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The first weekend with no professional football is a weird one. And don’t you dare call the Pro Bowl actual football, because that thing’s a joke. So I felt a little bit lost this weekend, with nothing to occupy my Sunday. And being as that I was out until 4 o’clock on Saturday night/Sunday morning, I really needed something to sit on my couch and stare at, which I how I came to watch four straight hours of My 600 Pound Life. But as sad as those people are (although big props to them for doing something about it), they still probably had a better weekend than these people.
Blac Chyna
I have to admit, as a pop-culture obsessed girl, I’m not as good as keeping up with the Kardashians as I should be. So it took me a little bit to untangle the web of A.) who the hell Blac Chyna is and B.) why anyone cared when news broke last week that she’s dating Rob Kardashian. But I think I’ve got it: Blac Chyna is the ex/baby mama of Tyga, who is dating Rob’s sister Kylie. She is also the best friend of Amber Rose, who used to date Kanye West, who is married to Rob’s sister Kim (who Blac Chyna used to be BFF with).
Got that? Ok, so why is Ms. Chyna having a bad weekend? Well, after news of her new romance with reality TV’s most elusive brother, she hopped a plane on her way to club appearance in London. During a layover in Austin, TX, she got belligerent in the gate area, and according to TMZ, “stormed toward the gate, got on the plane and screamed at a flight attendant, ‘Nasty ass bitch!’” Cops showed up and busted the video vixen, who was handcuffed and lead away crying. She was booked for public intoxication, and a charge of drug possession was added a few hours later.
Wouldn’t you love to be there when Rob brings his new love home to meet momma Kris – the scariest momager in the world? Hopefully it’s on tape. Oh, who the hell am I kidding? Of course it will be. [via TMZ]
The Super Bowl 50 Statues
Or rather, whoever is responsible for cleaning up the graffiti on the statues, because apparently San Franciscans are having a hell of a time vandalizing them:
“Sup Bro”
This is sooo San Francisco, I'm not even mad. RT @SFGate #SB50 Signs Vandalized https://t.co/MtmOCXjH1q #SuperbOwl pic.twitter.com/crBquE7dLw
— Kate Scott (@katetscott) January 29, 2016
“Superb Owl”
San Francisco Super Bowl statue vandalized again – this time to say "Superb Owl" https://t.co/ugmVFF5JNl pic.twitter.com/6ktFGNXlFy
— Mike Rosenberg (@RosenbergMerc) January 27, 2016
In less creative attacks, other versions of the statues, which many natives are calling “tacky,” have just been knocked over. Seems like some in San Francisco aren’t exactly excited to be hosting football’s semicentennial event…or maybe they just aren’t as in love with Cam Newton as the rest of us are? [via Bay Area Sports Guy]
Marissa Mayer
It’s tough work being a boss. Lots of things to keep straight, and occasionally something gets messed up. Apparently, that’s what happened at Yahoo! last week – and it resulted a bunch of people getting fired “by accident.”
A source told the New York Post, “They put people on firing lists who they didn’t mean to — people who were lower on the performance scale but who weren’t meant to get fired. But no one told the managers, and then they had the conversations, and it was like, ‘Oops.'” Sources attribute the inadvertent firings, which affected as many as thirty employees, directly to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. And since a few of the firings included the only people who did specific jobs, Yahoo! had better hope that none of their sites, including our beloved Tumblr, go down. [via Cosmopolitian]
The Guy That Didn’t Take This Lottery Ticket
It’s also tough being a regular old employee. A lot of times we make mistakes, and we pay for them. Well, for one grocery store employee in Woodbridge, VA, a mistake actually paid off – big time.
Michael Donnelly works at the local Harris Teeter store, and when he accidentally printed a Cash4Life lottery ticket instead of a Powerball one for a customer, he paid for the Cash4Life ticket himself, since the customer didn’t want it. That ticket turned out to be a 1 in 21.8 million winner – meaning that Donnelly won $1,000 every day for the rest of his life or a lump sum payment of $7,000,000, which he chose and collected last week.
Virginia grocer wins $7M with lottery ticket customer didn't want https://t.co/Y1RlzxyUjh pic.twitter.com/cRqQzaijP9
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) January 30, 2016
Sucks to be the guy that turned down that ticket, doesn’t it? [via Daily Mail]
Timbaland
The water situation in Flint, MI, is a serious one and it’s all over the news. Lots of celebrities have donated bottled water to the cause, and it’s no surprise that charity shows have been organized to help fund bottled water and filters for those in Flint. You would think that the performers in those shows would do everything they can to help out – unless you’re Timbaland.
Despite being paid in advance to DJ for half an hour and perform five to eight songs, the hip-hop producer refused to perform at a benefit on Thursday night after the club hosting the event served him the wrong brand of champagne. Meaning he got Dom Perignon instead of Ace of Spades. Seriously.
And while Timba didn’t perform, he sure as hell drank. According to The New York Daily News, despite not performing, “the hip-hop producer and his entourage polished off an entire arsenal of booze in the club’s VIP seating which included two bottles of Patron, three bottles of Ciroc, two bottles of D’usse and one bottle of Disaronno Originale Italian Liqueur.” Club Bleu co-owner Mitchell Jaworski told the paper that “They had about 15 bottles of liquor and champagne, which is extremely excessive especially for a charity event. They seemed more concerned about getting every drop of liquor.”
I wonder if he had a glass of water? [via New York Daily News] .
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This in no way cleared up who Blac Chyna is for me.
I have no idea how to pronounce her name, but I’m reading it as “Black China”, and that can’t be right.
It is. Which is so unfortunate.
Why would you take the cash payout? if you live for 19.5 years you are money ahead! Not to mention the taxes on the lump sum.
If you’re a cashier like that guy, you take the lump sum so that you can tell your manager to go fuck themselves while you spike the scan gun into the goddamn ground and walk out.
Because if you invested that lump sum of 7MM and got a yearly return of just 5%, you would have 350,000 a year to spend without touching the 7MM. If my quick math is right, that’s why you take the lump sum. It’s all about that present value.
Indeed, your math is correct. However, if you’ve never earned more than minimum wage your entire life, taking the installments is probably the safer bet, albeit not the most financially sound one from the peanut gallery.
Adjusting for inflation, if you won the same prize in 1975 ($250/day) you’d still be pulling 90k a year. If you front loaded investment of the installments you could develop a sizable nest egg while simultaneously ensuring you’d never be destitute through financial stupidity (like the vast majority of lotto winners).
Does that number account for inflation? The purchasing power of that $1,000 won’t be the same in 20 plus years, probably better to take 7 mil and invest it yourself.
The same math I immediately did.
SF is just mad because the Niners suck
We’re not sweating it too much in the Bay. We just turn our attention to the Giants who win the World Series every other year and the Warriors who are pretty decent as well.