# 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:** 119
**Author:** ![Drsunflower1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drsunflower1/32/12711_2.png) [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2370 "2022-02-04T17:36:52Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > 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. This. When in doubt, when it comes to the Dutch, money to be had trumps almost everything. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2371 "2022-02-04T17:56:46Z")
I had to check that article to see if the employee’s name was Dale Gribble. ---
**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 5, 2022, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2372 "2022-02-05T06:51:30Z")
> [@tofor](#): > > 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? Given the height difference between the top of the car and the top of the target vehicle’s hood, I’m guessing the target vehicle is actually a truck and the driver has been through this before. ---
**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 5, 2022, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2373 "2022-02-05T07:14:23Z")
“An employee of a Manteno pest control company has been arrested after his manager after found three guns . . .” > [@Skywatcher](#): > > I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to control pests. Depends on what kind of “pests” you aim to control. ---
**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 5, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2374 "2022-02-05T14:48:58Z")
Interesting tidbit I learned this morning: > Because Jeff’s new yacht is so big and shitty, it also needs a second “shadow yacht” that will tag alongside it. It will carry crew and other personnel and private additional space for meetings and entertainment. It’ll also house a helipad. Talk about embarrassing. You build the largest sailing yacht in the world and you have to get a second one because not all of your stuff fits. Uh. Wow. [**SOURCE**](https://jalopnik.com/here-s-the-boat-that-won-t-bring-jeff-bezos-s-hair-or-1848481600) ---
**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 5, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2375 "2022-02-05T19:25:39Z")
Delusional scumbags gonna keep on delusionally scumbaggin, with the following being the fruits of their labours… > **[Thousands in lost revenue, wages as protest hits one-week mark | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/downtown-businesses-lose-finance-convoy-protest-disruptions-1.6337845)** > > Employees and businesses in and around downtown Ottawa say they continue to take financial hits since a convoy of trucks and protesters arrived, and it's disproportionately affecting them amid a pandemic. > [@](#): > > According to [a survey of more than 200 downtown businesses](https://ocobia.org/ottawa-bia-business-survey-convoy-protest-impacts/) Monday, about 40 per cent say they closed due to disruptions over the weekend. > [@](#): > > A majority of those businesses — which range from salons to dental offices to retailers — say they’ve lost revenue directly due to the protest, according to Michelle Groulx, executive director of the Ottawa Coalition of Business Improvement Areas. > [@](#): > > “Businesses have been going through so much … over the last almost two years,” said Groulx. “Any chance of making that up, through revenue generated within a day, is critical given the amount of debt they’ve accumulated [during the pandemic].” > [@](#): > > Half of the businesses who responded to the survey said they won’t be able to recover any lost income. And for crying the fuck out loud - not much of a policing solution in sight, then? > **[ANALYSIS | If policing can't end Ottawa's protest, then what can? | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/policing-end-ottawa-protest-covid-19-mandates-1.6337563)** > > Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly couldn't offer any sense Wednesday of when the chaotic protest in Ottawa against COVID-19 public health measures might end, while also floating the unsettling idea that policing alone won't bring it to a conclusion. > [@](#): > > Here’s exactly what [Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly] [perfect name!] said: “The longer this goes on, the more I am convinced there may not be a police solution to this demonstration.” > [@](#): > > In fact, he said that a number of times. He explained that this protest isn’t a mere local event but provincial and national in scope. The demands being made by the protesters, however one may view them, are political. And that’s not any police chief’s purview. > [@](#): > > But asked directly by reporters what he meant, he repeated some version of his above comment. Asked if by non-policing elements, he meant politicians or perhaps the **military** , he responded, “I think you just listed most of them right there.” Imagine if this keeps on indefinitely so that eventually the miltary becomes an increasingly viable option. While I can’t see such a confrontation ending well, if push comes to shove, I don’t know if I can think of any other resolution to bring this toxic shit to an end. Utterly fuck this shit, by too much. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2376 "2022-02-05T21:23:00Z")
> [@DavidNRockies (quoting Jalopnik)](#): > > It will carry ~~crew and other personnel~~ 1and private additional space for meetings and entertainment.2 It’ll also house a helipad.3 1 peons 2 hookers and blow 3 At least they won’t have to swim across. ---
**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 5, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2377 "2022-02-05T22:13:27Z")
> [@Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly](#): > > “The longer this goes on, the more I am convinced there may not be a police solution to this demonstration.” Sorry, but my first reaction was that Canadians are just too darn polite to tear gas and fire hose anyone… I’m joking around because I don’t have a solution. This is a tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2378 "2022-02-06T00:48:23Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > You build the largest sailing yacht in the world and you have to get a second one because not all of your stuff fits. When the inside of your yacht is 90% filled with a giant ball pit, there isn’t room for a lot of other things. ---
**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 6, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2379 "2022-02-06T01:19:49Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Sorry, but my first reaction was that Canadians are just too darn polite to tear gas and fire hose anyone… Bring in a squadron of those huge Skycrane helicopters with the huge grappling hooks, and physically pick up all the trucks and drop them in Hudson Bay. ---
**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 6, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2380 "2022-02-06T01:35:51Z")
Or, to add insult to injury, New Jersey (looks like it’s actually closer to Ottawa than Hudson Bay). . eta: Ooh, Steeny Kill Lake, NJ is about 500km from Ottawa, and looks big enough to submerge all those trucks. And how are the truck drivers going to explain their _salvage operation road trip_ to the Border Gestapo? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2381 "2022-02-06T14:49:51Z")
They frown on feeding the polar bears. ---
**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 6, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2382 "2022-02-06T17:26:38Z")
Desantis you useless fuck-knuckle… > **[Gov. DeSantis Going After GoFundMe For Dumping Anti-Vaccine Ottawa Truckers](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-donald-trump-jr-anti-vaccine-truckers-ottawa_n_61ff6619e4b0725faacb0f46)** > > Donald Trump Jr., Rep. Jim Jordan and Elon Musk love the truckers being sued by Ottawa residents for blasting air horns 16 hours a day. And not just that putz - Jim Jordan, DJT, Elon Musk (you fucing idiot putting yourself in this company - not really surprising me, though), as well as other re-puke-icans like Ken Paxton. oooooooo oh no 😱 😱 😱 they’re going to - welp - _investigate_ into the matter! Hope they brought their Elmer Fudd guns. Fucking corrupt-as-fuck idiots. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2383 "2022-02-06T22:56:53Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Interesting tidbit I learned this morning: > > > … It’ll also house a helipad. … > > Uh. Wow. > > [**SOURCE**](https://jalopnik.com/here-s-the-boat-that-won-t-bring-jeff-bezos-s-hair-or-1848481600) They describe it as a “sailing yacht”, which makes me curious about this: if it actually has yards and sheets and spars and large cloth things for moving forwards, what must it be like to navigate a helicopter around all that? Perhaps @Johnny_L.A could tell us what nightmares this might give him. ---
**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 6, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2384 "2022-02-06T23:37:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > if it actually has yards and sheets and spars and large cloth things for moving forwards, what must it be like to navigate a helicopter around all that?   Well, there’s a reason those old man-o-war ships weren’t aircraft carriers . . . [https://sdmaritime.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG\_01931HMS\_Surprise.jpg](https://sdmaritime.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IMG_01931HMS_Surprise.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2385 "2022-02-07T01:23:11Z")
From the link: > Because Jeff’s new yacht is so big and shitty, it also needs a second “shadow yacht” that will tag alongside it. It will carry crew and other personnel and private additional space for meetings and entertainment. It’ll also house a helipad. Talk about embarrassing. You build the largest sailing yacht in the world and you have to get a second one because not all of your stuff fits. It sounds like the helipad is going to be on the support yacht. ---
**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 7, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2386 "2022-02-07T01:29:27Z")
It is. ---
**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 7, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2387 "2022-02-07T01:41:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It sounds like the helipad is going to be on the support yacht. How will they move people and things back and forth between the Big Yacht and the Little Yacht? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2388 "2022-02-07T01:43:32Z")
With an even littler yacht. ---
**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 7, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2389 "2022-02-07T01:44:15Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > With an even littler yacht. - It’s yachts all the way down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=118) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=120)