# 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:** 87
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1721 "2024-06-27T21:49:48Z")
Security guard is assaulted and does an interview with the local news. During the LIVE interview, his supervisor starts scolding him for doing the interview in his work clothes. He changes into street clothes and tries to resume the interview, but she keeps on yelling at him. He quit. I assume the internet has found her by now. I don’t understand why she’d do this on the air. How stupid. I assume there’s some bad blood between them already. You’d think she’d wait until it was over then let him know he can’t do an interview in uniform. Even if this is a blatant violation and he’s aware of it, again, why not wait until it’s over. He’s wearing a badge, a patch and a name tag, so the security company’s name was out there as soon as they started broadcasting. In the security camera footage of the assault, he’s the one in the bright white shirt. The supervisor shows up around the 3 min mark. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KUR_9DeFnPg/maxresdefault.jpg "Austin security guard speaks out after attack by two men | FOX 7 Austin") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUR_9DeFnPg) ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1722 "2024-06-27T21:50:25Z")
And here’s the TMZ page where I saw it > **[Texas Security Guard Quits Job During Live TV Interview](https://www.tmz.com/2024/06/27/texas-security-guard-quits-job-during-live-interview-on-duty-assault/)** > > A security guard in Texas quit his job live on-air after his manager scolded him for being in uniform while he was telling local TV crews about being assaulted on duty. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1723 "2024-06-27T22:21:02Z")
I doubt the supervisor will lose her job, but I suspect she’s going to get a stern talking-to about making the company look bad. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1724 "2024-06-27T22:58:43Z")
I suppose this belongs in another thread, but a “reporter” from an unnamed network [went to Seattle to talk to people](https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-seattle-reporter-mocked-the-five-video/) who live there about the “hellscape” that that city has become. Seattlites tore the man a new mouth hole to shit from. It was hilarious. And, yet, the show aired his interview footage, embarrassing as it was, declaring that Seattlites were “embracing the decay”. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1725 "2024-06-27T23:35:48Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I suppose this belongs in another thread, but a “reporter” from an unnamed network [went to Seattle to talk to people](https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-seattle-reporter-mocked-the-five-video/) who live there about the “hellscape” that that city has become. Seattlites tore the man a new mouth hole to shit from. No, it’s a news story and a stupid MFer is in it. I think it’s very relevant. I think I told the story about when my teenaged daughter came up here a couple of years ago to visit and her boyfriend came along, and he remarked to me that he had been told that the area around here was just destroyed by liberals and everything was in shambles. I asked him if that’s what he saw when we went on trips to places around here, and he said no, not even close. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1726 "2024-06-28T12:16:45Z")
A coworker told me about a Fox segment he saw where they were interviewing people who shamelessly took advantage of the welfare system, and one of them was pretty much a caricature of the California surfing dude. He was obviously putting on a show and the interviewer seriously portrayed him as the ambassador of welfare cheats. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1727 "2024-06-28T12:25:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > And, yet, the show aired his interview footage, embarrassing as it was, declaring that Seattlites were “embracing the decay”. Ah but you see… that’s part their story to **their** audience: the city dwellers are themselves corrupted into indifference and actually kind of like Bad Things. Therefore what **they** think say and want should not count, only what we Real Americans™ do. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1728 "2024-06-28T18:11:01Z")
Stupid MFers built soccer fields on top of an active limestone mine. Sinkhole ensues. > **[Surveillance video shows moment when 100-feet-wide sinkhole swallows Alton,...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOyqAJthTQk%2F)** > > Surveillance video showed the moment the sinkhole opened up and an area where benched players would sit during games disappeared beneath the earth. But wait, there’s more! [Company, Pritzker release statements on mine collapse at Alton soccer field](https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article289582308.html) > There were no injuries, but the park remains closed, leaving scheduled baseball and softball games postponed. Spencer T. Olin Golf Course, also has been temporarily closed as the cause of the mine collapse is investigated. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1729 "2024-06-28T19:21:41Z")
That region of Illinois and for a couple hundred miles farther south is riddled with all sorts of underground mines. If you had to build stuff only where there isn’t a mine underneath the entire south half of the state would need to be de-populated and returned to forest. I have to say that because the field was covered in fake grass, the way the grass carpet lays over the edge of the hole really, really, makes it look like that was an AI generated still in the YouTube splash screen. I’m not suggesting it’s fake, just that it looks fake. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1730 "2024-06-28T20:48:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > That region of Illinois and for a couple hundred miles farther south is riddled with all sorts of underground mines. If you had to build stuff only where there isn’t a mine underneath the entire south half of the state would need to be de-populated and returned to forest. The north part of the state as well. Lots of limestone has been taken out the ground throughout Illinois. If you eliminated anything above a mine good luck finding a place to live. Well, OK, the City of Chicago isn’t above a mine. It’s above a former swamp. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1731 "2024-06-28T22:52:50Z")
> **[Tractor Supply is ending DEI and climate efforts after conservative backlash...](https://apnews.com/article/tractor-supply-ends-dei-climate-goals-ab9e570d39095de6bead7fbfe76a6edc)** > > Tractor Supply says it is ending an array of corporate diversity and climate efforts. It's a move that comes after the rural retailer was hit by weeks of online conservative backlash. > Tractor Supply said it would be eliminating all of its diversity, equity and inclusion roles while retiring current DEI goals. > The company added that it would “stop sponsoring nonbusiness activities” such as Pride festivals or voting campaigns — and no longer submit data to the Human Rights Campaign, the largest advocacy group for LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S. At the moment, their facebook page is a warzone. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1732 "2024-06-28T22:57:29Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Tractor Supply said it would be eliminating all of its diversity, equity and inclusion roles while retiring current DEI goals. That was what made me cancel my account with them and swear they will never get another dime of my business. Informed them of that by email as well. Fuck 'em. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1733 "2024-06-28T23:08:17Z")
We ain’t seen nuthin yet. ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1734 "2024-06-28T23:16:18Z")
The Tractor Supply website says, “Further focus on rural America priorities including ag education, animal welfare, veteran causes and being a good neighbor and stop sponsoring nonbusiness activities like pride festivals and voting campaigns.” So a pride festival is non-business but supporting veteran causes, emergency response or animal shelters are business-related? ---
**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:** [June 28, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1735 "2024-06-28T23:25:41Z")
It’ll sure garner them more business from the monoculture most of their customers represent. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1736 "2024-06-30T13:00:26Z")
Fishermen find bottles of random liquid floating in the ocean, drink them, die. > **[Sri Lanka fishermen die after drinking from bottles found in sea](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgej1z0rwwo.amp)** > > The fishermen drank the contents of the bottles thinking it was alcohol, local media reports. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1737 "2024-06-30T13:49:54Z")
I guess I’ll have to consider shopping at Rural King instead of Tractor Supply. RK still has [a diversity page](https://www.ruralking.com/lincoln-outfitters-mens-diversity-short-sleeve-t-shirt-lo-114-3xl-green). ---
**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:** [June 30, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1738 "2024-06-30T14:09:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Fishermen find bottles of random liquid floating in the ocean, drink them, die. I’m really really trying to come up with an apt variation on the old joke that goes like: > Well, they weren’t the [most something] in the [collection of somethings]. as in “sharpest knife in the drawer”, etc. “Not the smartest fishermen in the sea” is close but falls flat. Anyone care to take a swig at this one? ---
**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:** [June 30, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1739 "2024-06-30T14:17:47Z")
Not the sharpest gutting knife on the boat? ---
**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:** [June 30, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/1740 "2024-06-30T14:21:10Z")
How about “Not the sharpest hooks on the line”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=86) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=88)