Tuesday March 16: Daily Links

TUESDAY 3.16


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Vatican Says Won’t Support Same Sex Marriage Because God Cannot Bless Sin

The Vatican will not support gay marriage, and Elton John is pissed, calling hypocrite to an organization that invested in his movie, but won’t support gay marriage.

Seems like God can do whatever he wants to do. Surprised you didn’t know that.

Read more at apnews.


Fox News Gillian Turner Calls on Gen X to Stop “Cancel Culture”

Yeaaaaah sure maybe they can make app for that.


Coming Soon: Tinder Background Checks!

We knew this was coming sooner or later. Tinder is teaming up with Garbo to offer the ability for users to run background checks before you date. You’ll be able to find out if someone has a history of violence or an arrest record. It won’t be free, but it isn’t clear what it will cost just yet.

Can you also offer a background check if they have a weird clingy relationship with their mother??

Read more at the verge..


Pentagon Wants Jetpacks

The Pentagon is offering money for research into air mobility systems which could include jetpacks, powered wingsuits, parafoils, and gliders that could eventually be outfitted with “computer assisted control functions and intuitive interfaces.”

Then we’ll only be one red suit away from iron man.

Read more at Gizmodo.


Toys R Us is Back!

Hope you didn’t re-lease those empty box stores yet. Toys R Us has new owners, and they say they will reopen stores.

Making toys r us great again #MTORUGA

Read more at cnbc.


If You Pee in Your Airplane Seat, It's Gonna Cost You

This 24 year old dude was a problem. He wouldn’t wear a mask, he fought with flight attendants and he urinated in his airplane seat. Now he faces 20 years in jail and a 250,000 fine.

Since when can’t you pee in your seat on a plane? Thanks Osama Bin Biden!

Read more at usatoday.


New Polar Bear Hotel in China is Horrific

A brand new hotel comes complete with polar bears that you can watch from your hotel room. That is if you don’t mind watching a depressed polar bear walk around an empty room with no elements of its natural habitat. The hotel claims the bears are kept in a space that mimics the Arctic.

Hey I didn’t know the arctic had a light switch!

Read more at Vice


Pizza Hut Creates Playable Packaging

Pizza hut is MAD about Pacman and they have launched a new promotion that includes playable boxes. Scan the code to play Pacman for a chance to win….. PACMAN! The company says teaming up with Pacman is perfect because a) pizza places used to always have a Pacman machine, and b) Pacman is a pizza that’s missing a slice.

And just like Pacman, Pizza Hut is inedible.

Read more at food and wine


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Wolfie Van Halen Declined to Perform Eruption at Grammy Awards

Turns out we can stop being mad at the Grammys. They wanted to pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen but his son Wolfgang declined to perform Eruption on stage.

Come on Wolfie— Michael Anthony would have done it.

Read more at People.


Glenn Close Makes Oscar/Razzie History!

Glenn Close is officially the first person to get nominated for a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year, for the same role. Her dual distinction comes from her role in Hillbilly Elegy.

Somehow she’ll lose both.

Read more at paste.


Is Greg Kelly Trying to Get With Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Greg Kelly did some pull ups to show Marjorie Taylor Greene that he’s a man. The last time anyone did pull ups to get a girl’s attention, was jr. high school and it didn’t work then either.

How is this a show? Great journalism thanks greg.

Read more at mediaite.


Lil Baby Lemonade! Fuck Yeah

Rap Snacks just unveiled their line of Lil Baby Oowee Lemonade in five flavors: Fruit Punch, Strawberry Watermelon, Mango Pineapple, Blueberry, and Sweet Tea.

Oooweeee whats up with dat, what up with dat?


Soleil Moon Frye: Charlie Sheen Was Her Mr. Big

The actress who played punky brewster revealed that Charlie Sheen was her first consensual sexual experience when she was 18. He was 29.

At least her experience was better than Corey Feldmans.

Read more at huffpost.


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Something To Do When You Are Bored, and Also High

This little science experiment with m&ms will make magic before your very eyes.

Or you could eat them.

Hey what do we gotta do to put the keep on trucking guy in the middle of it?

Read more at boingboing.



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Biggest Lockdown Food Trends

Everyone’s looking back at the year in lockdown and USA TODAY published a list of some of the biggest lockdown food trends we obsessed about this year. There was mini pancake cereal, the hot chocolate bomb that melted in hot milk, and something called cloud bread.

Oh Dalgona Whipped Coffee, you were a dangerous mistresses.

Read more at usatoday.com.



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