# 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:** 195
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3881 "2025-02-14T02:51:21Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Yeah. He’s waited till he’s sure his vote won’t make any difference. Then, probably, he wants credit for it. I don’t know why he bothers. His name will be reviled by whichever side writes history. But maybe his mental faculties are too far gone to realize that now. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3882 "2025-02-14T04:03:23Z")
Or maybe, like trump, he doesn’t care how he’s remembered in history, he can’t conceive of the world after he’s gone. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3883 "2025-02-14T04:30:38Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > One of those totally stupid and unnecessary changes that Hollywood insists on doing. Was it shot in New Mexico? The state offers more incentives to film there than Arizona, or most other states for that matter. _Longmire_ was set in Wyoming and shot in New Mexico. It amused us to see pueblo-style decorations on some of the buildings. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3884 "2025-02-14T05:32:12Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Like if Dr. Frankenstein refused to make hot coco for the monster when he came back from strangling little girls. ‘Hot cocoa causes Autism.’ ~ Bobby ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3885 "2025-02-14T05:46:33Z")
Honestly though, I haven’t seen a party taken over so thoroughly as this since I was in school and the theater kids showed up ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3886 "2025-02-14T13:03:19Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Like if Dr. Frankenstein refused to make hot coco for the monster when he came back from strangling little girls. “Cocoa…Good!” ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3887 "2025-02-14T14:05:48Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Honestly though, I haven’t seen a party taken over so thoroughly as this since I was in school and the theater kids showed up Yeah, they can be a bit dramatic. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3888 "2025-02-14T15:56:03Z")
Fire…BAD! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3889 "2025-02-14T16:06:25Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > > [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > > > Honestly though, I haven’t seen a party taken over so thoroughly as this since I was in school and the theater kids showed up > > Yeah, they can be a bit dramatic. They’re just acting out. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3890 "2025-02-14T16:39:37Z")
As a former theatre kid, I I feel the script that portrays theatre kids as divas is overplayed. Props to those who are rising above and can stage this conversation in a different direction. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3891 "2025-02-14T16:58:30Z")
> [@Maus\_Magill](#): > > Props to those who are rising above and can stage this conversation in a different direction Yeah, maybe we should pull the curtain on this digression. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3892 "2025-02-14T17:23:52Z")
Oh it will. It’s just nice sometimes to fall back to those cherished yesterdays, before 9/11, before Trump, when the SDMB was a place of scholarly conversations about things like how to light farts. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3893 "2025-02-14T17:31:28Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > like how to light farts. > [@wguy123](#): > > Fire…BAD! I think we figured it out. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3894 "2025-02-14T17:32:28Z")
Especially for those of Mediterranean descent ---
**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:** [February 15, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3895 "2025-02-15T01:19:19Z")
> **[Shark bites off tourist’s hands as she tries to take selfie on Caribbean beach](https://www.yahoo.com/news/shark-bites-off-tourist-hands-205333844.html)** > > A shark bit the hands off a woman along the shore of a Caribbean beach while she was trying to take a picture with it. Emphasis mine: > The 55-year-old woman, who is understood to be Canadian, had only strayed a few yards into the water when she was attacked last Friday. > > According to the local authorities **she “attempted to engage” with the shark** when the 6ft-long predatory fish struck off Thompson Cove Beach in the [Turks and Caicos Islands](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/caribbean/turks-and-caicos-caribbean-virgin-atlantic-flight/). > > It is understood she had one of her arms amputated below the wrist and the other half way up her forearm. She has since returned to Canada for further treatment. > > The species was not confirmed, but local reports suggested it was a bull shark. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3896 "2025-02-15T01:28:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The species was not confirmed, but local reports suggested it was a bull shark. You do not want to mess around with bull sharks. I remember a video of an “expert” wading in amongst them and acting all calm and collected…until one decided it was hungry and tore his calf muscle off. He wasn’t quite so calm and collected after that. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3897 "2025-02-15T01:41:16Z")
“The moral of the story is don’t be a dummy if you don’t want to end up in some aquatic predator’s tummy” –[Lorne Elliot, “I Like You”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kN5qUaxHnU) ---
**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:** [February 15, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3898 "2025-02-15T01:58:58Z")
Three men pretending to work for Elon Musk showed up at San Francisco City Hall demanding to be let in or else, then fled when the cops were called. > **[3 men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand...](https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/doge-3-men-show-up-at-sf-city-hall-demand-records/)** > > San Francisco city officials are investigating after three men who claimed to be from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) showed up at City Hall on Friday demanding records from offices before fleeing. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3899 "2025-02-15T03:13:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Three men pretending to work for Elon Musk showed up at San Francisco City Hall demanding to be let in or else, then fled when the cops were called. Funny enough, what they did is probably less illegal than what the actual DOGE is doing. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3900 "2025-02-15T03:19:21Z")
It seems being a (phony) tech-bro in 2020s America carries the same cachet as [wearing a snazzy army uniform carried in 1900s Germany](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Voigt) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=194) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=196)