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Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors

Build the Perfect Bonfire with the Best Gear for the Great Outdoors

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Spyderco byrdRench

MacGuyver. James Bond. Jack Bauer. All men defined by their ability to get shit done without the proper tools in situations most of us would never want to be in. If these men carried the byrdRench from Spyderco their tv shows, movies, and escapades (outside of the sheets) wouldn't have…

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Clone Brews Recipe Book

Since time immemorial, men have tried to replicate the things they love. Usually this ends up in failure/a lawsuit/a lost digit/singed eyebrows. Sometimes though, if the project is modest, it can succeed. The Clone Brews recipe book is in this vein: it gives you easy recipes to successfully replicate over…

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Maxx & Unicorn Co. No.43 Wallets

Instead of asking you what's in your wallet (spoiler: nothing), Capital One should be focusing on the wallet itself. If they had put some Maxx & Unicorn Co. No.43 Wallets in their commercials so many people would be signing up for the card they would have to raise their interest…

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Nike Air Royal Mid QS Sneakers

Say what you want about the often ostentatious, over-the-top, generally ridiculous practices of Nike, but they just did it. Again. What started as a cure for the common shoe has turned into a complete vaccination for a brand that was only ever at home on basketball players and Turtle. If…

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Kick-Ass on DVD

It raised a ton of controversy with a 13 year-old girl using a word that rhymes with "Shhcunt", but both movie-goers and critics agreed that Kick-Ass, if you pardon the super-obvious pun, kicked ass.   This movie redeems Nicholas Cage from his prior cinematic crimes of Ghost Rider and Con…

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