# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1248 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1249 --- ## [My wife thinks I'm cheating on her.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-im-cheating-on-her/541606)
**Author:** [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Replies:** 164\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-thinks-im-cheating-on-her/541606 "2011-08-27T20:41:38Z")
So my wife calls me from work and tells me she found some panties in the laundry that aren’t hers, the obvious conclusion of course is that I’m cheating on her. Now I’m not the dumbest guy in the world, if i was going to… --- ## [Stick to Irish dancing.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-to-irish-dancing/594279)
**Author:** [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-to-irish-dancing/594279 "2011-08-27T18:55:32Z")
Dublin Rose becoming a laughing stock with her display of “hip hop” dancing. :smack: The Rose Of Tralee is beauty contest of sorts where each competitor must do a party piece. Sometimes they’re amazing, sometimes they’r… --- ## [I killed my dog today.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-my-dog-today/581203)
**Author:** [@The\_Fine\_Print](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Fine_Print)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-my-dog-today/581203 "2011-08-27T18:15:32Z")
I killed my dog today. I don’t post here very often but I feel I have to today. I’m currently living at home with my parents while I look for a job. It works out better than you might think as my Dad is temporarily di… --- ## [I can hear the county chopper overhead.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hear-the-county-chopper-overhead/594149)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hear-the-county-chopper-overhead/594149 "2011-08-27T16:55:27Z")
We don’t always lock our doors, having a Welcoming Committee that does not approve of strangers. The odds are against the bad guy coming in. I’m going to bed. Expect to see you tomorrow. It’s how odds work. --- ## [Kodiak Bear Vs. Great White Shark???](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodiak-bear-vs-great-white-shark/117744)
**Author:** [@Potato\_Chir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potato_Chir)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodiak-bear-vs-great-white-shark/117744 "2011-08-27T15:09:53Z")
My friends and I have been debating this question for a while. It just blows our minds. Who would win in a fight, a Kodiak Bear or a Great White Shark? The fight would have to be in water obviously, so the scenario we’v… --- ## [Exapno Mapcase And Lightnin': Please Accept My Apology](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exapno-mapcase-and-lightnin-please-accept-my-apology/594256)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exapno-mapcase-and-lightnin-please-accept-my-apology/594256 "2011-08-27T14:26:33Z")
Lord, I wish I could roll back this entire last month and make myself disappear when my boorish, stupid personality rears its ugly head here, my home, where I come to make myself feel good. Blame it on the dementia? No,… --- ## [Imagine a conversation between DSK and his wife](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-a-conversation-between-dsk-and-his-wife/593812)
**Author:** [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imagine-a-conversation-between-dsk-and-his-wife/593812 "2011-08-26T18:50:18Z")
DSK is returning home after his release from prison. Imagine a short conversation between him and his wife. Show your wit. No pitting please. (DSK = Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrested for alleged sexual violence; his case… --- ## [ebay ad - WTF? Have you seen anything worse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-ad-wtf-have-you-seen-anything-worse/592745)
**Author:** [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-ad-wtf-have-you-seen-anything-worse/592745 "2011-08-27T05:01:32Z")
Check this out. Ernie in garbage. What the fuck were these people thinking? “Hey! I know! Throw Ernie in the trash with the half eaten pasta! Offer to wash it!” I’d buy it, but honestly, I wouldn’t want it without… --- ## [Wifi in the sky!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wifi-in-the-sky/594242)
**Author:** [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wifi-in-the-sky/594242 "2011-08-27T04:11:40Z")
So it is only 8 bucks for the flight to have wifi. I paid more for my sandwich. I am loving it. I even have an app that lets me run my webcam. I love technology. Reading the dope at 30,000 feet just feels cool. Now to se… --- ## [Private planes, private no more](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-planes-private-no-more/594098)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-planes-private-no-more/594098 "2011-08-27T03:10:22Z")
Private planes, private no more I’m posting this in MPSIMS for general information. If you have an opinion about it, perhaps I should have put it in IMHO. Or if you feel strongly about the issue, or the greater issue… --- ## [International Day of Action for South Korean Dogs and Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-day-of-action-for-south-korean-dogs-and-cats/592577)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2011, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-day-of-action-for-south-korean-dogs-and-cats/592577 "2011-08-27T00:05:57Z")
It’s today (Saturday). In Cleveland: “People opposed to the eating of dogs and cats in South Korea will gather at 1 p.m. at the West Side Market, 1979 W. 25th St.” Presumably there will be refreshments. :dubious: Actu… --- ## [Street racing? Me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-racing-me/593596)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/street-racing-me/593596 "2011-08-26T23:32:28Z")
Okay, he had a Mustang GT burbling away next to me. I drive a base Ford Focus with a 5-speed and what, 130-140HP? Not a race car and I normally drive like an old lady, but I knew my masculinity was being challenged, at… --- ## [Bought a new lens today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bought-a-new-lens-today/591756)
**Author:** [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bought-a-new-lens-today/591756 "2011-08-26T23:30:42Z")
I upgraded from my Canon 10D to a 30 D a couple of weeks ago, and with a new promotion at work, i have a bit more discretionary funds. So i went into Henrys and picked up a 50 mm EF 1:1:8. Not sure if this is the much v… --- ## [Introduction-first post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649)
**Author:** [@beachbetch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beachbetch)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introduction-first-post/593649 "2011-08-26T23:26:11Z")
Hi guys. I’m a long time lurker, first time poster. Long time as in, I can remember reading SDMB on my giant Dell monitor that took up my whole desk and waiting (impatiently) for each thread to load with my super-slow … --- ## [Hurricane stories!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-stories/594200)
**Author:** [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-stories/594200 "2011-08-26T22:13:48Z")
I’m in Raleigh and we’re not supposed to get more from this hurricane than a couple inches of rain and a few good wind gusts. The extent of my preparation has been to make sure we have ingredients for sangria and to take… --- ## [What Bug is Living in my Car?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-living-in-my-car/594204)
**Author:** [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-living-in-my-car/594204 "2011-08-26T21:01:33Z")
I’m in Greensboro, NC awaiting the birth of my first grandchild, and visiting my car which I lent to my daughter. When I opened the trunk, I spotted this cocoony/nest type thingy. A Google search has been futile. Anyone … --- ## [Old People Are Weird](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-people-are-weird/593925)
**Author:** [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-people-are-weird/593925 "2011-08-26T20:09:09Z")
Below is an excerpt from an email my dad sent me today. He recently visited my grandmother. “Something funny happened while I was at her house. She told your sister that she could have an old cast iron teapop that she … --- ## [Give me back that filet-o-fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-back-that-filet-o-fish/594185)
**Author:** [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-back-that-filet-o-fish/594185 "2011-08-26T17:54:12Z")
Give me that fish! --- ## [He's a child, not a puppy...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hes-a-child-not-a-puppy/593985)
**Author:** [@Soliloquy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soliloquy)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hes-a-child-not-a-puppy/593985 "2011-08-26T17:44:51Z")
I’m not really feeling angry enough, after almost three years of snarking at people, to post about this in the pit, but after enduring a shopping trip in which three separate people felt like they should be allowed to pe… --- ## [Hell is hiring. Apply within.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-is-hiring-apply-within/594090)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hell-is-hiring-apply-within/594090 "2011-08-26T16:52:06Z")
\[Daemonic bureaucrat hat on\] A recent organizational reshuffling in the LowerArchy has resulted in the Internet Porn Monitoring and Advocacy Department being removed from the Operations Division and placed in Tempta… --- ## [I've Changed my user name and become a member.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-user-name-and-become-a-member/593752)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-user-name-and-become-a-member/593752 "2011-08-26T14:45:54Z")
Hello Everyone. I discovered this place almost a year ago and have spent many a pleasant hour reading these boards. I haven’t posted much, so I doubt too many of you are familiar with my previous user name of Raginghor… --- ## [Grovelling behavior by an African American man. Why did he act like this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grovelling-behavior-by-an-african-american-man-why-did-he-act-like-this/594075)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grovelling-behavior-by-an-african-american-man-why-did-he-act-like-this/594075 "2011-08-26T14:02:18Z")
I’m not even sure how to put this, or if I should even post it. But I’m bothered by it. The other day I was visiting my mother. She lives in a row house (the house I grew up in) and parking is at the curb. As I left I … --- ## [Did we just have an earthquake?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-have-an-earthquake/593803)
**Author:** [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Replies:** 209\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-have-an-earthquake/593803 "2011-08-26T12:04:53Z")
The office is shaking here in Northern VA. Are we having an earthquake? It lasted about 30 seconds so it wasn’t a car crash or something like that. --- ## [Flash mob do's and dont's](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-mob-dos-and-donts/594135)
**Author:** [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flash-mob-dos-and-donts/594135 "2011-08-26T05:01:03Z")
I want to be in a flash mob. Bad. I saw a movie recently that had 2 flash mobs in it (sorry, won’t divulge but it was a semi-decent movie made for the 20s crowd and I’m in my 50s so some of it whooshed right by me). I… --- ## [I bought a coffe maker, and knocked myself out.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-coffe-maker-and-knocked-myself-out/594089)
**Author:** [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-coffe-maker-and-knocked-myself-out/594089 "2011-08-26T02:44:23Z")
And one doesn’t have anything to do with t’other. Got tired of paying a $1+ for coffe every morning (and on refills during cooler weather), so I sprung for a decent coffee maker ($30.00) with one of those auto-brew time… --- ## [Give me life advice! (women, goals, your mistakes)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-life-advice-women-goals-your-mistakes/594076)
**Author:** [@DaveBfd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveBfd)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-life-advice-women-goals-your-mistakes/594076 "2011-08-26T02:06:03Z")
Ive been thinking lately about my life, and ways to improve it. I would love to hear what you guys think about your lives, mistakes you made and what you would do differently if you had a second chance. To preface, I am… --- ## [Global Domination Step 1: Control the Ports of Entry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-domination-step-1-control-the-ports-of-entry/594108)
**Author:** [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-domination-step-1-control-the-ports-of-entry/594108 "2011-08-26T01:30:11Z")
The Kiddo (otherwise known here now as Ledzepkid) is in 8th grade this year, so they’re doing American History. Today they were discussing the land grabs of the 19th century, and they did an in-class exercise: Each stu… --- ## [When writing news articles about earthquakes...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-writing-news-articles-about-earthquakes/594105)
**Author:** [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-writing-news-articles-about-earthquakes/594105 "2011-08-25T23:53:06Z")
Yes, we get it. The English language has exactly one (1) synonym for earthquake, not counting the diminuitive “quake.” Does it really make your article sound more intelligent to use it all the time? It’s like the crosswo… --- ## [What Awes You?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-awes-you/592601)
**Author:** [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-awes-you/592601 "2011-08-25T20:13:16Z")
This place can tend to become all trees and no forest, if you catch my drift. So, Dopers… Go on… what that thing, or even things that has captured your imagination so profound, perhaps since you were so young, you couldn… --- ## [Portland hospitals banning elective c-sections and early inductions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-hospitals-banning-elective-c-sections-and-early-inductions/593198)
**Author:** [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Replies:** 131\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portland-hospitals-banning-elective-c-sections-and-early-inductions/593198 "2011-08-25T19:09:09Z")
Article here. I know we’ve had a few pregnancy and childbirth threads which have gotten heated, but I think this will do fine here. I applaud this decision. While I think women should have choices in just about every … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1247) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1249)