# In My Humble Opinion **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=941 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 942 --- ## [Are Canada Goose Coats Worth It?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-canada-goose-coats-worth-it/714505)
**Author:** [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-canada-goose-coats-worth-it/714505 "2015-03-12T14:57:49Z")
There are three things that are worth serious money; a reliable car, decent cell coverage, and a winter coat that will last 10 years and keep me warm in below zero weather. I’m looking the Canada Goose Women’s Snow Mant… --- ## [Tell me about neighborhoods in Madison, Wisconsin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-neighborhoods-in-madison-wisconsin/714568)
**Author:** [@UrbanMum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanMum)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-neighborhoods-in-madison-wisconsin/714568 "2015-03-12T12:42:46Z")
Hello, We are moving from Seattle to Madison in a few months. We need advice on which neighborhoods we should consider living in. Our children are going to Madison Country Day School in Waunakee. My husband is going to … --- ## [How are you doing your taxes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-doing-your-taxes/714491)
**Author:** [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-doing-your-taxes/714491 "2015-03-12T12:03:55Z")
I just tried using Turbo Tax, but they would not let me use their free version because I have some 1099 income. Now I’m looking for something else. --- ## [Replacing central A/C and furnace](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-central-a-c-and-furnace/714799)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2015, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-central-a-c-and-furnace/714799 "2015-03-12T10:51:41Z")
We have to replace the home central A/C. I have never known an HVAC company, upon replacing the A/C, to swear to God that everyone will die in their sleep that very night from carbon monoxide poisoning from the furnace. … --- ## [Do defense attorneys feel remorse about helping guilty defendants get off scot-free?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-defense-attorneys-feel-remorse-about-helping-guilty-defendants-get-off-scot-free/714297)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-defense-attorneys-feel-remorse-about-helping-guilty-defendants-get-off-scot-free/714297 "2015-03-12T06:05:56Z")
This may sound like an inflammatory or rant thread, but it’s not at all, actually. It’s a genuine question, but more suited for IMHO than General Questions. I’m sure there are times when defense attorneys \*know \*that th… --- ## ["It's not racist (or sexist, or homophobic, etc.) if it's true."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-racist-or-sexist-or-homophobic-etc-if-its-true/714625)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-racist-or-sexist-or-homophobic-etc-if-its-true/714625 "2015-03-12T02:40:09Z")
There are two sides to the argument that something “is not racist (or sexist, or homophobic, etc.) if it’s true.” The one side argues that the \*\*truth \*\*of the content is what matters, saying that a statement cannot be … --- ## [Another one for the armchair (and real) lawyers here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-one-for-the-armchair-and-real-lawyers-here/713696)
**Author:** [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-one-for-the-armchair-and-real-lawyers-here/713696 "2015-03-11T21:40:53Z")
Who’s up for a bit more legal advice?! Disclaimer: I know better than to trust you idiots :smiley: and I’m contacting a real lawyer soon. A guy came up to our house today and said that early this morning, he’d driven p… --- ## [Five reasons I think Ron Paul style libertarianism is stupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-reasons-i-think-ron-paul-style-libertarianism-is-stupid/714376)
**Author:** [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-reasons-i-think-ron-paul-style-libertarianism-is-stupid/714376 "2015-03-11T20:21:20Z")
They categorically hate nearly all our elected officials that serve our country, but generally don’t extend any criticism to the military, which is also part of the government. They might as well be consistent and bash … --- ## [Asking all armchair aqualinguists: "Freestyle" vs "front crawl" in your language?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-all-armchair-aqualinguists-freestyle-vs-front-crawl-in-your-language/660364)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asking-all-armchair-aqualinguists-freestyle-vs-front-crawl-in-your-language/660364 "2015-03-11T19:55:49Z")
That swimming style where you make circular motions with your arms and pull back the water, propelling yourself forward somewhat… what do you call it in your language? In the distant past, I lived in Taiwan only ever he… --- ## [Frontier FIOS: question from a new customer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontier-fios-question-from-a-new-customer/714760)
**Author:** [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontier-fios-question-from-a-new-customer/714760 "2015-03-11T19:55:11Z")
My girlfriend and I are moving in a couple of weeks, so we’re taking advantage of this to try to get away from Comcast. Yesterday, I signed up for FIOS through Frontier. Towards the end of the call, when the salesman w… --- ## [Why bother keeping shareholders happy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-bother-keeping-shareholders-happy/714441)
**Author:** [@halman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/halman)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-bother-keeping-shareholders-happy/714441 "2015-03-11T19:12:54Z")
Over and over again, I hear analysts talking about ‘keeping the shareholders happy’ when discussing big corporations. This seems to require paying cash dividends to people who own stock. A major reason for the outsourc… --- ## [Your nose ring looks like a booger!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nose-ring-looks-like-a-booger/714687)
**Author:** [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-nose-ring-looks-like-a-booger/714687 "2015-03-11T18:43:05Z")
It seems one of the latest nose piercings around here (It may have been popular elsewhere much earlier, but Maine is always at least a decade behind the times) is a broken nose ring. That is, it doesn’t form a complete … --- ## [At-home UTI test positive for leukocytes, but negative for nitrates?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-home-uti-test-positive-for-leukocytes-but-negative-for-nitrates/714749)
**Author:** [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-home-uti-test-positive-for-leukocytes-but-negative-for-nitrates/714749 "2015-03-11T16:25:10Z")
Would this indicate no UTI is present? Or are there strains of bacteria that do not convert nitrite into nitrates? --- ## [They Backed into my car and want to settle privately](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-backed-into-my-car-and-want-to-settle-privately/714332)
**Author:** [@andrea\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrea_green)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-backed-into-my-car-and-want-to-settle-privately/714332 "2015-03-11T15:50:15Z")
I was waiting (completely stationary) at a red light when the car in front suddenly backed up a few meters and damaged my bumper and destroyed the headlight washing mechanism. The man who hit me did not want to go throu… --- ## [in snow-weather, and hazardous roads, are you an "essential" employee, required to report to work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-snow-weather-and-hazardous-roads-are-you-an-essential-employee-required-to-report-to-work/714256)
**Author:** [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-snow-weather-and-hazardous-roads-are-you-an-essential-employee-required-to-report-to-work/714256 "2015-03-11T02:40:47Z")
When I think of “ESSENTIAL” employees, I think of police, firefighters, ambulance drivers, doctors, nurses, etc, which I guess it’s just their “call of duty” to report to work under any sort of crazy weather circumstance… --- ## [Any money to be made in buying a horse farm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-money-to-be-made-in-buying-a-horse-farm/714578)
**Author:** [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-money-to-be-made-in-buying-a-horse-farm/714578 "2015-03-11T01:28:03Z")
We want to be out in the country. We know nothing about horses, but I saw a horse farm for sale. We like the area, the property and the house. It looks like they used the place to board horses (up to 10 of them) and they… --- ## [Fitness folk: Exercise recovery after illness.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitness-folk-exercise-recovery-after-illness/714630)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fitness-folk-exercise-recovery-after-illness/714630 "2015-03-11T01:26:30Z")
55 year old male. Recent influenza-like illness - spiking high fevers, chills, drenching sweats, fatigue, muscle aches, the whole megillah. Once fever broke for 24 hours tried to do a little of my normal exercise routine… --- ## [Bird breeders?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-breeders/714734)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bird-breeders/714734 "2015-03-11T00:51:15Z")
So I’m in the market for a couple of very specific birds: A male Shama Thrush (Copsychus malabaricus). A male Spinifex Parrot (Polytelis alexandrae). I have a lot of experience rearing hatchlings, so I hope to find br… --- ## [Parental Health Dilema - Hypothetical Legal Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-health-dilema-hypothetical-legal-question/714447)
**Author:** [@chargerrich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chargerrich)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 11, 2015, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-health-dilema-hypothetical-legal-question/714447 "2015-03-11T00:28:30Z")
Had an interesting discussion with a friend of mine. He is happily married and he and his wife just had a baby. The discussion arose regarding religion and medical care. My friends wife is a Jehovah’s Witness while he is… --- ## [What to do with Mom's house???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-moms-house/714659)
**Author:** [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-moms-house/714659 "2015-03-10T20:51:49Z")
So my mom has a house in a depressed area of the south suburbs of Chicago. Mom is currently in an assisted living place in Socal where I relocated her. Prior to that she lived in her 1950’s house under the care of my bro… --- ## [Tax Experts: Wash Sales](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-experts-wash-sales/714606)
**Author:** [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-experts-wash-sales/714606 "2015-03-10T18:14:02Z")
I understand the general principles of wash sales, as described here. My question is about whether a wash sale in which the investor is going to book a capital gain but for reasons that are advantageous to the investor f… --- ## [What (If Anything) Do Souring Relations Between USA And Russia Mean For Ed Snowden?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-do-souring-relations-between-usa-and-russia-mean-for-ed-snowden/713852)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-do-souring-relations-between-usa-and-russia-mean-for-ed-snowden/713852 "2015-03-10T15:35:34Z")
Ed Snowden is currently living in Moscow, having been granted political asylum there. However, relations between Moscow and the West, particularly the U.S., are quickly souring. Is this likely to have any practical eff… --- ## [Do schools do enough to stop bullying?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-schools-do-enough-to-stop-bullying/713716)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-schools-do-enough-to-stop-bullying/713716 "2015-03-10T12:48:45Z")
Last week at Liberty middle school in Liberty Missouri, and 8th grade bully beat a younger, smaller boy so bad he required 4 days of hospitalization (story). This was of course in a school with the typical “No Bully” si… --- ## [We live in a computer simulation! How would it change your perception?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-live-in-a-computer-simulation-how-would-it-change-your-perception/714462)
**Author:** [@Mrdeals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrdeals)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-live-in-a-computer-simulation-how-would-it-change-your-perception/714462 "2015-03-10T10:44:54Z")
Regarding the theory that we actually live in an advanced computer simulation. What if tomorrow, scientists working on string theory discover that the strings they are looking for actually are made up of a binary code. … --- ## [Ethics when your kid wrecks another person's car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethics-when-your-kid-wrecks-another-persons-car/714560)
**Author:** [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethics-when-your-kid-wrecks-another-persons-car/714560 "2015-03-10T05:19:33Z")
Not my issue, but a friend’s. His son, C, a freshman in college, has been dating a girl, M, for over 2 years. She’s still in high school. Since she’s gotten her driver’s license, she’s racked up no fewer than 5 traffi… --- ## [Anyone particularly care about Hillary's email?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-particularly-care-about-hillarys-email/714666)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-particularly-care-about-hillarys-email/714666 "2015-03-10T03:27:11Z")
The press seems to find this a compelling story. I just don’t see the big deal. Yeah, she broke the rules. So what? I really don’t care. The emails have been turned over. One news example. The press asks like she sho… --- ## [Recreational origies in ancient times. Did women participate consensually in historical orgies?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-origies-in-ancient-times-did-women-participate-consensually-in-historical-orgies/714557)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recreational-origies-in-ancient-times-did-women-participate-consensually-in-historical-orgies/714557 "2015-03-10T03:27:05Z")
In modern group sex men and women are represented to participate as more or less equal volitional partners. In older times across various cultures (Chinese, Japanese Roman etc) where orgies happened did both men and wome… --- ## [If women are choosey and men aren't, why do many women maximize their perceived attractiveness?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-women-are-choosey-and-men-arent-why-do-many-women-maximize-their-perceived-attractiveness/714506)
**Author:** [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-women-are-choosey-and-men-arent-why-do-many-women-maximize-their-perceived-attractiveness/714506 "2015-03-10T03:01:53Z")
One basic hypothesis is that women are choosey. Dring human reproduction, women have to pay the enormous costs of constructing an entire human infant, delivering it (and their bodies are just barely able to fit it throug… --- ## [Distance biking.. fuel? Speed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distance-biking-fuel-speed/714573)
**Author:** [@cmosdes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmosdes)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/distance-biking-fuel-speed/714573 "2015-03-10T02:39:44Z")
I’m signed up for a rather long and difficult 7 day bike tour and I’m a little (a lot) worried about being able to complete it. I have some time to train, but not as much as I might like. Mostly, though, I’m curious abou… --- ## [Fine, so I don't know what color the dress is. But at least I can read this. Can you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fine-so-i-dont-know-what-color-the-dress-is-but-at-least-i-can-read-this-can-you/714499)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fine-so-i-dont-know-what-color-the-dress-is-but-at-least-i-can-read-this-can-you/714499 "2015-03-10T01:10:10Z")
Link This wasn’t even a challenge for me. Can some people really not read this? I’m not trying to snark on those who can’t (Personally, I don’t believe one’s inability to read it has anything to do with one’s intellige… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=940) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/in-my-humble-opinion/14.md?page=942)