Things That You Would Really Like To Know That Are None Of Your Mollyfocking Business?

[MPB in Salt Lake]

Anything that you would like to know just for your own curiousity, even though they are private and you have no right (or need) to/for the information?

It can be about family members, celebrities, politicians, government issues, conspiracy theories or even just about the weirdo kid who works at the pizza place down the street, but lets leave personal issues about other Dopers out of it, please.

I know it's tacky and vulgar to speculate about someone else's personal life, but I would like to know about Bill and Hillary Clinton's sex life together.

Stuff like:

When was the last time they had sex together?

Has Hillary given Bill a green-light to seek out sex from other women as long as it is discreet?

What would Bill really like to do if he was just an annonymous businessman on a trip to Bangkok or Amsterdam? (three or four girls at once, chubby chicks, potty-play, etc.)

Now I KNOW that none of this is any of my Gawddam business and that Bill Clinton (who I voted for twice) should not have to put up with nosey jackasses like me speculating on the most intimate aspects of his personal life, but that is the whole point.

It's none of my business but I would still like to know!!!

How about you???

[FriarTed]

If Lee Harvey acted alone? I suspect SOMEONE else was involved but I have no set theory.

Who Jack the Ripper was? I lean to Aaron Kosminski or someone similar.

I have no doubt Vince Foster killed himself. But was it where he was found?

[Chessic Sense]

My (specific) friend's salary.

[Cat Whisperer]

I always want to know why people quit/are fired at work. Just last week one of the very few people who actually *work* at my contract was let go unexpectedly - I would absolutely love to know why.

[Drain Bead]

One of my former roommates in college was a pretty religious girl. Met a guy at church camp, ended up marrying him her senior year and then moving away for grad school.

I found her on Facebook about a year ago, and she's married and has a kid with a different guy. I REALLY want to know what the hell happened to the first husband, but I don't want to bring it up. There's really no good way to say "So, haven't seen you for ten years...what the hell happened to Phil?"

[Cat Whisperer]

Ooh, that's a good one, Drain Bead - I always want to know what happened in relationships, but that really isn't any of my business.

[NinetyWt]

My stepkids' mother was adopted. I would really like to know who her birth parents were. For one thing, so that my kids could have some clues about their medical history. The rest of it is simple curiosity.

[jsgoddess]

Two things that are absolutely none of my business but I'm still curious:

1.
Two friends of mine married each other. They left for their honeymoon. They got to their hotel, were there for a couple of hours, the female friend left and filed for divorce.

2.
When I work the polls, there is a woman who comes in to vote. She has a beard. I don't mean a little down or peach fuzz or even just a few hairs. This is a full-fledged beard. I'm just curious why she has chosen to go with that.

These things are so not my business, it's not even funny.

[Joey P]

What my neighbor does. When I moved into my house, the people we bought the house from told us of his odd comings and goings. And they were odd. About 4 to 5 times a day he would leave the house and be back 15 minutes later. He was constantly getting packages from USPS. Anytime he got one, he brought it in the house and then left right away on one of his 15 minute trips. Mostly stuff like that.
We have a 24 hour post office a few minutes away. I assume he's an ebay nut and probably just buying and selling stuff but I've always been curious.

[DMark]

I would love to see the new technology that is being designed by the military. Living here in Nevada, you hear whispers about certain things (Stealth, long before anyone had actually seen it) and would love to see what they are working on.

Would also like to snoop around and read some reports about foreign governments, just to see what is really going on behind those closed doors.

Wouldn't mind a tour through the labs at Apple, and many other technology companies to see what they are working on.

Otherwise, I couldn't care less about private lives of individuals, unless it directly affects me - for instance, I would certainly want to know if some political/military leader is a raging alcoholic drug addict and is in charge of the army or foreign relations, or something like that. However, I don't care about anybody's sex life or what films they watch or if they were divorced 33 times or whatever. Why people are obsessed with the private life of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pit, or other such celebrities, is a mystery to me.

[CairoCarol]

Originally Posted by jsgoddess

1.
Two friends of mine married each other. They left for their honeymoon. They got to their hotel, were there for a couple of hours, the female friend left and filed for divorce.

I want to know what happened there too. Were they of a religious/cultural persuasion that forbid sex before marriage? Or had they been sleeping together for a while before they got married?

The thing I always want to know but it would be so, so, SO WRONG to bring up is why people don't have kids. Do they prefer a child-free life? Did they want to get pregnant, but couldn't?

When I was childless by choice, I used to try to casually mention to people that my husband and I didn't want kids, because I assumed (especially as I got into my mid to late 30s) that they were curious. Of course, then they thought I was a Bad Person, but that was okay.

[jsgoddess]

Originally Posted by CairoCarol

I want to know what happened there too. Were they of a religious/cultural persuasion that forbid sex before marriage? Or had they been sleeping together for a while before they got married?

I'm not sure. This was a couple of years after graduation and I hadn't seen either since school.

I always assumed they were already sleeping together, but I don't know that for a fact.

He had been a close friend when we were quite young, fifth and sixth grade, and stayed relatively close through high school.

She was not as close a friend, though my brother dated her sister.

Neither were religious, that I ever knew about.

The mind boggles.

[CanvasShoes]

There is (was? this was in Anchorage) a woman who rode the same bus I did. She had a dreadlock. Yes, one. She was an older woman, possibly late 70s? She had long grey hair that had formed into one big flat giant dreadlock. It looked like a grey fuzzy beaver's tail.

The first couple of times I saw here I thought it was part of a knit hat or something, but it wasn't it's all her own matted hair. She didn't really look like you're typical homeless person, and she didn't really seem challenged or anything (she was usually reading). I've always been cat curious as to when/why she decided to do that to her hair.

NONE Of my business, but I was always curious anyway.

[elfkin477]

My next door neighbors' 21-year-old daughter died in October. Rumor had it that she and her dad were camping and got into a fight, and he tried and failed to keep her from driving home drunk. She died four miles from our homes. I'd like to know if the part about her drinking is true, but I'll never ever ask her parents.

[statsman1982]

Whenever I read obituaries, I always want to know how the person died.

[Alice The Goon]

Originally Posted by statsman1982

Whenever I read obituaries, I always want to know how the person died.

Me, too.

One of my friends' babies died at 5 days old in a car accident, and I have always wondered if she was in a car seat, but I don't want to ask.

I am dying to know if it's true that Khloe Kardashian has a different father than the others, as I've heard. She does look very different than the rest. (Okay, I suck for wanting to know things about celebrities, I guess.)

[Kyla]

When I studied abroad in college, I became very close with one of my classmates, who was also American but who went to a different university back in the US. At one point, when we were discussing our families, she told me that her dad was dead, but provided no details.

Much later, she told me that her father had died only a few days before she'd gone abroad; she had left her home in Ohio to visiting family in New York, and was planning on going to Israel from there. But while she was in New York, her dad died, and she'd had to go back to Ohio to sit shiva before leaving for Israel.

Given the circumstances, it was obviously sudden and unexpected. But I was so surprised and tongue-tied that I had no idea how to ask what had happened. That was over ten years ago and we're still friends, and I still don't know how her dad died. It's none of my business, but I will admit that I'm curious.

[flatlined]

One of my coworkers kinda called me a slut becaue my sweet baboo has a different skin color than I do. Her 15 year old daughter is now preggy and the father isn't around. I really, REALLY want to know what color the kid will be.

I also want to know why one of my other friends can't ride on Saturdays. My dirty mind thinks its cause she got a hard spanking...but I'll never ask. And no...its not a religious thing.

[Maiira]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

I always want to know why people quit/are fired at work. Just last week one of the very few people who actually *work* at my contract was let go unexpectedly - I would absolutely love to know why.

This. One of my coworkers was canned quite suddenly and it seemed so out of the blue to me. He was a pretty nice guy and was pretty good with customers...so why?

Also, sometimes I read obituaries. I get a little disappointed when they don't say how the person died. None of my business? Of course. Morbid? Absolutely. I still wanna know. I think I'm going to tell my loved ones that if anyone writes an obituary for me, they should make sure to briefly mention my cause of death.

One time, I asked one of my coworkers, E, where she was from, because it's no secret that she's from another country. She told me Rwanda. I instantly wanted to know what she did during the 1994 genocide, but I didn't dare ask. I figured she would tell me herself if she wanted to. I did eventually find out (she's not Tutsi, but her family ended up having to flee anyway), but man, I was BURNING with curiosity, even though I knew it was absolutely none of my business.

[Poysyn]

There are a few courses (pretty hardcore ones) that some friends/coworkers of mine have taken (one even teaches one) that I would love to know more about, but I am NO way interested in taking.

The really crazy psyops/survival/interrogation type military courses. I know just enough to be crazy curious and know more than other military members I am friends with thanks to some pretty candid conversations. Dammit I want to know more.

To be a fly on the wall.

[EvilTOJ]

I want to know why my landlord has that crazy eye. It's like Mad Eye Moody and Droopy had a kid and that's what happened. It's not scarred, and she didn't have a stroke, it's.. just... well it likes to look wherever it wants to look.

[Nava]

My client has come up with a new travel request procedure. One of the steps is filling up an excel spreadsheet: there are two columns where we're supposed to indicate a "date" and "time", but both require "time" format

What I'd like to know is: given that the client is a Spanish company, we're in Spain, and the travel agency is a branch of an American company, why is the error message in French?

[Koxinga]

I'm idly curious whether Prince Charles is really Prince Harry's father. They look nothing like one another.

There's also a girl I kind of liked in high school, who was pretty bitchy toward me in retun, except when she wanted to use me for something. I recently figured out, through piecing together some public records, that she's just now finishing up 5 years in the federal pen for a certain species of fraud. Schaudenfreude compels me to want to know all about it, every little detail, but of course I won't look up any further details.

[flodnak]

I'd love to know what one of my neighbors does all day. He lives alone, and is on disability for what he describes as a "nervous disorder", which I interpret as some sort of mental illness he's not inclined to talk about. As far as we can tell he is at home all day, every day, except for trips to the supermarket; he sometimes goes out in the evenings, presumably to see friends, but certainly not every evening. How does he fill his time?

[GuanoLad]

What my neighbour looks like naked. I really have no right to know that about her, but by crikey...

Anyway, I generally want to know what really happened at any given accident. Who was really the one at fault, if any. I'm sure at least one of the party knows the real truth, but contradictions, memory loss, and lies get in the way so often.

[Henjin]

Originally Posted by flodnak

I'd love to know what one of my neighbors does all day. He lives alone, and is on disability for what he describes as a "nervous disorder", which I interpret as some sort of mental illness he's not inclined to talk about. As far as we can tell he is at home all day, every day, except for trips to the supermarket; he sometimes goes out in the evenings, presumably to see friends, but certainly not every evening. How does he fill his time?

SDMB.

[Double Foolscap]

I'd like to know my colleagues' commission numbers. Just for comparison, you know?

Also what happened with an old friend who married someone in Vegas after meeting her at summer camp (they were both counsellors). He's English and she's American, and I mainly want to find out if it was an immigration thing or they were just young and reckless, considering how little time they could have spent together (different camp sites, maybe three opportunities every two weeks to see each other and almost always with kids about).

[The Butterfly's Ghost]

There’s this girl that walks past my office window at around the same time every day – apparently even on the weekends as I discovered one day when I was working on a Sunday.

She is very thin – not unhealthily so but rather like a professional dancer: very toned with very low body fat. She moves like a dancer too and sometimes she stops outside my window for a couple of push-ups or for exercises that look like some kind of slow martial arts thing.

She has very white skin and long black hair. The most peculiar thing is, that she looks almost the same very day. She is always wearing dark glasses, black sneakers, dark baggy pants and a black shirt. She’s also always wearing a belt with something attached to it. Maybe a bag? I don’t know. I’m on the first floor and only see her walking by for a few moments so I can never really tell.
There is very little variation in her clothing: in summer she might be wearing a sleevless shirt in winter a knitted black cap, but in my memory she is always wearing the same things every single day.
Somehow she looks like she jumped right out of a manga comic to me.

I’m absolutely curios about her! Who is she? Where is she going every day? Why does she alsways look the same?
None of my business, sure, but darn is she intruiging!

[Quasimodem]

Originally Posted by EvilTOJ

I want to know why my landlord has that crazy eye. It's like Mad Eye Moody and Droopy had a kid and that's what happened. It's not scarred, and she didn't have a stroke, it's.. just... well it likes to look wherever it wants to look.

Lazy eye, probably, EvilTOJ. I have it to some extent, have had surgery twice, but neither time was it successful. I can bring it back to center which will make whoever I am speaking to move their head.

Q

[Dung Beetle]

Something weird is going on with the people in the house next to us. At one time, a man and woman lived there. They had some loud fights, apparently divorced, and moved out. Recently, the woman has reappeared. We suspect that she was squatting, because although we knew she was in there, she never had the lights on or came outside.

One night, she did come out. She was super drunk and passed out in the yard of the neighbor on the other side of us. Paramedics took her away.

Just a couple of weeks ago, there was yet another incident. This time she was super drunk, called the paramedics herself, and when they came, she was so belligerent that the cops came and took her away. The next day, the man who used to live there called us and asked us to make sure the front door was locked (but he didn’t give us any details, and damn it, the door was locked).

Now she’s back again, with a man we don’t know. They have electricity, and aren’t shy about being seen outdoors, so I guess it’s okay. However, a few days ago, a man came to our door. He told my daughter he was from the bank, and asked if she’d seen anyone living there. She told him yes.

What the hell’s going on? Whatever it is, I’m glad we have an alarm system and a big scary dog.

[Athena]

Obituaries. Why the heck do they never, ever, ever say what people died of? Especially when it's young people. Drives me nuts.

[Caricci]

The first boy I ever had sex with died a few years back. It was listed as "suddenly" which can often imply suicide, according to google. Also, I found an online obituary that referred pretty much only to his activities in college, which was 20+ years prior to his death.

I want to know how he died and why the obituary didn't refer to anything in the years since his graduation.

[Scumpup]

Whether my grandparents ever got into anal.

[Ferret Herder]

Originally Posted by jsgoddess

Two friends of mine married each other. They left for their honeymoon. They got to their hotel, were there for a couple of hours, the female friend left and filed for divorce.

Heck, I want to know, and I don't even know those people!

[corkboard]

I don't care so much about celebrities, but I'm curious about the sex lives of my friends and their spouses. My wife and I often talk about different couples we know- "what about so and so- something tells me they're wild!" "Yeah! But I have a feeling so and so get it on maybe once a year, whether they need to or not"; that type of thing. We're curious if what we do and the frequency with which we do it is similar to other couples in our situation (professional, kids, suburbanites), or if we're outliers at one end of the spectrum or the other.

I'm also a little curious about the financial situations of (again) other couples/families in our same situation. We see some friends living like they have an endless supply of cash although their professions don't appear to be able to support it, and also friends who don't appear to spend a dime but have careers that could support a more extravagant lifestyle. No, none of our business, but one wonders.

[Joey P]

Two more for me.
About a year ago I found out that my favorite college professor in the world killed himself...at school. He did it either on a Sunday or during a break, don't remember, but I do know that class wasn't in session. I'm dying to know why he did it or more importantly why he did it at school. Was his home life so shitty that he was spending his off days at work? Did he want to spare his family from the mess? Was he (and this is my guess) trying to send a message to the school? Oh to be able to read his letter.

The other, and quite a bit less gruesome. I want to know how my friends afford their vacations. Two good friends of mine. Constantly on the go. Out of the country at least 4 months out of the year, all over the world, always on the move. It's kind of fun to watch their facebook statuses "Just got back from Barbados, starting the countdown to Australia" or "Coming home from Ireland tomorrow, spent yesterday planning our trip to Egypt." She works at a department store, don't remember doing what, accounting department maybe, he's in the coast guard. Not only how they afford it, but how do they get that much time off of work? I have no idea what the coast guard pays, but if these two worked full with normal vacation schedules, I'd guess they were pulling in maybe 60-80K between them. Plus they just paid for a wedding and bought a house. I've never met his parents, but I assure you her's aren't helping. In college, she used to send her paychecks to her mom so her mom could afford food.

[ZipperJJ]

My friend confided in me that he was molested by another boy when he was a kid. Sooooo many questions on that, yet sooooo not anyone's business.

I also found out that this friend's dad committed suicide (I knew the dad had died - he was sick so it didn't occur to me that it might be suicide). Also something you don't really dig in to.

[Ellen Cherry]

Maybe I'm just used to being nosy, but about half the things that you all say are "absolutely none of my business" — I would ask the person! People love to talk about themselves. I would ask the woman about being from Rwanda; you don't have to come out and ask if she witnessed any atrocities. I wouldn't, however, quiz people about possible suicides in their families. I do have some couth.

Anyway: I bet the couple that divorced after the honeymoon was like a girl I knew in college. She and the guy had been dating forever and everyone assumed they were getting married. They did, even though for several months prior to the marriage she had been seeing someone else. I guess she felt she couldn't put the brakes on the wedding preparations, because she went through with it and they divorced shortly thereafter. She then married the other guy.

[Agent Foxtrot]

Originally Posted by Koxinga

There's also a girl I kind of liked in high school, who was pretty bitchy toward me in retun, except when she wanted to use me for something. I recently figured out, through piecing together some public records, that she's just now finishing up 5 years in the federal pen for a certain species of fraud. Schaudenfreude compels me to want to know all about it, every little detail, but of course I won't look up any further details.

Actually, her fraud case is totally your business and everyone else's. It's public record. It's all there for anyone to view... why wouldn't you look?

Originally Posted by Rheintochter

There’s this girl that walks past my office window at around the same time every day – apparently even on the weekends as I discovered one day when I was working on a Sunday.

She is very thin – not unhealthily so but rather like a professional dancer: very toned with very low body fat. She moves like a dancer too and sometimes she stops outside my window for a couple of push-ups or for exercises that look like some kind of slow martial arts thing.

She has very white skin and long black hair. The most peculiar thing is, that she looks almost the same very day. She is always wearing dark glasses, black sneakers, dark baggy pants and a black shirt. She’s also always wearing a belt with something attached to it. Maybe a bag? I don’t know. I’m on the first floor and only see her walking by for a few moments so I can never really tell.
There is very little variation in her clothing: in summer she might be wearing a sleevless shirt in winter a knitted black cap, but in my memory she is always wearing the same things every single day.
Somehow she looks like she jumped right out of a manga comic to me.

I’m absolutely curios about her! Who is she? Where is she going every day? Why does she alsways look the same?
None of my business, sure, but darn is she intruiging!

Intriguing indeed. Is she attractive and well put-together or does she look like she has no other clothes to wear to work?

I have a very keen curiosity about peoples' sex lives. I don't ask or snoop, but I'm curious all the same. Even people I don't know... like other commuters on my way to work. It's usually not sexually titillating, or anything.

Black ops and black projects? Sure, I'd love to know about all that. However, I don't think 95% of the stuff the government keeps secret is nearly as interesting as we think it is. (Well, okay... it would be cool to know who our government has had assassinated in the past.)

A mid-to-late-twenties woman who works on my floor. She is stunning. Every guy on the floor between 20 and 40 is ga-ga over her. She's a very pleasant person, but keeps everything strictly business. She keeps no pictures of friends, family, or significant others on her desk. She doesn't initiate conversation unless it's about work. I find myself wondering what the hell she does with her evenings and weekends!

[AshenLady]

I had a job at a University Hospital. One of the doctor's got a secretary pregnant, left his wife and married the secretary, who gave birth to his son.

She was a very plain girl in looks to say the least, came from a questionable neighborhood, had dental problems and stank with the odor of anti-biotics......his looks and personae were regular but he is a doctor, after all.

So far as I know, they are still married, some twenty years later.

Well, anyway, I guess it's none of my business, what he saw in her.

[Dogzilla]

A long time ago, I worked with a married couple. The wife was having an affair with another supervisor there. The husband found out about it; they nearly divorced, but didn't... when she discovered she was pregnant. They reconciled and went on to have two more kids after that. (They already had a child when she conceived the second one.)

I still want to know if the affair guy is that second baby's father. I think he is, based on what I know of that child's looks and personality now. She looks just like him and not at all like her dad or her mom.

But yeah. Totally irrelevant to my life and none of my business.

[kapri]

I want to know how my unemployed friend can afford to live in an apartment where the rent is higher than I can afford on my fairly decent salary. I know almost everything about her, so I'm pretty sure she's nobody's mistress or anything like that.

[Agent Foxtrot]

Originally Posted by Athena

Obituaries. Why the heck do they never, ever, ever say what people died of? Especially when it's young people. Drives me nuts.

They do say what people died of, at least around here. My understanding is that if they don't list the cause of death, it's generally suicide or a drug overdose (especially in young people), or the family is in ongoing litigation of some type of which the death is involved (e.g., malpractice).

[GiantRat]

[quote=jsgoddess;13412736]Two things that are absolutely none of my business but I'm still curious:

1.
Two friends of mine married each other. They left for their honeymoon. They got to their hotel, were there for a couple of hours, the female friend left and filed for divorce.

Heh. Reminds me of a similar story that happened to a friend's father (a lawyer). LawyerDad is the best man in his buddy's wedding. Newlyweds go off to the Bahamas or whatever for the honeymoon. The following morning Lawyerdad's phone rings. "LawyerDad, draw up the papers! I'm done with this bitch!"

One can only imagine....

[Count Blucher]

I want to know, of many of the good jobs that I really tried for, how many I came close to getting but didn't & specifically why.

I want to know why a certain college 'wait listed' me and what I could have done differently to prevent that.

I want to know why certain friends from HS & college turned their backs on me over the years and if there was/is anything I could have done differently to prevent it.

[drastic_quench]

Probably the whole story behind Amelia Earhart's disappearance and death and also the JFK assassination -- which, being a citizen, is my business, but I wasn't alive at the time.

[Queen Tonya]

A coworker of mine, commonly called Crazy Fat Guy. He's seriously mental, and barely functioning; if it weren't for having seniority in a union factory I'm sure he'd be homeless as no one else would hire him. He's a many-flavored nutbag, thinks that doctors and Big Pharma are all a big conspiracy, as are banks and mortgage companies, charities and 9/11 and pretty much any wild-assed theory. He's got some peculiar religious beliefs that seem to boil down to not being religious in any obvious way or going to church, just thinking that anything considered bad by any religion is, indeed, sinful and bad. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, computers, you name it, all sinful and bad.

So, he's single and doesn't date, no computer or cell phone or cable television, no gambling, no kids, nothing extravagant in his lifestyle....what does he spend his money on? He's always broke and moaning about what things cost, basic stuff like food and utilities, but he makes a damn decent living for a single uneducated guy living a no-frills lifestyle so where does the money actually go?

The rest of us have pondered this for years and anytime one of us has a theory, maybe it's gambling or pay per view porn or an extensive gun collection or something, it always comes out that he doesn't do/have that thing. I'd love to know how he can be so broke when he doesn't appear to spend money on anything.

[RTFirefly]

I'd like to know who Trig Palin's biological mother is.

[you with the face]

I want to know who sired Michael Jackson's kids.

[Anne Neville]

When I hear that somebody is pregnant, I want to know if it was planned or not.