Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)

This actually doesn’t bother me all that much. Since the ambulance company is at fault, and will surely be obligated to pay his bills, they will just pay themselves. The bill just sounds like meaningless paperwork in the end.

(Still funny from an ironic sense though.)

How hard is it to check if your email is going to everybody? Or even just to not send the email, you arrogant twit?

I recall a roster of humorous units of measure.

One was the “ohnosecond”. Defined as the interval between when you send something you really shouldn’t have, and when you notice the recipient list is a LOT bigger (or wronger) than you meant.

Texting is the same way. Once in awhile we all have two active convos going at once and send a message to party A meant for party B. I swear it’s a computer malfunction, not an operator goof, but I can’t actually prove that.

Be real careful when holding two convos that should not mix replies. e.g. spouse and BF/GF would be bad. Actually, depending in how steamy your BF/GF convo is, a simultaneous convo w almost anyone else would be bad.

Do not cross the streams.

My favorite is the Poronkusema.

@LSLGuy “do not cross the streams”

I should probably get this tattooed (in a sophisticated, tasteful font of course) on the dorsal side of my right forefinger (the one that pushes “send”.

Thank you. An excellent unit.

But is that a bull or a cow?

And here we have a mass stupid MFers moment – apparently there are people who don’t know that butter comes from milk:

“I Can’t Believe It’s Butter!”

Heh. Well, to be marginally fair, to someone or other, the article does point out that “contains milk” is required by law or regulation, whatever, and that may have been left off labels, so the packing plant might be the stupid ones, but seriously, folks!

ISWYDT

[looks quizzically]
[looks more closely]

Ha! That must have been subconscious, because it wasn’t intentional, so I can’t claim credit for it. Maybe my subconsious can, though.

Took my brain a while to get it but :rofl:

Ghee, that’s funny.

Which totally sucks, because Butter is on tonight’s grocery list.

Although reading the article, it’s only the Kirkland brand of butter that’s being recalled. I’m pretty sure they also sell name-brand butter. I think it’s Kerrygold. (And if it helps, the New York Times Wirecutter product review site recently rated Kerrygold the best tasting butter.)

Its easier and safer just to enforce the labeling laws across the board instead of carving out exceptions for “obvious” foods.

Another obvious reason for the recall is to avoid a lawsuit from someone claiming damages from consuming butter not labeled as containing milk.

I’m often astounded by how little people understand the constituents of food. My lovely wife can’t eat gluten. We’ve gone to the houses of people with advanced degrees who very carefully checked for wheat in the ingredients of their main dish, then served, for example, a salad with crumbled ramen noodles on top. Because they’re “noodles.” Even though the first ingredient is “wheat flour.”

It’s not that people don’t understand it, it’s that people with no dietary or cultural restrictions don’t really think about what’s in the food.