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Care for your truck. (feddit.org)
submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nuts? Like in anaphylactic shock nuts? I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 44 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There's a thing called truck nuts. It's a rubber ballsack that hangs from the trailer hitch.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

No way. You're making it up

Edit: OMG why didn't I die before knowing that

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago

It's always good to witness a lucky 10,000 situation

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The two men sold Truck Nuts through the late 1990s and 2000s, competing both in the market and in private, exchanging angry phone calls and emails. This conflict escalated into public relations wars, social media conflicts, posts on review sites, blog attack posts, and finally to legal cease and desist orders. Vice News published an article about the feud titled "Balls Out: The Weird Story of the Great Truck Nuts War".

I am so not surprised

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That was step 1. Step 2 is the fact that now you’ll see them everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I don't live in the US, so probably no