# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=115 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 116 --- ## [How many 1980s/1990s Tabloid TV Scandals can you name off the top of your head?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-1980s-1990s-tabloid-tv-scandals-can-you-name-off-the-top-of-your-head/999112)
**Author:** [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-1980s-1990s-tabloid-tv-scandals-can-you-name-off-the-top-of-your-head/999112 "2024-03-23T22:02:09Z")
I was playing a game with myself: “How many 1980s/1990s Tabloid TV Scandals can you name off the top of your head?” (Googling only allowed for name clarification - Kathleen Quinlan is a perfectly fine actress who was nev… --- ## [Crowdfunded AI project unlocks some of the text of charred Vesuvius scrolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowdfunded-ai-project-unlocks-some-of-the-text-of-charred-vesuvius-scrolls/997154)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crowdfunded-ai-project-unlocks-some-of-the-text-of-charred-vesuvius-scrolls/997154 "2024-03-23T02:21:28Z")
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00346-8 This is very cool, and has real potential to unlock a lot of manuscripts that were previously inaccessible. For example, More broadly, the machine-learning techniques… --- ## [Stopping on or near the stop line](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-on-or-near-the-stop-line/999152)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-on-or-near-the-stop-line/999152 "2024-03-23T01:23:41Z")
Where I live, in the midwest, about 40% of drivers I observe, stop anywhere from a whole car length or more before the stop line. If you aren’t aware, the stop line is the wide white stripe that runs across the street, … --- ## [Seeking new non-theistic expressions for gratitude, etc](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-new-non-theistic-expressions-for-gratitude-etc/999148)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-new-non-theistic-expressions-for-gratitude-etc/999148 "2024-03-23T00:03:37Z")
I sincerely hope and desire that this will not become another atheists vs. religionists brouhaha. This is just me, trying to find ways to express myself that don’t contradict my own views. Are there already more colorfu… --- ## [Beds that back onto windows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beds-that-back-onto-windows/999048)
**Author:** [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beds-that-back-onto-windows/999048 "2024-03-22T22:36:24Z")
Now, something has bugged me for the longest time when watching US make over TV shows like Queer Eye. And it’s cropped up again when I was idly perusing homes in Montecito (wow, those prices are punchy). It’s beds that b… --- ## [Guinastasia has passed away](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310)
**Author:** [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Replies:** 133\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinastasia-has-passed-away/981310 "2024-03-22T14:58:56Z")
I just found out today on Facebook by random scrolling that Guinastasia died on Monday, the 13th. I don’t know if she still posts here or if people would remember her, but at one time she was one of the most prolific pos… --- ## [Looking For Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-icarus/998846)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-icarus/998846 "2024-03-22T04:05:12Z")
(Not sure if this is the right forum) My GF wanted to read my version of Orpheus and Icarus. I found my version of Orpheus on LiveJournal and copied and pasted it for her. I cannot find my Icarus story. I know it was in … --- ## [Do you know any examples of a conspiracy theorist coming to their senses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-examples-of-a-conspiracy-theorist-coming-to-their-senses/999063)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [March 22, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-any-examples-of-a-conspiracy-theorist-coming-to-their-senses/999063 "2024-03-22T03:50:57Z")
Looking for some anecdotes to give me faith that humanity isn’t totally doomed by stupidity. Examples could be either people you know personally or public figures. I’ll start with the example of myself: in high school I… --- ## [The pig-heart transplant story is even more interesting than I expected!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pig-heart-transplant-story-is-even-more-interesting-than-i-expected/957568)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2024, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pig-heart-transplant-story-is-even-more-interesting-than-i-expected/957568 "2024-03-21T23:16:52Z")
Not only is the surgeon, Dr. Robert Montgomery, married to opera singer Denyce Graves, but he’s a heart transplant recipient himself, because of a rare genetic disorder. He was desperate enough to be willing to receive … --- ## [Has anyone ever seen anyone refused the 10/15 items or less line for having too many items?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-seen-anyone-refused-the-10-15-items-or-less-line-for-having-too-many-items/999005)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-ever-seen-anyone-refused-the-10-15-items-or-less-line-for-having-too-many-items/999005 "2024-03-21T11:14:02Z")
I’m the type of person who frets over having 17 items in the 15 items or less line and yet I do see people will full shopping carts go into the line even when it’s long and they seemingly aren’t refused. Now I do believ… --- ## [Say what? Misinformed medical personnel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-misinformed-medical-personnel/995814)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-misinformed-medical-personnel/995814 "2024-03-21T00:56:53Z")
Not inclined to call her a professional. I assume she’s educated in some way. I know she’s not a RN or LPN or CNA. But she works at the dialysis center I attend 3 times a week. There’s a huge turnover in these individu… --- ## [Dog attacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-attacks/999055)
**Author:** [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-attacks/999055 "2024-03-20T20:17:44Z")
Recently saw a dog walking along all skittish, looking this way and that, and when I asked the owner about it, she said it had been recently attacked by another dog. That got me to wondering - (never owned a dog, btw, s… --- ## [Compliments that make you wonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compliments-that-make-you-wonder/998916)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/compliments-that-make-you-wonder/998916 "2024-03-20T19:42:37Z")
I was recently complimented, told I was intelligent and enlightened despite not having higher education. I didn’t really think about the further implications of it until later, but I had a couple different things going … --- ## [Ireland's next leader will be the gay son of an Indian immigrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irelands-next-leader-will-be-the-gay-son-of-an-indian-immigrant/788094)
**Author:** [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/irelands-next-leader-will-be-the-gay-son-of-an-indian-immigrant/788094 "2024-03-20T13:57:14Z")
Leo Varadkar has just been elected leader of Ireland’s ruling party. He will be elected Taoiseach (Prime Minister) by our Dail (Parliament) the week after next. (It’s currently in recess). His father is an Indian doctor… --- ## [Dún Briste, Ireland — who’s been? Who’d want to go?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dun-briste-ireland-who-s-been-who-d-want-to-go/998994)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dun-briste-ireland-who-s-been-who-d-want-to-go/998994 "2024-03-19T20:58:20Z")
I like dramatic landscapes, geology and geography. This popped up on my FB feed and I was fascinated by the imagery. I found some info about it. We haven’t been — yet! Dún… --- ## [How's the air you breathe today? Can you smell the smoke from the wildfires in Quebec? (June 2023)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-air-you-breathe-today-can-you-smell-the-smoke-from-the-wildfires-in-quebec-june-2023/985158)
**Author:** [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Replies:** 210\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-the-air-you-breathe-today-can-you-smell-the-smoke-from-the-wildfires-in-quebec-june-2023/985158 "2024-03-19T16:41:42Z")
I’m in Central Jersey and it is a hazy day out. It has been like this since yesterday afternoon. When I went outside I smelled a strong scent of wood smoke and figured that it must be from a nearby bonfire or perhaps a … --- ## [R.I.P. Tom Stafford, Gemini and Apollo Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-tom-stafford-gemini-and-apollo-astronaut/999001)
**Author:** [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-tom-stafford-gemini-and-apollo-astronaut/999001 "2024-03-19T14:49:56Z")
I remember the Apollo-Soyuz linkup mission and Stafford’s handshake with Alexy Leonov through the airlock. It seemed like a very hopeful moment to young and impressionable me. (As noted in the current Celebrity Death … --- ## [RIP Paul Alexander - survived 70 years in iron lung](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-alexander-survived-70-years-in-iron-lung/998799)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-alexander-survived-70-years-in-iron-lung/998799 "2024-03-19T03:00:59Z")
Paul had an incredible life inside a iron lung. He attended Southern Methodist University on a scholarship and graduated with a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas at Austin Law School. He was originally able to l… --- ## [Happy Saint Patrick's Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saint-patricks-day/998945)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saint-patricks-day/998945 "2024-03-18T16:23:05Z")
A good day for a patronal feast, pint of Guinness and a parade. I marched with Limerick in NYC once and watched the much smaller one in Dublin when I lived there 2015-2016. I am sure it was a real public holiday (day of… --- ## [(Old) Missing an hour in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-missing-an-hour-in-the-mmp/998695)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 273\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-missing-an-hour-in-the-mmp/998695 "2024-03-18T06:55:12Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 6c/43c with a predicted high of 8c/47f, and cloudy. Weather app says “It’s fifty shades of fucking grey outside, but not in the fucking sexy-time way. It’s in the fucking depressing wa… --- ## [Parental nightmare YouTuber Andrew Tate busted - and you won't believe by whom!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 251\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317 "2024-03-18T05:14:21Z")
Andrew Tate is, or was, a YouTuber whose audience was mainly teenage boys and young men (or so I’ve heard) and gave palpitations to parents who wanted their sons to one day have healthy relationships with women. Anyway,… --- ## [Kayaker Attacked On Amazon River By Myster Creature--article with video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kayaker-attacked-on-amazon-river-by-myster-creature-article-with-video/998897)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kayaker-attacked-on-amazon-river-by-myster-creature-article-with-video/998897 "2024-03-17T18:53:47Z")
It is strange. EXCEEDINGLY STRANGE (LINK) Not a bigfoot/loch ness/Elvis-is-alive thing. --- ## [Strange Home and Alternative Remedies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-home-and-alternative-remedies/998937)
**Author:** [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-home-and-alternative-remedies/998937 "2024-03-17T15:36:37Z")
A couple hours’ drive from my home, up on a hill on the side of the road there is a large sign proclaiming: Arthritis? Try ELK ANTLER So it turns out a supplement is available that contains deer antler velvet, and i… --- ## [What is the most effective way to register a complaint with Facebook over policy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-effective-way-to-register-a-complaint-with-facebook-over-policy/998896)
**Author:** [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-effective-way-to-register-a-complaint-with-facebook-over-policy/998896 "2024-03-17T15:17:37Z")
Hi, everyone. The question is pretty much as I’ve stated it in the header. I thought IMHO was the best place for this, but Mods, please move to whichever forum you feel is most appropriate. Meta, parent company of Fac… --- ## [Ms. Pronunciation. Is it just me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-pronunciation-is-it-just-me/998884)
**Author:** [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-pronunciation-is-it-just-me/998884 "2024-03-17T07:07:22Z")
Several years ago the comic book character Ms. Marvel appeared in the Avengers cartoon. Since then every time they say her name it sounds like “Miss”. I thought it was supposed to be pronounced “Miz”. Am I wrong? Can any… --- ## [Omnibus AI Screwups Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-ai-screwups-thread/988747 "2024-03-15T23:38:47Z")
It occurred to me after encountering a couple examples today of articles that weren’t written by a human being completely tone-deaf, offensive, or just plain wrong, that we don’t really have a place for collecting them a… --- ## [Gluing silicone to plastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gluing-silicone-to-plastic/998825)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gluing-silicone-to-plastic/998825 "2024-03-15T20:21:45Z")
I bought a silicone cover for my new keyboard. I hang my keyboard from a loop next to my chair and the cover would just fall off. When double-backed tape and superglue did nothing, I ran a little line of stitches on one … --- ## [Ouija board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661)
**Author:** [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Replies:** 111\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661 "2024-03-15T14:26:09Z")
Watching 13 Ghosts on Svengoolie right now, and it got me in the mood to hear some Ouija stories! I never played it with anyone except Nervous Nellies (“demons will get us!”) Or Klass Klowns ("How long is my dick, hur h… --- ## [Is anyone working on an AI composer? Or singer? Or musician in general?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-working-on-an-ai-composer-or-singer-or-musician-in-general/998049)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-working-on-an-ai-composer-or-singer-or-musician-in-general/998049 "2024-03-15T07:58:21Z")
I mean, we have AI generated art and now videos, and all the AI text anyone could want. How about music? I was watching something or other with closed captions on, and among the cruft on the screen was something like \[… --- ## [Aborted thread responses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aborted-thread-responses/259474 "2024-03-15T05:03:22Z")
How often do you start to reply to a post, then say “aw, forget it”? (I wonder how many times that will happen to this thread :stuck\_out\_tongue: ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=114) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=116)