# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=374 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 375 --- ## [What is the Latest Drama in Your Hobby...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-drama-in-your-hobby/839166)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-latest-drama-in-your-hobby/839166 "2019-09-03T00:37:39Z")
…that people outside of the hobby would probably know nothing about. This was once a Reddit thread that generated many interesting stories so I thought I would try it here. --- ## [What's going to happen to Trump and his family if Dems win next year?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-to-happen-to-trump-and-his-family-if-dems-win-next-year/839418 "2019-09-03T00:27:25Z")
I have no clue as to what the laws are, so I’ll leave it up to you smart folks here at the Dope to help educate me. I know there will be differences of opinion here so I didn’t ask it in GQ. Hope it’s not too contentiou… --- ## [Clearing the table, when company is over](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearing-the-table-when-company-is-over/839532)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clearing-the-table-when-company-is-over/839532 "2019-09-02T16:59:48Z")
Another in my seemingly neverending line of “etiquette” questions. If you have guests over for a dinner party - say 4-8 people total, eating dinner around the table. Is it OK to clear ANY plates before EVERYONE is done… --- ## [Question for Non-Americans -biggest sporting events?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-biggest-sporting-events/839357)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-biggest-sporting-events/839357 "2019-09-01T15:38:16Z")
Here in the USA some big sports events are the Super Bowl (football), The World Series (baseball), the NBA finals (basketball), and the NCAA basketball finals (college basketball). For some fans it might also be the cham… --- ## [Questions about the universe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-the-universe/839335)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2019, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-the-universe/839335 "2019-09-01T04:33:44Z")
Suppose a group of scientists was assigned the task of creating a video that depicted the big bang and the next billion years. they would be backing away from the core faster than it expanded. The video would be 1 hour … --- ## [Freezing Point Lowering by the addittion of solute](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freezing-point-lowering-by-the-addittion-of-solute/839508)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2019, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freezing-point-lowering-by-the-addittion-of-solute/839508 "2019-09-01T04:12:55Z")
Thomas B. Greenslade is (was?) an important and influential science educator. As a much younger man (1933), he wrote this article explaining (for first year college students), the action of a solute in lowering the free… --- ## [Is residential college/university a thing that's run its course?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-residential-college-university-a-thing-thats-run-its-course/839286)
**Author:** [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-residential-college-university-a-thing-thats-run-its-course/839286 "2019-09-01T01:30:56Z")
Considering how connected most folks are, online and commuter schools seem like the best situation for people wanting to get a degree. What is the modern benefit to leaving your family home for several years to learn whe… --- ## [Atheists: Do you believe you are an atheist because you are smart?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-do-you-believe-you-are-an-atheist-because-you-are-smart/839238)
**Author:** [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Replies:** 137\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheists-do-you-believe-you-are-an-atheist-because-you-are-smart/839238 "2019-09-01T00:19:10Z")
Tell me. --- ## [Apps You’d Like To See](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apps-you-d-like-to-see/839394)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apps-you-d-like-to-see/839394 "2019-08-31T23:32:33Z")
Although phone apps and the like can sometimes be remarkably helpful at translating language or any number of other things, they can’t do everything… yet. This is a mildly whimsical thread for apps which don’t yet exist… --- ## [Men: How far out into public do you go in boxer shorts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-in-boxer-shorts/421583)
**Author:** [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-far-out-into-public-do-you-go-in-boxer-shorts/421583 "2019-08-31T16:54:18Z")
I get home, usually change out of work clothes and into a t-shirt and boxers then walk up to get the mail. I live in the ground level of a converted brownstone like this, so that trip involves a few steps onto the side… --- ## [Soundproofing a small generator?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundproofing-a-small-generator/826209)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundproofing-a-small-generator/826209 "2018-12-19T01:18:29Z")
The high winds that blew from Tuesday morning until the wee hours this morning induced me to take the 3,000 W generator in for servicing. It’s a Honda, so it’s not especially loud. It’s quiet enough inside of the house… --- ## [Suggest an alternative to &%$!ing TeamViewer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-an-alternative-to-ing-teamviewer/839496)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-an-alternative-to-ing-teamviewer/839496 "2019-08-31T14:59:23Z")
I have been happily using Teamviewer (TV) to manage my various home computers and provide support for my parents, who live about 800 miles away and often have computer problems. While on vacation a few weeks ago, I used … --- ## [Well hell, I won a trip to a South Africa game/safari park.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-hell-i-won-a-trip-to-a-south-africa-game-safari-park/839285)
**Author:** [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2019, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-hell-i-won-a-trip-to-a-south-africa-game-safari-park/839285 "2019-08-31T05:48:08Z")
6 nights. I won a charity auction. Some of the people at the event had previously won it & recommended it highly. It’s been my dream forever. I may annoy everyone with questions, but for now, anyone done it? --- ## [How young is too young to get married?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-young-is-too-young-to-get-married/838902)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-young-is-too-young-to-get-married/838902 "2019-08-31T01:00:16Z")
Regardless of the law, I strongly believe that no one under 18 should get married. I also believe that no one under 25 should get married, there’s just so much life change between 18 and 25 that I believe a marriage deci… --- ## [Trade one sense to superpower another](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trade-one-sense-to-superpower-another/839432)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trade-one-sense-to-superpower-another/839432 "2019-08-30T19:57:31Z")
Would you give up completely one of your five “Aristotelian” senses (vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell) so that you could “superpower” one of the remaining four? “Superpower” = cartoonishly powerful abilities. See li… --- ## [Thoughts on silver?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-silver/839426)
**Author:** [@Mrdeals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrdeals)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-silver/839426 "2019-08-30T16:15:26Z")
This week I made my first ever physical silver purchase as I personally believe silver is extremely undervalued. I don’t believe that silver should be like $500 or something crazy, but because of the myriad uses (especi… --- ## [Motorcycle folks- Wanna help me choose? FZ-09 or Monster 821](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motorcycle-folks-wanna-help-me-choose-fz-09-or-monster-821/839440)
**Author:** [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motorcycle-folks-wanna-help-me-choose-fz-09-or-monster-821/839440 "2019-08-30T15:45:57Z")
I could really use the help of some of you with more experience than me. Not really to make a choice for me, but maybe you could add some information or insight that I haven’t thought of. I’ve been obsessing. Here are t… --- ## [sending thank you to Mexico](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sending-thank-you-to-mexico/839441)
**Author:** [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sending-thank-you-to-mexico/839441 "2019-08-30T15:31:34Z")
I am hoping for some suggestions. I want to send a thank you to a gentleman in Mexico who has helped me and my company greatly in the recent months going over and above his job to help us out. He works for a different di… --- ## [Youth and sports](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youth-and-sports/839016)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youth-and-sports/839016 "2019-08-30T15:26:57Z")
Here is an article from CBS News on youth and sports. It basically goes over how poor families cannot afford sports and the kids drop them and how wealthy families can afford more and their kids stay in. Ok, some of thi… --- ## [Why is the DMV so terrible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-dmv-so-terrible/838030)
**Author:** [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-dmv-so-terrible/838030 "2019-08-30T13:16:19Z")
Inspired by something in another thread: it seems to be a common belief in the US that the DMV is extremely slow/incompetent/bureaucratic, and I’ve seem plenty of Americans complain about it over the years. Living in the… --- ## [Actually preventing hurricanes: would geostationary shadow casting satellites do it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-preventing-hurricanes-would-geostationary-shadow-casting-satellites-do-it/839396)
**Author:** [@SamuelA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelA)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-preventing-hurricanes-would-geostationary-shadow-casting-satellites-do-it/839396 "2019-08-29T23:15:51Z")
So first I’m going to say that even I agree this sounds quite difficult because geostationary orbit is at a radius of 42156 kilometers. So any shadow casting satellites - obviously these would be the thinnest possible f… --- ## [Getting sick from just standing up for \> 15 minutes, advice wanted.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-sick-from-just-standing-up-for-15-minutes-advice-wanted/839383)
**Author:** [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-sick-from-just-standing-up-for-15-minutes-advice-wanted/839383 "2019-08-29T22:49:12Z")
First, I have an umbilical hernia. Tried to get it corrected once and it failed. Went to a different doctor who told me that I would need to lose weight or it would just fail again. Note that there were several years … --- ## [Message boards should limit # of daily posts for troublesome members as part of warning/bans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-boards-should-limit-of-daily-posts-for-troublesome-members-as-part-of-warning-bans/839415)
**Author:** [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-boards-should-limit-of-daily-posts-for-troublesome-members-as-part-of-warning-bans/839415 "2019-08-29T21:07:07Z")
I wish message boards had the capability to set the maximum number of daily posts a person could make. I think this would help deal with situations where people get warnings or get banned. Quite often, I think the trou… --- ## [How do you interpret "plus one"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-interpret-plus-one/839066)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-interpret-plus-one/839066 "2019-08-29T16:00:19Z")
If a single person receives an invite to a wedding, and the invite says “plus one”, do you interpret that as having any limitations? Does it mean someone you have some sort of an ongoing relationship with? Any date? A… --- ## [I wonder how long it will take for Amazon fires to prove we need more forest to survive the 21st](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-long-it-will-take-for-amazon-fires-to-prove-we-need-more-forest-to-survive-the-21st/839417)
**Author:** [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-long-it-will-take-for-amazon-fires-to-prove-we-need-more-forest-to-survive-the-21st/839417 "2019-08-29T15:23:27Z")
We still have 80 years left of this century … So I wonder if these fires will affect the life we have left? Speaking for myself I only have maybe 15 years left anyway, but if the Amazon is needed to combat global warmin… --- ## [peasants didnt have a short work week](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peasants-didnt-have-a-short-work-week/839329)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peasants-didnt-have-a-short-work-week/839329 "2019-08-29T14:02:12Z")
Man, they keep spreading this falsehood: “In stark comparison to the stringently capitalist workweek of the so-called modern era, work patterns in medieval Europe—loosely defined as the years 500–1500—were decidedly m… --- ## [How often do you host parties?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-host-parties/839338)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-host-parties/839338 "2019-08-29T10:59:10Z")
We used to do birthday parties for our kids but nowadays haven’t even done one of those in years. We go to our neighbors who like to host New Years and Super Bowl parties. My favorite though was this guy who ran a farm … --- ## [Good Support Shoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-support-shoes/773362)
**Author:** [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-support-shoes/773362 "2019-08-29T10:09:06Z")
I’ve recently started another new job, this time as a cashier at a big box store. As such, I’m on my feet all day, every day, and they’re not that great a set of feet to begin with… I have Plantar Faciitis in my left one… --- ## [Legal to refuse income from a charitable trust?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-refuse-income-from-a-charitable-trust/839201)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2019, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-refuse-income-from-a-charitable-trust/839201 "2019-08-29T06:49:37Z")
You are not my attorney, etc. etc. Here is the situation, in the State of Hawaii: TLDR version (but of course you’ll read the details, law being what it is): A nonprofit organization that benefits very little from a Tru… --- ## [Social gathering of 4-6 people - 1 conversation or many?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-gathering-of-4-6-people-1-conversation-or-many/839379)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-gathering-of-4-6-people-1-conversation-or-many/839379 "2019-08-28T22:40:53Z")
I thought of this after responding to the thread about hosting parties. Our preference is for 4-6 people - maybe as many as a hard max of 8. Even when we just have another couple over, it is almost impossible for every… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=373) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=375)