Monday October 18: Daily Links

MONDAY 10.18


NEWS STORIES

 



Hooters DumpS Ass-Baring Shorts After Backlash

The chain restaurant always had short shorts but last week the company introduced a new uniform for servers that barely covered more cheek than a thong. The servers and sympathizers’ outcry was so strong that Hooters reversed the move.

And soon they may let the girls wear bras.

Read more at Daily Beast


Passenger Brings Her Own Mic on a Plane to Share Covid Conspiracy Theories

An airline passenger tried to use the fight attendants loudspeaker system, but when they wouldn’t let that happen– surprise!– she whipped out her own microphone to start laying down some knowledge on the other passengers.

She went on a incoherent rant about why the pandemic started, because nobody here has any faith…and you dont know what reality is anymore, blah blah blah, stupid nonsense, mic squelching, my dog has better sense than any of you.

She also accused the staff of stopping her because she’s “not terrible to look at.”

Remember the old days when we only complained about smoking?

Read more at TMZ


Elon Musk Has More $$$ Than Gates and Buffet...COMBINED

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO is only 50 years and and he’s the richest person in the world. With a net worth of $230 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he is about as wealthy as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett put together.

Read more at CNBC

Musk is officially the one percent of the one percent of the one percent.

Read more at CNBC


Someone Leaked Facebooks New Policy to Stop Leaks

Facebook decided to limit staffs access to internal groups that deal with sensitive issues. It didn’t take long before that policy got leaked ot media.

Wasn’t the original concept of Facebook that we would all have access to all the info?

Read more at Design Taxi



SPORTS



Aaron Rodgers Gets The Finger, Then Gets Weird

Rodgers claims right after he ran for a TD, he saw a woman, presumably a bears fan give him the double bird. He says that’s what prompted him to yell “I still own you. I still own you.” After the game, Aaron explained the moment. Sort of.

“Sometimes you blackout on the field, in a good way,” Rodgers said. I’ve definitely blacked out from a concussion, which isn’t a good way. I looked up in the stands in the front row and all I saw was a woman giving me the double bird. I’m not sure exactly what came out of my mouth then.”
Hey Aaron you’re one Moderna dose away from being Kyrie.


Kyrie Spotted Playing Pickup Football in NJ

While Kyrie is riding pine because he won’t get vaccinated, he was out playing football with some dudes at a high school in NJ.

Looks like the pickup football league vax rules are a little looser.

Read more at TMZ


MLB Requires Teams to Provide Housing to Minor Leaguers

Staring in 2022 Major League Baseball will require all teams to provide housing for minor league players. Details of the plan are still being finalied.

The housing is great news. Too bass it’s nine to a bedroom.

Read more at barstool.


Someone Chucked a Golf Ball at Lane Kiffin

Tennessee fans pelted the field with all kinds of shit during the Ole Miss Vols game on Saturday, and Kiffin narrowly escaped getting hit by a golf ball.

Then he went to a golf match and someone almost hit him with a football.

Read more at NY Post


Lions Head Coach Dan Campbell Thinks Goff Needs To Step Up

If the Lions don’t get a win soon we’re gonna see a murder-suicide featuring Dan Campbell and Jared Goff.

Watch the press conference on Twitter.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Superman No Longer Fights For the American Way

Since the beginning of super heros, Superman has been fighting for Truth Justice and the American Way. But going forward, the super hero will be fighting for Truth Justice and a Better Tomorrow.

It is a global market now, kids and Superman has to make money in other countries too. Hopefully FOX News will take it the right way.

Read more at variety.


Billy Connolly Talks About Life, Death...and AfterLife

In a new interview, Billy Connolly talked about his fears of death, and his comfort. He says in recent years he has come to believe that there is something after death. Sometimes he says he feels cheated by all that he has lost through Parkinson’s disease, and he worries about death, too. “But it hasn’t happened yet. So how can I have been cheated? And who knows? It might be so lovely on the other side that you don’t ever think about that.”

Hopefully he means on the other side of the ocean

Read more at The Guardian.


Rami Malek Makes History Hosting SNL

Hold on, it’s not good history. Malek had the dubious honor of being at the helm of the lowest rated episode of Saturday Night Live ever.

The episode also ranked the lowest laughs to date, the worst sketches to date. And quite possibly the lowest grossing James Bond to date.

Read more at showbiz411


Kourtney Kardashian And Travis Barker Are Engaged

Love Lives!

Travis Barker has proposed to Kourtney Kardashian and she has accepted. Once Scott Disick comes out of his black out he’s going to be devastated.

Read more at CNN.



VIRAL & TRENDING



2000s Nostalgia is Huge on TikTok

Low rise jeans, mini skirts, the gap, Abercrombie, classic brand hoodies, so straight jeans, and wired headphones are making a comeback thanks to TikTok fueled early aughts nostalgia.

And of course don’t forget the nostalgia for the start of the twenty year war.

Read more at axios.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Sleep Procrastination is a Thing

The Guardian asks, why are we so bad at going to bed in an article about a newish phenomenon called sleep procrastination.

Being sleepy is such a good feeling. Why not stretch it out as long as you can.

Read more at The Guardian



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