# 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:** 366
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7311 "2023-05-05T20:10:08Z")
I’d be worried about the smell, but these folks don’t seem like the type to be fussy housekeepers. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7312 "2023-05-05T20:56:16Z")
The Deptford, NJ Little League has some clever people on board. Great idea. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7313 "2023-05-05T23:20:44Z")
But what happens when one of them takes them up on it and then throws the game to his kid’s team? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7314 "2023-05-05T23:23:41Z")
Then the other team’s parents will verbally abuse them, and then _they_ will be recruited for three games. In any case, it didn’t say that they would or could officiate their own kid’s games. I’d actually say it would be a given that they wouldn’t. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2023, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7315 "2023-05-05T23:31:21Z")
Umps should be armed now. All you posers - not realising that it’s the hobo font that has the most gravitas. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7316 "2023-05-06T01:01:59Z")
Next thing you know, the officials will just be deciding on their own the outcome of games. We don’t need that, we already have the NBA. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7317 "2023-05-06T11:37:12Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > But what happens when one of them takes them up on it and then throws the game to his kid’s team? You don’t have them ump their kid’s game. You pick one on a night when their kid isn’t playing, so they have to make an extra trip out to the fields. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7318 "2023-05-06T12:49:59Z")
I don’t know how their league is, but around here, little league games are more on the weekends, and there are a whole bunch at once at different fields. So, I’d say rather than wasting a trip on a day that their kid isn’t playing, they are umping a game, while missing their kid’s that is taking place on the other side of the park. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7319 "2023-05-06T13:47:54Z")
Y’know, if I were a sane, reasonable Little League parent, I really wouldn’t be happy if my kid’s game were officiated by someone chosen purely on the grounds that they’re a belligerent jerk. I’d want a fair and even-minded ump with real knowledge of the rules of the game. This might be justice for the belligerent jerks, but it’s not justice for all of the innocent bystanders. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7320 "2023-05-06T14:03:30Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’d want a fair and even-minded ump with real knowledge of the rules of the game. From the article: > [@](#): > > Those parents who do cross the line and find themselves on mandatory umpire duty will have a trained umpire with them when they serve their penance. I assume that the trained ump’s calls will take precedence over the “volunteer”. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7321 "2023-05-06T15:04:19Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I assume that the trained ump’s calls will take precedence over the “volunteer”. One year when my son was playing baseball, there was a severe shortage of umpires. The managers and league officials worked out a compromise, where the trained ump worked behind the plate, while a volunteer parent from the ‘home’ team worked the bases. (All games were played on the same field.) I was almost always the Dad who was the ump when my kid’s team was the designated home team. It was kinda fun and a definite learning experience. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2023, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7322 "2023-05-06T21:09:43Z")
> **[Anti-LGBTQ+ hate group accidentally leaks membership & other sensitive...](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/anti-lgbtq-hate-group-accidentally-leaks-membership-other-sensitive-records/)** > > The leak included its board members' social security numbers and secret documents outlining its national strategies... > The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) — [a Christian anti-LGBTQ+ hate group](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/12/fake-medical-group-lobbying-trump-actually-hate-group-disguise/) that uses its professional-sounding name to push transphobic and anti-abortion propaganda — recently “suffered a significant data breach” that leaked 10,000 of its confidential files, including its membership list. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7323 "2023-05-06T23:53:07Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > That’s the kind of nonsense up with which I shall not put Errant pedantry, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7324 "2023-05-07T14:13:53Z")
In the category of News Headlines I Didn’t Really Need To See: [Nazis protest at Land-Grant drag brunch: Here’s what you need to know now](http://dispatch.com/story/news/2023/05/01/heres-what-we-know-about-the-nazis-protesting-a-columbus-drag-brunch/70169948007/?itm_medium=recirc&itm_source=taboola&itm_campaign=internal&itm_content=BelowArticleFeed-FeedRedesign) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7325 "2023-05-07T14:56:50Z")
From the article: > Most of the protestors donned black ski masks and sunglasses, preventing their faces from being shown. Perhaps they were afraid that if anyone knew who they were there might be repercussions. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7326 "2023-05-07T16:29:39Z")
Data breaches are scary, but at the same time that headline does cheer me up. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7327 "2023-05-07T16:35:03Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Perhaps they were afraid that if anyone knew who they were there might be repercussions. And their data was leaked. 🤣 At least we are up against idiots. We have that going for us. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7328 "2023-05-07T16:36:17Z")
> [@Dandan](#): > > Might be pretty relaxing - you don’t have the whiplash effect of wondering “this one?” “maybe this one?” “That’s my secret – I’m _always_ angry.” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7329 "2023-05-10T17:24:34Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I named a kitten that, for a while. Ours was Hairy Wart from his habit of climbing onto your shoulder then falling asleep. Eventually is was changed to K.C. – short for Kitty Cat. We didn’t expend a lot of effort in picking a name. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/7330 "2023-05-11T14:56:32Z")
The Daily Mail [apparently got their hands on Rihanna’s baby’s birth certificate](https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/daily-mail-obtain-birth-certificate-of-rihanna-and-aap-rockys-child.php). That’s just gross and weird! She can keep it a secret if she likes! I hope she uses them into the deepest darkest hole possible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=365) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=367)