# 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:** 294
**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:** [January 12, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5871 "2023-01-12T19:04:02Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There’s a chain of burger joints in Seattle called “Dick’s”. Kinda cheap, small burgers, popular with local, starving students. I’ve occasionally heard the phrase “eat a bag of Dick’s”. I was going to comment on Dick’s Drive-In also. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 12, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5872 "2023-01-12T19:55:28Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Many years ago (time has blurred the details) I got a request from Medical Benefits to verify something about an employee named “Dolcet.” The only result I got at work was a nastygram from Web Security; when I got home I made the mistake of looking it up. I know better, I know better, I know better – but I searched on that. And what I got was a whole lot of hits for a drug of that name. Either the search engine’s improved, or the drug didn’t exist under that name “many years ago”. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5873 "2023-01-12T20:07:32Z")
My question is why is there tentacle porn? 🫣 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5874 "2023-01-12T20:10:35Z")
Rule 34, it’s as simple as that. ---
**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 12, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5875 "2023-01-12T20:14:14Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Rule 34, it’s as simple as that. - Only if you don’t have tentacles. I wonder what squid and octopi consider Rule 34. Seahorses, most likely. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5876 "2023-01-12T20:23:17Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I wonder what squid and octopi consider Rule 34. I don’t know, but maybe they dream of hot finger or toe sex? They seem to be very intelligent and may have similar weird kinks like us. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5877 "2023-01-12T20:25:07Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Only if you don’t have tentacles. I wonder what squid and octopi consider Rule 34. A rigid (heh) skeletal system? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5878 "2023-01-12T20:26:11Z")
It’s been suggested that it is due, at least in part, to the influence of a well-known image titled “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” in a collection of erotica published in Japan in the early 19th Century, which in turn may have been inspired by a popular legend of a shell diver stealing back a pearl from a sea-god. (Bare-breasted female divers having been a popular subject in the style.) At any rate, it dates back over 200 years. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5879 "2023-01-12T20:34:43Z")
I think in a way, it allows shy and sexually repressed people to like rape scenes. The tentacled creature is alien and therefore doesn’t have human values. In its own world, aggressive sex is expected and appreciated. The schoolgirl who’s usually the recipient of tentacle interaction is a Japanese sex symbol, and the experience becomes intricate and exotic, rather than dirty and gross. Or maybe it just looks cool. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5880 "2023-01-12T23:10:06Z")
[If you’re going to pull a murder/suicide,](https://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/officials-investigate-murder-suicide-on-i-57-wednesday/article_45415f94-92a9-11ed-aeaa-f78831f9953f.html) there are much better locations than [in the cab of a moving big rig on an Interstate highway](https://www.countryherald.com/news/arkansas-couple-found-dead-in-semi-on-i-57-in-kankakee-county/). ---
**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 13, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5881 "2023-01-13T00:07:47Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I wonder what squid and octopi consider Rule 34. to cephalopods, the distinction between porn and snuff is non-existent, as they are spawners who go senescent after breeding ---
**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:** [January 13, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5882 "2023-01-13T00:18:52Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I think in a way, it allows shy and sexually repressed people to like rape scenes. Or bondage scenes. Tentacle porn isn’t really my thing, but I come across it occasionally in sci-fi romance. Many times there is clear consent and the eroticism is more about restraint. I’d wager there’s a cultural context here, like American tentacle porn might have different connotations. Wow, pithing to tentacle porn. We are quite the group. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5883 "2023-01-13T00:27:58Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Wow, pithing to tentacle porn. that is some Rule 34 opportunity ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5884 "2023-01-13T00:28:19Z")
Theres nothing like The Dope. even The Committee can’t stop us. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5885 "2023-01-13T00:33:34Z")
… nor Rule 34 ---
**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 13, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5886 "2023-01-13T00:55:37Z")
All I can say is it is a good thing this thread is in the Pith. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5887 "2023-01-13T00:56:20Z")
Please stop. The lowest form of humor is the punth. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5888 "2023-01-13T01:04:20Z")
Is that PU to the nth? ---
**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 13, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5889 "2023-01-13T01:06:44Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The lowest form of humor is the punth. I thought it was sarcasm, but I guess @Czarcasm’s inferior position in the hierarchy is assured either way. ---
**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 13, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/5890 "2023-01-13T01:29:59Z")
not … _sarcasm_ > [@](#): > > … _and said… I had to see… **Doug** _. >       Doug? > _ **Doug**. Well, I was terrified. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug_. >       What did he do? > _He used… **sarcasm**. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, pathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=293) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=295)