# Haha- fuck you Oafrah! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 30, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606 "2007-10-30T18:25:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/61 "2007-10-30T20:37:27Z")
[QUOTE=wring] **Wee Bairn** edited to add _Curses!!! ::shakes fist::_ [/QUOTE] I set em up, you knock em down. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/62 "2007-10-30T20:38:48Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Ouch! Seriously though, my OP boils down to, don’t “front” like you are on top of the daily events when you obviously are not. I’m not breaking down the minute details of the hiring process as **miller** is. Tell me where I’m wrong, someone? anyone? [/QUOTE] I don’t give a shit about Oprah but I know she is doing more to help disadvantaged kids in Africa than you or I. So what if she braggs about it or makes it seem like she is more involved than she is. At least she is doing something positive. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/63 "2007-10-30T20:41:00Z")
And what about the fact that these kids have been beaten and molested, and Oafrah offers an (on camera) I’m sorry, I’m so sorry? That’s what you say when you run out of snickerdoodles at the school bake sale. Why not turn the fucking cameras off and take care of things? Oafrah apologized for my kid being beaten and molested! All is well! No need for years of therapy, Oafrah’s apology cures all! ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/64 "2007-10-30T20:41:36Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Seriously though, my OP boils down to, don’t “front” like you are on top of the daily events when you obviously are not. I’m not breaking down the minute details of the hiring process as **miller** is. Tell me where I’m wrong, someone? anyone? [/QUOTE] Assuming that’s a good faith question, I will answer accordingly and assume you’ll respond likewise: You have asserted, but not established, how she’s “fronting” like she’s on top of the daily events. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/65 "2007-10-30T20:41:37Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Seriously though, my OP boils down to, don’t “front” like you are on top of the daily events when you obviously are not. I’m not breaking down the minute details of the hiring process as **miller** is. Tell me where I’m wrong, someone? anyone? [/QUOTE] well, since you ‘seriously’ haven’t provided that Oprah did, indeed “front” like she was “on top of the daily events”, that’s where I would point out your error. edited to add additional curses and shaking of fists. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/66 "2007-10-30T20:42:37Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] I don’t give a shit about Oprah but I know she is doing more to help disadvantaged kids in Africa than you or I. So what if she braggs about it or makes it seem like she is more involved than she is. At least she is doing something positive. [/QUOTE] Molestation- what a positive! How downtrodden I should feel, as I have never experienenced that “postiive”. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/67 "2007-10-30T20:44:04Z")
[QUOTE=cowgirl] Assuming that’s a good faith question, I will answer accordingly and assume you’ll respond likewise: You have asserted, but not established, how she’s “fronting” like she’s on top of the daily events. [/QUOTE] I (and many of you here I’m sure) have seen her on her show prattle on about it. I don’t videotape it, so its hard to find video, but its out there, I’ll find it. How about for starters- “these are my girls they call me mama Oafrah”- doesn’t that imply to anyone that she is fronting involvement? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/68 "2007-10-30T20:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Someone who doesn’t share your opinion is therefore a drooling moron? How enlightened. [/quote] Not at all. In fact, the very post you’re responding to refutes that preception, as you might have noticed if you were not a drooling moron. If I might direct your attention to the first sentence of that paragraph, I specifically addressed my questions to **Diogenes** , because he appears to hold the same position that you do, while at the same time being someone whose intelligence and perception I generally esteem. > [@](#): > > What would you call someone who spends two paragraphs presenting as factual scenarios that he does not know actually took place? Bored at work. But hey, if there’s any specific part of the time line I outlined there that you disagree with, feel free to highlight it for the rest of us, and explain why it is unreasonable or far-fetched. We could all use a good laugh, I am sure. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/69 "2007-10-30T20:49:02Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Not at all. In fact, the very post you’re responding to refutes that preception, as you might have noticed if you were not a drooling moron. If I might direct your attention to the first sentence of that paragraph, I specifically addressed my questions to **Diogenes** , because he appears to hold the same position that you do, while at the same time being someone whose intelligence and perception I generally esteem. Bored at work. But hey, if there’s any specific part of the time line I outlined there that you disagree with, feel free to highlight it for the rest of us, and explain why it is unreasonable or far-fetched. We could all use a good laugh, I am sure. [/QUOTE] So I can respond now, because you have directed this at me? Groovy. I will try and not ruin this valued chance to interact with you. For starters how is it that you are able to represent as factual the hiring process of the staff, as well as the thought process behind it? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/70 "2007-10-30T20:51:17Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] And what about the fact that these kids have been beaten and molested, and Oafrah offers an (on camera) I’m sorry, I’m so sorry? That’s what you say when you run out of snickerdoodles at the school bake sale. Why not turn the fucking cameras off and take care of things? Oafrah apologized for my kid being beaten and molested! All is well! No need for years of therapy, Oafrah’s apology cures all! [/QUOTE] What should Oprah do to “take care of things?” She fired the accused teacher. She fired the incompetent administrator who didn’t respond to the initial accusations. She fired some other teacher for some reason that’s not clear in the article to which you linked. She publically apologized for the collossal fuck-up at the school bearing her name. What else do you want from her? ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/71 "2007-10-30T20:52:37Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] What else do you want from her? [/QUOTE] Blood, apparently… That and some thorazine… ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/72 "2007-10-30T20:52:52Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] What should Oprah do to “take care of things?” She fired the accused teacher. She fired the incompetent administrator who didn’t respond to the initial accusations. She fired some other teacher for some reason that’s not clear in the article to which you linked. She publically apologized for the collossal fuck-up at the school bearing her name. What else do you want from her? [/QUOTE] to admit that contrary to what she represented, in light of these events she couldn’t possibly have more than the slighest connection to the events at the school. And to pay several mil in damages. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/73 "2007-10-30T20:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] For starters how is it that you are able to represent as factual the hiring process of the staff, as well as the thought process behind it? [/QUOTE] Are you contending that Oprah deliberatly hired someone she knew would ignore accusations of assault and sexual impropriety at a school bearing Oprah’s name? Why would she do that? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/74 "2007-10-30T20:55:50Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] to admit that contrary to what she represented, in light of these events she couldn’t possibly have more than the slighest connection to the events at the school. And to pay several mil in damages. [/QUOTE] If she “couldn’t possibly have more than the slightest connection to the events at the school,” why should she pay several million in damages for what happened? ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/75 "2007-10-30T20:59:42Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] If she “couldn’t possibly have more than the slightest connection to the events at the school,” why should she pay several million in damages for what happened? [/QUOTE] Her names on the sign out front and her pockets are the deepest- thats the way it is. My kid does damage at school I have to pay- similar thing here. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/76 "2007-10-30T21:00:23Z")
Might as well give it up, **Miller** ; you’d have better luck trying to reason with a petulant two-year-old. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/77 "2007-10-30T21:02:32Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Might as well give it up, **Miller** ; you’d have better luck trying to reason with a petulant two-year-old. [/QUOTE] [voice of Wee Bairn]Thank’s ETF! [/voice] ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/78 "2007-10-30T21:06:34Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Might as well give it up, **Miller** ; you’d have better luck trying to reason with a petulant two-year-old. [/QUOTE] petulant- is that good or bad? What if it turns out the schoolmarm had a history of abuse and no one bothered to check? What would the Oafrah defenders say then? Because for all anyone here knows, that’s a possibility. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/79 "2007-10-30T21:12:39Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] What if it turns out the schoolmarm had a history of abuse and no one bothered to check? What would the Oafrah defenders say then? Because for all anyone here knows, that’s a possibility. [/QUOTE] see, **if** that had happened, this would be an appropriate rant vs. the bullshit you’ve concocted. Oprah’s not being defended (really) as much as you’re being lambasted. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606/80 "2007-10-30T21:14:01Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Her names on the sign out front and her pockets are the deepest- thats the way it is. My kid does damage at school I have to pay- similar thing here. [/QUOTE] So, she doesn’t have any connection to the school, but she’s fully responsible for whatever happens there, because the school’s named after her, and she has a lot of money. By this logic, if I hurt myself at the John Wayne Airport, I have legal standing to sue his estate. It’s his name on the building, and all those Westerns and war movies still generate a lot of revenue, and that’s all that matters, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haha-fuck-you-oafrah/424606.md?page=5)