# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=432 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 433 --- ## [Companies transferring employees to new cities - Is this still a thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-transferring-employees-to-new-cities-is-this-still-a-thing/824384)
**Author:** [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/companies-transferring-employees-to-new-cities-is-this-still-a-thing/824384 "2018-11-14T12:46:50Z")
Is it still common for large corporations to transfer their employees to different cities every few years? I ask this because growing up during the 60s and 70s, my family moved five times to five different metro areas ov… --- ## [Things that are tricky to Google](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-tricky-to-google/824272 "2018-11-14T07:23:36Z")
The other day, I was thinking about an obscure short-lived comedy series called “United States” and wanted to learn more about it. Googling " ‘United States’ television series" was not helpful. Eventually, I used the I… --- ## [The car ahead of me just paid for my Starbucks order](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-car-ahead-of-me-just-paid-for-my-starbucks-order/824075)
**Author:** [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-car-ahead-of-me-just-paid-for-my-starbucks-order/824075 "2018-11-14T01:59:37Z")
Mind blown. I had no idea this was a thing! Anyone else had this happen to them? Have you done it for someone else? --- ## [Oh, Thank Goodness! I have Plantar Fascciitis!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-goodness-i-have-plantar-fascciitis/824177)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-thank-goodness-i-have-plantar-fascciitis/824177 "2018-11-13T16:50:53Z")
Instead of Diabetes! :rolleyes: No, you can’t cut my foot off, Dammit! Even if you want to. Somebody off-hand told me,\* “Oh, yeah, that foot pain, that’s diabetes! You’re gonna lose that shit, like Patrice O’Neal”. :eek… --- ## [The Last British Empire Casualty: George Lawrence Price, November 11, 1918, 10.58 am](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-british-empire-casualty-george-lawrence-price-november-11-1918-10-58-am/824358)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 13, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-british-empire-casualty-george-lawrence-price-november-11-1918-10-58-am/824358 "2018-11-13T00:48:34Z")
George Price was a Canadian farm boy, originally from Nova Scotia, who moved west and settled in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. In 1917 he was conscripted into the 28th Battalion, nicknamed the Nor’Westers. On November 11, h… --- ## [Kitty Goes Under the Knife in the Morning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-goes-under-the-knife-in-the-morning/823992)
**Author:** [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-goes-under-the-knife-in-the-morning/823992 "2018-11-12T21:05:44Z")
My 6 month old kitty, Patches, goes in for her spaying in the morning. The vet said we can’t give her any food or water past 6 pm. That seems a really long time to go without water. Tonight is going to be a long night. I… --- ## [I have to call the vet in the morning for "the talk."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-call-the-vet-in-the-morning-for-the-talk/824090)
**Author:** [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shinna_Minna_Ma)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-call-the-vet-in-the-morning-for-the-talk/824090 "2018-11-12T17:34:23Z")
Our Keeshond, Pepper, is dying. She’s had a large cancerous tumor on her back for the past several months, and the cancer has spread to her abdomen. We’ve been feeding her by hand for the past 2 months, but she’s pretty … --- ## [Mass Shooting in Thousand Oaks, CA](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-in-thousand-oaks-ca/824182)
**Author:** [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2018, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-shooting-in-thousand-oaks-ca/824182 "2018-11-12T15:41:31Z")
Neither mundane nor pointless. :frowning: It’s at a nightclub just off the 101. One security guard was shot. They don’t know if the shooter is in custody. :frowning: --- ## [Went to a reunion of a place I used to work.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/went-to-a-reunion-of-a-place-i-used-to-work/824343)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/went-to-a-reunion-of-a-place-i-used-to-work/824343 "2018-11-12T15:11:11Z")
The company went down the tubes in 2003. Was a little apprehensive about seeing all these people that I haven’t seen since then but it was fun. Mundane and pointless but I recommend that anyone that has a similar opportu… --- ## [What do you want for Christmas?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-for-christmas/823933 "2018-11-12T11:45:20Z")
And I’m not talking about “Peace On Earth” or having bills paid or any other altruistic crap. What would you like to find under the Christmas tree this year? Price limit is $1000. Keeping in the spirit of Christmas, I w… --- ## [I'm Up So I'll Start The MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-up-so-ill-start-the-mmp/823999)
**Author:** [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Replies:** 195\ **Last updated:** [November 12, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-up-so-ill-start-the-mmp/823999 "2018-11-12T04:37:14Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 64 Amurrkin out and dark (TWPTB say cloudy, but it’s dark, so what do I know) with a predicted high of 79 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon and for the rest of … --- ## [Just bought my first house! Unsolicited advice... Um... Solicited.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-bought-my-first-house-unsolicited-advice-um-solicited/823866)
**Author:** [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-bought-my-first-house-unsolicited-advice-um-solicited/823866 "2018-11-11T21:00:47Z")
For those of you with good memories or a creepy fixation on my personal life might recall that I have in fact, started a similar thread in the past. That was a few years ago when we thought we were buying a house but thi… --- ## [The Great War Centenary Thread: The Thread to End All Threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-war-centenary-thread-the-thread-to-end-all-threads/691863)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 175\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-war-centenary-thread-the-thread-to-end-all-threads/691863 "2018-11-11T14:04:01Z")
\*July 28, 1914: Europe has been at peace, by and large, for close to a century. Since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Great Powers have been in a stately dance, by and large avoiding war. Certainly, there have bee… --- ## [I bought my self-defense gun from a T Rex...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-my-self-defense-gun-from-a-t-rex/823597)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2018, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-my-self-defense-gun-from-a-t-rex/823597 "2018-11-11T05:58:20Z")
He was a small arms dealer. Actually I shouldn’t even own a gun given my issues with alcohol. It kept me from becoming a lawyer - I couldn’t pass the bar. Not only that, it’s a gateway drug… to aspirin. So for now my re… --- ## [Hearing a word spoken on TV or other source at the same moment you read/write it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearing-a-word-spoken-on-tv-or-other-source-at-the-same-moment-you-read-write-it/824333)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearing-a-word-spoken-on-tv-or-other-source-at-the-same-moment-you-read-write-it/824333 "2018-11-11T04:28:16Z")
This question/observation is so mundane and pointless that it needs its own sub-forum within this sub-forum. This happens to me, and I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced it. It’s best described with a couple of … --- ## [Interesting titles, until you realise you read it wrong.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-titles-until-you-realise-you-read-it-wrong/823957)
**Author:** [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-titles-until-you-realise-you-read-it-wrong/823957 "2018-11-11T03:02:49Z")
I really was intrigued, How do you determine a Klingon? Edit, forgive me, I have a headache. The title turned out to be How do you determine a kilogram. I had to read the op before I figured out my mistake. --- ## [An unfortunate ship name](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unfortunate-ship-name/824194)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 11, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unfortunate-ship-name/824194 "2018-11-11T01:23:50Z")
At the weekend I passed the harbour. Docked was a ship - an offshore supply vessel - with a most unfortunate name: NAO POWER. :slight\_smile: NAI is Nordic American Offshore, of course, but the homophone is unfortunate,… --- ## [Southern California Fire Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-california-fire-thread/824265)
**Author:** [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-california-fire-thread/824265 "2018-11-10T04:35:21Z")
I thought I’d split this off from Snowboarder’s original thread. As things progress in either region, we can update accordingly. (Not that I don’t care about NoCal; my brother is up there. I just thought it might b… --- ## [Windows 10 involuntary downgrade is a bug, and MS is working on it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-involuntary-downgrade-is-a-bug-and-ms-is-working-on-it/824186)
**Author:** [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-involuntary-downgrade-is-a-bug-and-ms-is-working-on-it/824186 "2018-11-10T00:54:15Z")
Today, I woke up to find that my computer is complaining at me that my Windows 10 copy needs to be activated. Digging further, it claims that I have a Windows 10 Home license, not one for Windows 10 Pro which is (so far… --- ## [Mario grabs a pussy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mario-grabs-a-pussy/824230)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mario-grabs-a-pussy/824230 "2018-11-09T17:01:46Z")
A printer produces two runs of books back-to-back. Both books are the same size and have the same number of pages. One is a book about the creation of Super Mario Brothers 3. The other is a poetry collection titled Grabb… --- ## [Cleaning ladies are stealing drugs. Great.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-ladies-are-stealing-drugs-great/824154)
**Author:** [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-ladies-are-stealing-drugs-great/824154 "2018-11-09T16:43:50Z")
Pretty much what the title says. My wife called me and said that her mother left her Norco in her drawer before the cleaning ladies came over today, counting them beforehand. There were 44 pills in the bottle before th… --- ## [Audiobook as gift - how to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobook-as-gift-how-to/823395)
**Author:** [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiobook-as-gift-how-to/823395 "2018-11-09T14:45:39Z")
Easy question, I hope. We have a friend who enjoys listening to books on her iPhone. We’d like to give her a couple of books as gifts, but never having owned any Apple products we don’t have an “i” account. What’s th… --- ## [I just attended a scientific conference. I was almost always the last one to finish clapping.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-attended-a-scientific-conference-i-was-almost-always-the-last-one-to-finish-clapping/824170)
**Author:** [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-attended-a-scientific-conference-i-was-almost-always-the-last-one-to-finish-clapping/824170 "2018-11-09T12:04:21Z")
This is as mundane and pointless as a post will ever get, so I found the right forum. I was just at a scientific conference in Washington DC for a few days. Nearly every time a speaker was introduced or finished their pr… --- ## [Older Worker Trying to Find Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-worker-trying-to-find-work/824072)
**Author:** [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-worker-trying-to-find-work/824072 "2018-11-09T11:19:41Z")
So my company decided to consolidate operations in El Paso and have closed down the Sarasota office. I am laid off again. Just this morning I learned that the place I’ve been trying to get in to has gone with a differen… --- ## [Why poodles and kittens?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-poodles-and-kittens/546234)
**Author:** [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-poodles-and-kittens/546234 "2010-07-13T13:22:50Z")
I’ve just been reading a new piece online that described Al Gore as a “crazed sex poodle”. Why a poodle? I’ve also read women being described as “sex kittens”. (of course I get the kitten=pussy reference) I think the… --- ## [The Zipf Mystery!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zipf-mystery/823110)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 9, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zipf-mystery/823110 "2018-11-09T06:29:37Z")
I don’t think this is mundane or pointless, but I must share it: Zipf’s Law. Here is a slightly dry explanation from Wikipedia: Here is a much more interesting video that talks about it and related phenomena like the … --- ## [Earthlink is down](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthlink-is-down/824095)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earthlink-is-down/824095 "2018-11-08T21:49:37Z")
So I go to check my email… The page is unreachable. I tried going to earthlink dot net. Can’t go there. I searched ‘is earthlink down?’ and checked two random pages (outage.report/earthlink and downdetector.com/status… --- ## [Law People: Let's do this again. Is a finger an object?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-people-lets-do-this-again-is-a-finger-an-object/823925)
**Author:** [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-people-lets-do-this-again-is-a-finger-an-object/823925 "2018-11-08T15:40:13Z")
Here is the statute: A defendant is proven to have penetrated a female’s vagina with his finger. Is he guilty of sexual intrusion? I say no. An object seems to me to be, first, an inanimate item, not a part of a hum… --- ## [Cool things you know that you wish you didn't](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-know-that-you-wish-you-didnt/823868)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-you-know-that-you-wish-you-didnt/823868 "2018-11-08T12:25:01Z")
Example: I’ve found that large disposable medical pads like these are really handy to use as small dropcloths. I use them to protect my workbench or table when painting, staining, gluing or doing other messy close-up … --- ## [Random thoughts and questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-and-questions/823995)
**Author:** [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-and-questions/823995 "2018-11-08T01:20:37Z")
Sometimes I have too much random crap in my head. Why is it so hard to execute people painlessly? Lethal injection was supposed to be painless, but now we find out it might be one of the worst ways to go when done wro… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=431) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=433)