# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=965 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 966 --- ## [Current Song You Are Embarrased You Like](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-song-you-are-embarrased-you-like/735971)
**Author:** [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-song-you-are-embarrased-you-like/735971 "2015-10-30T18:23:20Z")
Mine is so bad I can barely admit it to strangers online: Justin Bieber, What Do You Mean --- ## [Do actors get nervous performing on large sets?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-actors-get-nervous-performing-on-large-sets/736172)
**Author:** [@guitario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guitario)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-actors-get-nervous-performing-on-large-sets/736172 "2015-10-30T15:55:12Z")
I often see scenes in which an actor is performing in front of a large number of people, and yet they look totally comfortable whilst doing so (well duh, they’re acting like the person they are portraying)… But inside -… --- ## [Dean Jones crosses the Finish line. RIP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dean-jones-crosses-the-finish-line-rip/729759)
**Author:** [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dean-jones-crosses-the-finish-line-rip/729759 "2015-10-30T14:59:58Z")
Dean Jones passes away at 84 He was a big part of my childhood, the Herbie, The Love Bug movies, That Darn Cat and other Disney movies. He was the ideal “good guy”. --- ## [What TV dramas DON'T suck?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-dramas-dont-suck/735962)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-dramas-dont-suck/735962 "2015-10-30T14:18:30Z")
In another thread, some folk are “correctly” observing issues in The Good Wife - one of the few TV dramas I watch regularly. Sure, I’m aware of such issues, but I give it a ton of slack because it is just a TV show, and… --- ## [Your favorite Elvis Costello song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-elvis-costello-song/735673)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-elvis-costello-song/735673 "2015-10-30T14:01:43Z")
I’ve got to go with “Lipstick Vogue”, from, of course, This Year’s Model. “Don’t say you love me when it’s just a rumor, Don’t say a word if there is any doubt. Sometimes I think that love is just a tumor, You’ve got… --- ## ["controversial" music choices (one song vs another)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-music-choices-one-song-vs-another/736057)
**Author:** [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-music-choices-one-song-vs-another/736057 "2015-10-30T12:00:57Z")
I like Rocketman better than Space Oddity. I realize in terms of concept and content, Bowie is better. Rocketman is even kind of a “copy” of that song. Bowie’s social commentary is spot on and the song innovative and uni… --- ## [Has Anybody Actually eaten a Halloween Burger?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-actually-eaten-a-halloween-burger/735590)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-actually-eaten-a-halloween-burger/735590 "2015-10-30T11:52:59Z")
Those gross things with black buns and all? They look gross-why did you decide to try one? --- ## [Hi-Ho Silver, Or Hi-Yo?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-ho-silver-or-hi-yo/20361)
**Author:** [@marcn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marcn)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-ho-silver-or-hi-yo/20361 "2015-10-30T08:44:44Z")
In his syndicated column of 4-30-00, humorist Dave Barry ruminated on whether the Lone Ranger’s call to action was pronounced “Hi-Ho Silver” or “Hi-Yo Silver” (http://www.herald.com/content/archive/living/barry/1999/docs… --- ## [Thinking of switching to cheap liquor.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-switching-to-cheap-liquor/735932)
**Author:** [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-switching-to-cheap-liquor/735932 "2015-10-30T07:34:12Z")
I didn’t want to interrupt the ‘I don’t care’ thread with this, so here ya go. I go the idea from this post. I don’t think I will mimic the entire attitude or lifestyle, but I realized something: the lime in a cheap G & … --- ## [Who's more pumped? Batman v Superman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-more-pumped-batman-v-superman/734043)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-more-pumped-batman-v-superman/734043 "2015-10-30T03:37:50Z")
Over on io9, there is the following quote from someone involved with the movie: I thought of Miller’s Dark Knight showing a big Batman was more just Miller’s art and his Batman’s older age. I think of Superman as more… --- ## [Adele's 'Hello' - are there any male singers around who can compete with this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-hello-are-there-any-male-singers-around-who-can-compete-with-this/736154)
**Author:** [@SeniorCitizen007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeniorCitizen007)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adeles-hello-are-there-any-male-singers-around-who-can-compete-with-this/736154 "2015-10-30T03:24:10Z")
Adele - Hello (male voice) --- ## [Any love for The Player?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828)
**Author:** [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-love-for-the-player/735828 "2015-10-30T03:23:50Z")
If you haven’t caught this show, it’s apparently like somebody decided to make a version of Burn Notice but out west and with a lot less humor. Which sounds like I’m damning it with faint praise but actually it’s growin… --- ## [Do any cable companies support TV only through streaming? (no actual cable in the house)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-cable-companies-support-tv-only-through-streaming-no-actual-cable-in-the-house/730376)
**Author:** [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-cable-companies-support-tv-only-through-streaming-no-actual-cable-in-the-house/730376 "2015-10-30T02:37:48Z")
In addition to delivering able to your TV, many cable companies now offer a app or streaming channel for Roku et al. to allow you to watch TV on many different devices through the internet. Do any cable companies just… --- ## [Anyone signed up to Youtube Red? Anyone going to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-signed-up-to-youtube-red-anyone-going-to/735700)
**Author:** [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-signed-up-to-youtube-red-anyone-going-to/735700 "2015-10-30T01:23:41Z")
I’m in Canada, so I can’t try it yet, but I’m following the Youtube Red thing a bit. On the one hand, I’ve replaced my cable with Youtube and such ages ago (with Netflix added this year), and I could really do without t… --- ## [Ant Man and the Wasp coming 2018](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ant-man-and-the-wasp-coming-2018/733949)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ant-man-and-the-wasp-coming-2018/733949 "2015-10-30T00:49:09Z")
No real details but they announced the sequel to Ant Man and it will feature Wasp (as kind of expected). --- ## [You understand why they do it but it takes you out of the movie anyway](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-understand-why-they-do-it-but-it-takes-you-out-of-the-movie-anyway/734928)
**Author:** [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Replies:** 228\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-understand-why-they-do-it-but-it-takes-you-out-of-the-movie-anyway/734928 "2015-10-29T23:40:09Z")
I really couldn’t think of a more elegant title for this thread. Inspired by my suspension of disbelief being shattered yet again by a minor aspect of a movie, I was watching a movie a couple of days ago which had a cha… --- ## [Fountain Pen Afficianados - Come Hither!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fountain-pen-afficianados-come-hither/735810)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fountain-pen-afficianados-come-hither/735810 "2015-10-29T23:39:15Z")
I know we have a few folks on this board who use fountain pens. For years I’ve used Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens as my “go to” pens for work. I love their vibrant colors, the way they feel on the page, and the… --- ## [The Ballad of Tim Evans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-tim-evans/736125)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ballad-of-tim-evans/736125 "2015-10-29T22:18:02Z")
A Bucket Of Blood is playing on TCM right now. It’s one of my favourite films. Lots of good lines in it. One bit I particularly like takes place in a coffee house. A folk singer is singing The Ballad Of Tim Evans. A… --- ## [Best Canadian RPM Number 1 Singles:1990](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1990/736058)
**Author:** [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-canadian-rpm-number-1-singles-1990/736058 "2015-10-29T20:29:00Z")
This poll opens the nineties, 20 songs hit #1 on the Canadian RPM singles chart in 1990. Excluding “Another Day In Paradise”. Alias is the only Canadian artist featured on this list. \*\*\* You May Vote For More Than One S… --- ## ["Sideways" - what am I missing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sideways-what-am-i-missing/297677)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sideways-what-am-i-missing/297677 "2015-10-29T20:24:25Z")
Saw Sideways over the weekend, and my reaction was very much like my reaction to Lost in Translation: a nice little movie; amusing in spots, some good performances – but what was all the fuss about? When you remove all … --- ## [The Haunted Mansion At Disneyland/-World: Were Earlier Versions Scarier?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haunted-mansion-at-disneyland-world-were-earlier-versions-scarier/736007)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haunted-mansion-at-disneyland-world-were-earlier-versions-scarier/736007 "2015-10-29T18:52:57Z")
I last rode The Haunted Mansion (Florida version) in 2005. I know that it’s been upgraded since then to flesh out the story a little better, update special effects that were no longer special nor effective, etc. BUT - I… --- ## [Walking Dead, Rick and friends have done nothing wrong!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-rick-and-friends-have-done-nothing-wrong/735706)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-dead-rick-and-friends-have-done-nothing-wrong/735706 "2015-10-29T18:35:19Z")
Well mostly, Rick did go a little nuts after arriving in Alexandria and waved a gun around and had a trusted friend to knock sense into him. He also made some foolish or callous decisions before like kicking out Sasha an… --- ## [The Big Bang Theory, Season 9, Episode 6 (October 26, 2015) -- "The Helium Insufficiency"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-6-october-26-2015-the-helium-insufficiency/735807)
**Author:** [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-bang-theory-season-9-episode-6-october-26-2015-the-helium-insufficiency/735807 "2015-10-29T18:22:00Z")
I am starting this thread in anticipation of tonight’s episode. --- ## [The Flash S02E04: The Fury of Firestorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-s02e04-the-fury-of-firestorm/735952)
**Author:** [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-s02e04-the-fury-of-firestorm/735952 "2015-10-29T16:52:49Z")
They’re not going to give Candice Patton a break, are they? Instead of Iris moping over Eddie and Barry, we getting Iris moping over her mother and possible half-brother. I’m willing to bet, though, that putative half-… --- ## [Let's talk about Star Trek universal translaters.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-star-trek-universal-translaters/735572)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-star-trek-universal-translaters/735572 "2015-10-29T15:35:16Z")
So how exactly does the translator know when to work and when not to work? A typical example of what I’m talking about: A Klingon and human are conversing. Human says something to piss the Klingon off and all the sudden… --- ## [The Flash S0203: Family of Rogues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-s0203-family-of-rogues/735349)
**Author:** [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flash-s0203-family-of-rogues/735349 "2015-10-29T14:55:52Z")
I can accept a lot of crazy things on The Flash, but freezing lasers with a cold gun isn’t one of them. It was refreshing to see Team Flash not dealing with meta-humans for once. For all that he’s playing an ordinary h… --- ## [Fried ice cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-ice-cream/735967)
**Author:** [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-ice-cream/735967 "2015-10-29T10:32:20Z")
Non-American seeks information / clarification re subject of title of this OP. Until an hour or so ago, I had heard this phrase only from an (American) extreme Protestant Christian gospeller-type guy. He referred to th… --- ## [How does one make a supercool lampshade like this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-make-a-supercool-lampshade-like-this/735949)
**Author:** [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-make-a-supercool-lampshade-like-this/735949 "2015-10-29T04:16:52Z")
I have a great exotic Middle Eastern brass lamp. It’s been sitting around waiting for me to get around to re-wiring it for, oh, seven or eight years. I finally did the wiring, but now it needs a shade because conventio… --- ## [Help me recreate my chili colorado](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recreate-my-chili-colorado/735400)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recreate-my-chili-colorado/735400 "2015-10-29T03:18:38Z")
I had a great recipe for chili colorado. It was awesome with chunks of beef in a beautiful red sauce. It was simple too, I remember that. We used to put in totillas with some shredded cheese and it was out of this wor… --- ## [John Cleese - 76 Years Old Today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920)
**Author:** [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/john-cleese-76-years-old-today/735920 "2015-10-29T03:11:20Z")
Happy Birthday, (soon to be) Sir Cleese! Please keep living! Post your favorites! Stoning: - YouTube [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=964) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=966)