# 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:** 421
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8401 "2026-09-16T18:50:05Z")
I believe they already reversed the ban because of this? ---
**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:** [September 16, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8402 "2026-09-16T18:58:53Z")
The policy was [changed](https://www.wwnytv.com/2026/09/15/beaver-river-school-board-amends-food-drink-policy-after-students-suspension/). > **[Beaver River School Board amends food and drink policy after student’s...](https://www.wwnytv.com/2026/09/15/beaver-river-school-board-amends-food-drink-policy-after-students-suspension/)** > > The Beaver River Central School District has amended a policy banning outside food and drinks in classrooms, following a public hearing Monday night. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8403 "2026-09-16T21:34:39Z")
> **[Chaos erupts at Grand Central as woman tells riders 'this will be your last...](https://gothamist.com/news/chaos-erupts-at-grand-central-as-woman-tells-riders-this-will-be-your-last-day-on-earth)** > > Police said the woman was undergoing a mental crisis when she made the threat. # ‘this will be your last day on earth’ I am a bit surprised New Yorkers over-reacted this much. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8404 "2026-09-16T22:48:33Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > I am a bit surprised New Yorkers over-reacted this much. It was a train from Connecticut. Bunch of bridge-and-tunnel wimps. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8405 "2026-09-16T23:38:53Z")
Speaking of high schools, one in California [suspended its entire football roster and coaching staff](https://www.footballscoop.com/2026/09/15/high-school-suspends-entire-coaching-staff-and-roster-following-postgame-display-of-poor-sportsmanship) after a win over a rival school. Per the linked article: > [@](#): > > Video circulating on social media showed the Jackrabbits mascot making middle-finger gestures at Apple Valley spectators while players celebrated, and the school said team members “behaved in an unsportsmanlike manner toward the opposing team and its fans, including offensive gestures and language.” For the record, the stupid behavior belonged to the players, mascot, and coaches. Good on the school for the discipline. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2026, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8406 "2026-09-17T00:17:38Z")
Why the Hell did the school district implement a no-outside-food policy in the first place? How much of a kickback was their cafeteria vendor giving the board members? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8407 "2026-09-17T00:24:47Z")
I agree it’s stupid, but drugs! is always a popular reason, and allergen exposure would be possible. Money is likely it though - not necessarily kickbacks (although definitely in the running), the profit from the cafeteria may be supporting the overall budget. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2026, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8408 "2026-09-17T04:10:56Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > New business idea - get your chiropractic therapy while inside a hyperbaric chamber. The diseases will go away twice as fast! two times zero still being zero Throw in homeopathy and you’re golden. Tea, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8409 "2026-09-17T04:17:53Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Tea, maybe? Tea? Get with the times! A nice warm glass of fresh urine. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2026, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8410 "2026-09-17T04:29:15Z")
All things considered, I think I’d prefer homeopathic urine over fresh. 100X ought to be about right. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8411 "2026-09-17T16:59:32Z")
The high school I work at has a no open beverages rule. Meaning that you can bring in an unopened bottle of water or other soft drinks, but you can’t bring in anything that has already been opened, which includes reusable water bottles, or coffees. Because of alcohol or other drugs that can be put into an open bottle. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8412 "2026-09-18T17:34:05Z")
I’m preemptively assuming that letting AI help DC area air traffic controllers is going to be a stupid idea. > **[The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/the-faas-plan-to-fix-air-traffic-875-million-worth-of-ai/)** > > A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2026, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8413 "2026-09-18T19:11:58Z")
MI high school wants female students to turn in notes from their parents to prove when they’ve been menstruating. > **[Outcry as Michigan high school asks girls to share details of menstrual cycles](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/17/michigan-school-period-policy)** > > Students required to disclose information if they wish to make up swimming days lost because of their periods ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8414 "2026-09-18T19:37:20Z")
It sounds like they think the issue is girls trying to get out of gym class by claiming they are on their periods. I have no idea if that is a common ruse or not. But surely there are better ways to deal with a missed gym class than being the period police? Some kind of make-up assignment, an essay maybe? And be sure to give any boys missing gym class the same task, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8415 "2026-09-18T20:25:59Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > It sounds like they think the issue is girls trying to get out of gym class by claiming they are on their periods. I have no idea if that is a common ruse or not. It all stems from the belief that girls and women lie and exaggerate about the impact of their menstrual period. Many doctors believe this as well; it’s a huge problem in women’s healthcare. The general public is also staggeringly ignorant. I’ve talked to adult women whose male supervisors believed they could choose when to start bleeding, and who were disciplined for not waiting to start their period until their scheduled break. This is disgusting, invasive, misogynistic bullshit. It’s also blatantly discriminatory. I hope the public rains hellfire down upon them. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8416 "2026-09-18T20:45:37Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Money is likely it though - not necessarily kickbacks (although definitely in the running), the profit from the cafeteria may be supporting the overall budget. A lot of schools nowadays outsource their cafeteria to companies that specialize in that, so the profits would be going to that company, not the school’s budget. Unless there’s kickbacks. > [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m preemptively assuming that letting AI help DC area air traffic controllers is going to be a stupid idea. Depends on what’s meant by “AI”. If they mean LLMs like ChatGPT, that’s not at all a task that it’s good at, and trying to do anything using it would be catastrophic. But if it’s just using the old meaning of “really sophisticated software”, they’re already doing that, and have been for a long time, and have been incrementally increasing how much they’re using it for a long time, too. > [@Smapti](#): > > MI high school wants female students to turn in notes from their parents to prove when they’ve been menstruating. And that one’s in the wrong thread, because it’s evil, not stupid. All part of the pervasive overall effort to criminalize being female. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8417 "2026-09-18T20:50:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > MI high school wants female students to turn in notes from their parents to prove when they’ve been menstruating. That’s a pretty interesting episode of _Welcome Back, Kotter_. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8418 "2026-09-18T22:39:13Z")
You know how you deal with teenaged girls missing gym class? You let them miss gym class. Who gives a shit? It’s Phys. Ed. ferchrissakes not nuclear fission class. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8419 "2026-09-18T22:44:26Z")
Actually, at my high school, we had a combined physical education/nuclear physics class, due to low staffing levels. Of course, this was in the early 1980s, so things may be different now. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/8420 "2026-09-18T23:07:22Z")
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