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B.See

(6,350 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:57 PM Friday

A Cybertruck Review

Allow me to lighten the mood a wee bit with this semi-whimsical tale.

Earlier today, for only the second time ever, I saw a Cybertruck up close and impersonal-like, and the second was worse than the first.

I'd mosied up behind the thing in an evening interstate slowdown, and at first couldn't quite place what I was looking at.

I saw a flat sheet of (metal?) before me with NOTHING on it, and for a second wondered whether I was looking at some kind of barricade or something, until the driver apparently tapped his brakes, whereupon I beheld two obscenely small red rectangular lights mounted at either end atop the sheet of metal.

And even then I wasn't quite sure what I was looking at until I pulled around its hard angles and sharp box-like edges.

Who drew up this profile anyway? A kindergartener?

Now, having seen online pictures of these things, I once wrote that they resembled dumpsters, silly me. Because, as it turns out, pictures don't quite do justice to how horrific these... vehicles... truly look, in all their glory.

Suffice it to say, I was outdone.

So, to dumpsters everywhere and of every kind, please accept my sincerest apologies.

(And to owners, admittedly, a taste I've yet to acquire.) 

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A Cybertruck Review (Original Post) B.See Friday OP
I confirm your observations cyclonefence Friday #1
Pretty sure Elon designed the Cybertruck when he was 7. OAITW r.2.0 Friday #2
I was horrified... Queso Delicioso Friday #3
You can't. rubbersole Saturday #9
That would be a weird move for me Queso Delicioso Saturday #12
The Simpsons did predict this, y'know... buzzycrumbhunger Friday #4
The worst? There's a lime green Deplorean I see around my area. QED Friday #5
Pshaw, I saw a yellowish green Aztec. Disaffected Saturday #8
A stainless steel mobile dumpster. NT Enter stage left Saturday #6
My first thought when seeing one .... "fugly" Shellback Squid Saturday #7
Not just ugly BidenRocks Saturday #10
Lol. Yeah... all that's missing is B.See Saturday #11

cyclonefence

(5,119 posts)
1. I confirm your observations
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 10:59 PM
Friday

It's just hard to figure out *why*? Truly a puzzlement, as somebody said.

OAITW r.2.0

(30,557 posts)
2. Pretty sure Elon designed the Cybertruck when he was 7.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:02 PM
Friday

And, by god, he brought his vision to fruition.

Queso Delicioso

(29 posts)
3. I was horrified...
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:15 PM
Friday

to see that one of my coworkers had a picture of himself with one of these beasts as his desktop wallpaper. How am I supposed to respect him in any way?

Queso Delicioso

(29 posts)
12. That would be a weird move for me
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 05:50 PM
Saturday

Being an atheist and all. But if I were to do such a thing it would to pray he roasts in Hell forever.

QED

(3,175 posts)
5. The worst? There's a lime green Deplorean I see around my area.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:42 PM
Friday

I live fairly close to a Tesla location and see a lot of them around.

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