Why is MSNBC making this poor gay boy

[MonkeyFunk]

ice skate all day?

They've got Jeff Ranieri, the weather-twink, doing his reports from Rockefeller Center, who evidently opened up their ice skating rink today. I keep watching to see if he's gonna fall on-camera.

[triguy46]

1. OK, I've decided to step up on this one....

a) What does his 'gay-ness' have to do with this?

b) I'm an old guy who lives on a farm in a rural area. Is "twink" now a neutral descriptor?

:shrug:

[sundog]

3. a) everything

b) twink - non offensive gay vernacular

[MonkeyFunk]

5. his gayness has little to do with it

other than I think he's adorable and he looks good ice skating in tight jeans.

But it's just so incongruous to have the weatherboy ice skating all day.

[lost-in-nj]

2. ....

:popcorn:


lost

[graywarrior]

4. I have either lost my fucking mind here, or

I have lost my fucking mind.

:crazy: :shrug:

[DS1]

6. You mean he hasn't flamed his way through the ice yet?

:eyes:

[xchrom]

7. it's about the hypocrisy.

[JuniperLea]

8. There are very few "real" weather professionals on the air now

I think it's a very good use of their time to be ice skating. Why not? Alphabet news is all about promotion anyway. Why not promote Rockefeller Center's yearly skate-fest? It gets you downtown so you can spend a lot of money. That's what TV adverts are all about.

[spinbaby]

9. Isn't it like 90° in New York?

And he's skating on ICE?

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. Hillary is sitting on the ice.

j/k

[MonkeyFunk]

11. well

it was mostly ice but there was quite a layer of water on it. He kept talking about how it was in the 80s in NYC.