# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=357 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 358 --- ## [OSHA equivalent for public schools](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osha-equivalent-for-public-schools/843493)
**Author:** [@Willcross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Willcross)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2019, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osha-equivalent-for-public-schools/843493 "2019-11-17T19:10:30Z")
My wife is a ceramics teacher in a Mississippi public high school. She has to bake the clay in a 208 volt single phase kiln. Currently there’s several water leaks in the roof so rain water is dripping/running directly on… --- ## [Any financial advice on finding lenders other than banks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-financial-advice-on-finding-lenders-other-than-banks/843467)
**Author:** [@soozyj1969](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soozyj1969)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-financial-advice-on-finding-lenders-other-than-banks/843467 "2019-11-17T02:55:52Z")
I need to try and find a lender that looks at a person itself not just a credit score!! Anybody have any suggestions for me? Thanks in advance!! --- ## [Learning audio talk is difficult.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-audio-talk-is-difficult/843465)
**Author:** [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-audio-talk-is-difficult/843465 "2019-11-16T23:06:21Z")
I am starting to use Discord and Omegle – still have not found virtual friends to audio talk to. I will not use video chat – just audio. Learning text forums was easy. By the time I posted my first message to SDMB, I … --- ## [I'm surprised EVERYONE can't...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-surprised-everyone-cant/842231)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 186\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2019, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-surprised-everyone-cant/842231 "2019-11-16T20:03:45Z")
What are some things that you can do and take for granted, that it sorta surprises you when you encounter someone who can’t. I was inspired to start this the other day when a college educated adult asked me how to spell… --- ## [Are there winter socks that actually work to keep your feet warm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-winter-socks-that-actually-work-to-keep-your-feet-warm/843463)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2019, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-winter-socks-that-actually-work-to-keep-your-feet-warm/843463 "2019-11-16T03:48:08Z")
My dad is older and has diabetes, I’m wondering if there are any socks that actually will keep his feet warm when he goes outside in winter. I’ve seen heat trapping socks, but don’t know how they work or if any one brand… --- ## [Is this guy guilty of stolen valor?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-guilty-of-stolen-valor/842136)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-guilty-of-stolen-valor/842136 "2019-11-16T00:15:36Z")
We were on vacation in western NY recently. We’re having dinner in the inn’s restaurant and I hear some verbal byplay between a server and a customer wherein the server mentions that he did a hitch in the Marines. The cu… --- ## [Would you be in favor of abolishing democracy if doing so produced the right results?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-in-favor-of-abolishing-democracy-if-doing-so-produced-the-right-results/843341)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-be-in-favor-of-abolishing-democracy-if-doing-so-produced-the-right-results/843341 "2019-11-15T16:05:32Z")
Hypothetical: an insane, evil and unjust feature of society that is hated by the majority abides because it’s locked in by procedural barriers that a small number of obtructionists have just enough clout to maintain. If … --- ## [Need a fast, reliable router, \<$200 if possible. Recommendations? Experiences?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-fast-reliable-router-200-if-possible-recommendations-experiences/843445)
**Author:** [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-fast-reliable-router-200-if-possible-recommendations-experiences/843445 "2019-11-15T03:54:12Z")
My Linksys, that I replaced Verizon’s crappy router with 3.5+ years ago, died. Made the call to Frontier (who bought out Verizon locally) and they sent a tech around who gave me a new router. Well, it works. Although I h… --- ## [How can a Homo Interneticus Human be cyberilliterate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-homo-interneticus-human-be-cyberilliterate/843311)
**Author:** [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 15, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-a-homo-interneticus-human-be-cyberilliterate/843311 "2019-11-15T02:27:22Z")
Some Homo Interneticus people are very computer savvy. Other Homo Interneticus people are addicted to games or forums/Twitter/Facebook. A Homo Interneticus addict may spend too much time on the media of their addiction… --- ## [Adobe Flash Player update pop-up issue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-flash-player-update-pop-up-issue/843428)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adobe-flash-player-update-pop-up-issue/843428 "2019-11-14T22:48:15Z")
I keep getting these update pop-ups. Like at least every hour. When I’m away from my computer they load by the dozens. I have an old computer, it doesn’t support this update. How can I make them stop? --- ## [My mother is being booted out of the assisted living home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-is-being-booted-out-of-the-assisted-living-home/843234)
**Author:** [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-is-being-booted-out-of-the-assisted-living-home/843234 "2019-11-14T22:00:14Z")
She has ALZ. i don’t know what level actually, but her short term is less than a minute. Otherwise she’s healthy as hell. Takes no meds other than an anti-depressant and Aricept. She is gleefully incontinent. (if you’ve … --- ## [Simultaneous pharma development of similar medications](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simultaneous-pharma-development-of-similar-medications/841100)
**Author:** [@ZurBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZurBob)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simultaneous-pharma-development-of-similar-medications/841100 "2019-11-14T21:05:43Z")
Prompted by the recent barrage of advertisements related to new prescription drug offerings from a myriad of pharmaceutical companies promising a cure for plaque psoriasis. Not to obsess about plaque psoriasis, for one … --- ## [Question regarding IRA Basis and Distributions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-regarding-ira-basis-and-distributions/843355)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-regarding-ira-basis-and-distributions/843355 "2019-11-14T19:49:21Z")
For purposes of this question, assume the following: My wife has two traditional IRA accounts. One is worth $100,000 and the other is worth $10,000. I have four traditional IRA accounts; total value is $90,000. I als… --- ## [The indestructible dog bed - a hopeless fantasy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-indestructible-dog-bed-a-hopeless-fantasy/843350)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-indestructible-dog-bed-a-hopeless-fantasy/843350 "2019-11-14T17:45:28Z")
Pluto, our nearly year-old field spaniel has succeeded so far in tearing up and destroying every dog bed or bedding material we’ve given him. First he managed to gnaw through a supposedly chew-resistant bed that the tee… --- ## [Do you use the ignore button on your phone? If so, how often and with whom?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-ignore-button-on-your-phone-if-so-how-often-and-with-whom/843100)
**Author:** [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-ignore-button-on-your-phone-if-so-how-often-and-with-whom/843100 "2019-11-14T17:33:20Z")
I don’t use the ignore button, but I do ignore calls. My phone is nearly always on vibrate, so there’s no noise with an incoming call. If I want to ignore it, I’ll hit the volume control once and that stops the vibrating… --- ## [Do you remove the inside cover on things like yogurt containers, cans of nuts, etc.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remove-the-inside-cover-on-things-like-yogurt-containers-cans-of-nuts-etc/843291)
**Author:** [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remove-the-inside-cover-on-things-like-yogurt-containers-cans-of-nuts-etc/843291 "2019-11-14T17:22:51Z")
For example, a container of yogurt has a lid that comes on and off, but then inside that lid is a plastic seal that has to be peeled away. Cans of peanuts and a lot of other products have similar things. I have always pe… --- ## [Are you the universe?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-the-universe/836243)
**Author:** [@Machinaforce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machinaforce)\ **Replies:** 327\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-the-universe/836243 "2019-11-14T12:58:49Z")
I see this line tossed around a lot and to me there just doesn’t seem to be evidence that we are nothing but a body. Yet does the law of conservation of matter factor into this? --- ## [Any experience with Amazon Certified Renewed computers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-experience-with-amazon-certified-renewed-computers/843108)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-experience-with-amazon-certified-renewed-computers/843108 "2019-11-14T02:42:25Z")
I am looking at couple of the sub-$150 offerings at Amazon–first choice from what is available is a Lenovo, but Compaq and Dell are among the options too. Do I need to be nervous about getting a dud, or do they tend to b… --- ## [Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anterior-cervical-discectomy-and-fusion/843314)
**Author:** [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/race_to_the_bottom)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anterior-cervical-discectomy-and-fusion/843314 "2019-11-14T00:59:51Z")
It has been recommended that my wife have this surgery. We are both nervous about any kind of spinal surgery. Though the probabilities are with you, it is not impossible for things to go really bad. Anyone in Straightdo… --- ## [What's your "clear my browser history" when you die?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-clear-my-browser-history-when-you-die/842678)
**Author:** [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-clear-my-browser-history-when-you-die/842678 "2019-11-14T00:39:50Z")
We all (well, several, anyway) have a little bit of kink that we’d rather not have our loved ones find after we pass on. I overheard a married couple once say that they CAN’T die at the same time, because there’d be no … --- ## [Do you ever go to your city's "bad part of town"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-go-to-your-citys-bad-part-of-town/842645)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-go-to-your-citys-bad-part-of-town/842645 "2019-11-13T22:25:12Z")
Inspired by the “bad city’s” thread. I’m currently living in my city’s “bad part,” and working nights. I have a 15 minute walk from my bus stop to my house. After dark, and in the bad part of town. People’s jaws drop w… --- ## [US shale oil industry is collapsing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-shale-oil-industry-is-collapsing/843255)
**Author:** [@Marcus\_Flavius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marcus_Flavius)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-shale-oil-industry-is-collapsing/843255 "2019-11-13T20:25:19Z")
Some recent news stories I found: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-13/america-s-shale-oil-boom-is-nearly-over These developments are right in line with what many of the shale oil ‘skeptics’ have… --- ## [So, what's going on in Catalonia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-in-catalonia/797721)
**Author:** [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-going-on-in-catalonia/797721 "2019-11-13T15:19:29Z")
I’m seeing a lot of videos and stuff on Facebook that looks like things getting pretty nasty over this independence vote. Of course most of the descriptions are in Spanish or Catalan, and I don’t really speak either. Is… --- ## [Your opinion of Swiffers or similar products.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinion-of-swiffers-or-similar-products/843278)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-opinion-of-swiffers-or-similar-products/843278 "2019-11-13T13:42:54Z")
Our new house has a lot of wooden floors whereas our old house was almost exclusively carpet. So I need suggestions for cleaning the floors. We have 2 cats that tend to track little litter about the house. I also have an… --- ## [Dog training hand puppet for playing/roughhousing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-training-hand-puppet-for-playing-roughhousing/843269)
**Author:** [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-training-hand-puppet-for-playing-roughhousing/843269 "2019-11-12T21:19:32Z")
(No idea what forum this belongs in) Having just got a needle-fanged little fur tornado (mini schnauzer), I’m trying to come up with a way to train her on the rules of roughhousing. We have a cat that has his fangs and… --- ## [Did the printing press drive society nuts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-printing-press-drive-society-nuts/842995)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-printing-press-drive-society-nuts/842995 "2019-11-12T20:30:47Z")
One of the alleged blessings of the invention of the ‘movable type’ printing press is that it meant the written word no longer had to be written by the shaky hands of bored monks, and at their leisure. The printing pres… --- ## [Repudiations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repudiations/843198)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repudiations/843198 "2019-11-12T19:55:56Z")
KFC Not even the skin or the gravy give me joy anymore. Stephen Colbert Crawl back out your ass. You ain’t all that. Goddamn Two-Trick Pony, really. Honorable Mention: Weiner Dogs. Starting to be a pain in my ass. Can… --- ## [Workplaces that allow jeans/have no dress code for when meeting clients](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplaces-that-allow-jeans-have-no-dress-code-for-when-meeting-clients/841388)
**Author:** [@The\_Maple\_Leaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Maple_Leaf)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/workplaces-that-allow-jeans-have-no-dress-code-for-when-meeting-clients/841388 "2019-11-12T19:40:38Z")
We live in an age when many workplaces that in the past would have required employees to dress up either have no dress code at all or at any rate allow the wearing of jeans and generally casual clothes. However, it is st… --- ## [How often do you use the small pocket of your 5 pocket jeans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-the-small-pocket-of-your-5-pocket-jeans/841502)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-use-the-small-pocket-of-your-5-pocket-jeans/841502 "2019-11-12T18:38:04Z")
I guess I have worn 5 pocket jeans most of my entire life. That little pocket which is kind of inside your right front pocket, how often do you use it, and for what? I think as a kid I may have put something in it and … --- ## [parole boards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parole-boards/843206)
**Author:** [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parole-boards/843206 "2019-11-12T17:45:50Z")
At times, we hear of prisoners having the parole board recommend them for release, then the judge denies this. If so, what is the point of having a parole board? I’m asking because, as far as I know, its happened twice, … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=356) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=358)