Thursday December 9: Daily Links

THURSDAY 12.9


NEWS STORIES

 



New Zealand To Ban Cigarettes Sales To Anyone Born After 2008

New Zealand is enacting a bill next year that will ban the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products to anyone born in 2008 or after. Sorry NZ Zoomers, you’re never gonna look cool.

Read more at the BBC.


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Listerine Releases Statement That It Does Not Kill Covid

After GOP Senator Ron Johnson said that using mouth wash can kill Covid-19, Listerine had to issue a statement that their product actually doesn’t do that. Clorox better get their PR team working asap.

Read more at Newsweek.


Christmas Tree Arsonist Released Back On The Street

The man accused of setting the Fox News Christmas tree on fire has been released since he wasn’t eligible for bail. If there truly is a War on Christmas, this guy’s the Viet Cong’s general.

Read more at the New York Post.


PM of Finland Apologizes for Clubbing

She’s 36, stunning and she stays out till 4am.

Check her for covid and STDs.

Read more at Barstool.


Pope Francis Ranks The Sins

Good news! The Pope says sins of the flesh, like celibacy and adultery aren’t that serious. PRide and hatred, now those are top shelf sins.

You know this dude has a past…..

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Mouse Movers Are the New Must Have Accessory For Work at Home Employees

While people have been working at home, employers have struggled to ensure that their paid employees are actually working. So they monitor things like mouse movement and keyboard time. To counter the surveillance, people are buying Mouse Movers, that keep their computer mousesin action while they step away from their desk.

Who came up with this? Spanky and alfalfa?

Read more at vice.


Hillary Shares Her Victory Speech

Mrs. Clinton was pretty confident she was going to win the election in 2016 but never got to read that victory speech. On Wednesday she shared some of that speech with the public.

Hillary is coming off like America’s crazy ex girlfriend

Read more at NY Post.


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SPORTS



Russell Wilson Would Waive His No Trade Clause For These Three Teams...

The rumor is Russell Wilson would waive his no trade clause for the Saints, the Giants or the Broncos. Urban Meyer is furious right now.

Read more on Twitter.


Meet the Humanoid Robot In a Preview for CES 2022

Ameca is the most advanced humanoid robot. She will have her coming out at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2022 . Looks like our Evil tech overlords get their inspiration from the same movies that warn us not to do this.

Is this the reality tv version of irobot?


Charles Barkley Named His Daughter After a Mall in Delaware

The NBA All Star said he named his kid Christiana because he liked the Christiana Mall in Delaware.

Could have been worse, she could have been Granite Run…



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



A&W Doesn't Have Celebrities To Promote Their Meals, but They Do Have a Bunch of Fast Food Workers...and They Work Cheap

The Anti-Celebrity Meals initiative is A&W’s plan to use photos of their actual employees to counter the flashy ads of chains that are using mega celebs to market their meals.

Guess which one of these guys could use a celebrity salad…

Read more at Design Taxi


De Dee Ramones Grave Has It's Own Family of Ducks

Berko from Empire Records was bored during pandemic so he trained a family of ducks to visit Dee Dee Ramone’s gravesite every day.

Come on Berko. He don’t wanna be buried in a pet cemetery.

Read more at Rolling Stone.


Snoop Dogg's Feelings Hurt

Snoop is upset that he didn’t get a chance to buy Death Row Records.

But you ddi get to be in a table read for Facts of Life. And that’s cool too, right?

Read more at complex.



VIRAL & TRENDING



Kid Gets Her Smoke On, Crayola Style

Admit it. This kid is cool.


TikTok About Softer Hands Turns Into Mylanta Ad

This is a guy you want to get health tips from?



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Pets are the New Kids and House Plants are the New Pets

A new survey says that 2/3 of young people with plants identify as plant parents. They give their green babies names like “Keanu Leaves,” “Fernie Sanders,” and “Edgar Aloe Poe.”

You can get more information at plant parenthood.

Read more at Study Finds.


Pets are the New Kids and House Plants are the New Pets

A new survey says that 2/3 of young people with plants identify as plant parents. They give their green babies names like “Keanu Leaves,” “Fernie Sanders,” and “Edgar Aloe Poe.”

You can get more information at plant parenthood.

Read more at Study Finds.



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