# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1230 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1231 --- ## [Inaccessible handicap access](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccessible-handicap-access/598298)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccessible-handicap-access/598298 "2011-10-06T18:23:21Z")
I went to a bar in Flint called Churchill’s last night. After a couple beers, I was surprised to find out that their restrooms (including the handicap-accessible stalls) are located upstairs, which the only way to get t… --- ## [Meteorologist, Dead Dude with dog collar in hot tub. Priceless](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472 "2011-10-06T16:06:05Z")
This one hits a bit too close to home. He’s on our local NBC station. They have temporarily taken him off the news broadcast. Sure beats chasing tornadoes doesn’t it. :stuck\_out\_tongue: It’ll be interesting to see ho… --- ## [Trimming Hedges With An Electric Chainsaw - How Bad An Idea?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trimming-hedges-with-an-electric-chainsaw-how-bad-an-idea/598565)
**Author:** [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trimming-hedges-with-an-electric-chainsaw-how-bad-an-idea/598565 "2011-10-06T15:42:49Z")
Our hedges have gotten to a height where trimming is tough and a thickness (of branch) where lowering them with the usual trimmer just won’t work. I have an 18inch blade electric chainsaw available and am considering it … --- ## [Pwecious Woyalty follows me to my new job](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pwecious-woyalty-follows-me-to-my-new-job/598046)
**Author:** [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pwecious-woyalty-follows-me-to-my-new-job/598046 "2011-10-06T15:32:18Z")
The older among you might remember that at my last job, a woman one cubicle over from me (dubbed “The Pwincess Pwecious”) drove me stark staring mad by speaking in an oopsy-boopsy baby-talk voice. Bilingually, and no les… --- ## [My Wife Is Beating Her Meat As I Write!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-beating-her-meat-as-i-write/598311)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-beating-her-meat-as-i-write/598311 "2011-10-06T12:52:18Z")
Actually just tenderizing the flank steaks for the Rolladen she’s going to cook for our Oktoberfest party tomorrow. :slight\_smile: Rolladen and Kartoffel-Knödel with sauce and Sauerkraut. I will be grilling Bratwursts N… --- ## [Do you have a blog? What's it about?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-blog-whats-it-about/591857)
**Author:** [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-blog-whats-it-about/591857 "2011-10-06T12:18:37Z")
In a few recent threads, I’ve seen posters mention their blogs. Do you have a blog? What do you write about? How long have you been blogging and why did you start? Is it a themed blog or just a collection of personal mus… --- ## [How to lose 25 pounds in 8 days](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-25-pounds-in-8-days/484966)
**Author:** [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-25-pounds-in-8-days/484966 "2011-10-06T07:34:54Z")
Have a baby, of course! Josephine Violet was born at 4:35 AM on 1/31/09, 8 pounds 1 ounce, 20 inches long. She’s the most beautiful and perfect baby in the world, if I do say so myself. Mellow, hardly ever cries, with… --- ## [Summer Birthday Dopers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-birthday-dopers/598714)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-birthday-dopers/598714 "2011-10-06T03:20:30Z")
When you were in school, did you celebrate your birthday before the school year began, or the following summer? IOW, did you turn 7 before 1st grade began, or after it ended? --- ## [Need Help Looking for A Pin re: Women's Rights](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-looking-for-a-pin-re-womens-rights/598314)
**Author:** [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-looking-for-a-pin-re-womens-rights/598314 "2011-10-06T02:08:41Z")
(Mods: Please place wherever is appropriate. I’m been at this for a while.) My mother (aka GOL, or the Giver Of Life) sent me an email saying that she had lost a pin from her jacket. It is approx. 2"x2" lapel pin. It lo… --- ## [Really, really stupid shit found online...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-really-stupid-shit-found-online/598739)
**Author:** [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 6, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-really-stupid-shit-found-online/598739 "2011-10-06T00:25:26Z")
…not crazy. For example, the Time Cube is all sorts of awesome crazy weird, but not stupid. This is stupid. --- ## [Cleaners set to spy on Dopers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaners-set-to-spy-on-dopers/598722)
**Author:** [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaners-set-to-spy-on-dopers/598722 "2011-10-05T20:14:50Z")
BBC news website headline - is nowhere safe? I’m just glad I can’t afford a cleaner :wink: --- ## [How do I pluralize this phrase?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-pluralize-this-phrase/598386)
**Author:** [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-pluralize-this-phrase/598386 "2011-10-05T20:11:03Z")
“I can’t even explain how much of an asshole he is.” How can a similar phrasing be constructed for plural assholes? I literally have no idea. Some possibilities that don’t seem right: “I can’t even explain how much of … --- ## [My brother is now a Hazzan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-is-now-a-hazzan/598438)
**Author:** [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-brother-is-now-a-hazzan/598438 "2011-10-05T20:02:37Z")
Update of this thread from January 2006. ScubaBigBro was invested as a Hazzan this past May. Next week he starts as pulpit Hazzan in St. Petersburg. His bio is on the second half of the Cantor page. Kol tuv to my bro… --- ## [Black hat xkcd character uses faulty logic!?!?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-hat-xkcd-character-uses-faulty-logic/598589)
**Author:** [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-hat-xkcd-character-uses-faulty-logic/598589 "2011-10-05T19:07:47Z")
Those of you who read xkcd know that the strip sometimes features a black hat character, a person who is a jerk but who I thought was supposed to be smarter than the average person, using his superior intellect to point … --- ## [Deep quotes/thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015)
**Author:** [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-quotes-thoughts/473015 "2011-10-05T18:26:16Z")
I was just sitting here and all of the sudden I started thinking about some quotes. The first was from Tolkien. “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as … --- ## [jamiemcgarry is now Ambivalid.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamiemcgarry-is-now-ambivalid/598307 "2011-10-05T18:19:53Z")
I just wanted people to be aware of my username change. My initial decision to use my real name has outgrown it’s usefulness and I decided to go a more anonymous route (but not really since my real name can easily be fo… --- ## [Another Greece default question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-greece-default-question/598673)
**Author:** [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-greece-default-question/598673 "2011-10-05T16:09:42Z")
Hypothetical question here asked out of curiosity. Let’s say it’s the 11th hour and Greece has not lived up to its obligations needed for the bail-out and so will default on its debt. What the most likely outcome? Th… --- ## [50 unexplainable photos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-unexplainable-photos/598292 "2011-10-05T13:57:44Z")
There are a couple of ‘nudes’, but no naughty bits are showing. They’re vintage, so they’re ‘art’ anyway. #12 is a photo of a situation depicted on a plate my mom’s mother had. On the plate, a stereotypical Black bo… --- ## [Mom destroying son's dreams of breakdancing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mom-destroying-sons-dreams-of-breakdancing/598559)
**Author:** [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mom-destroying-sons-dreams-of-breakdancing/598559 "2011-10-05T13:25:35Z")
Mildy amusing rant after son keeps failing to land a suicide. --- ## ["Bruce" A gay name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933)
**Author:** [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-a-gay-name/597933 "2011-10-05T07:47:41Z")
Waiting for my time to leave work, I got to thinking; Back in the sixties when I was in the Navy All us guys said anybody named “Bruce” was gay (queer). Civilian guys agreed. I wonder if anyone else shared this belief. … --- ## [Drinking out of cans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-out-of-cans/598578)
**Author:** [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-out-of-cans/598578 "2011-10-05T05:25:31Z")
It occurs to me that this has to be one of the most unsanitary things ever. Yeah I do it, and yeah, I half-heartedly wipe the lip of the can before drinking out of it, but…really? We scrub fruits and vegetables, use sani… --- ## [Stuck in Schiphol Airport](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuck-in-schiphol-airport/598415)
**Author:** [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuck-in-schiphol-airport/598415 "2011-10-05T04:03:42Z")
My wife read the itinerary wrong so we missed our flight to Vienna. New flights cost a combined 450 Euros. Yes, flights, as none of today’s flights to Vienna have 2 available seats. We fly three hours apart. Man, I am re… --- ## [I Really, Truly, Actually, For Realzies had a Prescient Dream! (Sort of)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-truly-actually-for-realzies-had-a-prescient-dream-sort-of/598149)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-truly-actually-for-realzies-had-a-prescient-dream-sort-of/598149 "2011-10-05T03:58:05Z")
Early this week (pretty sure it was Sunday or Monday night) I dreamed that I learned somehow that Sea World was closing. This was heartbreaking news to me; I haven’t been to Sea World in almost 20 years, and I haven’t go… --- ## [I am now a poll clerk in the upcoming provincial election!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-now-a-poll-clerk-in-the-upcoming-provincial-election/598091)
**Author:** [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-now-a-poll-clerk-in-the-upcoming-provincial-election/598091 "2011-10-05T03:51:02Z")
Well, I had training today. I am now officially a Poll Clerk in the Ontario provincial election on October 6th. I’m one of the people who scratches your name off the list when you come to vote. I am now required to be i… --- ## [Really, Post Office? Don't you think it's time that YOU change?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-post-office-dont-you-think-its-time-that-you-change/598440)
**Author:** [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-post-office-dont-you-think-its-time-that-you-change/598440 "2011-10-05T00:57:31Z")
So the USPS is apparently running these ads that make subtle jabs at the whole concept of electronic mail as if they are trying to convince people to start hand-writing letters again: http://gizmodo.com/5845788/these-ar… --- ## [What Winter Clothes do I Need for Boston?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-winter-clothes-do-i-need-for-boston/598294)
**Author:** [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [October 5, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-winter-clothes-do-i-need-for-boston/598294 "2011-10-05T00:25:45Z")
Hi fellow SDMB members! Let this be my belated 10 year anniversary post. Thanks for all the threads! Now for my problem… I moved to Boston in September for grad school. It’s going all right, but winter is coming and… --- ## [My SDMB posts that never see the light of day.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sdmb-posts-that-never-see-the-light-of-day/598392)
**Author:** [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sdmb-posts-that-never-see-the-light-of-day/598392 "2011-10-04T22:18:48Z")
About one out of ten of the posts I type in here, I wind up highlighting, deleting, and clicking back to “Straight Dope Message Board”. There are generally three reasons for this: \[ol\] \[li\]I realize that what I am say… --- ## [My mother says her doctor told her that her thyroid is "wearing out".](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-says-her-doctor-told-her-that-her-thyroid-is-wearing-out/598590)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-says-her-doctor-told-her-that-her-thyroid-is-wearing-out/598590 "2011-10-04T21:41:46Z")
Maybe this belongs in general questions or maybe not, since it’s kind of a vague question, so I’ll put it here. My mother says her doctor told her that her thyroid is “wearing out” and that there’s not much they can do … --- ## [Online Dating Sucks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-dating-sucks/598350)
**Author:** [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-dating-sucks/598350 "2011-10-04T19:40:50Z")
Online dating sucks. Geesh, I need to get a life. --- ## [Obama Fried Chicken!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581)
**Author:** [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-fried-chicken/598581 "2011-10-04T18:36:22Z")
Man, when Al Sharpton and KFC are on the same side you know the end times are wacky. Link generally safe for work. Wonder if it has MSG in it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1229) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1231)