# 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:** 23
**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 21, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/441 "2024-02-21T18:37:46Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > That battle was lost a century ago. oooooohkay – didn’t I just say in some other thread that I acknowledge that language will move on with me or without me? (But my reaction is still _ouch!_) ---
**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, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/442 "2024-02-21T20:21:01Z")
I would guess that perhaps 20% of the male population know the difference between the two…and I may be a bit optimistic there. ---
**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 21, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/443 "2024-02-21T20:24:09Z")
Vulva? An’t that one o’ them Yurrupian cars? ---
**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 21, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/444 "2024-02-21T21:32:29Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’d have been impressed if some cheeky writer tried to fit in a comment about a “waxing crescent moon”. “Gibbous” sounds dirtier to me. ---
**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 21, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/445 "2024-02-21T21:33:30Z")
There should be a Mornington Crescent joke in there somewhere. ---
**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, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/446 "2024-02-21T21:39:51Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Your typical TMZ reader is probably the wrong audience for that sort of writing, though. And supurbus pudendum is out of the question ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/447 "2024-02-22T00:13:10Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > There should be a Mornington Crescent joke in there somewhere. Shepherd’s Bush? ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/448 "2024-02-22T01:19:41Z")
[Grab them by the pussy street?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/449 "2024-02-22T01:36:40Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > They likely do but “crotch” or “groin” isn’t as sensationalist and TMZ loves anything titillating. Heh heh, you said “tit”. But even if you take “vagina” to mean “vulva”, the hair is mostly above and a bit around the vulva, not on it, either. I mean, the whole point of the bikini wax is that you’re covering the vulva, but there are still hairy bits exposed that you want to de-hair. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/450 "2024-02-22T01:38:04Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > > There should be a Mornington Crescent joke in there somewhere. > > Shepherd’s Bush? Well, that’s a rather traditional opening. I see you’re tying to get me into Knip. But I’m to clever for that and will Back Double. Bayswater. ---
**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 22, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/451 "2024-02-22T01:39:06Z")
Meanwhile, in stupid human/animal interactions, [“Colorado man dies after bite from Gila monster he illegally kept as a pet.”](https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/health/colorado-man-dies-gila-monster-lizard-bite/index.html) > Ward’s girlfriend called 911 just before midnight February 12 after she entered the room where the reptiles were kept and found that one of them had “latched onto Ward’s hand,” LPD Animal Control officer Leesha Crookston wrote in the report. Ward immediately started showing symptoms, vomiting several times before he passed out, and his breathing stopped, the report said. > … > Ward was taken to a local hospital, where he was put on life support and was later “declared brain dead,” according to the report. He died February 16, LPD Public Information Officer John Romero told CNN on Wednesday. The cause of death has not been released. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/452 "2024-02-22T01:40:24Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > The cause of death has not been released. I’m going to hazard a guess here: “Cause of Death: Bitten by Gila Monster” ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/453 "2024-02-22T01:42:48Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I think it would be a very odd audience in which “vagina” was acceptable language but “pubic mound” wasn’t. Perhaps they are trying to claim the oral high ground. ---
**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 22, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/454 "2024-02-22T01:43:30Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > But even if you take “vagina” to mean “vulva”, the hair is mostly above and a bit around the vulva, not on it, either. I mean, the whole point of the bikini wax is that you’re covering the vulva, but there are still hairy bits exposed that you want to de-hair. Exactly, that’s why I suggested that “crotch” or “groin” would be accurate, since it applies to an area and not a particular anatomical part. Or “privates” if you’re being delicate. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/455 "2024-02-22T01:50:07Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@Excerpt from CNN cite](#): > > > > Ward was taken to a local hospital, where he was put on life support and was later “declared brain dead,” according to the report. I’d say the declaration was a few years too late. Anyone keeping a Gila monster for a pet is already brain dead long before they’re bitten ---
**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 22, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/456 "2024-02-22T02:42:38Z")
I was waiting for someone to make that point. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/457 "2024-02-22T02:56:29Z")
I once ate at [Adobe Gila’s](https://www.adobegilas.com/story).\* \*motto: This Place Bites. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/458 "2024-02-22T03:05:51Z")
Oh thank goodness! The Gila monster’s okay. I hate when they don’t tell you what happened to the animal. ---
**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 22, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/459 "2024-02-22T03:49:43Z")
Agreed. No doubt the other Gila monster and the 26 spiders have all found a better home. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/460 "2024-02-22T03:55:58Z")
I had no idea about this: > The venom from a Gila monster is as toxic as that of a western diamondback rattlesnake, the Smithsonian says. And it goes on to say that although they only produce a relatively small amount, there is no antivenom. Presumably because they are slow moving and it takes determined effort to get seriously bitten, so it’s not worth the resources to make antivenom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=24)