Saturday October 23: Daily Links

Published by Interrobang Staff at October 23, 2021

SATURDAY 10.23

NEWS STORIES

Murdoch Looking to Fox Up the Weather

Weather reporting has remained largely unchanged in our lifetimes. The technology to predict it has improved but presentation has essentially stayed the same. But expect that to change as Fox Weather is stockpiling meteorologists with a plan to turn weather reporting into a 24/7 experience.

Their first report will deny that there are hurricanes.

Another Whistleblower Says Facebook Put Profits Over Hate Speech Concerns

According to affidavits, the whistleblower says Facebook ignored concerns about hate speech and interference in US elections calling the problem “a flash in the pan. Some legislators will get pissy. And then in a few weeks they will move on to something else. Meanwhile we are printing money in the basement and we are fine.”

Hate speech? They thought you meant back speech.

Millions of Cases of Truly Hard Seltzer Dumped

A massive miscalculation in demand has led to the Boston Beer company trashing millions of cases of their Truly Hard Seltzer. “We want Truly to have that fresh, bright taste, so we’re going to crush millions of cases of product before it goes stale,” said the company’s chief.

Well it was going to end up in the toilet eventually

everythingDurst Gets Charged With 1982 Murder

Robert Durst is in a medical coma while being treated for Covid on a ventilator which means he’s unaware that a grand jury just charged him with the 1982 murder of his wife, Kathie Durst.

This should make for an interesting trial: “We now call Robert Durst to the ICU.”

Flight Attendants Strip to Protest Working Conditions

Alitalia flight crews protested horrible conditions, staff cuts by showing up in Rome wearing their uniforms and stripping down to their underwear.

If only they did this during the flights, conditions would improve all around.

Which Zodiac Signs Are Most Like to Skip the Vax

The Utah health department says Scorpios are the most hesitant to vaccinate, while Leos and Aquarians have the highest vaccination rates.

Finally. Someone’s using real science to figure this all out.

Melee at Staten Island High School Caught on Camera

A brawl at Wagner High School left one student taken into custody, and one dean slashed, when school safety agents were unable to control the fight. Councilman Joe Borelli posted the video, complaining to the mayor over the issue of safety in schools.

Forget it Joe, It’s Staten Island.

SPORTS

Watch Boxer and The Mountain Trade Body Shots

Tequila? Oh not those body shots?

That’s okay. Body Shots were over in ’92.

And The MOST Hated Team In The NFL Is...

The Dallas Cowboys! Congratulations you assholes. Though they’re also the most loved so it’s truly a double edged sword. And most people are still surprised to know Jacksonville still has a team.

CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT

Filmmakers Call For an End to Using Blanks After Tragic On Set Shooting

The immediate aftermath of the terrible accident on the set of Rust that resulted in Halyna Hutchin’s death, is a call to the end of using blanks on set.

Thats insane. Do they think real bullets would be safer?

Nikki Sixx Has Another Memoir Out

“The First 21” covers the first 21 years of the famous rocker’s life- you know before he became famous or interesting.

Spoiler alert. He takes drugs.

Ryan Gosling To Play Ken Opposite Margot Robbie In Barbie Movie

Ryan Gosling has been cast as Ken in the new Barbie movie. Margot Robbie will be playing Barbie. If they’re truly method actors, they’ll remove their genitals for the roles.

VIRAL & TRENDING

Tripping is Trending and LA Has Psychedelic Fever

LA Mag profiles the return of the Acid Trip to prominence in Los Angeles. They look at Brandee and Damien Sabell, the unofficial first couple of So Cal psychedelia, kosher LSD, and openly practiced ceremonies featuring ayahuasca, psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine, LSD, and MDMA.

Why is Los Angeles Tripping Out?

Because it’s fun, silly.

Math Teacher Shocks the Internet With The Most Offensive Trigonometry Lesson Ever

A California Math teacher was using unusual methods to teach the mnemonic device for Sine, Cosine and tangent. She decided the memory device “Sohcahtoa” would be better remembered if she accompanied it with a cartoonish racist performance wearing a fake headdress and actlng like a 1970s stereotype of American Indians. A Native American student recorded her performance which has since gone viral and the teacher has been suspended.

Is this trig or 1970s improv?

Weird Brooklyn Bodega Sandwiches Go Viral

Want your food the Ockky way? That means chopped up and piled high on bread or anything that can pass for bread, including poptarts or pizza.

Are you sure this is on the Atkinson diet?

STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS

Midlife Crisis Comes Early For Most Americans

A new study finds that Americans feel their late 30’s is the most stressful time of their lives, and that time period is being considered the new mid life crisis.

Probably it’s the last year to still give a fuck. But don’t worry, there’s a lot more crisis to come.

Mid-30s crisis: Americans feel most stressed in their lives at age 36