# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1490 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1491 --- ## [Ok, I give up (Electronic Cigarettes)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-electronic-cigarettes/596451)
**Author:** [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-give-up-electronic-cigarettes/596451 "2012-07-05T16:00:29Z")
I don’t smoke, but I used to. I have been ‘clean’ for 20 years. I don’t mind smokers. They stink sometimes, and in a car, on a rainy day, the smoke can be a bit overwhelming, but normally, I’m cool with them…no smokin… --- ## [So, is this something to worry about? (odd sensations after drinking alcohol)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-something-to-worry-about-odd-sensations-after-drinking-alcohol/626018)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-something-to-worry-about-odd-sensations-after-drinking-alcohol/626018 "2012-07-05T15:47:32Z")
I never stopped to wonder until now if this is unusual or not, so you tell me… I don’t drink very much, usually no more drinks in a year than months, and one of the reasons why is that it makes me feel funny. I don’t me… --- ## [All our mistakes and our life are %100 our responsibility and our choices](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-our-mistakes-and-our-life-are-100-our-responsibility-and-our-choices/626916)
**Author:** [@gvozd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gvozd)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-our-mistakes-and-our-life-are-100-our-responsibility-and-our-choices/626916 "2012-07-05T14:57:39Z")
Or other people interfere too much nowadays and it is no longer our choice and our life. Confused --- ## [Help with buying a new tv?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-buying-a-new-tv/627300)
**Author:** [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-buying-a-new-tv/627300 "2012-07-05T14:13:21Z")
I am thinking of getting a new TV, as my last one was an old-fashioned CRT one that broke a while ago. However, I really know very little about the latest in television fads, as I haven’t watched TV in a while. The thin… --- ## [Protective Cases for Small Electronics Devices](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protective-cases-for-small-electronics-devices/627307)
**Author:** [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/protective-cases-for-small-electronics-devices/627307 "2012-07-05T14:06:26Z")
… case suggestions welcome please! My old Garmin nüvi 350 was virtually dead, so I replaced it with a Garmin nüvi 2455LMT. Its a nice unit with all the bangs and whistles I’d ever need, but with a 4.3 inch screen, it w… --- ## [Ask the Hindu / Indian Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-hindu-indian-guy/86545)
**Author:** [@TruthFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruthFinder)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-hindu-indian-guy/86545 "2012-07-05T10:44:43Z")
An attempt to answer anything u might wanna know about Hinduism or about India --- ## [Default Sound Device - Default Communications Device](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/default-sound-device-default-communications-device/627042)
**Author:** [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/default-sound-device-default-communications-device/627042 "2012-07-05T06:25:28Z")
Whee! Big computer crash, lost everything. (Heh! I had my data backed up!) Bought a new system, (Windows 7) and spent a week re-installing old programs and applications. At one point, the sound stopped working. Som… --- ## [Better big squirt gun than "Water Blaster?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-big-squirt-gun-than-water-blaster/627266)
**Author:** [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-big-squirt-gun-than-water-blaster/627266 "2012-07-05T06:18:45Z")
We’ll be going on a canoe trip where the outfitter encourages using this Water Blaster® squirt gun. The outfitter says it will shoot a quart of water about 60 ft., is superior to other guns, and can be dismantled and cl… --- ## [If You Could Change Any Historcial Event, What Would You Change?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-change-any-historcial-event-what-would-you-change/626748)
**Author:** [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-change-any-historcial-event-what-would-you-change/626748 "2012-07-05T04:31:31Z")
Similar to “Which historical figure would you kill” thread. The only real rules are: -No changing religious events (ie say preventing the Crucifixion for example) -Be serious (ie no "John Doe eats Cheerie-Os instead o… --- ## [How do you say calliope?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-say-calliope/626968)
**Author:** [@Pitter\_Patter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitter_Patter)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-say-calliope/626968 "2012-07-05T03:49:46Z")
I was watching Auction Kings the other day when they came across a calliope to auction off…The staff of the auction house kept calling it a "cally-ope. What the hell? Is that a Georgia regional pronunciation, or what? I … --- ## [Pronounciations that grate: Is it because I'm old?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciations-that-grate-is-it-because-im-old/625645)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 206\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciations-that-grate-is-it-because-im-old/625645 "2012-07-04T23:42:07Z")
Lately I’ve been noticing people in the media talking in ways that make my teeth itch. Now, I know this is hypocritical coming from a person whose Bronx accent is so thick even her children make fun of her, but I can’t h… --- ## [Bought a house, now all I need is trees - Recommendations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bought-a-house-now-all-i-need-is-trees-recommendations/615875)
**Author:** [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bought-a-house-now-all-i-need-is-trees-recommendations/615875 "2012-07-04T22:00:39Z")
I really don’t like pine trees so they’re out, but I want to surround my new house with a small forest for privacy. I’m short on cash at the moment and I have some patience, but would like at least some eye level covera… --- ## [child support enforcement](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support-enforcement/627229)
**Author:** [@zman88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zman88)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/child-support-enforcement/627229 "2012-07-04T21:46:23Z")
Eight years ago I was divorced in Indiana with a decree stating that I not pay child support over christmas and summer breaks. The case was moved to Illinois where I was informed that I would need to pay support year ro… --- ## [What the web needs is a site about...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-web-needs-is-a-site-about/627008)
**Author:** [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-web-needs-is-a-site-about/627008 "2012-07-04T20:14:40Z")
As Weird Earl often points out, there’s a site for everything. Except there isn’t. There’s probably a site somewhere that lists all of Bert Kaempfert’s footwear, sorted by weight, but some sites that I might expect to … --- ## [Seventeen Magazine to stop using photoshop](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seventeen-magazine-to-stop-using-photoshop/627205)
**Author:** [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seventeen-magazine-to-stop-using-photoshop/627205 "2012-07-04T19:13:52Z")
A group asked them to feature one unshopped model in each issue, and the magazine instead went even further and said they’d stop shopping face and body shapes for every model in every issue from now on. This is good o… --- ## [I'm probably going to lose my job...Advice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-probably-going-to-lose-my-job-advice/626775)
**Author:** [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-probably-going-to-lose-my-job-advice/626775 "2012-07-04T18:10:09Z")
It appears very likely that our company’s contract with our primary client will NOT be picked up again. Projects have slowed greatly this year and I don’t expect to even see any more of them beyond the few we’ve got to … --- ## [I think the far right is getting younger and smarter. Look out.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019)
**Author:** [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-the-far-right-is-getting-younger-and-smarter-look-out/627019 "2012-07-04T16:20:54Z")
Is anybody familiar with the emergence of “alt-right” or “new conservative” blogs like Alternative Right or Amerika.org? If so, do you think they might be the beginnings of an intelligent, well-read, and energetic young… --- ## [Experiences with mini split HVAC systems?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-mini-split-hvac-systems/626715)
**Author:** [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experiences-with-mini-split-hvac-systems/626715 "2012-07-04T16:16:29Z")
I’m going to either have to replace a motor on my pellet stove or go with another heat source. My house is 160 years old and has very little crawlspace area. Current;y I’m heating with wood pellets and have a window A/C … --- ## [Talk to me about finding tech jobs/internships](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-finding-tech-jobs-internships/627217)
**Author:** [@BTEzra04](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BTEzra04)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-finding-tech-jobs-internships/627217 "2012-07-04T15:06:17Z")
A little background: I’m currently interning. I enjoy what I’m doing–working as a web developer. I like the challenge, I feel like I could learn a lot in this focus, and it’s always changing. Yet, I also know that I’m i… --- ## [Would you be willing to verify that you are who you say you are?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-verify-that-you-are-who-you-say-you-are/626152)
**Author:** [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-willing-to-verify-that-you-are-who-you-say-you-are/626152 "2012-07-04T14:33:08Z")
Poll to follow. Assume you could verify without exposing your identity to the whole board, and leave aside logistics, and questions of when this might be requested and when it would not be needed. I would. It seems to m… --- ## [Will Obamacare cost Social Security recipients more?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-obamacare-cost-social-security-recipients-more/626871)
**Author:** [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-obamacare-cost-social-security-recipients-more/626871 "2012-07-04T12:48:34Z")
Someone I know IRL is insisting that more money (more than is already taken out for Medicare) will be taken out of Social Security checks. I doubt it but Google fu hasn’t presented specific proof so far. It seems like … --- ## [Galaxy III phone: yea or nay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-iii-phone-yea-or-nay/627120)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/galaxy-iii-phone-yea-or-nay/627120 "2012-07-04T11:06:49Z")
\[brief Pit preface: I need a new car (total wreck one month ago today), a new Air Conditioner (sweating my balls off–this POS is merely blowing lukewarm air around), and a new Cel Phone (current POS won’t take a charge a… --- ## [Should Sharia Law have any influence in the Western world?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-sharia-law-have-any-influence-in-the-western-world/627165)
**Author:** [@the\_apples\_fell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_apples_fell)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-sharia-law-have-any-influence-in-the-western-world/627165 "2012-07-04T06:35:29Z")
There are instances in which male Muslim immigrants in the US have not been prosecuted by law for behavior considered illegal (beating one’s wife, for instance and other forms of domestic abuse) because in Islamic law, t… --- ## [When does a car cease to be what it was?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-a-car-cease-to-be-what-it-was/627094)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-a-car-cease-to-be-what-it-was/627094 "2012-07-04T03:32:57Z")
I don’t know if the title makes sense, but I hope I can clarify here. And since I didn’t know if there’s a factual answer, this forum seemed the logical place to ask the question. Background: I live in southern Maryla… --- ## [The online judgemental peanut gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-online-judgemental-peanut-gallery/626980)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-online-judgemental-peanut-gallery/626980 "2012-07-04T02:48:48Z")
I can’t be the only one that actually kind of likes the insane anger online posters have when bringing down the wrath of judgement can I? Its so surreal, like having an infinite amount of bitchey mother in laws from all… --- ## [Advice on a bad scrape on my leg](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-a-bad-scrape-on-my-leg/627119)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-a-bad-scrape-on-my-leg/627119 "2012-07-04T00:43:54Z")
I had it happen on Saturday when I slipped off the exercise bike and the one leg took the brunt of a revolution by the pedal’s momentum-right down the front of my tibia. It’s been kind of sore (tho I can still ride the … --- ## [Boyfriend spending money he shouldn't, what do I do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boyfriend-spending-money-he-shouldnt-what-do-i-do/627026)
**Author:** [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boyfriend-spending-money-he-shouldnt-what-do-i-do/627026 "2012-07-04T00:29:49Z")
My boyfriend just surprised me with tickets to the symphony here in Houston this weekend. I don’t even know why I brought it up to him the other night that I wished we could go, but I thought I made it pretty clear when… --- ## [Are some things more acceptable to be obsessed over?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-things-more-acceptable-to-be-obsessed-over/627125)
**Author:** [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-things-more-acceptable-to-be-obsessed-over/627125 "2012-07-03T23:04:30Z")
We are voracious consumers of media, and something I noticed is how society seems to have a kind of heirarchy in terms of acceptability. One of the biggest defenses people will have when teased/criticized about having ce… --- ## [Do you get more right-wing as you get older?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-more-right-wing-as-you-get-older/626903)
**Author:** [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-more-right-wing-as-you-get-older/626903 "2012-07-03T22:36:47Z")
“Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.” - François Guizot. Frequently bastardised as “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conse… --- ## [Rural people, how often do you see snakes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rural-people-how-often-do-you-see-snakes/626925)
**Author:** [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rural-people-how-often-do-you-see-snakes/626925 "2012-07-03T21:35:25Z")
If you live in a rural area, or in an urban area near woods, how often do you see snakes in “inappropriate areas”, such as streets or sidewalks? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1489) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1491)