# 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:** 193
**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:** [July 19, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3850 "2022-07-19T23:51:24Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > > [@Atamasama](#): > > > > I don’t know, but he did stab himself in the leg with Errol Flynn’s sword once. > > Quoth the dark one: > > > [@](#): > > > > “I take a bottle of whisky and just pour it on there," he said. "Because that’s what James Bond would do.” > > Of course a bottle of whiskey was involved. - He had a not-empty bottle? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3851 "2022-07-19T23:57:06Z")
Maybe he hadn’t finished the 4th one yet. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3852 "2022-07-19T23:58:24Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Maybe he hadn’t finished the 4th one yet. - He always finishes the fifth. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3853 "2022-07-20T00:01:59Z")
Better than pleading the fifth, which is what Ted Nugent might have to do ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3854 "2022-07-20T04:23:30Z")
If someone’s on Diego Garcia, then they were absolutely informed that they’re under British jurisdiction. It’s not possible to get there without being informed of that. Hopefully this ends this hijack. Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough earlier. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3855 "2022-07-20T12:09:48Z")
- School is in Georgia. - School has proposed a new logo. - School is across the street from a synagogue. - If you do not see where this is headed, you’ve been brain dead for the last 20 fucking years at a minimum. [Backlash at Cobb elementary school after newly designed logo appears to resemble Nazi symbol, parents say](https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/cobb-county-elementary-school-logo-resembles-nazi-symbol/85-044746f4-56b3-4697-9da1-5fb88c71949b) Here’s the proposed [logo](https://media.11alive.com/assets/WXIA/images/b94a4f57-1f4d-434e-be23-ed1bd681f471/b94a4f57-1f4d-434e-be23-ed1bd681f471_1920x1080.jpg). Who wants to take bets on the political party leaning of this area? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3856 "2022-07-20T12:15:13Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > If someone’s on Diego Garcia, then they were absolutely informed that they’re under British jurisdiction. It’s not possible to get there without being informed of that. Yeah. We had to watch a fairly lengthy video on what we could and could not do. I seem to remember somebody telling us that even the chickens were loyal subjects of the Queen and that it would be a criminal offense to molest them in any way. Also, we couldn’t have any porn. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3857 "2022-07-20T12:58:44Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > even the chickens were loyal subjects of the Queen and that it would be a criminal offense to molest them in any way. > > Also, we couldn’t have any porn. Were these connected issues? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3858 "2022-07-20T14:46:48Z")
Presuming this source is accurate, I would have lost that bet: [https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/georgia/marietta](https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/georgia/marietta) > [@](#): > > The Political Climate in Marietta, GA is Somewhat liberal. > > Cobb County, GA is Somewhat liberal. In Cobb County, GA 56.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 42.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent. > > In the last Presidential election, Cobb county remained strongly Democratic, 56.3% to 42.0%. > Cobb county voted Democratic in 2020 and 2016, after voting Republican in the previous four elections Maybe the mere fact that there _was_ backlash should have been a clue to us 😉 ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3859 "2022-07-20T17:02:28Z")
Wow - Cobb county certainly has changed in the last twenty years. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3860 "2022-07-20T17:06:19Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Here’s the proposed [logo](https://media.11alive.com/assets/WXIA/images/b94a4f57-1f4d-434e-be23-ed1bd681f471/b94a4f57-1f4d-434e-be23-ed1bd681f471_1920x1080.jpg). - Wow. They can’t even spell suttle. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3861 "2022-07-20T17:17:33Z")
Just FYI, the logo ain’t happening. > **[Cobb schools retract East Side ES logo resembling Nazi eagle](https://eastcobbnews.com/cobb-schools-retract-east-side-es-logo-resembling-nazi-eagle/)** > > The Cobb County School District has pulled a redesigned logo for East Side Elementary School in East Cobb following complaints from parents and others in If it was a more right-leaning community, they would have doubled down. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3862 "2022-07-20T17:33:36Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > a more right-leaning community Some parts of it seem to be leaning a _long_ way right. A link to this story (same school, earlier this year) was near the bottom of that article. > **[Incident at Cobb School Horrifies Jewish Community](https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/incident-at-cobb-school-horrifies-jewish-community/)** > > An eighth-grade student at East Cobb Middle School reported that classmates were photographed wearing an armband with a swastika on it and demonstrating the Nazi salute. So it sounds like they don’t just need to be “reviewing” the logo, they need to cut the bullshit about it being “based on the U.S. Army colonel’s eagle wings” and say who came up with it. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3863 "2022-07-20T17:35:10Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Some parts of it seem to be leaning a _long_ way right. That’s just gross. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3864 "2022-07-20T17:38:27Z")
I wasn’t sure where to put this, so I’ll put this here. The Republican who the current Republican governor calls a QAnon whacko won the Republican primary for Governor of Maryland last night. The Democratic Party contributed over one million dollars to the whacko’s campaign, believing they can beat him in the general election. I hope the gamble pays off. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3865 "2022-07-20T17:40:14Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > If it was a more right-leaning community, they would have doubled down. Put a couple of runic Ss in the hexagon for… Summer School. Yeah, that’s the ticket. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3866 "2022-07-20T17:52:38Z")
Srsly. The backlash potential is enormous if this goes wrong (from a Democrat’s point of view). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3867 "2022-07-20T17:55:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Democratic Party contributed over one million dollars to the whacko’s campaign, believing they can beat him in the general election. They did the same In Pennsylvania, helping to elect crazy dude Mastriano. Man, I hope it pays off. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3868 "2022-07-20T18:02:11Z")
Promoting your crazy opponent has worked before, like for Claire McCaskill in MO in 2012. But these candidates didn’t win because Democrats helped them – their wins were overwhelming. They won because that’s who the Republican electorate wants these days. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/3869 "2022-07-20T18:14:59Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Democratic Party contributed over one million dollars to the whacko’s campaign, believing they can beat him in the general election. This I think is stupid. Not only is it risky, but more money allows him and his ideas to be taken more seriously in general, even if he loses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=192) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=194)