Kevin Hart Accepts People's Choice Award Rocking $300,000 Patek Philippe
Kevin Hart Accepts People's Choice Award Rocking $300,000 Patek Philippe

Kevin Hart made his first major public appearance at the E! People’s Choice Awards on Sunday the 10th 2019, following a horrific car crash in September.

The comedian, known for his sell-out stand-up tours and high-grossing comedy films, picked up an award for Comedy Act of the Year. However, we’ve found ourselves doing anything but laughing at the star’s Patek Philippe Grand Complications timepiece. In fact, we’re straight-faced, brimming with jealousy.

 

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The Grand Complications, which boosts Hart’s style game to a gazillion, features a manual winding mechanism with no less than 496 parts, day, month, leap year and day/night indicators. All of which are wrapped in a rose-gold case, which is water-resistant to 30 metres. And of course, being a Patek, you know it’s been made to the highest quality. Quite simply, it’s a watch aficionado’s aurelian dream.


If you’re lucky enough to find yourself one of these rare timepieces, you can expect to pay around $300,000.

The Grand Complications even has a moon phase indicator for budding astronomers

Hart has paired the gorgeous watch with a full black outfit that’s as simple as they come, comprising a custom Frère black suede bomber jacket, black shirt, and black suit pants. The Jumanji star is reaffirming his love of Patek watches after he was seen wearing the same model in July for his 40th birthday. 

 

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“This Is 40” …. in my voice “Let’s celebrate Motha Fucka’s”

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Kevin opened his acceptance speech at the awards ceremony by thanking God, saying “I definitely don’t have to be here,” referencing the car crash back in September, which saw his vintage Plymouth Barracuda veer off Mulholland Highway, causing the star to undergo spinal surgery.

While his body may be weak, his watch game is still strong.

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Famous Comedian Reveals Smart Way To Check In On Someone’s Mental Health
Famous Comedian Reveals Smart Way To Check In On Someone’s Mental Health

Checking in on a friend’s mental health can be hard enough, let alone a complete stranger. But as comedian Arj Barker just revealed, it doesn’t have to be as awkward as you fear.“A lot of people try too hard, but less is more.” Arj might have said this in reference to his DiDi driver’s beard (as part of a campaign to promote mental health awareness in the four wheel gig economy), but it can apply to checking in on anyone’s mental health.But first: context. What’s this all about? Essentially, as part of Movember, Chinese rideshare giant DiDi has partnered with Arj Barker, a US comedian who has appeared on such shows as ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ and ‘Thank God You’re Here’ (as well as the sitcom, ‘Flight Of The Conchords’), to encourage rideshare passengers to give their drivers’ a lift by starting a conversation.Why? Though it may seem simple, one conversation can have a positive impact on your driver’s mental health and wellbeing, combat social isolation and loneliness, and prove you aren’t a smartphone obsessed zombie. Plus: all it takes is a minute of your time.Not to mention, in an era where passengers are calling for ‘quiet mode‘ and where there is mounting evidence (see here and here) to suggest that working in the gig economy can be detrimental to your mental health, it’s more important than ever to look after each other.To get the message across, DiDi has collaborated with comedian Arj Barker to create a video series to inspire riders to get chatting with their drivers.DiDi has also started an awareness campaign among rideshare drivers on issues championed by Movember.As reported by B&T, “Throughout November, DiDi will publish several educational features on its DiDi Driver App with the assistance of Movember’s men’s health experts.”

“Furthermore, DiDi will lend its support by donating 10 cents per ride to Movember throughout the month up to $70,000.”

Movember is the leading global men’s health charity committed to changing the face of men’s health, with the aim of reducing premature male deaths, via raising funds and awareness for prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health issues and suicide prevention.DiDi Australia general manager, Lyn Ma said of the initiative: “We have a tremendous driver community at DiDi and are extremely proud to have established a partnership with Movember to promote awareness of men’s mental and physical health among drivers and riders on the DiDi platform.”Movember country director APAC, Rachel Carr said: “This Movember we want to kick-start conversations around the country, to change men’s attitudes on taking action for their health – including getting regular check-ups.”

“By having a meaningful interaction with your rideshare driver, you can not only brighten someone’s day, but will also be helping to tackle social isolation and loneliness.”

“We’re thrilled to team up with DiDi and have the ability to educate thousands of rideshare drivers, and passengers, in the hope they lead healthier, happier and longer lives,” Rachel continued.Our top picks from the video? Ask your rideshare driver how they are, how their day has been, engage in some light-hearted ribbing of their facial hair (if appropriate) and – if you’re feeling particularly spontaneous – there’s always a cheeky Maccas run.

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An Icon Reinvented By Three Generations Of This Swiss Luxury Maison
An Icon Reinvented By Three Generations Of This Swiss Luxury Maison

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This $165 ‘Christmas Sweater’ Is The Warmest Fit You’ll Find These Holidays
This $165 ‘Christmas Sweater’ Is The Warmest Fit You’ll Find These Holidays

Christmas is rolling in fast and it’s time to get your hands on a quality Christmas sweater so that you can truly get into the Christmas spirit. After much deliberation and investigation, we’ve found the must-have Christmas sweater that will put any other sweater to shame.The sweater in question is Smartwool’s CHUP Kaamos Sweater, which, as you’d probably guess, is made from Merino Wool. Unlike normal Merino, this wool is blended with polyester, so you get all of the antimicrobial, temperature regulating and odour neutralising benefits of wool – without it being scratchy and uncomfortable. The wool itself is sustainably sourced by Smartwool who are famous for their innovative and unique take on the time-honoured fabric.So there is a lot of ‘tech’ behind this sweater, but what about the design? Typically you’d expect some daggy pattern, saying or image but this sweater is quite the contrary. Whilst it does feature a pattern, it’s far from daggy and in combination with either of the colourways, it looks great. All jokes aside, whether you want to wear it for Christmas lunch or on a chilly winters day it will work perfectly – and for $165 it’s reasonably priced too.CHUP Kaamos Sweater $165

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The Business Class ‘Cone Of Trust’ Has Been Breached & Passengers Are Furious
The Business Class ‘Cone Of Trust’ Has Been Breached & Passengers Are Furious

The maw between rich and poor has never hung so slack as it does in 2019. While many journalists hold up the trite old ‘business-class vs. economy divide’ as a metaphor for this issue, they’re wrong; tourism has never been accessible to the world’s poorest – and air travel is one of the few industries where the cliché “a rising tide lifts all boats” (or at least, the ones that had access to it in the first place) is correct.For upgrade-seeking passengers, this is great. However, for business-class stalwarts, it signals the breaching of the ‘pointy end cone of trust’ – a safe space where everyone from Australian Financial Review journalists to high flying politicians used to be able to let their hair down in peace, without their penchant for peanuts, pina coladas and open mouth snoring being exposed to the public.

 
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In other words: for entitled snobs tradition-loving passengers, the 90s were the Golden Age of air travel, the noughties were silver and the twenty-tens were bronze – and as 2019 comes to an end, we are now entering a post-privacy era of frequent flyer promotions, influencers and ‘peeping tom’ smartphone users, which – for staunch business class passengers – no amount of ‘ergonomics’ (or private suites) will ever make up for.RELATED: The Day I Realised The Golden Age Of Business Class Was OverAs Fiona Carruthers, the Travel Editor for the Australian Financial Review wrote in January, business-class should be a sanctuary from modern life: “This is the wonderfully illicit aspect of mid-week pointy-end travel for work: the sense that no one’s watching and you’re not on real time anyway. It’s a mood reminiscent of bunking school.”

“Where else in today’s time-pressed world can you justify watching a two-hour Warren Buffett documentary, followed by the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale in your PJs while feasting on Peking duck and osso bucco with a side of edamame eggplant relish, accompanied by a bloody mary?”

Fiona also made the excellent point that: contrary to popular belief, business class is not so much about the glamour, the networking or even preparing for the world-changing meetings for which you are (presumably) travelling.No: the true attraction of business class is “the prospect of time-wasting at altitude, and the associated opportunities to indulge in pointless behaviours – such as duty-free shopping for lip gloss in Doha at 2am.”“Over the years I’ve spotted well-known captains of industry begin a flight perusing the company’s EBITDA data with a suitably furrowed brow only to end up snoozing open-mouthed, shoes and socks discarded, the remnants of pad thai spilt down their front,” Fiona revealed.“I’ve spied a successful fashion designer sitting cross-legged on her seat like a toddler, stretching her expensive clothes hopelessly out of shape; watched a pair of notable actors giggle and throw peanuts at each other; and wandered past a Labor Party leader snoring loudly.”

“No doubt I’ve done most of that too.”

“Years ago, I took a cheeky iPhone snap of the most famous Australian bank chief executive of the day looking decidedly dishevelled, gazing into space by the water fountain in the lobby of Emirates’ first-class lounge in Dubai,” she added.

“I’d planned to send it to colleagues for a laugh, but quickly deleted it. What sort of person does that in the pointy-end cone of trust, not least given everyone’s state of semi-unravel at various points of the flight?”

Problem is, give it a few years and it’s hard not to imagine this photo ending up all over News.com.au. And it’s not just Instagram pages like passenger shaming that suggest this; there are also numerous forums now being dedicated to the issue of “sociability vs. privacy” in business class, and innumerable reports of bad behaviour by pointy end passengers signifying a major business-class culture shift.Not only did we have the ‘nutgate‘ incident of 2015, but we’ve also seen stories of pointy end passengers punching flight attendants, stealing whisky and violently breaking wind, all in the last few years. Chuck in the business class invasion by economy passengers when Qantas refurbished its fleet of Boeing 737s (and removed the dividing curtain between business class and economy) and you have a controversial issue of privacy vs. entitlement on your hands.As one Australian Frequent Flyer put it: “At the end of the day, this is a first-world problem. But when you’re paying $1,072 for a Qantas Business class ticket from Brisbane to Melbourne, it’s not unreasonable to expect some privacy.”Some were not so kind, expressing their annoyance with comments like, “Perhaps their announcement at the start isn’t enough? I’ve commented before that Virgin Australia with their white rope deters this effectively.”Still not convinced of the moral decline of business-class? Eliot Advocacy recently reported of a passenger spraying asthma-inducing oils into their seatmate’s space (and of another one attempting to get an allegedly fraudulent upgrade) and RT recently reported on a woman who caused a SWISS flight from Moscow to Zurich to make an unscheduled landing after abusing staff for denying her more Champagne.

 
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An article by Escape.com.au, however, tops the lot, describing how one passenger on an Emirates business-class flight took lie-flat entitlement (and disregard for others) to a whole new level, soliciting a lap dance at 30,000ft.“The repetitive demands for Champagne and screams about the ‘freezing’ temperature could have been tolerable, but when she dragged another passenger up into row 5 so we could all witness what could only be described as the most drunken blind first date, things got weird,” the unfortunate Escape.com.au journalist wrote.

“They shared headphones and danced in their seats, making sure everyone knew how much she ‘loves this song!’ until she decided to show her date — and all of business class — her moves. And they weren’t like Jagger.”

Of course, it would be narrow-minded to assume all this behaviour comes from upgraded passengers. In fact, many of the worst examples of premium-cabin behaviour come from those who have paid for their own ticket (or those who simply have no idea about photo etiquette).That in mind, we are forced to consider that it may be technology and the associated reduction in social shame that has punctured the business class ‘cone of trust’ (and peace and quiet). And the snobbish behaviour of some passengers, ironically enough, may worsen this problem. Instead, the best way to fix it, we reckon, is to welcome The Newly Upgraded and re-engender the pointy end spirit.So yes: although business class passengers (including us) are right to furiously complain about the decline in standards over the years, the solution is to rebuilt the ‘cone of trust’ to be larger, not to try and keep people out.Or, you know, just make the leap to first-class…

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Chadwick Boseman Pulls Off One Of The Hardest Style Moves For Skinny Men
Chadwick Boseman Pulls Off One Of The Hardest Style Moves For Skinny Men

Chadwick Boseman just took skinny guy style to new heights, stepping out at a photocall for his new film '21 Bridges' at the Four Seasons Hotel in LA on Saturday the 9th, 2019.

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The Best Men’s Gym Shorts To Maximise Your Next Workout
The Best Men’s Gym Shorts To Maximise Your Next Workout

Choosing the correct gym shorts for your weekly workout shouldn’t be taken lightly – as they can often be the difference between a sub-standard and a successful fitness session. While it can be argued that runners will require athletic mesh gym shorts that are spacious with a high cut to reduce overheating (and maximising movement), those who put themselves through studio and gym workouts will need a longer leg and coverage for those angled stretches and lunges.

If you’re training indoors you may also want to think about breathable fabrics that draw moisture away from your skin, leaving you feeling fresh and dry, both during and after exercise. And, just as importantly, you’ll want a pair (or pairs) that are stylish, so as to give the message you’re as serious about your workouts as you are about your wardrobe – a statement of intent.

But which gym shorts are making waves in the international market right now, and what separates one from the other? With so much choice and quality available, we’ve put together this guide to help you discover some of the best active gym shorts designs from around the world – all made by the most celebrated sports houses – created to strike that fine balance between performance and style.

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Nutrition Coach Reveals Technique That Could Make You A Fat Burning Machine
Nutrition Coach Reveals Technique That Could Make You A Fat Burning Machine

When you compare someone who eats daily Big Macs with someone who carefully curates each and every Tupperware salad, they both seem absurd. Leaving the aesthetic considerations of plastic lunch boxes aside, however, one of the two is more likely to be burning a lot more fat, and – as nutrition coach Max Lugavere recently revealed – it’s not just to do with calories.It is to do with the types of food consumed. And if you are currently in the Big Mac camp (read: us, most Sundays), you will be burning calories at a glacial rate (and tempting yourself to eat a lot more) than someone who eats mostly whole foods. Why? It all comes down to ‘satiety checkpoints.’

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As Max recently took to Instagram to explain, “a person with the goal of simply maintaining a healthy weight shouldn’t need to count calories.” In fact, according to him, “Any suggestion to otherwise is garbage… because whole, minimally processed foods have a habit of regulating your hunger naturally.”

“They are satiating.”

“Ultra-processed foods, which often combine fat, salt, sugar, and pulverized, refined grains trick your body’s satiety signals and cause you to eat more, to the tune of 500 calories a day,” Max added. “That adds up to a pound a week of fat gain if sustained.”“Now we don’t live in a perfect world and we are surrounded by packaged foods which add value to our lives due to their convenience and tastiness. If you want to indulge in these once in a while… go for it! Just note that they may be easy to overconsume, and you’ll need to be a little more careful as a result,” Max continued.

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Is a 500 calorie salad with protein REALLY to be counted the same as a 500 calorie muffin? Nah, cause science says so. . Calories may matter, but eating foods that fill you up and support your metabolism by offering both a thermic effect and nourishing your muscles with amino acids are actually much better for your weight loss than a high carb, high fat, low fiber and low protein (i.e. junk food) equivalent “food” of the same amount of calories. . The former supports a hormonal milieu that is going to help you feel full and burn fat. The latter is going to leave you feeling hungry for more food. Remember: a calorie may be a calorie, but all foods are NOT created equal from the perspective of weight loss. . Hope this helps. Love you guys! Max • • • • #iifym #weightloss #flexibledieting #nutrition #macros #protein #cleaneating #gains #weightlossjourney #girlswholift #carbs #fitfood #healthyfood #healthyeating #lowcarb #supplements #whey #muscle #instafit #mealprep #iifymgirls #shredded #weightlifting #preworkout #gymlife #paleo #abs #proteinshake #postworkout #bcaa

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According to Max, the only people that should really be counting calories are fitness competitors who are trying to get to a specific body composition. Those people, however, are “by no means the norm” (regular folks who just want to not be overweight).The overall takeaway? “Having specific fitness goals is totally awesome, but your average person should probably just cut out the packaged, processed foods.”Put that in your pantry and eat it – one fat-burning machine coming right up.

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Score 45% Off These Ultra Cool Men’s Military Sneakers
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In this day and age, there are an exorbitant amount of different sneakers and sneaker styles around. One that has been making waves in recent times is the 'military sneaker' or 'military trainer' which from an aesthetic standpoint sits somewhere between a dad sneaker and a running shoe. It looks cas...

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