# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=578 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 579 --- ## [Jail for up to 4 years if you carry a plastic bag](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jail-for-up-to-4-years-if-you-carry-a-plastic-bag/794955)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jail-for-up-to-4-years-if-you-carry-a-plastic-bag/794955 "2017-08-29T23:46:25Z")
If you’re a Kenyan, that is. OK, I’m all for saving the planet but isn’t this a tad excessive? --- ## [What kind of customized things would people actually WANT to get as a prize?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-customized-things-would-people-actually-want-to-get-as-a-prize/682058)
**Author:** [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-customized-things-would-people-actually-want-to-get-as-a-prize/682058 "2017-08-29T20:24:57Z")
Okay, so here’s the situation. I became the new head mod of a website I’ve been a part of for a long time, and the major thing I’ve done is to resurrect the fic exchange. HUGELY popular. I want to do something this time… --- ## [Tall guy looking for a desk chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-guy-looking-for-a-desk-chair/795042)
**Author:** [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tall-guy-looking-for-a-desk-chair/795042 "2017-08-29T18:58:43Z")
I’m 6’5" and I’m looking for a desk chair that sits up at a good height so my feet can rest on the ground. The most difficult thing to find is a high back to them where I can rest my head back without slouching down in … --- ## [ISO Websites: Car Model & Year Reputations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iso-websites-car-model-year-reputations/794988)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iso-websites-car-model-year-reputations/794988 "2017-08-29T10:46:07Z")
Beyond obvious sites like Kelly Blue Book and Edmunds, can the SDope recommend websites that would reveal good and bad years for any model vehicle? …and/or problematic issues known to haunt certain models across the year… --- ## [How many languages appeared on your Facebook feed in the last month?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458)
**Author:** [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-languages-appeared-on-your-facebook-feed-in-the-last-month/794458 "2017-08-29T05:23:33Z")
I’ve recently become aware of how multilingual my Facebook friends are. I expect this is typical, given how easy travel and communications are these days. Let’s see how Dopers fare. Polling options will be attached mome… --- ## [The Malaise of Our Society](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-malaise-of-our-society/794979)
**Author:** [@Brian\_Wilkerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brian_Wilkerson)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-malaise-of-our-society/794979 "2017-08-29T04:12:38Z")
I am a college art student and for a recent class project I have been assigned the task of picking out the “malaise of our society” in our hyper-modern era and then somehow translating and representing that theme in the… --- ## [Using white male privilege](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-white-male-privilege/794808)
**Author:** [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-white-male-privilege/794808 "2017-08-29T02:20:36Z")
Responding to this thread.This can be any privilege, but I’m a white male, so that’s what I’ve got. How have you used your privilige? A few years ago I decided that as a middle aged white male, I may as well use my priv… --- ## [Question about contesting a will](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-contesting-a-will/794696)
**Author:** [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-contesting-a-will/794696 "2017-08-29T01:24:45Z")
My mother is trying to draft a will. Long story short, she wants myself to be the only beneficiary/I am the only inheritor. I am one of three children She was told by someone if she doesn’t leave at least 5% to each of t… --- ## [Day hike recommendations near Seattle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/day-hike-recommendations-near-seattle/794876)
**Author:** [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/day-hike-recommendations-near-seattle/794876 "2017-08-29T00:54:11Z")
I’m spending five days in Seattle this week, and I’ve never been before. It’s also my first vacation in three years, so I’m very excited. Anyway, I was hoping to spend a day hiking Olympic or Mt. Rainier, but then I loo… --- ## [Driveway advice needed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driveway-advice-needed/794494)
**Author:** [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driveway-advice-needed/794494 "2017-08-29T00:27:04Z")
We have a small city lot with nowhere to park except on the street. We tore down our very old shed and want to put in a driveway. The shed was sinking into the ground and so the ground around it is uneven. I’ve dug up an… --- ## [Is this really helping the poor?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-helping-the-poor/794757)
**Author:** [@ssgenius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ssgenius)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-really-helping-the-poor/794757 "2017-08-28T23:47:56Z")
I recently spent a few hours as a volunteer putting together packaged meals for the poor. Essentially putting rice, soy, and some vitamins in a plastic bag and labeling it. The condition of this were terrible. It was 1… --- ## [More worthy of my bigoted contempt: Elves or Smurfs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-worthy-of-my-bigoted-contempt-elves-or-smurfs/727843)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-worthy-of-my-bigoted-contempt-elves-or-smurfs/727843 "2017-08-28T23:41:06Z")
Some weeks ago, at the behest of a Doper whose name I \[del\]forgot neglected\[/del\] couldn’t be arsed to write down, I gave my word as a votary of Athena to cease my slanders on, libels regarding, threats of violence to, a… --- ## [What's a specific brand of consumer product that's worth the money and then some?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-specific-brand-of-consumer-product-thats-worth-the-money-and-then-some/786680)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 209\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-specific-brand-of-consumer-product-thats-worth-the-money-and-then-some/786680 "2017-08-28T23:02:35Z")
We spend so much time in life buying things, and a lot of its is overhyped and turns out to be really disappointing, or you go into it knowing it’ll suck but you have no choice (Airline travel.) But you know, some brand… --- ## [What's this stuff I'm burping up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-stuff-im-burping-up/794855)
**Author:** [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-stuff-im-burping-up/794855 "2017-08-28T19:36:15Z")
(A little bit gross. You’ve been warned.) :slight\_smile: I hike most mornings and (don’t judge) drink a large diet coke while I’m doing it. You know that expression “I just threw up a little into my mouth”? Something … --- ## [Does this Social Media behavior bother anyone else?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-social-media-behavior-bother-anyone-else/794581)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-this-social-media-behavior-bother-anyone-else/794581 "2017-08-28T17:47:50Z")
I have a Facebook friend (whom I have never met in real life but was a friend of a friend) who seems otherwise very nice but will take jokes from a handful of Twitter accounts and post them as their own. People reading … --- ## [Traveling with underwear](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traveling-with-underwear/794527)
**Author:** [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/traveling-with-underwear/794527 "2017-08-28T16:41:11Z")
A couple plans an overnight trip, and will be gone two days. In order to travel light, they decide not to pack underwear. They will just wear each other’s dirty undies the second day. What do you think of this idea? --- ## [International travelers: (when) do you change money?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-travelers-when-do-you-change-money/794184)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-travelers-when-do-you-change-money/794184 "2017-08-28T16:25:20Z")
I’m not a globe-trotter by any stretch of the imagination, but I’ve visited a few places where the US Dollar isn’t the default currency. It hasn’t mattered - plastic worked everywhere I went, so I never needed any chang… --- ## [I'd like the Weather Channel, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-weather-channel-please/794699)
**Author:** [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-weather-channel-please/794699 "2017-08-28T16:22:14Z")
Cut the cord a few years ago. TWC is the only thing I actually miss. If you try to stream it, they ask for your cable/satellite provider. Any way to watch on Smart TV or iPad? --- ## [Has the Internet Made Older Generations Seem Cooler (or less Uncool) ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-internet-made-older-generations-seem-cooler-or-less-uncool/794549)
**Author:** [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-internet-made-older-generations-seem-cooler-or-less-uncool/794549 "2017-08-28T16:16:39Z")
Every generation thinks it’s the coolest ever. And the first to discover sex. When I was a teenager in the early 90s, me and my friends would never have thought of our parents as “cool”. I mean, we loved and respected t… --- ## [Anonymous Conversation: Old Piece of Writing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-conversation-old-piece-of-writing/794944)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-conversation-old-piece-of-writing/794944 "2017-08-28T15:40:58Z")
Last week I was visiting my parents and my sister and brother-in-law and viewing the solar eclipse with them (they are conveniently living within waking distance of the Georgia/South Carolina border and were in the path … --- ## [Mouth/tongue sore(s)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouth-tongue-sore-s/794369)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mouth-tongue-sore-s/794369 "2017-08-28T14:39:28Z")
I am not a doctor. You are not a doctor (or maybe you are…). I have consulted my dentist about this, and I’m seeing my oncologist next month and will ask her. About a month ago, the tip of my tongue became very sore. It… --- ## [Jodi Foster and President Reagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637)
**Author:** [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637 "2017-08-28T14:21:19Z")
So in 1981 President Reagan was gunned down by John Hinckley who claimed he did it in an attempt to impress Jodi Foster. So my question is why did he think that this would impress her? Yeah, sure, Hinckley was a crazy on… --- ## [How often do you do "touristy" stuff in your own city/vicinity?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-do-touristy-stuff-in-your-own-city-vicinity/794554)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-do-touristy-stuff-in-your-own-city-vicinity/794554 "2017-08-28T03:05:04Z")
In this thread (“What Would You Do As A Tourist in London?”), the OP writes: \[quote=spjork\] I guess I take for granted that I can visit the Tower of London, the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham palace, et al, when I ha… --- ## [Fence & Property Line Etiquette/Legal Opinions Wanted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fence-property-line-etiquette-legal-opinions-wanted/794620)
**Author:** [@Cripsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cripsy)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fence-property-line-etiquette-legal-opinions-wanted/794620 "2017-08-28T02:23:07Z")
State: Tennessee You can just skip to the actual issue part if you want, but I provided an accurate backstory for anyone that may think it plays a factor. Brief Message: I have been looking at a lot of threads on SD … --- ## [Just want to apologize](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-want-to-apologize/794821)
**Author:** [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-want-to-apologize/794821 "2017-08-28T00:03:32Z")
I’ve been in a really bitchy mood tonight, and I apologize. I found out my mother’s been diagnosed with liver cancer and am not taking it too well. So yeah. Sorry I’ve been in such a foul mood this evening, and thought a… --- ## [Help with paid databases](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-paid-databases/794828)
**Author:** [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-paid-databases/794828 "2017-08-27T19:14:24Z")
Hi Dopers. I need to do some donor research for a nonprofit. Google is helping but is laborious. I’m hoping for recommendations for paid databases, the kind skip tracers and other folks like that use, to streamline the p… --- ## [U.S. casualties in Iraq.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-casualties-in-iraq/794611)
**Author:** [@11luke1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11luke1)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-casualties-in-iraq/794611 "2017-08-27T16:13:04Z")
I’ve long assumed that casualties we suffered in Iraq was around 4000 personnel. Yet lately I’ve been reading on the internet that the counting or the way they count casualties has been purposely smudged to lower the cou… --- ## [Recommend online language courses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-online-language-courses/794745 "2017-08-27T14:44:59Z")
A friend is looking for an online French course. Anybody know a good one? --- ## [Introducing a new cats into a multicat home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-a-new-cats-into-a-multicat-home/792979)
**Author:** [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2017, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-a-new-cats-into-a-multicat-home/792979 "2017-08-27T07:26:32Z")
I have 3 cats, 2 fixed males aged 19 (Sam & Styx) and one fixed female aged 7 (Chan). Mina, a 5-year-old unfixed female cat may be joining them because her mother in her current home is aggressive towards her. Mina doesn… --- ## [What to do when receiving scam phone call](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-receiving-scam-phone-call/794418)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2017, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-when-receiving-scam-phone-call/794418 "2017-08-27T05:33:46Z")
Earlier today I received a phone call reminding me that the warranty on my washing machine is about to expire, and offering me the chance to extend it. Since I purchased my washing machine second hand from a private sell… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=577) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=579)