# 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:** 56
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1101 "2024-05-06T15:05:03Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > driver could at least have unloaded it into a Dumpster. Or, better yet, in front of the nearest Republican headquarters. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1102 "2024-05-06T16:27:32Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > So, some countries and some territories Saw there at least 30 different dependencies of different types; including places with no permanent-resident-citizen populations like Antartica and the “US Minor Outlying Islands” (Wake, Midway, Palmyra, Navassa and others such with only stationed garrisons or survey teams if anyone at all); and others like all the Overseas Departments of France, whose IP regimes would be under “France” just as much as Hawaii’s is under “USA”. BUT, that still leaves QUITE a considerable number of countries hung out to dry including large-population ones like Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt —heck looks like almost all of Africa is out— and _Japan itself_ (now sure probably it just means there is a domestic-only network for the home market to use, but it’s still an embarassing look, Sony…) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1103 "2024-05-06T17:59:35Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > It seems a guy driving a dump truck noticed his garbage was on fire, and for some reason believed that the therapy building was a fire station. So he _dumped his flaming garbage_ in front of the “fire station” and drove away. I mean, if someone was driving a truck full of burning garbage and _didn’t_ dump it out somewhere he’d be a pretty stupid MFer, too. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1104 "2024-05-06T18:23:35Z")
How do they know that he thought it was a fire station? Did someone get his license plate? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1105 "2024-05-06T18:30:39Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > How do they know that he thought it was a fire station? Did someone get his license plate? - Maybe his name was on an envelope at the bottom of the pile of garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1106 "2024-05-06T21:33:11Z")
Okay, that made me laugh. Which reminds me, I need to indoctrinate the grandkids. When my kids were small, they could recite long sections of that song. They especially liked the description of the other side of the paper. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1107 "2024-05-06T21:59:54Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > How do they know that he thought it was a fire station? Did someone get his license plate? No idea. But it’s not the first time someone has mistaken that place as a fire station. I once had a really long awkward conversation with my son’s transportation service trying to direct a new bus driver there. “Is that near the fire station?” “What? No, there’s no fire station.” It’s really odd because I don’t see it. (The thing that gets me is, supposing it was a fire station. Who just drops off a pile of flaming garbage and drives away without, you know, alerting the fire fighters inside? It’s such a weird story.) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1108 "2024-05-06T22:06:39Z")
Odd. To me, fire stations have big vehicle bays with roll-up doors that face the street. I can’t imagine a therapy clinic with that kind of door(s) facing the street. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1109 "2024-05-06T22:20:05Z")
The area is kind of a bloc of business buildings, you know like a business subdivision. There’s a building in front of the therapy building (which is well away from the main road) which is kind of boxy but I don’t think it looks like a fire station. It looks like a small warehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1110 "2024-05-06T22:49:07Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > (The thing that gets me is, supposing it was a fire station. Who just drops off a pile of flaming garbage and drives away without, you know, alerting the fire fighters inside? It’s such a weird story.) Kinda reminds me of this: [https://clip.cafe/roxanne-1987/goddamn-it-are-supposed-put-them-out/](https://clip.cafe/roxanne-1987/goddamn-it-are-supposed-put-them-out/) For those who don’t want to click an undescribed link, it’s a scene from _Roxanne_. Fire Chief Steve Martin comes across a burning trash barrel in the fire station and says “Godammit, we’re supposed to put them out!” ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1111 "2024-05-07T03:28:22Z")
A garbage truck caught on fire right behind our house. They had to dump the garbage in the street, but the truck didn’t drive away and leave it. The fire department came and put it out. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1112 "2024-05-07T05:31:33Z")
Just posting to congratulate @Just_Asking_Questions on the 1,111th post. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1113 "2024-05-07T10:55:31Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > > driver could at least have unloaded it into a Dumpster. > > Or, better yet, in front of the nearest Republican headquarters. Don’t be redundant. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1114 "2024-05-07T11:47:20Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > They especially liked the description of the other side of the paper. I laughed, too. And I’m sorry, but it’s the other side of the _pictures_. > Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten > color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back > of each one. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1115 "2024-05-07T14:47:42Z")
I filled out the massacree with the four-part harmony. Wrote it down there Just like it was and everything was fine. And I put down my pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there . . . on the other side . . . in The middle of the other side . . . away from everything else on the other side . . . in parentheses . . . capital letters . . . quotated . . . read the following words: “Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?” ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1116 "2024-05-07T14:52:41Z")
Ok, we’re both right, then! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1117 "2024-05-07T19:34:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Yllaria](#): > > > > How do they know that he thought it was a fire station? Did someone get his license plate? - > > Maybe his name was on an envelope at the bottom of the pile of garbage. Nm, too late ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1118 "2024-05-07T19:56:54Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Nm, too late Were you going to admit that you put that envelope under that pile of garbage? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1119 "2024-05-07T20:27:11Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Which reminds me, I need to indoctrinate the grandkids. When my kids were small, they could recite long sections of that song. They especially liked the description of the other side of the paper. One of the radio stations in Chicago plays it twice every Thanksgiving Day. You know, because “Had another Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat…” ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1120 "2024-05-07T20:33:15Z")
I have no idea WTF you are all on about. Link? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=57)