# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1020 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1021 --- ## [Pentagon lifts ban on women in combat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-lifts-ban-on-women-in-combat/648156)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 126\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2013, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-lifts-ban-on-women-in-combat/648156 "2013-02-01T08:51:33Z")
Story here. So, ladies, who’s gonna run join up?! :slight\_smile: --- ## [Dystopian Futures Ahead?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-futures-ahead/648928)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2013, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-futures-ahead/648928 "2013-02-01T07:41:06Z")
I know, Orwell’s “1984” was the most depressing work describing what the future would be like. But what about a future where the economy stays in a perpetual depression sort of like the 1930’s-but stretching on for deca… --- ## [Allow me to introduce myself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-introduce-myself/648865)
**Author:** [@Butcher\_Cook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butcher_Cook)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allow-me-to-introduce-myself/648865 "2013-02-01T07:20:50Z")
I am Butcher Cook. I am excited to belong to this internet community. --- ## [Colour photos of early 20th century Paris](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-photos-of-early-20th-century-paris/648961)
**Author:** [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-photos-of-early-20th-century-paris/648961 "2013-02-01T01:58:08Z")
Here’s a link toa collection of photos of Paris taken around 1910 or thereabouts. They’re absolutely stunning. --- ## [Posting from a dungeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-from-a-dungeon/648637)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-from-a-dungeon/648637 "2013-01-31T22:53:02Z")
This totally sucks. Went to bed last night just as cozy as you please and then woke up here in this nasty, grimy bricked up hole. I’m cold. And I’m pretty sure I’m late for work. --- ## [Florida DMV - woman changes name on marriage, well and good; guy does so - "That's FRAUD!"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-dmv-woman-changes-name-on-marriage-well-and-good-guy-does-so-thats-fraud/648890)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-dmv-woman-changes-name-on-marriage-well-and-good-guy-does-so-thats-fraud/648890 "2013-01-31T21:48:21Z")
News report: in Florida, a guy changed his name to his wife’s name when they got married. Filed exactly the same paperwork with the Florida DMV to get a new licence as a woman does on marriage who takes her husband’s n… --- ## [Tim Hortons stolen cash recovered, doughnuts still missing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-stolen-cash-recovered-doughnuts-still-missing/648886)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-stolen-cash-recovered-doughnuts-still-missing/648886 "2013-01-31T20:32:30Z")
Story here: Tim Hortons stolen cash recovered, doughnuts still missing Will no-one think of the doughnuts?!? --- ## [And you think we have" interesting visitors"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-think-we-have-interesting-visitors/648921)
**Author:** [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-think-we-have-interesting-visitors/648921 "2013-01-31T20:08:40Z")
I know some people here are also active on GoodReads, but I just recently re-activated my long neglected membership. And I started reading the forums. Or a few threads on a few books I have read. Until I saw this thre… --- ## [I have a theory on insults.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-theory-on-insults/648833)
**Author:** [@blueslipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blueslipper)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-theory-on-insults/648833 "2013-01-31T19:08:22Z")
I have a theory on insults. If you truly accept all your attributes, and someone tries to insult you, then you cannot be insulted. Because either people are saying something true about you that you have accepted. Or they… --- ## [Canada's Minister of Finance has a rare skin disorder: 7 cases per million](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadas-minister-of-finance-has-a-rare-skin-disorder-7-cases-per-million/648908)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadas-minister-of-finance-has-a-rare-skin-disorder-7-cases-per-million/648908 "2013-01-31T18:54:48Z")
Canada’s Minister of Finance has announced he has a rare skin disorder, bullous pemphigoid, and is on steroids, responding to rumours that he has cancer, has a drinking problem, etc: Flaherty reveals battle with skin di… --- ## [Nephew/godson getting married](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nephew-godson-getting-married/647620)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nephew-godson-getting-married/647620 "2013-01-31T17:34:45Z")
He is marrying in northern Michigan …in March. It’s his first marriage her second. She has two kids. We have been invited, I told him I might come, due to my husband in between job status, the money isn’t flowing in … --- ## [The Victorians were just dying to get their picture taken.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-victorians-were-just-dying-to-get-their-picture-taken/648759)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-victorians-were-just-dying-to-get-their-picture-taken/648759 "2013-01-31T17:00:38Z")
The teen girl in the last photo looks so beautiful. Childhood mortality was so high back then. I guess these photos gave the families some closure. If you find the original Reddit link, then please post it. --- ## [Peculiar bumper sticker: "Guns Don't Kill..."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-bumper-sticker-guns-dont-kill/638889)
**Author:** [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-bumper-sticker-guns-dont-kill/638889 "2013-01-31T15:04:37Z")
“…Taxes Do” I suspect the driver needs a bigger and better gun, as the firearms I’m most familiar with do kill, and do so rather well. And the driver probably should stop mailing letter bombs with his IRS payments… --- ## [So I'm probably going to freeze to death.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705)
**Author:** [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705 "2013-01-31T13:48:08Z")
Right now it’s -28 and with the wind chill it’s -43!!! Apparently exposed skin will freeze in 10 minutes and I have to walk to and wait at the bus stop. I may have to change my name to FreezyGimpy. I’m gonna die. --- ## [The Spot That Won't Go Away...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spot-that-wont-go-away/648866)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-spot-that-wont-go-away/648866 "2013-01-31T13:40:39Z")
I have to emphasize first and foremost as I write this OP that I am under a doctor’s care for what I am about to describe. I would not post this if I wasn’t. That having been said, I have a spot in my vision that won’t … --- ## [Bizarre set of car stickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-set-of-car-stickers/643191)
**Author:** [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-set-of-car-stickers/643191 "2013-01-31T09:43:07Z")
Just driven back from a trip to the cash machine. At the lights I was behind a Fiat Punto with the following set of car stickers: Silhouette of a moose Profile of Darth Vader’s head Che Guevara’s face with the captio… --- ## [Amazing tale of a family outside society](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-tale-of-a-family-outside-society/648761)
**Author:** [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-tale-of-a-family-outside-society/648761 "2013-01-31T04:59:44Z")
For over 40 years, this Russian family lived in a remote area of Siberia with no contact with the outside world. --- ## [The strangest medical conditions.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-medical-conditions/648495)
**Author:** [@The\_Bith\_Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bith_Shuffle)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strangest-medical-conditions/648495 "2013-01-31T04:49:29Z")
I recently read about Fetus in Fetu, which just struck me as sooo weird. What are some of the weirdest medical conditions of any sort? --- ## [Stupid Arguments you've witnessed (or been part of)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-arguments-youve-witnessed-or-been-part-of/647629)
**Author:** [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-arguments-youve-witnessed-or-been-part-of/647629 "2013-01-31T04:11:52Z")
I thought this might be a fun thread (or might die a quick death). This morning at 1:45 AM I receive a text message from my son that said: “Do you think I could beat Serena Williams in a fight?” :confused: :smiley: I … --- ## [My cat Tobermory is not well](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-tobermory-is-not-well/648265)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-tobermory-is-not-well/648265 "2013-01-31T03:05:07Z")
I noticed Tobermory has been losing weight. He’s also been throwing up more. So I called the vet to make an appointment and was able to get him in already today. From 13.2 pounds a year ago he’s now 9.8. The vet says… --- ## [Giant squid on video!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-squid-on-video/648656)
**Author:** [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-squid-on-video/648656 "2013-01-31T03:03:48Z")
What, no one else is enthusing over the first-ever live footage of the giant squidshown on the discovery Channel last night? --- ## [SDMB Christmas Exchange 2012](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-christmas-exchange-2012/640984)
**Author:** [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Replies:** 340\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-christmas-exchange-2012/640984 "2013-01-31T01:07:15Z")
Is anyone planning on doing this? Otherwise I’ll take on the responsibility! Everybody buys one present and mails it to their Secret Santa. Let’s get some rules down: Traditional price limit is $10 excluding postage. If… --- ## [Why no "good knives" in the dishwasher?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-good-knives-in-the-dishwasher/648231)
**Author:** [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-good-knives-in-the-dishwasher/648231 "2013-01-30T22:45:49Z")
We got a set of very nice knives as a wedding present and the instructions specifically say not to put them in the dishwasher. Why? What goes on inside the dishwasher that could ruin a knife? It’s just hot water and dete… --- ## [We Have The LAST TV Antenna In The Neighborhood!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-the-last-tv-antenna-in-the-neighborhood/643225)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-the-last-tv-antenna-in-the-neighborhood/643225 "2013-01-30T22:44:27Z")
I was up on the roof, and noticed that none of the houses have an antenna-except us! WE held off from cable for the longest time-we were OK with getting local TV channels. I decided to leave the antenna up because: -… --- ## [Duct tape](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duct-tape/648638)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duct-tape/648638 "2013-01-30T21:14:28Z")
Call it ‘duct tape’, or call it ‘duck tape’ – but don’t call it ‘gaffer’s tape’ – it has all kinds of uses. I’m sure we all remember the bush pilot who repaired his plane with duct tape after a bear destroyed it. And d… --- ## [They wanna take away my gums!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wanna-take-away-my-gums/648256)
**Author:** [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-wanna-take-away-my-gums/648256 "2013-01-30T20:11:10Z")
I just heard this on the TV set, that Obama’s leftwig administeration plans to take away my gums, and I won’t stand for it. Where would I put my teeth if this dasterdly socialist plan goes through? I’m supposed to eat wh… --- ## [Airbags in laps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airbags-in-laps/648569)
**Author:** [@tabrisangel19](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tabrisangel19)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airbags-in-laps/648569 "2013-01-30T19:43:29Z")
This is a potentially salacious question, but can the bottom of an automotive safety airbag (in the course of a normal deployment) hit a person in the erm, private area Has it happened to you? Feel free to share any expe… --- ## [The Penny Floor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-penny-floor/648795)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-penny-floor/648795 "2013-01-30T16:51:40Z")
I thought this was cool as hell. \[ \](http://todaynews.today.com/\_news/2013/01/21/16623719-couple-glues-60000-pennies-to-bedroom-floor?lite&lite=obnetwork) I think it looks awesome! --- ## [Apple Heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-heaven/648481)
**Author:** [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apple-heaven/648481 "2013-01-30T12:00:32Z")
I’ve died and gone there. I give you the Cripps Pink, more poetically known as the Pink Lady. Tart, crisp, with just the right amount of sweetness. Hmm. I like my real-life ladies like that also! --- ## [Fox News fires Sarah Palin, hires Dennis Kucinich](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439 "2013-01-30T11:45:06Z")
Interesting post-election spinoff story. Washington Post story here. I winder what this means long term, but I have no answers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1019) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1021)