Saturday November 26, Daily Links

SATURDAY 11.26


NEWS STORIES

 



Carnival Passenger Rescued By Coast Guard After Falling Off Boat

A man fell off the boat in the Gulf of Mexico and managed to survive 14 hours just floating without a life raft. And then the Coast Guard actually found and rescued him.

He said it was the best part of the cruise

Read more at CNN


Colosseum Dig Unearths Ancient Snacks

Archeologists delving into the sewers of the Roman Colosseum found food fragments of figs, grapes, cherries, blackberries, walnuts

Seems like they found a shit load of Torrone

Read more at BBC


German Museum Robbed in a Oceans 11 Style Heist

A crew broke into a museum in Germany stealing $1.65 million worth of ancient gold coins, and they did it all in nine minutes.

You don’t want to root for the criminals but a heist is alway really cool.

Read more at cbsnews.


Even Breitbart Trashes Trump For Hanging With Neo Nazi

Breitbart wrote: These latest revelations turn what could have been a minor story into a major national narrative, where the GOP frontrunner for president in 2024 — the former president and as of now the only formal GOP candidate for the office in the next election — seems to have met with an open white nationalist, antisemite, and Holocaust denier in Fuentes.

That’s funny. We would never have even heard of Breitbart if it wasn’t for Trump

Read more at mediaite


SPORTS



Two Hundred Gets You a Bed in a Shipping Container at the World Cup

The New York Times gave us a look inside a room at the Fan Village in Qatar and its pretty bare. The shared room covers the basic needs, but that’s about it.

Its still better than any place anyone who built the stadiums ever lived.

Read more at NY Times


England Fans Threw Their Drinks After Failing to Beat Team USA

They invented the sport but couldn’t get one goal past the United States and they were pissed. Fans at the stadium started throwing their drinks in anger.

You guys were lucky you got the tie.

Read more at barstool.


Qatar Got Knocked Out Faster Than Any Host Nation in History

After only 9 days, the World Cup host country has been knocked out of the competition. This officially makes them the worst host nation in the history of the world cup in terms of perforamnce.

Guess all that money and immigrant life was kind of wasted.

Read more at CNN



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Margot Robbie Had to Tie One on To Get Naked with DiCaprio

At a BAFTA event, Margot Robbie explained that she needed booze to perform a naked scene with Leo during the filming of the movie The Wolf of Wall Street. “I’m not going to lie, I had a couple of shots of tequila before that scene because I was nervous…very, very nervous,” Robbie said.

Uh. Why didn’t you just act?

Read more at fox news


Kelsey Grammer Talks No Niles Frasier Reboot

Turns out David Hyde Pierce didn’t want to do the reboot so Niles won’t be back. Grammer said that decision led the creators to look at a new life for Frasier Crane with new characters.

That’s either the best or the worst news about the reboot.

Read more at People


Alec Baldwin's Thanksgiving Family Photo is an Admitted Fail

Alec’s wife Hilaria posted a photo of her family- with seven kids- and posted “Happy gratitude day from our epic fail family photo to what is probably yours.”

The epic fail is having 7 kids to pose with when you’re 64

Read more at Page 6


Matthew Modine Turned Down Lead Roles in Top Gun and Back to the Future

On The Jonathan Ross Show, Modine said he was offered the roles of Maverick in Top Gun, and Marty in Back to the Future and turned them both down. He felt Top Gun romanticized war, and didn’t want to participate in that kind of storytelling. He passed on Marty, because he had never heard of Robert Zemeckis and didn’t see himself in the role.

Why didn’t he turn down his other roles he ended up doing?



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



New Survey Says 1/3 Are Cool With Antisemitism in the Workplace

A survey of hiring managers revealed that 26% of those surveyed are less likely to hire jewish applicants, 38% of those people said the reason was Jews have too much power. Other reasons were “Jews have too much wealth”, “Jews are greedy”, “Jews killed Jesus,” and “Jews think they’re the chosen people.” And 29% said antisemitism is acceptable within the company they work for.

Especially if you work in a German prison camp.

Read more at jersusalempost.com



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