# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=212 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 213 --- ## [Can we please have a better week in the MMP?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-have-a-better-week-in-the-mmp/963398)
**Author:** [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Replies:** 295\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2022, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-please-have-a-better-week-in-the-mmp/963398 "2022-05-02T02:32:47Z")
Last week was at a ridiculous degree of difficulty. Poster/family/pet medical woes, financial hassles, one poster living near a wildfire… We all need this week to be a lot better, I think. On the plus side, feline truc… --- ## [Today's Google doodle: Route 66](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-route-66/963724)
**Author:** [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-route-66/963724 "2022-05-02T00:30:28Z")
Today’s Google “doodle” features a animated tribute “Celebrating Route 66”. So I’m inspired to start this thread. Do you have any good (or bad) stories or memories of taking the California trip? I’ve driven the route i… --- ## [Courses Where “Beginning Level” Is Too Hard](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courses-where-beginning-level-is-too-hard/963762)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/courses-where-beginning-level-is-too-hard/963762 "2022-05-01T17:44:07Z")
There’s a funny comedy routine, I think it’s by Josh Sneed, where he talks about why he hates the Insanity workout. He talks about how the first step, designed to see how many exercises you can do, is impossibly difficu… --- ## [747 Pilot Kelsey (74 Gear on YouTube) challenges flat-earthers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/747-pilot-kelsey-74-gear-on-youtube-challenges-flat-earthers/963554)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/747-pilot-kelsey-74-gear-on-youtube-challenges-flat-earthers/963554 "2022-05-01T13:24:39Z")
YouTuber and 747 pilot Kelsey (74 Gear) posted a video a year ago outlining a method by which Flat-Earthers could prove their theory: charter a flight from South America to Australia. Airliners have terrain detection sys… --- ## [Deutsch Bank and Trump whistleblower found dead {2022-04-27}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 1, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deutsch-bank-and-trump-whistleblower-found-dead-2022-04-27/963580 "2022-05-01T11:10:20Z")
I have no idea if this has been posted somewhere already, nor even any idea what existing thread it would best fit in. So, new Breaking News thread here: Looks like the same story at CBSNEWS here, ad-blocked: It s… --- ## [Florida Department of Health Guidelines for Treatment of Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-department-of-health-guidelines-for-treatment-of-gender-dysphoria-in-children-and-adolescents/963426)
**Author:** [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-department-of-health-guidelines-for-treatment-of-gender-dysphoria-in-children-and-adolescents/963426 "2022-04-30T21:55:06Z")
As I work for a doctor, I get these emails. I’m not sure whether this is good policy based on science or if it’s political, but it sure was announced at an opportune time. Right on the heels of the Don’t Say Gay bill law… --- ## [News headline: one surprise, one you saw coming](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-headline-one-surprise-one-you-saw-coming/963686)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-headline-one-surprise-one-you-saw-coming/963686 "2022-04-30T14:23:56Z")
In my news feed today: One surprise story: And this one, well,… " Fans might want to prepare themselves for the possibility that the Leafs will lose in the first round " --- ## [American tourists in Israel find live ordnance and try to carry it through airport security as a souvenir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-tourists-in-israel-find-live-ordnance-and-try-to-carry-it-through-airport-security-as-a-souvenir/963672)
**Author:** [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-tourists-in-israel-find-live-ordnance-and-try-to-carry-it-through-airport-security-as-a-souvenir/963672 "2022-04-30T10:27:45Z")
I know this is terrible on many levels but I can’t hold back a very dark chuckle: If a screenwriter or other fictional storyteller tried to make up this story, they’d be accused of wild and implausible stereotyping. --- ## [Seeking advice for buying a new laptop](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-advice-for-buying-a-new-laptop/957223)
**Author:** [@hibernicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hibernicus)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-advice-for-buying-a-new-laptop/957223 "2022-04-30T01:43:00Z")
I am in the market for a new Windows laptop. I use the computer mainly for streaming video (YouTube), solving numerical puzzles in Excel or Python, preparing taxes and tracking investments (also in Excel), online video … --- ## [The most 2022 headline you will ever read](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-2022-headline-you-will-ever-read/963619)
**Author:** [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-2022-headline-you-will-ever-read/963619 "2022-04-30T00:39:15Z")
I’m putting the link in spoilers because the article is disturbing on many levels. I’m quite serious. “Experts explain why” pushes this headline over the reportorial top. That the perpetrators may escape prosecution b… --- ## [Our Russian neighbors have disappeared](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-russian-neighbors-have-disappeared/963614)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-russian-neighbors-have-disappeared/963614 "2022-04-29T18:39:17Z")
A new family moved in across the street from us a couple of years ago, a young couple with a baby. We didn’t know them very well (neither my wife nor I are the “chatty neighbor” type) but we would wave and say hi if we b… --- ## [What is the smartest thing ever said following the word “Dude,”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-smartest-thing-ever-said-following-the-word-dude/963199)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-smartest-thing-ever-said-following-the-word-dude/963199 "2022-04-29T15:28:08Z")
Real or invented. “Dude, we need to operate on your brain. You have a subdural hematoma, man!”… --- ## [My roommate died at 2:00am. They hauled off his remains at 12:20pm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommate-died-at-2-00am-they-hauled-off-his-remains-at-12-20pm/963368 "2022-04-29T14:18:08Z")
If I had known he was still over there I might not have slept so well, but at least his TV was off. --- ## [EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo missing over Med {This was in 2016}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egyptair-flight-from-paris-to-cairo-missing-over-med-this-was-in-2016/755145)
**Author:** [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [April 29, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egyptair-flight-from-paris-to-cairo-missing-over-med-this-was-in-2016/755145 "2022-04-29T00:00:21Z")
The Guardian has a constantly-updating story here. Last known position seems to have been over the Mediterranean Sea, about 30-40 miles off the Egyptian coast. That’s not good! --- ## [World's oldest person dies (Kane Tanaka, age 119)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406)
**Author:** [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-oldest-person-dies-kane-tanaka-age-119/963406 "2022-04-28T16:19:50Z")
World’s oldest living human (by some margin, I think), Japan’s Kane Tanaka, shuffled off her mortal coil a couple of days ago. --- ## [“Our Version of (Famous Perfume or Cologne)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-version-of-famous-perfume-or-cologne/963550)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-version-of-famous-perfume-or-cologne/963550 "2022-04-28T00:24:32Z")
I like some things at some dollar stores. Many things are excellent buys - if you choose carefully. Some things come in such small sizes you would be better off elsewhere - it might be an expensive place to buy vitamin… --- ## [Bit of a panic with my car tonight... Possible causes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-a-panic-with-my-car-tonight-possible-causes/963466)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bit-of-a-panic-with-my-car-tonight-possible-causes/963466 "2022-04-27T23:16:51Z")
I think I mentioned before that my car is a 2000 Civic; it’s old, yes, but it still seems to work, and the car market is majorly inflated due to supply chain issues anyway. But tonight, there were some seconds where the … --- ## [Grandmother forces 4-year-old to drink whiskey until she dies with her mother watching {2022-04-22}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandmother-forces-4-year-old-to-drink-whiskey-until-she-dies-with-her-mother-watching-2022-04-22/963298)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandmother-forces-4-year-old-to-drink-whiskey-until-she-dies-with-her-mother-watching-2022-04-22/963298 "2022-04-27T20:18:13Z")
A Louisiana grandmother and mother are in custody on first-degree murder charges after the grandmother allegedly forced her 4-year-old granddaughter to drink from a bottle of whiskey until she died. Cause of death: Acu… --- ## [Dammit! They're closing another Barnes and Noble's in Boston!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-theyre-closing-another-barnes-and-nobles-in-boston/963420)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dammit-theyre-closing-another-barnes-and-nobles-in-boston/963420 "2022-04-27T04:13:13Z")
It was only a couple of months ago that the Barnes and Noble bookstore closest to me, on Route 1 in Saugus, closed because “they couldn’t reach an agreement with their landlord.” The employees didn’t like it, and they we… --- ## [Need some help please, with job changing advice in later life](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-please-with-job-changing-advice-in-later-life/963394)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-help-please-with-job-changing-advice-in-later-life/963394 "2022-04-27T00:27:29Z")
This feels a little weird to me, but alla yalls are a really good source of advice and support. So here’s the situation; some of you(most?) saw my thread about the company I worked for being sold a number of months ago,… --- ## [More Wolfpups!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wolfpups/963428)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-wolfpups/963428 "2022-04-26T22:31:17Z")
Redwolf pair has litter of six little wolfpups! Good news for an endangered species. (Mommy and daddy Redwolf apparently were introduced to each other by the RedWolf Recovery program equivalent of an online dating prog… --- ## [Vax-skeptic column causes turmoil, jeopardizes Chicago Reader](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vax-skeptic-column-causes-turmoil-jeopardizes-chicago-reader/963325)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vax-skeptic-column-causes-turmoil-jeopardizes-chicago-reader/963325 "2022-04-26T20:39:21Z")
(I’ve totally lost track of who owns whom anymore, so other posters or the mods will kindly tell me if this is totally irrelevant here or in the wrong forum.) Co-owner of Chicago Reader writes and publishes column expre… --- ## [Positive Gun Control News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/positive-gun-control-news/839691)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/positive-gun-control-news/839691 "2022-04-26T18:31:21Z")
From CNBC: Sounds like a reasonable thing to do. --- ## [Happy 96th, Your Majesty {2022-04-21}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-96th-your-majesty-2022-04-21/963169)
**Author:** [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-96th-your-majesty-2022-04-21/963169 "2022-04-26T05:43:47Z")
So I was dozing mildly in bed this morning, half listening to the BBC Radio 4 Today politics programme and Boris’ latest attempts to lie to Parliament/save his skin, when all of a sudden a full blown version of the Natio… --- ## [April 17, 1982 - Forty years since the Patriation of the Constitution of Canada](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-17-1982-forty-years-since-the-patriation-of-the-constitution-of-canada/962961)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2022, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-17-1982-forty-years-since-the-patriation-of-the-constitution-of-canada/962961 "2022-04-25T23:37:11Z")
I really can’t believe it’s been 40 years since Her Majesty signed the Proclamation on a rainy day on Parliament Hill, bringing the Constitution home and ending the remnants of British legislative powers over Canada. … --- ## [Bride and caterer arrested for secretly putting cannabis in the food at the wedding reception {2022-04-22}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bride-and-caterer-arrested-for-secretly-putting-cannabis-in-the-food-at-the-wedding-reception-2022-04-22/963293 "2022-04-25T21:57:17Z")
I know this board all too well, and I know the jokes are going to come fast and furious on this one, but let me start out by saying that you do not do this to people. The following is a gifted article from the Washing… --- ## [Trade Secrets: News You Can Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trade-secrets-news-you-can-use/955143)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trade-secrets-news-you-can-use/955143 "2022-04-25T21:29:08Z")
I picked up a used book called Trade Secrets. It’s a British show featuring people in various jobs giving helpful advice. It’s unusual, because the advice is actually helpful. I shave daily using five blade razor cart… --- ## [A Cheap Chawklit MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cheap-chawklit-mmp/962994)
**Author:** [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Replies:** 256\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2022, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cheap-chawklit-mmp/962994 "2022-04-25T06:45:25Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 63 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 82 and rain. I will believe that when it happens. We did get some rain overnight but not the deluge promised by TWPTB… --- ## [Detroit Riverwalk named best riverwalk in America for 2nd straight year!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detroit-riverwalk-named-best-riverwalk-in-america-for-2nd-straight-year/963315)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/detroit-riverwalk-named-best-riverwalk-in-america-for-2nd-straight-year/963315 "2022-04-25T01:57:21Z")
This was on the local news this morning— according to a USA Today reader’s choice poll. I was surprised to hear it- the best river walk in the entire country? I’m all the more surprised because in my early 20s I worked … --- ## [Guest at Universal Studios Beijing dies from heart attack {2022-04-23}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-at-universal-studios-beijing-dies-from-heart-attack-2022-04-23/963340 "2022-04-24T17:43:22Z")
Visitor at Universal Studios Beijing suffers heart attac: The park opened last year and attracts many visitors every day. No serious incidents have been reported so far. “Earlier this week, in the Decepticoaster roller… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=211) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=213)