# 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:** 404
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8061 "2026-08-06T12:02:31Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > unless it was a ghoul dressed as the grim reaper, That was what the writer was saying - that the man was a (metaphorical) ghoul, reveling in people’s death. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8062 "2026-08-06T14:29:03Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > That was what the writer was saying - that the man was a (metaphorical) ghoul, reveling in people’s death. What’s the charge, being a ghoul? A succulent Welsh ghoul? This is necromancy manifest. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8063 "2026-08-06T14:32:24Z")
But why is it important that he’s a _Welsh_ ghoul? ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8064 "2026-08-06T14:37:49Z")
Welsh ghouls are the worst… ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8065 "2026-08-06T14:38:34Z")
I believe the proper spelling is “ghwl”. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8066 "2026-08-06T14:41:21Z")
> [@Stanislaus](#): > > This is necromancy manifest. You call it necromancy. I call it raising a family. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8067 "2026-08-06T14:56:06Z")
You really don’t want a ghoul dressed up as the Grim Reaper holding a scythe, standing over you when you wake up in post-op recovery. Or worse, in pre-op. “Ydych chi wedi gwneud heddwch â’r Hollalluog?” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8068 "2026-08-06T15:17:47Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I believe the proper spelling is “ghwl”. Google Translate says gŵl. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8069 "2026-08-06T18:51:34Z")
Firefighters trying to battle the wildfires in Spokane keep having to ground their equipment because people keep flying drones into the fire zone. [https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/wildfire/fire-officials-illegal-drone-flights-spokane-wildfires/281-a0d942ed-263a-4007-b788-106bad263d30](https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/wildfire/fire-officials-illegal-drone-flights-spokane-wildfires/281-a0d942ed-263a-4007-b788-106bad263d30) ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8070 "2026-08-06T21:45:55Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > Every single day real life resembles an SNL sketch more and more. And not one of the good ones. > [@Ponderoid](#): > > But why is it important that he’s a _Welsh_ ghoul? One of my favorite lines in _An American Werewolf in London_ was when David transformed back to human, sans clothing, in Hyde Park and takes care of the situation. Smash cut to a small boy tugging on his mother’s sleeve, “A naked American man stole my balloon,” like there are any number of naked Irishmen about. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8071 "2026-08-06T22:07:08Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > "A Welsh ghoul dressed as the “Grim Reaper” " > > That’s a terribly worded sentence, unless it was a ghoul dressed as the grim reaper, it should’ve been “A Welsh man dressed as the grim reaper”. Exactly. _Ghoul_ is a word that works well as a pejorative; as a descriptor of an entity that actually exists, less so.\* _I’m aware that the term does have an IRL meaning, but I regard that meaning as being more specific._ ---
**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:** [August 6, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8072 "2026-08-06T23:09:00Z")
> [@Stanislaus](#): > > A succulent Welsh ghoul? I think that’s some variation of rarebit. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8073 "2026-08-07T13:27:41Z")
This is happening all over. It needs to stop. Examples need to be made and drone disabling technology needs to mature. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2026, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8074 "2026-08-08T15:26:28Z")
This is rich. A published chemistry paper has been retracted after authors were caught using AI to write it without disclosure. A commenter on the PubPeer website spotted a weird sentence in which the AI substituted “mass killing of an ethnic group” for “final solution”. “1 ml of the mass killing of an ethnic group” Gotta proofread, fellas. > **[PubPeer - Exploring the efficacy of zinc based nanogel for wound heali...](https://pubpeer.com/publications/B9A4ACD51DC24C453DF4F8229C71CE)** > > There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Exploring the efficacy of zinc based nanogel for wound healing: An in vivo study (2026) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8075 "2026-08-08T15:42:22Z")
Hehehe. Tell me you’re a sophisticated version of autocomplete without telling me you’re a sophisticated version of autocomplete. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8076 "2026-08-08T16:06:35Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > A commenter on the PubPeer website spotted a weird sentence in which the AI substituted “mass killing of an ethnic group” for “final solution”. AI is changing everything! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8077 "2026-08-08T16:10:44Z")
That’s sort of how some years back we had a spate of instances of “black” being autocorrected to “African American” no matter the context (or for true stupidity, when ONN autocorrected the name of Tyson Gay to “Tyson Homosexual”). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8078 "2026-08-08T17:30:22Z")
Just saw this exchange reposted online: > " Here’s Telemachus’ mentor. He’s named, uh, Mentor. Bravo Nolan." > > “That character is the origin of the word.” > > “It literally came out two days ago.” ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8079 "2026-08-08T18:04:04Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > a sophisticated version of autocomplete a sophisticated _Nazi_ version of autocomplete ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8080 "2026-08-08T23:13:37Z")
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