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.
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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.
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.
PM of Finland Apologizes for Clubbing
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?
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
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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.
🚨 Sources: Russell Wilson would strongly consider waiving his no-trade clause for the #Giants, #Broncos and #Saints. pic.twitter.com/40Eude2zEP
— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) December 8, 2021
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…
Charles Barkley says he named his daughter after a mall in Delaware pic.twitter.com/AdJpFgoWjq
— Rob Lopez (@r0bato) December 8, 2021
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…
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.
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?
VIRAL & TRENDING
Kid Gets Her Smoke On, Crayola Style
Admit it. This kid is cool.
Her smoking the crayon is hilarious by itself but when she peeped that they were recording I DIED 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/fqx6dkHomC
— Christian Harris (@chrxstianh__) December 6, 2021
TikTok About Softer Hands Turns Into Mylanta Ad
This is a guy you want to get health tips from?
Halfway through this sort of normal/helpful TikTok, the absolute most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen happens pic.twitter.com/2pdWHwtm1Q
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) December 8, 2021
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.
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.
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