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.
Eric Adams just said “Low skill workers like cooks, messengers and Dunkin’ Donuts employees don’t have the academic skills to sit in a corner office” pic.twitter.com/KaoY9MNZ8J
— Achmat X (@AchmatX) January 4, 2022
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.
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.
How's this for a handicap 🦀🦀🦀
A group of golfers on Christmas Island have clashed with a GIANT 'robber' crab. Footage from the course shows the crab hanging onto a golf bag before it snaps a club in half. #9News pic.twitter.com/Zr08iX50he
— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) January 3, 2022
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.
@kaittwest holidays left us #broke 😮💨😮💨
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.
I am excited to share a new study led by Shachar Givon & @MatanSamina w/ Ohad Ben Shahar: Goldfish can learn to navigate a small robotic vehicle on land. We trained goldfish to drive a wheeled platform that reacts to the fish’s movement (https://t.co/ZR59Hu9sib). pic.twitter.com/J5BkuGlZ34
— Ronen Segev (@ronen_segev) January 3, 2022
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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.
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.
The website appears to be down but here is the Bud Dupree video courtesy of @BroadwayTN pic.twitter.com/LVu29snds6
— Buck Reising (@BuckReising) January 4, 2022
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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