# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 111
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2201 "2024-08-11T13:28:34Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > They also don’t like the word “rape.” Not sure what gets used instead. Antivaxers have gotten quite…creative in their euphemisms for vaccine/vaccination, in an apparent effort to avoid attracting negative attention from social media hosts for their lies, or just out of paranoia. Common substitutes for vaccine are YKW, 🧁 and 🥕. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2202 "2024-08-11T13:34:09Z")
Ah, the dot-com bubble: a heady time when otherwise smart people were somehow thinking that businesses no longer needed to show a profit to increase in value. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2203 "2024-08-11T14:19:34Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’ve heard “surprise sex”. I don’t think that works at all. For one thing, it seems to carry some of the connotation of “surprise party”, which is often considered favorable. For another, some people are repeatedly raped in situations in which it doesn’t come as a surprise to them at all. “Forced sex” would work. (Not all force is physical.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2204 "2024-08-11T15:21:52Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I don’t think that works at all. > > For one thing, it seems to carry some of the connotation of “surprise party”, which is often considered favorable. That was the original meaning of the phrase, as a joke implying that one should enjoy it. I’m not sure if plain surprise sex was a meme before surprise buttsex: > **[Surprise Buttsecks](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surprise-buttsecks)** > > The phrase “Surprise Butt Sex” (Also spelled “Buttsex” or “Buttsecks”) is often applied to images that could humorously allude to anal penetration. Like ma ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2205 "2024-08-11T15:45:55Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > I really hope this AI bubble bursts soon. > > You mean like the internet bubble did? Perhaps like virtual reality did? I was involved in that industry in the 1990s and it didn’t go anywhere, though the display and computing technology was less advanced than today. And today, Meta has put _billions_ ($36 billion according to one site) into developing virtual reality without really seeing a return on investment. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2206 "2024-08-11T17:32:32Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > That was the original meaning of the phrase, as a joke implying that one should enjoy it. Doesn’t seem like something that should be used by people concerned about giving offense. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2207 "2024-08-11T17:53:49Z")
[Gift link](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/nyregion/arvell-marshall-surveillance-video-exoneration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE4.JMhv.rzIO2lDam7nQ&smid=url-share) to New York Time article about the overturning of the 2009 murder conviction of [Arvel Marshall](http://www.brooklynda.org/2024/08/09/brooklyn-district-attorney-moves-to-vacate-conviction-of-brooklyn-man-who-served-16-years-for-homicide-after-critical-video-wasnt-turned-over/). During the trial, he repeated asked his attorney, prosecutors and the judge for the surveillance videos that he felt would prove his innocence. They first denied that video existed and then denied his request. After being jailed for _sixteen years_ (the conviction was for 25 years to life), he was finally released and the video did, in fact, show the murderer was not him. Not sure if this should instead have been posted in [the evil MFers thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496); neither really fits and there isn’t one for the criminally negligent. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2208 "2024-08-11T18:09:15Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I don’t think that works at all. I don’t disagree, it isn’t what I would have chosen. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2209 "2024-08-11T18:10:33Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Not sure if this should instead have been posted in [the evil MFers thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496); neither really fits and there isn’t one for the criminally negligent Here, maybe? > [@Miscarriage of Justice Omnibus Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miscarriage-of-justice-omnibus-thread/943643/346): > > No, she would not have committed those acts, because she wouldn’t have been in prison. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2210 "2024-08-11T18:13:54Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Believe it or not . . . _grape_. Gives the long-gone, unlamented grapist a whole new meaning. > [@Smapti](#): > > Update: the shithead’s bail has been revoked for continuing to post to Instagram on a sock puppet account. Wonder if it’s possible to confiscate his Charger and crush it into a cube while he watches. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2211 "2024-08-11T19:42:22Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > > [@Smapti](#): > > > > > > I really hope this AI bubble bursts soon. > > > > You mean like the internet bubble did? > > Perhaps like virtual reality did? I was involved in that industry in the 1990s and it didn’t go anywhere, though the display and computing technology was less advanced than today. And today, Meta has put _billions_ ($36 billion according to one site) into developing virtual reality without really seeing a return on investment. I guess my point was a simple one. The internet (or dot-com) economic bubble burst, but the internet matured and has become ubiquitous. I don’t know that there is an economic AI bubble, except to the extent that commerce is latching onto it (or sometimes just the name of it) as a big New Thing. But I expect it will mature and also become ubiquitous, and everything will change again. I don’t see any prospect of it going away, either by atrophy or just by bursting. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2212 "2024-08-11T22:01:20Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Doesn’t seem like something that should be used by people concerned about giving offense. As mentioned, it is used to bypass censorship filters, not to be more sensitive. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2213 "2024-08-11T22:07:59Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’m not sure if plain surprise sex was a meme before surprise buttsex: > > [Surprise Buttsecks | Know Your Meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surprise-buttsecks) That makes me think of the people who go to the ER to have objects removed from their ass, and claim that they “fell on them”. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2214 "2024-08-11T22:10:08Z")
For the last time, I tripped. Really! ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2215 "2024-08-11T22:44:16Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > As mentioned, it is used to bypass censorship filters, not to be more sensitive. Ah. I got confused because the discussion started with euphemisms being used by a museum. Admittedly it was a different euphemism. > [@Smapti](#): > > Over here in Seattle, the Museum of Pop Culture, which has had a permanent exhibit of Kurt Cobain’s memorabilia for decades, has apparently decided they need to write their display placards like they’re trying to avoid getting demonetized on Youtube ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2216 "2024-08-11T22:50:47Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > euphemisms being used by a museum. Outside of a small, local museum there is a machine that was used over 100 years ago to process salmon. Each machine replaced many Chinese workers. The sign at the machine didn’t say what the machine’s nickname was, but only that it was a ‘racial slur’. (Someone at the event we were attending was older, and had lived in the area all his life. I heard him telling someone that the nickname was ‘Iron C\_\_\_k’. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2217 "2024-08-11T22:54:56Z")
In some sort of Xcretion, Elno Musk lists a bunch of movies in which “_you sided with the resistance_” but when it comes to real life (e.g., the current US election), you fail to do that.        Naturally, that suggests that he thinks he is part of “the resistance”, which is not an easy pill to get down (not sure what color). And, of course, he had to post it on a thread started by a Ukrainian journalist.        It seems like he is running an experiment to see how far out of touch a person can be and still be breathing. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2218 "2024-08-11T23:13:24Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It seems like he is running an experiment to see how far out of touch a person can be and still be breathing. He’s welcome to join those guys on the Space Station. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2219 "2024-08-11T23:16:04Z")
I thought he wanted to go to Mars. How much would we all each have to chip in to get him to Mars? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2220 "2024-08-11T23:22:14Z")
I, for one, don’t particularly care if he _gets_ to Mars, as long as he gets off this planet long enough to start the journey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=110) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=112)