# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=132 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 133 --- ## [Possible deadly Chinese submarine clusterfuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-deadly-chinese-submarine-clusterfuck/991079)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2023, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-deadly-chinese-submarine-clusterfuck/991079 "2023-11-23T11:22:58Z")
A Chinese nuclear sub possibly (China is denying) gets caught in China’s own submarine net, is damaged badly enough to require 6 hours to escape, repair, and surface, and somehow the air supply or scrubbers or something … --- ## [Dearly Beloved. We have gathered to bury the Loch Ness Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dearly-beloved-we-have-gathered-to-bury-the-loch-ness-monster/993128)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dearly-beloved-we-have-gathered-to-bury-the-loch-ness-monster/993128 "2023-11-22T19:36:13Z")
Yes, Children. The reason we cannot find Nessie is cause she’s DEAD. And buried. This guy says so. He deed the deed wid his Widdle Shovel. Here Lies Nessie. Or, at least SOMEBODY lies. (LINK) --- ## [Advances in supercomputers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advances-in-supercomputers/993530)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advances-in-supercomputers/993530 "2023-11-22T16:15:34Z")
What advances are being explored on the cutting edge of computer design these days. Is there any new supercomputer that’s on the horizon that’s on par with the sort of advance that a Cray-1 represented over existing comp… --- ## [Have you ever heard of Pelmanism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-pelmanism/993429)
**Author:** [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-pelmanism/993429 "2023-11-22T14:32:37Z")
I hadn’t. Until I saw a multipage advertisement in the back of a book I was reading. It was printed in 1920. The Pelman Institute was founded in the 1890s to help people develop their brains – in particular, their memori… --- ## [To All the Clothes I've Loved Before](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-clothes-ive-loved-before/983725)
**Author:** [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-all-the-clothes-ive-loved-before/983725 "2023-05-10T17:40:03Z")
The other day, I got to thinking about some of the clothes that I used to own that I wish I either a) still had the body to pull off, 2) could still find, iii) Hi Opal!, or D) still had the body to pull off if I could on… --- ## [Dog bite Friday...surgery for kid tomorrow morning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-bite-friday-surgery-for-kid-tomorrow-morning/993411)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-bite-friday-surgery-for-kid-tomorrow-morning/993411 "2023-11-21T14:16:01Z")
So on Friday arvo, after school, the grandkid was visiting a mate and was bitten by a dog. I’m not sure of the exact details, I believe kiddo was patting a friendly dog behind a fence, when this other bloody mongrel came… --- ## ["philosophical" thoughts on our future with AI](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philosophical-thoughts-on-our-future-with-ai/993369)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2023, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philosophical-thoughts-on-our-future-with-ai/993369 "2023-11-21T04:33:09Z")
well, first off, I am not an expert in any of this (neither AI nor Philosophy), so consider everything I say, a layman’s / intelectually curious reasoning … but not more. I have been thinking lately a lot about AI and h… --- ## [You know you're getting old(er) when](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 156\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-youre-getting-old-er-when/963091 "2023-11-21T01:33:17Z")
In my case, you find out that 80s teen star Debbie Gibson is affiliated with AARP. --- ## [Anyone an adult-onset Type 1 diabetic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-an-adult-onset-type-1-diabetic/993337)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-an-adult-onset-type-1-diabetic/993337 "2023-11-20T21:02:13Z")
In my family, there is a tendency to develop type 1, which is to say, insulin-dependent, diabetes as an adult. This is not insulin resistance; it’s pancreatic failure due to an autoimmune disorder where the pancreas for … --- ## [What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-compliment-you-ve-ever-received/993000)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-best-compliment-you-ve-ever-received/993000 "2023-11-20T19:57:43Z")
I was told that I’m reliable and nice. One co-worker even said that she’d never heard or seen me lose my temper, which pleases me very much. --- ## [(Old) Getting caught off-guard n the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-getting-caught-off-guard-n-the-mmp/993062)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 242\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-getting-caught-off-guard-n-the-mmp/993062 "2023-11-20T06:37:44Z")
I guess we all have those times when all of a sudden, you realize a deadline, an event, an appointment, something is bearing down and you lost track. My most recent example was this past weekend realizing that Thanksgivi… --- ## [I think Doctor Who was just elected president of Argentina](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722 "2023-11-20T04:49:13Z")
If this guy isn’t a Time Lord, I don’t know who is. (No pun intended.) Google Image Search. --- ## [For twenty minutes in the sixties ... 63 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-twenty-minutes-in-the-sixties-63-years-ago/978700)
**Author:** [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-twenty-minutes-in-the-sixties-63-years-ago/978700 "2023-11-20T02:50:11Z")
Today (23 January) is a big day for SDMB memes. It’s the 63rd anniversary of when the bathyscaphe Trieste went to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. “The two men spent twenty minutes on the ocean floor.” Wikipedia link: T… --- ## [Have you ever stumbled across something you completely forgot you owned?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211 "2023-11-20T02:37:13Z")
So I was just looking through my CD collection for inspiration for nominations for @Mean\_Mr.Mustard’s latest song poll\*. There, on the very bottom of a stack of CDs, I found a copy of David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall.… --- ## [Amazon has locked me out of my sales AND personal account](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-has-locked-me-out-of-my-sales-and-personal-account/984004)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-has-locked-me-out-of-my-sales-and-personal-account/984004 "2023-11-19T23:11:01Z")
They’re saying that I needed to provide certain forms of documentation, which I have been doing, starting on Wednesday when they locked me out. Driver’s license (both sides), bank statements, credit card statements - so… --- ## [Bad bad bad Touch-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-touch-me-not/992971)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-touch-me-not/992971 "2023-11-19T21:50:16Z")
Don’t touch my stuff I hate it. You’re trying show the grandkids a cute doggy picture on your phone. Why do they have to grab the phone to look at it, with their grimy, grubby, virus spreading, don’t know where they’ve … --- ## [Gay pride nutcracker doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-pride-nutcracker-doll/993371)
**Author:** [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-pride-nutcracker-doll/993371 "2023-11-19T20:50:17Z")
Can be ordered from Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Kohl’s. There is a Wondershop brand and a Kurt S. Adler brand. Am I going to Hell for checking to see if the mouth works? (It does. The tall version of each doll has a… --- ## [Apparently aluminum foil is the new toilet paper (not literally)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-aluminum-foil-is-the-new-toilet-paper-not-literally/993296)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-aluminum-foil-is-the-new-toilet-paper-not-literally/993296 "2023-11-19T15:12:36Z")
I was surprised to see this. It has been a while since the last time I bought a roll, but it was definitely in the $3 territory then. --- ## [I practice Tai Chi, and so should you (especially you)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-practice-tai-chi-and-so-should-you-especially-you/993081)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-practice-tai-chi-and-so-should-you-especially-you/993081 "2023-11-19T06:10:18Z")
I’ve been practicing tai chi for about 6 years now, which is sort of unusual as I was only 38 when I started and typically such practice is targeted towards people in their 60s and up. I had already gotten a black belt… --- ## [DYMO label machines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dymo-label-machines/993032)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dymo-label-machines/993032 "2023-11-18T23:11:15Z")
The DYMO came out in 1958. It must have sold well as I recall them being used everywhere by the time I was in high school (1960-64). What an awesome idea it was! My favorite use for them is in the Bond film where he flie… --- ## [My cat has bitten and scratched me too many times](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-has-bitten-and-scratched-me-too-many-times/987101)
**Author:** [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-has-bitten-and-scratched-me-too-many-times/987101 "2023-11-18T22:44:50Z")
We’re thinking that we have to rehome our cat, and I’m really upset. He’s the handsome ginger tabby in my avatar, adopted as a 3-week-old kitten from the animal shelter in 2016. At that point we had fostered over a dozen… --- ## [Bad, bad, bad beck--a plucky girl!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-a-plucky-girl/993329)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-a-plucky-girl/993329 "2023-11-18T21:15:24Z")
I decided in a fit of boredom, disgust and the fact that I accidentally found the pluckers to pluck my eyebrows. I was beginning to look neanderthal. Haven’t done this in, I don’t know, 10 years or something. The Lil’wr… --- ## [Going to auto racing school in Monterey; what else to see and do while I'm there](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-auto-racing-school-in-monterey-what-else-to-see-and-do-while-im-there/992326)
**Author:** [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-auto-racing-school-in-monterey-what-else-to-see-and-do-while-im-there/992326 "2023-11-18T18:44:18Z")
For years (decades, really), I’ve thought it would be fun to take a high-performance driving school. Well, next week is the time. I’m going to a three-day racing school at Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. So I tho… --- ## [Prominent atheist, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, converts to Christianity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-atheist-ayaan-hirsi-ali-converts-to-christianity/993260)
**Author:** [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-atheist-ayaan-hirsi-ali-converts-to-christianity/993260 "2023-11-18T17:09:57Z")
For anyone unfamiliar with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she was born into a Muslim family in Somalia. She moved to the Netherlands and became a MP, and lived in the Netherlands until the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, a filmmaker w… --- ## [My fridge is haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fridge-is-haunted/993327)
**Author:** [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fridge-is-haunted/993327 "2023-11-18T16:51:59Z")
My fridge every so often stars making a rattling sound. Funnily, whilst it’s going on if I enter the kitchen and get within 2 metres of the fridge it stops, then starts as soon as I walk away., and will stop if I appro… --- ## [If it ain't footballers it's Leprechauns. LINK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-it-aint-footballers-its-leprechauns-link/993330)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-it-aint-footballers-its-leprechauns-link/993330 "2023-11-18T15:41:59Z")
Apparently, Liverpool gets Leprechauns. This story is mostly from the 1960s. Liverpool’s Kensington district is a huge contrast to its London namesake. In 1967 it was a densely populated working-class area, with few op… --- ## [It's time for the 18th no-longer-annual Shot Glass Exchange!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-18th-no-longer-annual-shot-glass-exchange/990556)
**Author:** [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-18th-no-longer-annual-shot-glass-exchange/990556 "2023-11-18T14:43:35Z")
The kinda-annual-but-not-really shot glass exchange is here! \[you all know the rules so I’ll refrain from my usual pontificating and lecturing\] If you want to participate, make a note in the thread here and then email … --- ## [Mysterious canine respiratory illness sweeping the nation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-canine-respiratory-illness-sweeping-the-nation/993255)
**Author:** [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-canine-respiratory-illness-sweeping-the-nation/993255 "2023-11-17T20:21:55Z")
Joe developed a weird cough the other day, and it sounds terrible. Seems unlikely it would be kennel cough, since his last daycare trip was early October and his only other dog contact is with the 2 next door through the… --- ## [Are "smart" toys such as drones a danger to kids?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-smart-toys-such-as-drones-a-danger-to-kids/993291)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-smart-toys-such-as-drones-a-danger-to-kids/993291 "2023-11-17T20:06:48Z")
There have been “scares” about toys that could record or spy on children, such as Furbys. Is this article more of the same unwarranted fears, or is there a legitimate concern here? --- ## [Consumer Nightmares Big & Small](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consumer-nightmares-big-small/993246)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consumer-nightmares-big-small/993246 "2023-11-17T15:43:25Z")
One of my watering hole football watching buddies has notoriously bad luck when it comes to food service in any form. For example, he’s the only person I’ve ever known who, upon arriving home with his McDonald’s burger &… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=131) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=133)