# 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:** 307
**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 22, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6131 "2023-01-22T23:21:55Z")
I’m going with the fish owner as the stupid MFer. This guy set up his fish to play Pokemon, and it committed credit card fraud. > **[Pet fish commits credit card fraud on owner using a Nintendo Switch](https://www.techspot.com/news/97334-pet-fish-commits-credit-card-fraud-owner-using.html)** > > The entire heist started as an experiment to see if fish could complete Pokémon Scarlet and Violet unassisted. To do it, Japanese YouTuber "Mutekimaru Channel" set up... ---
**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 22, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6132 "2023-01-22T23:42:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m going with the fish owner as the stupid MFer. > This guy set up his fish to play Pokemon, and it committed credit card fraud. Many years ago I was really into “Roguelike” games. They were randomly-generated dungeons using ASCII characters for graphics. All freeware, many variations. Fun and addictive. You could download something called a “Seamonkey” which would play the game for you, and it would try to use AI reasoning to get through the game. It was interesting to see what decisions it made and how it figured out its way around challenges. So having a goldfish play Pokémon doesn’t seem so crazy to me. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6133 "2023-01-23T03:30:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I’m going with the fish owner as the stupid MFer. > This guy set up his fish to play Pokemon, and it committed credit card fraud. > [Pet fish commits credit card fraud on owner using a Nintendo Switch | TechSpot](https://www.techspot.com/news/97334-pet-fish-commits-credit-card-fraud-owner-using.html) Makes me feel not so bad when I look at my microwave and see the display flashing 12:00…12:00…12:00… ---
**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 23, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6134 "2023-01-23T17:07:03Z")
At least they’re going after something that’s only been around for 50 years this time. > **[The Eighteenth-Century Custard Recipe That Enraged Trump Supporters](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-eighteenth-century-custard-recipe-that-enraged-trump-supporters)** > > After offering a lesson on how to prepare a dessert called Orange Fool, a historical reënactor’s YouTube series became caught up in contemporary politics. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6135 "2023-01-23T19:19:04Z")
Trumpists: Delicate little snowflakes aren’t they? Oh, and I find it hilarious that they associated the name of that dessert with their god emperor. Me thinks they protest too much. Or maybe they are more aware of what the, “Orange Fool” is than they want to let on. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6136 "2023-01-23T19:50:49Z")
I don’t know how folks missed out on that epithet, among all the others that have been composed, complete with initialisms. I am going to propose this one going forward, with a slight change to make it easier to remember. Herewith: OOF for Outraged (or Outrageous, or Obnoxious or Obscene or Obtrusive or Offensive or Outlaw or Overblown) Orange Fool ---
**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 23, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6137 "2023-01-23T21:12:01Z")
The MAGA crowd is irate at Martha Washington for mocking Donald Trump in one of her recipes. I mean, I guess you can rant at her, she probably isn’t going to care. And you’ve already demonstrated quite loudly how much you hate America, go ahead and rail against some of the founding parents of the nation while you’re at it. ---
**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 23, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6138 "2023-01-23T22:24:14Z")
Ha! I am distantly related to her! I welcome the MAGA hatred coming my way, letting it warm my bones this winter. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6139 "2023-01-23T22:49:48Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Which I why I’d love to have a THIRD AMENDMENT RIGHTS! placard when I’m in a counter-march. [“I have few principles, but I stick to them.”](https://xkcd.com/496/) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6140 "2023-01-23T23:20:37Z")
> **[Trump Somehow Wins His Club’s Golf Championship Despite Missing First Day](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wins-his-clubs-golf-championship-despite-missing-first-day-for-lynette-hardaways-funeral?source=articles&via=rss)** > > The former president apparently snagged first place even though he was at Diamond’s North Carolina memorial service on the first day of his Florida club’s championship. > Whenever he opens a new golf course, because he owns 14 and operates another five, he plays the first club champion by himself and declares that the club championship and puts his name on the wall. ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6141 "2023-01-23T23:26:13Z")
> **[A Connecticut business owner named her new breakfast spot 'Woke' as a pun....](https://www.yahoo.com/news/connecticut-business-owner-named-her-174219075.html)** > > Carmen Quiroga opened Woke Breakfast & Coffee in Coventry, CT, and said the name was meant to convey "Wake up and have a coffee." > A Connecticut restaurant owner named her new coffee shop “Woke” as a pun without knowing the political connotation of the word — prompting complaints from some apparent conservative-leaning residents of the town. The owner chose the name because she wanted a logo with an egg in it, and the only word relating to waking up that had an ‘O’ in it was ‘woke’. Debate ensued on the town’s Facebook page. Fortunately… > On Thursday, the page’s admin, Tonya Landrie Ohlund, threatened to remove “ridiculous comments” about the new breakfast shop. > > “If you are that close-minded that you can’t grasp that the name is referring to the fact that it is a breakfast establishment and nothing more, then just keep that to yourself and move on,” Ohlund wrote. “It’s disgusting to read that residents are going to refuse to support a business that is trying to grow in our awesome little town because you don’t like what they’ve named it, without even knowing anything about how they chose that name. Just stop.” ---
**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:** [January 23, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6142 "2023-01-23T23:29:21Z")
She under-estimated the stupidity of her town. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6143 "2023-01-23T23:36:28Z")
It’s probably best to not give those people coffee. ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6144 "2023-01-23T23:36:50Z")
‘Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.’ – HL Mencken (Actually, her place is packed.) To be fair, the owner is an immigrant who says she did not know the political meaning of ‘woke’. ---
**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 23, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6145 "2023-01-23T23:56:40Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > > [@digs](#): > > > > Which I why I’d love to have a THIRD AMENDMENT RIGHTS! placard when I’m in a counter-march. > > [“I have few principles, but I stick to them.”](https://xkcd.com/496/) Huh, so _that’s_ why Randall Munroe asked me to wear that flat black hat while he interviewed me… ---
**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:** [January 23, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6146 "2023-01-23T23:58:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > To be fair, the owner is an immigrant who says she did not know the political meaning of ‘woke’. So…Woke might NOT be the reason she is being shunned. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6147 "2023-01-24T00:26:26Z")
Today I learned that “ordnance” and “ordinance” are two different words. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6148 "2023-01-24T00:34:12Z")
I guess you never tried to defeat an enemy by firing a no-smoking-in-restaurants regulation at him or tried to get the city council to pass a new artillery shell. ---
**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 24, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6149 "2023-01-24T00:46:40Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > defeat an enemy by firing a no-smoking-in-restaurants regulation at him That gives a new meaning to “rules of engagement”. > [@Andy\_L](#): > > tried to get the city council to pass a new artillery shell Those are for the new ammotated regulations. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/6150 "2023-01-24T01:03:58Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > or tried to get the city council to pass a new artillery shell. I’ve heard it said that city councils are notoriously tight-arsed, which must make such a task even more challenging. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=306) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=308)