# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=285 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 286 --- ## [Life Is A Cast Iron Apoidea With An Itch. .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-a-cast-iron-apoidea-with-an-itch/957565)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-a-cast-iron-apoidea-with-an-itch/957565 "2022-01-11T03:46:09Z")
Sometimes. So, for this reason and that, I have not used my cast iron pans for several months until this Saturday just past. I have a cheapo pan of questionable lineage and a Lodge, 10 inch pans, the both of them. Any… --- ## [Recommendation: BBC Radio 4: The Coming Storm (about Jan 6th)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-bbc-radio-4-the-coming-storm-about-jan-6th/957554)
**Author:** [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-bbc-radio-4-the-coming-storm-about-jan-6th/957554 "2022-01-10T22:09:37Z")
\ Just now I was listening to BBC Radio 4, and they had a series called “The Coming Storm”, talking in depth about the politics and culture around the events of Jan 6th Capitol… --- ## [Contradictory Stories Within Bands?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contradictory-stories-within-bands/957459)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contradictory-stories-within-bands/957459 "2022-01-10T17:18:06Z")
I tend to notice stories slowly changing after going on a site like newspapers.com and work chronologically to see how they shift a story where they were the main character. Jagger and Ronnie Wood insist that “Miss You”… --- ## [Sidney Poitier has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidney-poitier-has-died/957376)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidney-poitier-has-died/957376 "2022-01-10T12:44:57Z")
He was 94. In The Heat Of The Night is one of my favourite films. --- ## [Ripping my CDs to hard drive](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-my-cds-to-hard-drive/957246)
**Author:** [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-my-cds-to-hard-drive/957246 "2022-01-10T03:50:27Z")
Most info on the Dope is older. I’d like an up-to-date recommendation on a program to use for ripping my pile of CDs to my hard drive. It’s an older tower system running Win 7 professional (it won’t upgrade to Win 10/11-… --- ## [Kellogg's Raisin Bran vs Post Raisin Bran](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kelloggs-raisin-bran-vs-post-raisin-bran/90551)
**Author:** [@Kamandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamandi)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kelloggs-raisin-bran-vs-post-raisin-bran/90551 "2022-01-10T01:26:37Z")
Inspired by the What’s Your Favorite Cereal? thread. Which is better, Post or Kellogg’s? Is there any difference at all? Both boxes look suspiciously alike. My grocery store prices them exactly the same. Which was the f… --- ## [Highway Thru Hell Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-thru-hell-question/957469)
**Author:** [@19USMC69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19USMC69)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highway-thru-hell-question/957469 "2022-01-09T16:52:57Z")
The segments end when the jobs are completed. There’s nothing about who actually pays for the various services provided. Anyone knows who pays the towing companies? --- ## [Movie quote: "I'm a concierge" in a NY accent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-im-a-concierge-in-a-ny-accent/957436)
**Author:** [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2022, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-quote-im-a-concierge-in-a-ny-accent/957436 "2022-01-09T09:00:44Z")
I saw the word “concierge” recently and it reminded me of a movie quote, but I forget what movie it was. It was definitely a comedy from the 80s at the very latest. A woman who is working at a hotel says something like… --- ## [Peter Bogdanovich - Dead at 82](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-bogdanovich-dead-at-82/957337)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2022, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-bogdanovich-dead-at-82/957337 "2022-01-09T04:15:50Z")
Link Of natural causes at his home in LA. I really liked some of his work. --- ## [RIP Peter Bogdonavitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-bogdonavitch/957468)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-peter-bogdonavitch/957468 "2022-01-09T02:43:32Z")
The Last Picture Show will always be in maybe my top 20. Targets was interesting; heh - funky acting he did in it. --- ## [What's wrong with me? I'm finding Doctor Who boring](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-me-im-finding-doctor-who-boring/957046)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-me-im-finding-doctor-who-boring/957046 "2022-01-09T01:04:29Z")
I used to be a big fan, from Tom Baker on. But BBC-America has filled its programming the past week with Nu-Who and I try watching it, but I find myself drifting off. It isn’t just the baddies, though Daleks and Cyberm… --- ## [The New Coke fiasco, and the current standing between Coke and Pepsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-fiasco-and-the-current-standing-between-coke-and-pepsi/956935)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-coke-fiasco-and-the-current-standing-between-coke-and-pepsi/956935 "2022-01-08T19:36:02Z")
Rather than hijack the thread about alcoholic beverages, I decided to start this one. Here’s the wikipedia link about the episode. I get the basics of what happened. I lived through it, and count myself among those … --- ## [Squid Game: Korean series on Netflix (Spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squid-game-korean-series-on-netflix-spoilers/951443)
**Author:** [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Replies:** 170\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squid-game-korean-series-on-netflix-spoilers/951443 "2022-01-08T17:11:39Z")
Binged the whole 1st season this weekend and enjoyed the show. I don’t know how to classify this show. It’s not sci-fi. Everything on it is contemporary and totally within todays tech. It’s not really horror, despi… --- ## [Questions about Dante's descriptons of Hell .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-dantes-descriptons-of-hell/957307)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-dantes-descriptons-of-hell/957307 "2022-01-08T15:52:07Z")
I’m looking for a factual answer here, more-or-less, but it’s about a work of literature. So here it is in Cafe Society. Inspired by the recent thread: What Is Your Favorite Depiction of Hell? Needless to say, Dante’s… --- ## [Cribbing from other composers by playing the notes in reverse order](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cribbing-from-other-composers-by-playing-the-notes-in-reverse-order/957425)
**Author:** [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cribbing-from-other-composers-by-playing-the-notes-in-reverse-order/957425 "2022-01-08T15:48:23Z")
To write the music for “Because” (off Abbey Road), John Lennon said he took the notes for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and played them in reverse order. Are there other examples of composers stealing from other composer… --- ## [What was this toy dinosaur-skeleton kit? (80s or 90s)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-toy-dinosaur-skeleton-kit-80s-or-90s/551452)
**Author:** [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-toy-dinosaur-skeleton-kit-80s-or-90s/551452 "2022-01-08T05:00:55Z")
…after another odd conversation, I’m trying to ID a toy set I had as a kid. This was in about the late 80s or early 90s. The toy set was little snap-together dinosaur skeletons—several pieces of generic skeleton compone… --- ## [The Sparks Brothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sparks-brothers/942693)
**Author:** [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sparks-brothers/942693 "2022-01-08T03:20:01Z")
Edgar Wright directed a movie/documentary/thing about Sparks. It should release in about a month It looks like it will be great. --- ## [Plastic model builders - can I remove glue from a clear plastic part?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plastic-model-builders-can-i-remove-glue-from-a-clear-plastic-part/957271)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plastic-model-builders-can-i-remove-glue-from-a-clear-plastic-part/957271 "2022-01-08T02:15:00Z")
Been doing this for a long time and continue to be a klutz at the wrong time. Dropped a bit of plastic cement onto a clear car windshield. Is there a way to remove it without dulling the “glass” finish, or am I destine… --- ## [Major Grom: Plague Doctor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-grom-plague-doctor/957267)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-grom-plague-doctor/957267 "2022-01-08T01:10:28Z")
This is your, “Maverick Irreverent Detective Fights Crime and Corruption when All Others Fail”, movie. So, why bother posting it? The big interest for me is that it is a Russian movie, filmed in St. Petersburg with all… --- ## [Films that are made and never ever released](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-are-made-and-never-ever-released/957230)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-are-made-and-never-ever-released/957230 "2022-01-08T00:17:42Z")
A plotline from a “Curb your Enthusiasm” episode has Jon Hamm following Larry David around because he has a “Larry David” type character he’s playing in a movie and wants to learn how to play it. At the end of the episod… --- ## [US Dopers - 1980s - cherry pie in a can](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-1980s-cherry-pie-in-a-can/926602)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-dopers-1980s-cherry-pie-in-a-can/926602 "2022-01-07T23:42:58Z")
In the 1980s, a friend of my family visited the USA and returned with two things for us. Amway (don’t want to talk about it), and a cherry pie in a can. This was a whole cherry pie, maybe 7 inches in diameter, sealed i… --- ## [Do "recent" books/movies seem more dated than "older" ones?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-recent-books-movies-seem-more-dated-than-older-ones/957380)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-recent-books-movies-seem-more-dated-than-older-ones/957380 "2022-01-07T23:28:47Z")
I’m currently reading Michael Connelly’s Bosch novels. The earlier ones are set some time pre-2000 - I think in the 80s-90s. I’m finding that they feel somewhat “dated” to me WRT such things as using pay phones, typewr… --- ## [Doctor Who: Flux, Season 13](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-flux-season-13/953605)
**Author:** [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-flux-season-13/953605 "2022-01-07T14:15:59Z")
The new season of Doctor Who has arrived. A short season of 6 episodes that will tell one long story, which is kind of how the original series did it. Today was Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse, where we are introdu… --- ## [Drinking Booze on the Air (Live!)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-booze-on-the-air-live/957098)
**Author:** [@Dr.Conrad\_Shadowdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Conrad_Shadowdale)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-booze-on-the-air-live/957098 "2022-01-07T13:37:32Z")
Clicks aside, it seems to me that letting your anchors/hosts get snookered on air, to have them babble on about the Mayor or about why viewers don’t like them, is NOT a good idea. It may be all about clicks and I get th… --- ## [The Keanu Reeves movie recommendation list](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-keanu-reeves-movie-recommendation-list/957336)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-keanu-reeves-movie-recommendation-list/957336 "2022-01-07T10:32:40Z")
No, not Keanu Reeves movies you should watch, movies that Keanu Reeves thinks you should watch. The Neon Demon A Clockwork Orange Rollerball The Bad Batch Dr. Strangelove Seven Samurai Amadeus Rosencrantz & Guild… --- ## [Ok, I'm gonna give Dr Who one more shot. What's a good season to start at?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-gonna-give-dr-who-one-more-shot-whats-a-good-season-to-start-at/957347)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-im-gonna-give-dr-who-one-more-shot-whats-a-good-season-to-start-at/957347 "2022-01-07T05:02:59Z")
I so want to like Dr Who. And for the most part I do. The thing that tends to turn me off are those robot things with the annoying voice (Daleks?) I hate that I’m deterred by such a trivial thing but those voices are lik… --- ## [Were you unintentionally traumatized by childhood books or movies?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-unintentionally-traumatized-by-childhood-books-or-movies/924379)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-unintentionally-traumatized-by-childhood-books-or-movies/924379 "2022-01-07T01:05:54Z")
There’s an article by slate.com writers discussing the movies or books that scared them when they were growing up. There choices didn’t seem particularly scary to me. But it made me think that I saw Jaws and The Amityv… --- ## [The last is the best (music)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-is-the-best-music/957082 "2022-01-06T12:28:14Z")
Which of a band or artist’s last album do you consider their best? Back in the '90s there was a band, Sugartooth, that had a song called Sold My Fortune featured on Beavis & Butthead. They were a better-than-average al… --- ## [Captain Morgan white rum, a small issue and why](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-morgan-white-rum-a-small-issue-and-why/957222)
**Author:** [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2022, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-morgan-white-rum-a-small-issue-and-why/957222 "2022-01-06T06:14:47Z")
I like Captain Morgan spiced rum, yeah, I know, it’s declasse but I like it. Been my bev of choice for years. Once the store was out and I bought the white. But it’s weird. I don’t mind the taste but it made my head swim… --- ## [Landscapers - HBO miniseries - NOT about landscapers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landscapers-hbo-miniseries-not-about-landscapers/957287)
**Author:** [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landscapers-hbo-miniseries-not-about-landscapers/957287 "2022-01-06T03:57:49Z")
Potential spoilers after the first post. I happened upon the middle of the fourth/last episode of this series, and I was so intrigued I had to watch from the beginning. The Wiki linked below gives a good overview, but … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=284) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=286)