# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1184 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1185 --- ## [Take the Heterosexual Questionnaire...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-heterosexual-questionnaire/609142)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-heterosexual-questionnaire/609142 "2012-01-12T16:45:07Z")
Do you sometimes feel insecure in your heterosexuality? Do gay friends sometimes tease you about it? Do people wonder how you ever got that way? Take the Heterosexual Questionnaire. :slight\_smile: Here’s a larger-type… --- ## [So I'm Thinking About Getting My Son A Dog For Christmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-thinking-about-getting-my-son-a-dog-for-christmas/606326)
**Author:** [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-thinking-about-getting-my-son-a-dog-for-christmas/606326 "2012-01-12T14:20:51Z")
Talk me down! My youngest son and the only child left at home with me is 13. I’ve talked about him plenty on here, with his health problems and recent skull surgery, and the extreme bullying that he has experienced at … --- ## [Ford's new factory-built 200 MPH Mustang for US market](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fords-new-factory-built-200-mph-mustang-for-us-market/608815)
**Author:** [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fords-new-factory-built-200-mph-mustang-for-us-market/608815 "2012-01-12T12:38:36Z")
Not exactly new news, but I want to share anyway. Factory-built 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 Mustang achieves 200 MPH top speed for US market --- ## [So how many former special forces members are there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-former-special-forces-members-are-there/607420)
**Author:** [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-former-special-forces-members-are-there/607420 "2012-01-12T08:26:11Z")
Long story cut short, I met a Danish family living close by, with kids about the same age as ours. We’ve started becoming friends, and have gotten together a couple of times. This last time we got together, the father t… --- ## [Edmonton Transit bomb-scanning test - huh?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edmonton-transit-bomb-scanning-test-huh/609237)
**Author:** [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edmonton-transit-bomb-scanning-test-huh/609237 "2012-01-12T06:06:43Z")
See this news article. For those not familiar with how our system works, on our LRT system you can either “validate” a ticket (timestamp it in one of those orange things in the picture, making it usable for the next 90 m… --- ## [The Latest On Dondra's Most Recent Hospitalization](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-on-dondras-most-recent-hospitalization/609255)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-on-dondras-most-recent-hospitalization/609255 "2012-01-12T04:50:43Z")
There’s been so much going on with us here recently, I don’t know if I posted about this or not, but she stayed 8 days this time and came out on a renal diet (which is basically nothing). She had tried to work but could… --- ## [What should I do with this wok?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-this-wok/609250)
**Author:** [@Sutremaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sutremaine)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-this-wok/609250 "2012-01-12T04:47:00Z")
I ordered a wok via Amazon and was unhappy with it for two reasons: 1. It was a substitute model that I could have bought for less than 3/4 the price of what I paid for the one I didn’t get, and 2. The plastic portion of… --- ## [Do you want fries with that? (McDonald's employee beats customers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-want-fries-with-that-mcdonalds-employee-beats-customers/599693)
**Author:** [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Replies:** 275\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-want-fries-with-that-mcdonalds-employee-beats-customers/599693 "2012-01-12T04:36:38Z")
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2011/10/greenwich\_villa\_2.php The video. --- ## [I Raise a glass to the passing of a reliable old electronic friend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-raise-a-glass-to-the-passing-of-a-reliable-old-electronic-friend/608324)
**Author:** [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-raise-a-glass-to-the-passing-of-a-reliable-old-electronic-friend/608324 "2012-01-12T02:54:23Z")
It’s been a while coming, I’ve been putting it off as long as possible, but over the past few months, my reliable ol’ workhorse, my 1.25GHz PowerMacG4 Mirror Drive Doors tower has been showing it’s age… The optical driv… --- ## [Tiny things that annoy & irritate to a far greater degree than they should...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-things-that-annoy-irritate-to-a-far-greater-degree-than-they-should/607986)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 183\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-things-that-annoy-irritate-to-a-far-greater-degree-than-they-should/607986 "2012-01-12T02:39:12Z")
Stepping on my own shoelace. It happens in an instant, I don’t actually fall down or anything, but the level of irritation I experience is, for a moment, murderous. No clue why, just thankful it passes quickly. Dea… --- ## [Bungee jumping!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bungee-jumping/492057)
**Author:** [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bungee-jumping/492057 "2012-01-12T00:54:39Z")
I was pondering about random things the other day and I was thinking about what it might feel like to do a bungee jump. Has anyone here done a jump? What does it feel like when you bounce at the bottom and you go bong-d… --- ## [Mom meets daughter she gave up for adoption... 77 years later!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mom-meets-daughter-she-gave-up-for-adoption-77-years-later/608246)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mom-meets-daughter-she-gave-up-for-adoption-77-years-later/608246 "2012-01-11T22:18:15Z")
This is a beautiful story. This has everything that a great story should have: humble beginnings, violence, tragedy, love, loss, the inexorable passing of time (which is often in itself a tragedy), greatness achieved d… --- ## ["See price after checkout." WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-price-after-checkout-wtf/608698)
**Author:** [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/see-price-after-checkout-wtf/608698 "2012-01-11T19:38:52Z")
So, I’m surfing the Newegg app for LCD TV’s, and I click on a nice looking Samsung model. “See price after checkout.” Huh? Surely they mean “see price in cart” or something, right? Nope. I go to the cart, and it says it … --- ## [I love my new car. (2012 Elantra.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-new-car-2012-elantra/606711)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-my-new-car-2012-elantra/606711 "2012-01-11T19:34:37Z")
My, what a lovely little car this is. Despite being technically a compact, it’s roomy as hell. Comfortable. Looks great outside and, most importantly, inside. Nice performance, nice handling, nice feel on the brake. … --- ## [Yet another bizarre spam email](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bizarre-spam-email/608853)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-bizarre-spam-email/608853 "2012-01-11T12:27:51Z")
I just got this: First, a few spam links, then: “A neck judges the mean attorney over an egg. The addict shoots the rhyme. A machinery worries the glow. Outside the basket bows the ancient hazard. Her bat fudges through… --- ## [Poppin' a zit like a boss!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poppin-a-zit-like-a-boss/608335)
**Author:** [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poppin-a-zit-like-a-boss/608335 "2012-01-11T04:41:32Z")
I’m sure most of us have seen the POPTHATZIT site and saw a woman attempt to extract the contents of a blackhead or cyst with dainty, hesitating fingers, attempting how to best approach. THIS ol’ girl attacks a massive … --- ## [My car died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-car-died/605873)
**Author:** [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-car-died/605873 "2012-01-11T03:48:33Z")
The day my divorce was final in July I bought a new car, a 2011 VW Jetta TDI. I drive about 70 miles round trip to work and I wanted a car that would get good mileage. The TDI is highway rated at 42 mpg but I’ve gotten u… --- ## [Anyone in Central Iowa need a companion cat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-central-iowa-need-a-companion-cat/606093)
**Author:** [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-in-central-iowa-need-a-companion-cat/606093 "2012-01-11T03:31:56Z")
Looks like I’ll be (hopefully temporarily) taking in a cat for a lovely 90-year-old lady who need to go into assisted care. Her family cannot take the cat and I can’t enjoy Christmas knowing it would be dumped in a shel… --- ## [Ask the guy who uses answers using other "ask the" threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642)
**Author:** [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-uses-answers-using-other-ask-the-threads/608642 "2012-01-11T03:31:35Z")
Got a question? I’ll let other people attempt to answer it! \[sub\]With thanks to Idle Thoughts for cobbling together a semi-definitive list for me to peruse\[/sub\] --- ## [Time Travel for Fun and Profit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-for-fun-and-profit/608207)
**Author:** [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-for-fun-and-profit/608207 "2012-01-11T02:44:03Z")
Scenario: Oh no! The “Return to Now” button on your Acme Universal Time Travel Belt (“Don’t Ask Why; Just Say When!”) is malfunctioning. Your 24-hour pleasure trip to ~fourteenth-century \[Insert Destination of Your Choic… --- ## [Small amusements...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-amusements/608610)
**Author:** [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-amusements/608610 "2012-01-11T02:01:05Z")
I had been trying to do something for awhile tonight, and it just wasn’t working. It’s late, I thought, and I know it will work in the morning. A character in a scifi book I’m reading had just been in a scene where a p… --- ## [Is there a tree of religious belief that is easy to click through](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-tree-of-religious-belief-that-is-easy-to-click-through/609002)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-tree-of-religious-belief-that-is-easy-to-click-through/609002 "2012-01-10T22:43:13Z")
As an example: southern baptists are a sub-sect of baptists in general (they had issues over slavery with northern baptists). Baptists in general are a sub-sect of protestantism Protestantism is a sub-sect of christian… --- ## [Could You Disarm Your Dog With A Hamburger?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-disarm-your-dog-with-a-hamburger/608912)
**Author:** [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-disarm-your-dog-with-a-hamburger/608912 "2012-01-10T20:49:17Z")
I was talking to my son about my dog, (I’ll have to get a photo of him), he’s old but he still barks good. I was saying that he would still defend out house. My son laughed and said, “Anyone could disarm him with a Big … --- ## [So. The Huff Po prints glurge now.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-huff-po-prints-glurge-now/609061)
**Author:** [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-the-huff-po-prints-glurge-now/609061 "2012-01-10T19:34:01Z")
So, I clicked this linkat Fark today. It’s a tale of a heroic young man who stands up to his dad in defense of his little brother. The little brother wanted to buy some toys that are ‘girl’ toys and the homophobic dad … --- ## [I have JSTOR access again! Hurray!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-jstor-access-again-hurray/608692)
**Author:** [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-jstor-access-again-hurray/608692 "2012-01-10T18:24:10Z")
I graduated from law school in May of 2009. Ever since then, there’s been an absence in my life - like a favorite song I’d somehow forgotten, or an old lover’s perfume that has faded, or the last day of summer. I lost m… --- ## [Fun/Original/Entertaining Bachelor Party ideas?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-original-entertaining-bachelor-party-ideas/609038)
**Author:** [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-original-entertaining-bachelor-party-ideas/609038 "2012-01-10T17:32:19Z")
So I’m getting married in September this year and my brother in law is Best Man, and he’s asked me what I want to do for my stag party. Trouble is my mind is a blank at this kind of thing. I live in London and my frien… --- ## [What was the first word?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-word/608965)
**Author:** [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-word/608965 "2012-01-10T16:38:36Z")
The first inventions thread made me wonder if there would be any scientific way of determining what was the first word that primitives would have used. Since I doubt such science exists, I thought we could speculate. W… --- ## [I never knew dogs jumped from planes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-dogs-jumped-from-planes/608674)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-dogs-jumped-from-planes/608674 "2012-01-10T16:31:08Z")
How in the world do they train dogs to parachute? Even Rin Tin Tin or Lassie didn’t parachute. Very cool picture. I can only imagine whats going through that dogs mind. :smiley: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/0… --- ## [They have to notice a skeleton with a sling, a cigar, and a tinfoil fedora, right? Right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-have-to-notice-a-skeleton-with-a-sling-a-cigar-and-a-tinfoil-fedora-right-right/606963)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-have-to-notice-a-skeleton-with-a-sling-a-cigar-and-a-tinfoil-fedora-right-right/606963 "2012-01-10T15:27:14Z")
Either the people who use the lab are extremely unobservant, or both instructors have a sense of humor. I guess I’m going to find out now. I have a very short attention span and an immature sense of humor, so I tend to … --- ## [On Farts and Farting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-farts-and-farting/608514)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-farts-and-farting/608514 "2012-01-10T15:18:00Z")
Some of them feel as if they are prisoners tunneling out of a German POW camp, constantly digging around obstacles. Some feel as if they are children strolling out the porch door on a breezy summer day. I often wonder … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1183) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1185)