# 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:** 23
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/442 "2021-04-23T21:08:09Z")
🙂 The potatoes are only a small part of the state - and even there, they spend a lot of time hunting & it’s a very outdoorsy culture. A large quantity of the rest of the state is national forest. (also, hunting and outdoorsy) ---
**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 23, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/443 "2021-04-23T21:14:25Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > The potatoes are only a small part of the state - and even there, they spend a lot of time hunting What do potatoes hunt? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/444 "2021-04-23T21:17:46Z")
Heh. Worked with a sys admin once that got pulled over by county deputies. He (and I) work for the county. He had been drinking and got off real lucky by being told he will be let off and just go home. Same deputy pulled him over later in the night. He told deputy that he better let him go or he would delete all of his information from the servers. He said this to the cop (and he could do it). Next day he found his computer gone and a cardboard box on his desk. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/445 "2021-04-23T22:00:59Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > What do potatoes hunt? You don’t want to know. But tater tots are worth the price. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/446 "2021-04-23T22:21:34Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > So why wasn’t he immediatly shot, perhaps 20 times? [Appropriate username/post combo…] Because while far too many traffic stops result in Black men being killed by police, most of them don’t? It seems you’re asking a rhetorical question, but I can’t quite figure out the point you’re trying to make. ---
**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 23, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/447 "2021-04-23T22:53:40Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > So, racist or misogynist? [![](https://new-cdn.mamamia.com.au/mamamia-pwa.appspot.com/cms_images/variations/596x397.3333333333333-789086803473.jpg) ](https://new-cdn.mamamia.com.au/mamamia-pwa.appspot.com/cms_images/variations/596x397.3333333333333-789086803473.jpg) > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Wasn’t it James Carville who famously said that Pennsylvania is “Pittsburgh on one end, Philadelphia on the other end, and Alabama in the middle” ?? Washington State is Alabama east of the Cascades (or seems that way). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/448 "2021-04-24T01:28:47Z")
Pretty much every state in the union, even CA & NY, are really Alabama out in the countryside once you get the population density low enough. And that’s the real problem: we have 50 states composed of cities & suburbs, and a different 50 states composed of all the out-counties ---
**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 24, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/449 "2021-04-24T02:14:25Z")
Which makes seceding really hard. … I’ve been known to say “Washington State. From left to right: the Olympics, Civilization, the Cascades, and… Hillbillies.” Always gets a chuckle in a Seattle bar. ---
**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 24, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/450 "2021-04-24T03:36:04Z")
…and fond, tear-laden, almost-racking-with-sobs recollections of the Kingdome. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/451 "2021-04-24T04:16:39Z")
Disturbing. Yeah. ---
**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 24, 2021, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/452 "2021-04-24T04:41:14Z")
Idaho is shaped like a toilet, while Michigan is shaped like a hand reaching for, uh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/453 "2021-04-24T05:27:34Z")
Wow, I never really… Yeah. ---
**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 24, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/454 "2021-04-24T05:43:22Z")
At least not as ungainly as Vancouver Island unsuccessfuily trying to have a go at Puget Sound. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/455 "2021-04-24T10:56:34Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > …and fond, tear-laden, almost-racking-with-sobs recollections of the Kingdome We used to tell visitors to Seattle who asked what it was, “That is the main parking structure for downtown”. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/456 "2021-04-24T15:48:01Z")
I’m old enough to remember when the Bank of America Tower (now the Columbia Center) was called “the box the Space Needle came in.” ---
**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:** [April 24, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/457 "2021-04-24T16:18:35Z")
Fucking moron. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/montana-governor-signs-bill-nullifying-federal-gun-bans/ar-BB1g0JUk?li=BBnb7Kz](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/montana-governor-signs-bill-nullifying-federal-gun-bans/ar-BB1g0JUk?li=BBnb7Kz) ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/458 "2021-04-24T17:54:00Z")
A Gov doesn’t get to be a moron all on their own. It takes a legislature of morons to pass the bill in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/459 "2021-04-24T17:57:52Z")
It also helps to have a citizenry of morons to elect these bozos. Said another way, it’s morons all the way down. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/460 "2021-04-24T18:02:35Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Fucking moron. I’ll see you your moron and raise you one… > **[Ricketts declares Nebraska a 'Second Amendment Sanctuary State'](https://www.klkntv.com/ricketts-declares-nebraska-a-second-amendment-sanctuary-state/)** > > LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Gov. Pete Ricketts on Wednesday signed a proclamation declaring Nebraska a ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary State.’ “The White House and U.S. Congress have announced their intention to pursue measures that would infringe on the... ---
**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 24, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/461 "2021-04-24T18:57:33Z")
Drive down California Highway 99 through the middle (mostly deep red) part of California, and you’ll see all of the crazy signs about the elites taking our water so we can’t farm, and Hillary should be arrested, and Trump is sent by God. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=24)