# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=351 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 352 --- ## [This Thread Is About Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-thread-is-about-nothing/846265 "2020-01-13T06:08:44Z")
Ran that second red light. Figured it saved me 8 minutes. Had ‘Counting Crows’ on the radio singing about colors and wanting to be more funky, just as I hit that stretch of road opposite Cap’t Pomin rock that never gets … --- ## [The coughing, sniffling, sneezing MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coughing-sniffling-sneezing-mmp/846026)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 220\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coughing-sniffling-sneezing-mmp/846026 "2020-01-13T03:35:19Z")
Looks like I may have to unretire in order to pay for all the tissues we’ve run thru this past week! :eek: I don’t know what kind of bug we picked up in the evil so-called Sunshine State, but it’s persistent. Unfailing… --- ## [What was this captcha?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-captcha/846279 "2020-01-13T01:51:56Z")
All that I know is that it wasn’t VH4. I wish I had pushed the audio button. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200111/88513b8d85a750072a4f836434ef9717.jpg --- ## [Bringing home a new dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bringing-home-a-new-dog/846289)
**Author:** [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 13, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bringing-home-a-new-dog/846289 "2020-01-13T00:18:37Z")
So we’ve been looking for a new dog for a couple years. Today I found a sweet lab that needs a new home. Tomorrow morning we’ll go to the shelter and get our new baby - we have a wonderful cat from the same shelter, but… --- ## [Does Anyone Want Old Radio/TV Tubes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-want-old-radio-tv-tubes/846218)
**Author:** [@Wallet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallet)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-want-old-radio-tv-tubes/846218 "2020-01-12T17:45:32Z")
Cleaning out an attic, and found a ragged box filled with old radio and TV tubes - there are both small and large ones (I guess the large tubes are for TVs?) Some are loose, others in boxes, most in good shape. Can anyo… --- ## [Polytheism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polytheism/846197)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [January 12, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polytheism/846197 "2020-01-12T13:36:37Z")
Polytheism. That noble institution. The worship of Parrots. :smiley: --- ## [Ohmigodohmigodohmigodwaddoahdo?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohmigodohmigodohmigodwaddoahdo/846157)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohmigodohmigodohmigodwaddoahdo/846157 "2020-01-11T23:15:47Z")
I find myself in a position that is rather novel for me. Dating and having a steady girlfriend (oooOOOOoooo Dorky has a girlfriend) as an adult. She also doesn’t live with me, has a superficially similiar life story and… --- ## [Found one of those elusive pricing errors online!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-one-of-those-elusive-pricing-errors-online/846145)
**Author:** [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-one-of-those-elusive-pricing-errors-online/846145 "2020-01-11T22:26:57Z")
So, my spouse’s hobby is shopping, and does this primarily online. A couple of days ago they were looking around at some items on a high-end gift website, looking for after-Christmas sales, and stumbled upon an item wit… --- ## [Speaking anonymously](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-anonymously/846278)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-anonymously/846278 "2020-01-11T22:19:40Z")
There is not a day that goes by that I don’t wish I could speak where there is no connection to my identity. I feel like it would open up a side of me that has always stayed in hiding. I can’t help but wonder how this mi… --- ## [Short, Cheap Getaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-cheap-getaway/846096)
**Author:** [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-cheap-getaway/846096 "2020-01-11T20:28:28Z")
Seeking advice and recommendations. So here’s what I’m looking for: a quick, inexpensive getaway to somewhere warm, or at least relatively warm (I’m in NYC). I’d probably go in February. Rundown old towns on the Gulf… --- ## [Your best New Year memory](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-new-year-memory/845709)
**Author:** [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-new-year-memory/845709 "2020-01-11T03:17:56Z")
Sorry for long post. TL;DR version. Street wasn’t visible at all through the red firecracker paper and I ‘became a man’ by being allowed to light the strings of crackers. It was in the late 60’s or early 70’s when I was… --- ## [Catholic Church Used Crop Duster To Spray Holy Water Over Louisiana Town](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-church-used-crop-duster-to-spray-holy-water-over-louisiana-town/845630)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catholic-church-used-crop-duster-to-spray-holy-water-over-louisiana-town/845630 "2020-01-10T22:47:45Z")
That’s the headline: Sounds like a great way to take out large numbers of vampires at once, too! --- ## [Boeing internal emails during the certification process of the 737 MAX: Ouch!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boeing-internal-emails-during-the-certification-process-of-the-737-max-ouch/846215)
**Author:** [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boeing-internal-emails-during-the-certification-process-of-the-737-max-ouch/846215 "2020-01-10T18:45:18Z")
Internal emails from Boeing that were sent among Boeing employees during the certification process of the 737 MAX have been made public. The only thing I can say is: “OUCH”. Some choice quotes: “This airplane is desig… --- ## [The Oddities and Curiosities Expo may be coming to your town!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oddities-and-curiosities-expo-may-be-coming-to-your-town/845886)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-oddities-and-curiosities-expo-may-be-coming-to-your-town/845886 "2020-01-10T17:36:52Z")
I’m all excited at the opportunity to add strange and gruesome objets d’art to pep up our tired home furnishings. Expecially intriguing is the promise of quack medical devices. Who wouldn’t want a Battle Creek Vibratory… --- ## [I feel good about this thing (beck's still bad, bad, bad)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-good-about-this-thing-becks-still-bad-bad-bad/846053)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-good-about-this-thing-becks-still-bad-bad-bad/846053 "2020-01-10T00:24:07Z")
I drove myself to the County Library. Snuck ONE corndog from Sonic. I wanted more but I didn’t(do you HEAR that, nutritionist?) I pulled in the huge rambling parking lot of Walmart. On a little grassy island was a elde… --- ## [Catching Up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catching-up/845894)
**Author:** [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catching-up/845894 "2020-01-10T00:04:09Z")
So, what’s been going on these past few years? Be concise. Show your work. --- ## [It was 9 years ago today...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-9-years-ago-today/846129)
**Author:** [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-9-years-ago-today/846129 "2020-01-09T05:35:54Z")
On January 8, 2011, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Gifford and 18 other people were shot at a gathering outside a Safeway store in Tucson, Arizona. Six of those people, including a 9 year old girl, died from their wounds.… --- ## [Truly moving sentiments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-moving-sentiments/846134)
**Author:** [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-moving-sentiments/846134 "2020-01-09T01:38:11Z")
I was listening to this excellent version of ‘Time after Time’ when I recalled someone commenting on the song: “I sang this to my wife when she was slowly dying of cancer. I don’t sing good - but she liked it anyway,” --- ## [Somebody screws up teaching evolution](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-screws-up-teaching-evolution/821994)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-screws-up-teaching-evolution/821994 "2020-01-09T00:45:00Z")
but I’m not sure who. The BBC has a story up about the opening of the Milner Center for Evolution at the University of Bath. Included in the article us a 7 question quiz on evolution. Question 5 is “Humans are descended… --- ## [My mother has breast cancer again, ~20 years after having her breasts removed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-has-breast-cancer-again-20-years-after-having-her-breasts-removed/846095)
**Author:** [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 9, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-has-breast-cancer-again-20-years-after-having-her-breasts-removed/846095 "2020-01-09T00:12:34Z")
She was first diagnosed with breast cancer somewhere in the 95-97 time period and had a lumpectomy. She had it come back 1999-2000 time period and had a complete mastectomy. Treated for several years after with tamoxif… --- ## [Do you go for regular medical checkups?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-go-for-regular-medical-checkups/846046)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-go-for-regular-medical-checkups/846046 "2020-01-08T19:34:24Z")
The colon cancer screening reminder thread and my dentist appointment today made me think of this. I go to the doctor regularly. I see my primary care doc 2-4 times per year for a diabetic checkup (depending on how my B… --- ## [Swypos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666)
**Author:** [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666 "2020-01-08T17:02:25Z")
Many of us use a swype-based typing on our phones. Sometimes the error-correction and predictive algorithms produce amusing results. My latest: equivalent --\> Warhammer --- ## [In which Trep goes to hospital. A lot.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot/846092)
**Author:** [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot/846092 "2020-01-08T16:47:32Z")
I’m still not sure about writing this, but if I don’t do it today, I won’t do it at all. Happy ending, BTW, just in case you find the start discouraging. 7 Nov, 2019 – middle of the day: pissed blood. Huh? Like, uh – wh… --- ## [Big accidents this winter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-accidents-this-winter/846071)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-accidents-this-winter/846071 "2020-01-08T11:55:16Z")
69-car accident in Virginia in December. 60-car pile-up in Maine just now. Maybe I’ve just been out of touch, but it’s been years since I remember hearing about such large accidents, and yet here are a couple of them w… --- ## [In 2001 this English boy did a bad, bad, bad thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-2001-this-english-boy-did-a-bad-bad-bad-thing/845931)
**Author:** [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-2001-this-english-boy-did-a-bad-bad-bad-thing/845931 "2020-01-08T05:33:55Z")
The other day I made a confession to Beck, and it brought back the memory of a day when I just stepped beyond the pale, a moment of disturbing and transgressive behaviour. It was 2001; I was working in an office in Lond… --- ## [United Methodist Church to Split into Two Denominations over LGBT Rights](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-methodist-church-to-split-into-two-denominations-over-lgbt-rights/845912)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-methodist-church-to-split-into-two-denominations-over-lgbt-rights/845912 "2020-01-08T01:41:47Z")
This surprises me as I thought the Methodists were fairly liberal. But apparently there are strong conservative elements in the Philippines and Africa as well as some in the U.S. --- ## [Squirrel fracas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrel-fracas/845914)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 8, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squirrel-fracas/845914 "2020-01-08T00:31:11Z")
On Christmas Day my mother discovered that there was a squirrel in her basement. The neighbors across the alley knew of a critter rescue group and two folks came over that very day, captured and released the furry taile… --- ## [Britain's most prolific serial rapist is jailed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britains-most-prolific-serial-rapist-is-jailed/846029)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britains-most-prolific-serial-rapist-is-jailed/846029 "2020-01-07T22:16:05Z")
A perpetual Indonesian student living in Manchester has been convicted of tolling the neighborhood for drunken men, drugging and raping them. He filmed about 190 of the attacks. Seventy of the men have not been identifi… --- ## [Latest sign of senility](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-senility/845528)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-senility/845528 "2020-01-07T21:57:45Z")
When you decide to do a little cleaning and you look for your Lysol which is always on the counter in either the kitchen or the bathroom and you look in both places and don’t find it. So you look in the living room and t… --- ## [Do all the fees charged by groups like ticketmaster do anything, was there a time before fees](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-the-fees-charged-by-groups-like-ticketmaster-do-anything-was-there-a-time-before-fees/845563)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-the-fees-charged-by-groups-like-ticketmaster-do-anything-was-there-a-time-before-fees/845563 "2020-01-07T20:55:36Z")
When I buy tickets to an event there are a ton of various fees added on. Some are absurd like a ‘delivery fee’ to mail tickets (which I avoid by using an e-ticket, but still its overpriced). Was there a time before fees… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=350) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=352)