# 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:** 181
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3601 "2025-01-16T21:24:32Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Just because someone has done it, that doesn’t mean I want to go through it as well. > > The idea of being an anachronism where nothing makes sense and most of what I know is wrong… It’s like being in a Twilight Zone episode. Speak for yourself - I’d like to see the future. Centuries of new books, movies, music, technology, history… what could be better? And if I’m miserable, well, eventually I’ll die. ---
**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 16, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3602 "2025-01-16T21:26:51Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Speak for yourself - I’d like to see the future. Centuries of new books, movies, music, technology, history… what could be better? And if I’m miserable, well, eventually I’ll die. That is 100% fair, I totally understand your reasoning there. 🙂 👍 And maybe you’re right. It could be a Utopia compared to today in many ways. Certainly we’ve made a lot of progress in a number of areas in modern times compared to the past, so it might be worth it. The standard of living might be so much better in the future that even the bottom rung of society could live like a king compared to the richest person today. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3603 "2025-01-16T21:40:44Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It could be a Utopia compared to today in many ways. And maybe you don’t know how to use the three shells, and no one will explain it. And no one will talk to you (let alone have sex with you) because you are/aren’t circumcised, have/don’t have massive tattoos, and/or don’t have a computer interface brain implant. And they all drive 35 mph and think it is too fast. And they all worship trump the first. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3604 "2025-01-16T21:42:10Z")
Just remember it can’t be much of a Utopia if all restaurants are Taco Bell. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3605 "2025-01-16T21:43:06Z")
There will be _many_ cultural references that you don’t get, not having seen whatever movie or TV show everyone is familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3606 "2025-01-16T21:45:45Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And no one will talk to you (let alone have sex with you) because you are/aren’t circumcised, have/don’t have massive tattoos, and/or don’t have a computer interface brain implant. And they all drive 35 mph and think it is too fast. That’s the least believable thing to me - that everybody will be the same in the future. There are seventy gazillion subcultures now, so why should we assume there will be any fewer in two hundred years? Chances are, you’ll just be another eccentric weirdo in a society of eccentric weirdos. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > There will be _many_ cultural references that you don’t get, not having seen whatever movie or TV show everyone is familiar with. I know people like that _now_. They’re doing fine. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3607 "2025-01-16T21:46:41Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > There will be _many_ cultural references that you don’t get, Demolition Man 3001: The Final Odyssey The Marching Morons 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3608 "2025-01-16T22:05:53Z")
The other day I was tempted to say _“Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!!!”_ (context not important) but refrained because the person I was talking to was about 40 and probably wouldn’t have gotten the reference and filed me away as strange and depraved.\* \*not so far off, at that. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3609 "2025-01-16T22:07:57Z")
“The Door Into Summer” ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3610 "2025-01-16T22:09:00Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > strange and depraved.\* A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff ---
**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 16, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3611 "2025-01-16T23:22:10Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Alessan](#): > > > > What does bother me is that it’s bullshit. Anything that’s based on assuming that we’ll know how to do something in the future is bullshit, because we never know where scientific discovery will lead us. Take a person, freeze them, and unfreeze them successfully in 5 years, and then we’ll talk. > > There’s this too. It’s fringe science **at best**. [The Master Speaks](https://www.straightdope.com/21341719/is-walt-disney-s-frozen-body-buried-under-disneyland). While he grants that there had been improvements in the area (and have probably been more since 1986), it’s hardly something I’d bet money — let alone my future — on. Okay, “on which I’d bet money, let alone my future.” Satisfied? ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3612 "2025-01-17T00:22:11Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > French woman leaves husband for Brat Pitt impersonator I am saddened to learn that this is not strictly true. She thought she was leaving her husband for Brad Pitt. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3613 "2025-01-17T00:25:11Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > And maybe you’re right. It could be a Utopia compared to today in many ways. I bet GOOGLE Glass comes back. Maybe x-ray vision /s 🤮 ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3614 "2025-01-17T00:41:47Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > She thought she was leaving her husband for Brad Pitt. She should have listened to Shania Twain. “Okay, so you’re Brad Pitt. That don’t impress me much.” ---
**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:** [January 17, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3615 "2025-01-17T00:48:32Z")
That story struck me in light of Brad Pitt’s infamous ablutophobia. The French jokes just write themselves. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3616 "2025-01-17T01:05:34Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > And maybe you’re right. It could be a Utopia compared to today in many ways. Certainly we’ve made a lot of progress in a number of areas in modern times compared to the past, so it might be worth it. Maybe they discover that hot fudge and tobacco are good for you. And they may rely on you as an authority as to what did some of the past culture mean. But then you have to join a revolutionary cell to prevent The Leader from being cloned from his recovered nose. (as long as we’re doing dueling references…) ---
**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:** [January 17, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3617 "2025-01-17T03:37:30Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Actually, 225 years old this year, having been published in Washington Irving’s _The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon_ in 1819. 1819 was 225 yearz ago? Is that the wacky New Math? ---
**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 17, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3618 "2025-01-17T03:40:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > 1819 was 225 yearz ago? I haven’t checked the Aztec or Julian calendars. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3619 "2025-01-17T09:51:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And maybe you don’t know how to use the three shells, and no one will explain it. My guess? It’s a bidet. > [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Just remember it can’t be much of a Utopia if all restaurants are Taco Bell. Only in the US. Internationally it was changed to Pizza Hut. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3620 "2025-01-17T14:06:19Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > That story struck me in light of Brad Pitt’s infamous ablutophobia. Brad Pitt gets anxious when Bluto isn’t around? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=180) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=182)