# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=111 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 112 --- ## [Members of the SDMB, my latest Darwin Award nominee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/members-of-the-sdmb-my-latest-darwin-award-nominee/1000199)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/members-of-the-sdmb-my-latest-darwin-award-nominee/1000199 "2024-04-18T14:13:36Z")
Is Darwin Awards still a thing? This dead dude qualifies. WTF was he thinking? He didn’t even make it across the highway. Evel Knievel and his son Robbie used math to calculate the ramp lengths and motorcycle speed to … --- ## [Am I really the only person to ever notice that Dan Abrams looks just like Seth Meyers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-really-the-only-person-to-ever-notice-that-dan-abrams-looks-just-like-seth-meyers/1000422)
**Author:** [@TJEckleburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJEckleburg)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-really-the-only-person-to-ever-notice-that-dan-abrams-looks-just-like-seth-meyers/1000422 "2024-04-18T13:33:36Z")
I was watching NewsNation last night, and this was probably the first time I’ve ever seen this guy, Dan Abrams. I was like, “Is Seth Meyers on NewsNation?! What?!” He looks almost exactly like Seth Meyers, which is iron… --- ## [Today I learned: American Express has a "three-digit number on the back of the card"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-learned-american-express-has-a-three-digit-number-on-the-back-of-the-card/1000437)
**Author:** [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-learned-american-express-has-a-three-digit-number-on-the-back-of-the-card/1000437 "2024-04-17T23:43:56Z")
This is as mundane and pointless as things get, but I must share: When you make a phone or online purchase with a credit card, you’re usually asked for “the three-digit number on the back of your card.” For MasterCard a… --- ## [So maybe I'm autistic!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-im-autistic/999901)
**Author:** [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-maybe-im-autistic/999901 "2024-04-17T19:05:19Z")
My daughter is a marriage and family therapist. She’s the one who suggested this idea. I took some online quizzes … girls tend to present very differently, than the far more often identified boys, and “high-functioning”… --- ## [Justice Thomas absent from Court](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-thomas-absent-from-court/1000392)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2024, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-thomas-absent-from-court/1000392 "2024-04-17T12:19:51Z")
Didn’t see this anywhere here: Only a couple of days, but speculation is starting. --- ## [Old and/or abandoned cemeteries](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-and-or-abandoned-cemeteries/1000155)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2024, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-and-or-abandoned-cemeteries/1000155 "2024-04-17T06:17:44Z")
I am interested in my family history but it’s my youngest sister who has done the most work, organizing documents, pictures, and other materials on some of our different family lines. This past weekend, when she and my … --- ## [The old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen is burning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-old-stock-exchange-in-copenhagen-is-burning/1000362)
**Author:** [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-old-stock-exchange-in-copenhagen-is-burning/1000362 "2024-04-17T03:19:57Z")
As the title says. The old Stock Exchange (Børsen) in Copenhagen has been burning since this morning, local time. The building is 400 years old and beautiful. I always enjoy it when I pass it. There is no doubt it will … --- ## [Bad, bad, bad... ba ba ba Becky and Pets!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ba-ba-ba-becky-and-pets/1000328)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ba-ba-ba-becky-and-pets/1000328 "2024-04-16T22:19:48Z")
Pet news: Bayliss the benighted, beautiful and best boy ever on his buttons. He never ceases to astound me with the combo of words he uses. I spend too much time trying make a narrative of his poetry. Or make them fit i… --- ## [How do you feel about self-checkout now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-self-checkout-now/967725)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 744\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-feel-about-self-checkout-now/967725 "2024-04-16T20:43:29Z")
My local Wal-Mart installed a few self-checkout lanes a few years ago, and perhaps because they were so popular (with the store, not the customers), they expanded the area about 2 years ago. As of today, about half the … --- ## [Kronos is hit with ransomware. Things are not good](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kronos-is-hit-with-ransomware-things-are-not-good/956241)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kronos-is-hit-with-ransomware-things-are-not-good/956241 "2024-04-16T18:54:07Z")
Multi-million dollar payroll company Kronos was hit with ransomware and let’s just say it is bad rapidly going to worse. According to Kronos, they will be down for weeks. In addition: It also involved a data breach. … --- ## [USA TSE, total solar eclipse: April 2024 (was "three years away for USA" when started)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 1123\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-tse-total-solar-eclipse-april-2024-was-three-years-away-for-usa-when-started/938873 "2024-04-16T03:55:25Z")
Start making your plans, it’s only three years away. The next major TSE, total solar eclipse, in the USA and to cross a significant part of CONUS\* will be in 3 years, in Apr 2024. — from Texas to Maine; or more complet… --- ## [Arkansas is a beautiful state](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-is-a-beautiful-state/1000322)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arkansas-is-a-beautiful-state/1000322 "2024-04-15T23:37:53Z")
We went to Arkansas for the 2024 eclipse. Morrilton had some issues so we went to Russelville and let me tell you what, it is a beautiful city. Then we went home through the southern Ozarks and the scenery is phenomenal… --- ## [Do they make shock collars for parrots?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-make-shock-collars-for-parrots/999942)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-make-shock-collars-for-parrots/999942 "2024-04-15T23:10:33Z")
I’m getting pretty tired of my brother’s parrots screaming their heads off because someone parked a truck across the street two doors down and- gasp!- strangers are walking around outside! They’re the bird equivalent of … --- ## [Today I was annoyed by](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-was-annoyed-by/1000252)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-was-annoyed-by/1000252 "2024-04-15T22:59:15Z")
Not sure if we currently have an annoyances/ pet peeves thread but if so I couldn’t find it. So here goes. Traffic in the right lane is going ridiculously slow. The left lane is open so I move over to pass. Once I do, s… --- ## [Almost three years into my job and haven't been fired yet...is it time to move on anyway?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-three-years-into-my-job-and-havent-been-fired-yet-is-it-time-to-move-on-anyway/997892)
**Author:** [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-three-years-into-my-job-and-havent-been-fired-yet-is-it-time-to-move-on-anyway/997892 "2024-04-15T22:23:35Z")
So this is actually the fourth in a series of topics I’ve posted, mulling over my current job (now going on almost three years). New job going so well it has me concerned Job still going well after almost 2 years…still… --- ## ["Horrible" companies that you love](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-companies-that-you-love/977561)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-companies-that-you-love/977561 "2024-04-15T19:33:15Z")
In fact, they can be so horrible that they are positively evil. But what are the companies of which you are 1%ers? Meaning you are not in the 99% of the population that hates, despises and loathes the company. You don… --- ## [It's Time to Let My Dog Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-let-my-dog-go/986437)
**Author:** [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-let-my-dog-go/986437 "2024-04-15T15:48:19Z")
Way back in 2006, I came home to hear the barking of a puppy under my house. Not being a monster, I was prepared to crawl under the house in order to rescue the puppy, but thankfully he ran right into my arms when I cal… --- ## [Word from old newspaper clipping-- "cblige"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-from-old-newspaper-clipping-cblige/1000286)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-from-old-newspaper-clipping-cblige/1000286 "2024-04-15T10:26:32Z")
In this Buzzfeed list, in number 27, letters to Santa from 1897, one kid wants some candy and cblige. “Cblige” is obviously a typo, but I haven’t been able to think up what it was supposed to be. --- ## [(Old) The Apocalyptic MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-apocalyptic-mmp/1000001)
**Author:** [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Replies:** 310\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-the-apocalyptic-mmp/1000001 "2024-04-15T06:07:15Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 55 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 80 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. Not much shakin’ here today. OYKW has a doc appointment at eight-thirty. Well, it’s … --- ## [Do you use certain foreign words/phrases exclusively rather your native language's words?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-certain-foreign-words-phrases-exclusively-rather-your-native-languages-words/844883)
**Author:** [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [April 14, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-certain-foreign-words-phrases-exclusively-rather-your-native-languages-words/844883 "2024-04-14T11:42:46Z")
Sorry if the topic is a bit confusing. English is my first and only intelligible language, but I sometimes catch myself using Japanese words/phrases exclusively in certain situations. I’m not talking about about local w… --- ## [So, my kids found out my Straightdope identity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-kids-found-out-my-straightdope-identity/999681)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [April 14, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-kids-found-out-my-straightdope-identity/999681 "2024-04-14T01:15:40Z")
It’s not like I’ve tried to keep the fact that I post here any big secret to my family. My kids knew I posted on a site called ‘Straightdope’ that my older son describes as ‘Reddit for old people’. They’ve been threateni… --- ## [How's your balance?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-balance/999995)
**Author:** [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [April 14, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-your-balance/999995 "2024-04-14T00:25:34Z")
According to an article I read (but cannot of course remember where) folks who cannot consistently balance on one leg, with no external. support, for more than 10 seconds are likely to die significantly younger than thos… --- ## [All the ice is gone!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-ice-is-gone/1000215)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-ice-is-gone/1000215 "2024-04-13T16:55:56Z")
From the back garden, chez Pipers! It actually smells like spring out there. --- ## [I am your king; you must come and pay homage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-your-king-you-must-come-and-pay-homage/831739)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 269\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-your-king-you-must-come-and-pay-homage/831739 "2024-04-13T02:27:52Z")
I’ve decided that I am your king. Those who pay homage to me will earn my royal favor; those who do not will earn my wrath. Think carefully on it. The favor of the king can be a powerful asset. I may even make you one o… --- ## [Stupid Rhetorical Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-rhetorical-questions/1000182)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-rhetorical-questions/1000182 "2024-04-13T01:33:07Z")
Have you ever made more Guacamole than you can eat? --- ## [Ring Doorbells](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-doorbells/1000206)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-doorbells/1000206 "2024-04-12T19:26:07Z")
I’ve watched some police type shows. They show alot of videos from Ring Doorbells. Many crimes are committed and recorded. From traffic things, porch pirates and assaults. If the homeowner submits these videos to Police… --- ## [What does "following your gut" feel like to you? How did you learn to "trust your gut"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-following-your-gut-feel-like-to-you-how-did-you-learn-to-trust-your-gut/1000103)
**Author:** [@NegativeZer0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NegativeZer0)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-following-your-gut-feel-like-to-you-how-did-you-learn-to-trust-your-gut/1000103 "2024-04-12T19:22:51Z")
As the title said, I am curious how folks have “gone with their gut intuition”, especially in circumstances where they are faced with tough decisions or life-altering changes. Some thoughts/prompts for discussion: What… --- ## [Antivaxers are now advocating for not giving rabies vaccines because it shortens the life and causes autism...in dogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/antivaxers-are-now-advocating-for-not-giving-rabies-vaccines-because-it-shortens-the-life-and-causes-autism-in-dogs/999979)
**Author:** [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/antivaxers-are-now-advocating-for-not-giving-rabies-vaccines-because-it-shortens-the-life-and-causes-autism-in-dogs/999979 "2024-04-12T19:22:11Z")
I don’t even know what to say… --- ## [Enjoy canned salmon? Next time you eat it, try not to think about this!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189 "2024-04-12T14:46:21Z")
Good luck not eying every bit suspiciously like it might be a worm. --- ## [The Newest Totally Stupid Teenage Game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-totally-stupid-teenage-game/1000151)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-totally-stupid-teenage-game/1000151 "2024-04-12T12:37:46Z")
Here in Chicagoland, where we have multiple shootings every day by mostly young people disguised in masks or hoodies or whatever, teenaged idiocity has come up with yet another new “game” that could get them injured or k… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=110) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=112)