The truth is, all dads have always been cool. In the internet’s halcyon days, when the term hipster was used only semi-ironically, Tumblr had a collection of photos of people’s dads titled Dads Are the Original Hipsters. Nowadays, you have to be content with the coffee table book version, but the real thing was an endless scroll of 35mm photos featuring mulleted dads in ringer tees , drinking pull tab Coors, wearing perfectly faded Wranglers on motorcycles or trucks with surfboard racks. It was the definition of cool.

Gifts for dads? Not as cool as the men they celebrate. Bad novelty ties, flavored caramel syrup masquerading as whiskey , and new-age family games he'll give up on before pulling out the cribbage board. It doesn’t have to be that way. I’ll admit this particular s

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