# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1548 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1549 --- ## [Can you control falling in love?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-control-falling-in-love/491284)
**Author:** [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-control-falling-in-love/491284 "2009-04-13T03:26:19Z")
I accept that you can control what you do in response to actually falling in love, but do you think you can actually control whether you fall in love or not? Can you stop yourself falling in love, and on the other side o… --- ## [Have you ever been to the ghetto? (Poll)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-the-ghetto-poll/616451)
**Author:** [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-been-to-the-ghetto-poll/616451 "2012-03-25T05:53:52Z")
Have you ever been to a ghetto/“hood” area of a major metropolitan area? --- ## [Getting my eyes checked: I now can't read with my glasses on!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-my-eyes-checked-i-now-cant-read-with-my-glasses-on/616722)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-my-eyes-checked-i-now-cant-read-with-my-glasses-on/616722 "2012-03-25T03:33:57Z")
I made an appointment to get my eyes checked next week. I’ve run into this strange problem with my most recent (2007) glasses prescription. I’ve been very nearsighted since I was about 18, but I’ve always been able to re… --- ## [Investing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/investing/616598)
**Author:** [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/investing/616598 "2012-03-25T02:41:22Z")
I’m getting ready to dip my toe in the waters of investing, and I’m sure there are quite a few people here who invest or have some knowledge of the field. I thought it might be useful to start a thread to get some basic… --- ## [where did my neighbor go?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-my-neighbor-go/616697)
**Author:** [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-my-neighbor-go/616697 "2012-03-25T02:05:02Z")
He left this mid-morning in a white button down, red tie, and khaki pants. He came back an hour and a half later with a huge disposable aluminum tray with foil on top. Ideas? --- ## [That Damn Microsoft Continuously Turning Circle!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damn-microsoft-continuously-turning-circle/616699)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damn-microsoft-continuously-turning-circle/616699 "2012-03-25T00:53:45Z")
Does it also piss any of you off??? Right now I’m looking at it in the upper left hand corner of my Google Chrome, and it will NOT STOP!!! Thanks for letting me vent.:slight\_smile: Your pal, Quas’ --- ## [My iPhone 4 home button is starting to fail](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-iphone-4-home-button-is-starting-to-fail/616698)
**Author:** [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-iphone-4-home-button-is-starting-to-fail/616698 "2012-03-25T00:48:10Z")
Over the last 6 months or so it’s started to take multiple presses of my home button to actually get me to the home screen- wasn’t sure it was the phone at first, however within the last month it’s been getting to the po… --- ## [Criticize My Workout](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criticize-my-workout/616658)
**Author:** [@Snite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snite)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criticize-my-workout/616658 "2012-03-24T23:47:26Z")
I’ve started a new workout and I wanna run the gauntlet and crowdsource it to see how it stacks up. This thread is not for general tips/advice/info, otherwise I wouldn’t be starting a new thread, I’m trying to find out … --- ## [Does this married woman like me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-married-woman-like-me/616449)
**Author:** [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-married-woman-like-me/616449 "2012-03-24T23:12:39Z")
At work I got to know this married woman and we chat and the like, she always looks at me straight in the eye when I talk to her and when I am around her is always in my personal space we get along good, I can joke with … --- ## [What are you favorite places in Boston and Cape Cod?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-favorite-places-in-boston-and-cape-cod/616672)
**Author:** [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-favorite-places-in-boston-and-cape-cod/616672 "2012-03-24T22:16:51Z")
My family and I will be there for ten days in July. I booked a nice beach cabin for the Cape portion of the trip in E. Sandwich. We’re still looking for Boston hotels. My eldest is nine. We’ll be driving there from NJ. A… --- ## [Your best teacher](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-teacher/616565)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-teacher/616565 "2012-03-24T19:44:18Z")
Yet another inverse thread. I’ve had several, but I’ll give props to my first grade teacher, Miss Wright. She was as compassionate and as sweet as they come, and for a shy sensitive wallflower like me a Godsend. I was… --- ## [Do you think this revenue idea for the Postal Service would work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-revenue-idea-for-the-postal-service-would-work/616641)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-revenue-idea-for-the-postal-service-would-work/616641 "2012-03-24T18:47:18Z")
It might necessitate changing some laws, but… Would you pay the Post office to throw out your junk mail rather than delivering it? I’m thinking somewhere in the $10-$20 per year fee. What do you think? --- ## [Oily rag cans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oily-rag-cans/616615)
**Author:** [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oily-rag-cans/616615 "2012-03-24T18:10:19Z")
OK, I work in the automotive industry. As everyone is probably aware mechanics use shop towels (rags). Shop towels get oily dirty we store them. We have a service, which picks them up cleans and returns them for reuse… --- ## [Do you touch-type?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-touch-type/616500)
**Author:** [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-touch-type/616500 "2012-03-24T17:21:48Z")
According to this story, fewer young uns are learning how to touch-type. Do you? Are you fairly fluent at it? Here’s what I mean by the poll choices: Touch-type well (never need to look at the keyboard; fast enough fo… --- ## [When I say "God," do you picture a man or a woman or something else?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-god-do-you-picture-a-man-or-a-woman-or-something-else/615075)
**Author:** [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-i-say-god-do-you-picture-a-man-or-a-woman-or-something-else/615075 "2012-03-24T17:19:37Z")
I totally picture God as depicted on “The Simpsons.” But as I no longer believe in a Christian God, I feel like I should train myself to picture some nebulous, asexual being-thingy. What image comes to mind when you hea… --- ## [What's your "type"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-type/522073)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-type/522073 "2012-03-24T17:13:54Z")
How do people form their “type”? I’m perhaps clearer than most on what my type is: my whole life, I’ve been powerfully drawn to exceptionally slender brunettes with straight hair, aquiline noses, high cheekbones with so… --- ## [esophageal spasm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esophageal-spasm/578862)
**Author:** [@Lorski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorski)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/esophageal-spasm/578862 "2012-03-24T13:17:51Z")
Started about 8:00 last night. Every time I take a drink or try to eat something, it’s like I get a charley horse in my lower esophagus, right at the top of my breastbone. Hurts like hell. I googled it when I got to … --- ## [You have 2 weeks to live. Do you want to know?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-2-weeks-to-live-do-you-want-to-know/615408)
**Author:** [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-2-weeks-to-live-do-you-want-to-know/615408 "2012-03-24T11:24:49Z")
Recently, a friend of my Mom’s died. He knew he was ill, but he was able to walk & talk, and was not in terrible pain. Apparently, 2 weeks before he died, his doctor told his immediate family(but not him) that he would b… --- ## [Delorme Atlas equivalent for Canadian provinces](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delorme-atlas-equivalent-for-canadian-provinces/616519)
**Author:** [@whc.03grady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whc.03grady)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delorme-atlas-equivalent-for-canadian-provinces/616519 "2012-03-24T11:01:53Z")
Is there one? I’m not talking about just a road map, but a very detailed road map that also includes topography. You know, like the Delorme Atlas & Gazetteers, but for individual Canadian provinces. --- ## [Home Defense - Frangible Bullets are they a good idea?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-defense-frangible-bullets-are-they-a-good-idea/615980)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-defense-frangible-bullets-are-they-a-good-idea/615980 "2012-03-24T10:47:46Z")
Frangible Bullets supposedly won’t penetrate drywall. If you shoot at the bad guy and miss then maybe grandma in the other room won’t get hit. At least that’s the claim. Any opinions whether they are any good? Think th… --- ## [Another Engineering question...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-engineering-question/616645)
**Author:** [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-engineering-question/616645 "2012-03-24T07:23:03Z")
I have been conditionally accepted to the college of Engineering in my city if I complete my Calculus class by July 31st. Assuming I do finish the class by then, I am concerned about my knowledge of Chemistry. How much … --- ## [Was this an eyelash?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-an-eyelash/616640)
**Author:** [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-this-an-eyelash/616640 "2012-03-24T07:07:12Z")
TMI Alert! Spoilered so you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to: :slight\_smile: :confused: :eek: :mad: :rolleyes: :cool: :stuck\_out\_tongue: :wink: :smiley: :o :dubious: :frowning: :smack: \[spoiler\]I … --- ## [How many people have been executed in Cuba since Castro took over?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-have-been-executed-in-cuba-since-castro-took-over/616634)
**Author:** [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-have-been-executed-in-cuba-since-castro-took-over/616634 "2012-03-24T05:21:04Z")
Title says it all, really. I checked the Wikipedia on Castro, and no number was mentioned. This would be for all causes, btw. Thanks, hh --- ## [Statistics Puzzler (this time with a potentially correct answer)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistics-puzzler-this-time-with-a-potentially-correct-answer/616619)
**Author:** [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistics-puzzler-this-time-with-a-potentially-correct-answer/616619 "2012-03-24T03:45:29Z")
\[This replaces my earlier “statistics puzzler” thread wherein I futzed-up the poll choices. I’ve already asked a mod to close that thread\] This is making the rounds on Facebook, and I initially thought I had it pegged … --- ## [What killed Whitney Houston?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581)
**Author:** [@Pablo\_O\_Malley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablo_O_Malley)\ **Replies:** 89\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-killed-whitney-houston/612581 "2012-03-24T03:43:04Z")
:DNo cause of death has been reported yet for Whitney Houston so let’s try to guess before it is, as this remains a mystery for now here’s what’s known, according to news accounts: the body was found in a bathtub, no ev… --- ## [Accepting or rejecting an invitation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accepting-or-rejecting-an-invitation/616483)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accepting-or-rejecting-an-invitation/616483 "2012-03-24T03:24:55Z")
There was a letter to Miss Manners about whether it’s rude to decline an invite to a dance only to accept a similar invitation from another person later. I don’t agree with Miss M’s reply, depending upon how it’s done, … --- ## [Who Do You Support In the 2012 French Presidential Election?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-support-in-the-2012-french-presidential-election/616653)
**Author:** [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-support-in-the-2012-french-presidential-election/616653 "2012-03-24T02:42:11Z")
Just as the title says. I prefer Monsieur Sarkozy personally. --- ## [What should I do with four shares of Apple stock?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-four-shares-of-apple-stock/616250)
**Author:** [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-four-shares-of-apple-stock/616250 "2012-03-24T02:31:18Z")
Around 1999/2000ish, I bought a couple shares of Apple stock for around $50 a share, right before the stock split, so right now I have a whopping four shares of Apple stock Right now I’m mulling over my options, as I’m … --- ## [ask me about my neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-about-my-neighbor/616562)
**Author:** [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-me-about-my-neighbor/616562 "2012-03-24T00:28:02Z")
I bought my first condo. I thought my neighbor was just an OCD loser. I have now learned (by way of discovering his box of propoganda in the storage area) he is a wackadoodle right wing extremist. Read: Timothy McVeigh… --- ## [You're leader of the USSR, how do you win the Cold War?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-leader-of-the-ussr-how-do-you-win-the-cold-war/616017)
**Author:** [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-leader-of-the-ussr-how-do-you-win-the-cold-war/616017 "2012-03-24T00:11:59Z")
I thought this would be interesting and as its 20+ years since the fall of the Soviet Union it can be approached with a little historical distance. The scenario, its 1953 and after having gotten the Cold War between Eas… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1547) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1549)