# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=331 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 332 --- ## [What is the longest "geographically sequential" place name you've seen.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139)
**Author:** [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139 "2020-04-22T08:05:15Z")
I’ve seen examples of places that seem to have been named in an expanding sequence of geographic terms (unfortunately I can’t come up with a real-life example right now). For example, let’s say there was a mountain name… --- ## [Stephen Wolfram's Theory on the Nature of Reality](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-wolframs-theory-on-the-nature-of-reality/851898)
**Author:** [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-wolframs-theory-on-the-nature-of-reality/851898 "2020-04-21T13:12:13Z")
I’ve just come across an interesting articlein which Stephen Wolfram puts forth a model of the universe where everything is explained as the application of simple abstract rules to abstract elements, which generates comp… --- ## [Actual](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual/852242)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actual/852242 "2020-04-21T04:16:18Z")
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/mjs538/signs-from-covid-19-reopen-protests-across --- ## [Kim Jong Un is Ill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-is-ill/852247)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kim-jong-un-is-ill/852247 "2020-04-21T03:59:04Z")
Well, he has been out of the public eye for more than a week. He missed two important ceremonial events. Now CNN says he is having a difficult recovery after some sort of surgery. It might be true I suppose. He may be… --- ## [I cut my husbands hair today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cut-my-husbands-hair-today/852160)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cut-my-husbands-hair-today/852160 "2020-04-20T21:25:24Z")
It doesn’t look too bad:eek: I also trimmed his eyebrows and ear hair. Used an electric razor. My hair on the other hand looks like a stringy disaster . Hats are great! --- ## [I am offically an old man](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-offically-an-old-man/852195)
**Author:** [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-offically-an-old-man/852195 "2020-04-20T20:07:06Z")
I’m pushing 70, but it hit me today how really old I am when I heard a song on the radio that went, “If the world was ending, you’d come over, right? You’d come over and you’d stay the night.” And all I could think was,… --- ## [I'm beginning to question my sanity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-beginning-to-question-my-sanity/851996)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-beginning-to-question-my-sanity/851996 "2020-04-20T15:10:39Z")
I’ve been locked away in this old-folks home for a year, and my psyche is wearing thin. I cannot, and don’t want to, go home until I can walk, but with CORVID\*-19 oops. continued below --- ## [What are reasons someone doesn't come home for their mother's funeral?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-reasons-someone-doesnt-come-home-for-their-mothers-funeral/851968)
**Author:** [@Dunmurry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunmurry)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-reasons-someone-doesnt-come-home-for-their-mothers-funeral/851968 "2020-04-20T03:35:11Z")
Well my cousin in Canada didn’t come to Ireland a few years ago when get mother died because she thought it would be too emotional. Is this odd? You would expect someone would come back home. Is this common in fact? --- ## [Ship Destroys Crane in Busan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-destroys-crane-in-busan/852121)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ship-destroys-crane-in-busan/852121 "2020-04-20T01:56:51Z")
This actually happened way back on April 6th, but I found out about it recently. Containership Takes Out Crane in Busan, South Korea More, including videos, at the link. --- ## [April Showers bring a soggy MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-a-soggy-mmp/851685)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 220\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-showers-bring-a-soggy-mmp/851685 "2020-04-20T00:42:50Z")
Now and then: what to do when it rains? OK, so now, it’s pretty my stay inside like we’ve been staying inside. But let’s assume a normal world - does rain affect your daily routine? When you were a kid and couldn’t go … --- ## [Shooting in Nova Scotia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-in-nova-scotia/852145)
**Author:** [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-in-nova-scotia/852145 "2020-04-19T23:36:26Z")
Duplicate. --- ## [Who thought this dress ("African" black women) modeled by a blonde made sense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-thought-this-dress-african-black-women-modeled-by-a-blonde-made-sense/851603)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-thought-this-dress-african-black-women-modeled-by-a-blonde-made-sense/851603 "2020-04-19T22:30:06Z")
I don’t use ad blockers because I’m often amused by the ads that go by on various sites I frequent. For example, take this dress. Did it not occur to the people putting the advertisement together that a white lady weari… --- ## [Tips from cutting my own hair?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-from-cutting-my-own-hair/852143)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tips-from-cutting-my-own-hair/852143 "2020-04-19T22:02:28Z")
So during a trip to a one stop shopping place, I picked up a home haircut kit, so I could have it on hand should I decide I couldn’t take my current shag (I was close to needing a cut when the lockdown started, and I jus… --- ## [Happy Easter! Any Christians or believers here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-easter-any-christians-or-believers-here/851648)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-easter-any-christians-or-believers-here/851648 "2020-04-19T19:29:44Z")
Happy Easter to you! He is risen! --- ## [Ask the OneNote Power User](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-onenote-power-user/579602)
**Author:** [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-onenote-power-user/579602 "2020-04-19T17:24:18Z")
I have been asked to start a OneNote thread. I think this program is the bees knees, and I’ve used it pretty extensively since the first Office2003 version. It is one of Microsoft’s best kept secrets. To kick things off… --- ## [I miss insulting coworkers and students...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-insulting-coworkers-and-students/852061)
**Author:** [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-insulting-coworkers-and-students/852061 "2020-04-19T16:22:57Z")
I like to think of it more as “Showing respect for my buds by giving them a hard time”… but I’ve got to admit, it’s just fun insulting people. And that’s what I miss about “going in to work”. People. Who have senses of … --- ## [Enola hits the Big 5-0](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enola-hits-the-big-5-0/851893)
**Author:** [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enola-hits-the-big-5-0/851893 "2020-04-19T15:13:17Z")
One half-century ago today, Mama gave birth to a little tax deduction. :stuck\_out\_tongue: --- ## [Come Join The Clubbed Thumb Society!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-clubbed-thumb-society/851987)
**Author:** [@Kovitlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kovitlac)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-clubbed-thumb-society/851987 "2020-04-19T04:07:08Z")
Any fellow members of the Clubbed Thumb (Toe-Thumb) Society out there?? My right thumb is much shorter and fatter than my left, and my mom telling me that me sucking on it was what caused it to be deformed was a great wa… --- ## [my theme song for COVID](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-theme-song-for-covid/852105)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-theme-song-for-covid/852105 "2020-04-19T03:50:16Z")
George and Tammy. Well, they didn’t live up to the song. But we must hold on --- ## [Animal surnames](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-surnames/851902)
**Author:** [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-surnames/851902 "2020-04-19T03:16:39Z")
For some reason I was thinking about this today. There are, in English at least (don’t know about other languages), certain animal-related surnames that are common, and others that just don’t seem to exist at all. The m… --- ## [Stimulus Check, what are your plans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stimulus-check-what-are-your-plans/851543)
**Author:** [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stimulus-check-what-are-your-plans/851543 "2020-04-18T18:46:02Z")
After seeing all the news reports of the horrendously long lines of people needing food, I decided to donate my check. Mr VOW may have plans for his check, and that’s fine with me. Mine will be going to Feeding America… --- ## [School Shooting in Saskatchewan: 4 dead \[Update\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-shooting-in-saskatchewan-4-dead-update/743962)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-shooting-in-saskatchewan-4-dead-update/743962 "2020-04-18T13:18:14Z")
La Loche, Sask., shooting leaves 4 dead, others wounded, RCMP say - ‘This is every parent’s worst nightmare,’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Horrible. --- ## [The Virgin Coronadoomer vs The CHAD Lockdown Skeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-virgin-coronadoomer-vs-the-chad-lockdown-skeptic/851822)
**Author:** [@MaverocK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaverocK)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-virgin-coronadoomer-vs-the-chad-lockdown-skeptic/851822 "2020-04-18T08:48:56Z")
I had to share this with you; I couldn’t help it, sorry. Found it extremely amusing regardless of whether it is right or wrong :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: The link to the meme: https://i.imgur.com/BQKryqf.png An alterna… --- ## [So, I got a job...the OP could be long](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-a-job-the-op-could-be-long/851960)
**Author:** [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-got-a-job-the-op-could-be-long/851960 "2020-04-17T23:08:46Z")
I’m going to vent, sigh… I resigned my last full time position back in November, 2017. Since then I’ve been living on savings, and some inheritance money; it’s been rough. I have also accepted some work with elections C… --- ## [Sitting in traffic, saw something new. Person with cellphone clenched in teeth and talking on it...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitting-in-traffic-saw-something-new-person-with-cellphone-clenched-in-teeth-and-talking-on-it/852022)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sitting-in-traffic-saw-something-new-person-with-cellphone-clenched-in-teeth-and-talking-on-it/852022 "2020-04-17T23:01:16Z")
She had that phone clenched in her teeth, by the corner and judging by her facial motions she was talking on it. Alone in an SUV. My guess was that the light she was expecting to stay red had turned green and she suddenl… --- ## [New NASA spacesuits](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-nasa-spacesuits/851050)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-nasa-spacesuits/851050 "2020-04-17T21:23:07Z")
They look very different , much lighter than in the past and the helmet design seems lighter too. NASA is planning the first US manned launch for May --- ## [In praise of our mower](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-our-mower/851781)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-our-mower/851781 "2020-04-17T20:54:53Z")
I bought it at our local Sears when we bought our house, in September 1999. It was the second least expensive mower they had. I have never taken care of it like I should have, thinking I’d just get another cheap one, o… --- ## [A tale of woe. How I met Uncle Philby.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tale-of-woe-how-i-met-uncle-philby/851027)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tale-of-woe-how-i-met-uncle-philby/851027 "2020-04-17T20:44:05Z")
The scary little village that’s close to me. You know the one where they’re sure I’m insane? A guy lived there. He was homeless, I guess. Some people said he had a house he just preferred to be out and about. He was a… --- ## [Anti-social distancing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-social-distancing/850476)
**Author:** [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-social-distancing/850476 "2020-04-17T18:49:27Z")
All the calls for ‘social distancing’ don’t seem to be working. Whenever I’m forced to go out to where other people are, at least one person gets unnecessarily close. So I have pioneered ‘anti-social distancing’. I fak… --- ## [Yield signs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yield-signs/851848)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yield-signs/851848 "2020-04-17T15:54:00Z")
Yield signs have to be the least respected road signs around. Road decorations, the Rodney Dangerfield of road signs. I think too many people have the idea that one doesn’t absolutely have to stop every time, so they don… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=330) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=332)