Comments on: A Guide To Wearing Men’s Bracelets (Tastefully) & The Bes

‘Airbnb For Pools’ Coming To Ruin Your Neighbourhood Serenity Just In Time For Summer

What’s worse than the sound of other people having fun? An app that facilitates it! Swimply is coming to Australia just at the right time. But is it the great equaliser, or the great destroyer of neighbourhood serenity?

An app called Swimply – basically Airbnb for pools – is coming to Australia. This means Australians will soon be able to hire their neighbour’s pool, rather than sneakily use it without asking while they are on holiday.

According to 6pr, it will cost about $25-$40 an hour to rent out a local pool. This will presumably depend on how good (and in demand) the pool is.

Swimply Australia managing director Sam McDonagh told radio host Simon Beaumont he expects the app to prove popular in Western Australia, saying: “We’re excited about the opportunity we’ve got ahead of us.”

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Swimply (@swimply)

McDonagh has also said (per Techguide): “Swimming is the number one rated activity for families, yet 87 per cent of Australians don’t have access to a pool. We want to change that.”

“Our goal is for every Australian to have access to a private pool and for every homeowner to be able to share spaces they are passionate about and make money.”

“With cost-of-living pressures starting to impact every aspect of our lives, Swimply provides an opportunity for Australians to afford little moments of luxury, whether it be a family fun day by the pool, friends enjoying a splash on a warm day, or some well-deserved R&R.”

There are currently more than 25,000 pools on Swimply in Los Angeles. The app will be hoping to replicate that success in Australia.

Not everyone is stoked on the idea, however, with one social media user writing: “So your [sic] swimming in some random persons backyard while they could be watching you from their house ? Super appealing.”

Left: @thechaserrphoto. Right: @sierraswenson.

Another said: “I just don’t see it.”

On a Los Angeles, California post on the Swimply’s Instagram page, one critic wrote: “They allow 50 kids to show up, smoke weed, drink and fight in the neighbors lawn. I’m sure swimming naked doesn’t concern them.”

Given the strict clampdowns Airbnb has had on partying in recent years, however, we’d imagine Swimply has a way to deal with and prevent that.

So, will Swimply succeed in Australia? Only time (and Grinchiness per capita) will tell.

Dan Bilzerian Shares Stark(ers) Warning About Smoking Weed

Dan Bilzerian has issued a stark(ers) warning about smoking weed to his followers. He says it has one great aspect, but that it’s addictive and makes you slow…

Dan Bilzerian, the man who makes a living partially from Instagram, and partially from spruiking a weed brand, has now taken a break from testing jetpacks to share a warning about weed.

“Weed is addictive and it makes you slow, but it’s good for fucking,” he told his 33.6 million followers, recently.

The warning/advocation was met with remarks from followers like: “Words of freakin wisdom!!” and “I bet you can’t quit.”

Another simply wrote: “Yep.”

One other got all agora, writing: “Bro you getting old, one day you gonna die. Which path do you choose ? Heaven or hell !!!!!”

This isn’t the first time Bilzerian, modern Gandhi, has given his followers life advice. He recently said: “Happiness is free. Pleasure is expensive.”

Following onto that, responding to the question “how expensive?” Bilzerian wrote: “might cost you your soul.”

It’s also not the first time Bilzerian has featured the green stuff on his Instagram. As far back as 2018, he took a photo of himself holding a joint while working out, captioning it: “Iron and soul.”

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Dan Bilzerian (@danbilzerian)

DMARGE put some questions to some fitness professionals about the risks and benefits of smoking weed before a workout (inspired by both this andJoe Rogan’s personal revelations that “it’s a psychedelic experience…hitting the bag with you’re high”).

David McIntosh, founder of the Synergy Performance Institute, told DMARGE, “The findings were not favourable for things like strength training or aerobic performance.”

Veronika Larisova, co-founder of Chief Bar, however, told us that the placebo effect could maybe impact you positively, theorising: “Endurance athletes ran faster when they are told they were given coffee. There’s plenty of research on placebo and athletic performance. Clearly, Joe likes weed so he convinced himself it makes him train better.”

Cannabis for contemplation.

Qantas Slyly Drops ‘5 Million Reasons’ For Australians To Get Excited For 2023

Qantas is doubling down on the whole points plane concept in 2023. They have also announced that they intend to offer five million reward seats in 2023 which can be booked using Qantas points.

In good news for prolific Qantas flyers, you should have plenty of opportunities to use your Qantas points next year. There will be a heap of reward seats on offer and – even better than that – Qantas is doubling down on the points plane concept.

This is good because, on points planes, there are way more seats available to be booked purely with points than there are on normal flights. They are also typically cheaper (in terms of points) because you’re not competing with someone willing to pay cash to book the same seat as you.

Qantas Loyalty CEO Olivia Wirth has previously said there is a very strong demand among passengers to use their points.

“We continue to see incredibly strong demand across domestic and international travel as frequent flyers use the Qantas Points they have saved during the pandemic to book reward seats in record numbers,” she said.

In good news for those looking to burn some points, Qantas are looking to satiate this demand. As Executive Traveller reports, in a recent market update, Wirth said: “More than five million reward seats are available for frequent flyers over the next year and more Points Planes will be released soon.”

Points Planes are particularly good because a ‘standard’ reward seat can reportedly cost triple the number of points versus a seat booked on a Qantas’ points plane promotion. Points planes are essentially flights that Qantas reserves, for certain dates, entirely for people booking with points, to give loyal customers the chance to make the most of their accrued points.

Previous points planes have flown to places like New Caledonia and New Zealand. Though no-one knows exactly where each points plane will be flying next year, we do know that there will be at least one to Tokyo.

Domestically, points planes are revving up too, with Qantas this month announcing 3,000 flights across January and February to be points planes in a “biggest ever release.” Destinations included Byron Bay, Hamilton Island, Broome and the Gold Coast.

As for what else remains out there, Wirth has said: “There are still millions of reward seats available across domestic and international routes for the next year.”

Demonstrating the popularity of points planes, last month, Qantas announced that frequent flyers would be able to seize thousands more reward seats as Qantas and Jetstar celebrated the reopening of Japan for international travel.

Qantas said that both Qantas and Jetstar “will make every Economy seat between Australia and Japan available as a Classic Flight Reward over a six-week period from 11 May to 20 June 2023.” On top of that, the airline explained, all Economy seats on Jetstar flights between Australia and Japan between 11 October to 30 November 2022 would also be available as Classic Flight Rewards.

Up to 100,000 reward seats would be available across six routes, Qantas revealed, with the six routes being Sydney and Tokyo (Haneda), Brisbane and Tokyo (Haneda) and Melbourne and Tokyo (Haneda). The same will apply to Jetstar flights between Cairns and Tokyo (Narita), Cairns and Osaka (Kansai) and the Gold Coast and Tokyo (Narita).

To kick off of the six weeks of reward seats, Qantas will operate two Points Planes between Sydney and Tokyo (Haneda) on 10 May 2023, meaning every seat in every cabin, including Business, could be booked as a Classic Flight Reward.

Qantas said it would also offer Points Planes between Sydney and Hong Kong on 30 January 2023 when the airline restarts its Hong Kong flights.

This all comes off the back of August, when a points promo blitz saw Qantas customers redeem a record breaking 1.2 billion points redeemed over just two days.

Lewis Hamilton Goes Tokyo Drifting In Every P-Plater’s Dream Car

He’s normally known for his exceptionally clean driving – but it turns out that the seven-time Formula 1 World Champion is just as much of a hoon as your average revhead.

The normally fairly reserved Brit has recently shared a video on social media of him ditching his normal Mercedes F1 car for an R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R for a spot of drifting in Tokyo, something he likely recorded during downtime ahead of the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix.

The raucous clip shows Hamilton speeding down the Shuto Expressway (one of Tokyo’s most notorious street racing spots and the setting of the famous manga/arcade game Wangan Midnight) and even doing some sick doughies in a carpark, just like every Aussie P-plater with a JDM rocket.

He even cooks the gearbox so badly that smoke starts rising out of the transmission tunnel into the cabin. What a madman.

WATCH Lewis Hamilton drift an R34 below.

It’s a rare stunt from Hamilton, who’s previously made it clear on multiple occasions that he’s not actually a big fan of driving off the racetrack (despite owning a rather impressive road car collection).

“I actually don’t like driving unless I’m going fast,” he admitted during a recent interview with Jimmy Kimmel, adding that he finds traffic stressful.

I guess hooning an R34 is going fast, though.

Crummy Byron Bay Backpackers To Be Replaced By ‘Banging Bourgeois Palace’

Everyone is purple in the face about how Byron Bay has changed. In the last 70 years, it has gone from a muddy whaling town, full of blood and gore, to a Californian surfer’s hippy paradise, to a “chill” version of Manly, standard and kind of suburban, to a hotbed of celebrities, micro-influencers and digital nomads. Its transformation from backpacker to boho has been bemoaned for years, but the transformation is now arguably complete with the latest addition to the Booking.com roster – The Bonobo by Raes – which is due to be complete in mid-2024.

Byron Bay may just be the hardest place in Australia to find holiday accommodation (let alone a permanent rental), but fear not, as of next year there will be a new place to fight other Sydneysiders over splashing your cash on. The owners of Raes on Wategos, “an exclusive boutique retreat in an idyllic beachfront setting,” are lending their street cred to a new project in the middle of town, a new luxurious hotel hangout, complete with a rooftop pool.

Plans for the upcoming luxury apartment hotel – The Bonobo by Raes – have just been unveiled, and it’s sure to make travellers’ (and designers’) pulses quicken. The Bonobo by Raes is being designed by Richards & Spence, a Brisbane firm behind digs like the following.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by The Calile Hotel (@thecalilehotel)

The place will be three-storeys, situated at 116-118 Jonson Street slap bang in the middle of town, as Executive Traveller puts it, “breathing life into the site of a long-neglected backpackers” like a Phoenix.

Not just brutalist brick – there are gardens, too.

Also according to Executive Traveller, it was going to be called The Barbotine, but now has a new name to celebrate its collaboration with the Catalano family, who are owners of Raes at Wategos hotel – a Byron Bay institution near the lighthouse.

The Bonobo by Raes will have 41 hotel apartments, with a mix of two, three and four-bedroom options. The place will have gardens inside (contrasting with the sadistically brutal brickwork) and lush greenery overflowing over the outer walls. A Byron-worthy melange indeed. Certainly beats paying $115 to pitch your tent in somebody’s garden in Ocean Shores, too.

Almost like you’re in Spain! We definitely back the idea of a ground floor cafe.

Apartment sizes will vary from 85 square metres to 160 square metres. They will all have big windows, big kitchens and well-endowed balconies. The real Instagram money shot, however, will be the rooftop pool.

Tools are already clattering to get the project off the ground, and it’s meant to be done by mid-2024.

The debate over Byron Bay’s ongoing SUV-ication will undoubtedly continue, with one surf blog commentator summing the situation up as follows:

“I was no shit squashed into my car park by 3 f**kers in Black SUV’s, I had one at both nose and tail and one on my wing waiting for me to move so he could gobble up my park, I felt both outraged and intimidated.”

“There was a time, not so long ago, that it was considered an uncouth act to drive a luxury vehicle in the Byron Shore. I used to joke that the secret to success around here was to have lots of money but pretend that you didn’t.”

“Now the Black SUV is the new surf van, Byron is long past trying to hide wealth, now it’s a matter of letting it all hang out.”

At least we’re now letting things “all hang out” in style?

‘Excuse Me, Where Is Messi?’ GOAT Fan Rant Goes Viral

After Argentina’s shock loss to Saudi Arabia earlier this week, one Saudi fan took the chance to take a hilarious jab at the star-studded team’s 7 time Ballon d’Or winning talisman, Messi.

Argentina, one of the World Cup favourites, lost 2-1 to Saudi Arabia in their opening match. This left fans around the world picking their jaws up off the floor. It also left a great many Saudi Arabia fans wildly celebrating, and trying their hands at comedy.

One Saudi fan’s rib tickling celebration, filmed by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, has gone viral, after the fan gave Messi a roasting that the sides of our mouths will remember for a long time to come.

Interrupting a journalist speaking at the end of the game, with members of the crowd walking all around, the Saudi fan grabs the mike and asks: “Where is Messi?” about four hundred times (ok, maybe we exaggerate a little), a big grin on his face, and sunnies over his eyes. For comedic effect, he pretends to look for Messi behind the guy with the microphone.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Complex Football (@complex.fc)

When the interviewer congratulates him on his team’s win, he says: “Thank you soooooo muchhhh.”

The video prompted many comments on social media (Instagram account Complex FC helped it go viral) like: “My Middle Eastern brothers are climbing the Comedy Power Rankings each and every day this month” and “They still ain’t making it out of that group. Enjoy the moment though.”

“I think it was the ‘Thank you sooooo Muchhhhhhhh!’ For me.”
Instagram user @jushuncho_

Others warned that Messi was just getting started. One wrote: “Don’t worry Messi will comeback.” Another said: “Messi bouta play another 4 just to spin the block.”

“Y’all must not get it lmao. They get to be petty now. They know they ain’t winning shit but when you beat the goat you get to have some fun.”
Instagram user @gr.yes

A few Argentine fans then weighed in with some remarks of their own, like: “Messi clearly scored and y’all got lucky lmaooo” and “Y’all asking for the 7 time ball d or winner?”

Argentina will be hoping their result against Mexico on Sunday (it starts at 6am AEST) leaves less room for the Instagram and TikTok comedians of the world to poke fun at them. But only time (and the GOAT’s performance) will tell…

Daniel Ricciardo Signs ‘Head-Scratching’ Red Bull Reserve Driver Deal

The beleaguered Australian Formula 1 star’s return to his former team – in a support role instead of as a full-time driver – has left many motorsports fans scratching their heads. Why has ‘The Honey Badger’ gone for this Red Bull deal?

After McLaren ended Ricciardo’s contract early in order to get fellow Aussie Oscar Piastri on board for 2023, many fans assumed that Danny Ric would try and secure a full-time race seat at a midfield or backmarker team, or just take 2023 off entirely. Instead, he’s not really doing either of those things.

Initially, we here at DMARGE speculated that Ricciardo might try and go back to his former team Alpine, but it quickly became clear that the French outfit never seriously considered him as an option, and instead decided to chase Pierre Gasly.

Ricciardo going to Red Bull’s junior team AlphaTauri never seemed that plausible, but he could have thrown his lot in with either Williams or Haas – and indeed, Ricciardo reportedly toyed with the idea of joining the latter, only for the American team to opt for Nico Hülkenberg to fill Mick Schumacher’s seat instead.

The point is this: if Ricciardo really wanted to, he could have had a full-time drive for 2023. He could have also just taken a year off. So why pen this ‘halfway house’ deal with Red Bull?

WATCH Daniel Ricciardo discuss his return to Red Bull below.

Well, Ricciardo’s Red Bull deal isn’t your usual reserve driver arrangement. The young Kiwi Liam Lawson, who has raced in Formula 2 for the past two seasons, will still be the main reserve driver for Red Bull and AlphaTauri next year. While he’ll still be on hand if they need him, part of Ricciardo’s deal is that he doesn’t have to turn up to every race next year.

Instead, he’ll mostly be doing off-track marketing work and putting in some sim time, with an eye to rejoin the grid full-time in 2024.

“I won’t be at 24 races – otherwise I may as well still be on the grid. I made it clear that I needed time off,” Ricciardo told the press in Abu Dhabi last weekend.

“It has beaten me down, the past couple of years, which is why I want a little bit of time removed. I want to find a part of myself again and rebuild a little bit. When it doesn’t work you can so easily just be angry, bitter, have negative emotions to something you love.”
Daniel Ricciardo

Red Bull clearly recognises that Ricciardo is exceptionally valuable as a marketing tool. He remains one of the most popular and best-loved personalities in F1 and has always shown a willingness to get involved in off-track marketing shenanigans.

Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen eat some durian during a marketing stunt ahead of the 2017 Singapore Grand Prix. Image: Red Bull

In comparison, Max Verstappen has never been particularly keen to engage with marketing or the media, and Sergio Pérez isn’t the same sort of natural, charismatic star that Ricciardo is. So if Ricciardo can pick up the slack marketing-wise and let the drivers, well, drive – that’s an ideal situation for Red Bull.

What Ricciardo needs to do is make the most of his ‘F1 gap year’ – restore his mental health, get refocused, and put in a lot of time in the sim. .. And if he does get called to race next year, he really needs to impress Red Bull (and the rest of the grid). Being back at a top team and being exposed to how they operate will also no doubt be very beneficial to Ricciardo.

What about 2024?

While on paper, Ricciardo probably doesn’t have much of a chance at getting a seat at a top team, things could change by the end of 2023.

Verstappen is Red Bull’s golden child and has a mammoth contract until 2028, so it’s unlikely that the talented Dutchman won’t be going anywhere soon. But things could change with Pérez. The Mexican is contracted until 2024, but recent tensions at the team regarding team orders have seriously sown discord between the previously fairly rock-solid driver pairing.

If Pérez ends up leaving Red Bull early (or is forced out by Verstappen’s camp), Ricciardo could be poised to take his seat. While he’d no doubt once again end us as the second driver to Verstappen, that’s better than having no seat at all. Verstappen and Ricciardo were always fairly close, too, so it could be a more natural driver pairing.

Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo chat during a press conference at the 2022 Italian Grand Prix. Hamilton has previously said that Ricciardo is “too talented” to be a reserve driver and that “If I was managing him, he’d be racing.” Image: Sky Sports

Another opportunity could arise at Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton’s contract expires at the end of 2023, and while the seven-time World Champion has previously downplayed any talk of him retiring from F1, 2023 might change his mind.

2022 was the first season Hamilton contested where he didn’t win a race. In contrast, George Russell’s star continues to rise, and he’s almost cemented himself as Mercedes’ first driver. If Hamilton has another challenging year in Russell’s shadow, that could be enough for him to call time on F1 – opening the door once again to Ricciardo.

Mercedes’ junior ranks are looking a bit thin at the moment, and Ricciardo was in talks with Toto Wolff to join the team as a reserve driver before he bit the bullet on Red Bull. Again, he’d probably be second fiddle to Russell, but still… It’d be a chance to win races again, potentially.

Of course, this is all wild speculation. Ricciardo could end up cooling his heels with Red Bull for a while yet – and seeing how crazy the 2022 silly season was, we’re totally prepared to see more bonkers stuff happen next year. Fingers crossed though.

Heartwarming Moment ‘Qatar Royal’ Helps English Fan With His Headwear

A heartwarming moment between two fans at the Qatar World Cup has shown how sport can bring people together. The moment involves an English fan struggling with his ghutra, and the “Qatari equivalent of Prince William” helping him “Windsor knot [his] tie.”

It’s a bit of a cliche to say that sport brings people together. But it really does. Case in point? The latest heartwarming footage to come out of the World Cup. Posted to TikTok by @goalglobal, the video purports to show Amir of Qatar’s brother helping an English fan with his ghutra during the England vs Iran match.

The English fan can be seen standing outside a box of fans, attempting to fold an English flag, while his ghutra sits not quite right on his head. The Amir of Qatar’s brother, as he is claimed to be in the video’s title, walks to the edge of the box and gestures to him.

The English fan smiles and walks over, allowing Amir of Qatar’s brother to fix up his headwear. The Amir of Qatar’s brother then walks away with a spring in his step, before coming back to help the second England fan.

WATCH: Amir Of Qatar’s Brother Helps English Fan With His Ghutra

At the end of the clip, the English fan’s friend, who was on his phone previously, then gets his ghutra fixed too (he appeared to have his on upside down). Commenters on TikTok were quick to heap praise (and jealousy) on the moment.

“This is basically the Qatari equivalent of Prince William helping you windsor knot your tie,” one said. Another wrote: “his little jump in his walk after he helped the first guy was absolutely adorable.”

“As far as I’m concerned they get really proud when you (properly) wear their attires so good on you,” said yet another. This was followed up with more love like: “Football fans love each other,” “Man, this has been my favorite moments from the game really” and “This is what its about!!”

Not everyone was convinced though, with one suggesting it might have been staged (“Go on comment this was fixed & told 2 do this due 2 media & Qatar is so inhuman,” they wrote).

‘Avatar 2’ Breaks Tom Cruise’s Most Impressive Record

Avatar: The Way of Water – the highly anticipated sequel to 2009’s Avatar – has already started breaking records even before it’s made it to cinemas.

As the name implies, the film has a much more aquatic focus compared to the first Avatar film, and much of the film has actually been shot underwater (in typical grandiose James Cameron style).

That’s been a huge challenge for the cast, with most of them having to learn free diving for the film and being required to spend extended periods filming underwater… But one cast member has particularly risen to the challenge.

Kate Winslet, who plays the Na’Vi free diver Ronal, reportedly held her breath for over seven minutes while filming an underwater scene, breaking a record set by Tom Cruise during the filming of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. We wonder if that’s got him jumping on his couch…

WATCH the trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water below.

It’ll be interesting to see if Avatar 2 beats the most impressive record set by Avatar 1, though: the highest-grossing film of all time.

During its theatrical run, Avatar broke several box office records and became the highest-grossing film of all time (surpassing Cameron’s previous blockbuster, Titanic). It held that title for a decade, briefly losing it to Avengers: Endgame in 2019 – but a hugely successful Chinese re-release of Avatar led to it retaking the top spot in 2021.

Avatar: The Way of Water will arrive at Australian cinemas on December 16th, 2022. It will star Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña, who are reprising their roles from the first film. Other big stars appearing in the film include Kate Winslet (as we mentioned earlier), Michelle Yeoh, Stephen Lang and Vin Diesel.

What about 2024?

Influencer program

MEDIA CHANNELS

INFO

LEGAL

HELP

© 2018 Floureon Official Online. All rights reserved

What about 2024?

Influencer program

Email to a Friend