# 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:** 286
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5711 "2023-01-02T17:38:52Z")
I know this is weak by the standards of this thread, but it just struck me as a weirdly gushing thing for someone in the position of FIFA president to say, implying that there will be a formal FIFA request. Competitive performative mourning. > **[Fifa’s Infantino will ask every country to name stadium in honour of Pelé](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/02/gianni-infantino-every-country-name-stadium-in-honour-of-pele-fifa)** > > Fifa will ask every country in the world to name a stadium in honour of Pelé, its president, Gianni Infantino, has said I mean, I know he’s a legend and all, but there are only so many stadiums and a lot of reasons to name them. Even the attempt to name a stadium in _Brazil_ after him failed. I somehow doubt that we’ll be seeing Pelé Stadium in Chad or Bhutan or Kazakhstan. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5712 "2023-01-02T18:58:53Z")
This white bread teenager from Maine somehow became a radicalized Muslim and drove to New York City to attack cops with a machete on New Year’s Eve. > **[Maine teen charged with attempted murder in NYC machete attack](https://www.wmtw.com/article/new-york-city-machete-attacker-identified-as-maine-man/42375078)** > > Trevor Bickford of Wells is accused of attacking several NYPD officers on New Year's Eve ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5713 "2023-01-02T19:06:45Z")
That’s a Cold Steel kukri if I’m not mistaken. I have one in the car for emergency use. Nasty weapon. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5714 "2023-01-02T22:41:21Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I have one in the car for emergency use. I have to ask what sort of emergency? ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5715 "2023-01-02T22:51:11Z")
Like, say, he’s taken a train to NYC for New Year’s Eve… . . (and/or attacked by Triffids) ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5716 "2023-01-02T22:57:19Z")
Perfect weapon if this happens: > **[Predatory Vines](https://horror.fandom.com/wiki/Predatory_Vines)** > > The Predatory Vines are the main antagonists in 2008 movie “The Ruins,” based on the book of the same name. The Predatory Vines are a mysterious species of creeping vine originating from Mexico, growing on an isolated temple (but potentially spread... Also more general utility - zombie apocalypse, peeling fruit, etc. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5717 "2023-01-02T23:06:01Z")
I have two Cold Steel kukris; a large one, and a small one. I haven’t used them yet. A regular machete is at-hand out back. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5718 "2023-01-02T23:29:34Z")
Quite the Boy Scout aren’t you? 😉 ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5719 "2023-01-02T23:34:42Z")
My wife says I am. She rolls her eyes when she says it. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5720 "2023-01-02T23:47:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > She rolls her eyes when she says it. Well. I was in scouting. A few years after I left the troop, I was riding home on the city bus when it stopped at our polytechnic HS and a horde of students got on.        This was the school that only admitted its first female student a couple years before that. These were teenage boys who spent most of the day away from the company of females. They were exactly as I remember the boys in my troop.        I mean, seriously, does anyone really think that boy scouts are trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent? All the ones I knew were disgusting randy fuckwads. Probably mostly from being around me. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5721 "2023-01-02T23:56:17Z")
This one time at band camp… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5722 "2023-01-03T00:28:44Z")
The kukri is pointy enough to act as a pick, so in combination with the folding shovel that lives next to it in the storage area of the car, I can hopefully dig my way out of trouble if I have to. It also can break car windows, slice through seat belts and do other nifty things. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5723 "2023-01-03T01:08:59Z")
[A domestic terrorist whines about beng considered a domestic terrorist](https://news.yahoo.com/trump-news-live-trump-rages-042110697.html): > Hope Hicks: Trump made us ‘all look like domestic terrorists’ > > _17:05_ , _John Bowden_ > > Text messages between Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump, and Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff were released by the January 6 committee alongside their final report this weekend. > > In the texts, the reclusive Ms Hicks is vocal about her feelings in the immediate wake of January 6, which she describes as making every single member of the Trump White House virtually unemployable. > > “We all look like domestic terrorists now,” she wrote in one message, adding: “I’m so mad and upset.” > > This is Hope HICKS texting with who I believe is Ivanka’s chief of staff Julie Radford, concerned that Trump has made them all appear to be “domestic terrorists.” Redford agrees. > > “Alyssa looks like a genius,” Hicks says about Alyssa Farah Griffin’s decision to leave admin early. [pic.twitter.com/lXExpESDlg](https://t.co/lXExpESDlg) > > > — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) [January 2, 2023](https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1609817435057623040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) That’s hilarious. Here’s a nifty hint: don’t be a domestic terrorist if you’re that worried about it. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5724 "2023-01-03T01:16:48Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > so in combination with the folding shovel that lives next to it in the storage area of the car, With the rope and duct tape? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5725 "2023-01-03T01:18:15Z")
And the gloves, can’t forget the gloves, and a change of clothes in case of blood spatter. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5726 "2023-01-03T01:21:17Z")
Tarps can come in handy at times… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5727 "2023-01-03T01:51:48Z")
Ummm…I actually have all of that in the car. Right down to the change of clothes. Of course, there is a tool kit and a trauma kit in the car as well. But noooo…just because I have a kukri, shovel, gloves, rope, duct tape, a tarp, contractor bags and a few other things it means I’m evil, mean and nasty. Well, I am…but it still hurts, guys. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5728 "2023-01-03T02:14:41Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > a few other things Quicklime? ---
**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:** [January 3, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5729 "2023-01-03T02:28:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@silenus](#): > > > > a few other things > > Quicklime? - Quicklime is for amateurs. > **[Piranha solution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution)** > > Piranha solution, also known as piranha etch, is a mixture of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The resulting mixture is used to clean organic residues off substrates, for example silicon wafers. Because the mixture is a strong oxidizing agent, it will decompose most organic matter, and it will also hydroxylate most surfaces (by adding –OH groups), making them highly hydrophilic (water-compatible). This means the solution can also easily dissolve fabric and skin, potentially Ma... ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5730 "2023-01-03T06:00:45Z")
Hold your horses there I didn’t say any of that. I just meant he was, “prepared.” 😆 And reading further he really is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=285) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=287)