# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1008 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1009 --- ## [e-cigarettes. Which one?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-which-one/674670)
**Author:** [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-cigarettes-which-one/674670 "2014-10-23T23:25:15Z")
I bought a starter kit for the Fin brand of e-cigs. What I like about it is it has nicotine in the cartridges and when you first use it after a period of “downtime” is it feels like you’re inhaling a real smoke. The prob… --- ## [Kursk](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kursk/702018)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kursk/702018 "2014-10-23T23:23:43Z")
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word Kursk, absent any context to give you further info? The city, the submarine or the battle? Inspired by possible submarine shenanigans going on between the Russi… --- ## [Shapies - models from 3D full body scans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapies-models-from-3d-full-body-scans/702262)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shapies-models-from-3d-full-body-scans/702262 "2014-10-23T22:00:54Z")
3D full-body scanning booth to create custom figurines I wonder when they’re going to scale up to full-size mannequins? I suppose a full-sized figure would need a rigid skeleton with articulation points, but perhaps th… --- ## [Know anyone who is "institutionalized"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-anyone-who-is-institutionalized/702068)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-anyone-who-is-institutionalized/702068 "2014-10-23T21:29:46Z")
Using the term here in as broad a sense as possible. Someone who has been in prison for decades, and proved unable to adjust to life outside, would be just the ur-example: others could include being in an abusive relat… --- ## [Furthest fall to evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-fall-to-evil/701643)
**Author:** [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-fall-to-evil/701643 "2014-10-23T19:27:36Z")
Good and ethical people can become eviller over time. Who has fallen the furthest? (Living or dead, no fictional characters, sorry Anakin) --- ## [Need Help Finding a Jacket Online. Alas, There Are Issues.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-jacket-online-alas-there-are-issues/701900)
**Author:** [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-finding-a-jacket-online-alas-there-are-issues/701900 "2014-10-23T18:14:31Z")
I need some suggestions on finding a lightweight, casual, outdoor jacket. I’ve looked at more than a few stores where I live (big city, plenty o’ shopping) but I couldn’t find quite what I’m looking for. I don’t need a… --- ## [First the car radio stopped working...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-the-car-radio-stopped-working/702193)
**Author:** [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-the-car-radio-stopped-working/702193 "2014-10-23T14:31:54Z")
I considered posting this IMHO and maybe that is where it will end up, but I want to try to avoid speculation and just get the best available input from the resident grease monkeys. Y’all know who y’ar. :wink: I have … --- ## [Areas of English I struggle the most with](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/areas-of-english-i-struggle-the-most-with/702186)
**Author:** [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 23, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/areas-of-english-i-struggle-the-most-with/702186 "2014-10-23T01:06:54Z")
What areas of English do I seem to struggle the most with here!! :eek::eek::eek::eek: 1.Do I leave out a lot of words when I type. 2.I have problems with past ,present and future tenses Word changing problems. I pick… --- ## [Use all the prefixes, dammit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-all-the-prefixes-dammit/702103)
**Author:** [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/use-all-the-prefixes-dammit/702103 "2014-10-22T23:49:11Z")
I was looking at an article on New Horizons, the space probe, wherein they were describing distances in billions of kilometers, an that struck me as kind of poor use of language. We have a wealth of linguistic shortcuts … --- ## [Would you volunteer to be an executioner (or worse?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-volunteer-to-be-an-executioner-or-worse/701994)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-volunteer-to-be-an-executioner-or-worse/701994 "2014-10-22T22:48:35Z")
Myself, I watch a lot of those ID shows…I would absolutely volunteer to pull a switch. And there’s a handful, a small handful, that if someone said, “Were gonna leave you two alone for awhile , just you, him and whatever… --- ## [Weeaboos for countries other than Japan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weeaboos-for-countries-other-than-japan/701407)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weeaboos-for-countries-other-than-japan/701407 "2014-10-22T20:55:26Z")
There’s a subculture of non-Japanese people out there who are fanatic about all things Japanese. Anime, food, social norms, whatever. The polite term for these people is Japanophile; the less polite slang term (especia… --- ## [Native Americans and private property](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/native-americans-and-private-property/701709)
**Author:** [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/native-americans-and-private-property/701709 "2014-10-22T20:48:53Z")
Seems like their concept of private property (more accurately, lack of same) was at the root of their downfall and that it was just a matter of time. To start, I don’t know if other cultures on other continents held the… --- ## [How to remove bad memories from memory foam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-bad-memories-from-memory-foam/701910)
**Author:** [@Anita\_Dayoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Dayoff)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-remove-bad-memories-from-memory-foam/701910 "2014-10-22T19:44:15Z")
or do I just throw it away? --- ## [Need help to improve my writing skills to ask better questions in medical threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-improve-my-writing-skills-to-ask-better-questions-in-medical-threads/702074)
**Author:** [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-to-improve-my-writing-skills-to-ask-better-questions-in-medical-threads/702074 "2014-10-22T19:31:01Z")
I need to improve my writing skills to ask better questions in medical threads. I seem to have run into some problems with some of my medical threads with some members here. 1.One that I have clouded views that medical… --- ## [How much Mandarin can a beginner learn in an hour a week?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-mandarin-can-a-beginner-learn-in-an-hour-a-week/701600)
**Author:** [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-mandarin-can-a-beginner-learn-in-an-hour-a-week/701600 "2014-10-22T19:25:57Z")
I’ve been offered the opportunity to try a few language classes through work at lunchtimes, for an hour a week. I’m planning to take up the offer of brushing up on my French, but I like to think I used to be fairly good … --- ## [Do you participate when called on the phone by political surveys?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-participate-when-called-on-the-phone-by-political-surveys/702030)
**Author:** [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-participate-when-called-on-the-phone-by-political-surveys/702030 "2014-10-22T18:49:49Z")
'Tis the season for phone surveys about the upcoming midterm elections, and if you are in a battleground state, you probably get a lot of political surveys calling you. Do you answer their questions? --- ## [What is the strangest thing you've heard of that was stolen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-was-stolen/700520)
**Author:** [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-was-stolen/700520 "2014-10-22T17:36:00Z")
Next week, I’m going to be a bag check lady for a charity event. I thought that was a nice thing to do because people would be buying stuff and wouldn’t want to carry bags of it around. NOPE!!! Its because people really … --- ## [Your thoughts on an Audi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-an-audi/701466)
**Author:** [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-an-audi/701466 "2014-10-22T16:37:28Z")
It looks like I may have a chance to get a great deal on an Audi. It is a 2008 Q7 which is the bigger crossover. It has right at 100k miles. I don’t need the SUV haters to tell me how horrible it is… I know it gets awful… --- ## [Upgrading iPhone: Verizon store or Apple store?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upgrading-iphone-verizon-store-or-apple-store/701798)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upgrading-iphone-verizon-store-or-apple-store/701798 "2014-10-22T16:12:39Z")
I bought my first iPhone in a Verizon store about 3 years ago, and I’m considering replacing it with another one tomorrow. Do you prefer doing so in an Apple store or a phone company store? Or are you a big fan of mail o… --- ## [Smoking and toe pain](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-and-toe-pain/702156)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoking-and-toe-pain/702156 "2014-10-22T16:03:23Z")
I came back from vacation the first week in September and until the present middle of October my lifestyle had changed dramaticaly. I have been spending a lot more time sitting in front of the computer and smoking about … --- ## [Why was Oswald a suspect so soon after the shooting?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-oswald-a-suspect-so-soon-after-the-shooting/701661)
**Author:** [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-oswald-a-suspect-so-soon-after-the-shooting/701661 "2014-10-22T15:30:23Z")
I thought there was a APB out on him within a few minutes. Did anyone see him with a rifle? --- ## [Give me humidifier advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-humidifier-advice/702077)
**Author:** [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-humidifier-advice/702077 "2014-10-22T14:52:26Z")
I need a new whole home humidifier but I don’t want to pay the (discounted) $950 the HVAC people want. They recommend an Aprilaire 700, which according to my research is a fairly good model and the last Aprilaire model … --- ## [Do you think Netflix is doomed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-netflix-is-doomed/701538)
**Author:** [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-netflix-is-doomed/701538 "2014-10-22T04:51:31Z")
This thread and this article has gotten me wondering, why do people seem to think HBO going streaming will kill Netflix. Now I’m basing the next things I say on how I watch, but I don’t think the overlap between what’s … --- ## [Is there anyone who thinks Jodi Arias should not and/or will not go to jail?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-who-thinks-jodi-arias-should-not-and-or-will-not-go-to-jail/651712)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anyone-who-thinks-jodi-arias-should-not-and-or-will-not-go-to-jail/651712 "2014-10-22T04:36:14Z")
She’s (more or less) admitted to being the person who ended Travis Alexander’s life, but she’s claiming a convenient loss of memory about the killing and what she did immediately afterward. I know that quite a bit of th… --- ## [Removing Branding on Laptop?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-branding-on-laptop/701726)
**Author:** [@Pauly01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pauly01)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-branding-on-laptop/701726 "2014-10-22T01:52:06Z")
I purchased a sager np2740 laptop online at xoticpc and i recalled there was an option to remove the sager branding. It doesn’t cost anything extra. I bought this laptop b/c i needed a fast laptop for online poker thus… --- ## [Lockheed makes breakthrough on fusion energy project.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lockheed-makes-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy-project/701431)
**Author:** [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lockheed-makes-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy-project/701431 "2014-10-22T01:52:03Z")
Unfortunately, the article doesn’t provide much detail on what the breakthrough was except the feasibility of building a 100-megawatt reactor measuring seven feet by 10 feet. I would think the breakthrough would have som… --- ## [Why shouldn't I move to Massachusetts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-shouldnt-i-move-to-massachusetts/701748)
**Author:** [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-shouldnt-i-move-to-massachusetts/701748 "2014-10-22T00:57:02Z")
Lived in California essentially my whole life. Now considering retiring to western Massachusetts (Northampton area). My daughter is probably going to settle there, is one reason. I have not spent any time in New England… --- ## [Magnifying glass for just some areas of a map on screen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnifying-glass-for-just-some-areas-of-a-map-on-screen/701951)
**Author:** [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magnifying-glass-for-just-some-areas-of-a-map-on-screen/701951 "2014-10-21T23:33:22Z")
I like to study maps and charts online. I would like to find a magnifying glass to increase the size of some names or words without magnifying the entire image. I prefer Firefox. Can you share a link to such an add-on… --- ## [Renewing an ID Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewing-an-id-question/701962)
**Author:** [@Pauly01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pauly01)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewing-an-id-question/701962 "2014-10-21T19:43:50Z")
I have had a nondriver id since i was 18. I never learned to drive b/c im from the city and take public transportation. When i first go an id, it had the under 21 logo then i got another one later after i turned 21. I… --- ## [Why do I have to be the one to call MY mom?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-have-to-be-the-one-to-call-my-mom/598026)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-have-to-be-the-one-to-call-my-mom/598026 "2014-10-21T19:16:13Z")
Don’t get me wrong, I truly love my mom to pieces. But she is always giving me a guilt trip that I don’t call her enough. I don’t say this to her but I’m thinking: “Your fingers ain’t broke, you can call me.” Does anyb… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1007) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1009)