# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1046 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1047 --- ## [Moral judgment or not?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moral-judgment-or-not/695569)
**Author:** [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moral-judgment-or-not/695569 "2014-08-15T01:21:41Z")
— lemme try again --- ## [Last Battles the Losers Won?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-battles-the-losers-won/695490)
**Author:** [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-battles-the-losers-won/695490 "2014-08-14T23:05:06Z")
In different wars, which was the last battle won by what would be the losing side? I’ve been curious about this trivia for a long time but it seems to be difficult to search for. I’m sure there will be some debate about… --- ## [Latchkey Kids - Were you one? Do you have one?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latchkey-kids-were-you-one-do-you-have-one/551197)
**Author:** [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latchkey-kids-were-you-one-do-you-have-one/551197 "2014-08-14T20:23:31Z")
Inspired by the “free-range kids” thread. Former latchkey kid here. I was raised by a single mom, and she just couldn’t afford a babysitter most of the time - heck, for a good proportion of my childhood she didn’t have… --- ## [Most significant event in recorded history](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-significant-event-in-recorded-history/695420)
**Author:** [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-significant-event-in-recorded-history/695420 "2014-08-14T20:20:16Z")
/\\as above/\\ --- ## [Do exactly what I say and no one gets hurt!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-exactly-what-i-say-and-no-one-gets-hurt/20593)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-exactly-what-i-say-and-no-one-gets-hurt/20593 "2014-08-14T19:42:38Z")
Welcome to the new IMHO forum, also known as the Not-So-Great Debates. This forum is for the minor questions that have been cluttering up the Great Debates, the small debates that have started up in the MPSIMS, and all t… --- ## [Would you wear just your underwear under overalls when doing a task like this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-just-your-underwear-under-overalls-when-doing-a-task-like-this/695537)
**Author:** [@Get\_The\_Hell\_Away\_From\_Here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Get_The_Hell_Away_From_Here)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-just-your-underwear-under-overalls-when-doing-a-task-like-this/695537 "2014-08-14T19:21:05Z")
If you were doing a task like in this video: House Of Kolor - How To Paint A Car - John Kosmoski - YouTube would you wear only your underwear under your overalls? Personally, I would and have done. --- ## [What was the most newsworthy event to happen in your county (or equivalent)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119)
**Author:** [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119 "2014-08-14T19:20:37Z")
Just like the title says. I’m sure those of you that live in big urban areas like NYC or LA will have trouble coming up with a “most” but many of us live away from those areas. What happened in the history of your area t… --- ## [Why NOT feed the addictions of panhandlers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-feed-the-addictions-of-panhandlers/695222)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-not-feed-the-addictions-of-panhandlers/695222 "2014-08-14T19:05:21Z")
Whenever the subject of giving money to panhandlers comes up, inevitably someone says that they don’t want to feed drug and alcohol addictions. In a thread a while ago on this very message board, someone (maybe more tha… --- ## [Which hand(s) do you use to brush your teeth?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hand-s-do-you-use-to-brush-your-teeth/695473)
**Author:** [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-hand-s-do-you-use-to-brush-your-teeth/695473 "2014-08-14T18:50:10Z")
I was listening to one local station’s version of Weenie and the Butt and the subject came up about using your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, as a brain stimulator (not literally). Most of the folks in the wacky… --- ## [Who was the greater scientific genius: Albert Einstein or Charles Darwin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-greater-scientific-genius-albert-einstein-or-charles-darwin/695117)
**Author:** [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-greater-scientific-genius-albert-einstein-or-charles-darwin/695117 "2014-08-14T18:19:20Z")
In one corner: Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist responsible for the Theory of Relativity. In the other corner: Charles Darwin, naturalist responsible for the Theory of Evolution. In your opinion, which of these t… --- ## [Decline of an ability](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decline-of-an-ability/695194)
**Author:** [@MaverocK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaverocK)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/decline-of-an-ability/695194 "2014-08-14T17:50:11Z")
When my father mentioned he could not park properly any more without the help of parking sensors, electronic parking aid system, or “complete parking system” (there are different systems with varying helping level, I bel… --- ## [Why two thousand and fourteen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-two-thousand-and-fourteen/694862)
**Author:** [@georgie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/georgie)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-two-thousand-and-fourteen/694862 "2014-08-14T15:59:32Z")
Why do so many people still say “two thousand and fourteen” so far into the new century, when it is so much easier to say “twenty fourteen”? After all, people didn’t say “0ne thousand nine hundred and fourteen” a century… --- ## [My resting pulse is about 90 bpm: that can't be good, right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-resting-pulse-is-about-90-bpm-that-cant-be-good-right/695486)
**Author:** [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-resting-pulse-is-about-90-bpm-that-cant-be-good-right/695486 "2014-08-14T14:50:59Z")
This has been bothering me for a while. My resting heart rate is very fast. I’ve been relaxing in bed for about an hour now, and I’m reading about 90 beats per minutes. That doesn’t seem normal, does it? I’m 52 and w… --- ## [Arming yourself after the Apocalypse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arming-yourself-after-the-apocalypse/695175)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arming-yourself-after-the-apocalypse/695175 "2014-08-14T14:09:31Z")
There’s a thread in GQ about converting a civilian MAC-10 to automatic in the event of a socio-economic breakdown. I and others pointed out that automatic operation would not be a good thing because, for one reason, the… --- ## [Least priviledged person](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-priviledged-person/695505)
**Author:** [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-priviledged-person/695505 "2014-08-14T13:10:15Z")
Which set of factors combine to make them the least privileged person on the in your planet and your country. This probably isn’t just a linear thing. Let’s take gender. A tall deep voiced male CEO is probably more pr… --- ## [Everybody needs to just chill about climate change](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-needs-to-just-chill-about-climate-change/694566)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-needs-to-just-chill-about-climate-change/694566 "2014-08-14T11:06:57Z")
Call me a “Star Trek progressive”. I am very optimistic that in 70 years we will look back on all this gloom and doom about the climate the way we do now on the polio scares of the 1940s. Our technology will be so adva… --- ## [I'm receiving some seriously mixed signals from this woman. Care to help me decipher them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-receiving-some-seriously-mixed-signals-from-this-woman-care-to-help-me-decipher-them/694468)
**Author:** [@2ManyTacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ManyTacos)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-receiving-some-seriously-mixed-signals-from-this-woman-care-to-help-me-decipher-them/694468 "2014-08-14T07:13:17Z")
First of all, damn, I feel as if I’ve been documenting my entire romantic life of the past 2-3 years on these boards. Sadly, a look at my post history reveals that I’ve not been remarkably successful in this arena, but … --- ## [Destructive Procrastination - Perspectives? Approaches?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destructive-procrastination-perspectives-approaches/695464)
**Author:** [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/destructive-procrastination-perspectives-approaches/695464 "2014-08-14T07:08:38Z")
For the last 3-4 months I have been locked into an incredibly destructive procrastination mode. My normally productive life has become a morass of dishes in the sink, laundry piles on the floor, and unaddressed work req… --- ## [Facing danger: "I promise I'll return safely" - bad thing to say?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facing-danger-i-promise-ill-return-safely-bad-thing-to-say/695397)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facing-danger-i-promise-ill-return-safely-bad-thing-to-say/695397 "2014-08-14T00:43:54Z")
It bothers me when military parents in fiction (and probably real life) tell their children, “I promise I’ll come back safely” when they’re being deployed in combat and know they stand a high risk of death. In my opinio… --- ## [Oral Sex: Spit vs. Swallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-sex-spit-vs-swallow/695004)
**Author:** [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oral-sex-spit-vs-swallow/695004 "2014-08-13T23:13:38Z")
So my friend was lamenting that his wife doesn’t swallow when giving him oral sex. Then we had a discussion about the percentage of women who spit vs. swallow in the US and worldwide and I realized that I only had anecdo… --- ## [Naeir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naeir/404916)
**Author:** [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naeir/404916 "2014-08-13T22:20:55Z")
I’ve found some conflicting information on the net, so I’m curious if anyone here has any first-hand experience with NAEIR (The National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources). The jist of it seems to be … --- ## [Americans: so, you walk into a store and spot that everyone is armed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-so-you-walk-into-a-store-and-spot-that-everyone-is-armed/694856)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 230\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-so-you-walk-into-a-store-and-spot-that-everyone-is-armed/694856 "2014-08-13T21:31:15Z")
Imagine that one day you walk into a random store. It might be a Walmart or a bookshop or a MacDonalds or a coffee shop or an estate agent (realtor), but not a gun store. At first, everything seems normal, but after a bi… --- ## [Wives or girlfriends going to gentleman's club](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wives-or-girlfriends-going-to-gentlemans-club/694048)
**Author:** [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wives-or-girlfriends-going-to-gentlemans-club/694048 "2014-08-13T21:08:06Z")
First let me day this is entirely hypothetical. It’s um…research for a book or something. Any resemblance to persons real or fictional blahblah. So in the book, her curiosity having been piqued by strip club scenes in T… --- ## [Older relative appears to have memory issues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-relative-appears-to-have-memory-issues/695439)
**Author:** [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-relative-appears-to-have-memory-issues/695439 "2014-08-13T20:20:16Z")
I have a ~75 year old relative whom I don’t see as often as I like, but when we do visit I notice that he’ll always inform me of facts or tell me stories apparently unaware he had told me the same thing on several previo… --- ## [Do you still own a portable AM radio?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-own-a-portable-am-radio/695382)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-own-a-portable-am-radio/695382 "2014-08-13T19:38:57Z")
A.C. Air show is scheduled for tomorrow (& rain in the forecast, too). On their website they have Here are some helpful tips to optimize your Airshow experience: AM radios can be used to tune into the show’s live broad… --- ## [What was the last smug remark you heard?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-smug-remark-you-heard/695177)
**Author:** [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-last-smug-remark-you-heard/695177 "2014-08-13T18:14:45Z")
This thread has got me wondering. What constitutes “smug” definitely depends on the listener and their milieu. The linked thread is about a song that lampoons a certain type of pregnant woman. As seen from the perspec… --- ## [Where do existentialists go for comfort when the going gets REALLY tough??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-existentialists-go-for-comfort-when-the-going-gets-really-tough/695264)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-existentialists-go-for-comfort-when-the-going-gets-really-tough/695264 "2014-08-13T18:02:28Z")
No, I don’t mean booze, sex, food, travel, shopping, etc., where other human beings go. I mean where in their philosophy/thought system do they go? People who permit themselves the comfort of God, religion, afterlife fa… --- ## [A Few Questions Concerning Estates and Outstanding Debt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-concerning-estates-and-outstanding-debt/695441)
**Author:** [@Panzram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panzram)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-concerning-estates-and-outstanding-debt/695441 "2014-08-13T17:37:57Z")
Hello! My mother recently passed and as such I’ve been faced with a lot of different and new problems that I am frankly a bit baffled by and am hoping some Dopers might have a little insight for me. First, concerning u… --- ## [Inked Dopers - Would you get a coupon tattoo?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inked-dopers-would-you-get-a-coupon-tattoo/695255)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inked-dopers-would-you-get-a-coupon-tattoo/695255 "2014-08-13T17:31:25Z")
There’s a local restaurant chain called Melt that specializes in big, fancy grilled cheese sandwiches. It’s owned by the heavily-inked Matt Fish. The restaurant runs a deal that if you get Melt artwork tattooed on your … --- ## [Late rent fees](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-rent-fees/695210)
**Author:** [@Chip\_Dundas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chip_Dundas)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-rent-fees/695210 "2014-08-13T16:10:10Z")
Hello, fellow Dopers. Long time reader, first time poster. Not sure if this is the correct area to post this or not but… I just moved into a new apartment three months ago and signed a one year lease with the property … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1045) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1047)