# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=59 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 60 --- ## [Coffee Survey](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-survey/1023234)
**Author:** [@sta3535](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sta3535)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-survey/1023234 "2025-09-23T16:08:07Z")
How do you drink your coffee? Hot, Cold, Iced, Black, Creamer, Sugar/Sweetner? Do you make it at home or do you buy it on your way to work or out in public? Are you particular about the brand of coffee and where you get… --- ## [Quick, Easy, and Awesome Recipes Facebook group](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-and-awesome-recipes-facebook-group/1023304)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-easy-and-awesome-recipes-facebook-group/1023304 "2025-09-23T02:32:57Z")
I have mod approval to make this post. I’d like to invite everyone here to my new Facebook group, called “Quick, Easy, and Awesome Recipes”, in which we share amazing food that can be prepared in 45 minutes or less with… --- ## [Who/What will take Kimmel's place on ABC Late Night television?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-will-take-kimmels-place-on-abc-late-night-television/1023237)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-what-will-take-kimmels-place-on-abc-late-night-television/1023237 "2025-09-22T21:34:30Z")
Right now it is re-runs of Celebrity Family Feud, but is that their permanent solution? What , if anything, is slated to fill that hole? What should be there? For the purpose of this thread, Kimmel himself is not an op… --- ## [Has anyone here seen The Groundlings perform recently?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-seen-the-groundlings-perform-recently/1023299)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-seen-the-groundlings-perform-recently/1023299 "2025-09-22T20:48:46Z")
And how was it? Was it funny? Will someone\* rather out of touch with the latest pop culture trends be able to enjoy it? A friend is inviting me to their show in Walnut Creek, which is probably a 45 minute drive on a Sat… --- ## [Life of Chuck - discussion for those who have seen it (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-chuck-discussion-for-those-who-have-seen-it-open-spoilers/1020350)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-of-chuck-discussion-for-those-who-have-seen-it-open-spoilers/1020350 "2025-09-22T18:18:12Z")
Has anyone else seen Life of Chuck, the latest Stephen King adaptation done by Mike Flanagan, who also adapted Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep. Notably, this movie isn’t horror at all, though. I’m not sure where I land o… --- ## [Every music sub-genre known to man!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-music-sub-genre-known-to-man/1023194)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-music-sub-genre-known-to-man/1023194 "2025-09-22T16:27:48Z")
There have been a couple of music sub-genre threads but this will be the grandaddy of them all. I stumbled onto this deep-dive rabbit-hole of music yesterday. The genres are loosely associated by color. Click on a sub (… --- ## [Spatial reference in Films](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-reference-in-films/1023184)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-reference-in-films/1023184 "2025-09-22T16:25:54Z")
I’ve long had an issue with “spatial reference,” a phrase I think I’ve derived from Hitchcock, meaning “where exactly people are, in relation to other people and things” in films, particularly films of a large scale, suc… --- ## [Glitch Productions Is Better Than Disney - Change My Mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch-productions-is-better-than-disney-change-my-mind/1023296)
**Author:** [@IMadeLem0nade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMadeLem0nade)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch-productions-is-better-than-disney-change-my-mind/1023296 "2025-09-22T16:21:20Z")
Okay, change my mind. --- ## [Star Trek (TOS)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos/921122)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 498\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos/921122 "2025-09-22T15:48:48Z")
Due to an unprecedented confluence of circumstances, this week, for the first time ever, I have (and am taking) the opportunity to watch ST:TOS. I’m just about finished with season 1, and I have, along with some observat… --- ## [Cat Steven's search for a "hard headed woman"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-stevens-search-for-a-hard-headed-woman/1023227)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-stevens-search-for-a-hard-headed-woman/1023227 "2025-09-22T14:45:22Z")
Who the heck is he looking for? Is having a “hard head” a positive attribute? Does hard = stubborn? Stupid? --- ## [The Long Walk Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-walk-trailer/1018115)
**Author:** [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-walk-trailer/1018115 "2025-09-22T12:59:39Z")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtUHeMQ1F8 I just saw this long awaited movie trailer. Is anyone else excited for this adaptation of the Stephen King (Richard Bachman) story? My son called me up and gushed. We have pr… --- ## [Yassa's African Restaurant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassas-african-restaurant/1023182)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassas-african-restaurant/1023182 "2025-09-22T12:38:25Z")
Yassa’s African Restaurant A great thing about Chicagoland is the access we have to truly ethnic restaurants that cook truly native dishes. On 35th and King Drive, only twenty blocks from the University of Chicago Me… --- ## [Your favorite meat/cheese/bread sandwich combination](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075 "2025-09-22T09:23:43Z")
I would like to know your favorite meat/cheese/bread combo when it comes to sandwiches…and your pick must have all three. If you don’t like this type of sandwich, then perhaps this isn’t your type of thread. I like a s… --- ## [Recommend me a "writing icing" for cookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-writing-icing-for-cookies/1023229)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-writing-icing-for-cookies/1023229 "2025-09-21T15:53:54Z")
Title pretty much explains it. I need a brand of icing that comes in a few colors (blue being one), comes already in a tube for easy use in writing, and is pliant enough to be used by a 9- or 10-yr-old, but still hold to… --- ## [Fictional events that eventually become reality? (Read the OP.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-events-that-eventually-become-reality-read-the-op/1021077)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 130\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-events-that-eventually-become-reality-read-the-op/1021077 "2025-09-21T15:29:20Z")
This was brought to mind by the breaking news that Pee-Wee Herman’s bicycle is now really going to be in the Alamo: https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/iconic-red-bike-1985-peewee-big-adventure-alamo-san-antonio-do… --- ## [Yet another L&O Legal Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-l-o-legal-question/1023223)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-l-o-legal-question/1023223 "2025-09-20T20:29:29Z")
Previously on the Straight Dope, I asked: Today the episode is Pledge: During a hearing on a pretrial motion to dismiss, during witness testimony that skirts the edge of perjury, the defendant has an outburst that amou… --- ## [Crosswords and the death of the monoculture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crosswords-and-the-death-of-the-monoculture/1023058)
**Author:** [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crosswords-and-the-death-of-the-monoculture/1023058 "2025-09-19T22:32:24Z")
Brief personal history - in my younger years (20s), I used to attempt the Sunday NYT crossword. I would spend hours over the course of the week, coming back to it and getting a 70% solution that was still somehow 30% wr… --- ## [Albums whose titles are lyrics from one of the songs, but not the title of a song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785)
**Author:** [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785 "2025-09-19T14:30:07Z")
Two examples: Katy Lied by Steely Dan. The album’s title is the first words from the song Doctor Wu. Whatever and Ever Amen by the Ben Folds Five. The title is a lyric from The Battle of Who Could Care Less. I love it… --- ## [Albums named after a song that isn't on the album, but was released before or after (or never)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-named-after-a-song-that-isnt-on-the-album-but-was-released-before-or-after-or-never/1022897)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-named-after-a-song-that-isnt-on-the-album-but-was-released-before-or-after-or-never/1022897 "2025-09-19T05:45:37Z")
The title should tell what I’m after, but I’ll explain further: I was thinking about the AC/DC live album “If You Want Blood” from 1978 and the song of the same name released as an studio album track on “Highway To Hell”… --- ## [Jordan Peele's NOPE (spoilers after OP)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jordan-peeles-nope-spoilers-after-op/968540)
**Author:** [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jordan-peeles-nope-spoilers-after-op/968540 "2025-09-18T22:30:22Z")
Was looking forward to this and saw on opening day Friday. And… it just didn’t do it for me. It had it’s moments along with some interesting symbolism and metaphors but makes a big mistake a lot of these horror/thriller… --- ## [Best "Angry" lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-angry-lyrics/304919)
**Author:** [@Patty\_Chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_Chuck)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2025, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-angry-lyrics/304919 "2025-09-18T05:02:36Z")
I’m collecting angry lyrics for a friend of mine…out of songs that have really bitter lines in them about ex’s or ex best friends or just bad experiences…The best Angry lines I’ve heard were in a song called: Seventy Ti… --- ## [How do you decide what to watch on TV?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decide-what-to-watch-on-tv/1022846)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-decide-what-to-watch-on-tv/1022846 "2025-09-17T16:56:41Z")
I posted in the past asking for recommendations of specific TV shows. Instead of asking for recommendations here, I’m wondering how people choose what to watch on TV. Do you research TV shows/movies ahead of time? Or … --- ## [Are you sick of people admiring your intelligence and knowledge? Are you tired of people calling you astute? Then do I have an opportunity for you!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sick-of-people-admiring-your-intelligence-and-knowledge-are-you-tired-of-people-calling-you-astute-then-do-i-have-an-opportunity-for-you/1014768)
**Author:** [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sick-of-people-admiring-your-intelligence-and-knowledge-are-you-tired-of-people-calling-you-astute-then-do-i-have-an-opportunity-for-you/1014768 "2025-09-17T01:51:17Z")
The organisers claim to have sold some early tickets already. Truly there is no lower limit to human gullibility. --- ## [Help with art suggestions, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-art-suggestions-please/1022698)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-art-suggestions-please/1022698 "2025-09-16T23:21:19Z")
My wife and I enter these art trackers ( trades) and the subject matter changes. Usually we have no trouble coming up with something but this one seems to have great possibilities but I’m not sure I’m living up to its po… --- ## [Recommend some music similar to the Jeeves & Wooster theme](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-music-similar-to-the-jeeves-wooster-theme/258518)
**Author:** [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-music-similar-to-the-jeeves-wooster-theme/258518 "2025-09-16T15:24:20Z")
So I’ve been watching the BBC series Jeeves and Wooster lately, with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and I love the theme music, which surprises me. I generally find I really don’t like jazz very much, but this song is jus… --- ## [Luna Lovegood is NOT supposed to be the hottest little thing at Hogwarts!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luna-lovegood-is-not-supposed-to-be-the-hottest-little-thing-at-hogwarts/410232)
**Author:** [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luna-lovegood-is-not-supposed-to-be-the-hottest-little-thing-at-hogwarts/410232 "2025-09-16T01:20:41Z")
So why does she look like this: WarnerBros.com | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Movies (pick Luna from the drop-down menu). That girl is seriously cute. And while I understand the idea that practically all… --- ## [Sean Astin, the ring bearer, elected SAG-AFTRA president](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-astin-the-ring-bearer-elected-sag-aftra-president/1023018)
**Author:** [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-astin-the-ring-bearer-elected-sag-aftra-president/1023018 "2025-09-15T22:27:45Z")
Well, congratulations for becoming mayor of the shire President of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Sam: It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. I… --- ## [Emmy Awards 2025 watch along](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emmy-awards-2025-watch-along/1023048)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emmy-awards-2025-watch-along/1023048 "2025-09-15T21:50:15Z")
I watched a lot of TV this year so I’m tuning in live. The host is Nate Bargatze. He did a sketch at the top with some SNL cast members in the same vain as his very funny SNL George Washington sketches. Bargatze played … --- ## [Latest Plot Chasms driving you nuts (assume spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-plot-chasms-driving-you-nuts-assume-spoilers/1023021)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-plot-chasms-driving-you-nuts-assume-spoilers/1023021 "2025-09-15T12:29:27Z")
If I’m supposed to hide this, I don’t know how and I apologize. Show/movie: “Invasion” On AppleTV Trevante Cole returns from being on the supposedly dead useless “mothership”. Everybody’s thrilled to have him back, the… --- ## [The Paper - sitcom on Peacock](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-paper-sitcom-on-peacock/1022777)
**Author:** [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-paper-sitcom-on-peacock/1022777 "2025-09-15T06:38:15Z")
The wife and I watched the first 3 episodes yesterday (they all dropped at once, which is something I didn’t realize until we started watching). Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, it is a follow up and spinoff of… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=60)