Wednesday January 5: Daily Links

WEDNESDAY 1.5


NEWS STORIES

 



Mayor Adams Lets Low Skill Workers Know They'll Never Get That Corner Office

New NYC Mayor Eric Adams says the shoe shiners, the Dunkin Donuts workers, the cooks, the messengers, and dishwashers don’t have the academic skills to sit in the corner office, but hey you’re still important to the city. Ya hear that Dunkies workers? You’re never getting out of that hole.

Watch the video on Twitter.


Ghislaine Has A Shot At A Mistrial

A juror in the Maxwell trial just revealed that they had a history of childhood sexual abuse and now Maxwell has a possible shot at a mistrial if they didn’t reveal that beforehand. It was so great of the Illuminati to plant that juror for Ghislaine. Or maybe the court system is just incompentant.

Read more at the New York Post.


Giant Crab Attacks Golf Clubs

Somewhere in Australia this supersized crab tried to steal some dude’s nine iron.

This is the best drive in movie of 1976.

Read more at TMZ


Customer Tipped With a Gift Card and People are Pissed

A customer left a $25 Amazon Gift Card on a $90 bill and people are mad that the customer didn’t leave cash.

Oh stop. The only thing you can’t do on Amazon is pay rent and that’s probably any day now.

Read more at nypost.

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Fish Can Drive

Some scientists have taught fish to drive a specially constructed vehicle with reward training, and its pretty bizarre to behold.

And you don’t believe in science!

Now if you could only teach them to carry a pizza, we wouldn’t need robots.

Read more at vice.


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SPORTS



Legal Sports Betting Coming To New York State By End Of January

By the end of January, in time for maybe Championship Weekend and the Super Bowl, New York State will have legal app based sports betting ready to go. Everyone is very excited to have a new way to lose their rent.

Read more at Action Network.


Tennessee Titan Tries to Force a Fumble at a Walgreens

Titans Defensive Budd Dupree back must have thought it was game time because he tried to tackle at least one dude in a Walgreens.

Unfortunately for him, he was called for Pass Interference.


Aaron Rodgers Never rRad Atlas Shrugged

The Green Bay QB took heat for saying Atlas Shrugged was his favorite book, but then on Tuesday admitted he actually never read the book.

Obviously. No one believes you’ve ever read any book, except maybe a playbook.

Read more at mediaite.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Jon Stewart Not Happy With JK Rowlings, Calls Goblins Anti-Semetic

Jon Stewart jumped on the fuck JK Rowling’s train by calling out the depiction of the bank running goblins in Harry Potter for looking like early 20th century racist depictions of Jewish people. Trans Jewish people are especially angry at Rowling.

Read more at Variety.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/jon-stewart-slams-jk-rowling-anti-semitic-harry-potter-goblins-1235146760/


Chris Evans To Play Gene Kelly?


Talks are in progress to sign Chris Evans up to play Gene Kelly in a movie that Evans conceived of. The idea is a 12 year old boy who works on the MGM lot in the 50’s finds an imaginary friend in the famous movie star.

Gene Kelly would have made a better Captain America.

Read more at Variety.


Kim Kardashian Unfollowed Miley Cyrus

Don’t know who keeps track of such things but it looks like Kim Kardashian unfollowed Miley Cyrus on Instagram after boy toy Pete Davidson co-hosted a New Years Eve special with the pop star. o

And she totally ignored her in home room too.

Read more at pagesix.


Gal Gadot Finally Admits What the Rest of Us Have Known

Gadot now admits her celeb filled “Imagine” video was in really poor taste.

How long will it take for her to admit that so are her Wonder Woman movies.

Read more at pagesix.


Waterboy Alum Pete Dante Calls Hostess a Cunt

Repeat troublemaker Pete Dante, who you know from his history of appearing in a lot of Adam Sandler movies, shouted down a hostess for refusing to serve him without a mask.

He’s the Antonio Brown of Adam Sandler movies.

Read more at TMZ.


People Mag Trashed for Last Betty White Interview Cover

Showbiz411 is calling out People magazine for exploiting Betty White’s passing. The gossip mag says People did an email interview that resulted in 3 short quotes, and they may not have even been communicating directly with Betty, so claiming the last interview as a headline story is a bit much.

This could only be worse if they get another email interview 3 weeks from now

Read more at ShowBiz411.



VIRAL & TRENDING



Fart In A Jar Selling Reality Star Ends Up In Hospital After Overdoing It

One of the stars of 90 Day Fiance has been selling her farts in jars for $1k a pop. She ate too many beans one day and ended up in the hospital thinking she was having a stroke. Turns out it was just gas pains. But now she’s gonna have to sell even more farts to pay this hospital bill. The irony.

Read more at Metro.


1993 AT&T Ad Had a Good View of the Future

This ad about what the future would look like got a lot closer than most predictions.

Except for the AT&T bringing it to us part.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



9 our of 10 Teens Are Not Getting Enough Exercise

A study says that during the pandemic, only 10% of teengers have been getting the proper amount of physical exercise.

Okay but we’ve been circling that drain for way longer than we’ve had covid. Try starting TikTok dance trend classes.

Read more at Study Finds.



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