# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=361 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 362 --- ## [What single exercise has made the most difference for you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-single-exercise-has-made-the-most-difference-for-you/844071)
**Author:** [@ethelbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethelbert)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-single-exercise-has-made-the-most-difference-for-you/844071 "2019-11-28T04:23:58Z")
I am 70, and most of my exercise regimen is drawn from Physical Therapy, designed basically to keep all my joints pain free (or at least have less pain). This works pretty well for me (I also walk 3 to 4 miles per day). … --- ## [TRUCKLA: The world's first Tesla pickup truck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truckla-the-worlds-first-tesla-pickup-truck/835692)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truckla-the-worlds-first-tesla-pickup-truck/835692 "2019-11-28T04:20:36Z")
TRUCKLA: The world’s first Tesla pickup truck (1:45 video) This totally fucking rocks! :smiley: --- ## ['OUI' Why do you treat me so?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oui-why-do-you-treat-me-so/843446)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oui-why-do-you-treat-me-so/843446 "2019-11-28T03:24:50Z")
My cherry flavored Yoplait ‘Oui’ yogurt let me down. (:() When you peel the foil lid off (so satisfying) the cute little glass pot on the underside is a cute sentiment or a tiny pep talk. I peeled my container and got … --- ## [the almost turkey day mmp](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-turkey-day-mmp/843602)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 258\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-almost-turkey-day-mmp/843602 "2019-11-28T01:50:51Z")
yep, i started it and since its almost turkey day I figured why not :slight\_smile: So everyone ready for the grocery sales next week? all of ours start on Wednesdays I think we bought almost everything but I hope potat… --- ## [You Hear About the "Red Flag" Law Thing in Upstate New York?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-hear-about-the-red-flag-law-thing-in-upstate-new-york/843944)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-hear-about-the-red-flag-law-thing-in-upstate-new-york/843944 "2019-11-28T00:36:19Z")
I suspect this is the next Pizzagate. I sort of stumbled across this, it is big on some progun sites. You may have missed it. Here is a link that is less panicky than most. The Sheriff in Putman County New York went to… --- ## [Society, friendship and social isolation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-friendship-and-social-isolation/844026)
**Author:** [@Yankees\_1996\_Champs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankees_1996_Champs)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/society-friendship-and-social-isolation/844026 "2019-11-27T17:21:24Z")
People around the world see societal changes, friendship decline and social isolation decrease, especially in today’s twenty-first (21st century) since 2001, when world technology has increased. In the 1970s and 1980s, … --- ## [How do you reconcile the world?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-reconcile-the-world/843991)
**Author:** [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-reconcile-the-world/843991 "2019-11-27T15:54:11Z")
The world isn’t fair. We have mass arrests and oppression in Hong Kong, millions of Uighurs in concentration camps, people being slaughtered by the hundred in Iran and Bolivia, chemical weapons used on kids in Syria, kid… --- ## [Installed my first electric hot water heater in my life. Why thank you Mr Big intrusive Government.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installed-my-first-electric-hot-water-heater-in-my-life-why-thank-you-mr-big-intrusive-government/843868)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/installed-my-first-electric-hot-water-heater-in-my-life-why-thank-you-mr-big-intrusive-government/843868 "2019-11-27T15:32:05Z")
My AO Smith, gas 40 gal hot water heater was installed in 2002. There was nothing special about it. Hot water heaters hadn’t changed since the 1940’s, maybe even earlier. It finally rusted out and started leaking. Geez,… --- ## [Phony bomb threats are not very nice. And they are illegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phony-bomb-threats-are-not-very-nice-and-they-are-illegal/843650)
**Author:** [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phony-bomb-threats-are-not-very-nice-and-they-are-illegal/843650 "2019-11-27T12:39:12Z")
I was in Hackensack, NJ in the middle of this. A phony bomb threat forced the evacuation of all three Bergen Community College campuses. I hope they find the idiot responsible and charge them with terrorism. Phony bomb … --- ## [The Big Empty House](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-empty-house/843609)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-empty-house/843609 "2019-11-26T22:12:20Z")
Every day, twice a day, on my commute to and from work, I pass a very large house in a well-off community. It’s the kind of house my wife calls a “McMansion”, because it’s not exactly unique, and appears to be the kind o… --- ## [Mastercard Takes Steps to Stem Misleading "Free Trial Offer" Billing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mastercard-takes-steps-to-stem-misleading-free-trial-offer-billing/843967)
**Author:** [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mastercard-takes-steps-to-stem-misleading-free-trial-offer-billing/843967 "2019-11-26T21:32:49Z")
https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/19257-mastercard-takes-steps-to-stem-misleading-free-trial-offer-ads This seems like a great idea, and I think Mastercard still has enough pull in the credit card industry to ma… --- ## [Bored Meanderings(delirious rantings) From The Sick(death) Bed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-meanderings-delirious-rantings-from-the-sick-death-bed/843970)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored-meanderings-delirious-rantings-from-the-sick-death-bed/843970 "2019-11-26T20:05:53Z")
So, as some of you are aware, I’ve been fighting an illness that started as a chest cold and over the course of time morphed into a sinus infection. its a lie, the infection is a face burster As I lay here, time on my h… --- ## [“Deceptive” Product Names](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deceptive-product-names/843470)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deceptive-product-names/843470 "2019-11-26T14:47:29Z")
While reviewing some basic Hindi, the language tutor mentions that in India, there is a brand of whiskey called ‘Nothing’ (which sounds something like koosh naheen). The joke is that if you ask someone what they want to… --- ## [Give your SO a Violet Bejeweled Vagina on a Chain!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-your-so-a-violet-bejeweled-vagina-on-a-chain/843930)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-your-so-a-violet-bejeweled-vagina-on-a-chain/843930 "2019-11-26T03:39:37Z")
That;s what I first thought when I saw this in the Sunday magazine this morning: https://www.nahoku.com/celestial-collection/celestial-pendant-43680?returnurl=%2Fcelestial-collection%2F It’s the Na Hoku Celestial Penda… --- ## [The open office hate thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-open-office-hate-thread/843518)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-open-office-hate-thread/843518 "2019-11-25T18:01:12Z")
I know there’s probably hardly anyone here who feels the same, but I loathe open offices with every fiber of my being. I sit in an open space where we’re ostensibly expected to write computer code. It’s table-style op… --- ## [How We Are Being “Civilized To Death”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-we-are-being-civilized-to-death/843940)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-we-are-being-civilized-to-death/843940 "2019-11-25T01:34:43Z")
--- ## [I live next to a porn star !](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-live-next-to-a-porn-star/843742)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-live-next-to-a-porn-star/843742 "2019-11-24T22:43:42Z")
I was doing some online…ummm, research and happened across a video of a Asian woman doing disgusting things. I could barely make out what was happening as I deliberately squinted so as not to see too clearly. On this pa… --- ## [Spectrum/roadrunner email problems?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectrum-roadrunner-email-problems/843928)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectrum-roadrunner-email-problems/843928 "2019-11-24T22:21:46Z")
Is anyone experiencing having emails bounce that you send to people with roadrunner addresses? I’ve had this with roadrunner friends since Friday evening (11/22/19). --- ## [Yes I do understand that I am destroying your life but at this point I am finding it hard to care](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-do-understand-that-i-am-destroying-your-life-but-at-this-point-i-am-finding-it-hard-to-care/843867)
**Author:** [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-do-understand-that-i-am-destroying-your-life-but-at-this-point-i-am-finding-it-hard-to-care/843867 "2019-11-24T18:52:06Z")
Since you happen to be the third person this week with the exact same complaint. So, let’s look at the problem objectively. All you need is for me to sign a form stating that you are medically qualified to drive a scho… --- ## [60 yr old nurse scammed for nearly $340,000](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-yr-old-nurse-scammed-for-nearly-340-000/843839)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-yr-old-nurse-scammed-for-nearly-340-000/843839 "2019-11-24T16:37:54Z")
A sad story, and this lady’s retirement plans are destroyed. She and her husband will likely have to work for many more years, unless some miracle happens. She shared her story so that others may benefit and not make th… --- ## [Whycome no JFK retrospectives?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whycome-no-jfk-retrospectives/843850)
**Author:** [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whycome-no-jfk-retrospectives/843850 "2019-11-24T13:24:49Z")
56 years ago today JFK was assassinated. But I have seen zero mentions of this anniversary anywhere in the media. Not on TV, not on-line…nada. They commemorate Garfield’s assassination, for Ghu’s sake! Why is everybody f… --- ## [Something Important Happened in my Mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-important-happened-in-my-mind/843885)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-important-happened-in-my-mind/843885 "2019-11-24T06:25:19Z")
This happened a couple of days ago. It’s going to sound weird, but I think it’s significant. I was at work and I did something clumsy. Two days later, I don’t even remember what it was. But I do remember my brain say… --- ## [Rudy the cat Lives!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudy-the-cat-lives/843882)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 24, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudy-the-cat-lives/843882 "2019-11-24T03:29:39Z")
never thought I would be happy to see a big fat turd in my cat’s litter box. But it means Rudy is OK. I thought he was dying in front of me the other night. Unsteady on his feet, threw up in his water bowl, peed on the f… --- ## [Religious Literacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-literacy/843462)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-literacy/843462 "2019-11-23T22:13:00Z")
I’ve been reading a book on the above topic. The author teaches religion at Boston University. The book discusses basic religious concepts of the five major faiths and a few minor ones. I’m Canadian. My impression is… --- ## [The Great Late-Summer 2019 Doper Postcard Exchange!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 142\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-late-summer-2019-doper-postcard-exchange/839054 "2019-11-23T14:14:00Z")
Northern Piper, melodyharmonius and jayrey have run them in the past, and they’re always fun, but it’s been awhile. Here’s how it works (as adapted from NP’s previous thread). Our rules, by the numbers, and written wit… --- ## [Bush-Trump Coincidences?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-trump-coincidences/843764)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-trump-coincidences/843764 "2019-11-23T02:33:00Z")
I guess any of you who follow my posts, must know by now. I am interested in coincidences. I am also a skeptic. And I don’t claim the coincidences show or prove anything. Mainly they are more about the person who finds t… --- ## [Argument over selling "family heirlooms"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argument-over-selling-family-heirlooms/843768)
**Author:** [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [November 23, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argument-over-selling-family-heirlooms/843768 "2019-11-23T02:07:07Z")
I am not involved in the argument, it is a pissing contest among some relatives on my dad’s side of the family. Briefly, there were two brothers we will call Jack and Joe. Jack went into the army and fought in WWII whi… --- ## [Did you ever plagiarize anything?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-plagiarize-anything/843668)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-plagiarize-anything/843668 "2019-11-22T20:57:21Z")
Way back in high school, I sent an entry to the school’s literary magazine. It was a minor poem by Wordsworth. They rejected it. How about you? --- ## [Operation Cat-panion is a go](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-cat-panion-is-a-go/840785)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/operation-cat-panion-is-a-go/840785 "2019-11-22T20:35:21Z")
One of the things I most regret this year is that when I adopted my kitten Pie, I didn’t adopt one of her brothers with her. I wasn’t sure if I was up to taking in two cats at once, and so I decided to play it safe, but … --- ## [Please describe this vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-this-vehicle/840900)
**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-describe-this-vehicle/840900 "2019-11-22T20:29:01Z")
Words mostly fail me. The best I can come up with is “extreme industrial” or maybe “pill box on wheels”. Take a look: Bollinger pickup It’s an electric truck, so is this the wave of the future? Well, I don’t think Tesl… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=360) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=362)