knowing who you do and don’t want to share beers with.
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Yeah I don’t get this either. Why do all the pro-farmer-comments get so much hate in this thread. Do people not like not starving?
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First of all: I’m not a farmer. Getting angry for getting shit service or getting a shit product is not an inherently bad thing. If you spend a fuckton of money on a sports car, you’re owed a good product. If this guy worked his ass off just to get a nice car (hell, I’ve worked my fucking ass of to get a Miata) and the shitty company is refusing warranty for no good reason, who would not be pissed the fuck off? Imagine buying a TV or a phone and it breaks in the first month. Then imagine the manufacturer asking you to pay for repairs. Now imagine you had the means to \_really\_ hand it to whomever did this to you. Now, would I cover a car in manure and bring it to a dealer? No. Would I be tempted to, if I had the means? Definitely. Would I if this was the 25th fucking time my car broke down even though I didn’t do anything wrong with it? Absofuckinglutely Also, why do you hate farmers? Do you hate being able to eat or are you just one of those idiots that thinks cows are overrated because “milk comes from the supermarket”?
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> Also, why do you hate farmers? Almost by definition they tend to be independent and mainly concerned with their own problems without considering other folks. You have to be when you live a long ways from a city. That means they don’t really have to develop social skills in the same way folks who are less independent do. Not having social skills is a little synonymous with being unlikable. Do I understand why farmers are like that? Yeah, and I don’t blame them for it at all. But it doesn’t mean I am going to like them as people.
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Some of the nicest people I’ve ever known are/were farmers. The worst people I know are the type of know-it-all inner city people that think they are above work like farming, welding, or building. I severely doubt you’ve ever had an actual conversation with a farmer.
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I grew up on a farm. Know plenty of farmers. They would all have been happy to lend a box blade if we bent ours or help fix fences after trees were downed in a storm. Wouldn’t be excited to have any of them over for dinner.
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It’s interesting. Want to know what you’re paying $450,000 for when you’re buying a McLaren 720S? It’s not something that’s 15x more reliable than a $30,000 Mazda Miata. It’s a product that approaches the limits of engineering, particularly within its engine and drivetrain. Want to know what happens at the limits of engineering? Shit breaks. Often. Why don’t you understand this? $30,000 cars are built to last, with lower tolerances and standard components. $450,000 cars are built to impress, with extremely tight tolerances and custom components. One is serviceable by design, the other is unserviceable by design. If Farmer Pete over here is committing to a half-mil purchase without understanding what he’s buying, then he’s an idiot. But he blames the world instead. He blames the person who allowed him to eat shit, even though he likely insisted on eating that shit. That’s the farmer mind at work. You seem to share their mindset. Have you considered farming?
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Where did I say it should have been 15X as reliable? I’m saying if you pay a fuckton of money for a luxury product, you expect it to be worth the money. If you’ve always been into vehicles, and your dream is to finally get to own a special car, and it’s a total letdown, you’re going to be angry. Especially if you spend half a mil on it. And any car that’s going to break within the first 100K km. (read: actually break, not have maintenance needs, since you probably don’t know the difference) is badly engineered. I’ve considered farming, but actually realised it’s a really hard job, and a giant, risky investment to get into. So I went into engineering. I work in cutting edge tech. So don’t say I don’t know anything about this type of stuff. Anyway, why do people like you insist on defending greedy shitty companies the purposely build slop to sell to hard working people? Are you secretly a mclaren representative?
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I’m also an engineer, but perhaps unlike you, I’m a good one. You’re not considering that such a car also has special considerations as an owner. Again, cars like these approach the limits of engineering. The tighter the tolerances of a part, the less flexible the conditions it can safely operate. This applies to entire systems, as an entire system is only as tolerant as its least tolerant part (note that my use of “tolerance” in this case refers to acceptance of conditions, not precision in machining). Thus, these cars have a specific use case in-mind and need to be used in specific environments, else shit starts breaking — fast. Farmer Pete lives on a farm. This car likely saw dirt roads at least somewhat regularly. The McLaren 720S and other cars in that class are designed strictly for street and track use. **ANY** small particulate can wreak havoc on the drivetrain, bushings, bearings… anywhere where metal meets metal and friction is a concern. It’s why you see so many of these things broken down in Dubai. The small particulate destroys these cars. **AGAIN**, the tolerances on these cars are extremely tight. This is to be expected. You wouldn’t open a hard drive in a dusty room and expect it to work happily, right? While the car doesn’t need clean-room conditions, surely an *engineer* like yourself understands the comparison. But really, you don’t have to be an engineer to understand that ownership of these kinds of expensive cars is itself expensive. They’re money-pits. Even a novice car geek understands this. Anyone who’s spoken to someone who owns these cars knows this. Farmer Pete is likely an insufferable loser with no friends and no personality outside being a farmer. He served himself an expensive plate of shit and blames everyone else for his mistake. Much like you’re here, somehow blaming me for “defending greedy shitty companies” \[lol\] when I simply understand what Farmer Pete is buying, how he was expected to use it, how it was likely used, as well how he’s likely a mentally inflexible idiot who adheres to the foolish creed of “more money should equal more better, and I get to define more better because I’m the customer”. Laughable. Nice to meet you, Farmer Pete.
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First of all, the cars in Dubai are left there because being in debt is punishable by death. People leave their shit and run for their lives. It isn’t the dust killing the cars. If you’d ever even touched a spanner or a ratchet, you’d know that even a relatively clean looking car will be covered in all sorts of dust, grime, grease and whatnot. Any car should be able to deal with a bit of dust… If you cannot make a drivetrain that isn’t sealed, or if you cannot design an air inlet that doesn’t have filtering, you’re a bad engineer. But if you were actually an engineer, you know that any company also has its fair share of bean counters that require some level of planned obsolescence. Think timing chain tensioners on audis, wet timing belts in fords, and that’s only the things that just cost money (pinto anyone?) As for the hard-drive comparison, that’s truly ridiculous. And a hard drive that dies when used in a slightly hot environment, such as a full pc case, is a bad hard drive, no matter how much data it can hold, or how high the throughput. And if you expect to buy a nice 3TB drive, you expect it to hold the data, not die within a year (assuming you’ve heard of that whole seagate debacle). I had a colleague like you. No one missed him when he left the company.
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Horizon festival aftermath
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Poor car must’ve been driven around in FH5 for a while.
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Took a wrong turn running the Goliath
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So.. What, he get sold a lemon, and the dealer was like tough shit? So then the farmer was like okay bet, and is on his way to drop off the lemon with a side of cow shit? At least that’s the story that makes sense to me
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> lemon > mclaren itsthesamepicture.jpg
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This right here. This smells of shitty dealerships and a very upset customer.
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Please tell me that is a Lamborghini tractor. I’ll even accept a Porsche tractor.
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Sadly no. 😞 Seems to be a Belarus.
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Yep. МТЗ-80 (it is Cyrillic script) goes brrrrr
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Shiiiiiiiiitttttttttt!
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Back to the future 4.
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Back to the future 4: Tractor the future.
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Nothing to see here, just whistlindiesel making his next video.
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Never tailgate a manure truck.
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Piece of shit car?
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