# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1024 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1025 --- ## [How to feed my dog liver.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-feed-my-dog-liver/613197)
**Author:** [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-feed-my-dog-liver/613197 "2014-09-23T20:58:34Z")
The reason I want to do this is that my supermarket often has liver in its discount section -today I got a pound of sliced lamb’s liver for 8p. Plus, I think my dog would like some real meat. I have Googled, and found t… --- ## [Pennsylvania mom gets prison for getting abortion pill for her pregnant 16 YO daughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-mom-gets-prison-for-getting-abortion-pill-for-her-pregnant-16-yo-daughter/697684)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pennsylvania-mom-gets-prison-for-getting-abortion-pill-for-her-pregnant-16-yo-daughter/697684 "2014-09-23T20:44:47Z")
Yes she violated the law but the notion of greeting a year in jail for trying to help your 16 year old daughter with an unwanted pregnancy does not seem like justice. --- ## [Hotel for Red Bull Air Race + a week in Vienna?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotel-for-red-bull-air-race-a-week-in-vienna/699365)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotel-for-red-bull-air-race-a-week-in-vienna/699365 "2014-09-23T20:42:53Z")
I’m thinking about going to the Red Bull Air Race in Spielberg in Austria at the end of October. It’s rather a long way to go from Aberdeen just for a day out, so I thought I’d make a week of it in Vienna. I’ve never bee… --- ## [Why does having a SO seem to be easier than having friends?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-having-a-so-seem-to-be-easier-than-having-friends/699026)
**Author:** [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-having-a-so-seem-to-be-easier-than-having-friends/699026 "2014-09-23T20:01:03Z")
I’ve noticed when loner-types post about their life difficulties online, frequently they will mention having a girlfriend or a boyfriend, or maybe even wife or husband. But they almost never claim to they have friends–s… --- ## [Oh how the times are changing. Corporal punishment.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-how-the-times-are-changing-corporal-punishment/698693)
**Author:** [@liontamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liontamer)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-how-the-times-are-changing-corporal-punishment/698693 "2014-09-23T19:38:41Z")
With Adrien Peterson’s story all over the news I thought I would start a discussion about discipline v abuse. I am 50ish. I got switched by my gramma (go cut a switch and if it’s too short I’ll cut one myself). My mom u… --- ## [Who can read and write Amharic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-read-and-write-amharic/699356)
**Author:** [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-read-and-write-amharic/699356 "2014-09-23T19:36:06Z")
I have an unusual idea. There is a new restaurant near my work. It is, hands-down, the best Ethiopian food for miles around. The owners are a beautiful family; a smiling man, his gorgeous friendly wife, and their two-… --- ## [WWII was/was not a long time ago, and other ways time messes with your head...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-was-was-not-a-long-time-ago-and-other-ways-time-messes-with-your-head/698465)
**Author:** [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-was-was-not-a-long-time-ago-and-other-ways-time-messes-with-your-head/698465 "2014-09-23T17:46:27Z")
I was born in 1971. I feel that growing up, time was portrayed by the media and people around me in a misleading way. It’s just a theory… tell me if you agree. WWII was “a long time ago” growing up. Those days were horr… --- ## [How to help a housebound tenant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-help-a-housebound-tenant/699127)
**Author:** [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-help-a-housebound-tenant/699127 "2014-09-23T15:19:00Z")
The tenant in my rental unit is housebound. She cannot leave, because the unit is on the third floor and she fell and damaged her knee, and can’t go down the stairs any more. Her husband does all the shopping, etc. They … --- ## [How to help someone trust doctors again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-help-someone-trust-doctors-again/699094)
**Author:** [@puggyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puggyfish)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-help-someone-trust-doctors-again/699094 "2014-09-23T13:39:33Z")
I have a close friend with severe IBS (irritable bowel syndrome). It has recently gotten worse and she seems to be in more or less constant pain now. In the past she saw doctors for this but unfortunately, after a numbe… --- ## [Malfunctioning electric meter. What happens?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malfunctioning-electric-meter-what-happens/699218)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/malfunctioning-electric-meter-what-happens/699218 "2014-09-23T11:00:33Z")
I have an employee who pays the bills and does some light book keeping. Friday she informed me the electric bill has been “weird” lately. She explained that the monthly bill has always been between two and three hundred … --- ## [Are all High Yield Investment Programs (HYIP's) Ponzi Schemes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-high-yield-investment-programs-hyips-ponzi-schemes/461520)
**Author:** [@Libre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Libre)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-high-yield-investment-programs-hyips-ponzi-schemes/461520 "2014-09-23T07:01:29Z")
Hello all, I signed up for SDMB specifically to ask this question in an unbiased forum. Any input regarding personal experiences or insight you might have would be very much appreciated. The wikipedia entry indicate… --- ## [Should doctors be more blunt with patients?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-doctors-be-more-blunt-with-patients/698998)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-doctors-be-more-blunt-with-patients/698998 "2014-09-23T03:08:32Z")
I’m just curious what everyone thinks, and I’d be interested to hear the opinion of any medical pros too. I know of two people where lack of bluntness by doctors lead to shitty outcomes. My niece died at age 18 from a s… --- ## [Is this a joke? \[pricing gimmicks\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-joke-pricing-gimmicks/698903)
**Author:** [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-joke-pricing-gimmicks/698903 "2014-09-22T23:54:36Z")
A tire shop near me advertises that your tires are free if they can’t beat a competitor’s price. What would stop them from simply giving you a price just a few dollars less than a competitor instead of giving them for f… --- ## [Examples of process improvement that diminish the end user experience](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-process-improvement-that-diminish-the-end-user-experience/699194)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-process-improvement-that-diminish-the-end-user-experience/699194 "2014-09-22T22:06:55Z")
When I was a youngster, I would very occasionally unwrap a KitKat to find that the wafer within was either broken or missing, resulting in a greater proportion of chocolate. Of course, I considered this a lucky win. Now… --- ## [Locked in a room with someone who smokes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locked-in-a-room-with-someone-who-smokes/699034)
**Author:** [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/locked-in-a-room-with-someone-who-smokes/699034 "2014-09-22T22:05:40Z")
You are locked in an average-size residential room with someone who smokes. However, you get to choose the type of smoker. What do you choose–cigarette, pipe, or cigar? Or in other words, what type of smoke is least o… --- ## [How do you use your backyard studio/shed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-use-your-backyard-studio-shed/699036)
**Author:** [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-use-your-backyard-studio-shed/699036 "2014-09-22T21:28:29Z")
My husbands new dream is to put a prefab studio/shed in our back yard. We live in a busy inner city and such a shed would take up about a quarter of our back yard. The studio would be something modern, like this or this.… --- ## [Common jaded sayings that were pretty awesome when they were first trotted out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-jaded-sayings-that-were-pretty-awesome-when-they-were-first-trotted-out/699104)
**Author:** [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-jaded-sayings-that-were-pretty-awesome-when-they-were-first-trotted-out/699104 "2014-09-22T21:12:23Z")
We use a lot of old sayings without irony or humor - they have morphed in the vernacular as descriptive phrases instead of their original side-splitting, milk-snorting\* hilariousness: “Life’s a bitch, and then you die” … --- ## [You take a poison's median lethal dose](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-take-a-poisons-median-lethal-dose/699073)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-take-a-poisons-median-lethal-dose/699073 "2014-09-22T19:34:28Z")
Oops. By accident, you have ingested the amount of toxin it would take to kill 50% of the population. There’s no antidote, the doctors say you’ll either be dead within the week or survive with no ill effects. Instinctiv… --- ## [The shortest horror story and aliens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shortest-horror-story-and-aliens/699015)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shortest-horror-story-and-aliens/699015 "2014-09-22T19:26:00Z")
Arthur C. Clarke once said “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Of the two possibilities, which do you think is more terrifying or do you agree that t… --- ## [Anyone ever live in a boarding house?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-live-in-a-boarding-house/698992)
**Author:** [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-live-in-a-boarding-house/698992 "2014-09-22T19:03:58Z")
Like a good old fashioned room and board types…Do they even exist? --- ## [Photo printing service? \[Winkflash is Dead, RIP\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-printing-service-winkflash-is-dead-rip/699119)
**Author:** [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-printing-service-winkflash-is-dead-rip/699119 "2014-09-22T17:58:46Z")
Winkflash has gone out of business. I am inconsolable. :frowning: I’ve been using Winkflash since 2004 to print my photos. I loved them because they had “regular” sizes and the 3:4 aspect ratio versions of all the reg… --- ## [Why is someone reading over your shoulder annoying?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-someone-reading-over-your-shoulder-annoying/635430)
**Author:** [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-someone-reading-over-your-shoulder-annoying/635430 "2014-09-22T16:52:00Z")
My girlfriend does that and I find it really uncomfortable/annoying, but I can’t quite figure out why. It’s not that I’m reading stuff I don’t want her to see or anything like that, it just feels intrusive. Why is that? … --- ## [Ask George W. Bush a question or kick him in the nuts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-george-w-bush-a-question-or-kick-him-in-the-nuts/698647)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-george-w-bush-a-question-or-kick-him-in-the-nuts/698647 "2014-09-22T16:43:52Z")
Here’s the situation. I can put a question to former U.S. President George Walker Bush, which due to my charm he will answer 100% truthfully and to the best of his ability, or I can boot him in the presidential daddy-bag… --- ## [Creepiest cryptid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-cryptid/698774)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-cryptid/698774 "2014-09-22T16:38:49Z")
A cryptid being a creature or being whose existence has not been proven, but nevertheless crops up in mythology and folktales. My favourite is Bigfoot, he just looks so cuddly, like a cereal mascot or something. Others … --- ## [Walking the Camino de Santiago with a less-athletic spouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-the-camino-de-santiago-with-a-less-athletic-spouse/699012)
**Author:** [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walking-the-camino-de-santiago-with-a-less-athletic-spouse/699012 "2014-09-22T15:57:10Z")
Don’t know whether this is the right area, but I’ve got to start somewhere… My wife and I have been pondering walking some or all of the Camino de Santiago in the foreseeable future. Both of us around sixty. I’m willin… --- ## [how to approach GF with issues?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-approach-gf-with-issues/698637)
**Author:** [@timewilltell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timewilltell)\ **Replies:** 134\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-approach-gf-with-issues/698637 "2014-09-22T11:31:13Z")
A few weeks ago I broke up with my GF and then got back with her. After getting back together with her (we were apart for 2 weeks), I told her that what she did during our break up was not my business but asked if there… --- ## [Microsoft dropping Nokia branding for Windows phones - good idea or not?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-dropping-nokia-branding-for-windows-phones-good-idea-or-not/699109)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-dropping-nokia-branding-for-windows-phones-good-idea-or-not/699109 "2014-09-22T07:29:55Z")
It looks as though Microsoft is in the process of rebranding Nokia as ‘Microsoft’ for the Lumia (and presumably any future) Windows phones. (link) I guess it’s not exactly a huge surprise to see this happening - I’m va… --- ## [How's iOS8?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-ios8/698908)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-ios8/698908 "2014-09-22T05:59:45Z")
I can’t update my iPad until I clear up storage space (and there are a few games I haven’t played in ages because I already finished them), but I was curious how much I should bother right now. --- ## [A good camera function to replace iPod Touch 4-Gen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-camera-function-to-replace-ipod-touch-4-gen/698531)
**Author:** [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-good-camera-function-to-replace-ipod-touch-4-gen/698531 "2014-09-22T03:09:50Z")
A friend’s iPod Touch 4th Gen is needing replaced. She wants something with a good camera function that will take detailed photos for the jewelry to plans to sell on eBay. Should she just get a newer iPod Touch or somet… --- ## [Need new name for ISIS / ISIL quickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-new-name-for-isis-isil-quickly/698826)
**Author:** [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-new-name-for-isis-isil-quickly/698826 "2014-09-22T02:07:26Z")
I’ve been trying to think about a more descriptive name for the ISIL group than the current choices. Anything that gives them the status of even an aspiring “state” is not something I think they should have. Also, ther… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1023) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1025)