# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=238 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 239 --- ## [Things You Shouldn't Need To Tell People](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674)
**Author:** [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Replies:** 468\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674 "2021-11-14T13:33:19Z")
First of all, I would like to announce an astonishing event: Discobot was right! The title of this topic I’m starting, partly in the memory of the old one on the late lamented snopes boards, “Things You Shouldn’t Need T… --- ## [Words that are commonly (and incorrectly) pluralized or "apostrophed"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-commonly-and-incorrectly-pluralized-or-apostrophed/944251)
**Author:** [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Replies:** 158\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2021, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-commonly-and-incorrectly-pluralized-or-apostrophed/944251 "2021-11-14T04:02:23Z")
In another thread I mentioned Kroger is often pronounced/spelled Krogers or Kroger’s. Both are incorrect. The correct pronunciation and spelling is simply Kroger. What other proper nouns do people commonly but incorrect… --- ## [You discover a serial killer lives nearby and her kids go to school with your kids](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-discover-a-serial-killer-lives-nearby-and-her-kids-go-to-school-with-your-kids/752708)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-discover-a-serial-killer-lives-nearby-and-her-kids-go-to-school-with-your-kids/752708 "2021-11-14T00:59:31Z")
Not a Skaldian hypothesis but a real event. Chateauguay is a suburb of Montreal. Over the weekend, a news reporter was going around to folks in the neighbourhood, asking for their reaction to the news that Karla Homolk… --- ## [Penis worms were the hermit crabs of their time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-worms-were-the-hermit-crabs-of-their-time/954141)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-worms-were-the-hermit-crabs-of-their-time/954141 "2021-11-13T21:37:56Z")
That’s the headline. It turns out, all it means is that an extinct variety of sea worm shaped sorta kinda like a penis used to live in discarded sea shells. Yawn. But when you phrase it like that it makes me want to sc… --- ## [Bad, bad, bad Beck was a bad, bad, bad Doper in her early days](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-was-a-bad-bad-bad-doper-in-her-early-days/954157)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-was-a-bad-bad-bad-doper-in-her-early-days/954157 "2021-11-13T19:30:08Z")
I opened a suspicious zipfile on my laptop. It was my early days Dope posts. I did this when the board was moving to Discourse. I started reading. Dang, I was stupid, had bad spelling and never shut up. I told a few … --- ## [Infrequent stabbing pain — very brief — in eye. Anyone else?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infrequent-stabbing-pain-very-brief-in-eye-anyone-else/838538)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infrequent-stabbing-pain-very-brief-in-eye-anyone-else/838538 "2021-11-13T15:19:55Z")
Does this happen to any of you, or to someone you know? A few times a year, maybe roughly every 3 to 5 months, I get a sudden, very brief, stab of sharp pain in my eye. It’s like a flash of lightning (the pain is; my vi… --- ## [What is up with Southwest Airlines pilots?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-southwest-airlines-pilots/953801)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-southwest-airlines-pilots/953801 "2021-11-13T13:41:52Z")
In March of 2021, there was that hot mic incident, where a Southwest pilot was caught heaping abuse on Silicon Valley and the bay area in general - called us "goddamn liberal fucks” and “fucking weirdos.” He also slamm… --- ## [It's Veteran's Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterans-day/954203)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterans-day/954203 "2021-11-13T00:11:41Z")
Thanks to all vets, and don’t worry about not being able to bank or use government services- those people are all off honoring you. I’m sure that makes you feel better. Maybe someday you can get a day off while they work… --- ## [Hooray for USB!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-usb/954074)
**Author:** [@SoccerDad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoccerDad)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hooray-for-usb/954074 "2021-11-12T04:23:31Z")
Really, I think some sort of award should go to the inventors of the USB plug. It can only go in one of two ways, yet you (well, I) will get it wrong two-thirds of the time. How did they do that? And better still, if I g… --- ## [Colonoscopies Aren't Just Diagnostic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonoscopies-arent-just-diagnostic/953883)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colonoscopies-arent-just-diagnostic/953883 "2021-11-11T22:30:10Z")
Colonoscopies aren’t just diagnostic. They’re preventative too. I have to have one every two years. Because I have a preëxisting condition, colitis. And each time they give it to me, they remove at least one polyp. Poly… --- ## [The travels of Boji the vagabond](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-travels-of-boji-the-vagabond/954084)
**Author:** [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-travels-of-boji-the-vagabond/954084 "2021-11-11T19:10:32Z")
More on Boji, the commuter dog in Istanbul. Originally posted here, although the video seems to have disappeared. But in any case the CNN article below has far more pictures. Boji is the archetypal vagabond, an obviou… --- ## [The Lil'Wrekker makes a GIANT statement about global warming](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lilwrekker-makes-a-giant-statement-about-global-warming/954015)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lilwrekker-makes-a-giant-statement-about-global-warming/954015 "2021-11-11T17:52:59Z")
I’m not sure how factual it is. Or whether it’s a real thang. She said that methane gas from big farming operations contribute to pollution and the break down of our atmosphere. She says that’s why we shouldn’t eat bee… --- ## [Blurgh, tell me the Disgusting Things You Must Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blurgh-tell-me-the-disgusting-things-you-must-do/943692)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blurgh-tell-me-the-disgusting-things-you-must-do/943692 "2021-11-11T15:52:59Z")
…that result in a multihew revolt against the use of opposable thumbs, Cleaning a Hair Clog out of the bathtub drain makes me :face\_vomiting: --- ## [Was bad bad bad Lil'wrekker profiled in a traffic stop? Hmmm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-bad-bad-bad-lilwrekker-profiled-in-a-traffic-stop-hmmm/953715)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-bad-bad-bad-lilwrekker-profiled-in-a-traffic-stop-hmmm/953715 "2021-11-11T15:30:18Z")
We were going to a medium size town. There’s one spot where getting off the highway on to a city street, the speed limit drops dramatically in a short length of road. I warn lil’Miss Speedy of this place everytime we g… --- ## [Mike, @dropzone has been AWOL](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-dropzone-has-been-awol/949588)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 203\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-dropzone-has-been-awol/949588 "2021-11-11T12:03:19Z")
I found out, today,why. I usually chat or email with him every day. I was missing him for several days. And worried. Cause that’s what I do. I worry and fret. I have many numbers and addy’s for him. He was answering n… --- ## [Witch Hazel Hemorrhoidal Wipes Sting Like The Dickens (Possibly TMI)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witch-hazel-hemorrhoidal-wipes-sting-like-the-dickens-possibly-tmi/954077)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witch-hazel-hemorrhoidal-wipes-sting-like-the-dickens-possibly-tmi/954077 "2021-11-11T05:16:04Z")
Okay, I said it. I’m prone to mild hemorrhoids. Anyway, I have therefore had some experience in treating them (on a good note). And couple of days ago I tried Witch Hazel hemorrhoidal wipes for the first time. And it st… --- ## [It's been a while, saying Hello](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-while-saying-hello/954091)
**Author:** [@MannyLNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyLNJ)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-while-saying-hello/954091 "2021-11-11T05:13:13Z")
Wow, this place has changed yet feels the same. I think it’s been three or four years since I’ve last visited. Let me bring everyone up to speed on what’s happened with me I lost my mother to Cancer I got married I lo… --- ## [Doggy exercise](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doggy-exercise/953778)
**Author:** [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doggy-exercise/953778 "2021-11-11T00:26:43Z")
Not for the first time, I saw some dude bicycling along with his dog on a lead running beside. WTF? Can’t he jog like a normal person? I like cycling, and I like playing with dogs, but not both at the same time. --- ## [Congratulations vomitguy, you win!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-vomitguy-you-win/953503)
**Author:** [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-vomitguy-you-win/953503 "2021-11-10T19:28:38Z")
I work in an office complex that is like a series of attached bungalows. There is quite heavy turnover in the office next to ours with which we share a wall. Most offices here are professional people, doctors, lawyers, … --- ## [It's time to stop planning and start doing!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-stop-planning-and-start-doing/953977)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-stop-planning-and-start-doing/953977 "2021-11-10T19:00:46Z")
I mentioned this in the MMP, but I think it merits wider discussion. I’m \>\< this close to turning 68. My husband just turned 65. I retired in 2011, then worked a series of part time, temp, and finally full time jobs til… --- ## [Thank you Google maps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-google-maps/953881)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-google-maps/953881 "2021-11-10T15:49:06Z")
I just got an email telling me how many counties and cities I have been to in the past month and how many places and how many are new, how many miles I have driven and how many hours I have been behind the wheel. Why? … --- ## [Famine in Afghanistan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famine-in-afghanistan/954080)
**Author:** [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famine-in-afghanistan/954080 "2021-11-10T10:10:08Z")
I couldn’t bear to put this in MPSIMS but mods please move this if you must or if this thread becomes a bickering shit-show. Afghanistan is facing a horrific humanitarian situation and we are largely ignoring it. The h… --- ## [So, I got a job](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-a-job/954019)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-a-job/954019 "2021-11-10T08:25:25Z")
I got laid off in September 2019. I did receive a very generous severance package plus I have a decent savings pillow. Got a job that seems ideal, work from home, an industry that I like and excellent benefits. It’s not… --- ## [A U.S. submarine struck an underwater mountain last month, the Navy says](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-u-s-submarine-struck-an-underwater-mountain-last-month-the-navy-says/953743)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-u-s-submarine-struck-an-underwater-mountain-last-month-the-navy-says/953743 "2021-11-10T05:13:00Z")
You would expect the Navy would have the technology to detect such things… --- ## [A pox on thee, Google, and your promises of cloud backup](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pox-on-thee-google-and-your-promises-of-cloud-backup/954087)
**Author:** [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pox-on-thee-google-and-your-promises-of-cloud-backup/954087 "2021-11-10T02:45:31Z")
It’s going to be a mild pitting, as such I don’t feel that the Pit is the right place for it. But I want to whine to someone… I have an older tablet running Android 5 and using Google Chrome as the browser. This is my p… --- ## [I Fall To Pieces: An Autumn MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fall-to-pieces-an-autumn-mmp/953606)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 243\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fall-to-pieces-an-autumn-mmp/953606 "2021-11-09T23:11:13Z")
Halloween is over for another year, and it’s feeling like False Fall here in N.C. Time for Thanksgiving, except for those people who skip over that and go straight to Christmas :face\_with\_raised\_eyebrow: Also, my tree … --- ## [Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metallurgist-admits-faking-steel-test-results-for-navy-subs/954046)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metallurgist-admits-faking-steel-test-results-for-navy-subs/954046 "2021-11-09T20:36:53Z")
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Metallurgist-admits-faking-steel-test-results-for-16603885.php More awful news from the US Navy. I cannot even imagine what was going through this woman’s mind. Seems to me the Ch… --- ## [What goes through peoples’ minds? (road-ragey related)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-peoples-minds-road-ragey-related/954008)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-goes-through-peoples-minds-road-ragey-related/954008 "2021-11-09T17:43:20Z")
OK, it didn’t exactly escalate to road rage, maybe road irritation? I was out for a drive with my two young grandkids, in part to look at the changing leaves. We were on a winding rural two-lane road. I noticed I was be… --- ## [I've been treated for asthma since 1977. Why not now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-treated-for-asthma-since-1977-why-not-now/953942)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-treated-for-asthma-since-1977-why-not-now/953942 "2021-11-09T17:43:19Z")
First it was OTC and prescription inhalers and tablets. Chemicals, if not delivery systems, familiar to the Victorians, even the ancient Egyptians. Then it was inhaled steroids, All manner of meds, most of which I’ve … --- ## [Comcast outage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comcast-outage/954052)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comcast-outage/954052 "2021-11-09T16:41:07Z")
This morning Comcast went down around 730 Central. I’m seeing reports of outages across Chicagoland, and elsewhere. Surprised to not see a thread about it. Had to go into the office for the first time in a while. Anyo… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=237) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=239)