# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=871 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 872 --- ## [I need suggestions for Google search phrases](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-google-search-phrases/726816)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-suggestions-for-google-search-phrases/726816 "2015-08-02T22:50:17Z")
I am looking for a car media player/radio with a particular functionality. I want one that will work with a reasonably large file library. It’s not widely known, but most car media players are limited to playing a few … --- ## [Android users: can I get your opinion on navigation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-users-can-i-get-your-opinion-on-navigation/726772)
**Author:** [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/android-users-can-i-get-your-opinion-on-navigation/726772 "2015-08-02T22:34:40Z")
Do apps with iOS-style buttons along the bottom feel alien to your user experience? After having designed the UI for an iOS version of an app, I am in the process of designing one for the Android version. I am relativel… --- ## [Has Sigalert become useless?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-sigalert-become-useless/726817)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-sigalert-become-useless/726817 "2015-08-02T21:07:15Z")
I’ve used Sigalert to keep track of highway traffic for years - glance at it when I leave my desk to go run errands, call it up frequently on my phone to choose best routes home, etc. It’s always seemed pretty timely and… --- ## [Is this common TV trope actually a thing? (The doctor's office)\_](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-common-tv-trope-actually-a-thing-the-doctors-office-_/726519)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-common-tv-trope-actually-a-thing-the-doctors-office-_/726519 "2015-08-02T14:18:50Z")
It’s a common TV trope: In the first scene, doctor and patient are in the examining room. Then cut to the next scene, doctor and patient are in the doctor’s office (Complete with fancy red oak wood desk etc…). This is th… --- ## [Would the economy run better if laws forced companies to pay invoices more promptly?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-economy-run-better-if-laws-forced-companies-to-pay-invoices-more-promptly/726744)
**Author:** [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2015, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-the-economy-run-better-if-laws-forced-companies-to-pay-invoices-more-promptly/726744 "2015-08-02T05:44:12Z")
So, I’ve got a small consulting business. I’ll offer to do some work. I’ll do the work. I’ll send the customer the product. Customer is happy. I’ll submit an invoice for the work. Customer…pays whenever they feel l… --- ## [How interesting are millipedes as "pets"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-interesting-are-millipedes-as-pets/726624)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-interesting-are-millipedes-as-pets/726624 "2015-08-02T01:47:56Z")
My son is fascinated by watching the wild millipedes that are plentiful outside, these guys here: I want to set up a little tank or something so he can watch them inside, how interes… --- ## [Is the natural end of human evolution that we will become super intelligent, immortal beings ie Gods](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-natural-end-of-human-evolution-that-we-will-become-super-intelligent-immortal-beings-ie-gods/726589)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-natural-end-of-human-evolution-that-we-will-become-super-intelligent-immortal-beings-ie-gods/726589 "2015-08-02T00:14:33Z")
Humanity via science and tool using over the past few millennia has seen vast increases in man’s capabilities and we’ve only been doing real science for a few hundred years. It is reasonable to expect that if we continue… --- ## [Caitlyn Jenner notwithstanding](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caitlyn-jenner-notwithstanding/726650)
**Author:** [@keno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keno)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caitlyn-jenner-notwithstanding/726650 "2015-08-02T00:13:58Z")
According to Cecil’s latest column “…the estimated rate of transgender people in the population is the same as in most other countries, roughly 0.3 percent.” Why does a condition affecting such a very small percentage o… --- ## [How do i stop my house from flooding? Could this work in theory?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-stop-my-house-from-flooding-could-this-work-in-theory/726754)
**Author:** [@justjake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justjake)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-stop-my-house-from-flooding-could-this-work-in-theory/726754 "2015-08-01T23:14:36Z")
Long story short i live in florida by a river and at this moment my house is starting to be surrounded by water. Our house is a one story pretty close to the ground and yeah, it’s starting to get bad. If it rains for ano… --- ## [What happens if average earners cannot afford to live in a city?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-average-earners-cannot-afford-to-live-in-a-city/726344)
**Author:** [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-average-earners-cannot-afford-to-live-in-a-city/726344 "2015-08-01T20:44:28Z")
This has been rolling around in my head for a while, but here it goes, There’s been alot of discussion recently about how various cities such as NYC or London are becoming prohibitively expensive for average earners to … --- ## [Fellow scientists: Tell me if I'm nuts about this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-scientists-tell-me-if-im-nuts-about-this/723823)
**Author:** [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fellow-scientists-tell-me-if-im-nuts-about-this/723823 "2015-08-01T18:51:46Z")
My agency has contracted with an independent researcher. We’ve given him a lot of money to synthesize different datasets and provide some recommendations based on the findings. This study has a high visibility (as far … --- ## [Caffeine withdraw headaches...what can I do](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-withdraw-headaches-what-can-i-do/726619)
**Author:** [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-withdraw-headaches-what-can-i-do/726619 "2015-08-01T12:55:05Z")
So, ok, I kind of got into a trap where I was having to work long hours on short notice. So I started chugging energy drinks - Monster, NOS, Rockstar, etc. I’ve gotten up to about 2 a day, 220 mg of caffeine each one. … --- ## [Would you expose this grieving televangelist's hypocrisy? (If hypocrisy it is.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-expose-this-grieving-televangelists-hypocrisy-if-hypocrisy-it-is/726347 "2015-08-01T12:11:09Z")
Skaldthetical, longish storytelling OP, probably not a poll today as I’ve got a meeting coming up, blah blah blah. For purposes of today’s story, it is 1998, you are the managing editor of a syndicated TV news magazine. … --- ## [Why do airline/travel websites still not offer these obvious features?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-airline-travel-websites-still-not-offer-these-obvious-features/726683)
**Author:** [@Yarster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yarster)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-airline-travel-websites-still-not-offer-these-obvious-features/726683 "2015-08-01T12:02:12Z")
Let me start by saying that I don’t want this to devolve into a Pit Thread, but I do find these missing features wildly annoying. Reading another post about the airlines and their very low profitability, someone mentione… --- ## [Why do men wear suits?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-men-wear-suits/725934)
**Author:** [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/race_to_the_bottom)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-men-wear-suits/725934 "2015-08-01T11:04:45Z")
There are few things I find more unpleasant than wearing a suit; maybe a jab in the eye with a sharp stick. Shirt tightly cinched up around the neck secured with a tie, a completely useless accoutrement. A wool jacket wh… --- ## [Would you give a relationship a chance under these circumstances?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-a-relationship-a-chance-under-these-circumstances/713631)
**Author:** [@A.James](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.James)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-give-a-relationship-a-chance-under-these-circumstances/713631 "2015-08-01T10:05:08Z")
Met on Tinder 5th date she gave it up Got to talking, she got out of a 3 year relationship a year ago due to her exes pot use I am not too far removed from an 8 year relationship Said she went down a “slut spiral” (actu… --- ## [Book club experiences IRL](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-club-experiences-irl/726612)
**Author:** [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-club-experiences-irl/726612 "2015-08-01T06:51:31Z")
For last 25 years of my life, starting in high school, I have been a pretty heavy reader of literature. Over the years, I have been to many a book club. Most of them are exceedingly dull. I am not sure why - it’s as i… --- ## [Hey so I've got crazy crooked teeth. Should I smile bigger?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-so-ive-got-crazy-crooked-teeth-should-i-smile-bigger/726525)
**Author:** [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-so-ive-got-crazy-crooked-teeth-should-i-smile-bigger/726525 "2015-08-01T02:22:31Z")
I’m 37 years old so who even knows if something like this can really be changed at this point. But anyway, what do you think concerning the question of whether it should be changed? Due to having crazy crooked teeth, I … --- ## [Telephony Internety questions...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telephony-internety-questions/726209)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telephony-internety-questions/726209 "2015-08-01T00:50:07Z")
So I’ve got Comcast - all three services, in fact. Currently I rent the modem, but found out I can get it on Amazon for about $130. I’m likely to stay with Comcast for my ISP for the foreseeable future, but I’m not 100% … --- ## [Menstruation related fatigue - your remedies?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/menstruation-related-fatigue-your-remedies/726596)
**Author:** [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/menstruation-related-fatigue-your-remedies/726596 "2015-08-01T00:47:08Z")
I’m actually very fortunate in that my period is very light, with very few cramps or other aches, so I do count myself lucky. However, in the week or so running up to it I’m just so tremendously tired. I just want to cl… --- ## [Can Anyone Help My Apple and Peach Trees?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-my-apple-and-peach-trees/726522)
**Author:** [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-help-my-apple-and-peach-trees/726522 "2015-08-01T00:08:33Z")
Can anyone help me confirm that the diseases of my fruit trees are what I think they are? I have two young (planted 4 years ago) apple trees - one HoneyCrisp and the other is Fuji - that see to be suffering from Fire Bl… --- ## [Why do I keep getting condensation in my wrist watch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-keep-getting-condensation-in-my-wrist-watch/726658)
**Author:** [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-keep-getting-condensation-in-my-wrist-watch/726658 "2015-07-31T22:30:10Z")
Battery replaced recently, then the little rubber band looking seal thing broke (looked like a thick black hair hanging from the back), but I keep getting some kind of condensation inside the glass. I have baked it in a… --- ## [Question on auto contract (legal question)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-auto-contract-legal-question/726545)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-auto-contract-legal-question/726545 "2015-07-31T20:55:48Z")
Colorado if it makes a difference but I figure there are general legal rules for how contracts work. My stepson and I bought cars from the same used car lot. I owe about $700 on it and he paid his off. First indicator… --- ## [Things other people consider "disposable" that you don't](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-consider-disposable-that-you-dont/726568)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-consider-disposable-that-you-dont/726568 "2015-07-31T18:56:51Z")
My wife asked me if I had a thumb drive to transfer some work files. I took the one off my keys and handed it to her. She took it to the job she’s quitting, handed it to her supervisor, and left it. I once left a thum… --- ## [Boss denies vacation request](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-denies-vacation-request/726406)
**Author:** [@redheadedstepchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redheadedstepchild)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-denies-vacation-request/726406 "2015-07-31T18:54:55Z")
After one plus year of working for my current supervisor I submitted a one day PLT (Personal Leave Time) request and it was denied. Reason: she thought the person that backs me up might request the same day and that pe… --- ## [Can you help me get Cortana working in Windows 10?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-get-cortana-working-in-windows-10/726517)
**Author:** [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-get-cortana-working-in-windows-10/726517 "2015-07-31T18:53:42Z")
I did the Windows 10 update today\* and tried to use Cortana but the program doesn’t seem to be working correctly. The program recognizes every word I say accurately, but always returns “something went wrong” in reply. Y… --- ## [Missing Malaysian Plane](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-malaysian-plane/685152)
**Author:** [@Reza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reza)\ **Replies:** 137\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-malaysian-plane/685152 "2015-07-31T18:23:45Z")
Why do you think they don’t’ use clairvoyants / psychics to find out what has become of the missing Malaysian plane? They have proved through the history and real experience that they could tell some intriguing if not s… --- ## [Small server replacement ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-server-replacement-ideas/726654)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-server-replacement-ideas/726654 "2015-07-31T17:01:24Z")
I need a new server for the house, and none of the plain vanilla options seems quite right. Some input and opinionizing appreciated. What I have is a very beefy server chassis with a Xeon processor, 4GB RAM, a mobo RAID… --- ## [Is this attitude towards work unusual?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-attitude-towards-work-unusual/726192)
**Author:** [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-attitude-towards-work-unusual/726192 "2015-07-31T16:15:43Z")
Another thread got me wondering this. I go to work, do my job, avoid drama go home, do the same thing the next day day and get paid every two weeks. I make enough to be comfortable and I have decent benefits. Simple,… --- ## [Landlord has new tenant moving in while apartment still under lease to me. Double dipping?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landlord-has-new-tenant-moving-in-while-apartment-still-under-lease-to-me-double-dipping/726288)
**Author:** [@jmb819](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmb819)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landlord-has-new-tenant-moving-in-while-apartment-still-under-lease-to-me-double-dipping/726288 "2015-07-31T15:10:27Z")
The landlord to the apartment I had moved out of last week has a tenant that is moving in today. The apartment is under lease and paid for to me until the end of the month, July 31 (today is July 26). I had yet to return… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=870) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=872)