# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=196 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 197 --- ## [Sean Connery's personal aston-Martin DB-4 sells for $2.4M](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connerys-personal-aston-martin-db-4-sells-for-2-4m/970243)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-connerys-personal-aston-martin-db-4-sells-for-2-4m/970243 "2022-08-25T17:11:13Z")
Connery disliked being associated with Bond by the mid-1960s, but that didn’t stop him from playing the riole two more times after he quit it in 1967 (in 1971 and 1983). And he apparently really liked the Aston Martin, f… --- ## [Any Google Voice Users.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-google-voice-users/800934)
**Author:** [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-google-voice-users/800934 "2022-08-25T17:07:56Z")
Decided to give Google voice a try and see if it’s useful for me. If you’re not familiar with it, one new number will ring my home phone and cell. Also converts voice mail to texts. Probably other stuff I don’t know abo… --- ## [Drought-lowered European Rivers reveal WWII Nazi ships](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drought-lowered-european-rivers-reveal-wwii-nazi-ships/970165)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drought-lowered-european-rivers-reveal-wwii-nazi-ships/970165 "2022-08-25T15:35:24Z")
We’re talking about Lake Powell and Lake Mead here in the US drying up, leaving intakes high and dry and revealing bodies and boats, but in Europe the rivers are also drying up. Near the mouth of the Danube this has reve… --- ## [What's the most unreasonable, pointless, inane, illegal, or just plain insane policies you've been subjected to in the workplace?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-unreasonable-pointless-inane-illegal-or-just-plain-insane-policies-youve-been-subjected-to-in-the-workplace/962273)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 420\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-unreasonable-pointless-inane-illegal-or-just-plain-insane-policies-youve-been-subjected-to-in-the-workplace/962273 "2022-08-24T15:01:45Z")
I’ll start. Mines rather low on the unreasonable scale, but obviously someone in management thought it was a good idea. Working an IT help desk one time where there was a policy that if you had 8 hours on the clock you… --- ## [Facebook apparently hacked (August 24, 2022)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-apparently-hacked-august-24-2022/970211)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-apparently-hacked-august-24-2022/970211 "2022-08-24T13:17:12Z")
My Facebook feed is suddenly just filled with people sending pictures to celebrities I follow, mostly Dwayne The Rock Johnson, and apparently I’m not the only one. This happen to anyone else? Of course, people are catch… --- ## [About an analphabet foreign family running a parcel delivery service in my neighborhood](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-an-analphabet-foreign-family-running-a-parcel-delivery-service-in-my-neighborhood/970187)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-an-analphabet-foreign-family-running-a-parcel-delivery-service-in-my-neighborhood/970187 "2022-08-24T02:19:53Z")
Here is something that I experienced today and want to share. I live in Germany, where Amazon would never have got off the ground, because our mail service (sic!) is no use, specially not for parcels. But now Amazon sets… --- ## [Give me examples of challenges which are Whelming](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-examples-of-challenges-which-are-whelming/970010)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2022, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-examples-of-challenges-which-are-whelming/970010 "2022-08-23T23:55:59Z")
The game Wordle is neither too easy nor too hard. It is a time constrained challenge which neither underwhelms nor overwhelms. So it is a whelming challenge. Another example? Your favourite sports team is down by one… --- ## [Longest Ingrown Hair You’ve Had?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-ingrown-hair-you-ve-had/970045)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-ingrown-hair-you-ve-had/970045 "2022-08-23T23:51:46Z")
I stopped shaving with electric razors years ago since they seemed to cause ingrown facial hairs. Not had one for years. Or so I thought. Few weeks ago prodded a bump and with some dexterity extracted an ingrown hair … --- ## [Ireland vacation question: hiking boots? sneakers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-vacation-question-hiking-boots-sneakers/969235)
**Author:** [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-vacation-question-hiking-boots-sneakers/969235 "2022-08-23T21:15:50Z")
We’re going to Ireland next week, spending 2 days in Dublin and then taking a bus tour that gives us 1 night each in Cork, Limerick and Galway, with a final night in Dublin. Sightseeing stops between the towns include Po… --- ## [Perjorative names for water](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perjorative-names-for-water/937922)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perjorative-names-for-water/937922 "2022-08-23T16:46:08Z")
Drizzly Gully Wash Faucet Drip Robert Drowny Junior Glacier Wizz Dorkle Smelly old water Geyser Hork Tuna Toilet Doopflush Bat Tinkle Cloud Dump Foster’s Ice Chunks Runny Puddles Hosegorger Simple Siphon … --- ## [Kaor! I'm from Helium, Barsoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kaor-im-from-helium-barsoom/969508)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kaor-im-from-helium-barsoom/969508 "2022-08-22T20:24:43Z")
“Kaor! I’m from Helium, Barsoom.” is a comment I made to a Facebook post. Then I got to wondering how well known “kaor” is. I didn’t expect it to be the first result, but kaor as a greeting is nowhere on Google that I co… --- ## [Crypto bro wants divorce settlement reconsidered after his ex-wife's sensible finances hold up better than his crashing coins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crypto-bro-wants-divorce-settlement-reconsidered-after-his-ex-wifes-sensible-finances-hold-up-better-than-his-crashing-coins/970002)
**Author:** [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crypto-bro-wants-divorce-settlement-reconsidered-after-his-ex-wifes-sensible-finances-hold-up-better-than-his-crashing-coins/970002 "2022-08-22T15:55:05Z")
Story is basically in the headline. The guy actually gave his ex-wife his own pension in exchange for holding onto his crypto currency. This comes from a financial advice column here: In case the above is paywalled f… --- ## [Anyone else seeing the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis tonight Aug 17 2022?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-seeing-the-northern-lights-aurora-borealis-tonight-aug-17-2022/969864)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-seeing-the-northern-lights-aurora-borealis-tonight-aug-17-2022/969864 "2022-08-22T15:16:56Z")
What with encroaching light pollution, it’s been over a decade since I’ve seen them here at my home, at ~43.60 latitude North, still a bit closer to the equator than to the north pole. But my home is on Lake Michigan’s … --- ## [Weird (but not disturbing) things you found funny](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-but-not-disturbing-things-you-found-funny/969967)
**Author:** [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-but-not-disturbing-things-you-found-funny/969967 "2022-08-22T15:12:09Z")
At least once, everybody has come across something seemingly mundane and ordinary that they–and only they–found hilarious for a strange inexplicable reason. In my case, I was once reading a science magazine and came acro… --- ## [Couple Caught Having Sex on a Ferris Wheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-caught-having-sex-on-a-ferris-wheel/969887)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-caught-having-sex-on-a-ferris-wheel/969887 "2022-08-22T14:10:00Z")
--- ## [Jurassic Park: mammalian edition (real life attempt to recreate extinct animals.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-park-mammalian-edition-real-life-attempt-to-recreate-extinct-animals/970060)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-park-mammalian-edition-real-life-attempt-to-recreate-extinct-animals/970060 "2022-08-22T11:21:25Z")
A plan to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction raises questions Tasmanian tiger: The plan to bring 'a dingo with a pouch' back from extinction : NPR Now the “de-extinction” company Colossal Biosciences wants … --- ## [CNN's "Reliable Sources" off the air](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-reliable-sources-off-the-air/970040)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-reliable-sources-off-the-air/970040 "2022-08-22T10:25:27Z")
Stuff I had no clue of: CNN was recently bought by Warner Bros Discovery. And they had a Sunday show called Reliable Sources that examined and critiqued all news sources for accuracy and honesty, including CNN itself. An… --- ## [Ignored chores in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignored-chores-in-the-mmp/969680)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 290\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2022, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignored-chores-in-the-mmp/969680 "2022-08-22T06:14:44Z")
I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this - looking around, there are things I know need to be done but I don’t want to do them. Like this pile of papers on my desk to be filed, shredded, or tossed. Or the dusting. Or the wi… --- ## [My Ex-Wife Died. No one told me. A year and ten days ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-wife-died-no-one-told-me-a-year-and-ten-days-ago/969859)
**Author:** [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-wife-died-no-one-told-me-a-year-and-ten-days-ago/969859 "2022-08-21T23:42:44Z")
I know I’ve not been as present on the 'Dope as I was previously, but, in my mind, there’s no place in the world like the SDMB to air this. My ex-wife died, and although we had no children, and I’m remarried and have ch… --- ## [Fighting ignorance -- how are we doing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-ignorance-how-are-we-doing/969846)
**Author:** [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fighting-ignorance-how-are-we-doing/969846 "2022-08-21T20:16:31Z")
Let’s get back to fighting the sort of ignorance that initially drew me to this board many years ago. Here’s a few examples that seem to keep coming up in my life: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day – My m… --- ## [Should the credit card duopoly be broken?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-credit-card-duopoly-be-broken/969851)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-credit-card-duopoly-be-broken/969851 "2022-08-21T18:15:26Z")
A Canadian telco has caused some waves with a request to government to charge a 3% fee to those paying bills by credit cards. Canadian telco bills already tend to be high by international standards, and consumers are fe… --- ## [A real-life Victorian novelette: the royal baccarat scandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-real-life-victorian-novelette-the-royal-baccarat-scandal/970031)
**Author:** [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-real-life-victorian-novelette-the-royal-baccarat-scandal/970031 "2022-08-21T17:45:30Z")
I just read the Wikipedia article on the baccarat scandal of 1890. You read about Victorian society in books, you see movies. But it all seems a bit remote, legendary, and you think it’s all a bit exaggerated, these peo… --- ## [What relatively common name creates in you an unfair negative impression of some innocent kid?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-relatively-common-name-creates-in-you-an-unfair-negative-impression-of-some-innocent-kid/969817)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-relatively-common-name-creates-in-you-an-unfair-negative-impression-of-some-innocent-kid/969817 "2022-08-21T14:03:39Z")
For me, it’s any of the vocation names: Cooper, Hunter, Palmer, Tucker, Harper, Parker, Fletcher, and Sawyer always rub me the wrong way. In girls, I immediately dislike anyone named Skyler / Skylar. mmm --- ## [Fabergé Egg Found Aboard a Seized Russian Oligarch’s Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faberge-egg-found-aboard-a-seized-russian-oligarch-s-yacht/970011)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faberge-egg-found-aboard-a-seized-russian-oligarch-s-yacht/970011 "2022-08-21T13:24:49Z")
I have seen a report that a Fabergé Egg has been found on a Russian-owned yacht, arrested in San Diago. I wondered what will happen to it now. ‘Alleged’ Fabergé Egg Found Aboard a Seized Russian Oligarch’s Yacht The rar… --- ## [Gym Machines You No Longer See](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gym-machines-you-no-longer-see/969719)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gym-machines-you-no-longer-see/969719 "2022-08-21T01:18:13Z")
As a gym enthusiast, machines and trends come and go. There are a lot of things, once omnipresent, which one now rarely or never sees. This thread is a list of those. Machines and equipment to work on the neck. N… --- ## [Have you ever taught a kid (yours or someone elses) a "shortcut" on how to do something that came back to bite you and others?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taught-a-kid-yours-or-someone-elses-a-shortcut-on-how-to-do-something-that-came-back-to-bite-you-and-others/970015)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-taught-a-kid-yours-or-someone-elses-a-shortcut-on-how-to-do-something-that-came-back-to-bite-you-and-others/970015 "2022-08-20T23:18:44Z")
We were talking about how to open a bag of chips or crisps and I relayed this story: heh, I have a story on being careful on how you teach someone to open a bag… when my 2nd oldest nephew was about 4 or 5 he couldn’… --- ## [Can you sell somebody else's soul to the devil?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sell-somebody-elses-soul-to-the-devil/563709)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 148\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-sell-somebody-elses-soul-to-the-devil/563709 "2022-08-20T21:01:30Z")
Based on the traditional beliefs that souls exist, that their ownership can be transferred, and that the devil exists and wants to acquire souls. So let’s say I go around offering to buy other people’s souls. I claim I’… --- ## [Will my Honda clock reset itself this August?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-my-honda-clock-reset-itself-this-august/968832 "2022-08-20T19:41:18Z")
Since January, the clock in my CRV keeps starting up showing it’s 2:58, Jan 2. Honda says it should self-correct this August. I’m on tenterhooks. --- ## [Not my president, how to handle a illegitimate president found out after they left office?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-my-president-how-to-handle-a-illegitimate-president-found-out-after-they-left-office/969951)
**Author:** [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-my-president-how-to-handle-a-illegitimate-president-found-out-after-they-left-office/969951 "2022-08-20T00:01:16Z")
One thing that I am curious is if Trump really won 2016. I suspect some fraud, and find it unusual that the poles projected Hillary, yet Trump won. Some fraud is even more likely with Trump getting caught on tape tryin… --- ## [Why are hospitals so devilishly uncomfortable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-hospitals-so-devilishly-uncomfortable/968722)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-hospitals-so-devilishly-uncomfortable/968722 "2022-08-19T23:57:15Z")
So I recently got back home after a delightful four night stay in one of our local hospitals due to “septic bursitis” and cellulitis around my left elbow/forearm that I apparently got via some insect bite or tiny break i… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=195) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=197)