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The Art of Manliness by The Art of Manliness

Aug 11, 202600:51:30Arts

Remember the old hotel ice machines? The kind where you'd slide your bucket under the chute and hear the avalanche of cubes crashing into it? There was something so fun and strangely gratifying about that thing. Or think...

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