# 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:** 76
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1510 "2021-10-15T13:36:51Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Yeah, that was on NBC national news broadcast yesterday. The admin says “If you have a book on a subject that might be controversial, you should have one with an opposing viewpoint.” OK to this point, then she says “Let’s say you have a book on the Holocaust”, and you heard this GASP from the assembled teachers, then one of them breaks in “The Holocaust? Who opposes the holocaust?” I smell an opportunity! In the spirit of the Flat-Earth, Holocaust denial, Moon Landing was a Hoax themes, I’m going to write a bunch of books and sell them to the Texas school system: “Gravity, is it real?”, “Water isn’t Wet!”, “Copernicus Was Wrong!”, etc. $$$ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1511 "2021-10-15T13:54:44Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Gravity, is it real? I used to have a pin that said “There is no gravity - the earth sucks!” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1512 "2021-10-15T14:21:36Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > I smell an opportunity! In the spirit of the Flat-Earth, Holocaust denial, Moon Landing was a Hoax themes, I’m going to write a bunch of books and sell them to the Texas school system: “Gravity, is it real?”, “Water isn’t Wet!”, “Copernicus Was Wrong!”, etc. $$$ Conversely, you could write one called “Ted Cruz _Isn’t_ A Pedophile” and make them include one with an opposing view. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1513 "2021-10-15T14:23:20Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > I used to have a pin that said “There is no gravity - the earth sucks!” Don’t blame me; I voted for Velcro. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1514 "2021-10-15T14:34:11Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Neither do Brazilians. Official language is Portuguese. Don’t go bringing facts to a prejudice fight. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1515 "2021-10-15T15:03:35Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > > [@Icarus](#): > > > > Gravity, is it real? > > I used to have a pin that said “There is no gravity - the earth sucks!” And I have this on my bumper: [![](https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/16223334/1482683485.jpg) ](https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/16223334/1482683485.jpg) ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1516 "2021-10-15T15:19:28Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > And aren’t those exactly the types of immigrants that the GOP is saying we should let in? Meaning ones with money? Insufficiently Scandinavian. Insufficiently blond. Actually, here’s my guess: Some of the poorest people in the world survive by trawling through dumps for anything they can use, wear, or sell (or even eat). If refugees are arriving wearing designer clothes, I suspect that would be tattered dirty old rags and Gucchis that they scavenge there. > **[Literally Down in the Dumps, Landfill Dwellers Sleep on Trash and Live to...](https://www.projectcensored.org/literally-down-in-the-dumps-landfill-dwellers-sleep-on-trash-and-live-to-just-35/)** > > An estimated 15 million people worldwide live and work within landfills — combing through trash every day for items of the slightest value to sell. They make > [@](#): > > An estimated 15 million people worldwide live and work within landfills — combing through trash every day for items of the slightest value to sell. They make about $3.25 a day and live on average to 35 years old. > > Landfill slums, where the local economy runs on trash, have been documented in India, Asia, Ethiopia and Brazil, among other countries, . . . > **[People Are Living Inside Landfills As The World Drowns In Its Own Trash](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/plastic-trash-pollution-landfill_n_5b9fcc13e4b013b0977d47ce)** > > While the oceans fill up with plastic waste, a horrifying crisis unfolds on land. [15 million people were estimated to live and work in garbage dump communities](https://www.intsam.org/about-garbage-dump-communities/) worldwide as of 2017, and this number was on the rise in 2019. It’s estimated to continue to rise as the pandemic impacts already vulnerable communities around the world. > [@](#): > > Garbage Dump Communities are, most simply put, the communities that rely on the world’s garbage dumps to survive by either working or living within them. The families that we work with specifically make their living as “recyclers” or “pickers”, combing through the garbage by hand and finding items to sell or keep. Those who live here have to be incredibly resilient because this way of life does not pay well: nearly all garbage dump community members live on less than $2 a day . . . Count on slimebag Lindsay Graham to say something as misleading as that. Beaucoup Pinnochios! ---
**Author:** ![PackerMan2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/packerman2/32/2894_2.png) [@PackerMan2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PackerMan2)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1517 "2021-10-15T15:23:55Z")
So then they should also have material that abortion is A-OK and guns are bad, right? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1518 "2021-10-15T18:17:05Z")
Conservative Christians want to stop people celebrating Halloween, but instead to replace it with a Christian celebration - Jesusween. No, really. > **[Conservative Christians Want To Replace Halloween With 'JesusWeen'—And...](https://www.comicsands.com/evangelical-christians-rename-halloween-jesusween-2655293280.html)** > > A rather unfortunate name choice is spearheading an Evangelical Christian movement to reclaim Halloween for themselves...again. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1519 "2021-10-15T18:19:54Z")
Ha. I Love Halloween. I wish it wasn’t associated with death and fear, it should be the joy of wearing costumes. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1520 "2021-10-15T18:22:13Z")
Federal circuit judge hires a clerk who is on the record as saying she hates black people. > **[Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge Isn't Talking About New Clerk Mired in...](https://www.law.com/2021/10/11/eleventh-circuit-chief-judge-isnt-talking-about-new-clerk-mired-in-controversy-over-racist-rant/?slreturn=20230028000323)** > > The controversy brings up questions about the court's vetting process for judicial clerks. But Chief Judge William Pryor is not answering them. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1521 "2021-10-15T18:24:22Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Conservative Christians want to stop people celebrating Halloween, but instead to replace it with a Christian celebration - Jesusween. Isn’t it (Halloween) already rooted in a Christian religious celebration? It’s the evening before All Saints’ Day. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1522 "2021-10-15T18:25:43Z")
Although Halloween was mostly appropriated from pagan sources, it is very much not a Christian holiday now (if it ever was). That being said, this is one of the stupider ideas to come out of the evangelicals in a while. They could stress the “All Hallow’s” part of the actual day, but that would mean at least obliquely acknowledging a Catholic holy day of obligation, which won’t do at all. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1523 "2021-10-15T18:26:43Z")
Honestly, the same could be said of Christmas, at least as it’s observed by most people in the US. There’s very little Christianity in it. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1524 "2021-10-15T18:29:29Z")
The other Republican judges are probably jealous that he got her first. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1525 "2021-10-15T18:30:31Z")
Since All Saints’ Day and Samhain (an old Celtic festival marking the beginning of winter in Gaelic Ireland) overlapped, they merged and got twisted until they eventually became what we call Halloween. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1526 "2021-10-15T18:33:19Z")
Yeah, but there was (and still is) a Christian component to Christmas, such that “put the Christ back in Christmas” is a defensible (if entirely unrealistic) slogan. I don’t know that there ever was much of a Christian gloss on All Hallow’s Eve (as opposed to say Christmas Eve) - were there ever any rituals around it (other then the pagan one’s)? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1527 "2021-10-15T18:36:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Conservative Christians want to stop people celebrating Halloween, but instead to replace it with a Christian celebration - Jesusween. > No, really. That’s not as bad as the owner of [this place,](https://www.carstar.com/locations/il/manteno-15017/) whose radio commercials every year at this time promote combining Halloween and Thanksgiving into “Thankstweenie” – and having everyone dress up as pink flamingos. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1528 "2021-10-15T18:37:23Z")
Wikipedia mentions _some_ Christian elements, “In many parts of the world, the Christian religious observances of All Hallows’ Eve, including attending church services and lighting candles on the graves of the dead, remain popular, although elsewhere it is a more commercial and secular celebration. Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows’ Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain vegetarian foods on this vigil day, including apples, potato pancakes, and soul cakes.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945/1529 "2021-10-15T18:39:06Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Conservative Christians want to stop people celebrating Halloween, but instead to replace it with a Christian celebration - Jesusween. > No, really. I saw that on Facebook. Anyone want to do an over-under on how long it takes before they start complaining about a “War on Jesusween”? It’s the 15th now, I figure, 23rd, maybe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945.md?page=77)