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This is my first weekend at home in quite some time and will be my only one for the foreseeable future. So as you can imagine, it was filled with some pretty exciting stuff, like laundry, cleaning, and trying to watch everything on my DVR, which was easier since there was no football on (no, the Pro Bowl is NOT football). But while my weekend was pretty boring, at least it wasn’t as bad as some people’s.
Jen Selter
When you make your living as an Instagram fitness model, you obviously expect the respect of all of those around you. Which obviously includes flight crews…and when they don’t give it to you, it’s totally reasonable to go ape-shit, right?
Well, if you’re Jen Selter, that’s definitely true. Selter was flying from Miami to NYC with her sister on Saturday night when her American Airlines flight was delayed for an hour and a half. When one passenger got up to go to the bathroom, Selter decided to get up and get something from the overhead. When a flight attendant told her to sit down, Selter began to argue and when the flight attendant asked if she wanted to be removed from the plane, she responded yes. She later claimed she was being sarcastic, but the crew didn’t find her funny and Selter, her sister, and another passenger that got involved were removed from the plane. And of course, someone got it all on video.
Selter, her ass, and her sister caught a flight on Sunday morning back to NYC. [via TMZ]
These Camels
Speaking of only being famous for your looks…some contestants in a beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia are drawing some unwanted attention, although it’s not entirely their fault.
Around 30,000 camels were brought to the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Al Dhana. The event includes camel racing, an obedience competition and a beauty pageant. Yes, that’s right, a camel beauty pageant. Which is apparently such a big deal that some of the camels’ owners went too far, giving their entrants Botox injections and getting them disqualified from the competition.
According to Ali Al Mazrouei, the son of a top Emirati breeder, “They use Botox for the lips, the nose, the upper lips, the lower lips and even the jaw. It makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it’s like, ‘Oh look at how big is that head is. It has big lips, a big nose.’”
But before you go, “that’s fucking nuts” (which it is), consider this: the prize money for the event totals $57 million U.S. dollars. Which is also totally nuts. So let’s just chalk this one up to all-around insanity, shall we? [via The Star]
Meas Meu
It’s one thing to lose a fight, it’s another thing to lose in the fastest KO in featherweight history, which is what happened Meu on Friday night.
ONE Championship held their “Global Superheroes event” at the Mall of Asia Arena in the Philippines on Friday, and Meu was defeated by Edward Kelly 21 seconds into their bout, ending Meu’s perfect MMA record.
Ouch. [via Bleacher Report]
All Of Us
All of us look at our phones, so odds are that all of us are going to get a new ailment called “text neck.” Great, right?
When we are in a normal position, the human head weighs between 10 and 12 pounds on average. But when we look down at our cell phones, the pull of gravity adds around 60 pounds of additional pressure on our necks, causing the appropriately named ailment, which can lead to neck pain and muscle damage.
The obvious way to decrease your chances of text neck are to not look at your phone as much, but that’s clearly not going to go happen so what else can you do? Practice better posture when not looking at your phone – sitting with a straight back, keeping your chin up and shoulders back.
Oh, let’s be honest – we’re all doomed to be permanently stuck looking at our feet. [via SomeEcards]
Alexa
Why? Because that bitch is flat.out.wrong. when it comes to her Super Bowl prediction:
I’m flying with the Eagles on this one because of their relentless defense and the momentum they are riding on because of their underdog status.
Thankfully, the technology I own is much smarter: my Google Home doesn’t have an opinion and Siri knows the correct answer, “I’m hearing that the Patriots are favored to defeat the Eagles by five points.”
Siri knows what’s up. [via Whyy].
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Jenna Crowley
Jenna used to be known as 2NOTBrokeGirls, but then one of the girls actually went broke, so she's struck out on her own. Jenna spends her free time saving the world, one sorority girl at a time (usually while wearing yoga pants), questioning why she decided to get a doctorate, documenting her love of all things cheese related, and hosting the new PGP podcast Don't Take It From Us. You can ask her anything you want about football, using your boobs to get what you want, and pizza at @JennaLCrowley on Twitter or via email at JennaLCrowley@gmail.com.
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Would be interested to see how the Jen Selter story would have turned out of the flight attendant was a man
#MeToo!
#timesup
I think we may be long-lost soulmates.
Jen Selter can GTFO with her fake ass
I touched it once as part of an Al Franken-type meet and greet. Shits real, fam
still think it’s fake. she has stick legs
Hard pressed to find a pic of her not utilizing the arched-back-one-leg-bent-booty -popped to it’s fullest extent so who’s really to say? I bet IRL she has substantial white girl ass but on broader spectrum of asses she ain’t really shit. I do feel bad for her though, American is the worst airline ever! They are shamelessly racist and ruthless bullies that love reminding you that are powerless when you fly with them.
I spend two weeks at a time in Abu Dhabi once a year and you have two options: Find the underground pub and watch camel races. There are zero other tv options.
Team Alexa. Go birds
The majority of the country has no one to root for on Sunday. Everything about the Pats is completely insufferable and Eagles fans are mongoloids. I might go see a movie
Root for the eagles just to see the city of Philadelphia burn to the ground.
As a (relatively) normal Eagles fan, I must agree with this. You should still root for us because mongloid fans still > insufferable Pats.
First thing I always notice about Jen Selter? She has top level RBF
Most flight attendants are bitchy , I get nervous every time I get on a flight and I follow rules and I’m nice but I still get that mini heart attack man
Jay-Z. Jigga walked away with 0 Grammys and that trash artist Bruno Mars got 6???
At the Grammys rappers really only compete in rap specific categories since the other major catagories are pop/radio play centric, so shouldn’t the real story here be 4:44 not standing up when put against DAMN?
That’s no longer true. Pop is increasingly
irrelevant each year and hip hop is officially mainstream. With all the buzz around how hip hop artists were overwhelming nominated and pop even being under represented in some cases it’s a p huge upset. Clearly that was all for show because an asexual, a-racial, a-political quasi artist cleaned the place out. Embarrassing for everyone.
Right! Was the entire committee made up of suburban moms or nah?
“Hi hun, have you ever heard of this Bruno Mars guy? He was on the Grammys last night. He’s pretty good.” —Everyone’s mom… probably
Eagles by 20