Friday January 7: Daily Links
FRIDAY 1.7
NEWS STORIES
Mike Pompeo Lost 100 Lbs in Six Months
The former CIA director mentions good eating, dumbbells and a few other reasons for his transformation.
His real secret is shame.
A.V. Club Staff Find Hiring Notices For Their Own Jobs
The website is hiring, and they’re hiring in positions that are already occupied by staffers.
Quick, apply before someone else gets your job. You have more experience than they do.
Tim Cook Took Home Six Times His 2020 Earnings This Year
Apple’s Geek in Chief earned $98.7M In total compensation in 2021 which more than sextuppled his earnings from 2020.
Rough year for everyone, amirite?
Which Two States Had Zero Residents Arrested For Offenses Made On January 6th
A Redditor decided to look at all the arrests stemming from January 6th 2021 and found that residents from only two dates dodged getting busted. Congrats to North Dakota and Vermont!
SPORTS
Mobile Gambling Begins In New York Saturday 9am
Saturday at 9am Eastern is when New York State residents can finally start pissing away all their money on mobile sports gambling apps.
It’s a sad day to be a bookie in NY.
Novak Djokovic's Family Leads Anti-Aussie Protest
The tennis star’s father is furious that his son is being detained in Australia and is leading protests back home, calling the move anti-serbian. He’s calling the Aussies inhuman, and comparing his son to Jesus on the cross.
Please don’t mention hitler or the holocaust. Please don’t mention hitler or the holocaust.
Toilet Licking OF Model Talking About Her Night With AB
Antonio Brown enjoyed the company of an Only Fans model the night before his behavior got him canned from the Bucs. Ava Louise, who went viral for licking a toilet seat last year, says Brown snuck her into his Jersey City hotel to avoid covid protocols and if you believe The Daily Mail, she claims he told her to watch “what I do tomorrow.”
Then she said wait till you see what I do and licked his “toilet.”
Peacock Will Stream Every Winter Olympics Event
The new streaming service is going all in on the olympic experience promising premium subscribers full coverage from opening to close including original documentaries.
Remember when we used to be able to see them live on nbc? For free?
ESPN Wants A-Rod To Have His Own Manningcast
ESPN sees that the Manningcast is working so they wanna replicate it for baseball, and they want Alex Rodriguez and Michael Kay to play the Manning parts.
If JLo’s not the first guest, I’m not watching.
CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT
Mr. Big Edited Out of Sex and City Sequel Finale
Now that Chris Noth has been outted as a major creep, everyone’s racing to distance themselves from anything with his stink on it, including “And Just Like That.” The SATC sequel series has edited his character out of the season finale.
WTF. Wasn’t he dead?
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Keanu’s Must See Movies
Reeves shared his definitive list of must see movies with Esquire this week, and its a decent list
A Clockwork Orange
Rollerball
The Bad Batch
Dr. Strangelove
Seven Samurai
Amadeus
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Evil Dead
Raising Arizona
The Big Lebowski
La Femme Nikita (the French version)
The Professional
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Road Warrior: Mad Max 2
What? No Bill and Ted? Bogus.
Yes, That's Ralph Macchio’s Daughter in Cobra Kai 4
Ralph’s daughter Julia plays cousin Vanessa whose character may remind you of Ralph’s costar Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny
Nostalgia is working great for Macchio. Maybe he as a Nick Nolte-resembling cousin who can play a teacher in Season 5.
Kim K and Pete D Took a Vacay to the Bahayhay
America’s sweethearts took a quick trip to the Bahamas this week, and are already back on the mainland.
Wow, they’re really committed to playing this prank out.
Britney Went Full IG Nude
Britney is as naked as you can get on Instagram.
Only Fans is just a matter of time.
”Jim
Jim Carrey did some spoken word on The Weeknd’s new album and the internet’s loving it. But why didn’t he do it in character as Ace Ventura?
Listen to the track on YouTube.
I listened to Dawn FM with my good friend Abel @theweeknd last night. It was deep and elegant and it danced me around the room. I’m thrilled to play a part in his symphony. ;^• https://t.co/FV2LoKLYVX
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) January 3, 2022
VIRAL & TRENDING
Only Fans Ladies Love This Ikea Chair
The women of Only Fans love a good prop and it seems an awful lot of them love this lucite see-through Ikea chair. It’s great for grinding. And the best part? A little bit of windex and you’re as good as new.
For OnlyFans performers, this clear IKEA chair is the best seat in the house.
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— MEL Magazine (@WeAreMel) January 7, 2022
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STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS
Science Discovers The Average Attractiveness Rating Men Give Themselves On Scale Of 1 To 10
Turns out, on average, men give themselves a rating of 5.9 on a scale of attractiveness from one to ten. We’ve evolved into a delusional society, that’s cool.
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