# 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:** 112
**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 12, 2024, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2221 "2024-08-12T09:09:46Z")
Another B Ark? That’s how we got in this mess. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2222 "2024-08-12T09:13:25Z")
‘Ahem, X Ark.’ ~ Elon ---
**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:** [August 12, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2223 "2024-08-12T21:52:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And I work in a grocery store (not a publicly-traded one, fortunately, but I do own about a quarter mil in company stock) where people will throw a fit if they think the price on an item should be ten cents less than what it is. Not me. I trust y’all’s judgement about your pricing practices. Still kinda salty about the Portland stores not really carrying jumbo eggs, despite what you told me that one time, though. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2224 "2024-08-12T22:02:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > 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. Maybe not the same museum, but I saw this machine at a museum on Pacific Avenue in Downtown Tacoma, when the area was being renovated along with Union Station in the mid-90s. The racist nickname was part of the exhibit. Interesting, but I preferred the town museum in Gig Harbor that featured all the many winners of the annual contest to find the most perfectly spherical rock on the beach. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2225 "2024-08-13T00:50:19Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > …whether there’s anything you actually want to get upset about. Well they are called _Arabic_ numbers what more do you need to get upset about? ---
**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 13, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2226 "2024-08-13T01:02:05Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Well they are called _Arabic_ numbers what more do you need to get upset about? Consider the track. The horses are all half-Arabian, so you have to use Arabic numbers to place your bets. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2024, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2227 "2024-08-13T11:44:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@eschereal](#): > > > > Now there is no more coloring of text, though. > > [https://i.imgflip.com/8zw9sz.jpg](https://i.imgflip.com/8zw9sz.jpg) No need to do something as silly as create an image of colored words, post it to a hosting site, then link to it. Discourse is perfectly capable of \color{violet}\textsf{purple words} anywhere you want them. Or \color{red}\textsf{red} or \color{green}\textsf{green} or nearly any other color you want. The fancy formatting features in Discourse are not as easy for the simplest cases, like just coloring, but they’re far more powerful than the primitive tools available in vBulletin. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2228 "2024-08-13T14:08:58Z")
I’ve never heard this one before: > **[Philadelphia man pleads guilty to stabbing neighbor to death over snoring](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/13/philadelphia-killing-neighbor-snoring)** > > Robert Wallace was killed after breaking into Christopher Casey’s home after becoming enraged over his loud snoring ---
**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:** [August 13, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2229 "2024-08-13T16:57:21Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Discourse is perfectly capable of \color{violet}\textsf{purple words}purple words\color{violet}\textsf{purple words} anywhere you want them. Or \color{red}\textsf{red}red\color{red}\textsf{red} or \color{green}\textsf{green}green\color{green}\textsf{green} or nearly any other color you want. > > The fancy formatting features in Discourse are not as easy for the simplest cases, like just coloring, but they’re far more powerful than the primitive tools available in vBulletin. Point taken, but a lot of us were never looking for anything beyond “easy,” and would like “easy” back, please and thank you. ---
**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 13, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2230 "2024-08-13T17:01:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The fancy formatting features in Discourse are not as easy for the simplest cases, like just coloring, but they’re far more powerful than the primitive tools available in vBulletin. But since Dicksource formatting is not user-friendly, it’s useless. ---
**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 13, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2231 "2024-08-13T17:09:29Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Point taken, but a lot of us were never looking for anything beyond “easy,” and would like “easy” back, please and thank you. No kidding. I took a quick peek when I saw the post, and after I saw the coding I concluded, yeah, that’s never gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2232 "2024-08-13T17:41:32Z")
This is the only one that’s kinda cool (mouse over the text). I miss being able to do ~~red strike thrus~~ … ---
**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:** [August 13, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2233 "2024-08-13T19:26:54Z")
OTOH, now there’s stuff like this: x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^{2}-4ac}}{2a} 😁  > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > This is the only one that’s kinda cool (mouse over the text). I also like ACtrl-AEnter or even Ctrl + Alt + Del ---
**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 13, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2234 "2024-08-13T23:45:19Z")
See, you put a non-breaking space _after_ the smilie thing. That confuses me.        I find them useful for generating indented paragraphs, in place of the terrible blank line paragraph breaking demanded by the web. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2235 "2024-08-14T00:16:37Z")
If you put a smilie / emoticon on a line by itself it comes out big: The line below reads just > : grin : > and results in: > 😁 If you put anything else (other than plain space character(s)) ahead of or behind of the emoticon, then it renders at normal size: The line below reads > : grin :. > and results in: > 😁. and this one reads > I like to : grin : > and results in: > I like to 😁 So if you want a small = normal line-sized emoticon all by itself on a new line with no visible stuff on the rest of the line then you need to use something invisible to be that other stuff. In my case I like   So > : grin :  > results in: > 😁  Note in all these examples I had to resort to inserting   into my plain text examples since the Discourse (Markdown really) parser won’t let us escape the : with the usual \: treatment. So the   fools the parser and effectively escapes the colons without making (much) of a visible difference in the rendered text. The Unicode U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE character would be even better as a markdown fake escape char but it doesn’t have an easy-to-remember HTML entity name like HairSp does. Markdown is a great advance over BBCode but it’s still a dog’s breakfast of inconsistency. Just like HTML. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2236 "2024-08-14T00:19:33Z")
BTW, starting paragraphs with an indent is soooo 1940s. Stop that silliness. ---
**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 14, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2237 "2024-08-14T01:07:33Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > BTW, starting paragraphs with an indent is soooo 1940s. Or at the very least, not appropriate for a digital medium. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2238 "2024-08-14T01:43:36Z")
CT state legislator says of her primary opponent that “we cannot permit a person who is of Jewish origin to represent our community”. > **['Blatant antisemitism': State lawmaker faces resignation calls after...](https://www.rawstory.com/anabel-figueroa/)** > > A Democratic state lawmaker in Connecticut is facing bipartisan calls to resign over a primary campaign interview broadly condemned as antisemitic, according to the Stamford Advocate.During a July 28 Spanish-language interview with the Hispanic... ---
**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:** [August 14, 2024, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2239 "2024-08-14T02:06:15Z")
Real stupid. Although maybe what she really meant was more like this: Now that our overwhelmingly Hispanic district has finally achieved a Hispanic rep (me), it’d be nuts to have some generic white person, or black person, or Asian person represent us, the Hispanics of this county. We deserve own-race representation. Now and going forward. We have arrived as a coherent force in local & state politics. My opponent happens to be Jewish. So not Hispanic and therefore not qualified. Unlike me, a genuine real Hispanic person. I’d say the same thing about them if they were white, black or Asian. But they’re not. That’s not a lot better, but anti-Semitism is an especially high voltage 3rd rail in American politics compared to anti-black or anti-Asian or anti-Protestant sentiments. And she grabbed it with both hands. Sucks to be her whatever she meant. She screwed that pooch and is gonna pay. Probably rightly so. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/2240 "2024-08-14T02:43:03Z")
How do you do the “non-breaking space” bit? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=111) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=113)