Men often think that the key to masculinity is either a massive chest or a set of biceps that rip through the arms of t-shirts.

Though we are in 2021 and (fortunately) can now acknowledge there is slightly more to masculinity than how many pull-ups you can do, sticking with the analogy, you might be interested to know that your shoulders offer a great opportunity to appear extra huge when walking down the street.

But only if you know how to build them.

By performing a range of shoulder workouts and increasing the size of your shoulders you can appear more broad and fill out your t-shirts a lot more. Also, on a more practical level, having strong shoulders can assist you with lifting heavy objects and performing everyday tasks.

If there’s one man who knows that better than anyone else, it’s German bodybuilder Jo Lindner. Jo has previously provided incredibly helpful advice for increasing the size of your chest and your arms, and has even uncovered some surprising truths in the gym, such as the fact women don’t really care if you have six-pack abs.

RELATED: I Believed I Could Get Six-Pack Abs In 2 Weeks. I Was Freaking Delusional.

But, if you want yourself a serious set of boulder shoulders, you’ll want to check out this workout. Calling it the “ultimate 3D delts guide” – referring to the deltoid muscle, the one that forms the rounded portion of the shoulder – Jo says the most important thing is we “need to know how to do lateral raises properly.”

Lateral raises refer to a movement whereby you raise your arms, while keeping your elbow kept at a constant angle. You can move your arm in virtually any direction you wish through an arc, with each ultimately working a different section of the deltoid muscle. To help figure out what moves work which part of the shoulder, Jo says to start off, we should use a really light weight, to see “what is the shoulder?”.

Jo says many people employ the use of the trap muscles to assist them, but this takes away from the work you’re trying to do for your shoulders, so if the movement is new to you, you can practice it easily before you add weight: “Chest up, head up, then put your arm like this [at a right angle with the elbow close to your body] then you kick up your elbow. And you try to kick up the elbow without using your traps.”

If you want to work the side delts, Jo adds you should lean forward slightly and keep the weights slightly in front of you and held in a neutral position – this being wherever your hands fall naturally. Then, kicking out the elbow to lift the weights up your sides, the forward lean will help add more tension and ultimately be more effective in building up the side delt muscles.

“Lateral raises is one of the most difficult exercises, but one of the best. In order to get this 3D look from the side, from the front, you have to have this roundness, which you get from doing lateral raises.”

“And then people wonder ‘how much should I do?’. A lot bro. Do drop sets, super sets, everything man, make these shoulders burn like crazy. They need to be painful.”

Another move you can perform to seriously increase your shoulder gains is to lie on your side on an incline bench (with it set at around 60-degrees) and lift a dumbbell using your free arm. This isolates all the weight to the free arm, which can make what you would assume to be a light weight, feel heavy.

Jo says, “there’s not much range of motion, but just this little thing that you do, bro this burns like crazy. This is a sick exercise.” And to make sure you perform it correctly, he adds, “Close your eyes, and focus and concentrate and be aware of what you’re doing.”

As with the other lateral raise movements, you want to kick up the elbow and try to avoid using your traps for assistance.

 

 

 

 

 

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In a separate Instagram video, Jo provides more shoulder workout tips, using plate weights. Holding the weight in your hands, you can raise out to your front and twist the weight, or flip it, to further work the shoulder muscles.

Now you have no excuses for small shoulders.

Watch how to get huge like Jo Lindner

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The skies have been shrieking with controversy this year. From a Singapore Airlines business class passenger complaining about the lack of champagne at the beginning of the pandemic (in a Facebook post that went viral) to mask-wearing in the US becoming politicised, it’s been wild.Enter: the latest hot sauce from American Airlines. In a memo that has royally pissed off flight attendants, the airline has asked its aisle angels to be more conscientious about helping the airline avoid delays.As reported by aviation blog View From The Wing, “One tip, aimed at flight attendants who are scheduled to work reserve, has incited a anger – and a response from the union. American told flight attendants that they may need to skip meals.”

“You may not have time to stop and get food, etc. on the way to the plane – particularly if you’re called at the last minute, so keep that in mind.”“Go directly to the aircraft if you are called; do not stop for food or other items on your way unless you have ample time and it will not delay you accomplishing your pre-flight duties and boarding.”

This part of the memo went down badly.The President of the American Airlines flight attendants union hit back with a memo of her own.Hers reads: “[E]arlier this week, all Flight Attendants received an insulting company communication attempting to remind us of ‘Moments that Matter’ for the Flight Attendant workgroup. It now seems that skipping food runs on the way to the airplane and monitoring traffic patterns should be our new normal.”“This company continues to demonstrate just how out-of-touch they are with Flight Attendants, ignoring the fatigue-inducing trip construction and the constant battles over mask compliance. American sees this as a golden opportunity to make our lives more difficult by increasing reserve seniority and throwing 27% of a crew base on reserve instead of working to make our lives easier in this challenging environment.”“American Airlines seems to have forgotten that Flight Attendants spend the most time with our customers. Flight Attendants have done an outstanding job of welcoming our new leisure travelers that make up a good portion of our revenue and stand ready to welcome back our business travelers, all while attempting to maintain a safe cabin environment. It is time that we are recognized for our work and our sacrifices instead of receiving a callous communication asking us to skip a meal while on duty.”

“It is time for American Airlines to treat Flight Attendants with dignity and recognize the sacrifices we have made to restore American to profitability.”

One Redditor in the r/flightattendants community, who claims to be a Legacy Mainline Flight Attendant wrote: “As an AA FA, I will say this article was taken completely out of context because they definitely just pulled one sentence from an email that was sent to all FAs. The company is asking for flight attendants that are sitting AIRPORT STANDBY (so on premises at the airport, we have 4-6 hour standby shifts at AA for last minute call outs, recrews, etc.) to not stop and get food after CS calls them for that last minute trip.”“The expectation is for us to go straight to the plane after we get called on standby and not take 20 minutes to get food since we are there for last minute fill ins and we will have been sitting there in OPS waiting for the call. This was not directed at FAs that are not on standby duty. They didn’t say for FAs to not get meals when they’re working a long duty day.”

“But I think most of us can all agree that our health takes priority over being two minutes late for boarding and it’s more than past time for airport restaurants and shops to start opening up again. The lines the past few weeks have been outrageous, especially with no food service on the airplane so every one is getting something.”

The problem is though, according to other Redditor’s in the thread, that despite the working conditions, there are still so many people who want to work for American Airlines that the company is still turning applicants away.This isn’t the first time the plight of American Airlines workers has made headlines.As DMARGE reported in April, one first-class passenger’s shocking American Airlines experience recently highlighted this exact tension point.As frequent first-class flyer James Asquith found out the hard way, when flight attendants are not happy with their working conditions, customers can end up spitefully neglected.RELATED: Australia Fears ‘Americanisation Of Business Class’ In A Post-COVID WorldEven before COVID, particularly in America, where competition for domestic flights is ultra fierce, airlines were locked into something of a race to the bottom.The pandemic has only worsened this trend.Fun times in the skies.

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Nothing quite excites a real revhead like seeing a rare imported car that was never officially sold in the country it’s driving around in.

For example, Americans are often jealous when they see Japanese domestic market vehicles like the legendary R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R driving around Australian streets. Conversely, Australians might be shocked to discover there’s a surprisingly large amount of Holden Kingswoods driving around Indonesia, or how there’s a bizarre amount of American panel vans in Portugal.

But the most surprising fish out of water car on the planet might just be a solitary Hummer H2 that’s found itself in Pyongyang – the capital of North Korea, and perhaps the last place on Earth you’d expect to see perhaps the most American car ever made.

Foreign Market Car Sightings, a Facebook group dedicated to this sort of thing, features dozens of posts sharing sightings of this huge SUV. The H2 sticks out like a sore thumb on the streets of Pyongyang, not only thanks to its size and unmissable design but also because Pyongyang’s roads are rather empty. Few North Koreans own a car, with car ownership limited to the elite.

Imagine both loving Kim Jong-Un and rolling around in a bloody Hummer…

While North Korea does produce a small number of vehicles domestically – mostly derivatives of designs made by other manufacturers, such as Fiat, Hyundai and Mercedes-Benz – the vast majority of vehicles on their roads are imports, most of which have come through China or Russia. One commenter in the Facebook group, a scholar of North Korea, shared some insights into how this all works:

“What happens is that cars are bought at auction in North America and are shipped off to Russia. Especially luxury cars. They usually end up in Vladivostok and then from there a smaller boat will quietly make its way, usually at night, with a handful of cars onboard to a broker in the DPRK…

“Normal people don’t have these cars. They are all military or government or other people of power or standing that are able to get them. The cars are usually written off by some shady dudes a few months later in Russia and they disappear in the DPRK for people to drive around.”

“This is how they have been ‘smuggling’ luxury goods into the DPRK for pretty much ever. America isn’t messing around in those waters. China couldn’t give a shit what comes into the DPRK. So who is going to stop them? Putin? He doesn’t care. He makes money from the guys who are doing the importing and exporting of the cars. So no matter how much everyone is all gung ho about the embargoes, they do nothing to stop the flow of cars and goods coming in from Russia.”

“Also, some stuff comes across the land bridge from China, but that is few and far between because it is more obvious.”

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Another explained that North Koreans “like to buy USDM spec because these vehicles are cheap as hell on the international market. They can blame these purchases on the sanctions preventing them from producing their own Pyeonghwa [North Korea’s domestic auto brand] vehicles.”

North Korea’s not the only country that features an automotive landscape seemingly at odds with its political landscape. Cuba, another famously isolationist communist country, is well-known for the large fleet of classic American cars that call its roads home.

RELATED: Unlikely New Country Keeping Cuba’s Tourism Industry Alive

As for North Korea, you can keep your Hummers. We’re more interested in importing rare European station wagons or ‘yakuza spec’ JDM limousines…

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Tuscany, in central Italy, is one of the prettiest places on Planet Earth. Unparalleled ocean views, acclaimed wineries, brilliant food, romantic vibes… It’s a little parcel of heaven and a perennial bucket list entry for Australians looking to travel Europe.Tuscany also boasts some of the best driving roads on the planet. Much of the famous historic Mille Miglia passed through Tuscany, and the region’s roads today remain a popular spot for manufacturers like Ducati and Lamborghini to test their cars. The chicanes, undulations and narrow mountain passes so characteristic of the region make for a dynamic as well as incredibly beautiful drive, whether you’re driving a puttering little Fiat 500 or a fire-breathing Ferrari 488 Pista.Yes, Tuscany is enough to have even the most vehicle-sceptic traveller watering at the mouth… And that’s before we even mention the culinary delights (the best part of a driving holiday is the food that punctuates it, in our opinion). But with Australian borders still locked down and Italy continuing to be one of the worst-affected countries by the COVID-19 crisis, the dream of a Tuscan driving holiday seems like a rather distant one for most Antipodeans.But who needs Italy? We Aussies spend our entire lives looking outwards, fetishising overseas experiences when we’re blessed with such amazing opportunities in our own backyard. Why spend over 24 hours in transit flying to Florence from Sydney (an entirely hypothetical scenario in any case as getting a flight is impossible right now) when you can take the 2-hour flight to Adelaide and experience some of the world’s most underrated driving roads just a stone’s throw from the airport in an environment that’s a dead ringer for Tuscany anyway.Enter: the Adelaide Hills.

Less than an hour from Adelaide City, the Adelaide Hills region is one of the country’s pre-eminent wine regions and quite frankly, a little parcel of heaven. Boasting a uniquely cool climate as well as some of the most pretty vistas in the entire country, it’s strange that more Australians don’t know about it – the Barossa Valley gets plenty of limelight but the Adelaide Hills might be even better.The thing that’s particularly striking about the Adelaide Hills is that it actually feels like Europe, a vibe that’s only made stronger by the Hills’ unusually cool climate year-round, manicured grapevines and Germanic placenames that reflect the Hills’ heritage as being one of the first areas of South Australia to be settled by European settlers. It’s truly uncanny, and you could easily be tricked into thinking you were overseas if only the cars weren’t on the left-hand side.RELATED: Renault’s ‘Un-Australian’ Business Decision Bad News For Sports Car LoversThat beauty, too, is complemented by some of the best driving roads in the country, or anywhere, quite frankly. Windy, narrow and fast, carving through the Adelaide Hills is enormously fun. The speed limits are generous and the roads themselves exciting whilst not being too dangerous. You can push a car to what feels like its limits without putting yourself (or others) in harm’s way, which really is the essence of good motoring.Another aspect of good motoring: good road manners. Something South Australians have in spades that Italians often don’t. Makes a big difference when you’re trying to enjoy a nice drive. Just saying…I had the chance to take a new Porsche Panamera through the Adelaide Hills (the perfect car for the job, by the way) and the experience was bloody revelatory. A grand tourer like a Panamera is perfect for the drive – muscular, comfortable, capable – but you can have fun no matter what you’re in. You don’t need a supercar to take advantage of these roads. Although it wouldn’t hurt.

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A little known fact about this part of Australia might also surprise some European ‘old world’ wine snobs – it has some of the oldest vines in the world. The excellent growing conditions of the Adelaide Hills mean that a wide variety of grape varietals and wine styles are produced in the region. It’s not hard to find some Sangiovese from the Adelaide Hills that’s good enough to get even the proudest Tuscan hot under the collar.RELATED: Australian Wine Snob Learns Important Lesson After Committing ‘Ultimate Barossa Valley Sin’Actually, the only downside to the Adelaide Hills as a driving destination is that the wine’s so good you almost want to be driven and not driving yourself… Although being driven on these roads is pretty fun, too. It’s like the world’s most beautiful rollercoaster.It’s hard to emphasise how uncannily European and how surprisingly good driving the Adelaide Hills really feels. Even a Chianti-loving Italophile like myself found the experience more than a match for anything I’ve experienced in Tuscany, or Europe more broadly.If there’s one thing that the COVID-19 crisis has taught us, it’s that we should appreciate what we have – whether that’s our health, our family, or the experiences that are on our doorstep. International travel and tourism is unlikely to go ‘back to normal’ for a while now, so as much as you might be dreaming of a Tuscan holiday, it might have to stay a dream for a while now.So aren’t we lucky that we have the next best thing right here at our fingertips in the Adelaide Hills. Regardless of what you have in the garage, it’s a part of the world that any revhead should seriously consider making a pilgrimage to.

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FOMO will blow through your hair, punch you in the face, and leave you looking stupid.

It could also make you rich.

Speaking of unlikely occurrences… the desire to become a first homeowner in Australia is still booming.

In these last twelve months of fear and FOMO, as traditional financial markets soared even as the real economy suffered, and as crypto continued infuriating traditional investors and winning over what some have called “morons”, the Australian housing market has also had a ~moment~.

Don’t jump for your auction padel yet though; James Whelan – Investment Manager at VFS Group in Sydney – recently took to Twitter to warn buyers not to get too caught up in the hype.

The trend of skipping building and pest inspections to get property will be taken advantage of by a barely regulated group of unethical sharks.

— James Whelan (@jameswhelan42) April 18, 2021

“The trend of skipping building and pest inspections to get property will be taken advantage of by a barely regulated group of unethical sharks,” Mr Whelan wrote on Twitter.

Mr Whelan also, over the phone, spoke to DMARGE about the differences in how real estate agents and financial advisors are regulated.

Take the sentance, ‘I think you should buy.’ Of that phrase, Mr Whelan told DMARGE: “I can’t say that to most people regarding a $5,000 trade on BHP and yet a 5 million dollar place in Bondi – they’ve got no problem…”

He also mused: “If you brought those requirements in on the real estate side then I think you’d find the market would probably react pretty negatively.”

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Victoria-based mortgage broker Scott Baker told DMARGE: “With a lot of FOMO driving the property market surge going on at the moment, buyers could be tempted to take shortcuts and not do their due diligence on things such as pest and building inspections.”

“It’s very important prospective buyers don’t cut corners in these areas as once they are the legal owners of the property and there might issues down the track they would be liable for any costs to repair. This can definitely come back to haunt them!”

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Speaking of haunting… the following 2006 Bondi block photo, dug up on Getty Images by DMARGE, shows the housing market has boomed (and declined) before, and will boom (and decline) again, regardless of whether it keeps on an upwards overall trajectory.

Though there is nothing wrong with this block of land (it’s not a warning in the ‘off the plan’ disaster sense), having sold for about $29,000 per square metre, we believe it represents the concept of a housing boom quite well.

Though median prices have gone up since 2006 (nationwide), they have warbled along their way.

As home lender Aussie points out in its 25 years of housing trends report, “One thing that is certain is that housing markets will continue to move through their cycles, with periods of growth, decline and steady values conditions. History has shown that over time these cycles tend to smooth out the year to year volatility in growth rates.”

The moral of the story? Even if you’re looking at a prime piece of hipster cafe adjacent real estate (not some obscure off the plan CBD tower); don’t take short cuts. The next boom (and the next dip) could be just around the corner.

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Being ‘seen’ can be as painful as it is therapeutic. In this case, as nutritionist Ryan Carter takes to Instagram to share an inflammation lesson as damning as it is common, it’s both.The British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle medicine qualified nutritionist (and social media nutrition coach) posted an image on Friday many of us can relate to, detailing why you don’t feel good after a junk binge.It also pointed out some of the modern habits that keep us from living ‘realised’ nutritional lives, such as eating out of circadian rhythm and environmental chemicals pulling strings in our microbiome and endocrine system.

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The words that hit hardest? For our money it’s: “hyper palatable psuedo food.” Ouch.Other sentiments that hit home – and that we can all learn from – are eating foods high in excessive rancid pufa (polyunsaturated) oils, eating whilst rushed or on the go, and eating food “void in calories.”Carter captions the image as follows:“A recipe for inflammation. A sure method to serve up insult to your body via food to your gut and brain.”“If you want an easy recipe to feel like crap doing this consistently is a sure way.”

• Eating round the clock
• Eating indoors or not seeing bright natural light affects fasting and post prandial blood glucose and triglycerides
• Eating on the go – increases stress activation via the autonomic nervous system, down regulates digestive capacity and blood circulation
• Throw in a sprinkle of xenobiotics to the mix
• Add in a jackpot stimulating effect of hyper palatable food which is easy to over-consume
• Oxidised fatty acids, sugars and charred meat or pseudo food like products
• Then void of goodness for yourself and microbiome

According to Carter this is all, “A recipe for inflammation and disaster.”“Sure occasionally eating this type of food might be cool, if that’s your thing,” Carter writes. But you can still do your best with other components. Carter then leaves a list of actionable things you can do to improve your situation.

• Eating in daylight hours, getting outdoors or better yet eat outdoors in nature
• Eating real food more often
• Single ingredients
• Sourcing the best food you can get your hands on
• Taking your time when eating and being present

“This should become before worrying about what macronutrient ratio or micronutrients etc.Sure there is more to inflammation than this and food but this helps on a fundamental level.”

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You also don’t want to become obsessed with clean eating. As Healthline explains, this condition – orthorexia – involves an extreme fixation with the “purity” of food, as well as an obsession with the benefits of healthy eating.

“Although you may begin a diet simply intending to improve your health, this focus can become more extreme.”

Food for thought.

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Despite having made a career out of playing tacky characters, Sacha Baron Cohen is one remarkably dapper gent.The 49-year-old British comedian, best known for playing confronting satirical characters like Ali G, Brüno Gehard and Borat Sagdiyev, is known for his insane commitment to his roles – so seeing him out of costume (as his least well-known character, himself) can be a bit jarring. What’s even more disconcerting is that when you strip away the facade of bad taste, you find out that he actually has exceptional taste.Take this outfit he was spotted in strolling the streets of Sydney last week with wife Isla Fisher. Keeping things lowkey in a fedora-topped, smart casual look, it’s hard to think this is the same man who’s famous for wearing a mankini in the movies. Even more impressive was the watch he had on his wrist – a brand-new OMEGA Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional (ref. 310.30.42.50.01.001) that even his harshest critics would agree is a timepiece that’s out of this world.

While there’s a million and one different variants of the famous Moonwatch (also called the ‘Speedy’), Cohen’s example is clearly recognisable as being a 2021 model thanks to its bracelet, which features a five arched links per row design, as well as its compact, somewhat rounded case design. This Speedy features OMEGA’s new Calibre 3861, which unlike previous Speedy movements meets Master Chronometer specs – the highest standard of precision, performance and magnetic resistance in the Swiss watch industry.RELATED: OMEGA Gives Its ‘Moonwatch’ A Much Anticipated UpgradeThe OMEGA Speedmaster Moonwatch in all its guises is one of the most iconic and best-regarded watches in the known universe, so Cohen clearly knows what’s up. Although the moon association does bring to mind the rather less salubrious ‘blood moon dance’ scene from Cohen’s latest film, the much-anticipated Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm…2021 has seen Cohen garner a number of accolades for not only the aforementioned Borat sequel but for many of his other filmic works. Cohen won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his reprisal of the infamous Kazakh TV host, with the film also picking up the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy as well as the Writers Guild of America Awards Best Adapted Screenplay.

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The big news this week was the announcement Bill and Melinda Gates are to divorce after 27 years of marriage and 34 years together as a couple. The high-profile entrepreneur, co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation and regular attendee atop the richest people in the world list, and his fellow philanthropist wife have been quoted as saying their marriage was “irrevocably broken,” yet will promise to continue carrying out charity work together through their Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

But while the majority of the world reacts to the news – although we imagine at the time of publishing, people have probably gotten over it, anyone remember when Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife Mackenzie divorced in 2019? – the women of Reddit have been conjuring up devilish plans to seduce the 65 year old, now-single billionaire.

The thread – viewable here – has amassed over 5,000 comments since it was posted 2 days before the time of writing, and sees commentary from some women who try to speak to Bill’s hidden talent of being able to jump over an office chair, by claiming they could, in fact, “jump over two office chairs”, while others said they would “whisper sweet nothings into my COVID vaccine,” a (we hope, joking) reference to the conspiracy theory that Bill was somehow going to exploit the global pandemic by implanting microchips into humans.

Some women revealed their incredibly creative sides: “Hide ‘will you marry me’ on page 37 of an EULA and get him to click ‘agree,” a comment which has received nearly 40,000 upvotes for its genius and originality, although some users were quick to point out that Bill “seems like the kind who reads all the small print.”

Other standout comments and plans include:

“God damn it Bill you just want horny fan fiction about yourself. Get out of reddit, did you think we wouldn’t be able to tell?”

“I got an email in suspiciously broken English from Bill Gates a couple of weeks back saying he wanted to give me 50,000,000 USD so I don’t need to bother seducing him. Hopefully the £20,000 I sent him for clearance of the funds will have gone through by now so I should be getting my money any day now.”

“Bill: ‘How good are you at PowerPoint?’
Me: ‘I Excel at it.’
Bill: ‘Was that a Microsoft Office pun?’
Me: ‘Word’.”

But our favourite has to be this incredibly thorough plan from male user LordCitrus. Sorry ladies, we think he wins.

It would certainly win us over.

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Aussies love an underdog story. David vs Goliath, so to speak. A chance to show one’s distaste with their fellow man and to angrily type said distaste into the comments section for all their Instagram following to read.Whilst their rage is usually directed at those parking Range Rovers with the arrogance of A Good Looking Man, this time it’s the humble Ford Ranger’s turn to get a spray.Enter: the following Instagram Reel.

 

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Recently posted online by Australian meme account haha.kookaburra, the above video has been recorded by a guy in his SUV being tailgated by a Ford Ranger, the rich tradie (or flapping red P-Plate surfer’s) vehicle of choice (and the second best-selling car in Australia in 2020 with 40,973 models sold).The Ford Ranger attempts to overtake the guy filming, only to be forced to remain behind when the guy in the video decides to speed up.Some commenters found it hilarious. Others called it a: “Dog act.”Our take? Neither party has covered themselves in glory here (if we had a dollar for the number of times we’d seen Ford Ranger’s weaving through highway traffic at 140km per hour, we’d be minted).DMARGE of course does not condone dangerous driving in any capacity or for any reason. Both sets of driving (tailgating and preventing someone from overtaking) could cause fatal incidents. As could using your phone while driving.That said, the man’s actions perhaps speak to Australians being sick and tired of rude behaviour (whether that be tailgating or oblivious parking).Nowhere is this more evident right now than Byron Bay – a place whose constant desire to market itself as a relaxed, laidback paradise has led it, over the past decade or so, become a playground for the rich and famous (and Sydneysiders), and the new milieu for a nationwide pissing contest to see who has the best looking Range Rover.That’s the impression one gets from Instagram accounts like @lordofbyronbayofficial, anyway.

 

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Venture to any of the town’s Insta-worthy hotspots: The Pass, Elements of Byron or any of the cafes and restaurants on what we call the ‘unofficial culinary tour’ – think Rae’s; The Mez Club; Bang Bang, The Byron Bay General Store – and you’ll likely spot your fair share of Range Rovers and similarly large SUVs driven by people who look as though they’d shiver just as the sound of the word ‘mud’.RELATED: I Moved To Byron Bay: What I Discovered In My First 30 Days Of Being A ClichéIt’s indicative of the town’s current status, which has seen an extraordinary boom in property prices within the past year, all thanks to The Spicy Cough, and one that has forced many of the people who flee to Byron for exactly what it sells: healing, self-discovery and a chance to unwind, out onto the streets and into their vans.Using Byron Bay as an example once again, we’ve previously heard how one resident, commenting on surf website BeachGrit, said “You can’t avoid the c*ntery in the carpark… I was no shit squashed into my car park by 3 fuckers 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.”

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