# 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:** 345
**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:** [April 9, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6881 "2026-04-09T20:49:24Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > “Hooking up words and phrases and clauses[!](https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Conductor_(Schoolhouse_Rock!))” The school bus rushed to the crossing BUT the arm was down AND the train was coming, so the driver sped across AND the train could not stop in time, BUT the bus narrowly made it, BUT she lost her job because there could have been carnage OR death. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6882 "2026-04-09T21:09:28Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > the bus narrowly made it But not unscathed! A few inches one way and there’s at least serious injury. A few inches the other way and no damage. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > BUT she lost her job She quit before she could be fired. Somehow I don’t think that’ll be enough to save her from prosecution or enough to convince anybody to ever hire her again. Not that folks are rushing out to hire 67 year olds. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6883 "2026-04-09T21:24:23Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Most of those are going to be the same for most states, including Florida, to match Federal regulations for school buses crossing railroad tracks. It’s just a Bill, on Capitol Hill. (OK, @kenobi_65 beat me to it) > [@DesertDog](#): > > Nowadays railroad crossings have a blue sign with a number to call for not only stuck crossings but also a vehicle stuck on the crossing. It includes an intersection or code number to identify the specific location. The rail crossing right next to my apartment malfunctioned once, with the lights flashing but gates open and no train. And the number identifying the crossing was way out on the end of the gate, where I couldn’t read it from the ground. I had to tell them the street, which I guess they were able to look up. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6884 "2026-04-09T23:18:23Z")
My 'burb of ~80K people has a major north / south rail line running through it. Which cleaves the town pretty much in two right down the middle. We get several freights and ~20 passenger trains per day. The downtown area has 4 grade crossings within about 1.5 miles where boulevards of 2 or 3 lanes each way cross the tracks. Lots of traffic all day every day on those roads. The trains create minor backlogs every 30 minutes or so all day. The crossings have gates on both the inbound and outbound side of the tracks, raised islands, etc. It is very very difficult to evade the gates once they are down even in an off-road vehicle. People get crunched by trains here in SoFL all the time, but it’s usually a matter of drivers following bumper to bumper traffic onto the tracks, then the gates come down trapping your car inside. 30 seconds later _Crunch!_ About once a week one or another of our crossings malfunctions and the gates go down, sit a minute, go up, go right back down, lather rinse repeat indefinitely. With no train anywhere near. The police get called, turn back traffic and send out text messages so I and other connected citizens know of the ensuing (massive) traffic problems. Usually an hour or so later there’s another text saying the gates are now operating normally & traffic is flowing again. Today I left home in a torrential downpour intending to cross the tracks at my nearest crossing. I saw the gates go down from one intersection short of the tracks, waited for a train, no train, saw them go up & right back down. Crap! I know how this story goes. I bailed out onto a road parallel to the tracks to avoid getting trapped in the rapidly building jam where I was. As I drove along I passed the other three gates at the other three crossings all doing the exact same thing. No trains in either direction. All 4 sets of independent gates over that 1.5 mile stretch of track were going nuts. I changed my day’s plan to not need to cross those tracks today. The steady flow of txt messages from the PD suggests they had a very wet afternoon trying to corral the traffic with our whole town cut in half. I do not know what is up with these particular gates, but their reliability leaves a LOT to be desired. I just hope they only fail by going down with no train; the opposite, being up with a train coming through would be a mass casualty event. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6885 "2026-04-10T01:32:35Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The school bus rushed to the crossing BUT the arm was down AND the train was coming, so the driver sped across AND the train could not stop in time, BUT the bus narrowly made it, BUT she lost her job because there could have been carnage OR death. Indubitably ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6886 "2026-04-10T01:58:52Z")
How obnoxious do you have to be to get evicted from a Trump Tower? Either the walls of their condo were paper-thin, or this couple was never introduced to the concept of indoor voices. > [@](#): > > Georgia Litle and her husband, Clint Litle, huddled in the bathroom of their lavish condo at Trump Tower and turned on the shower. > > They hoped the running water would drown out their “highly personal and sexual” conversation last May after a neighbor complained about the noise. But what happened next crossed the line, the couple alleged. > > A neighbor allegedly recorded the intimate exchange and shared it with building employees, who then passed it on to other residents, according to a federal lawsuit filed last month against Tower employees, the 401 North Wabash Avenue condo association and Trump Chicago Residential Manager LLC… > > Over the course of about three months, management imposed more than $3,700 in fines for “raised voices,” trash bags in the hallway and for loud sex, the suit said. > **[Trump Tower couple alleges their intimate exchange was recorded in federal...](https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/08/trump-tower-couple-federal-lawsuit/)** > > A Trump Tower neighbor allegedly recorded an intimate exchange and shared it with building employees, who then passed it on to other residents, according to a federal lawsuit filed last month. [Another link to this compelling saga](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15718865/Trump-Tower-couple-loud-sex-Georgia-Clint-Litle-lawsuit.html) (warning: extreme example of Mar-a-Lago face). ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6887 "2026-04-10T02:20:37Z")
Or the sound carries real well through the shared bathroom exhaust ducting. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6888 "2026-04-10T02:26:22Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > extreme example of Mar-a-Lago face). YIKES! That’s a really horrible version. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6889 "2026-04-10T02:30:09Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Either the walls of their condo were paper-thin It’s a Trump project. There’s no either-or about it. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6890 "2026-04-10T09:23:04Z")
If I ever saw someone who looked like that, I’d assume she was a burn victim who’d undergone reconstructive surgery. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6891 "2026-04-10T14:23:48Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@Jackmannii](#): > > > > extreme example of Mar-a-Lago face). > > YIKES! That’s a really horrible version. I was warned, but I still looked. What is _wrong_ with me? ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6892 "2026-04-10T14:28:58Z")
I looked. I do not think of that at all as Mar-a-Lago face. Yes, it is a hideous example of severely overdone plastic surgery. But it’s totally not the mar-a-lago look. Where I live the overdone face, lips, and breasts sorta towards that extreme is very common. At a certain point in the wealth spectrum, it’s simply expected by women that they will spend to achieve “better” than natural. Some spend wisely, some not. Some have a good sense of aesthetics and restraint. Others have neither class nor style, but do know that more is always better. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6893 "2026-04-10T14:33:26Z")
Yeah, she has too much plastic surgery, but I think that the bigger problem there is just too much makeup. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6894 "2026-04-10T14:41:53Z")
Agreed. There is also a lot of “more is better” belief out there when it comes to makeup too. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6895 "2026-04-10T14:42:50Z")
I don’t know who we’re talking about, but a few days ago I caught a random episode of The Golden Girls were Sophia said (to Blanche) “Just because you put your makeup on with a butter knife doesn’t make you Tammy Bakker!” ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6896 "2026-04-10T14:45:51Z")
Were talking specifically about the woman featured in the cites in @Jackmannii’s post about 10 up from here. Especially as seen in his third, non-preview-boxed cite. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6897 "2026-04-10T14:48:05Z")
Yikes. I’d much rather just look at Tammy Faye Bakker. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6898 "2026-04-10T14:48:12Z")
It’s hard to outdo Laura Loomer, but I think she managed it. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6899 "2026-04-10T15:32:40Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > If I ever saw someone who looked like that, I’d assume she was a burn victim who’d undergone reconstructive surgery. The correct meme is “_leopard_ victim who’d undergone reconstructive surgery”. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6900 "2026-04-10T17:56:04Z")
Re: trains. There were east-west running tracks a mile or so from my old work place. When we went to lunch we nearly always went north across those tracks, but we knew to hurry our lunch to get back before 1:00. That was when the one train that ran during the day crossed the intersection we needed to use (well, actually, _any_ intersection we’d take to get back to our building). That train was always super long. We missed it once, and I clocked it as nearly 20 minutes that we sat there. ETA: That woman should have left her lips alone. That one thing would improve her looks about 80%, instead of making her look like a duck-billed freak. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=344) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=346)