# 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:** 57
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1121 "2024-05-07T20:34:50Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m57gzA2JCcM/hqdefault.jpg "Alice's Restaurant - Original 1967 Recording") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM) ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1122 "2024-05-07T20:36:03Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I have no idea WTF you are all on about. And I proceeded to tell Spice\_Weasel the story of the Alice’s Restaurant Massacree with full orchestration and four-part harmony… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1123 "2024-05-07T20:38:07Z")
Good thing you’re not proud…or tired. ---
**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, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1124 "2024-05-07T20:47:10Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > > > Nm, too late > > Were you going to admit that you put that envelope under that pile of garbage? Yes, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. ---
**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, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1125 "2024-05-07T23:46:32Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I have no idea WTF you are all on about. It’s an obscure reference to anyone who wasn’t a teenager or older in the 60s. I’m only aware of the referenced work because my dad was a fan. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1126 "2024-05-07T23:54:04Z")
I was a pre-schooler in the 1960s and am well aware of it (heard it every Thanksgiving on the radio into the mid-80s) (my parents are likely too old to know of it, though). ---
**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 8, 2024, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1127 "2024-05-08T00:18:04Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s an obscure reference to anyone who wasn’t a teenager or older in the 60s. I was four in 1960. I’m not sure when I first ran across it. When my kids were young, I had a cassette of the album. It was good for long car rides. You can watch several versions on YouTube, if you’re curious. (The Motorcycle Song changed the most over the years.) ---
**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 8, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1128 "2024-05-08T01:15:33Z")
[Or, you can watch the movie…](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064002/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_2_q_alice%2520restaur) ---
**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:** [May 8, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1129 "2024-05-08T01:41:37Z")
Macklemore says he won’t vote for Biden because of Gaza. > **[Macklemore Issues Scathing Message To Biden In Pro-Palestinian Track](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/macklemore-hinds-hall-palestine-song_n_663a4889e4b0ce3aef50ea32)** > > The rapper named the track "Hind's Hall" after the Columbia University building that was occupied by student protesters. Well well well, Ben. And here I thought that 12 years ago when you were an underground rapper without a label writing a song about how your gay uncle deserves to marry his partner and you would fight for that right for everyone, that you meant it. Well, guess what - one of two men is going to be president next year, and one of them supports your uncle, and the other is a fascist whose cronies will put your uncle and people like him in concentration camps AND will give Israel free reign to wipe the Gazan people off the face of the Earth. But I guess now that you’re rich you have the luxury of not having to worry about what’s going to happen to the plebs when the fascists take over and impose Christian Sharia on us, since you’ll be perfectly fine cashing their checks to sing “Thrift Shop” in stadiums packed with one-percenters who make their living by exploiting the people you used to care about. I hope your moral purity is worth it. ---
**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 8, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1130 "2024-05-08T02:09:47Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s an obscure reference to anyone who wasn’t a teenager or older in the 60s. Still played on the radio every Thanksgiving back when I was last still listening to the radio. Looks like the tradition isn’t dead yet: [https://coloradosound.org/how-arlo-guthries-alices-restaurant-became-a-thanksgiving-classic/](https://coloradosound.org/how-arlo-guthries-alices-restaurant-became-a-thanksgiving-classic/) ---
**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:** [May 8, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1131 "2024-05-08T03:51:04Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I was four in 1960. I’m not sure when I first ran across it. When my kids were young, I had a cassette of the album. It was good for long car rides. I was born in 1980 and was, by a margin of _decades_, the youngest person in the crowd when I went to see him at my college in 1999ish. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1132 "2024-05-08T13:35:09Z")
An American soldier goes to Russia to cheat on his wife. Three guesses about what happens next. > **[U.S. soldier charged with theft in Russia as TikTok videos shed light on...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-soldier-gordon-black-charged-russia-tiktok-videos-relationship-rcna151188)** > > Staff Sgt. Gordon Black visited the Russian city of Vladivostok after leaving his posting in South Korea. ---
**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 8, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1133 "2024-05-08T16:21:32Z")
> Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the detention had nothing to do with politics, state news agency TASS reported. Well, I guess that settles that then. ---
**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 8, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1134 "2024-05-08T21:02:09Z")
His mother told Fox that the “girlfriend” was trying to get money from her before the arrest. > **[Mother of detained US soldier says Russian girlfriend begged for money before...](https://www.foxnews.com/media/mother-soldier-detained-russia-girlfriend-begged-money-arrest)** > > Melody Jones, whose son is detained in Russia, revealed during 'America's Newsroom' her son's girlfriend asked for money before he was arrested on theft charges. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1135 "2024-05-08T23:13:35Z")
The stupid is strong with SSG Black. Members of the US military need their commanding officer’s permission to travel to even allied countries. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1136 "2024-05-10T03:25:08Z")
I don’t get worked up about people sitting in front of me on commercial flights reclining their seat (it helps that I seldom fly these days). But damn, [this piece on CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/opinions/reclining-seat-rage-airplane-passengers-poole/index.html) by a flight attendant is dumb and arrogant. You see, “seasoned business travelers” know enough to shell out extra bucks to avoid having someone else’s seat back in their lap, so you sardines in economy should STFU and maybe we’ll bring you a Diet Coke. Great p.r., ma’am. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1137 "2024-05-10T15:11:37Z")
I didn’t see anything there that wasn’t true, and she included background about airlines’ need to save and/or make more money. Whatever you think about that, passengers insisting on cheap seats that come with amenities for which other people pay extra _are_ being unrealistic and need to check their assumptions. Airlines, like everything else, are devolving to the lowest possible level of comfort that they can achieve without actually driving passengers away. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1138 "2024-05-10T16:09:00Z")
After years of flying “Coach”, “Economy”, “Main Cabin”, or whatever the airline chooses to call “Cattle Class” I have finally decided that at my age I’d rather fly Business/First Class from now on. Being comfortable, getting a drink before the plane takes off, having a choice of snacks, and most importantly being able to get in and out of my seat without having my knees complain about having to shuffle sideways while I’m leaning backwards more than make it worth spending the extra money. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1139 "2024-05-10T17:34:33Z")
You seriously think that adequate seats and legroom are “amenities” for which airline passengers should pay a hefty bonus and be grateful? Wow. There’s also [a safety issue](https://www.cntraveler.com/story/airline-seat-sizes-safety-risks-op-ed) with shrinking room, which the snotty flight attendant is overlooking. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1140 "2024-05-10T17:57:52Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > You seriously think that adequate seats and legroom are “amenities” for which airline passengers should pay a hefty bonus and be grateful? I’d suggest that adequate seats and legroom are amenities that airline passengers are not willing to pay for. We, the flying public, have shown again and again that what we want is the lowest price. The airline that gives up 5 rows of seating and charges 10% more so they get the same revenue per flight will be driven out of business by us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=58)