# 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:** 163
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3250 "2022-06-02T14:39:17Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > O lordy I know better but I read the pinhead comments. I’ve gotten used to comments being turned off by Yahoo, so I never look for them. I despise many of my fellow Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3251 "2022-06-02T14:45:19Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > It does make sense if they’re very used to vehicles parking with people watching them from inside but posing no danger, but either are not used to those people getting out of the vehicles (or standing upright in them) or have had at least one negative experience involving people doing so. Under this hypothesis, how do you explain predators like lions behaving in exactly the same way - completely ignoring easily accessible potential dinner a few feet away sitting in an open-topped jeep, but suddenly paying attention if they get out? All I can say is that what I’ve described is the widely accepted consensus among in-the-field experts who spend their whole lives with these animals. I’ll see if I can find any academic references. ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3252 "2022-06-02T17:27:52Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Another half-remember short-story: > > Scientist is forced to develop time machine for his owner/patron, who wants to see dinosaurs. Science guy shows him a herd of herbivores (Diplodocous as I recall), guy says “send me there”. Dino picks him up, crushes him, tastes him, spits him out as “yucky”. “Quicktime”, by Harlan Ellison: "Nor _did_ the gargantuan herbivore eat meat. As its great jaws clamped themselves onto Garth’s upper torso, masticating his head and shoulders between its pencil-like teeth, the dinosaur understood in its dim way that the new food it had found growing in the marsh grass was not a tender new kind of vegetation. "And from a height it dropped the unpleasant thing. It had needed to sample. To reject. "Lord Garth had fallen from a great height, bearing with him the answer to the question the Professor had often asked: _Did dinosaurs think?_ “The answer was yes. But not quickly.” ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3253 "2022-06-02T18:08:09Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Under this hypothesis, how do you explain predators like lions behaving in exactly the same way - completely ignoring easily accessible potential dinner a few feet away sitting in an open-topped jeep, but suddenly paying attention if they get out? > > All I can say is that what I’ve described is the widely accepted consensus among in-the-field experts who spend their whole lives with these animals. I’ll see if I can find any academic references. Maybe the lions think that humans are dangerous to hunt, but that humans might hunt them? We are and do, after all. But you might be right; I’m not trying to claim certainty. And this is kind of a hijack of the thread; though it might make an interesting thread of its own. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3254 "2022-06-02T20:56:08Z")
A North Carolina assistant DA said that a family could be excused from noise complaints if they got their dog’s vocal cords removed. [https://www.wral.com/nc-assistant-da-says-dog-s-bark-is-violation-of-noise-ordinance-suggests-removing-his-vocal-cords/20311731/](https://www.wral.com/nc-assistant-da-says-dog-s-bark-is-violation-of-noise-ordinance-suggests-removing-his-vocal-cords/20311731/) ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3255 "2022-06-02T21:01:17Z")
Continuing the hijack: I’ve read that (British East Africa) lions would reach into railroad cars through the windows and pull people out. I believe the books was “The Impossible Railway”. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3256 "2022-06-02T21:02:49Z")
I personally think the surgery is a bit barbaric, but (from the article): > “We’re willing to negotiate,” Eddings said. “We’ll put up a fence, things like that, but I’m not going to put on a barking collar and I’m not going to have surgery.” So what _are_ you willing to do ? If you’ve ever lived very near to an out-of-control barking dog(s), then you’ll know that it’s not a trifling matter. It’s also usually _not_ the sign of a well-adjusted dog whose basic needs are being attended to. Woof. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3257 "2022-06-02T21:10:56Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > from the article I’m not seeing any “discrepancy in one N Carolnia county’s noise ordinance”. This is what it’s for. And in addition to what you quoted from the owner, > “Leo’s bark does travel, but it’s just because he’s 120 pounds,” said his owner, Michael Eddings. I mean, the DA was stupid to say that, but this entitled owner needs to understand that it’s _down to him_ to find a solution for his problem dog, and that he must find one. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3258 "2022-06-02T21:20:34Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > It’s also usually _not_ the sign of a well-adjusted dog whose basic needs are being attended to. That was my takeaway. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3259 "2022-06-02T21:22:18Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > If you’ve ever lived very near to an out-of-control barking dog(s), then you’ll know that it’s not a trifling matter. There’s one or more dogs like that in my apartment building, and yes, it’s incredibly annoying. Especially when the dog is barking its head off late at night. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3260 "2022-06-02T21:40:48Z")
[preaching to the choir, and adding to the list]: - When you just got your baby down for a nap - When you work from home and have to think, have a conference call, or a Zoom meeting - When the barking coincides with your usual sleep hours (eg, shift workers) - After about the eighth straight hour, no matter what - If you’re … say … down with COVID and really just need to stay in bed and binge watch Netflix - The one or three times a year you just want to enjoy a cocktail in your yard - When you finally conk out for that blessed nap on the couch, but … here goes Rover [I’ll stop now 🙂] ---
**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:** [June 2, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3261 "2022-06-02T21:50:34Z")
So apparently the Buffalo shooting was really a conspiracy by Big Oil to kill one man who was about to patent a car that runs on water. [![](https://i.redd.it/gaq6afaye9391.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/gaq6afaye9391.jpg) ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3262 "2022-06-03T00:52:33Z")
“I don’t dare mention it online except for just now!” ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3263 "2022-06-03T01:32:51Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > So apparently the Buffalo shooting was really a conspiracy by Big Oil to kill one man who was about to patent a car that runs on water. Dang it, Big Oil is upping their game. I remember hearing about somebody dropping a pill into a tank of water and the car started fine since I was 10. Back then, though, he was just bought out, not murdered. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3264 "2022-06-03T01:38:15Z")
We shan’t note that ‘Runs on hydrogen!’ and ‘Runs on water!’ ain’t the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3265 "2022-06-03T02:57:42Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > … I remember hearing about somebody dropping a pill into a tank of water and the car started fine since I was 10. … Are you perhaps thinking of [Mota Fuel](https://www.straightdope.com/21341766/is-there-a-pill-that-can-turn-water-into-gasoline)? > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > We shan’t note that ‘Runs on hydrogen!’ and ‘Runs on water!’ ain’t the same thing. Well, you use part of the energy generated by burning the hydrogen to electrolyze water into more hydrogen, and the remainder will power the car. In some other universe that runs by different rules. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3266 "2022-06-03T04:15:58Z")
I don’t remember any names, neither the inventor nor the product, the the scenario the Perfect Master lays out fits what I heard. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3267 "2022-06-03T04:35:46Z")
Did you see the bigoted comments to that Yahoo! article? ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3268 "2022-06-03T12:33:38Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > > > So apparently the Buffalo shooting was really a conspiracy by Big Oil to kill one man who was about to patent a car that runs on water. > > Dang it, Big Oil is upping their game. I remember hearing about somebody dropping a pill into a tank of water and the car started fine since I was 10. Back then, though, he was just bought out, not murdered. Wasn’t that the plot of a Laurel & Hardy film? ---
**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:** [June 3, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3269 "2022-06-03T13:34:54Z")
I did, after Just\_Asking\_Questions pointed them out. As I said, I’d gotten out of the habit of even looking for comments since Yahoo turned them off a couple of years ago. I clicked on my link yesterday to see the comments, and there they were. I clicked on the article on the Yahoo page later in the day, and the comments were turned off. I clicked on my link in your post, and the comments are back. Weird. Anyway, this is the comment that showed this morning: > I want to know why the religious supports are not outraged over this blatant show of religious persecution. Oh my bad it wasn’t a christian. If you dont protect all religions no religions are safe. There is no way in hell you put bacon on a fillet of fish. Complete racist. I’m glad someone called them out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=162) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=164)