Italian restaurant has a funny and razor-sharp response to a homophobic review

July 29, 2024   |   Read Online

In partnership with   Track Company Earnings Like a Pro Earnings Hub is designed for investors to give you everything you want to know about company earnings, including: An Earnings Calendar Expectations & Actuals Listen to Earnings Calls Live (or replay) Earnings Call Transcripts & AI Summaries Realtime News on your favorite stocks Alerts delivered via Text or Email Most of the features are FREE! Premium features are 50% off right now at just $49 for an entire year. See Earnings Hub Calendar   Italian restaurant has a funny and razor-sharp response to a homophobic review He won’t be eating there again. A Google reviewer recently left a homophobic review for The Original Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina. Although the review is upsetting, the response from the restaurant is the perfect example of how to confront homophobia. Vinnie’s is known for food that reflects the “Old School” flavors of New York cuisine and has repeatedly been named “Best Italian Restaurant” in Asheville. The reviewer, who used the screenname “Kip Hadley,” liked the food but didn’t enjoy the fact that Vinnie’s had a lot of LGBTQ employees. Read the story Olympic athlete drops powerful ‘BMI’ response after viewer mocked her weight No, she won’t “just ignore the haters.” 💪 It seems like at least once a year, the topic of “BMI,” or “body mass index,” being a flawed measuring system for fat mass and health comes up in conversation. Experts will explain how BMI leads to an incomplete perspective at best—since it doesn’t take into consideration several key factors that influence a person’s body composition—and at worst, actual health risks, affecting eligibility for things like weight loss medications, insurance rates, joint-replacement surgery and fertility treatment. And then life moves forward. And yet, despite the constant debunking, the belief in BMI still marches on. And this time, it was hurled at the USA rugby star and Olympian Ilona Maher. More specifically, someone commented “I bet that person has a 30% BMI” on one of Maher’s TikTok videos. Read the story upworthy upworthy Add a comment… How the 2024 Olympics are catering to mom athletes for the very first time Thanks to the advocacy of trailblazing mom athletes like Allyson Felix, juggling motherhood and competition is getting easier. For much of Olympic history, women were excluded from competing. Women weren’t allowed to compete in the Ancient Olympic games at all, and the first women to compete in the modern Olympics in 1900 only made up 2% of the total athletes. That percentage has slowly increased in the decades since. The 2012 Olympics were the first games to have women competing in every sport, and the 2024 Paris games—for the first time in Olympic history—has a 50/50 ratio of male and female athletes. Read the story British guy sharing 9 new phrases he learned in Texas sounds just like Matt McConaughey He sounds exactly like Matt McConaughey. Josh and Jase are a British duo who’ve become famous on social media for documenting their travels across America and sharing what they’ve learned about each region’s unique culture. “Originally, I thought we’d appeal to the British audience, and they’d find it interesting. But actually, it’s gone more the other way, and Americans say that they appreciate their country a little bit more because we go to these cool places that usually a lot of people don’t go to,” Jase told KRQE. Read the story

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