Monday Overnight Open Thread - August 25, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! The time for the Monday night ONT has arrived. Open thread, as always. Lurkers encouraged to de-lurk, as always. Content here to be ignored, as always. Come on in!

Don't Hate The Player, Hate The Game

Despite the use of "right wing extremist" (is there EVER a mention of a "left wing extremist??) and "queerphobic", this is kind of funny.

Male-Born German Extremist Officially Changes Gender to Serve Time in Women’s Prison

Taking advantage of Germany’s “gender self-determination” reforms, a male right-wing extremist officially changed his gender to female and will serve time in a women’s prison.

In July of 2023, Marla-Svenja Liebich was sentenced by the Halle District Court in Germany’s Saxon-Anhalt state to a year and six months without parole for incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. Interestingly, at that time, she was known as Sven Liebich and identified as a man. He appealed the original sentence and lost, but that was only the beginning of a very bizarre situation. At the end of 2024, Liebich, allegedly a member of a far-right extremist group called Blood and Honour, took advantage of Germany’s new Self-Determination Act to legally change his name to Marla-Svenja Liebich and his gender to female.

“Whether the change is serious is doubtful. Liebich has been known for years for her right-wing extremist views and has also made queerphobic statements in the past,” German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote, alleging that he had “made the change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state”.

Europe is stupid. I said what I said.

Want another example? OK! Angry Patron Sets Fire to Café Because They Had Run Out of Mayonnaise

An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise.

Government In The US Can Be Stupid Too

Eminent domain is asshoe

Eminent domain taking pushes to uproot Cape Cod couple from brand new home

Marc and Joan Hendel spent decades of savings and two years waiting for their Cape Cod home to be built.

In February, they moved into the brand new Bourne house. After years far away in Iowa, they settled into the upper Cape, close to their New England roots, their families and the beach. A “perfect, ideal place.”

Just a month later, a letter arrived taking that home away.

“On March, 3, we were delivered an eminent domain letter by MassDOT, hand delivered at our door,” said Joan Hendel. “We were shocked. We were stunned. We had no idea that this was even in the plan, or in the works, or our home could be taken after just building it.”

The Hendels are one of 13 property owners whose homes are being taken under eminent domain proceedings for the Sagamore Bridge replacement project.

The Sagamore and Bourne bridges, which are both 90-year-old federally-owned structures stretching across Cape Cod Canal, are each slated for long-planned replacements through a partnership between the Army Corps of Engineers and the state.

Check out the whole thing.

Good News Story? Or Just A Guy Being An Idiot?

Hiker rescued after being trapped for 2 days behind Sequoia National Forest waterfall

Dramatic video shows the moment a hiker trapped behind a California waterfall for two days was rescued.

The 46-year-old man from Long Beach was hiking with friends who decided to turn back, but he did not.

Search and rescue teams in Central California are calling it a stunning survival story.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Office says 46-year-old Ryan Wardell went hiking last weekend in the Sequoia National Forest with plans to rappel to the waterfalls at Seven Teacups.

Officials say Wardwell was last seen at the top of the falls, but never made it back to his car that night.

Wardwell got trapped after coming off his rappel lines and got caught in the river's hydraulics.

Days later, on Tuesday morning, a drone used by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office search teams spotted Wardwell behind one of the waterfalls.

News clip at the link. I'm torn on this. Nice that he got rescued, but he's kinda stupid for staying behind after his friends left. What say you, Hordelings?

No Falsehoods Found

🤣🤣🤣 The perfect description of the typical young liberal woman. pic.twitter.com/M1LEbFI9Mj

— Johnny B. Good (@Cat5SMASHICANE) August 20, 2025

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— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) August 17, 2025

Brew Crew!

This could have been featured last night in the Retro Corner. Oh well - let's enjoy it tonight!

This may be the best advertisement for the greatness of 1980s American life that I’ve ever seen …

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— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 16, 2025

DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
from thisdayinmusic.com

On this date in 2024: Amy Winehouse's Radio 1 Live Lounge performance was voted the best from the past 25 years with her 2007 cover of The Zutons' 'Valerie' topping the list.

Born on this date in 1954: Elvis Costello, (Declan McManus), English singer, songwriter.

Born on this date in 1951: English singer and songwriter Rob Halford who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest.

My first rock concert was Judas Priest on the Defenders of the Faith Tour in April 1984 at the then-called Baltimore Civic Center. My dad took me and a friend because we weren't old enough to drive.
*raises a frosty cold beer to the memory of Doof-dad*

Bonus Priest Exciter (from the album Stained Class)

Weekly commenter stats for week of 8-24-2025

Top 10 commenters:
1 [584 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer' [82.94 posts/day]
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5 [79 names] 'It's hard to even tell '
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7 [35 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
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