# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1493 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1494 --- ## [How much responsibility or 'blame' does the other partner bear in a criminality based lifestyle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-responsibility-or-blame-does-the-other-partner-bear-in-a-criminality-based-lifestyle/626725)
**Author:** [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-responsibility-or-blame-does-the-other-partner-bear-in-a-criminality-based-lifestyle/626725 "2012-06-30T01:10:49Z")
Based on an interesting (and occassionally heated) conversation I had at work today. Note, I’m going to use male pronouns for the criminal and female for the partner soley for readability and because that’s the usual dyn… --- ## [If you could kill any historical figure, who would you kill?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-kill-any-historical-figure-who-would-you-kill/622411)
**Author:** [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-kill-any-historical-figure-who-would-you-kill/622411 "2012-06-30T00:51:16Z")
Lets say a time machine was invented, but for some reason or other, it could only send back in time invisible killbots. You can program the kill bots to eliminate any known historical figure, with 100% reliability. It … --- ## [Should someone who practiced conversion therapy be allowed into "safe" LGBT group?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-someone-who-practiced-conversion-therapy-be-allowed-into-safe-lgbt-group/626539)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-someone-who-practiced-conversion-therapy-be-allowed-into-safe-lgbt-group/626539 "2012-06-30T00:17:55Z")
If a person has in the past practiced conversion therapy and “changed” a gay subject into a straight person, and this practitioner has not had some kind of change of heart, but rather still considers this practice a succ… --- ## [Is evaluating someone's behavior based upon their life experience, racist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-evaluating-someones-behavior-based-upon-their-life-experience-racist/626608)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-evaluating-someones-behavior-based-upon-their-life-experience-racist/626608 "2012-06-29T23:48:48Z")
As the thread title asks, but considering that one’s cultural life experience may be more tied to their race and upbringing. Not to say that all people of a particular race may have experienced something similar but gen… --- ## [Do transgenders who have had sex changes have the obligation to tell their future partners?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-transgenders-who-have-had-sex-changes-have-the-obligation-to-tell-their-future-partners/626354)
**Author:** [@the\_apples\_fell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_apples_fell)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-transgenders-who-have-had-sex-changes-have-the-obligation-to-tell-their-future-partners/626354 "2012-06-29T23:47:05Z")
If a biological male has a sex change and now identifies as a female, does she have the obligation to tell her future partners, whether they be male or female, about the sex change and her biological sex? Same applies fo… --- ## [Is it just me, or has the Los Angeles Times\* crossword been laughably easy recently?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-los-angeles-times-crossword-been-laughably-easy-recently/626734)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-los-angeles-times-crossword-been-laughably-easy-recently/626734 "2012-06-29T21:16:08Z")
\*Also including whatever other newspapers get their puzzles from the same place–presumably most or all Tribune-owned papers. First off, I have to point out that I don’t do the puzzle every day, and also the ones I do wo… --- ## [Please help diagnose my leg pain - doctors are stumped](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-diagnose-my-leg-pain-doctors-are-stumped/605230)
**Author:** [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-diagnose-my-leg-pain-doctors-are-stumped/605230 "2012-06-29T20:52:50Z")
I apologize for the fact that I keep using this board for medical advice, but as I wrote in my last thread about my leg pain, I don’t know where else to turn. I’ll give a summary so you don’t have to go read that previo… --- ## [Camden NJ and Detroit's Decay, a foreshadowing of America's Future?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camden-nj-and-detroits-decay-a-foreshadowing-of-americas-future/626370)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camden-nj-and-detroits-decay-a-foreshadowing-of-americas-future/626370 "2012-06-29T20:47:04Z")
I’ve wanted to pose this question for awhile. What do you think is America’s future? Exactly what kind of life will our great grandkids inherit in 2101? That’s only ninety-one years from now. This article focuses on C… --- ## [Depression](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depression/626670)
**Author:** [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depression/626670 "2012-06-29T20:39:27Z")
Surely it is possible to be chronically depressed as a result of intractable life circumstances and not serotonin deficiencies (or whatever the chemical imbalance theory of depression is). In such a situation, where drug… --- ## [Is my marriage about to explode?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-marriage-about-to-explode/626223)
**Author:** [@BeSpectacled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeSpectacled)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-marriage-about-to-explode/626223 "2012-06-29T20:24:32Z")
My husband and I have been married for six years, together for eight, and we have two very young children. He has always taken great care of us, financially, and isn’t afraid to work hard. I have always known that my h… --- ## [My opinion? "Miss Holocaust Survivor" is tacky](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-opinion-miss-holocaust-survivor-is-tacky/626707)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-opinion-miss-holocaust-survivor-is-tacky/626707 "2012-06-29T20:11:52Z")
Israel, or rather some corporate pageant/scam operation in Israel, has just crowned “Miss Holocaust Survivor”. Here’s a story about it. Ok, this isn’t exactly a holocaust, and I debated with myself for nearly a second … --- ## [Two year old who can talk, but doesn't seem to want to.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-year-old-who-can-talk-but-doesnt-seem-to-want-to/626565)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-year-old-who-can-talk-but-doesnt-seem-to-want-to/626565 "2012-06-29T19:46:42Z")
Anyone dealt with this? My son CAN talk, he just doesn’t seem to want to. Observing him in play he is talking in full words and even different voices, if he imitates me on the phone he has a voice for me and a voice for … --- ## [Am I being dramatic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-being-dramatic/626708)
**Author:** [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-being-dramatic/626708 "2012-06-29T19:06:35Z")
I made a new FWB recently. We didn’t always have sex, but we’ve been hanging out regularly for several months, and have become pretty good friends. A month ago, a bunch of her Warcraft friends flew into town, including o… --- ## [I get my TV news from Jon Stewart and I'm proud of it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-my-tv-news-from-jon-stewart-and-im-proud-of-it/626706)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-get-my-tv-news-from-jon-stewart-and-im-proud-of-it/626706 "2012-06-29T18:25:16Z")
Even if you’re familiar with the confusion about recent news reporting on SCOTUS’ decision, watch the hilarious Jon Stewart report. Apparently, CNN and Fox thought it so important that the American public learn SCOTUS’ … --- ## [We tried to fill the gas tank in the car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-tried-to-fill-the-gas-tank-in-the-car/626544)
**Author:** [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-tried-to-fill-the-gas-tank-in-the-car/626544 "2012-06-29T17:55:49Z")
and it won’t let us. Figured it would take around $60 in gas but the pump stopped at a little over $19 and we couldn’t get more than that in there. What could be stopping us from filling her up? --- ## [Pub crawling in Salt Lake City?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawling-in-salt-lake-city/626271)
**Author:** [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pub-crawling-in-salt-lake-city/626271 "2012-06-29T16:02:46Z")
I’m my friend’s best man, and my bachelor-party duties involve organizing a pub crawl in the city where the wedding will take place: Salt Lake City, Utah. Now, I understand that it’s easier to get a beer in SLC than it … --- ## [If your feet grew while you were pregnant- when?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-feet-grew-while-you-were-pregnant-when/626482)
**Author:** [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-feet-grew-while-you-were-pregnant-when/626482 "2012-06-29T14:38:39Z")
I’m currently 33 weeks pregnant. I have heard that some women go up in shoe size during pregnancy. I have seen no evidence of this happening to me yet. If your feet got bigger while you were pregnant, when in the preg… --- ## [Would you rather have fast-healing powers or a hyper-genius intellect?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-fast-healing-powers-or-a-hyper-genius-intellect/626360)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-fast-healing-powers-or-a-hyper-genius-intellect/626360 "2012-06-29T14:32:46Z")
Anybody want a justifying setup talking about Evil Inc and end-of-the-fiscal-year closeouts and dozens of murdered Smurfs? Too bad, because I can’t be arsed. Choose the fast-healing powers, and your immune system and re… --- ## [Was NASA's SEAC4RS project a cover for covert activity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nasas-seac4rs-project-a-cover-for-covert-activity/626696)
**Author:** [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nasas-seac4rs-project-a-cover-for-covert-activity/626696 "2012-06-29T14:16:32Z")
Sometimes I feel like non-U.S. news sources are the best sources for U.S. news. Similarly, I wonder if watching Thai news gives a biased view of events here in the Kingdom! A big story here is the cancellation or postp… --- ## [Turning Typed Book into E-Book](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-typed-book-into-e-book/626460)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-typed-book-into-e-book/626460 "2012-06-29T12:58:59Z")
I have a friend who has a book written by his mother-- it’s her autobiography, and it comprises 600 typed pages. Currently it’s bound, similar to the way theses and dissertations are bound (don’t know what that’s called)… --- ## [Someone at work makes a disparaging comment without realising it relates to you, what do you do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-at-work-makes-a-disparaging-comment-without-realising-it-relates-to-you-what-do-you-do/626677)
**Author:** [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-at-work-makes-a-disparaging-comment-without-realising-it-relates-to-you-what-do-you-do/626677 "2012-06-29T11:41:46Z")
OK, that’s a bit of a convulted title, but it’s based on a conversation I was having with some friends on Twitter. Example one: A guy who is bisexual overhears a workplace conversation describing bisexual men as strange… --- ## [Exercise equipment in your home - is it worth it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-equipment-in-your-home-is-it-worth-it/626443)
**Author:** [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exercise-equipment-in-your-home-is-it-worth-it/626443 "2012-06-29T07:00:47Z")
You’ve got an elliptical or a Bowflex or whatever sitting in your rec room…do you actually use it, or is it gathering dust? Do you find you exercise a lot more than when you had to make yourself go to a gym? --- ## [How do "Warranties" work -- if the do work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-warranties-work-if-the-do-work/626393)
**Author:** [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-warranties-work-if-the-do-work/626393 "2012-06-29T05:44:43Z")
How do “Warranties” work – if the do work? I bought a soaker hose at Lowe’s today. In big letters a blurb on the packaging reads “7 year warranty” . How would one go about seeking remedy if it fails in six and a half ye… --- ## [How much debt other than mortgage?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-debt-other-than-mortgage/626178)
**Author:** [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-debt-other-than-mortgage/626178 "2012-06-29T05:41:16Z")
No offense to the other poster, but thought this might produce a clearer picture…for the sake of argument, assume a rough avg on a month-to-month basis, ie what is “typical” or has been the norm in recent times for you. --- ## [Going for Masters or Ph.D while working](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-for-masters-or-ph-d-while-working/626566)
**Author:** [@dgrdfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgrdfd)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-for-masters-or-ph-d-while-working/626566 "2012-06-28T23:47:56Z")
How many others here have done it? Did you get an immediate bump in salary and position or did you have to change employers once you completed? Was it worth it to you in retrospect? Please list what your degree was in as… --- ## [Parents: If I Posted Pics of Your Kids on Facebook](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-i-posted-pics-of-your-kids-on-facebook/626639)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-i-posted-pics-of-your-kids-on-facebook/626639 "2012-06-28T23:22:14Z")
nm - poll didn’t take --- ## [How do you think the Supreme Court will vote on Obamacare?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-think-the-supreme-court-will-vote-on-obamacare/616965)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2012, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-think-the-supreme-court-will-vote-on-obamacare/616965 "2012-06-28T22:49:03Z")
Which way, and how many votes? ETA: for nitpickers, let’s call it ‘against’ if they strike down enough of the law to render it basically unworkable, and ‘for’ even if they strike down some peripheral aspects, as long as… --- ## [Is the comment "he gets the milk without buying the cow" an anti-feminist objectification of women?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-comment-he-gets-the-milk-without-buying-the-cow-an-anti-feminist-objectification-of-women/626201)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-comment-he-gets-the-milk-without-buying-the-cow-an-anti-feminist-objectification-of-women/626201 "2012-06-28T22:11:55Z")
In some discussions of marriage or commitment avoiding men who co-habit with a woman, but do not want to get married, it’s commonly said that such a situations should not be allowed to stand because the man is “getting t… --- ## [White House rebukes guests who flipped bird at Reagan portrait](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-rebukes-guests-who-flipped-bird-at-reagan-portrait/626316)
**Author:** [@Mr.Natural](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Natural)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-house-rebukes-guests-who-flipped-bird-at-reagan-portrait/626316 "2012-06-28T22:10:00Z")
That was pretty pathetic. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/22/activists-photographed-flipping-bird-to-reagan-portrait-at-white-house/?intcmp=obnetwork --- ## [Having a colonoscopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-colonoscopy/620357)
**Author:** [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-a-colonoscopy/620357 "2012-06-28T22:06:27Z")
I have to have a colonoscopy on Thursday. Any advice/suggestions? I’m figuring I shouldn’t eat a lot this week in order to make the, erm, cleansing easier. Or maybe I should, in order to have something to cleanse. I’… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1492) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1494)