Saturday November 28: Daily Links

SATURDAY 11.28


NEWS STORIES

 



North Korea Executed People To Stop Covid

South Korea’s spy agency says that North Korea is really going outside the box with their covid response. Efforts including a few executions, banning fishing, and a capital city lockdown.

Please don’t let Trump copy this.

Read more at apnews.com.


Tourists Already Showing Up For Utah Monolith

Oh Jesus, no one is is going to Vegas or Disney World but you can’t keep people away from a hunk of metal
in the Utah desert.

2020 you have screwed up our brains.

Read more at bbc.com.


Fucking, Austria has had it with the Jokes

The town of Fucking, Australia is changing their name. From now on the village will be known as Fugging, Australia.

Well this is just fugging terrible news.

Read more at reuters.com.



SPORTS



Kicker Sarah Fuller Vanderbilt May Make College Football History

This Saturday, Ms. Vanderbilt is going to be the first woman to suit up in an SEC game, and she just might become the first woman to play in a Power 5 Conference college game.

Okay if this ends anything like Quarterback Princess she’ll be prom queen as well!

Read more at cnn.


Older Gentleman Mike Tyson And Roy Jones Jr. Weigh Themselves For Saturday Night Fight

Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. had their weigh in for their old man PPV fight. They attempted to cut weight beforehand but they needed their daily gallon of grape juice to keep their bowel movements regular.



ENTERTAINMENT



Wait List for Harry Styles’ Vogue Issue

Candace Owens made not think Harry Styles is a manly man but a ton of women disagree

So many that Timothee Chalamet wants her dead.

Read more at pagesix.com.


Van Morrison and Eric Clapton To Release An Anti Lockdown Song

Van Morrison and Eric Clapton are releasing a anti-lockdown song on December 4th called Stand And Deliver. They will follow that up with a concept album called What Do The Masks Really Do, Anyway?

Read more at variety.


Jude Law Wants Us To All Know He Was Warned Of A Real Pandemic On The Set Of Contagion

Jude Law told a story where a consulting scientist on the film Contagion told him a real life pandemic was going to happen. Thanks for telling us now, Jude. Really helps.

Read more at dailymail.


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Faizon Love is suing Universal for removing him and co-star Kali Hawk’s picture from the poster of the 2009 film Couples Retreat. The suit also charges that Love was promised better roles to make up for the slight, but it never happened. Playing with Faizon’s money is like playing with his emotions.

Read more at nypost.com.


All I Want For Christmas Is You Is Already Charting Again

The Christmas season has barely started, but Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ is already charting again. The 1994 song is currently 29th on the Billboard Hot 100 and Carey is planning to perform it on her upcoming Apple TV Christmas special. The song has become the Bobby Bonilla of Christmas songs.

Read more at ew.


Obama Wouldn’t Mind Drake To Play Him In Biopic

Former President Obama said that he would give a thumbs up for Drake to play him in a biopic. Obama’s also hoping the movie would end him leaving the White House dancing to Jumpman.

Read more at nypost.com.



GOING VIRAL



A Woman Smashes 500 Bottles In British Supermarket

Police arrested a woman for smashing 500 bottles of wine and spirits at a British supermarket. She was also treated at a local hospital after slipping and falling on some of the broken bottles. The woman was upset that the store was out of boxed wino.

Read more at nypost.



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STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Buzzfeed's Great But Unloved TV Shows

There’s only one thing worse than your show hanging around so long that it starts to suck.

That’s when it ends early before it sucks.

Is the Today Show on this this list?

Read more at buzzfeed.


Vice Gathers All The 2020 Moments You’ve Probably Already Forgot

Here’s a fun fact: there was actually a time BEFORE the pandemic. Who knew?!

Read more at vice.com.



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