# 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:** 65
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1288 "2021-09-19T06:03:17Z")
> [@Old\_Wench](#): > > Or Blue Ball, PA, which is not far from Intercourse, PA. Paradise is closer. 🙂 (I understand they have a saying that “You have to go through Intercourse to get to Paradise”. Looking at the map, that’s only true only for certain starting points!) ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1289 "2021-09-19T15:06:03Z")
Well Climax, MI is not that far from Interstate 69 you can get there in about 28 minutes. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1290 "2021-09-19T19:18:22Z")
That was hard to watch. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1291 "2021-09-19T19:38:16Z")
Yeah, it was pretty fucked up for my friend too–turns out that not so long after this particular debacle he quit his job and is doing gig work to maintain his mental health. I feel a big reckoning is coming when all the burned out hospital workers just walk out en masse. Shit is gonna be real bad in not too long. For example, [this is what OHSU](https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/overwhelmed-inside-ohsu-covid-icu-oregon/283-7a7dfec0-d63a-470c-b542-f10befa9401e), one of Portland’s biggest hospitals, is coping with right now. My friend the RT’s wife is an RN and works there–thank goodness she got out of ICU and into another department a couple years ago, I’d hate to think of her having to deal with all this shit every day. Her pension will be fully vested in a couple years and I expect she’ll be walking out the day after it happens. I doubt she’s all that uncommon, too. If we don’t kill for-profit health care in this country and do it right soon we won’t have a health care system at all. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1292 "2021-09-20T20:29:37Z")
Traffic lights were finally added to a busy entrance at a nearby apartment complex. Somebody didn’t do a very good job. Before: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211s21Gtbi154IKX2vUfyvIb2g%212m2%211d38.854654%212d-77.1151592%213f343.24%214f8.529%215f0.75 After: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sw7hbeMxwbqpXe1saeKqOUQ%212m2%211d38.8546872%212d-77.1151444%213f343.24%214f8.529%215f0.75 ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1293 "2021-09-20T20:34:17Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Traffic controls were finally added to a busy entrance at a nearby apartment complex. Somebody didn’t do a very good job. I twisted and turned, zoomed in and out, and tried to discover what you were seeing that I wasn’t. Then, “Ohhhhhhh…” Different municipal departments not communicating? ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1294 "2021-09-20T20:52:30Z")
TPTB could be planning to move the pole later. A construction crew is currently repairing this retaining wall down the street: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sX7NXPihmrH4Mys8zwTYoPg%212m2%211d38.8542237%212d-77.1170127%213f21.42%214f8.558%215f0.75 ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1295 "2021-09-20T21:10:16Z")
You want to be paying attention driving down **that** street. It’s one of the few times when it’s legitimate to ask, “Who put this utility pole here?!” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1296 "2021-09-20T21:21:38Z")
I take it that none of you have driven through Newtown, Connecticut, [which has its flagpole in an intersection](http://www.newtownhistory.org/the-flagpole.shtml). ---
**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:** [September 20, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1297 "2021-09-20T21:42:55Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I take it that none of you have driven through Newtown, Connecticut, Not since going to the dollar movies in '83. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1298 "2021-09-20T22:04:51Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Traffic lights were finally added to a busy entrance at a nearby apartment complex. Somebody didn’t do a very good job. Okay, I’m still confuzled. I see traffic lights in both the “Before” and “After” pics. And I see the utility pole in the middle of the street in both the “Before” and “After” pics. But I don’t see what the utility pole has to do with the traffic light in either pic. Is there something _else_ in those pics we’re supposed to see? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1299 "2021-09-20T22:08:37Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > And I see the utility pole in the middle of the street in both the “Before” and “After” pics. The pole is in the grass near a sidewalk in before. It’s literally in the middle of the street in after. ETA: If you’re seeing traffic lights in both, then something may have gone glitchy in the display. Try a hard refresh. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1300 "2021-09-20T22:14:47Z")
Aha! I didn’t even notice that. And yes, I guess the display got glitchy somehow. Refresh fixed that. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1301 "2021-09-21T00:24:37Z")
Oh, come on > **[Telling People To Get Vaccinated Is Leftist Plot Against Trump Voters,...](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/breitbart-news-covid-19-vaccine-reverse-psychology_n_6148c50ce4b0efa77f838021)** > > In an article published this month, writer John Nolte says Democrats are using "reverse psychology" to trick opponents into dying of COVID-19. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1302 "2021-09-21T00:27:08Z")
Uh-oh, they’re on to us! Switch to Plan Iota. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1303 "2021-09-21T03:06:03Z")
Republicans are literally blaming Democrats now for their failure to follow common sense and take a vaccine intended to save their lives while every single Democratic politician is begging them to do so. When did real life turn into an Onion article? (Don’t bother responding. Rhetorical question. Roughly Nov of 2016.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1304 "2021-09-21T08:20:25Z")
“Democrats are asking us to behave like responsible adults even though they _know_ we’re a bunch of petulant toddlers. It’s _their_ fault we’re being dangerously reckless!” I can’t even. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1305 "2021-09-21T19:23:39Z")
The UN General Assembly is meeting, with leaders from around the world attending. The UN is encouraging attendees to get vaccinated, but they won’t prevent them from attending the Assembly. But the restaurants in New York City are still requiring proof of vaccination. So the President of Brazil, who refuses to get vaccinated, had to eat a slice of pizza from a street vendor, because he couldn’t get into a restaurant. > **[Brazil’s Unvaccinated Far-Right President Bolsonaro Forced to Eat Pizza on...](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jair-bolsonaro-forced-to-eat-pizza-on-the-street-in-nyc)** > > Diners in the city have to have had at least one coronavirus shot before allowed indoors. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1306 "2021-09-21T19:26:00Z")
Forced to? Slice pizza in New York is _great_. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1307 "2021-09-21T19:27:38Z")
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