# 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:** 225
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4490 "2022-09-24T04:02:09Z")
For now, but maybe not much longer. > **[Proposed FDA ban on menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars, a win for public health](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/fda-ban-menthol-cigarettes-flavored-cigars/)** > > The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed new rules that ban the manufacture and sale of menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4492 "2022-09-24T07:29:54Z")
> [@digs](#): > > If I’m out, I have a bag of Twizzlers in there, too. Also fun to munch on while pushing it on the Elliptical Trainer. I’m trying to imagine this. So, one hand is grasping both an ET handle and a bag of twizzlers, while the other hand occasionally reaches over to grab another piece to maow down on? Do you go through a whole bag? I’m seeing something maybe counter-productive here. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4493 "2022-09-24T13:36:18Z")
Alas, it’s only one Twiz-worth. And it’s just an iconoclastic prop… but it’s also become one of my motivators to go work out. “But it’s yucky out, and I didn’t sleep well, and… ooh, but I’ll get a Twizzler!” ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4494 "2022-09-24T17:34:01Z")
One of today’s Nick Adams blatherings: > ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4495 "2022-09-24T17:46:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > One of today’s Nick Adams blatherings: > [https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1573541574067331072](https://twitter.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/1573541574067331072) - > **[Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball?](https://slate.com/culture/2020/05/donald-trump-baseball-high-school-nyma.html)** > > The president has long claimed he could have gone pro. We looked into it. TL,DR: He sucked. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4496 "2022-09-24T19:03:13Z")
> [@omenran](#): > > For now, but maybe not much longer. > > [Proposed FDA ban on menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars, a win for public health | News | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/fda-ban-menthol-cigarettes-flavored-cigars/) Damn, this getting old. I was just reading or watching something recently where menthol cigarettes _were_ banned. Oh, it was _Kevin Can F+ck Himself._ So, Massachusetts, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4497 "2022-09-24T19:29:53Z")
Gotta be some variation on Poe’s law happening here. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4498 "2022-09-24T20:43:19Z")
This account has to be parody/satire. He can’t possibly be seriously making all these outrageous, over-the-top, claims. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4499 "2022-09-24T22:29:12Z")
I was wondering about that too, but when the inverted shmuck comes up with [stupid books (oh and covers - yeah),](https://www.amazon.ca/Trump-Churchill-Defenders-Western-Civilization/dp/1642934690) I’ll opt with “means it”. ETA - nice blurb… > [@](#): > > Trump and Churchill both fought valiantly to protect Western Civilization, and while fighting different forms of tyranny, Trump could very well be to the twenty-first century what Churchill was to the twentieth. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4500 "2022-09-24T22:44:40Z")
It’s kind of creepy how people kept affirming how great he was in the past. His ego was huge from the very beginning, it seems. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4501 "2022-09-24T22:47:29Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > It’s kind of creepy how people kept affirming how great he was in the past. His ego was huge from the very beginning, it seems. - Not even Jesus had a more perfect birth. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4502 "2022-09-24T22:56:16Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Not even Jesus had a more perfect birth. “These three wise men, very rich, came to me in the manger with tears in their eyes and said “Sir….”” ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4503 "2022-09-25T17:02:52Z")
Students in Louisiana were promised a “career fair,” instead got sexist evangelical preaching. > **[Students Say They Were ‘Duped’ Into Attending Twisted Religious Event](https://www.yahoo.com/news/students-were-duped-attending-twisted-222412983.html)** > > They thought they were attending a college fair. Then things took a dark turn as girls were allegedly separated and “advised to forgive men who rape and assault them.” ---
**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:** [September 26, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4504 "2022-09-26T20:58:40Z")
Brett Favre. Once a football legend, now just a low life, money grubbing piece of shit. > **[Brett Favre told Mississippi governor he would not ‘take No for answer’ over...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/brett-favre-told-mississippi-governor-he-would-not-take-no-for-answer-over-volleyball-stadium-court-filing-shows/ar-AA12gI4y?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=02e91cc40ac84ede96ac5a62a677456f)** > > The Pro Football Hall of Famer is alleged to have pressured then-Gov. Phil Bryant for millions in taxpayer funds to build a volleyball center at a school where Favre's daughter competed, according to a court filing. for those unaware, Favre and some low life political hacks misdirected welfare funds, for the poorest residents in the poorest state, to build Favre’s daughter a Vollyball court at at a college. Then lied about knowing anything about it. And he could have funded this thing from the change on his nightstand, the rich puke. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4505 "2022-09-26T22:06:06Z")
To be honest, I’m kind of wondering why a dedicated volleyball center is needed anywhere, especially at a university in one of the poorest states. Can’t volleyball competitions occur in a multipurpose athletic facility? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4506 "2022-09-26T22:40:10Z")
I would think that if they have a basketball court, it would be very simple to have it double as a volleyball court. Easy peasy to do. Hard to play at the same time though I would like to see that. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4507 "2022-09-26T22:58:12Z")
Isn’t that Quidditch? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4508 "2022-09-27T01:09:56Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I would think that if they have a basketball court, it would be very simple to have it double as a volleyball court. Easy peasy to do. Hard to play at the same time though I would like to see that Yeah, unfortunately the seasons overlap. You occasionally get dual-sport college athletes that do both, but it means missing games in one or another. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4509 "2022-09-27T13:46:54Z")
how the hell do you delude yourself to think this wouldn’t get noticed? > **[$100 million N.J. deli scheme leads to federal charges against a man and his son](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/100-million-n-j-deli-scheme-leads-to-federal-charges-against-a-father-and-his-son/ar-AA12gUkx?ocid=MSNHP_U646&pc=U646&cvid=03cdbf66b3024109b5574369dd888ea8)** > > Your Hometown Deli in Paulsboro made under $40,000 in annual revenue. It was the sole location for Hometown International, which had an eye-popping market value. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/4510 "2022-09-27T17:30:09Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Isn’t that Quidditch? > **stop giving me ideas** > > • There are 5 players on each team: > • 2 volleyball players > • 1 basketball defensive and 2 offensive players on each side > • The court is deeper than a volley court and wider than a basketball court > • The net is 18" high and 5’ tall (6.5’ at the top) > • Players must stay on one side during each play > • The volleyball players may only strike the ball (hit it in the air) and the basketball players may only catch, dribble, pass and shoot to the basket; the volleyball players are allowed to defend the basket by deflecting the ball but must not let it hit the floor. > • Basketball players may pass to the other side only under the net. > • Baseline service by a volleyball player, across the net, which cannot be caught off the serve by a basketball player. > • 1 point for a volleyball drop (side-out scoring), 2 points for a basket, 3 points for a volleyball hit into the opposing basket (across the net). > • Contact is very limited. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=224) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=226)