# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=248 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 249 --- ## [I Have Lost My Mind! Meet Our New Baby \[dog\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-lost-my-mind-meet-our-new-baby-dog/949833)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-lost-my-mind-meet-our-new-baby-dog/949833 "2021-09-08T02:23:55Z")
As if two dogs weren’t enough, we added a new member to the pack this last weekend. Meet Rigatoni (We call him Rigs). He’s an 8wk old boxer. He joins Huck the Great Dane and Zeb the German Shepherd. The big guys are gett… --- ## [I HATE Cell Phone Stores](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-cell-phone-stores/950239)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 7, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-cell-phone-stores/950239 "2021-09-07T16:38:37Z")
My iPhone 11 is a little over a year old. Last week the battery started draining within an hour or two of a full charge. It was also feeling hot. The phone and account are through my employer. It was set up by one of my … --- ## [I invented LOL](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-invented-lol/950128)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-invented-lol/950128 "2021-09-06T21:45:35Z")
Back in the 1960s. We used it for Little Old Lady. And a matching LOM. Our dad was just the OM. --- ## [Labo\[u\]r Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/labo-u-r-day/950182)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/labo-u-r-day/950182 "2021-09-06T18:41:31Z")
For all the Wobblies, anarchists, communists, socialists, unionists, social democrats, and fellow travellers here, all best wishes for Labour Day. We might take solace in Ursula K.Le Guin’s observation: “We live in capi… --- ## [Fifty Years since the Attica Prison Riot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-years-since-the-attica-prison-riot/950132)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-years-since-the-attica-prison-riot/950132 "2021-09-06T05:45:24Z")
We are coming up on the 50th anniversary of the prison riot at Attica in upstate New York. Yes, I am old enough to remember it. Conditions in the prison were brutal. The place was underfunded and undermanned. There was … --- ## [What ya smokin' in the MMP?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-smokin-in-the-mmp/949762)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 253\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ya-smokin-in-the-mmp/949762 "2021-09-06T01:44:06Z")
Since getting my little electric smoker all clean last week, I’m thinking about dirtying it again, but not ribs this time. I’d like to do a turkey - does anyone even sell them outside of Thanksgiving?? I’ll have to look.… --- ## [Engineer’s ring](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineer-s-ring/950119)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/engineer-s-ring/950119 "2021-09-05T17:48:46Z")
Today I learned that the Iron Rings given to Canadian engineers in a special ceremony when they graduate are 1) more often made of stainless steel 2) not made from iron from the Quebec bridge that collapsed and led to Ca… --- ## [The Whammy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whammy/950005)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whammy/950005 "2021-09-05T11:51:16Z")
Years and years ago, my sister-in-law and I were commiserating of the terrible misfortunes that always manage to befall our family. Murphy must be a distant relative, because anything and everything happens to us. We ev… --- ## [What could people get wrong about you at first glance/first encounter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-people-get-wrong-about-you-at-first-glance-first-encounter/950055)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [September 5, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-could-people-get-wrong-about-you-at-first-glance-first-encounter/950055 "2021-09-05T10:54:05Z")
Some people have asked if I’m a cop. More than once, I’ve been told I look like law enforcement. I kinda get it. I’m bald and kind of look like a thumb… and I noticed that SOME cops also resemble thumbs. If I were talle… --- ## [Bad bad bad ideas! On the other hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ideas-on-the-other-hand/950091)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ideas-on-the-other-hand/950091 "2021-09-04T23:29:37Z")
One or the other. I choose a path. But, on the other hand: Maybe I’m really a set painter… Finishing beautiful sets. Nope. I’m too lazy. Yours? --- ## [The SinoNasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22). Best medical acronym ever? Do you have a fave medical acronym?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sinonasal-outcome-test-snot-22-best-medical-acronym-ever-do-you-have-a-fave-medical-acronym/949938)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sinonasal-outcome-test-snot-22-best-medical-acronym-ever-do-you-have-a-fave-medical-acronym/949938 "2021-09-04T16:09:16Z")
My patient with ENT issues underwent the SNOT-22 a while back, and I finally got the report. It’s a predictor of post-surgical improvement in patients with chronic sinusitis. SNOT-22 This test replaced the previous SNO… --- ## [Looks like bad things are happening in New York and New Jersey](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-bad-things-are-happening-in-new-york-and-new-jersey/949961)
**Author:** [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-bad-things-are-happening-in-new-york-and-new-jersey/949961 "2021-09-03T23:26:35Z")
I can’t find a link to the facebook video I saw of the Bridge underwater and cars floating, but it looks pretty bad. Stay safe everyone. --- ## [Tech Help! Online Form with Add-able Pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tech-help-online-form-with-add-able-pages/950049)
**Author:** [@Little\_Room](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Room)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tech-help-online-form-with-add-able-pages/950049 "2021-09-03T14:36:09Z")
(if this is not pointless enough to be here, please move!) With apologies for the graceless construction of the title, I’m checking in to see if anyone else knows how to do this. I need to create an online form (e.g. G… --- ## [Question about new Texas abortion law](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-new-texas-abortion-law/950023)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-new-texas-abortion-law/950023 "2021-09-03T14:12:30Z")
Is there anything in the Texas anti abortion law that just went into effect that stops anyone from suing someone that assists a woman from Texas getting an out of state abortion? If I’m a Texas resident and I drive a wom… --- ## [Worst, most meaningless metaphor ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-meaningless-metaphor-ever/949922)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-most-meaningless-metaphor-ever/949922 "2021-09-03T12:14:22Z")
Well, the worst I’ve ever seen anyway. In a review of a book in Sunday’s Times. The book under review was a book by Andrew Sullivan. Now Sullivan can be controversial, always interesting, never fatuous. But here is a… --- ## [Of Sapphics and Lesbians](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-sapphics-and-lesbians/949857)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-sapphics-and-lesbians/949857 "2021-09-02T18:30:05Z")
Just a word origin question here. I don’t want this to turn into a debate on sexuality. Why are female homosexuals called Lesbians? The poet’s name was Sappho. Lesbos is just where she came from. Seems a bit misleading … --- ## [The new Chief Chaplain at Harvard is an Atheist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-chief-chaplain-at-harvard-is-an-atheist/949812)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-chief-chaplain-at-harvard-is-an-atheist/949812 "2021-09-02T17:42:11Z")
The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist. (yahoo.com) “To Epstein’s fellow campus chaplains, at least, the notion of being led by an atheist is not as counterintuitive as it might sound; his election was unanimous.… --- ## [Pet owners: share your poopervisor (or pee-pervisor) stories!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-owners-share-your-poopervisor-or-pee-pervisor-stories/949179)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-owners-share-your-poopervisor-or-pee-pervisor-stories/949179 "2021-09-02T14:06:52Z")
It’s the… :notes: Eye of the tiger, it’s the poo-per-vi-ser It’s the thrill of the fight … :musical\_note: I can’t be the only one with a designated pooperviser. Current poo-per-vi-ser likes to stare at my toilet brus… --- ## [Men's necktie prices](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-necktie-prices/949571)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-necktie-prices/949571 "2021-09-01T19:07:23Z")
After swearing off ties 20 years ago I find myself needing one for my granddaughter’s wedding. Got a nice shirt and pants, shoes are OK so I’ll toss 20 bucks in my pocket and get a tie. In my dreams. Walmart, Target, JC… --- ## [Have You Experienced Serious Swelling By Your Eye A WEEK After a Bee Sting?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-serious-swelling-by-your-eye-a-week-after-a-bee-sting/949449)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-experienced-serious-swelling-by-your-eye-a-week-after-a-bee-sting/949449 "2021-09-01T16:48:51Z")
There were a ton of bees on the side of my house, and they were entering my kitchen, so I couldn’t wait and had to try and get rid of them, and took my extension cord and shop-vac and tried to get as many as I could… I d… --- ## [You Can't Discipline a Cat!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-discipline-a-cat/949291)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-discipline-a-cat/949291 "2021-09-01T15:10:48Z")
I’ve grown up with all kinds of cats. Big ones, small ones, cute ones, obnoxious ones. And I can safely tell you. You just can’t discipline a cat. Why do I tell you this now? Because believe it or not, I have encountere… --- ## [Part of the ceiling in my spare room collapsed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/part-of-the-ceiling-in-my-spare-room-collapsed/949803)
**Author:** [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/part-of-the-ceiling-in-my-spare-room-collapsed/949803 "2021-09-01T05:38:24Z")
I have a spare room I keep closed off. During the pandemic, I’ve basically used it for storage when I order bulk stuff online. I went in today to get something and about a 2X2 foot part of the ceiling had collapsed. I… --- ## [Santa Cruz (CA) area: Status of State Route 9?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-cruz-ca-area-status-of-state-route-9/949751)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/santa-cruz-ca-area-status-of-state-route-9/949751 "2021-08-31T22:25:02Z")
Question for Dopers in Santa Cruz area: What is the current status of State Route 9 ? Last I recall being in that area was some years ago, and the road was closed somewhere between Felton and Santa Cruz. It seemed to … --- ## [Night Vision Critter Cams: any brand name recommendations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-vision-critter-cams-any-brand-name-recommendations/949817)
**Author:** [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2021, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-vision-critter-cams-any-brand-name-recommendations/949817 "2021-08-31T05:53:40Z")
Can anybody recommend a good brand of night vision Critter Cam? We want to upgrade our current device. We require wifi, stills and audio/video, fast trigger time. These are easy enough to find, but we have no idea w… --- ## [OnlyFans bans porn](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onlyfans-bans-porn/949407)
**Author:** [@Somethingwitty1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Somethingwitty1)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/onlyfans-bans-porn/949407 "2021-08-31T05:25:10Z")
While I am not familiar with Only Fans or it’s content, My understanding from various news stories on the subject is they got pretty big basically from porn content from individual posters. They have now banned that co… --- ## [Moanday….meet Ida](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moanday-meet-ida/949758)
**Author:** [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moanday-meet-ida/949758 "2021-08-31T02:50:54Z")
Batten down the hatches Mumpers! Hope all and sundry stay safe~lots of dear Mumpers in the path. All this damn water is in the wrong half of the US. --- ## [Back to the Grindstone- A Post Vacation MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-grindstone-a-post-vacation-mmp/949353)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 227\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-grindstone-a-post-vacation-mmp/949353 "2021-08-30T06:03:37Z")
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave. Be goodTry not to get caught while I’m gone. {{{{shades}}}} I’m sorry about your kitty. :frowning: --- ## [Bad hand from the Dealer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hand-from-the-dealer/850106)
**Author:** [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-hand-from-the-dealer/850106 "2021-08-29T21:25:38Z")
So we bought a new car a few weeks ago. 2020 Subaru Outback. I love it, until it’s fancy tablet like Digital dash display shuts down Leaving a blank screen and no access to radio Bluetooth navigation climate controls no… --- ## [What Scam Was Attempted at the Gas Station?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-scam-was-attempted-at-the-gas-station/949633)
**Author:** [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-scam-was-attempted-at-the-gas-station/949633 "2021-08-29T21:01:24Z")
This happened years ago - I was pulling up to the pump at a pay-at-the-pump gas station when I noticed two women waving me over to another pump. I stayed where I was and got out of the car and started buying gas. They … --- ## [Son sues mom'n'dad for throwing out his porn stash - WINS LAWSUIT](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-sues-momndad-for-throwing-out-his-porn-stash-wins-lawsuit/928307)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-sues-momndad-for-throwing-out-his-porn-stash-wins-lawsuit/928307 "2021-08-29T06:55:24Z")
Ya can’t make this stuff up: The guy’s in his 40, stayed with his parents for a while after he divorced, yadda yadda. I’d love to know what his ex-wife thinks of all this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=247) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=249)