# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=131 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 132 --- ## [The pleasures of getting rid of 'stuff'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pleasures-of-getting-rid-of-stuff/993490)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pleasures-of-getting-rid-of-stuff/993490 "2023-11-29T20:24:06Z")
I’m the type of person who has always tended to accumulate stuff. The tools for an old hobby linger long past my interest in the hobby, every book I ever bought (well, nearly) fill bookcases – there are eight just in my… --- ## [... today I lost it - live in a zoom meeting!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-lost-it-live-in-a-zoom-meeting/993825)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-lost-it-live-in-a-zoom-meeting/993825 "2023-11-29T17:55:31Z")
It = jacket crown … while I was giving a presentation in a zoom meeting … I felt something really hard in my mouth going around… a jacket crown got loose … luckily from a moler, so not completely “in your face” … but ne… --- ## [Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has unspecified dementia (has died, Nov. 19, 2023)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-has-unspecified-dementia-has-died-nov-19-2023/984791)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-has-unspecified-dementia-has-died-nov-19-2023/984791 "2023-11-29T14:04:12Z")
At 95, that’s actually not a surprise. It still stinks. --- ## [How far do you live from the place you were born?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959 "2023-11-28T09:10:06Z")
Born on Guam, live in Portland OR - 5,687 miles. Let’s see who lives the closest and who lives the farthest. :smiley: --- ## [Turning down requests for money, when you just don't think it's a good idea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-down-requests-for-money-when-you-just-dont-think-its-a-good-idea/991762)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turning-down-requests-for-money-when-you-just-dont-think-its-a-good-idea/991762 "2023-11-28T01:38:08Z")
This was triggered by a specific request, but I suppose it could apply in a lot of circumstances so feel free to wander to related type requests. One of the semi-close members of my family (think something like the chil… --- ## [Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald and other tragic Great Lakes shipwrecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-the-edmund-fitzgerald-and-other-tragic-great-lakes-shipwrecks/992964)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-the-edmund-fitzgerald-and-other-tragic-great-lakes-shipwrecks/992964 "2023-11-28T00:29:18Z")
I rang our bell on the Lake Michigan shore 29 times tonight, for the Edmund Fitzgerald. (Once for each man lost on Lake Superior in 1975.) I’m sure I saw the Fitz sail past my home here many times during my younger days… --- ## [A question for Chinese people. What do you think of American Chinese food?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-chinese-people-what-do-you-think-of-american-chinese-food/992237)
**Author:** [@Nadnerb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nadnerb)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-for-chinese-people-what-do-you-think-of-american-chinese-food/992237 "2023-11-27T23:45:29Z")
I’m just wondering and keep in mind that I’m not anti-Chinese. I’m just curious to see what they think of American Chinese food. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Or, are you indifferent with it? --- ## [Re-reading the Port Huron Statement](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-reading-the-port-huron-statement/993425)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-reading-the-port-huron-statement/993425 "2023-11-27T23:20:09Z")
Re-read the Port Huron Statement this week-end, as one does. (Yes, the compromised second draft.) Drafted in 1962, it strikes me as relevant still today, apart from the language, such as the use of “man” for humanity and… --- ## [Red blood cell given tiny moustache](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-blood-cell-given-tiny-moustache/993786)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-blood-cell-given-tiny-moustache/993786 "2023-11-27T20:56:41Z")
I mean, the title really says it all. Is there any wonder that science can’t accomplish? Fair warning: the article is not the easiest to read. --- ## [The Great 2023 Thanksgiving Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2023-thanksgiving-thread/993377)
**Author:** [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-2023-thanksgiving-thread/993377 "2023-11-27T19:40:41Z")
This whole OP is a bit too miscellaneous for CS, so here we are. That said, I will not object to its relocation to CS, as needed. Well, here we are. Thanksgiving is fast approaching and this is the week of Running Aroun… --- ## [Chicago question: There is Ida B. Wells Drive and Wells Street (they intersect). Are these named after different people?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-question-there-is-ida-b-wells-drive-and-wells-street-they-intersect-are-these-named-after-different-people/993751)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-question-there-is-ida-b-wells-drive-and-wells-street-they-intersect-are-these-named-after-different-people/993751 "2023-11-27T16:04:27Z")
Title says it all. Are these two different people or the same person? I know who Ida B. Wells is but but not sure about the Wells of Wells Street. You can see the intersection here (middle-right quarter of the map bel… --- ## [Palm Beach County owns your trash](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palm-beach-county-owns-your-trash/993704)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palm-beach-county-owns-your-trash/993704 "2023-11-27T14:20:53Z")
Well, maybe not your trash; but residents’ trash. Palm Beach County, Florida, is making commercial worm composting illegal, saying it owns the rights to residents’ trash. Mel Corichi originally founded her worm farm… --- ## [Fixed perfume problem with UV and/or ozone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixed-perfume-problem-with-uv-and-or-ozone/993724)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixed-perfume-problem-with-uv-and-or-ozone/993724 "2023-11-27T12:27:57Z")
Huge personal victory here! We often have relatives as multiple day houseguests. I’m very sensitive to perfumes after an industrial exposure to toluene diisocyanate, but my requests to them not to use perfumes here fall … --- ## [High energy particle detected from outside the Galaxy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-energy-particle-detected-from-outside-the-galaxy/993708)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-energy-particle-detected-from-outside-the-galaxy/993708 "2023-11-27T07:10:28Z")
Story here: I don’t know enough to comment, but it sounds significant? --- ## [(Old) Can You Hear that Cranberry "Schloop"? - A Thanksgiving MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-can-you-hear-that-cranberry-schloop-a-thanksgiving-mmp/993412)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 315\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-can-you-hear-that-cranberry-schloop-a-thanksgiving-mmp/993412 "2023-11-27T06:46:11Z")
So are you Team Can, or are you one of those whole berry people? And do they even have the canned stuff in Canada when they celebrate Metric Thanksgiving? Anyways, up, caffeinated, and off to start Peak Season heaving. … --- ## [Note on the Drawing Power of Crowds of Different Size](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-on-the-drawing-power-of-crowds-of-different-size/993667)
**Author:** [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/note-on-the-drawing-power-of-crowds-of-different-size/993667 "2023-11-26T22:09:32Z")
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1970-00589-001?doi=1 This won an Ig Nobel prize this year. The really important Milgram experiment. PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE \[USA\] Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, and Lawrence Berkowitz for e… --- ## [For Those Feeling sick all the time like myself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-feeling-sick-all-the-time-like-myself/993682)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-feeling-sick-all-the-time-like-myself/993682 "2023-11-26T19:40:10Z")
I thought I had the flu, but then thought, “But I haven’t seen anyone in weeks!” and noticed that every time my cousin comes over, as soon as he leaves, I have to go to take a shit. I also had problems pissing, and I kno… --- ## [Canadian trial: former RCMP high official convicted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-trial-former-rcmp-high-official-convicted/993584)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-trial-former-rcmp-high-official-convicted/993584 "2023-11-26T05:14:28Z")
A jury has convicted a former high-ranking civilian official in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police under the Security of Information Act. Cameron Ortis was convicted this week on six charges of leaking secret information… --- ## [Bombarded with spam phone calls! Can anyone help?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombarded-with-spam-phone-calls-can-anyone-help/932476)
**Author:** [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombarded-with-spam-phone-calls-can-anyone-help/932476 "2023-11-26T02:46:32Z")
For the last couple of weeks I’m getting blasted by spam phone calls on my Verizon cell phone. I’ve received a dozen today alone. There’s never any message left. Some are identified with names and local addresses and … --- ## [A critique of ChatGPT written by Nick Cave and read by Stephen Fry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-critique-of-chatgpt-written-by-nick-cave-and-read-by-stephen-fry/993642)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-critique-of-chatgpt-written-by-nick-cave-and-read-by-stephen-fry/993642 "2023-11-25T22:41:50Z")
ChatGPT and other expert systems like it are amazing and taking the world by storm. While they have their uses I also think they have their dangers. Not Skynet dangers (for this), but rather something more existential.… --- ## [Joys of the Internet, great websites, online games](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joys-of-the-internet-great-websites-online-games/992583)
**Author:** [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2023, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joys-of-the-internet-great-websites-online-games/992583 "2023-11-25T11:49:22Z")
I’m surprised we don’t have a thread dedicated to those corners of the internet which are interesting, unusual, fun or fascinating, so I thought we ought to start one. Just somewhere we can share great online finds, weir… --- ## [On this day 8 years ago, I was in the emergency room](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-this-day-8-years-ago-i-was-in-the-emergency-room/993599)
**Author:** [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-this-day-8-years-ago-i-was-in-the-emergency-room/993599 "2023-11-25T01:33:53Z")
And I learned that while in the emergency room today, checking Facebook while getting fluids and meds. I went into anaphylaxis for the first time in quite a while. I used one epipen and was heading for the second when I… --- ## [Invasion of the Super-Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invasion-of-the-super-pig/993600)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invasion-of-the-super-pig/993600 "2023-11-25T01:30:50Z")
Canadian super-pigs about to invade the US. Super-pigs are ferals crossbred with domestic swine. They have the destructiveness of ferals combined with breeding as fast as domestic. I guess they still haven’t forgiven … --- ## [I think they're about to announce the Pistorius verdict.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theyre-about-to-announce-the-pistorius-verdict/698152)
**Author:** [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2023, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theyre-about-to-announce-the-pistorius-verdict/698152 "2023-11-24T22:51:43Z")
CNN says he’s returned to court for the verdict. It’s 1am here. What time is it there? --- ## [Recommend a brand of ice-gripper shoe cover](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-brand-of-ice-gripper-shoe-cover/993453)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-brand-of-ice-gripper-shoe-cover/993453 "2023-11-24T20:11:51Z")
My mom says she wants a pair for her birthday, and there’s a ton of different brands on Amazon. Anyone have a first hand positive suggestion or advice? --- ## [Dissociative peas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dissociative-peas/993539)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dissociative-peas/993539 "2023-11-24T14:56:22Z")
Yummy! I worried and was pained to know Mid-dau went out on a limb and cooked Split pea soup yesterday. She assured me it would be great. Yeah, no. Not convinced. I have problems with cauliflower and broccoli. This sou… --- ## [They Say the South is friendly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-say-the-south-is-friendly/993572)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-say-the-south-is-friendly/993572 "2023-11-24T13:18:39Z")
And “southern hospitality” is a supposed byword. But look at these maps from Atlas Obscura. Lots of red in the red states, Hmmm --- ## [Expressions I hate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-i-hate/962620)
**Author:** [@mglambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mglambo)\ **Replies:** 150\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressions-i-hate/962620 "2023-11-24T11:11:12Z")
So I’m new here. I guess this is the area for pointless stuff so here is a REALLY pointless mundane thing that bugs me …at the supermarket they usually be have these grab and go bins with cold cuts and cheeses in zipper… --- ## [It's 2 am. What good "could" happen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-2-am-what-good-could-happen/993499)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-2-am-what-good-could-happen/993499 "2023-11-24T00:15:09Z")
You know you always hear nothing good happens after 2am. Surely something good happened a couple of times. (Maybe Publishers Clearinghouse has a night shift) --- ## [Dopers--Is your electricty dirty?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-is-your-electricty-dirty/993568)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-is-your-electricty-dirty/993568 "2023-11-23T19:58:12Z")
I just deleted a piece of spam from something called Killerwatzz, that claims your electrify is dirty, and for a fee, they will clean it for you. I swear to OG God of Cavemen, this takes the cake for goofy spam! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=130) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=132)