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Here we are at the end of another weekend. I’ve been at a conference since Friday, and I haven’t experienced too much outside of this hotel full of processed air and overpriced faux Starbucks beverages. So there might be people that had even worse weekends than those below…but frankly, I’ve got like 30 minutes in between sessions and this was the best the internet had to offer on the crappy hotel WiFi.
50 Cent
Fifty has made a number of appearances in this series, but here he is again. The rapper was arrested this weekend on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts after he dropped profanity during his set in front of 40,000 people on Saturday night. 50 was warned prior to his performance not to use foul language, as that is illegal on the island, but he didn’t heed the caution and left “mother*****” in one of his songs.
Police promptly arrested the artist formerly known as Curtis Jackson after his set, and he was taken down to the police station where he had to pay a fine. According to TMZ, he made tracks for the US soon after leaving jail.
This story leaves me with one question… if using profanity is illegal, what do people on St. Kitt’s do when they stub their toe? [via TMZ]
TCU Horned Frogs & Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
So it’s not bad enough that these two teams have perhaps the worst mascots in history (A horned frog? And WTF is a Chanticleer?), but this weekend, the two teams had their thunder stolen…by a pre-teen kid.
It took me a while to find who won the game (Congrats, Coastal Carolina) because all of the stories about this matchup are about this unnamed kid trolling the ESPN camera at TD Ameritrade Park.
Kid’s got game. He’ll do well with the ladies at the bar in about 10 years. [via Bleacher Report]
Parker Kennedy
I personally don’t understand the appeal of track and field – like, yay, people running – but I know a lot of people who do enjoy watching the events on TV, particularly during the Olympics. But even those people were probably happy they weren’t watching on Friday, when a track and field star in Oregon had the freakiest accident in a relatively safe sport.
Parker Kennedy was completing at a USA Track & Field meet in Portland when he was walking to retrieve a javelin he had thrown during warm up. The javelin was sticking out of the ground at a 45 degree angle when Kennedy tripped and fell – right onto the javelin. Which stabbed him in the eye.
The athlete remained awake while someone on the scene removed the javelin and is currently listed in serious condition at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital in Portland. According to Jerry Westfall, executive director of Oregon’s track association, the javelin missed the center of Kennedy’s eyeball and pierced down towards his mouth rather than up into his brain, and Kennedy should make a full recovery.
See? This is why the only running I do is to the bathroom during commercials. [via People]
Bedtime Smartphone Users
We all know by now that using our phones before we go to sleep is bad for our sleep patterns, or some BS like that. But now, according to doctors in The New England Journal of Medicine, it can also make you blind.
The article in the journal details the cases of two women, aged 22 and 40, who experienced “recurring episodes of temporary vision loss for up to 15 minutes.” The women were subjected to a number of medical tests which found nothing wrong with them. Then an eye specialist discovered that their loss of sight was caused by the women looking at their smartphones with only one eye in the dark while lying on their side. This caused the one eye to be adjusted to light while the other was adjusted to dark, leading to what the doctors are referring to “transient smartphone blindness.”
Note to self: when watching porn on my phone in bed, keep both eyes on the screen. [via New York Post]
Everyone With a 401K
After Friday’s 610 drop in the stock market due to the vote in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, anyone that has any money invested in the market probably had a pretty bad weekend wondering if they were going ever be able to retire. And given that the social security trust fund if projected to run out by 2034…the answer to that question is no. Hope you’re prepared to work forever, friends..
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Brexit is a short term sacrifice in exchange for long term success. The UK market will bounce back. Personally, I’m hoping that the price of scotch drops temporarily so I can stock up.
Also it’s a great time to buy some Pounds or Euros if planning a trip to Europe anytime soon.
True. This should be seen as an investment opportunity, not the end of the world like certain people are portraying it. The European Union has hurt the UK more than it has helped, I don’t blame them for leaving at all, it’s about time they took back their independence.
Agreed. The only people that are hurt by the market downturn are the short-term investors. Everyone else needs to buy because the market will rebound. It’s not down because of the Brexit per se, but because investors don’t like the unknown so any deviations from the status quo tend to result in the market taking a tumble.
Exact text to my wife Thurs:
“We need to book a trip to London for Christmas before everyone realizes Brexit isn’t a big deal and the pound stabilizes.”
So I’m going to London for Christmas.
Boris?
We might want to wait to see if Scotland and N. Ireland move forward on their independence referendums before calling it a long-term success. N. Ireland won’t hurt as much, but losing their 3rd biggest bank in RBS isn’t going to feel too great. I’m also curious to see if the EU decides to blackball them on all the new trade deals they need to renegotiate.
Scotland has been debating leaving the UK for a while now, but in 2014 they voted overwhelmingly to stay with the UK. The EU doesn’t seem to want them, they only want the whole package. England is still very much in charge.
I wouldn’t classify 55% as “overwhelming.”
Here Before I saw the check which was of 9733 dollar , I didn’t believe that…my… mother in law woz like realey bringing in money part time at their laptop.. there great aunt haz done this 4 only 22 months and resently paid for the morgage on there condo and got a great new Mercedes-Benz S-class…
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Brexit is Unproductive behavior
Polling has shown that 60% of Scots want to revote and since it wouldn’t be separating from a country and still wanting to be in the EU, which would’ve set up a precedent for Catalonia to do the same, the EU will probably welcome the Scots. The border with Ireland and Northern Ireland is going to be interesting because of free movement. And the EU countries could stick it to the UK by not allowing free movement for them through the EU which would be a huge fuck you to the UK.
Okay, this sounds a little weird but after hearing about Brexit, all I want to do now is dress up like Mel Gibson from The Patriot, have someone fly me over that floating moss covered rock they call a country and dangle a $1 bill on some fishing line while I laugh insanely through a megaphone and call them copycats because we thought of being free first.
1. Chanticleer was a dream interpreting rooster from Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
2. BREXIT is putting a ton of great companies “on sale”, beautiful time to buy
This is the sort of sensible commenting that I love. You da Real MVP, Frabst *100 emoji*
I better stay the fuck away from St. Kitts
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett. It’s a short-term loss, but invest your money into the pound, as it will rise over time, then you won’t have to worry about depending on social security benefits for your retirement.
coming from an actual financial advisor, super irresponsible comments about the 401k… guessing that 95% of this site’s users are well below 59 1/2 years old, they shouldn’t be taking distributions anyway.. if anything the loss was great. buy low sell high, right?
I’m thrilled (and lucky) that my first eligible 401k contribution kicked in right after the market took a dive. Nice to start off buying low.