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How to move a sofa (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 hours ago by chicken@sh.itjust.works to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz -1 points 11 minutes ago

Can we not romanticize american truck culture? Those people's heads are already swollen enough without telling them everyone around them relies on their condescension to help.

Sure, there might be a few decent people out there who have trucks, but they're not the majority of truck owners. They're also more likely to help their friends and family, maybe a friend of a friend, but hardly a stranger.

And if you're viewed as an outsider or unliked? Forget it, you're SOL.

Also, this expectation that everyone "just knows", without being told, is unrealistic. It is real, in that people do expect that. And perhaps most normies do "just know." But the social rejects, the neurodivergents, the new neighbors who just moved to this state, etc.? Life is made far more challenging to these people as a direct result of that expectation that everyone should "just know" without being told.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 72 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I am the guy with the truck.

The truck is proof that Americans can and will accept socialism.

It's brocialism.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 19 points 1 hour ago

A.k.a. community

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The crazy part is it doesn't matter who you voted for, everyone on both sides would generally love to help their neighbor and would offer a hand. It's just when people get involved in the macro sense that they get filled with hate and anger. Makes me sad. Let's just all move couches.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

Conservatives are often nice to people they know. The in-group. The problem is when it's a scary other. So they'll let Jose couch surf for a week while he sorts out his housing situation, because he's a good guy down on his luck, but they'll rage against Those People getting anything.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 32 minutes ago

That's my understanding too. It's like empathy just ends at one's own line of sight. If I can't see it or touch it, there may be something wrong with it. It's infuriating.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 minutes ago

Can we do that without the latent ableism that comes along with it, like the idea that if you can't help people move couches then you don't deserve anyone else's help either?

This especially effects people with invisible disabilities, who are already viewed as lazy, but who also might be the most helpless when it comes to moving their own furniture.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We do socialism all the time.

Neighbors bring each other gifts. Friends feed one another. Someone is struggling and we give them what they need, no questions asked.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That’s not really socialism, given that it is not universally distributed but depends on one’s social connections. A socialist system would have impersonal mechanisms for catching those who fall through the cracks due to not knowing enough people to ask for and repay favours. (And those people do exist: “everyone knows a guy with a truck” except perhaps for a socially isolated shut-in or someone who does not speak the language, or someone who does not fit in with the community in their truck catchment radius.)

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 7 minutes ago

Yeah, in this case "everyone" literally just means "everyone who's visible within my social radius."

It completely erases everyone else, like the types of people you mentioned. It's very in-group focused, and bears uncanny parallels to the fascist idea that outsiders don't matter.

[–] undecidedyellow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

This is the best human interaction I've read about in a long time. Maybe ever.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 56 minutes ago

Can confirm. Until I threw my back in my forties, I was Tony.

I threw my back helping someone move an exercise machine. For someone else.

A pizza is the price. Two toppings is typical, or the everything special.

For a while I was also the guy with the cordless drill you could borrow.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 34 minutes ago

I fucking love these.

My favorite is the Waffle House: https://wandering-nobunaga.com/stories/a-waffle-house-at-three-in

[–] axus@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 hour ago

Two decades later, I still regret the temporary back injury a friend sustained helping me to load my heavy desk into a truck I rented.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago

I feel like this premise could make an entertaining movie if you figured out the 3 act structure

[–] Outdated4134@piefed.zip 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This must be downvoted because it is absolutely not a shitpost.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I wish there was a community for it, like cool bro shit.

Or Maybe wholesome memes?

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, wholesome would be a good fit

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 34 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Non-toxic Masculinity

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 53 minutes ago

Except women also have those connections.

The price may be different, like a baby blanket for their neice.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago

Absolutely

[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 23 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Dude this gold :))

Laughed quite a bit. This guy should be a writer he has a great way with words and stories. Reminded me of a Japanese Chuck Palahnuick

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, consider this sofa moved.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I was always the guy with the truck. For a couple years I was the guy with the minivan with no back seats in lieu of a truck, but now I'm back to being the guy with the truck amongst my circles. I didn't know how much I liked being that guy until I wasn't.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

My neighbor is the guy with the truck. He feels the same way you do, says he just can't imagine not being available to help folks out. He's helped me out. I help him out (not with a truck, of course). He has a truck because he is big, it's comfortable, and because he can help people move shit or get mulch or whatever. He lives for it.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 hours ago

This is 0% shitpost and 100% wholesome.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 64 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I miss work for trade...

You just took care of a guy and when the time came, he took care of you.

"Today you... Tomorrow me..."

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 hours ago

You just took care of a guy and when the time came, he took care of you.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago

Community.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 28 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If the guys that frequently move furniture describe you are "strong for your size", that is a powerful compliment.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 2 hours ago

I love positive masculinity.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 75 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

This was surprisingly funny and surprisingly positive for something to do with Americans.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 minute ago

As an american, I think it's toxic positivity because it ignores all the invisible social rejects who live on the margins of society and don't have the type of community support that makes this possible.

The OOP happened to luck out and knew some nice people and also happened to be accepted by those people as someone who's worth helping.

The same Kevin might be a completely different person when he drives through a city and sees a homeless person struggling to move a tent with all his possessions...

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 12 minutes ago

That ending was damn near wholesome. Also I think my favorite part of the whole thing was "the pizza is not negotiable."

[–] TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 2 points 45 minutes ago

As a Canadian who owns a truck, I think this may just be a North American thing. I am the guy that is referred to when one says "I know a guy".

[–] TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Americans are a very friendly people, all things considered. The whole smiling at everyone you see, helping out strangers for fun thing is not universal. Thus, this post.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

My partner is from America, and visited Australia for two weeks to see Me. We spent two weeks going on dates together, visiting cool places like the museum, the zoo, a local pirate bar, an escape room. My partner says Australians are much friendlier than Americans and we smile more.

[–] TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 24 minutes ago

I could believe it. It's not that it's unique to America, or anything. But like I've read stories about Dutch people for instance thinking Americans on public transportation were simple, due to all the smiling and the like.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 57 minutes ago

There are a lot of 'good cunts' in Aussie, for sure.

Its tricky when grumpy or upset but that's a human thing - often they're better at expressing it

(Bear in mind, this is all coming from a kiwi male - I'm scared of my feelings or expressing stuff generally)

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