# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=221 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 222 --- ## [I donated to the Ukraine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-donated-to-the-ukraine/960434)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2022, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-donated-to-the-ukraine/960434 "2022-03-06T10:40:04Z")
I’m not rich. I only felt I could manage $250 because of my heath & home repair needs. But I gave. I sent a physical check to the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC. Anybody else give? --- ## [Whats the deal with YouTube comments calling everything "underrated"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-youtube-comments-calling-everything-underrated/960433)
**Author:** [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-youtube-comments-calling-everything-underrated/960433 "2022-03-06T05:16:10Z")
This is pretty mundane, but it really irks me and I see it regularly. Listening to a song on YouTube by a well known band, and in the comments, there’s always some person saying “such an underrated song”. And we’re no… --- ## [Really Mundane: New Motorcycle!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-new-motorcycle/960377)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-mundane-new-motorcycle/960377 "2022-03-05T16:05:23Z")
My old Honda Shadow and Ms. P’s old Yamaha Virago both reached the “ain’t worth it to fix it” stage. We decided that we would get a new one to share, at least until I retire in a few years. We got a candy apple red Roy… --- ## [Canadian university graduates: Do you recall your student number?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-university-graduates-do-you-recall-your-student-number/960392)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-university-graduates-do-you-recall-your-student-number/960392 "2022-03-05T12:11:57Z")
I still remember my undergrad student number at the University of Toronto: 790-XXX-XXX. (Where Xs replace the actual numbers, for privacy’s sake.) I cannot recall my student number at the University of Alberta, where I … --- ## [Dry Shampoo for Cats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dry-shampoo-for-cats/960415)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dry-shampoo-for-cats/960415 "2022-03-05T02:30:02Z")
My cat Tippy is huge. I know I shouldn’t have let her get that way, but I have three cats to feed, and she will go after the other’s leftovers, whether they are leftovers or not. But the bottom (snerk) line is, Tippy c… --- ## [My grandmother, she came from Kyiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-she-came-from-kyiv/960366)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandmother-she-came-from-kyiv/960366 "2022-03-05T02:05:48Z")
My grandmother, she came from Kyiv Born there in times of strain and strife Before the Wars. Sustained by faith and table scraps, When soldiers came felt she must leave. And fled abroad to save her life. Progenitor… --- ## [We should talk about strokes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-should-talk-about-strokes/958662)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-should-talk-about-strokes/958662 "2022-03-04T23:14:01Z")
In light of recent events that occurred in the otherwise lighthearted Polls only: No discussion thread, I just wanted to create a thread where we can actually talk about it. Not necessarily that specific event, but just … --- ## [Europe's largest nuclear power plant on fire {Fire is Out but now in Russian Control}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant-on-fire-fire-is-out-but-now-in-russian-control/960436)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant-on-fire-fire-is-out-but-now-in-russian-control/960436 "2022-03-04T21:58:31Z")
A contested Ukrainian nuclear plant is under attack by Russian forces Russians in Ukraine seize Europe's largest nuclear power plant : NPR --- ## [It's happening again: we have another feral kitten hanging around!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-again-we-have-another-feral-kitten-hanging-around/960465)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-again-we-have-another-feral-kitten-hanging-around/960465 "2022-03-04T21:13:08Z")
A few years ago we had a bunch of feral kittens show up on our porch and ended up taking in two of them (old thread here: Anyone have experience taking in feral cats?) and they’ve been great cats ever since. There’s a n… --- ## [Amusing Animal parenting moments in photos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-animal-parenting-moments-in-photos/960467)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-animal-parenting-moments-in-photos/960467 "2022-03-04T19:23:41Z")
I enoyed this collection of photos. Cats have such strong expressions. They’re almost human. There’s other animals too. --- ## [Just one more reason to love Buzz Aldrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-reason-to-love-buzz-aldrin/960244)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-one-more-reason-to-love-buzz-aldrin/960244 "2022-03-04T02:56:47Z")
Maybe not the first on the Moon, but a pioneer in so many other ways… --- ## [Tax time follies, 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-time-follies-2022/959876)
**Author:** [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-time-follies-2022/959876 "2022-03-03T15:04:29Z")
Last year I remarked about the local news stations reporting about filing federal returns electronically from the IRS site. It irritated me that the reporters all mentioned the dollar limit for the guided preparation, b… --- ## [Captured Russian Soldier Says They Are Demoralized: 'We Do Not Want This War'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captured-russian-soldier-says-they-are-demoralized-we-do-not-want-this-war/960236)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captured-russian-soldier-says-they-are-demoralized-we-do-not-want-this-war/960236 "2022-03-03T13:27:29Z")
They say that they were lied to and told that it was for training. --- ## [Hilarious math errors posted on Social Media](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-math-errors-posted-on-social-media/959529)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-math-errors-posted-on-social-media/959529 "2022-03-02T18:44:15Z")
This article makes me wonder what is happening in schools today. This article is funny. The most basic reasonable test hasn’t been applied. Last day as a teenager. Its scary to think when your twenty, you’ve been alive … --- ## [Expressway Plowed Snow "Snowramps" Are Coming To Kill You](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressway-plowed-snow-snowramps-are-coming-to-kill-you/960153)
**Author:** [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressway-plowed-snow-snowramps-are-coming-to-kill-you/960153 "2022-03-02T14:57:51Z")
Plowed snow pushed to the outer walls of highways, notably on elevated roadways, can form a ramp to launch you over the edge. It happened to this guy… --- ## [You know things are getting back to normal when](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-things-are-getting-back-to-normal-when/960351)
**Author:** [@cytop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cytop)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-things-are-getting-back-to-normal-when/960351 "2022-03-02T12:53:52Z")
The Atherstone ball game DCCCLXXXII has just been played… (The Super bowl has a way to go to match that :slight\_smile: ) --- ## [My theory of "maximum level of dirt"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-theory-of-maximum-level-of-dirt/960237)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-theory-of-maximum-level-of-dirt/960237 "2022-03-01T21:51:32Z")
So, for ever I’ve seen the assumption that hygiene levels pre-modern day were horrendous. That people had a single set of clothes that were never washed and they never bathed, and as a result they were walking around sm… --- ## [War destroys world's largest airplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-destroys-worlds-largest-airplane/960247)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-destroys-worlds-largest-airplane/960247 "2022-03-01T09:42:53Z")
--- ## [I am commercial debt free](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-commercial-debt-free/960132)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-commercial-debt-free/960132 "2022-02-28T21:47:40Z")
As of a $69.50 payment to my credit card company and a $20.91 payoff payment on my second car today, I now only owe my student loan and my house mortgage. Time to shove an @$$load of monthly income into savings and inve… --- ## [Bad, bad, bad Beck-da-wrek is on (as in dependent on) Goof-o-da-balls. Uh-oh!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-da-wrek-is-on-as-in-dependent-on-goof-o-da-balls-uh-oh/958659)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-da-wrek-is-on-as-in-dependent-on-goof-o-da-balls-uh-oh/958659 "2022-02-28T18:48:00Z")
No excuses. But, I didn’t even know it. I have had my issues. About 17 accidents. Surgeries. Glucose events. Sleep walking. Pnuemonia. Posting and texting weird crap to peeps. I didn’t know it but while I was hospitali… --- ## [How do you compare standards of living across generations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-compare-standards-of-living-across-generations/958367)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2022, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-compare-standards-of-living-across-generations/958367 "2022-02-28T05:23:51Z")
This morning I was reading a letter from my uncle, describing his youth in a smallish city in Iowa in the 1930s-40s. Compared to today, it reads like something from “Little House on the Prairie” - or at least “A Christm… --- ## [The days are getting longer in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-days-are-getting-longer-in-the-mmp/959869)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 271\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2022, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-days-are-getting-longer-in-the-mmp/959869 "2022-02-28T05:20:53Z")
Still a month till the Vernal Equinox, but I am enjoying the later sunset time hereabouts. For one thing, night driving is an issue for me, so I’m getting a little more time to go places later in the day if I have to. An… --- ## [Thinking about ears - yours and mine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-ears-yours-and-mine/959801)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-about-ears-yours-and-mine/959801 "2022-02-28T03:25:28Z")
If this forum is good for anything, it must be good for this. What is your opinion of ears? Do you like them as they are, or given the power would you redesign them for the species? Yes, they are very useful for hearing … --- ## [Dream universes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-universes/960166)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-universes/960166 "2022-02-27T23:10:52Z")
Does anyone else have dream universes? My dreams are highly narrative, and usually pretty coherent. A lot of them are not so much recurring (although there are many recurring motifs) as sequential. There are a handful o… --- ## [Florida Movie Theater Shooting Leaves One Dead In Altercation Over Texting](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-movie-theater-shooting-leaves-one-dead-in-altercation-over-texting/678717)
**Author:** [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Replies:** 337\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-movie-theater-shooting-leaves-one-dead-in-altercation-over-texting/678717 "2022-02-27T20:32:21Z")
According to the following news story: Two couples were seated in a movie theatre watching the movie “Lone Survivor”. One of the couples was seated behind the other. One of the couple in front was texting and apparen… --- ## [Help needed: Laptop display problem](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-laptop-display-problem/960120)
**Author:** [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-needed-laptop-display-problem/960120 "2022-02-27T15:52:15Z")
I’m in a bit of a pickle, and I need some help. Here’s the situation: I have a new job. It’s work-from-home so I’ve been given a laptop. To do my job properly I need to have a dozen different programs open at once. The … --- ## [Seattle repeals 1993 law requiring the use of bicycle helmets because police use it to harrass minorities](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seattle-repeals-1993-law-requiring-the-use-of-bicycle-helmets-because-police-use-it-to-harrass-minorities/959965)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seattle-repeals-1993-law-requiring-the-use-of-bicycle-helmets-because-police-use-it-to-harrass-minorities/959965 "2022-02-26T17:50:41Z")
I’ll start putting this in MPSIMS, although I reckon it could fit in many categories and it is probably neither mundane nor pointless, but it seems the most harmless category to me. Here is the NYT article, link is a pre… --- ## [Weird 1:08 long roboVMs w/ no words](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-1-08-long-robovms-w-no-words/960076)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-1-08-long-robovms-w-no-words/960076 "2022-02-26T16:19:03Z")
Every week or so my cell phone will record a voice mail from some source unknown to me. The VM will last over a minute, but there will be no words or recognizable sounds. Some are absolutely silent, but most have some … --- ## [The Incompetence Of My Landlord](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incompetence-of-my-landlord/960073)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-incompetence-of-my-landlord/960073 "2022-02-25T23:47:22Z")
A few minutes ago, somebody rang my doorbell. I found a man I’d never seen before who claimed he was from maintenance and here to replace the washing machine. At first, I said okay and was about to go back in to my apar… --- ## [Spam e-mail I haven't seen before](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-e-mail-i-havent-seen-before/959841)
**Author:** [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-e-mail-i-havent-seen-before/959841 "2022-02-25T17:47:11Z")
…though it’s likely to be a variation of the advance fee scam or an attempt to access a bank account. ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA USA I am Rev Joseph Justine the Financial Controller of the R… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=220) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=222)