# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 118
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2350 "2022-02-03T19:35:55Z")
^ 🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, the mold looks like it’ll spread… > **[Police aware of trucker protest planned for Toronto this weekend](https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/police-aware-of-trucker-protest-planned-for-toronto-this-weekend-1.5764991)** > > Toronto police say that they are aware of a planned trucker protest against vaccine mandates set for the city this weekend and are monitoring the situation. Maybe they’ll get flashmobbed by paintballers. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2351 "2022-02-03T19:36:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Netherlands is going to have to dismantle an iconic bridge so that Jeff Bezos can get his brand new yacht out of the facility where it’s being built. > [Iconic Bridge To Be Dismantled To Let Jeff Bezos' Yacht Pass Through](https://www.newsweek.com/iconic-bridge-de-hef-dismantled-jeff-bezos-yacht-pass-through-1675455) Why do they _have_ to? His problem, not theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2352 "2022-02-03T19:44:46Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Why do they _have_ to? Because they want their shipbuilders working instead of doing part of the job and having the rest of the work done somewhere else in the world, that doesn’t have a fancy decommissioned bridge in the way. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2353 "2022-02-03T19:58:54Z")
Wow. Wouldn’t it be easier to modify the yacht? Fill the hold with ballast, remove masts/antennas, etc.? Or would it still be too big? ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2354 "2022-02-03T20:11:23Z")
You’re not thinking like a billionaire who’s able to single-handedly destroy a nation’s economy. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2355 "2022-02-03T21:09:04Z")
Obviously, they bill him for this, right? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2356 "2022-02-03T21:21:34Z")
Under a billion can be paid from Jeff’s cigar box with “Petty Cash” scrawled on the lid. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2357 "2022-02-03T21:27:30Z")
Yes. The article says that he is paying for it. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2358 "2022-02-03T21:37:47Z")
I also heard that Amazon may be raising its price for Prime membership very soon, so … ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2359 "2022-02-04T02:38:48Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Yes. The article says that he is paying for it.   It says the company that’s building the ship is paying for it. One might presume the cost is baked into the price he’s paying for it. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2360 "2022-02-04T11:56:32Z")
Sort of feels like the Stupid MFers here may in fact be the people who built a “massive yacht” factory upstream of a historic bridge under which massive yachts cannot sail. “So, our business plan is simple: we will make absurdly expensive yachts and sell them to billionaires as status symbols. And the beauty is that for every yacht we sell the next one must be bigger, better and more expensive otherwise it wouldn’t be a status symbol.” “Sounds great. Any potential hitches?” “Well, between the shipyard we build the yachts in and the rest of the world there lies a historic bridge, which implies a maximum height for all our yachts - otherwise we’d have to dismantle the bridge at vast expense every time we built one!” “Will that be a big problem?” “No, I don’t think so. I’m sure the trend for each yacht being progressively bigger will level out at some point, and most likely before we reach our maximum height” “Yes, that seems entirely plausible, and is no way contradicted by the very essence of the market we are in. Trebles all round!” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2361 "2022-02-04T13:19:53Z")
Not exactly news but definitely some stupid MFers here: > **[r/Whatcouldgowrong - WCGW Trying to steal a car (Santiago, Chile)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/shyjmm/wcgw_trying_to_steal_a_car_santiago_chile/)** > > 17,366 votes and 708 comments so far on Reddit ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2362 "2022-02-04T13:37:40Z")
As an American, I was deeply confused by that video until I read through the comments. Is carjacking by that method so common in Chile that the driver immediately knew what was happening? It would have never occurred to me in those few seconds that it might be a theft. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2363 "2022-02-04T13:46:04Z")
[quote=“Stanislaus, post:2360, topic:931945”] Sort of feels like the Stupid MFers here may in fact be the people who built a “massive yacht” factory upstream of a historic bridge under which massive yachts cannot sail. [/quo So, this is just silly, probably a manufactured bit of nothing-outrage against Bezos, and I say that as no fan of Bezos. By the way, I’m not knocking Stan’s (maybe imaginary, maybe not) conversation. I’m wondering if anyone interviewed the yacht builder about their plans. It’s not like superstructure is involved - masts can be stepped and rigged elsewhere. And anyway, in the news today; Rotterdam says that no bridge-dismantling permit has been applied for. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2364 "2022-02-04T13:56:02Z")
I mean, really there are three options: 1. The yacht builders, as you say, have a perfectly simple method for getting the yacht under the bridge with no dismantling required. 2. “My yacht was so big I had to ay a fortune to dismantle and reassemble a historic bridge” is in fact a plus, not a minus, to your average status-symbol purchasing billionaire and everybody involved is perfectly happy with the situation 3. It’s not true ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2365 "2022-02-04T14:23:38Z")
To explain why the masts couldn’t just be installed elsewhere, [a representative of the boat builder said](https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/news/jeff-bezos-oceanco-sailing-yacht), “If you carry out a big job somewhere, you want all your tools in that place. Otherwise you have to go back and forth constantly. In addition, this is such a large project that there are hardly any locations where this work is finished.” (Incidentally, that article has some nice photos of the yacht in dry dock.) ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2366 "2022-02-04T15:32:13Z")
As the loser brigade boogies on… > **[Protest convoy rolls into Quebec City ahead of demonstration at provincial...](https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/1859687/protest-convoy-rolls-into-quebec-city-ahead-of-demonstration-at-provincial-legislature)** > > Quebec premier says he 'won't tolerate any mayhem' this weekend Ah, yellow vesters (no, not the police in the photo) are there, just like their doofus soulmates in Paris. Hoping BC’ll be above this dumb, childish “waaah you’re not the boss of me!” bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2367 "2022-02-04T15:54:08Z")
I’ve not been following this Canadian truck driver story closely. I did see a news segment a day or two ago which had a person describe this as one of the great uprisings of our time and the media isn’t covering it. Well the fact _you_ are on the news and able to say this unfiltered means the media is covering it and is it really an uprising when something 90% of drivers are vaccinated and the people being most disturbed by all this are the locals who are being harassed. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2368 "2022-02-04T16:08:03Z")
> **[Manteno Man Arrested on Weapon Charges](https://wvli927.com/2022/02/03/manteno-man-arrested-on-weapon-charges/)** > > An employee of a Manteno pest control company has been arrested after his manager after found three guns in hi... I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to control pests. Unless you’re part of [Monty Python.](https://youtu.be/BHBbJAIcnBI) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2369 "2022-02-04T16:27:31Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to control pests. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Zm1XUf6H_2w/hqdefault.jpg "epic family guy clip "flea exterminator's"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm1XUf6H_2w) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=117) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=119)