# 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:** 498
**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 4, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9951 "2024-01-04T02:14:11Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Poppycock, he _was the greatest president EVER._ However, the deep state etc. _lies_ about him so only his followers, the chosen few, **KNOW.** Thus showing the Trump presidency is the sovcit version of politics. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9952 "2024-01-04T02:35:56Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > I’m struggling for words … - …that’d be the asphyxiation part. ---
**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 4, 2024, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9953 "2024-01-04T02:45:48Z")
> **[CLYDE BRUCKMAN:- There are worse ways to go but I can't think of a more...](https://www.facebook.com/kiwiphrootfanvideos/videos/423055088407357/)** > > CLYDE BRUCKMAN:- > There are worse ways to go but I can't think of a more undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation. > MULDER:- Why are you telling me... ---
**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 4, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9954 "2024-01-04T03:01:11Z")
> digs[Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/g/Registered) > > > [@PastTense](#): > > > > He is a college economics major at Loyola University in Chicago who does an armed robbery getting $110 from it. > > What are they teaching these kids? In my stint at the London School of Economics, the first week was cost/benefit analysis of The Big Heist. > > Now, the LSoE is adamant that the kid should’ve rounded up a decent Caper Crew: a Kasparov and a Cleric for planning, a Shifty Grifter and a Missus Doubtfire to get the ball rolling; and on the big day, at least two Schwarzeneggers, an Inspector Gadget, a first-rate Hacker-Cracker, and then, for the getaway, a Popeye Doyle and a Mary Poppins. > > . > > I have classmates who are still doing time from a botched mid-term. > [@muldoonthief](#): > > I assumed it was an Ocean’s 11 reference, where they had a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros, and a Leon Spinks. And the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever. Actually, I didn’t know that, but it makes me laugh! George and Brad and Co. probably based their laundry list of “heist team nicknames” on the same vintage British humor I did… ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9955 "2024-01-04T03:05:36Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > > [@Sylvanz](#): > > > > Poppycock, he _was the greatest president EVER._ However, the deep state etc. _lies_ about him so only his followers, the chosen few, **KNOW.** > > Thus showing the Trump presidency is the sovcit version of politics. Yanno, that is a really remarkably _great_ explanation of the trump phenomenon. Thank you. The scales have fallen from my eyes. ---
**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 4, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9956 "2024-01-04T03:51:47Z")
It pretty much is that kind of world-view, isn’t it? The magatoflatearthers don’t care about such niceties as facts, science, or laws. All they care about is what they want to be true. In their flateartheresque minds, what they want to be true automatically _is_ true. And only those damn libtards are indoctrinating people away from the truth. And finally, judges are slamming the magatoflatearthers into prison for multiple years for acting on those magatoflatearther inanity. ---
**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 4, 2024, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9957 "2024-01-04T04:54:43Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > That news is so old now I didn’t even realize there were still people who had not heard that. ^^^ This. ^^^ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9958 "2024-01-04T05:23:14Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Actually, I didn’t know that, but it makes me laugh! George and Brad and Co. probably based their laundry list of “heist team nicknames” on the same vintage British humor I did… I read somewhere (possibly the trivia section on IMDb) that all of those things referred to actual elements of the con that they ran. The “two Jethros” are the Malloy brothers. “Ella Fitzgerald” refers to the “is it live or is it Memorex” commercial she did; that’s the fake vault and video they use to convince Terry Benedict that he’s being robbed. I don’t remember the others. ---
**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 4, 2024, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9959 "2024-01-04T06:40:24Z")
The only part that surprised me was the guy’s name Porntip. Of course I knew how Carradine died, I was the one who brought the cite into the thread. I just hadn’t noticed that name in my own cite. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9960 "2024-01-04T06:47:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > … In their flateartheresque minds, what they want to be true automatically _is_ true. … > Here we sit in a branchy row, > Thinking of beautiful things we know; > Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, > All complete, in a minute or two – > Something noble and grand and good, > Won by merely wishing we could. [The Road-Song of the _Bandar-Log_](https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_roadsong.htm) ---
**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 4, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9961 "2024-01-04T13:01:20Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The only part that surprised me was the guy’s name Porntip. Woman’s name. > **[Porntip Rojanasunan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porntip_Rojanasunan)** > > Khun Ying Pornthip Rojanasunand, also spelled Porntip Rojanasunan (Thai: พรทิพย์ โรจนสุนันท์; RTGS: Phonthip Rotchanasunan; born 21 December 1954) is a Thai forensic pathologist, a currently member of the Senate of Thailand and medical doctor. First appearing in the media in 1998, her work and outlandish hairstyles quickly granted her celebrity status, and she became the best known of Thailand's forensic scientists. An author of several best-selling memoirs, her work introduced the Thai public ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9962 "2024-01-04T13:19:24Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > They trade them around like the Catholic church trades priests. “…and in exchange, the diocese received Archbishop Michael Flanders and a pedophile to be named later.” ---
**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 4, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9963 "2024-01-04T15:06:53Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The only part that surprised me was the guy’s name Porntip. > [@Joey\_P](#): > > Woman’s name. I didn’t read the article since I already knew about the autoerotic asphyxiation back in 2009… So I just assumed **Porntip** was a website. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9964 "2024-01-04T15:33:13Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > > [@bobot](#): > > > > They trade them around like the Catholic church trades priests. > > “…and in exchange, the diocese received Archbishop Michael Flanders and a pedophile to be named later.” I admit I laughed for real at that one. Well played Good Sir!! ---
**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 4, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9965 "2024-01-04T16:29:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I didn’t read the article since I already knew about the autoerotic asphyxiation back in 2009… So I just assumed **Porntip** was a website. Honestly, I only looked it up because the name caught my attention. However, she seems to be rather famous in her country, even having a wax figure at Madame Tussauds. ---
**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 4, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9966 "2024-01-04T16:47:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > I didn’t read the article since I already knew about the autoerotic asphyxiation back in 2009… So I just assumed **Porntip** was a website. > > Honestly, I only looked it up because the name caught my attention. However, she seems to be rather famous in her country, even having a **wax figure** at Madame Tussauds. - Silicone would be more appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9967 "2024-01-04T17:09:55Z")
More National Park shenanigans: [Porsche driver faces jail time after going off-road in Death Valley](https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/death-valley-illegal-off-road-mud-drive-18587607.php) > The National Park Service says that two men drove their rented Porsche SUV into the mud…The men were headed toward a salt flat 2 miles from Badwater Basin, but only made it about 200 yards from the designated road before they got stuck. Instead of following directions and waiting for the park service to supervise the rescue, the men allegedly hired a pickup driver to remove their vehicles. The pickup ended up with the same fate as the Porsche SUV. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9968 "2024-01-04T21:29:18Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Joey\_P](#): > > > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > > > I didn’t read the article since I already knew about the autoerotic asphyxiation back in 2009… So I just assumed **Porntip** was a website. > > > > Honestly, I only looked it up because the name caught my attention. However, she seems to be rather famous in her country, even having a **wax figure** at Madame Tussauds. - > > Silicone would be more appropriate. 🙄 C’mon, people. Yes, we all know that transliterated versions of names from other languages, including [the perfectly normal Thai girls’ name transcribed as “Porntip” or “Pornthip”,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porntip) sometimes seem funny or stupid in English. Your own given name doubtless seems equally funny or stupid in several languages that you don’t know. And if you encountered people who did know them, you would probably quickly get tired of jokes about your being called “goose excrement” or whatever your name means in that language. ---
**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 4, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9969 "2024-01-04T21:46:42Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > 🙄 C’mon, people. Yes, we all know that transliterated versions of names from other languages… sometimes seem funny or stupid in English. Except I didn’t know it was a person’s name. ---
**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 4, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/9970 "2024-01-04T22:43:10Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Your own given name doubtless seems equally funny or stupid in several languages that you don’t know. And if you encountered people who did know them, you would probably quickly get tired of jokes about your being called “goose excrement” or whatever your name means in that language. My own real life last name caused me no end of Hell growing up even in English so… 🤷‍♂️ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=497) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=499)