# 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:** 198
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3941 "2025-02-21T02:58:31Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > what’s left? Where _ **is** _ it safe to assume she’s there to look for a date? In an online dating venue (or an equivalent real-world dating event like speed dating). How about getting to know and interacting with women as people first? Instead of as prospective bedmates? Getting involved in activities women also particpate in but NOT as a means for trolling for dates, just building relationships founded on mutual interests that may or may not flower into something else? ETA: How about ditching _hitting on_ to begin with? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3942 "2025-02-21T03:25:24Z")
When we’re talking about whether “young men age 18-25” have ever “approached a woman in person,” I presume we’re talking about approaching a woman with romantic hopes (or hopes for which romantic is a euphemism) and not someone so shy they can’t say “hello” to the girl at the next school desk or woman in the next cubicle. And while “hitting on” someone is admittedly not the best term, I don’t think it inherently means some clueless pick-up-artist laying down his oiliest line and then not taking no for an answer. There’s nothing inherently wrong with someone wanting a bedmate, as some men _and women_ sometimes do at times in their lives, and IMHO there’s a happy medium between jackass PUAs making themselves obnoxious and absolutely every romantic relationship having to grow organically from an existing relationship, ideal as that is. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3943 "2025-02-21T22:32:32Z")
How about approaching women as people, getting to know them, later perhaps becoming friends then, if it happens, becoming romantically involved? Approaching strangers just to see if romance is possible before you even know them is downright creepy. ---
**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 21, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3944 "2025-02-21T22:53:11Z")
That raises an old question: is it easier to make a lover a friend than to make a friend a lover? Both are possible but conventional wisdom hold with the former ---
**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 21, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3945 "2025-02-21T23:05:04Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Approaching strangers just to see if romance is possible before you even know them is downright creepy. Agreed. I’ve been married twice and had plenty of girlfriends. (Not at the same time of course.) Never had to “hit on” anyone, never creeped around in bars. ---
**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 22, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3946 "2025-02-22T01:29:53Z")
Man crashes his car, blows .3 on the breathalyzer, is arrested, held overnight, and released in the morning, then crashes in the exact same intersection exactly 24 hours later and blows a .3 again. > **[Deputies arrest man for DUI 2 nights in a row after he crashed twice at the...](https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/deputies-arrest-man-dui-2-nights-row-after-he-crashed-twice-same-intersection/CKT3U4DEYBAV5ABBDBBISOJWPI/?taid=67b8e972ba4edc0001ed3ee9)** > > The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office arrested the same man for driving under the influence two nights in a row. Deputies say he crashed the same car at the same intersection-- at the exact same time both days. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3947 "2025-02-22T01:56:16Z")
[![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/ZO2VzL-sURMAAAAC/ron-white-you-can%E2%80%99t-fix-stupid.gif) ](https://media1.tenor.com/m/ZO2VzL-sURMAAAAC/ron-white-you-can%E2%80%99t-fix-stupid.gif) ---
**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 22, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3948 "2025-02-22T02:11:52Z")
I heard that was the premise of the never released Groundhog Day 2. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3949 "2025-02-22T05:18:31Z")
.3? For most of us, that would be lipwalking. Though, a friend told me as an army nurse in training, one of the nurses noticed a whiff of alcohol on an orderly, so, for practice they tested him and got a .4 – and he seemed normal. In earlier stages of alcoholism, they develop high tolerance, until the liver wears out and it all goes the other way. ---
**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 23, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3950 "2025-02-23T01:14:50Z")
Luigi Mangione is probably going to wind up walking free because Eric Adams can’t keep his mouth shut. > [@](#): > > Mr Mangione’s lawyer also complained that the chief New York City detective on the case and Mayor Eric Adams had spoken to HBO, the US TV network, about evidence that the defendant’s legal team had not even seen yet. > **[Luigi Mangione in New York court over killing of healthcare boss Brian Thompson](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jgw4dv3dgo)** > > His lawyer argued during the hearing that her client - wearing a bulletproof vest - was being treated unfairly. ---
**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 23, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3951 "2025-02-23T21:58:00Z")
It happened AGAIN - an Indiana lawyer has been fined $15,000 fkr letting an AI write his motions. > **[USCOURTS-insd-2\_24-cv-00326-3.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-insd-2_24-cv-00326/pdf/USCOURTS-insd-2_24-cv-00326-3.pdf)** > > 340.70 KB ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3952 "2025-02-24T01:57:06Z")
The lawyer “emphasized that at no point did he act in bad faith or proceed with malice” The judge replied: “An empty head but a pure heart is no defense”, that’ll be $15,000 please. Just skimming that case, I think he put his foot in his mouth. I get the feeling that if he apologized to the court and promised not to screw up again, that may have been the end of it. However, while being asked about it, he stated that he’s used it before AND that he doesn’t actually know how it works or what it’s shortcomings are. > Mr. Ramirez explained that he had used AI before to assist with legal matters, such as drafting agreements, and did not know that AI was capable of generating fictitious cases and citations. and when fining him $15k, the judge stated: > While this amount is at the higher end of the sanctions that have previously been imposed for similar conduct, Mr. Ramirez’s professed ignorance of the propensity of the AI tools he was using to “hallucinate” citations is evidence that those lesser sanctions have been insufficient to deter the conduct. Side note, I learned a new word, shepardize. It comes up a bunch of times and refers to the act of drilling down through the cites to make sure they’re correct and apply to the case. ---
**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 24, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3953 "2025-02-24T17:59:08Z")
Crypto bro who calls himself “MistaFuccYou” loses all his money in a rugpull, shoots himself in the head during a livestream, and the viewers start launching coins named after him while he bleeds out and dies. [https://www.cryptopolitan.com/crypto-trader-kills-himself-on-x-live-to-create-a-meme-coin/](https://www.cryptopolitan.com/crypto-trader-kills-himself-on-x-live-to-create-a-meme-coin/) ---
**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 24, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3954 "2025-02-24T20:46:26Z")
_Another_ crypto coin? We need another crypto coin like we need another hole in the head. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3955 "2025-02-24T21:10:36Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Side note, I learned a new word, shepardize. It comes up a bunch of times and refers to the act of drilling down through the cites to make sure they’re correct and apply to the case. It comes from [Shepard’s Citations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard%27s_Citations), one of the most common sources used to do such research. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3956 "2025-02-25T02:31:01Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > We need another crypto coin like we need another hole in the head. Where do you think those coins are coming from? ---
**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 25, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3957 "2025-02-25T02:47:33Z")
[![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/V6lVt4M.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/V6lVt4M) ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3958 "2025-02-25T03:44:56Z")
Too soon? (I laughed) ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3959 "2025-02-25T09:11:09Z")
[Quote=the article]The gun misfired twice.[/quote] Now, I dont own any weapons, and have only fired a revolver a few times. So I am far from knowlegeble. But how the fuck do you misfire a revolver twice in a row? That man must be the world champion at Russian Roulette, or, at least, he should be. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3960 "2025-02-25T09:28:24Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > But how the fuck do you misfire a revolver twice in a row? That man must be the world champion at Russian Roulette, or, at least, he should be. If he was playing Russian Roulette, then “misfire” might just mean that the hammer fell on an empty chamber. It sounds like something a journalist with little knowledge of firearms would write. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=197) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=199)