# 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:** 300
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5981 "2025-11-24T19:09:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > How did that even get created? I’m surprised nobody’s figured that out yet. Someone paid someone else to create it… we need names so we can shame them! ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5982 "2025-11-24T19:53:13Z")
Someone named Chet Geppetto. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5983 "2025-11-24T23:04:20Z")
You could fill a dozen threads like this with Dumbass Things School Boards Did. I’ve witnessed a lot of board stupidity dating back to my time as a reporter. But what Fayette County (KY) school board members are now trying to push through is about the dumbest I’ve ever seen. A majority is trying to prevent dissenting board members from speaking to the news media. The proposal (to be voted on at their next meeting): > [@](#): > > “Board members who voted in the minority on a matter, yet where the motion was approved by majority vote, shall not use subsequent media inquiries as a forum to reiterate or revive their dissenting position. The appropriate time for expressing opposing views is during board discussion while the motion is under consideration. Once a vote is taken and a decision is made, board members are expected to respect and support the collective decision of the board. In such instances, if contacted by the media, individual board members should issue no comment and direct inquiries to the board chair.” Yo, dingbats! Ever hear of the First Amendment? You’re going to be one lawsuit away from utter humiliation. The board, which oversees school matters in one of the biggest districts in the state (Lexington and environs) has already made an ass of itself over fiscal mismanagement and dubious entertainment spending by administrators, and is facing a potential state audit. Trying to silence internal criticism is just rancid icing on the cake. It’s probably paywalled, but an editorial about their latest moronic proposal can be found [here](https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/linda-blackford/article313102389.html#storylink=cpy). ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5984 "2025-11-24T23:14:17Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Yo, dingbats! Ever hear of the First Amendment? You’re going to be one lawsuit away from utter humiliation. That is the very first thing I thought of when I saw the gist of what they were trying to do. I’m pretty sure this is against the law. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5985 "2025-11-24T23:19:19Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > It’s probably paywalled, but an editorial about their latest moronic proposal can be found [here](https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/linda-blackford/article313102389.html#storylink=cpy). I just had to turn off my ad-blocker to view the editorial. The opening paragraph sums it up pretty well: > If you were wondering what Fayette County school officials had learned from their summer from hell, where they were excoriated daily for their ineptitude, lack of transparency, and arrogance, well, wonder no more. > Not. One. Thing. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5986 "2025-11-24T23:39:06Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > A Christmas mural in Kingston upon Thames is to be removed after it was discovered to have clearly been generated by AI. One of the folks in the [reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1ozk1jl/scenes_of_lovecraftian_horror_at_kingstons/) posted more detailed images, there’s a lot of hilarious/horrendous stuff going on in that scene. Sadly(?) there are also images of the mural being taken down. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5987 "2025-11-24T23:43:20Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Sorry, forgot my reading glasses at home that day. It was a hard-stop deadline so I had to hit the print button and hope for the best. No, I mean, I can understand someone being so lazy that they just said “ChatGPT, create a Christmas mural for me”, and then didn’t look at it themself. But even if they had done exactly that, they would have gotten something a lot better than this. They’d almost have to have actively tried to get something this bad. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5988 "2025-11-24T23:57:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > No, I mean, I can understand someone being so lazy that they just said “ChatGPT, create a Christmas mural for me”, and then didn’t look at it themself. But even if they had done exactly that, they would have gotten something a lot better than this. They’d almost have to have actively tried to get something this bad. “AI, give me a picture of a Christmas mural in the style of AI generated pictures from four years ago, and make it it even more horrible than Hieronymus Bosch could ever imagine” ---
**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:** [November 24, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5989 "2025-11-24T23:57:45Z")
It is amazingly bad. It does boggle the mind how it was created and actually installed. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5990 "2025-11-25T00:02:10Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > “AI, give me a picture of a Christmas mural in the style of AI generated pictures from four years ago, and make it it even more horrible than Hieronymus Bosch could ever imagine” “and you know John Carpenter’s “The Thing”? Throw in some of those human-dog mutant hybrids as well.” ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5991 "2025-11-25T00:04:30Z")
My question is, do we know for sure this was ChatGPT that generated it? I’ve seen so many free online AI “art generators”, and their quality can vary greatly. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5992 "2025-11-25T00:58:52Z")
The very short turn around reminds me of [this](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.5834738/mysterious-stranger-poses-as-illinois-building-owner-to-commission-soviet-style-cookie-monster-mural-1.5834963) bit of performance art and much more worthy mural that was sadly painted over in with a profound lack of appreciation of genius a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5993 "2025-11-25T01:05:41Z")
Actually I might take that back. The mural’s hideously deformed snowman and the conglomerate of lost souls behind is genius in an alternate universe comedic Hieronymus Bosch kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5994 "2025-11-26T22:50:46Z")
[Fire officials say around 385 gallons of oil were dumped into the basement before the delivery driver realized there was no tank.](https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/medford-heating-oil-dump/4307365/) ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5995 "2025-11-26T23:10:38Z")
Kind of a headfake by the homeowner to not cap the fill pipe at either end. But yeah, that oil delivery company is gonna end up buying them a house. I’m not from the oil-burning furnace part of the country. What is the capacity of a typical home oil tank? IOW is pumping 385 gallons tbe sign of a brain dead or inattentive driver who should have noticed something was amiss 300 gallons sooner, or is that a typical delivery volume? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5996 "2025-11-26T23:18:45Z")
Some very, very quick googling suggests to me that 385 gallons is well within the capacity of a ‘normal’ sized tank. ETA; Random thing I found on the internet: “houses with one or two bedrooms usually have a 275-gallon heating oil tank. Houses with three or four bedrooms usually have 300-gallon, 400-gallon or 500-gallon tanks.” The article mentioned it’s a 3 family house. So, at the very least, I’d say the driver didn’t walk away for some negligent amount of time. It’s not that it normally takes 20 minutes to fill a tank and he left the pump running for an hour (or whatever times make sense). ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5997 "2025-11-26T23:29:11Z")
Well, the cap would just be threaded on, just not hand-tight. I can totally see a delivery driver getting out his pipe wrench–”What asshole put this on so tight last time???”. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5998 "2025-11-26T23:30:13Z")
IMO wherever the pipe ended in the basement should have had a theaded cap too. Or the pipe should have been removed entire or the top cap welded on. The company goofed and is IMO legally responsible. But the homeowners created a setup to screwup. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/5999 "2025-11-26T23:34:13Z")
True enough, but no one expects the gift of $2000 of free oil (not so much). There are often all sorts of weird orifices around houses. My favorite was putting the VERY first bucket of an excavator in the ground and hitting a pirate natural gas line. They had a meter but no locate wire and the lots had been re-platted so the line ran under 2 neighbors’ lots. Fun day. It’s also highly unlikely the owner removed the tank. That’s a big PITA and hazard, so capping the pipe would be on that company. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6000 "2025-11-26T23:34:33Z")
That smell is never going away. I lived in a house that long ago used heating oil and you could still smell it in the crawlspace where the tank was located and part of the year in the area above that tank. Not a good smell unless you like fuel fumes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=299) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=301)