# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1017 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1018 --- ## [Fer mented thinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fer-mented-thinking/649663)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fer-mented-thinking/649663 "2013-02-09T04:15:21Z")
So I find myself in an Applebee’s in Tewksbury, Massachusetts for reasons that don’t much bear explaining, and in the waiting area is a mural about wonderful Tewksbury, with a quaint town ID sign prominent in the foregro… --- ## [No Rage-quit, But Goodbye Everyone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-rage-quit-but-goodbye-everyone/649071)
**Author:** [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-rage-quit-but-goodbye-everyone/649071 "2013-02-09T04:10:12Z")
Soon I shall change my password to a random string of characters, and delete the email account it links to, rendering it unrecoverable. The reason for this is simple. When I look at my 3,700-odd posts, I can’t honestly … --- ## [Siri vs. Simlish (the Sims spoken language)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siri-vs-simlish-the-sims-spoken-language/649092)
**Author:** [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siri-vs-simlish-the-sims-spoken-language/649092 "2013-02-09T03:34:22Z")
Since I got a new iPhone 4S, I’ve been playing around with Siri, recently, I started thinking of the best way to stump her… A few minutes ago, I had a brainstorm, I’d have her try to understand the pseudolanguagic chatt… --- ## [I swear I've spent all day composing an email that's all of 5 sentences](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-swear-ive-spent-all-day-composing-an-email-thats-all-of-5-sentences/649072)
**Author:** [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-swear-ive-spent-all-day-composing-an-email-thats-all-of-5-sentences/649072 "2013-02-09T03:22:39Z")
I suppose I could have truncated it even further to “We’re fucked” but then I’d have to provide details anyway. I’m in the US and have colleagues in England, France, and Germany so I have to be careful how I put things … --- ## [iTunes 11 is terrible](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itunes-11-is-terrible/642607)
**Author:** [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/itunes-11-is-terrible/642607 "2013-02-09T00:21:20Z")
First: we’ve all heard your comments about how the problem is using iTunes in the first place, or that the remedy is to uninstall. Yes that may be true, but it gets old. Feel free to vent, though. I still haven’t played… --- ## [Supersonic ping-pong ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supersonic-ping-pong-ball/649558)
**Author:** [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supersonic-ping-pong-ball/649558 "2013-02-08T23:06:10Z")
It turns out not only is this possible, the equipment to make it happen is rather simple. This video explains in detail how it’s done. To see the effect of a supersonic ball contacting a ping-pong paddle, skip to 5:50. … --- ## [WhatsYourPrice.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatsyourprice-com/649668 "2013-02-08T21:45:39Z")
Okay, so I am sitting in the previously mentioned Applebee’s, where the only good thing about the deafening ambience is that you can’t hear any of the TVs. As much as I try to ignore the babbleslabs, one catches my eye w… --- ## [Don't even bother to RSVP 3 hrs prior](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-bother-to-rsvp-3-hrs-prior/649253)
**Author:** [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-even-bother-to-rsvp-3-hrs-prior/649253 "2013-02-08T20:59:05Z")
So we’re throwing our annual SuperBowl party. I sent out the invitations a few weeks ago, with the customary note to RSVP by Friday prior. Since many of our friends have college kids, I also included a note to let me … --- ## [Friends with benefits that have children and live together?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-with-benefits-that-have-children-and-live-together/649653)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friends-with-benefits-that-have-children-and-live-together/649653 "2013-02-08T19:06:53Z")
Seriously? Seriously? Do people not understand the meaning of friends with benefits? :stuck\_out\_tongue: I think at the point you have two kids together and not only live together in the same house but have also moved th… --- ## [Just a little lighthearted venting...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-lighthearted-venting/648789)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-a-little-lighthearted-venting/648789 "2013-02-08T19:05:12Z")
Given the fact that everywhere I go and with everything (really) I do I get people coming right up to me and asking me if I need help, I’ve gotten pretty damned good at being able to identify-beforehand-those people who … --- ## [Martin Van Buren and every parent's homework nightmare](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-van-buren-and-every-parents-homework-nightmare/649541)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martin-van-buren-and-every-parents-homework-nightmare/649541 "2013-02-08T17:24:30Z")
Funny ad for Google Search: - YouTube I have to admit, I would not be pleased with any kid of mine who sprang a homework assignment on me like that. --- ## [Budget Truck Rental can....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-truck-rental-can/649677)
**Author:** [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-truck-rental-can/649677 "2013-02-08T15:10:48Z")
Suck my non-existent trouser snake. My poor dad is going through hell right now because of them. My last week my brother got a burr up his butt and decided to move his family from Idaho down here to Oregon. And he decid… --- ## [EveryBlock is gone, will you miss it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyblock-is-gone-will-you-miss-it/649671)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyblock-is-gone-will-you-miss-it/649671 "2013-02-08T10:59:07Z")
I enjoyed EveryBlock Chicago over the past few months. While not all the posts were useful, I did learn a lot about some of the scams and crimes that are in my area as well as some good information about restaurants, bar… --- ## [Programmers: Best bugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-best-bugs/649568)
**Author:** [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/programmers-best-bugs/649568 "2013-02-08T09:04:22Z")
Previous threads: I’m working in Go now, and have been getting into concurrency. I’ve been writing a few slightly complex component based systems – for practicality I decided to make it concurrent in various places. O… --- ## [Goodbye, Saturday delivery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-saturday-delivery/649502)
**Author:** [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-saturday-delivery/649502 "2013-02-08T05:42:52Z")
I heard it on the radio this morning. The Post Office is going to end Saturday delivery of 1st Class mail this summer. They’re supposed to need congressional approval to do this, but apparently they think they’ve foun… --- ## [probably really silly question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-really-silly-question/649652)
**Author:** [@catflea12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catflea12)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-really-silly-question/649652 "2013-02-08T03:55:50Z")
In SSM, are both men called husband? Or both women called wife? --- ## [Mars Curiosity sky crane and the spaceship from Ezekiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mars-curiosity-sky-crane-and-the-spaceship-from-ezekiel/649669)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mars-curiosity-sky-crane-and-the-spaceship-from-ezekiel/649669 "2013-02-08T02:47:24Z")
The Spaceship from the Book of Ezekiel. The Curiosity sky crane. Now. . . if we can just find the probe that the Ezekiel spaceship dropped, we’ll really have an artifact. --- ## [I can understand how a person becomes jaded. Now I just need to avoid it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-understand-how-a-person-becomes-jaded-now-i-just-need-to-avoid-it/649543)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-understand-how-a-person-becomes-jaded-now-i-just-need-to-avoid-it/649543 "2013-02-08T02:35:05Z")
One thing a recent trip to Meijer made me realize is that I have become so programmed to react in a certain way when people come up to me and ask me if I need help (since the overwhelming majority of the time these offer… --- ## [Did your grandparents (parents?) have weird names for things?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-grandparents-parents-have-weird-names-for-things/647948)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 167\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-grandparents-parents-have-weird-names-for-things/647948 "2013-02-08T02:16:39Z")
Any older person will do, of course. Mom used to call the refrigerator the Frigidaire. Grandpa called it the icebox. A poster in another thread referenced that his parents called the television “the set”. Whatta ya go… --- ## [Anyone work for a major bank??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-work-for-a-major-bank/649612)
**Author:** [@Alphaghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphaghost)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-work-for-a-major-bank/649612 "2013-02-08T01:40:42Z")
Hello all I work for a large bank… and I must say… I’m hating it more and more each day! I’m in a sales position, so it involves alot of talking. I have no issue with this cause since its a comission job I get as much … --- ## [New Cat \[picture to come later\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cat-picture-to-come-later/649637)
**Author:** [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cat-picture-to-come-later/649637 "2013-02-08T01:12:32Z")
I haz a new cat - someone dumped one off last month, and it has been caged in the barn pending taming and vet neutering. We thought it was female \[when a handful of teeth and claws is trying to decorate you it can be har… --- ## [Quadratic formula, homes!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quadratic-formula-homes/649624)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quadratic-formula-homes/649624 "2013-02-08T00:51:01Z")
This is graffiti I can accept. It’s spreading… And here. --- ## [Addicted to Geeky T-Shirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963)
**Author:** [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/addicted-to-geeky-t-shirts/648963 "2013-02-07T23:49:45Z")
It’s a sad truth–here I am, in my mid-thirties, and my drawers are overflowing with geeky t-shirts. Just this week, I had a fit and ordered one to show that I am a member in good standing of the Moscow Night Watch, two D… --- ## [Do you have any dangerous knowledge?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dangerous-knowledge/649395)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dangerous-knowledge/649395 "2013-02-07T22:38:39Z")
I mean stuff that might at one point in time, past or present, have gotten you into big trouble. For example, most folks (I’d hope) know that the D-Day invasion was at Normandy on the 6th of June, 1944. Knowing that tid… --- ## [Sharing my diarrhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-diarrhea/649551)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sharing-my-diarrhea/649551 "2013-02-07T21:54:58Z")
I know how you all love to share, so I thought I’d share that I have a mild case of diarrhea tonight. No idea where it came from but I was first feeling it around noon time. I just have to clench the old sphincter a fe… --- ## [Names that gave you the wrong impression, but make sense once you learn their real meaning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-that-gave-you-the-wrong-impression-but-make-sense-once-you-learn-their-real-meaning/649560)
**Author:** [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-that-gave-you-the-wrong-impression-but-make-sense-once-you-learn-their-real-meaning/649560 "2013-02-07T21:44:24Z")
When I first heard about SEO, a.k.a. Search Engine Optimization, I thought it was going to be really cool and interesting. There was even a club at my University. I thought it was going to be all about writing search eng… --- ## [The Mail Lazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mail-lazy/649598)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mail-lazy/649598 "2013-02-07T19:04:34Z")
Mail is delivered to the mailbox next to our driveway. The mail carrier drives up in her mail truck, puts our mail in the box, and drives off. There have been a handful times over the past nine years when a car was par… --- ## [I've gotta stop eating in restaurants!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-gotta-stop-eating-in-restaurants/649440)
**Author:** [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-gotta-stop-eating-in-restaurants/649440 "2013-02-07T15:32:34Z")
Tonight I met with a friend for supper at the Mexican restaurant in town. The place was really hopping and most of the tables and booths were filled. Across the way from us was a booth with a family of four and they were… --- ## [The Most Bizzare Conspiracy Theory Ever (funny)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-conspiracy-theory-ever-funny/649424)
**Author:** [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizzare-conspiracy-theory-ever-funny/649424 "2013-02-07T14:16:06Z")
In my daily review of the kookier political websites, I came across this truly amazing conspiracy theory linking the government’s recently-asserted right to drone strikes on US citizens, Obama’s push for gun control, and… --- ## [People only want to talk about sports and politics!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-only-want-to-talk-about-sports-and-politics/649431)
**Author:** [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-only-want-to-talk-about-sports-and-politics/649431 "2013-02-07T13:48:53Z")
I have yet to hear an adult in Texas speak casually about anything else. It’s an improvement over Oklahoma, where religion and rude personal questions are in the mix, but that’s faint praise. With the exception of goof… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1016) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1018)