# 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:** 146
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2910 "2022-04-02T02:24:24Z")
I had a beautiful purple larkspur (delphinium) which would also be very toxic if ingested (unless you are a gastropod). ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2911 "2022-04-02T03:21:54Z")
Oleander, too, at least if you’re human. Won’t kill you, will make you very, very unhappy. However, it reportedly tastes bitter, so most people aren’t likely to eat it. And then there’s common foxglove, from which you can extract digitalis… ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2912 "2022-04-02T07:44:09Z")
Not to mention henbane, monkshood, datura and belladonna. There’s a LOT of poison to be had from plants. Poison hemlock, anyone? Currently reading Death in the Garden by Michael Brown about this subject. Interesting stuff. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2913 "2022-04-02T16:00:29Z")
[Beware the Giant Hogweed!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4q7-wZmn-Q) Aw, like two gossipy peas in a pod > **[Stephanie Grisham says Trump relished his meetings with Ginni Thomas because...](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/stephanie-grisham-says-trump-relished-163415868.html)** > > "Trump loved talking to Ginni so much because he loved hearing about who was a never Trumper," Trump's former press secretary told The Daily Beast. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2914 "2022-04-02T18:33:02Z")
Well. I hear the wife of one of our SCOTUS justices was so brazenly partisan he was forced to recuse himself from tome very important cases. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2915 "2022-04-02T18:57:21Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > And then there’s common foxglove, from which you can extract digitalis… …but it’s a secret. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2022, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2916 "2022-04-03T04:48:53Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Well. I hear the wife of one of our SCOTUS justices was so brazenly partisan he was forced to recuse himself from tome very important cases. Really? Who? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2917 "2022-04-04T02:30:43Z")
There are rumors that Elon Musk was banned from an exclusive Berlin nightclub. He says he wasn’t banned, he declined to attend because they wrote “PEACE” on the wall, and he hates that word. > **[Elon Musk Lashes Out Amid Rumors That Berlin Nightclub Rejected Him](https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-lashes-out-amid-rumors-that-berlin-nightclub-berghain-rejected-him)** > > The billionaire declared on Twitter that he had “refused” to enter the legendary Berghain. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2918 "2022-04-04T02:39:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There are rumors that Elon Musk was banned from an exclusive Berlin nightclub. He says he wasn’t banned, he declined to attend because they wrote “PEACE” on the wall, and he hates that word. So he won’t join any club that would have him as a member? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2919 "2022-04-04T02:47:57Z")
This seems like as good a place as any for this heartwarming story of birthin’ went awry. A woman delivered her baby between pumps four and five at a Handy Mart gas station in Bridgeton, North Carolina, allegedly after being turned away from a local hospital. “At 39 weeks and contracting, Lauren Banks and her husband, Steve Banks, went to CarolinaEast to bring their son into the world.” “She was denied admittance to labor and delivery a couple of times, and she was in obvious pain and labor, and within 30 minutes of her being home her water broke,” the father told [WITN](https://www.witn.com/2022/03/29/family-says-they-were-turned-away-hospital-baby-born-gas-station/)… “When the parents questioned the hospital’s prior judgment, they say the hospital offered to detail their car in return.” Seems like a pretty sweet deal, so why are those ungrateful parents bitching? It’s not like Handy Mart offered them free milk for a year. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2920 "2022-04-04T03:30:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > “When the parents questioned the hospital’s prior judgment, they say the hospital offered to detail their car in return.” See, this is the kind of detail that lends verisimilitude to a legitimate piece of well-researched journalism. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2921 "2022-04-04T03:32:36Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > How would you characterize a biomedical engineer who ordered 100 packets of castor bean seeds and six lily-of-the-valley plants and when questioned by the FBI, told them that the seeds and plants were for gardening…in his Cambridge, Mass. apartment? I’ve grown castor before. They get big, like 8-10 feet tall. Sort of like pokebery, but with much woodier stems. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2922 "2022-04-04T05:20:55Z")
He has his father’s eyes. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2022, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2923 "2022-04-04T05:21:29Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > A woman delivered her baby between pumps four and five at a Handy Mart gas station in Bridgeton, North Carolina, allegedly after being turned away from a local hospital. They didn’t say in the article what the baby’s name was, but I’d name him Andy Martin. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2924 "2022-04-04T06:44:01Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > He has his father’s eyes. well, his father no longer needed them anyway ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2925 "2022-04-04T10:57:01Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > He has his father’s eyes. HAIL SATAN! ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2926 "2022-04-04T11:48:27Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > A woman delivered her baby between pumps four and five Somehow, I context read ‘pumps’ as ‘contractions’ and couldn’t figure out why a scary fast delivery was stupid until I got to the bit about the hospital turning them away. I assume (refuse to research) that it was an insurance thing. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2022, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2927 "2022-04-04T14:25:18Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > He has his father’s eyes. Which was supposed to have gone in a **CS** thread but hey why not spread the fun here. 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2928 "2022-04-04T16:51:25Z")
It worked… sorta. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2022, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/2929 "2022-04-05T04:34:53Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Somehow, I context read ‘pumps’ as ‘contractions’ and couldn’t figure out why a scary fast delivery was stupid until I got to the bit about the hospital turning them away. I assume (refuse to research) that it was an insurance thing. When I saw where the facility offered to get their car detailed, I thought the whole story was that these new parents are so stupid that they drove to an auto repair shop, mistaking it for a hospital. So of course the shop turned them away, saying “Sorry, we don’t work on those models here, but we can still offer you a detail job.” So they wandered around to the pumps out back and dropped their load there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=145) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=147)