# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1233 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1234 --- ## [I've got a bike...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-bike/597911)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-got-a-bike/597911 "2011-09-29T17:37:05Z")
You can ride it if you like. It’s got a basket a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I’d give it to you if I could but I borrowed it. --- ## [Sleep Deprivation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-deprivation/597902)
**Author:** [@Pann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pann)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sleep-deprivation/597902 "2011-09-29T16:25:58Z")
Last night I was typing out a lab report for one of my classes and fell into a deep sleep. While typing. The end result was a lab report that reads like a lab report for the first half, then my dream is the second half… --- ## [Strange Relationships of Local Gov/Police Dept, Local Watering Holes and Drunk Drivers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-relationships-of-local-gov-police-dept-local-watering-holes-and-drunk-drivers/597738)
**Author:** [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-relationships-of-local-gov-police-dept-local-watering-holes-and-drunk-drivers/597738 "2011-09-29T15:25:36Z")
I recently was talking to a cop (a friend of a friend) at a bar drinking together. I asked him why don’t they bust drunk drivers leaving certain known establishments in town since likelihood of anyone leaving these joint… --- ## [Just posted on Facebook](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-posted-on-facebook/597378)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-posted-on-facebook/597378 "2011-09-29T14:19:25Z")
“HELP SPREAD IGNORANCE!! If you believe it is your God-Given right to repost nonsense and nasty rumors without checking for accuracy first, to get people up in arms about things that probably aren’t true, to put people … --- ## [AYAD?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ayad/598003)
**Author:** [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ayad/598003 "2011-09-29T13:24:13Z")
So… AYAD? --- ## [Last week, I was hospitalized after a suicide attempt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-was-hospitalized-after-a-suicide-attempt/585506)
**Author:** [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Replies:** 131\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-week-i-was-hospitalized-after-a-suicide-attempt/585506 "2011-09-29T07:43:02Z")
I’ve been turning over in my head for days whether I was going to post this or not. There are people on this board who know me who maybe I didn’t want to know this happened. But today I realized that I wasn’t going to … --- ## [Merry Christmas From Walmart](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-walmart/597895)
**Author:** [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-from-walmart/597895 "2011-09-29T04:57:37Z")
Yes, last Sunday (September 25th) I went into the local Walmart and they had two full aisles of Christmas decorations - the lit up trees, garlands, strings of lights, Christmas villages… Ah yes, despite it being 100 deg… --- ## [Out goes all those floppy disks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-goes-all-those-floppy-disks/597705)
**Author:** [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/out-goes-all-those-floppy-disks/597705 "2011-09-29T04:54:00Z")
Housekeeping time. I finally decided to go through several boxes of floppy disks (the ultramodern 3.5" ones). Amazing how many programs I had for Win 3.3 and 98. Plus dozens of others that have not used in years. I did … --- ## [The four corners quadripoint of Canada: Anyone been there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-four-corners-quadripoint-of-canada-anyone-been-there/597583 "2011-09-29T04:46:14Z")
Everyone knows about the \[url-“Four Corners Monument - Wikipedia”\]Four Corners Monument of the US, where 4 states touch each other at one point. But a similar quadripoint in Canada seems to go sadly neglected. It even … --- ## [question for motorcycle riders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-motorcycle-riders/597971)
**Author:** [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-motorcycle-riders/597971 "2011-09-29T03:42:12Z")
So I take the ferry into Seattle everyday and one of the perks of taking a motorcycle onto the ferry is you get priority loading and thus we have lots of motorcycles, especially in good weather. It is interesting to me … --- ## [New kitty- assuage my fears!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-assuage-my-fears/596897)
**Author:** [@Green\_Rosetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Rosetta)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kitty-assuage-my-fears/596897 "2011-09-29T01:55:40Z")
I adopted a 7 year old kitty from the Humane Society on Saturday. The volunteer told me she had been a housecat and her owner died, and she’d come to them underweight. They said she still wasn’t eating much and was under… --- ## [The beautiful symmetry of the foreclosure racket (Freddie Mac fraud?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beautiful-symmetry-of-the-foreclosure-racket-freddie-mac-fraud/564964)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beautiful-symmetry-of-the-foreclosure-racket-freddie-mac-fraud/564964 "2011-09-29T01:15:16Z")
I have no idea if there’s any truth to this article, but if there is… :mad: --- ## [Animals declare war on people. Can we win?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-declare-war-on-people-can-we-win/597149)
**Author:** [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-declare-war-on-people-can-we-win/597149 "2011-09-28T20:56:00Z")
All the animals rise up and start attacking humans for a month. Aliens or something turn a switch for 31 days (and then back to normal). We’re outnumbered, but we have guns, tanks, jets, and other weapons. Most houses a… --- ## [Why are we ok with what Mark Zuckerberg did?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-we-ok-with-what-mark-zuckerberg-did/597552)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-we-ok-with-what-mark-zuckerberg-did/597552 "2011-09-28T18:38:13Z")
By we I mean the general public, of course. Maybe I’m making too many assumptions, but if the movie about facebook is accurate at all, Zuckerberg did indeed steal the idea from those twin fellas. The monetary settlement… --- ## [We may not have flying cars, but technology is pretty damn incredible](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-not-have-flying-cars-but-technology-is-pretty-damn-incredible/596504)
**Author:** [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-may-not-have-flying-cars-but-technology-is-pretty-damn-incredible/596504 "2011-09-28T16:12:43Z")
Dues to a combination of inertia, apathy and penury I came late to the smartphone party. I now have an iPhone (this is not meant to be an Apple fawning thread, BTW, I’m sure other smartphones are equally as whizzy), and … --- ## [Dog surfing: fun for all, or animal cruelty?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-surfing-fun-for-all-or-animal-cruelty/597774)
**Author:** [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-surfing-fun-for-all-or-animal-cruelty/597774 "2011-09-28T14:33:34Z")
(Disclaimer: the “animal cruelty” bit is purely tongue in cheek!) LAT Article/Slideshow: Sit, stay, surf: Sea dogs hang 10 in Huntington Beach A couple of the dogs–the boxer in particular–don’t seem to be enjoying them… --- ## [We now have the technology to view what your brain "sees".](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-now-have-the-technology-to-view-what-your-brain-sees/597344)
**Author:** [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-now-have-the-technology-to-view-what-your-brain-sees/597344 "2011-09-28T08:04:56Z")
Story here on Gizmodo. UC Berkeley came up with a method to reconstruct video from activity in your brain. Using an fMRI, hours of analyzing the individual’s brain activity, then reconstructing the video by mixing and … --- ## [Summertime Sequential Threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983)
**Author:** [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Replies:** 1049\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-sequential-threads/583983 "2011-09-28T02:31:50Z")
\*\*This morning I learned never to wear underwear to a hospital Because the Straight Dope tells me so - things learned from the Dope. \*\* Numquam ubi sub ubi! --- ## [Boeing 787 finally delivered](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boeing-787-finally-delivered/597592)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boeing-787-finally-delivered/597592 "2011-09-28T01:37:37Z")
Link. Three years late, Boeing has finally delivered the first 787 Dreamliner to All Nippon Airways. IMO, they really shot themselves in the foot by outsourcing it. Had they kept it in-house, I think it would have bee… --- ## [Anyone else following the Rebecca Zahau mystery.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-following-the-rebecca-zahau-mystery/597352)
**Author:** [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-following-the-rebecca-zahau-mystery/597352 "2011-09-28T01:33:26Z")
Some basic info on this very weird case. A little boy was playing on the second story of his house and fell over the stair railing and died. His father’s girlfriend (Rebecca Zahau) was at home at the time, but everyt… --- ## ["Atheist on an airplane" joke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-on-an-airplane-joke/597610)
**Author:** [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheist-on-an-airplane-joke/597610 "2011-09-28T00:32:18Z")
A couple of friends have posted this on Facebook: The guy is a jerk, the girl replies with a non sequitur. It would be equally asinine if the jerk were a member/adherent any religion, philosophy, or political party you… --- ## [I could be anthropomorphizing...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-could-be-anthropomorphizing/597724)
**Author:** [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-could-be-anthropomorphizing/597724 "2011-09-28T00:15:11Z")
but I’m pretty sure my dog would like a pet. :slight\_smile: My dog Tucker, a big dumb yellow Lab mix, used to have a pet cat/best friend named Buckley. They hung out together and Buckley would curl up beside him to nap … --- ## [Last night, after supper, my phone rang.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-night-after-supper-my-phone-rang/597489)
**Author:** [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-night-after-supper-my-phone-rang/597489 "2011-09-27T22:33:34Z")
(tl;dr. Unless you’re bored.;)) Do any of you remember the final scene in Stand By Me, where Richard Dreyfus’ character is writing the end of his story. He doesn’t speak, but he writes this line: “I never had any friend… --- ## [Was The M-16 Rifle The Cause of US Deaths in Vietnam?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-m-16-rifle-the-cause-of-us-deaths-in-vietnam/597682)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-m-16-rifle-the-cause-of-us-deaths-in-vietnam/597682 "2011-09-27T21:08:37Z")
I was just reading a good book about the Kalashnikov rifle. In many ways, the AK-47 was the ideal weapon-cheap to make, rugged and easy to maintain. In contrast, the US M-16 was a rifle that was prone to jamming-so muc… --- ## [Lloyds insurance sues members of Saudi Arabian government for funding 9/11](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lloyds-insurance-sues-members-of-saudi-arabian-government-for-funding-9-11/596936)
**Author:** [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lloyds-insurance-sues-members-of-saudi-arabian-government-for-funding-9-11/596936 "2011-09-27T19:30:12Z")
Story here: --- ## [What to wear to a Renaissance wedding if not a rennie costume](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-wear-to-a-renaissance-wedding-if-not-a-rennie-costume/597656)
**Author:** [@Brad\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brad_the_Impaler)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-wear-to-a-renaissance-wedding-if-not-a-rennie-costume/597656 "2011-09-27T18:57:17Z")
Long story short, I’m going to a rennie wedding on Saturday, and an unexpected $3K in bills has wiped out what I would have used for a costume, so that’s out of the question. So what the hell does one wear when most of t… --- ## [There are only two places I don't get 3g for my phone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-only-two-places-i-dont-get-3g-for-my-phone/597617)
**Author:** [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-only-two-places-i-dont-get-3g-for-my-phone/597617 "2011-09-27T16:02:55Z")
My house and where I work. --- ## [Cat can do yoga.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-can-do-yoga/597758)
**Author:** [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-can-do-yoga/597758 "2011-09-27T15:38:45Z")
Funny cat. --- ## [I need to confess my current drug use](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703)
**Author:** [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-confess-my-current-drug-use/597703 "2011-09-27T15:26:37Z")
(no peeps, open the thread) Cigarettes. Yes, and Marlboros to add to the crime. The context is this: a few packs I’ve bought recently of Marlboro Reds (the normal regular Marl cig) have “Marlboro Mix” written on it. W… --- ## [Cops blow up harmless briefcase "as a precaution"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-blow-up-harmless-briefcase-as-a-precaution/597337)
**Author:** [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-blow-up-harmless-briefcase-as-a-precaution/597337 "2011-09-27T07:26:54Z")
Some schmo left his briefcase on the train last night, so SEPTA (local transit) and local cops determined there were no explosives in it, then blew it up anyway, “as a precaution.” (Link) :rolleyes: What exactly were t… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1232) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1234)