# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1087 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1088 --- ## [Commercial paper shredding: Be careful](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-paper-shredding-be-careful/631192)
**Author:** [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercial-paper-shredding-be-careful/631192 "2012-08-24T16:13:37Z")
If you take old documents to an outfit such as shred-it.com, note how they calculate their charges. Shred-it charges $10 per “box.” A “box” is whatever unit of packaging you bring. Laundry basket? Ten bucks. Banker’s fi… --- ## [Nessie finally caught on camera?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409)
**Author:** [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nessie-finally-caught-on-camera/630409 "2012-08-24T14:08:38Z")
Article from telegraph with photos. A monster hunter who has spent 26 years searching for the Loch Ness Monster claims to have taken the “best picture ever” of the beast, after dedicating 60 hours a week to his quest. I… --- ## [How old I was when I started work.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-i-was-when-i-started-work/632045)
**Author:** [@Dickie.and.his.cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dickie.and.his.cat)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-i-was-when-i-started-work/632045 "2012-08-24T13:30:35Z")
I should really say the age when I started full time employment (40hrs/week plus two evenings/week at night school). I was 17 years and 1mth at the time which was actually quite old because my birthday fell early in the … --- ## [LL Cool J beats burglar into ground beef.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ll-cool-j-beats-burglar-into-ground-beef/632425)
**Author:** [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ll-cool-j-beats-burglar-into-ground-beef/632425 "2012-08-24T12:04:37Z")
DAAAMMMMNNNN!! --- ## ["Overheard In The Newsroom"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-in-the-newsroom/632439)
**Author:** [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overheard-in-the-newsroom/632439 "2012-08-24T05:26:56Z")
This has nothing to do with the Aaron Sorkin show, but I ran across this site BECAUSE of the show, and am enjoying the hell out of it. It’s literally just what it sounds like: things overheard in a newsroom. And it’s ke… --- ## [Got a virus lurking in registry. Wanna help?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-virus-lurking-in-registry-wanna-help/632434)
**Author:** [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-virus-lurking-in-registry-wanna-help/632434 "2012-08-24T04:31:29Z")
Hi all. Apparently got a virus lurking in my computer registry. Its a virus/trojan/whatever that fakes being an antivirus program (that asks for your credit card number to “buy” the program to fix the “problem” of cours… --- ## ["Spankin the monkey" on a whole new level.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spankin-the-monkey-on-a-whole-new-level/632369)
**Author:** [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spankin-the-monkey-on-a-whole-new-level/632369 "2012-08-24T00:34:42Z")
Linky. Discuss and disparage. --- ## [The passing away of Walloon, longtime valuable poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passing-away-of-walloon-longtime-valuable-poster/631729)
**Author:** [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-passing-away-of-walloon-longtime-valuable-poster/631729 "2012-08-23T23:30:04Z")
Since I inhabit General Questions mostly, I was rereading an old thread about Who is Bow-Tie Man, which was almost certainly solved by \*\* Walloon\*\*. Realizing that I hadn’t talked to him in a while, I looked at his prof… --- ## [ALERT!! The Earth is Slowing Down, Scientists Find](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alert-the-earth-is-slowing-down-scientists-find/632277)
**Author:** [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alert-the-earth-is-slowing-down-scientists-find/632277 "2012-08-23T22:17:05Z")
I found this on another site! But since the world is ending in 2012, we won’t have to worry about this. --- ## [Gov/ job??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gov-job/632344)
**Author:** [@MyMack\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyMack_1)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gov-job/632344 "2012-08-23T21:34:45Z")
Fellow dopers can you help me out? Who has a government job? What kind and how did you get into it? Thanks folks :smiley: --- ## ["Donations Pour In For Family Of Drowning Victims"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661)
**Author:** [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donations-pour-in-for-family-of-drowning-victims/618661 "2012-08-23T21:16:29Z")
Well that’s some quality headline writing right there. “PayPal ablaze with donations for orphanage lost in fire” “Donations shoot up for family of teen lost to heroin overdose” More, please. --- ## [Two weeks in, and I'm already tired of grieving. When does it end?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-weeks-in-and-im-already-tired-of-grieving-when-does-it-end/632299)
**Author:** [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-weeks-in-and-im-already-tired-of-grieving-when-does-it-end/632299 "2012-08-23T18:11:08Z")
Gods, I’m just so damn TIRED of being sad. :mad: Two weeks today since I went in for a 9-week ultrasound and found out my twins had died at 7 weeks. A week and a half since I went in for the D&C. And I’m still crying… --- ## [Reddit or Metafilter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-or-metafilter/632318)
**Author:** [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-or-metafilter/632318 "2012-08-23T15:52:18Z")
I’m looking for a second home. Sometimes there’s too much noise above me here. :wink: I don’t have enough time to join both. I think I would fit in better at Reddit, but I think posting on metafilter could be potentially… --- ## [Best part of surgery=Vicodin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-of-surgery-vicodin/631722)
**Author:** [@newsbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newsbunny)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-part-of-surgery-vicodin/631722 "2012-08-23T15:20:40Z")
I had knee surgery yesterday, to repair a torn meniscus from the Great Bike Crack Up of 2010. Vicodin is awesome. It is delicious. I have sat here for eight hours now enjoying a Star Trek: The Next Generation marath… --- ## [Lightning, Thunder And Rain - In Las Vegas Now!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-thunder-and-rain-in-las-vegas-now/632282)
**Author:** [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightning-thunder-and-rain-in-las-vegas-now/632282 "2012-08-23T15:13:31Z")
Boy, is this rare! Lightning and thunder and a nice little downpour! Of course, if it keeps up, we are in for trouble (flooding a major issue here with any real measurable amounts of rain.) Still, this happens so rare… --- ## [Has Djarum changed the ingredients for cloves?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-djarum-changed-the-ingredients-for-cloves/632383)
**Author:** [@Banquo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-djarum-changed-the-ingredients-for-cloves/632383 "2012-08-23T15:01:03Z")
I’m not talking about the ban on clove cigarettes in the US resulting in a change to clove cigars. That’s old news, but lately I’ve been getting these Djarum Black cloves with paper that is not flat black. It’s a lighter… --- ## [Quebec's charter of secularism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quebecs-charter-of-secularism/631669)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quebecs-charter-of-secularism/631669 "2012-08-23T14:53:04Z")
One of the candidates (the one who will probably, alas, win) in Quebec’s Sept. 5th election has announced that she will have passed a charter of secularism. Under it all public employees will be banned from wearing any … --- ## [My mom keeps giving me ridiculous "assignments" and gets dejected when I decline](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-keeps-giving-me-ridiculous-assignments-and-gets-dejected-when-i-decline/632154)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mom-keeps-giving-me-ridiculous-assignments-and-gets-dejected-when-i-decline/632154 "2012-08-23T14:45:46Z")
It has gone to the point I sometimes dread talking to her on the phone, she will have some problem or issue or question in her life that is in truth so totally pointless she herself doesn’t want to waste time on it, so s… --- ## [Are half the drivers on the road blind or something?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-half-the-drivers-on-the-road-blind-or-something/632263)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-half-the-drivers-on-the-road-blind-or-something/632263 "2012-08-23T12:48:09Z")
I dunno what the deal is but it can be broad daylight out and a driver will be stopped like in a parking lot and their head seems to be moving back and forth in a forward direction so you assume they see you and you star… --- ## [Very cool Scottish bicycle stunts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-scottish-bicycle-stunts/632052)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/very-cool-scottish-bicycle-stunts/632052 "2012-08-23T10:52:14Z")
Pretty amazing. I suppose the outtakes would show multiple contusions and/or compound fractures: --- ## [Spacewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacewalk/632063)
**Author:** [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spacewalk/632063 "2012-08-23T08:27:02Z")
I was just listening into the communication between a cosmonaut who is performing a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) and mission control: The cosmonaut said: “There should be an adapter down somew… --- ## [Mundane + pointless + 38yrs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-38yrs/632073)
**Author:** [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mundane-pointless-38yrs/632073 "2012-08-23T04:56:41Z")
I have a story to share along the ‘what a weird day’ line. Truth is I gotta tell someone! Friday I get a call from a guy I haven’t heard from in 38yrs, not since I left high school. He was part of a small group of 6 or… --- ## [China Tightens Tourist Visa Requirements](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-tightens-tourist-visa-requirements/632279)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-tightens-tourist-visa-requirements/632279 "2012-08-23T03:44:41Z")
I’ve heard that foreigners have fallen under increased scrutiny in China lately, not least because of some YouTube videos showing drunken Western louts harassing Chinese ladies in subways and on the street. So now the co… --- ## [What MicroSD card has the fastest transfer rate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-microsd-card-has-the-fastest-transfer-rate/632335)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-microsd-card-has-the-fastest-transfer-rate/632335 "2012-08-23T03:42:41Z")
If I want a MicroSD card (that I will use with an adapter as both an SD card and a miniSD card), what ones have the fastest transfer rates? I am topping out at 5MBps with mine. --- ## [Hahahahaha! Hungarian anti-Semite politician surprised to learn he's Jewish!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-hungarian-anti-semite-politician-surprised-to-learn-hes-jewish/631579)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hahahahaha-hungarian-anti-semite-politician-surprised-to-learn-hes-jewish/631579 "2012-08-23T02:43:07Z")
Here’s the story I noticed among the headlines. This clown is actually a member of the EU parliament, and it seems clear intelligence is no more a prerequisite for that job than one on Congress here. How this revelati… --- ## [Steve Jobs Reincarnated as an Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-reincarnated-as-an-angel/632126)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-reincarnated-as-an-angel/632126 "2012-08-22T22:35:52Z")
Story here. An almost Jim Jones-like offshoot Buddhist cult here in Thailand claims that Steve Jobs “has been reincarnated as a mid-level angel dwelling not far from his Apple office in a parallel world … Jobs is living … --- ## [Ask the...."LEGAL" medical marijuana user!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-legal-medical-marijuana-user/632293)
**Author:** [@JFLuvly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFLuvly)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-legal-medical-marijuana-user/632293 "2012-08-22T20:55:26Z")
So my Doctor filled out the required forms and I got my Medical Marijuana license papers from Health Canada in the mail last Friday. I know a lot of Dopers think it’s woo medicine and hopefully I can clear up some of the… --- ## [Smartphone "Truthiness" app--now with kudos to CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smartphone-truthiness-app-now-with-kudos-to-candidgamera/632305)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smartphone-truthiness-app-now-with-kudos-to-candidgamera/632305 "2012-08-22T20:28:33Z")
So much awesome! So, I whined in The Pit about liars a few weeks ago–not just truth-twisting or ignorance, outright lying. Within a few posts, CandidGamera waxed visionary with: And viola! The future is born! Well, … --- ## [WTF? Neighbor has a skeleton hanging from a tree? In August?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-neighbor-has-a-skeleton-hanging-from-a-tree-in-august/632239)
**Author:** [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-neighbor-has-a-skeleton-hanging-from-a-tree-in-august/632239 "2012-08-22T20:13:17Z")
Really bizarre, last weekend a “decoration” appeared in our condo development. One of our neighbors (whom I don’t know), hung a skeleton from a tree in their front yard. To be fair, I don’t even know that that particu… --- ## [I'm tired of being asked for money](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-asked-for-money/632200)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-tired-of-being-asked-for-money/632200 "2012-08-22T18:43:10Z")
The day’s nowhere near over, and I’ve already been asked for donations/charity 13 times: I stopped at the grocery store this morning: someone collecting for some anti-drug program at the doorway. At work there were two… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1086) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1088)