# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1124 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1125 --- ## [What Did Your Parents Teach You About Masturbation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-your-parents-teach-you-about-masturbation/683999)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-your-parents-teach-you-about-masturbation/683999 "2014-03-22T18:18:22Z")
A couple of masturbation threads in IMHO got me to thinking about this topic? As for me, my sex education consisted of Mammahomie handing me a book about boys & puberty and tried her damndest to avoid the subject entire… --- ## [Are nation states becoming less important?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-nation-states-becoming-less-important/684289)
**Author:** [@IMfez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMfez)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-nation-states-becoming-less-important/684289 "2014-03-22T18:07:43Z")
Here’s a question for both the history buffs and the futurists: Are nation states becoming less important? Are we evolving towards larger, regional or continental “states”? Or will the nation-state continue on, unchallen… --- ## [Offer a new fad diet.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798)
**Author:** [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bith_Shuffle)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offer-a-new-fad-diet/683798 "2014-03-22T16:12:47Z")
Go ahead and offer us a new fad diet. Mine? One meal a day, to be eaten at lunchtime, composed of three bowls of red beans & rice and two beers. It’s got all your essential nutrients–I swear it! --- ## [Mt. Rushmore of your state](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636 "2014-03-22T15:04:11Z")
If your state were to have a Mt. Rushmore, who would be on it? Some rules: -Being born there isn’t enough (for instance, Malcolm X was born in Nebraska, however he lived there less than a year). -This person has to ha… --- ## [Getting wax off leather furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-wax-off-leather-furniture/684279)
**Author:** [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-wax-off-leather-furniture/684279 "2014-03-22T13:35:58Z")
I have a coffee table that is covered in stretched leather. The leather is very grainy with a good tooth to it. I had a candle on it and accidentally spilled liquid wax onto the leather. I’ve tried scrubbing, to no av… --- ## [Nobody would make a musical about MY menopause](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-would-make-a-musical-about-my-menopause/684225)
**Author:** [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-would-make-a-musical-about-my-menopause/684225 "2014-03-22T11:37:43Z")
Really, I expected more. This has been so uneventful a menopause that it has barely registered in my brain. I just spent some time yesterday trying to remember the “date of last period” and haven’t a clue. I THINK it was… --- ## [Utah Boy Scout rock toppling outrage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utah-boy-scout-rock-toppling-outrage/671644)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 323\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utah-boy-scout-rock-toppling-outrage/671644 "2014-03-22T09:19:43Z")
In Utah’s scenic Goblin Valley State Park a couple of US scouts filmed themselves interacting with a hoodoo - toppling the ancient rock formation as can be seen in the vid here. From that link, criminal charges are being… --- ## [What's the best way to get from Heathrow to Glasgow?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-get-from-heathrow-to-glasgow/630394)
**Author:** [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-get-from-heathrow-to-glasgow/630394 "2014-03-22T07:21:01Z")
I’ll be landing at Heathrow on a Saturday morning after a red-eye flight with baggage and a couple of tired kids. I then want to go to Glasgow for a few days of fun before returning to London. What’s the smartest way to … --- ## [The Martian Larder and Kitchen, or, what/how would Mars colonists eat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-martian-larder-and-kitchen-or-what-how-would-mars-colonists-eat/684147)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-martian-larder-and-kitchen-or-what-how-would-mars-colonists-eat/684147 "2014-03-22T08:39:44Z")
Let’s say it is the year 2050 and all of the logistic and financial constraints for delivering a crew of human colonists to Mars have been overcome, somehow. It’s a one way trip for a couple of dozen colonists. Electric… --- ## [Which giant tech company is building a huge office complex in north San Jose?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-giant-tech-company-is-building-a-huge-office-complex-in-north-san-jose/684163)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-giant-tech-company-is-building-a-huge-office-complex-in-north-san-jose/684163 "2014-03-22T06:37:03Z")
A big “Fortune 500” tech company is approved to go ahead with a two million square foot office complex in north San Jose, and apparently nobody knows who it will be. It’s going to be MASSIVE. San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed … --- ## [Want to plant a tree-fern in a pot....how big?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-plant-a-tree-fern-in-a-pot-how-big/684204)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-plant-a-tree-fern-in-a-pot-how-big/684204 "2014-03-22T05:05:30Z")
I bought a dicksonia antarctica (soft tree fern) off eBay\* a few days ago with the intention of bunging it into the ground inside my makeshift fernery (a bit of dirt covered by shadecloth, home to all my precious and lig… --- ## [Making Money on the internet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-money-on-the-internet/590139)
**Author:** [@eddiec3434](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eddiec3434)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 24, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-money-on-the-internet/590139 "2011-07-24T18:11:53Z")
Im an ex cop and I went to college on a baseball scholarship. The combination of those and other adventures has taken a toll on my body. Im 47 Years old but I feel like Im 80. Im far from lazy and Im willing to work … --- ## [MH370 time since missing ticker - tactless and insensitive or not?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mh370-time-since-missing-ticker-tactless-and-insensitive-or-not/684150)
**Author:** [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mh370-time-since-missing-ticker-tactless-and-insensitive-or-not/684150 "2014-03-22T02:09:35Z")
At the above link about halfway down the page is a banner with the running time to the second since MH370 went missing. This seems pretty insensitive and tactless to me. I’m sure the people who care the most about the … --- ## [I can't cry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-cry/684066)
**Author:** [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-cry/684066 "2014-03-21T23:45:45Z")
…and I need to, want to so desperately. I’m depressed. I’ve lived my whole life this way but lately…I just need release and I can’t get it in any shape or form. I read the whole ‘saddest songs ever thread’ … not a tea… --- ## [Freezer still works but the fridge is getting warm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freezer-still-works-but-the-fridge-is-getting-warm/684103)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freezer-still-works-but-the-fridge-is-getting-warm/684103 "2014-03-21T23:00:57Z")
Tittle says it all. The fridge is still getting cold but I’ve got the setting on the coldest setting possible and the food inside feels barely cold enough to be safe. (or like I’ve got it on the economy setting) Any id… --- ## [Do you have mixed socioeconomics in your family?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-mixed-socioeconomics-in-your-family/682749)
**Author:** [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-mixed-socioeconomics-in-your-family/682749 "2014-03-21T21:25:59Z")
Are you significantly richer or poorer than your parents, siblings, aunts/uncles, and cousins? Is there someone else in your family who is the financial outlier? How do mixed income levels complicate family matters? O… --- ## [Maybe rebounding is good in more than basketball](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-rebounding-is-good-in-more-than-basketball/684242)
**Author:** [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maybe-rebounding-is-good-in-more-than-basketball/684242 "2014-03-21T19:56:07Z")
I saw this on HuffPo yesterday, and it seems to go against everything I’ve ever heard/thought I knew about break ups and rebound relationships: On the one hand, it makes a lot of sense. It’s harder to feel unwanted if… --- ## [Guys - do you like long hair on girls?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-like-long-hair-on-girls/169707)
**Author:** [@Honeydew\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honeydew_1)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-do-you-like-long-hair-on-girls/169707 "2014-03-21T17:11:50Z")
I’ve been wondering… men seem to really like long hair on girls… its one reason I grew mine in the first place. My bf loves it (though not yet had the pleasure of doing anything with it lol)… I love the feel of it mysel… --- ## [Scaremonger Logic: What Are They Scared Of?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaremonger-logic-what-are-they-scared-of/684065)
**Author:** [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaremonger-logic-what-are-they-scared-of/684065 "2014-03-21T16:28:25Z")
I’m mostly talking about these very vague warnings and frequent scaremongering I often see on Facebook, usually blamed on Obama being president- surely you’ve seen it, going on lo these 5+ years of his presidency. “This… --- ## [What is the strongest blow a human can deliver?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strongest-blow-a-human-can-deliver/684090)
**Author:** [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-strongest-blow-a-human-can-deliver/684090 "2014-03-21T16:11:39Z")
I’m not talking about the highest human potential, like Mike Tyson throwing a left hook, but how an average human would deliver the strongest blow possible to an opponent. Is it an elbow in a downward motion? A punt(fron… --- ## [The SDMB "Fighting Ignorance" Hall Of Fame](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-fighting-ignorance-hall-of-fame/684170)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-fighting-ignorance-hall-of-fame/684170 "2014-03-21T15:05:02Z")
As a companion thread to The truly great threads in SDMB history I’d like to propose a thread dedicated to the Dopers who have shed light on (if not outright solved) some of the great mysteries of our times. Please join … --- ## [Most overrated historical event?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-historical-event/683927)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-overrated-historical-event/683927 "2014-03-21T13:22:38Z")
What, in your opinion, is the most overrated, over-discussed, overly-written about historical event? While I do get sick of all the HITLER HITLER HITLER books, articles, movies, and documentaries, and I can see WW2 and/… --- ## [Moral Question: Phelps or Gold?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moral-question-phelps-or-gold/596578)
**Author:** [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Replies:** 122\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moral-question-phelps-or-gold/596578 "2014-03-21T09:21:32Z")
Suppose you were on a sinking boat and you and several others managed to escape in a lifeboat. As you sail out you spot two things: a chest full of gold and Fred Phelps (of Westboro fame) begging for help? There is spot … --- ## [why do people like getting drunk?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-like-getting-drunk/683283)
**Author:** [@dofe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dofe)\ **Replies:** 158\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-like-getting-drunk/683283 "2014-03-21T03:39:41Z")
My question is inspired by this story. As someone who drinks only socially but rarely to the point of intoxication, I admit to having no clue why people appear to enjoy getting shit-faced. Explanations? :confused: --- ## [Educators: I got some good news about my daughter... and I'm having trouble believing it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educators-i-got-some-good-news-about-my-daughter-and-im-having-trouble-believing-it/684095)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educators-i-got-some-good-news-about-my-daughter-and-im-having-trouble-believing-it/684095 "2014-03-21T03:24:23Z")
I have a 12yo daughter, light of my life, apple of my eye, all that. Sophia is very bright, chatty, well-adjusted, well-liked, moral, and has no problem engaging anybody in conversation… all in all, a helluva person. He… --- ## [Tell me your experience with FIOS and/or Xfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-experience-with-fios-and-or-xfinity/683870)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-your-experience-with-fios-and-or-xfinity/683870 "2014-03-20T23:53:13Z")
I am looking to either upgrade to Comcast’s XFinity or switch to FIOS. Looking for opinions of one or the other or both. Any and all are welcome. Thanks. --- ## [Should atheists take the Shroud of Turin seriously?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-atheists-take-the-shroud-of-turin-seriously/683680)
**Author:** [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2014, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-atheists-take-the-shroud-of-turin-seriously/683680 "2014-03-20T23:39:54Z")
It seems like science takes the Shroud rather seriously, though perhaps this is just because it’s been studied so long. Personally I think it’s just a very clever hoax, after all the 13th century in Italy was hardly the … --- ## [Re: Russia and conflict](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-russia-and-conflict/684186)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-russia-and-conflict/684186 "2014-03-20T22:25:52Z")
Have you found of the people on the internet who say how the “U.S. and NATO would roll over Russia”…they tend to be younger. And scoff at the idea of nuclear war. Spouting off such drivel as “We’ve never come close, ther… --- ## [What to do when a traffic ticket has the wrong fine amount](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-a-traffic-ticket-has-the-wrong-fine-amount/684177)
**Author:** [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-a-traffic-ticket-has-the-wrong-fine-amount/684177 "2014-03-20T20:03:24Z")
So I was ticketed in CT for driving with a cell phone. Yes, yes… Boo, hiss, and shame on me. It was my first offense, and I was ticketed for $150. However, upon further inspection, the fine is intended to be $125 acco… --- ## [Would you picket Fred Phelps' funeral?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-picket-fred-phelps-funeral/683993)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-picket-fred-phelps-funeral/683993 "2014-03-20T19:44:58Z")
As you may be aware, noted asshat and one-time patriarch of the Westboro Baptist Church is on death’s door (there’s a thread in the BBQ pit about him). You probably also know that they love to protest funerals - includi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1123) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1125)