# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1239 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1240 --- ## [self preservation (no sense of)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-preservation-no-sense-of/596417)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/self-preservation-no-sense-of/596417 "2011-09-16T01:13:21Z")
I am often amazed at the lack of a sense of self-preservation exhibited by random people I see, particularly urban pedestrians. Or maybe they just trust in the abilities and attentiveness of their fellow man more than … --- ## [Apparently, Sikh women are dwarves](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-sikh-women-are-dwarves/596447)
**Author:** [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-sikh-women-are-dwarves/596447 "2011-09-16T00:47:49Z")
In this article about Confusion over what Sikhs are and are not in America: --- ## [Gordon Ramsey Lookalike Dwarf Porn Star Dragged Into Deep Burrow and Eaten By Badgers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-ramsey-lookalike-dwarf-porn-star-dragged-into-deep-burrow-and-eaten-by-badgers/596202)
**Author:** [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gordon-ramsey-lookalike-dwarf-porn-star-dragged-into-deep-burrow-and-eaten-by-badgers/596202 "2011-09-15T23:15:21Z")
I hate it when that happens. --- ## [Link to your Google+ profile here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-google-profile-here/589139)
**Author:** [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/link-to-your-google-profile-here/589139 "2011-09-15T21:37:59Z")
I’d like to make this a one-stop shopping sort of thread for collecting SDMB members Google+ ids so we can put them in our circles. Please don’t make posts that don’t include a link to your profile. If you hover over you… --- ## [Curious Facebook advertising!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-facebook-advertising/596337)
**Author:** [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fake_Tales_of_San_Francisco)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-facebook-advertising/596337 "2011-09-15T20:42:46Z")
I’m sort of vaguely aware that Facebook employs some rather clever technology that means that it caters its advertising to individual users. So if you like a particular band, it will advertise similar bands etc. But som… --- ## [There be kitten!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-be-kitten/594619)
**Author:** [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-be-kitten/594619 "2011-09-15T18:34:28Z")
i have a brand, spankin’ new, four-week-old female scrap of fur!! :smiley: the backstory: da niece, who is a junior at ball state, took in this abandoned three-week old scrap of fur last week, after the university put o… --- ## [Saw a word the other day that could describe many Dopers (including me)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-word-the-other-day-that-could-describe-many-dopers-including-me/592375)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-word-the-other-day-that-could-describe-many-dopers-including-me/592375 "2011-09-15T17:35:00Z")
Ultracrepidarian-A person who voices opinions beyond the scope of their knowledge. --- ## [Dominatrix loses a second boyfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominatrix-loses-a-second-boyfriend/596218)
**Author:** [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominatrix-loses-a-second-boyfriend/596218 "2011-09-15T16:35:01Z")
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” Oscar Wilde --- ## [Another Neti Pot Thread .... Competition!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-neti-pot-thread-competition/596383)
**Author:** [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-neti-pot-thread-competition/596383 "2011-09-15T12:07:35Z")
I am speechless … they turned using a neti pot into a competition :eek: Youtube video, and if you are squeemish about shoving 5 gallons of water through your sinuses fast, I wouldn’t watch it. Words fail me. I honestly … --- ## [Odd dislikes you have inherited.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-dislikes-you-have-inherited/596320)
**Author:** [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-dislikes-you-have-inherited/596320 "2011-09-15T11:03:56Z")
Or…I have been influenced more than I thought by my grandmother. I was trying to explain to a friend why irishbaby is currently wearing a particularly hideous pair of maroon shoes, and explaining that the choice was ei… --- ## [Ring tones](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-tones/596123)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-tones/596123 "2011-09-15T05:24:33Z")
Where is a good place to get free ringtones? The future Mrs. Plant who I dated 1982-1986 wants The Second Time Around. :slight\_smile: --- ## [So robbing students of their milk money is done at gunpoint now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-robbing-students-of-their-milk-money-is-done-at-gunpoint-now/596312)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-robbing-students-of-their-milk-money-is-done-at-gunpoint-now/596312 "2011-09-15T04:04:14Z")
Fort Washington, MD: Investigators say a 13-year-old and two 17-year-olds were at the intersection of Old Allentown Road and Airport Drive. Two of the four suspects in the Camry jumped out. One had what witnesses say was… --- ## [Color constancy: an interesting experience](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-constancy-an-interesting-experience/595844)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-constancy-an-interesting-experience/595844 "2011-09-15T03:31:52Z")
My bathroom has a bank of incandescent light over the sink and a red heat lamp in the middle of the ceiling. Go into it at night and turn on the white light. Find a place that the white light shines on, but is in the s… --- ## [Fighter jets! (Or something...)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighter-jets-or-something/595943)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighter-jets-or-something/595943 "2011-09-15T02:47:52Z")
Yesterday I read a pictorial history of many aircraft that flew at Edwards AFB. I’m not sure where I’m going with this thread. we had a ‘favourite fighters’ thread a couple/few years ago, and one on bombers too. So it’… --- ## [Nominate a profession for the Golgafrincham b ark](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-a-profession-for-the-golgafrincham-b-ark/594612)
**Author:** [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nominate-a-profession-for-the-golgafrincham-b-ark/594612 "2011-09-15T01:58:36Z")
For those of you who haven’t read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the Golgafrinchans were a race whose planet was going to be completely destroyed by a mutant star goat. To save their race, they built three mighty s… --- ## [Toyota to be sued for cyberstalking ad campaign](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-to-be-sued-for-cyberstalking-ad-campaign/596166)
**Author:** [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-to-be-sued-for-cyberstalking-ad-campaign/596166 "2011-09-15T01:51:41Z")
This seems a bizarre story: What could possibly lead anyone to believe this could end well? --- ## [My Railroad "Disaster"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-railroad-disaster/596135)
**Author:** [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-railroad-disaster/596135 "2011-09-14T23:30:28Z")
After reading today’s “classic” column : http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/592/what-does-do-not-hump-mean-on-the-side-of-railroad-cars I was reminded of the railroad “Disaster” I caused some time back in the ear… --- ## [I think I need to call a plumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-need-to-call-a-plumber/596128)
**Author:** [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-i-need-to-call-a-plumber/596128 "2011-09-14T22:46:59Z")
Because I don’t know what the hell just came out of my sink faucet. --- ## [People who make such poorly thought-out arguments that they do their "side" a disservice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-make-such-poorly-thought-out-arguments-that-they-do-their-side-a-disservice/596117)
**Author:** [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-make-such-poorly-thought-out-arguments-that-they-do-their-side-a-disservice/596117 "2011-09-14T21:54:44Z")
This thread is about people who make such poorly thought-out arguments that they do their “side” a disservice, such that you’re silently screaming “PLEASE DON’T HELP”\* or you think they may secretly be a plant for the ot… --- ## [Today is DAY ONE!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-day-one/596336)
**Author:** [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-day-one/596336 "2011-09-14T21:16:00Z")
Yes, today is the first day of the World Year 7521, according to the Byzantine Calendar. It started at midnight in each time zone. This article explains it all very well. The reason that the “Year of the World” is muc… --- ## [Chinese pharmaceutical company builds a palace](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-pharmaceutical-company-builds-a-palace/596314)
**Author:** [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-pharmaceutical-company-builds-a-palace/596314 "2011-09-14T21:14:11Z")
The Harbin Pharmaceutical Company has constructed a new corporate headquarters modeled on the palace at Versailles. Definitely well over the top. --- ## [Where is my key? (I'm an idiot)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-my-key-im-an-idiot/596072)
**Author:** [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-my-key-im-an-idiot/596072 "2011-09-14T21:12:00Z")
I seem to remember a thread where someone had lost a key, and a psychic doper was able to determine its location. Please help\*. I’ve lost the only key to my (Locked) shed, and need to get the mower out before the grass… --- ## [This is a cool fountain.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-cool-fountain/596288)
**Author:** [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-cool-fountain/596288 "2011-09-14T20:45:31Z")
From the Daily What:Futuristic Fountain of the Day The video is just over 4 minutes. --- ## [Web Cam 101 For Seniors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-cam-101-for-seniors/596332)
**Author:** [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-cam-101-for-seniors/596332 "2011-09-14T20:04:46Z")
‘Web Cam 101 For Seniors’ Turns Oregon Oldsters Into YouTube Celebrities --- ## [Microsoft Mouse Without Borders - goodbye, KM switch!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-mouse-without-borders-goodbye-km-switch/596264)
**Author:** [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-mouse-without-borders-goodbye-km-switch/596264 "2011-09-14T19:37:02Z")
As someone who has multiple computers (or as my wife likes to call it, “an addiction”), managing keyboard and mouse switching has been a bit of a challenge. I don’t need to drop major coin on a KVM switch, since I don’t… --- ## [Happy Birthday! We got you a sister!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-we-got-you-a-sister/596236)
**Author:** [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-we-got-you-a-sister/596236 "2011-09-14T19:03:15Z")
I’m an aunt again! Niece #2 made her grand entrance a little after 6pm today. Three weeks early but still over 7 pounds and about 20 inches long. Her big sister’s third birthday is Saturday, and there was this small e… --- ## [The Update thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-update-thread/596093)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-update-thread/596093 "2011-09-14T17:20:38Z")
You. You told us a story, but never updated us on how things turned out. Or you don’t want to bump a several year old thread to talk about a new development. Use this thread. Way way back in July of 2002 there was a S… --- ## [I hope that they have a happy mARRiage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-that-they-have-a-happy-marriage/595888)
**Author:** [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-that-they-have-a-happy-marriage/595888 "2011-09-14T17:14:58Z")
Why is it that there’s never a “Weird things you saw today” thread going on the days when I see weird things? Earlier today I was visiting one of my favorite seaside tourist communities. As I was walking up the main str… --- ## [Suing White Castle: A lesson in "cause and effect"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suing-white-castle-a-lesson-in-cause-and-effect/596204)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suing-white-castle-a-lesson-in-cause-and-effect/596204 "2011-09-14T14:43:31Z")
Man sues White Castle because he’s too fat to fit in the booths. Although I also have a weight problem, I have no sympathy for this guy. Rather, I’d be embarrassed to step foot in the place again . . . or at least sit i… --- ## [My dog has Psychokinesis powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-has-psychokinesis-powers/596224)
**Author:** [@WILDJC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILDJC)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-has-psychokinesis-powers/596224 "2011-09-14T13:42:26Z")
Feeding my Pomeranian puppy last month, a bag of dog treats moved across my kitchen counter top about a foot. What’s up with that? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1238) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1240)