# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1596 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1597 --- ## [Please share your reviews of book bags](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-share-your-reviews-of-book-bags/608114)
**Author:** [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-share-your-reviews-of-book-bags/608114 "2012-01-07T13:17:29Z")
I am sick to death of crappy book bags and the $200 shoe thread got me thinking about buying a more expensive bag. But, I’ve only ever used $20 - $50 bags that barely last one school year so I have no idea where to start… --- ## [The Maternity Bag: What's Missing From The List](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maternity-bag-whats-missing-from-the-list/465160)
**Author:** [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-maternity-bag-whats-missing-from-the-list/465160 "2012-01-07T12:45:45Z")
My friend, who is expecting in the next 2 weeks, mentioned receiving a copy of the Girlfriend’s Guide to Pregnancy in a ‘new mommy’ gift bag. Specifically, she mentioned a chapter on what they don’t usually tell you to … --- ## [Professional pictures of pregnant women with minimal clothing - Is this mainstream now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-pictures-of-pregnant-women-with-minimal-clothing-is-this-mainstream-now/581567)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-pictures-of-pregnant-women-with-minimal-clothing-is-this-mainstream-now/581567 "2011-05-14T03:55:31Z")
In several facebook posts over the last year I have noticed professionally done photos sets posted by pregnant women of themselves that show them minimally dressed, sometimes with barely a scarf covering their breasts an… --- ## [How much spare change do you estimate that you have in your house?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-spare-change-do-you-estimate-that-you-have-in-your-house/606331)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-spare-change-do-you-estimate-that-you-have-in-your-house/606331 "2012-01-07T12:18:06Z")
The were several comments in thread about the US abandoning the $ coin about people not spending coins and letting coin change accumulate. That’s what I do as well. At the end of the day, I empty my pockets and the cha… --- ## [Students using other intellectual property: where's the line?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/students-using-other-intellectual-property-wheres-the-line/608678)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/students-using-other-intellectual-property-wheres-the-line/608678 "2012-01-07T12:13:11Z")
Note the first: I’m talking about third-graders here. That’s really significant. A ginormous component of our writing curriculum entails “personal narratives,” basically memoirs for the eight-year-old crowd. Some kid… --- ## [Catholics:thoughts about the new mass?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-thoughts-about-the-new-mass/601425)
**Author:** [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholics-thoughts-about-the-new-mass/601425 "2012-01-07T03:43:08Z")
On November 27, Catholic masses in the U.S. will adopt a new order of mass. It’s supposed to be closer to the Roman mass while still in the vernacular. Apparently it’s already been rolled out in other parts of the worl… --- ## [Going for a colonoscopy - what's it like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-for-a-colonoscopy-whats-it-like/608095)
**Author:** [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-for-a-colonoscopy-whats-it-like/608095 "2012-01-07T03:19:23Z")
Due to my misbehaving digestive system, I’m going for a colonoscopy and gastroscopy in a few days. Just wondering, what are they like? I’ll only be taking the laxative 3 hours before the procedure, at the clinic, so I d… --- ## [How often do you get sick?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-get-sick/608632)
**Author:** [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-get-sick/608632 "2012-01-07T02:35:55Z")
I had a cold, then a stomach virus, then another cold, all in a row around Thanksgiving, and now I’m sick again with a cold. I consider it a luxury when I go for two whole months without an illness that seriously imping… --- ## [So, would you drop this lawyer if this happened?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-would-you-drop-this-lawyer-if-this-happened/608261)
**Author:** [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-would-you-drop-this-lawyer-if-this-happened/608261 "2012-01-07T02:10:32Z")
An attorney I have retained in a civil matter has managed to get himself suspended for some stuff that happened some time back. Here’s the newspaper article about the suspension: Out of respect for copyright law, I wo… --- ## [How often are you "hit" upon by the opposite sex, out of the blue?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-are-you-hit-upon-by-the-opposite-sex-out-of-the-blue/607963)
**Author:** [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-are-you-hit-upon-by-the-opposite-sex-out-of-the-blue/607963 "2012-01-07T01:44:18Z")
Assume that we are talking about a stranger (yes of the opposite sex, so I’m not trying to parse what your actual orientation is and thus whether you would be interested or not), approaching you in a public place, and tr… --- ## [Have you ever said something bigoted accidentally?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-said-something-bigoted-accidentally/607951)
**Author:** [@SDMBKL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SDMBKL)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-said-something-bigoted-accidentally/607951 "2012-01-07T01:16:33Z")
Have you ever said something bigoted accidentally? When I say “accidentally”, the bigoted phrase just spills out of your mouth, because you aren’t thinking straight. Then, you feel ashamed of what you have said, because … --- ## [Going to Dallas for the First Time...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-dallas-for-the-first-time/608180)
**Author:** [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-dallas-for-the-first-time/608180 "2012-01-07T00:40:36Z")
I’m going to Dallas Texas at the end of the month and I’ll be there for 6 nights on a training course. Being a humble visitor from Canada I have a couple of questions. I’m staying at a Holiday Inn Express on the LBJ hi… --- ## [One of the U.S.'s fifty largest cities is to be destroyed. Argue the case that City X not be it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-the-u-s-s-fifty-largest-cities-is-to-be-destroyed-argue-the-case-that-city-x-not-be-it/608073)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-the-u-s-s-fifty-largest-cities-is-to-be-destroyed-argue-the-case-that-city-x-not-be-it/608073 "2012-01-06T23:33:15Z")
So it turns out that the pulp science fiction writers were right: Mars is inhabited by a sentient species with technology so far in advance of ours it might as well be magic; they have, incidentally, used said tech to co… --- ## [If I Fly Standby, My Luggage Flies...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fly-standby-my-luggage-flies/608611)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-fly-standby-my-luggage-flies/608611 "2012-01-06T23:05:47Z")
I can hop an earlier flight than booked, so I was thinking of flying stand-by. But, then it hit me…my checked luggage will need to find its own way home, right? I assume it’ll fly in on the flight I originally booked. … --- ## [Persons who exercise each morning: do you break your fast first, or work out first?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-who-exercise-each-morning-do-you-break-your-fast-first-or-work-out-first/608397)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persons-who-exercise-each-morning-do-you-break-your-fast-first-or-work-out-first/608397 "2012-01-06T22:48:21Z")
And why do you make the choice you do? For me the workout generally comes first. I exercise primarily for blood sugar control (I’m a type-2 diabetic), so I want to jump-start my pancreas before I eat anything. But it’s … --- ## [My 24 yo daughter is dating a 56 yo man](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-24-yo-daughter-is-dating-a-56-yo-man/607859)
**Author:** [@worried\_mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/worried_mom)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-24-yo-daughter-is-dating-a-56-yo-man/607859 "2012-01-06T22:43:17Z")
Advice Needed ! --- ## [Get off his nuts already! \[Matthews re: JFK\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-off-his-nuts-already-matthews-re-jfk/608573)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-off-his-nuts-already-matthews-re-jfk/608573 "2012-01-06T22:40:23Z")
Chris Matthews, of MSNBC, really needs to get out of John F. Kennedy’s butthole. He (Kennedy) was not the second coming of Jesus Christ. That is all. --- ## [How much to offer for a domain name](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-offer-for-a-domain-name/608547)
**Author:** [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-to-offer-for-a-domain-name/608547 "2012-01-06T22:17:57Z")
My wife wants to start her own law practice. The domain name \[wife’s maiden name\]law.com is apparently owned, but there isn’t any website at the website. I used a domain name search to get the info on the person who ow… --- ## [Chose your own afterlife](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487)
**Author:** [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chose-your-own-afterlife/608487 "2012-01-06T20:29:10Z")
Poll to follow. You die and to your surprise things don’t go like you thought they would. Instead of nothingness or judgement or whatever you’re standing with someone who gives you the following options. \[ol\] \[li\]Obl… --- ## [is 'buggery' a derogatory term?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-buggery-a-derogatory-term/608446)
**Author:** [@jane\_moces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_moces)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-buggery-a-derogatory-term/608446 "2012-01-06T19:49:50Z")
my british husband finds it quite offensive to refer to gays or straights who engage in anal sex as ‘buggers’. i cant figure out if the noun ‘buggery’ or the verb ‘to bugger’ is simply antiquated terminology that is harm… --- ## [Quick tax question about claiming dependents](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-tax-question-about-claiming-dependents/608578)
**Author:** [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-tax-question-about-claiming-dependents/608578 "2012-01-06T19:08:06Z")
This should be pretty straight forward, so hopefully it’s all kosher WRT legal/tax advice. During my divorce, my ex and I decided to alternate years for who gets to claim our daughter on our taxes. Simple, amicable and… --- ## [Self-employed, only wage earner-- exempt from jury duty?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-employed-only-wage-earner-exempt-from-jury-duty/608579)
**Author:** [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-employed-only-wage-earner-exempt-from-jury-duty/608579 "2012-01-06T17:45:48Z")
Hi all! (waves) Okay, so my brother just got a notice that he was called up for jury duty. He CAN’T DO THIS. He’s self-employed and totally responsible for earning money for the household because his wife doesn’t work. … --- ## [Tell me about being genderqueer (& etc)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-being-genderqueer-etc/607886)
**Author:** [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-being-genderqueer-etc/607886 "2012-01-06T17:39:25Z")
I’m going to do that thing where I don’t limit the topic much… So anything outside the gender binary and heteronormativity is on-topic. If you don’t think any of that exists, or you don’t like it, or whatever, please st… --- ## [Flying into US without a passport tomorrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-into-us-without-a-passport-tomorrow/607316)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-into-us-without-a-passport-tomorrow/607316 "2012-01-06T16:30:20Z")
Not me, but I am picking up (I hope) my 21-year-old daughter tomorrow on a flight from the UK to Newark International–and she just e-mailed me to say she might get hung up entering the country because she just mailed her… --- ## [Help me find info for my mum. Hiatus hernia, gastritis and kidney stones](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-info-for-my-mum-hiatus-hernia-gastritis-and-kidney-stones/608456)
**Author:** [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-info-for-my-mum-hiatus-hernia-gastritis-and-kidney-stones/608456 "2012-01-06T10:54:21Z")
These have all been diagnosed by medical professional and she is till under their care. They are however completely crap at providing her with info her problems. She believes that following a diet regimen will help and h… --- ## [Please help me choose an office chair.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-an-office-chair/608530)
**Author:** [@ruritanian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruritanian)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-choose-an-office-chair/608530 "2012-01-06T09:26:51Z")
Hi everyone, I’d like your advice on buying an office chair. My problem is that I’m (quite) overweight and that I have to sit long hours in front of my PC. It’s an important part of my life: I sit at my desk for work an… --- ## [Looking for an online Calculus tutor...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-online-calculus-tutor/608600)
**Author:** [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-online-calculus-tutor/608600 "2012-01-06T06:11:48Z")
I am looking for an online calculus tutor / website. Anyone have any recommendations? I am an adult student, and have a fairly medium - strong grasp of pre-calc concepts. I am working on the Khan academy right now, but i… --- ## [Greatest U.S. Peacetime President?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-u-s-peacetime-president/608468)
**Author:** [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-u-s-peacetime-president/608468 "2012-01-06T05:00:51Z")
Peacetime defined as absolutely no wars, and no military deployments/occupations/peace-keeping missions, etc. longer than two months or using more than 2000 troops. Troops stationed in international bases in friendly co… --- ## [search warrants....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-warrants/608472)
**Author:** [@armyguyjonny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armyguyjonny)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-warrants/608472 "2012-01-06T04:22:55Z")
a few weeks ago, I had the police break down the door to my house and while I do not live in the home, I receive all my mail there. To this day, I still have not seen a search warrant nor has one been sent to me via mai… --- ## [Am I entitled to a refund for these flowers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-entitled-to-a-refund-for-these-flowers/608165)
**Author:** [@Monocracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monocracy)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-entitled-to-a-refund-for-these-flowers/608165 "2012-01-06T04:22:13Z")
I used an online flower delivery company (FTD), to have a flower arrangement delivered on Dec. 24. The flowers were not delivered. I called Dec. 26 and they said they would reschedule the delivery for that day (I had t… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1595) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=1597)