With 2012 being that absolutely 100% verified official year of the zombie apocalypse, we’ll be posting some helpful hints throughout the year to help you get prepared. Our first tip is, of course, to spend all the money you have on clothes at TruckerDeluxe.com (since after the apocalypse, all forms of paper money will be useless). Secondly, however, you’ll need to start considering weapons. Guns are certainly tempting. But as the folks at the Slingshot Channel (yes, there’s a Slingshot Channel) point out, “Gunshots are just too loud, veritable dinner bells for the Undead” not to mention that ammo will be in short supply once shit really hits the fan. The solution? The Slingshot Zombiehammer with Skull Ejector. Check the video, and don’t forget to thank us when you’re dominating the post-apocalyptic landscape this time next year.
Health and Fitness For Men
Practical tips and info for guys who care about their health and fitness.
So if you don’t know, now you know: Proper eyewear is essential not just in terms of style, but for maintaining a healthy set of eyes ( for staring deeply into the internet void OBVS ). Investing in a pair of decent shades isn’t just an investment in how you look, but an investment in HOW you look, as in, whether or not when you’re an old timer you’ll be able to look at anything and actually see it. And when it comes to decent shades that serve both fashion and function, few do it better than Spy Optic. If you’re in need of some new shades, or more importantly, some BETTER shades, our entire selection of Spy Sunglasses are 30% off, including the brand new Borough sunglasses (below in Matte/Tortoise/Aqua, Wayfarer style shades in delicious two-tone frames with 6-base arc lenses offering 100% UV Protection. If you’ve been meaning to upgrade those $5 gas station shades, now your chance to save on a pair of performance enhancing (not like that…well maybe like that) Spy Sunglasses at TruckerDeluxe.com
We just scored a grip of fresh Obey t-shirts for Fall, and as would be expected, there’s definitely some gems among them, including the latest shirt in Obey’s Awareness campaign, in which proceeds are donated to a specific charity, the Keep a Breast Tri-Blend t-shirt (above). As you might have guessed, the Keep a Breast tee benefits the Keep a Breast Foundation whose mission is to help eradicate breast cancer by exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support. Fight illness with illness (the good kind)! There’s a ton more new Obey tees for Fall as well as a full compliment of Obey accessories including snapback hats and messenger bags online now at TruckerDeluxe.com!
As part of our continuing series of video brand spotlights, today the one and only BDawg gives you a BRIEF rundown of those magical manly undergarments, Saxx Boxer Briefs. As their name suggests, Saxx takes extra precautions to protect your family jewels from the harsh environs created by typical types of tighty-whiteys and boxer briefs. How do they do this? Watch the video and find out!
Last night I was watching that show on the History channel about weird swamp people who hunt alligators for a living (yes, strangely enough, alligators hunting is not just a career, but a career worthy of a TV show, a TV show that I was watching, by myself, in the wee hours of the morning…sigh). After killing an alligator, the hunter skinned it by shoving a compressed air hose into its skin and literally blowing the skin off the alligators body. I remember thinking to myself, how terrible that would be to do that to a person. And like magic, today on the internet, I was able to find out exactly how terrible it was, to be a person and to have compressed air blowing through your body seperating your skin from your muscle, courtesy of New Zealand trucker Steven McCormack, who fell from his truck onto a compressed air hose fitting, which pierced his butt and started blowing air into his body:
I felt the air rush into my body and I felt like it was going to explode from my foot,” he told local media from his hospital bed in the town of Whakatane, on North Island’s east coast.
“I was blowing up like a football,” he said. “I had no choice but just to lay there, blowing up like a balloon.” McCormack’s workmates heard his screams and ran to him, quickly releasing a safety valve to stop the air flow, said Robbie Petersen, co-owner of the trucking company. He was rushed to the hospital with terrible swelling and fluid in one lung. Doctors said the air had separated fat from muscle in McCormack’s body, but had not entered his bloodstream. McCormack, 48, said his skin felt “like a pork roast” — crackling on the outside but soft underneath.
I sincerely hope that my skin never feels “like a pork roast.” On the real though, if anyone was gonna live through having air forced into their body through their ass, goddamnit it, it was gonna be a Trucker! Here’s to you, Steven McCormack, today’s Actual Trucker of the Day. Give us a shout when you deflate and we’ll hook you up with some gear, mate!
As someone who sits all day at work, not to mention more or less all night at home as well (man…that sounds sad), the recent spate of headlines outlining all the evil ways in which sitting down turns you into a fatass and makes you die a whole lot quicker than those who stand all day has certainly caught my attention. But besides being lazy, I’m also stupid, which means I don’t really get things unless they’re presented in cartoon format, especially complicated concepts like sitting around on your ass being bad for you. So the following infographic, after the jump, pretty much blew my mind. Do you sit all day too? Long story short, you’re gonna die. Sorry. [click to continue…]
Though it’s been hinted at anecdotally for years, there’s starting to be more and more sound science and academic agreement behind the idea that semen acts as a natural anti-depressant for women. The first, and still most comprehensive, study to test the hypothesis was performed in 2002 at SUNY and found that not only did women who always had unprotected sex have significantly lower levels of depression than those who used condoms, but that there was no difference in levels of depression between women who had protected sex and women who didn’t have sex at all, discounting sex itself as the reason for the boost in happiness:
“Seminal plasma evolved to control and manipulate the female reproductive system so as to work toward the best interests of the donor — the male,” Gordon Gallup, Jr., an evolutionary psychologist at SUNY Albany and lead author of the study explains. “If you begin to think about semen in those terms, then the fact that semen might have antidepressant properties becomes a lot more interesting in that it may promote bonding between the female and her sexual partner.” Such bonding, Gallup says, could increase the male’s chances of developing a long-term reproductive relationship with a female that would work to his reproductive advantage. Semen is a complex mixture of different compounds, and sperm actually only makes up a small amount of it. When you remove the sperm, what’s left is seminal plasma, a fluid that contains an array of ingredients, some of which can pass through the vagina and be detected in the bloodstream after sex. Three compounds of interest in seminal plasma are estrogen, prostaglandins and oxytocin. Estrogen and prostaglandins have been linked to lower levels of depression, while oxytocin (which women release during birth, breastfeeding and orgasm) promotes social bonding. These and other compounds in semen could function to keep women coming back for more. “I think there’s reason to believe based on some of the evidence we’ve collected that females that are in committed relationships that are having unprotected sex may use sex in part to self-medicate,” Gallup says. “It’s discovered after the fact that being inseminated has effects on mood, and they use sex to modulate their mood.”
There was also evidence that women who had unprotected sex with their partners suffered from “semen withdrawls” after ending a relationship and were “far more devastated and adversely affected [after a breakup] than those that were using condoms.”. And here all these years I thought it was just because they missed me…
It’s always seemed so right, the vigorous exclamation of a hearty “FUCKKKKKKKKKKK!” or “Goddamn Filthy Whore Cocksucker!!” after stubbing a toe or slamming a finger in a door. But now scientists are saying that there may be a physiological advantage to shouting out all sorts of vulgar shit when you hurt yourself. The results of a study performed by scientists at Keele University showed that swearing increased pain tolerance and heart rate while decreasing perceived pain:
To test the theory, student volunteers placed their hands in a bucket of ice cold water while swearing repeatedly. They then repeated the exercise but, instead of swearing, used a harmless phrase instead. Researchers found that the students were able to keep their hands submerged in the icy water for longer when repeating the swear word – establishing a link between swearing and an increase in pain tolerance. They also found that the pain-numbing effect was four times more likely to work in the volunteers who did not normally use bad language. The team believes the pain-lessening effect occurs because swearing triggers the ”fight or flight” response. The accelerated heart rates of the students repeating the swear word may indicate an increase in aggression, in a classic fight or flight response of ”downplaying feebleness in favour of a more pain-tolerant machismo.”
See? Despite whatever your churchy friends or your grandma might say, cursing isn’t bad, it’s nature’s way of making you into more of a badass for your own good. So next time you start feeling like a pussy just start yelling a bunch of bad words at everybody and you’ll start feeling way more manly. Problem solved!
After many years of convincing men otherwise, scientists are now claiming that size does indeed matter. However, it’s not the size of your cock (phew!), or even the size of your balls that scientists say matter (besides your chances of being able to star in porn) but rather your anogenital distance (AGD) better known as your taint, that spot between your balls and your ass. According to a new study, the length of a man’s AGD is directly correlated to his fertility:
Men whose AGD is shorter than the median length — around 2 inches (52 mm) — have seven times the chance of being sub-fertile as those with a longer AGD, according to a study published on Friday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
That distance, measured from the anus to the underside of the scrotum, is linked to male fertility, including semen volume and sperm count, the study found. The shorter the AGD, the more likely a man was to have a low sperm count.
This offers the prospect of a relatively simple screening test for men, said study co-author Shanna Swan of the University of Rochester Medical Center.
“It’s non-invasive and anybody can do it, and it’s not sensitive to the kinds of things that sperm count is sensitive to, like stress or whether you have a cold or whether it’s hot out,” Swan said in a telephone interview.
I’m not exactly sure what kind of operation Dr. Swan is running out there, but I’m not really down with letting just “anybody” measure my taint. However, if you think I’m not busting out the ruler and the hand mirror as soon as I get home tonight, you’re dead wrong. Daddy needs to know how the swim team ranks!
PROTIP: Never EVER google image search for any of the things mentioned in this post. The procurement of our friendly, only semi-NSFW anthropomorphized radish above came at the expense of a great deal of my innocence. See, the things I sacrifice for you? For the greater good?
