Tuesday March 16: Daily Links
TUESDAY 3.16
NEWS STORIES
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.
Fox News Gillian Turner Calls on Gen X to Stop “Cancel Culture”
Yeaaaaah sure maybe they can make app for that.
Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner: "Cancel culture is spreading like wildfire. There is a call for Generation X to lead the charge to save America from the social media mob. Can they do it?" pic.twitter.com/zxmxkppQ3i
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) March 15, 2021
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??
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.
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
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!
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!
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.
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CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT
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.
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.
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.
Newsmax host Greg Kelly does pull-ups in the hopes of trying to impress Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. pic.twitter.com/1t5aan7fKr
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 16, 2021
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?
Lil Baby’s Rap Snacks beverage line “Oowee Lemonade” will be in stores soon. Which flavor are you trying first? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/qkYhFAw5jp
— Rap All-Stars 🏆 (@RapAllStars) March 15, 2021
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.
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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?
STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS
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.
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