So maybe you’ve got your eye on something on TruckerDeluxe.com, but you’re looking for that extra way to save a little dough. Well…how about this? Cruise over to Facebook and “like” the TruckerDeluxe.com Facebook page, and you’ll get yourself a handy little discount code for $5 off your next order. You’ll also then be able to stay up on our newest arrivals, our newest contests and all the stupid crap we find on the internet on a daily basis. So get your liker good and warmed up, give us a go and get yourself $5 in the process. Not bad for a couple of clicks.
As you might have noticed, we like to give stuff away for free. It’s kind of this problem we have. I mean, we like selling stuff too, don’t get me wrong. But there’s something uniquely satisfying about hooking someone up with a dope prize that gets sort of addicting. To that end, we’re kicking off a contest right now on the TruckerDeluxe.com Facebook page, giving away $21 gift codes every day for the next 11 days leading up to a $151 giveaway on Friday, May 20th. To enter, just go holler at the “Enter to Win” widget our Facebook page. You can even like us if you want and guarantee that you’ll stay up on all our contests, giveaways and exclusive Facebook sales. Either way, we promise to continue giving stuff away as long as you promise to keep hanging out and giving us someone to give it to. Otherwise we’ll just have to give it to ourselves, which isn’t nearly as fun.
Falling Whistles is a company founded for the sole purpose of bringing attention to, and seeking to alleviate the plight of child soldiers in the war-torn African nation Congo. To that end, this week Falling Whistles, in partnership with a slew of other non-profits and non-governmental organizations is seeking 200,000 signatures for a petition calling on the President and the State Department to appoint a special envoy to oversee this fall’s Congolese elections to ensure that they are free and fair, a much needed step in ending decades of war. To that end, today they’ve put a full-court press online, producing the above video, putting in calls to all their retail partners (like TruckerDeluxe.com) and blitzing Facebook, Twitter and every other possible online outlet to try to drum up support for the petition, and the cause in general. To learn more about the Special Envoy and the upcoming Congolese elections, read a blog post from FW founder Sean Carasso here, and if that gets you motivated, do your part and sign the petition online here. You can also check out Falling Whistles on TruckerDeluxe.com, including the Nickel Plated Gun Metal Whistle (below). As you might have surmised, proceeds from every purchase of a Falling Whistle go directly towards helping child soldiers in the Congo.
You know how old people always warn you that things on the internet are “forever”; that you’ll never be able to escape those pictures of you getting absolutely blacked out drunk that your friends post on their Facebook walls and that someday “you’ll be sorry” when you’re trying to run for governor of California and all these old pictures of you grabbing girls asses and doing stupid shit are there on the internet for people to find? Well, check out this old video footage of two-term California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger partying in Rio for Carnival, talking about how much he loves asses and mulattoes, molesting dancers and getting wasted and take solace in the fact that this dude shot ‘roids into his cock, smoked weed on camera, and basically partied harder in his day than you or your friends could ever hope to, and still somehow convinced old white people that he was a proper steward of the world’s seventh largest economy. Dream big!
It seems like human nature, especially when you’re particularly bummin’ out or failing ultra hard at life, to look at those around you and assume they all live awesome, joy filled, perfect lives, thus amplifying your personal feelings of sadness, failure, isolation, etc. And a study of college students by a Stanford PhD candidate postulates that Facebook, by virtue of people’s carefully crafted online image of themselves, is amplifying this natural tendency:
Jordan and his fellow researchers asked 80 freshmen to report whether they or their peers had recently experienced various negative and positive emotional events. Time and again, the subjects underestimated how many negative experiences (“had a distressing fight,” “felt sad because they missed people”) their peers were having. They also overestimated how much fun (“going out with friends,” “attending parties”) these same peers were having. In another study, the researchers found a sample of 140 Stanford students unable to accurately gauge others’ happiness even when they were evaluating the moods of people they were close to—friends, roommates and people they were dating. And in a third study, the researchers found that the more students underestimated others’ negative emotions, the more they tended to report feeling lonely and brooding over their own miseries. This is correlation, not causation, mind you; it could be that those subjects who started out feeling worse imagined that everyone else was getting along just fine, not the other way around. But the notion that feeling alone in your day-to-day suffering might increase that suffering certainly makes intuitive sense.
As does the idea that Facebook might aggravate this tendency. Facebook is, after all, characterized by the very public curation of one’s assets in the form of friends, photos, biographical data, accomplishments, pithy observations, even the books we say we like. Look, we have baked beautiful cookies. We are playing with a new puppy. We are smiling in pictures (or, if we are moody, we are artfully moody.) Blandness will not do, and with some exceptions, sad stuff doesn’t make the cut, either. The site’s very design—the presence of a “Like” button, without a corresponding “Hate” button—reinforces a kind of upbeat spin doctoring.
The moral of the story: your friends are all just as miserable as you. Except me, of course. My life is non-stop awesome. But as far as everyone else: don’t believe the hype.
With Christmas approaching, having to engage in ridiculous, half-baked technology-aided convesations with your parents is almost unavoidable. However, a new single-serving site, Whenparentstext.com is here to show you that everyone’s parents are just as dumb as yours, if not dumber. And if your parents are especially tech unsavvy, you should check out Teach Parents Tech, a site created by Google to help smart people like us help stupid people like our parents learn how to do cool shit on the internet besides lurk their kids’ Facebook all day and building up material for epic holiday-dinner guilt trip sessions.
First things first; put your sneaker boner away, these shoes don’t actually exist so you can’t buy them anywhere, let alone here. But if they did exist, it’d be badass. These fantasy Facebook kicks were dreamt up by designer Gary McKay who also just so happened to design a sick pair of Twitter superstars as well. Dear Adidas, make these shoes. Love, Everybody.
BJ Penn quieted critics and redeemed his already-legendary MMA career by knocking out Matt Hughes in just 21 seconds in tonight’s UFC 123 undercard in Auburn Hills, MI. Penn first broke onto the scene in 2004 by coming out of nowhere to upset Hughes, then the UFC welterweight champ. Hughes won the rematch in 2006, and after Penn considered walking away from the sport earlier this year, many had Hughes pegged to win tonight’s third match-up. But after coming out swinging, Penn hit Hughes with a solid right at about the 20 second mark, earning himself the victory and an $80,000 knockout bonus. We, of course, were rooting for BJ all along, since we carry a full line of BJ Penn x RVCA apparel. With his victory tonight, we’ll doubtlessly sell out of what we have, so check it before it’s gone! And while you’re at it, remember you can find yourself a coupon code for 25% off your order at the TruckerDeluxe Facebook page.
This is the TruckerDeluxe Sales Bell. Every time this bell rings, some dude in the world just got laced up with some fresh new gear. Wanna ring the bell? We want you to want to ring the bell. Trust us. That’s why we’re giving you 25% off everything we have, all weekend long. Nixon watches, Supra shoes, Von Zipper sunglasses, WeSC jackets, ANYTHING. Just holler at our Facebook page and check out the coupon code. Ring the bell, and everybody wins.
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