# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=44 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 45 --- ## [Country club shooting in New Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-club-shooting-in-new-hampshire/1023249)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-club-shooting-in-new-hampshire/1023249 "2025-09-22T14:25:54Z")
Few details at this point but police report multiple people were shot at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua after a single gunman opened fire. --- ## [(Old) Turning up the heat in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-turning-up-the-heat-in-the-mmp/1023053)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 321\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-turning-up-the-heat-in-the-mmp/1023053 "2025-09-22T06:29:40Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 14c/57f with a predicted high of 16c/61f and mostly cloudy. Weather app says “Cloudy with a chance of mild fucking depression.” Not here, this is the kind of weather I like. There’s a… --- ## [Has anyone been invited to Amazon Vine?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-been-invited-to-amazon-vine/1023262)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-been-invited-to-amazon-vine/1023262 "2025-09-22T01:45:59Z")
I just got an invitation to the exclusive, “invitation only” :roll\_eyes:, Amazon Vine. This is a program designed to generate reviews-- you get free stuff you request from things sold on Amazon, and then you review it. … --- ## [Found a fun website to plan trips around](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-fun-website-to-plan-trips-around/1023239)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-fun-website-to-plan-trips-around/1023239 "2025-09-21T11:40:27Z")
I recently discovered a website that points out fun and interesting things to check out between Point A and Point B. For instance, I thought I knew everything about the drive between Portland and Seattle-boy was I wrong… --- ## [What is "high society" today? Does it even exist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-high-society-today-does-it-even-exist/1023123)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-high-society-today-does-it-even-exist/1023123 "2025-09-21T11:15:26Z")
Yesterday, I watched “The Age of Innocence” - a story set in the late 19th/early 20th century. The main characters were members of “society”. Which got me to wondering… Are debutant balls still a thing? Do young women “… --- ## ["a while ago" vs. "while ago"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-while-ago-vs-while-ago/1023226)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-while-ago-vs-while-ago/1023226 "2025-09-21T09:17:42Z")
This is probably a regional phenomenon. Has anyone noticed a difference in meaning between the phrases “a while ago” where it is pronounced as three distinct words and the i pronounced with a distinct long i sound and “… --- ## [The Rise of “Karens”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rise-of-karens/987320)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 288\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rise-of-karens/987320 "2025-09-21T03:15:26Z")
Karen became, of course, the trendy word for excessively demanding, condescending, customers complaining constantly and asking to speak with management. I have heard Keith suggested as a male equivalent. A comedy sho… --- ## [Why do so many cars - not just Jeeps - have ducks and stuff on their dashboards?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-so-many-cars-not-just-jeeps-have-ducks-and-stuff-on-their-dashboards/1023036)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-so-many-cars-not-just-jeeps-have-ducks-and-stuff-on-their-dashboards/1023036 "2025-09-21T00:07:50Z")
Over the past year or so I’ve started noticing cars with a large number of little animals - often plastic ducks - on their dashboards. Jeep ducking - Wikipedia I looked it up, and apparently it started with Jeeps, and … --- ## [Time Traveler claims dogs will rule by 2087](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-traveler-claims-dogs-will-rule-by-2087/1023165)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-traveler-claims-dogs-will-rule-by-2087/1023165 "2025-09-19T23:16:48Z")
It certainly sounds like an interesting world, and not a prophecy I’ve heard before now. --- ## [I'm starting to think that Kohl's is now a data-mining operation that sells clothing and small appliances](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-think-that-kohls-is-now-a-data-mining-operation-that-sells-clothing-and-small-appliances/1023100)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-think-that-kohls-is-now-a-data-mining-operation-that-sells-clothing-and-small-appliances/1023100 "2025-09-19T04:32:49Z")
I got a $20 coupon, with 30% off if I used my credit card, and the cashier told me that the card was obsolete (I figured it was) and I had to present my driver’s license (which didn’t weird me out) and give my SSN on the… --- ## [Have you lived anywhere during a record-setting event?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-lived-anywhere-during-a-record-setting-event/1023064)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-lived-anywhere-during-a-record-setting-event/1023064 "2025-09-19T00:47:06Z")
I’ve posted before about the Anchorage earthquake of 1964 being the most powerful recorded in North America. We also lived in Anchorage in 2002, when there was a record 24-hour snowfall of 29.6" in 24 hours on St. Patric… --- ## [Is style important to you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-style-important-to-you/1022328)
**Author:** [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-style-important-to-you/1022328 "2025-09-18T00:22:39Z")
On my morning walk today I saw a new car with deep candy-apple red paint, somewhat unusual in this era dominated by grey, silver, white and black cars. I know and appreciate the feeling of getting into a fancy car, or re… --- ## [Three Against the System: An Algebra Action Movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-against-the-system-an-algebra-action-movie/1023137)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-against-the-system-an-algebra-action-movie/1023137 "2025-09-17T22:57:18Z")
This is the story of three heroes, X, Y, and Z, who went on a mission against a most nefarious foe, known as The System, and in the process found themselves. Starring Dwayne Johnson as X, Scarlett Johansson as Y, and Id… --- ## [Happy birthday, gravitational waves!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-gravitational-waves/1023045)
**Author:** [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-gravitational-waves/1023045 "2025-09-17T19:04:54Z")
Last night, I was reading A Brief Welcome to the Universe and in one of the final chapters it mentioned that gravitational waves “have proved elusive to detect”. I thought they had been detected, so I looked up when and … --- ## [Are you a dog person or a cat person? Which did you have when you were growing up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-dog-person-or-a-cat-person-which-did-you-have-when-you-were-growing-up/1022996)
**Author:** [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-dog-person-or-a-cat-person-which-did-you-have-when-you-were-growing-up/1022996 "2025-09-17T15:23:49Z")
I’ve noticed several times that cat people grew up in families that owned cats and dog people came from dog owning families. Over the years I’ve asked only half a dozen poeple about this but so far have found no exceptio… --- ## [Crazy optimism: daylight bombing in WWII](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-optimism-daylight-bombing-in-wwii/1022968)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-optimism-daylight-bombing-in-wwii/1022968 "2025-09-16T16:24:05Z")
As everyone knows, the US entered WWII figuring its bombers could drop bombs civilizedly, just destroying military targets, as long as they flew in daylight. So that became the plan. It seems Norden’s president had said… --- ## [Does Anyone Ever Regret Joke Outfits for Special Occasions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-regret-joke-outfits-for-special-occasions/1023041)
**Author:** [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-ever-regret-joke-outfits-for-special-occasions/1023041 "2025-09-16T14:32:59Z")
I was checking my Facebook feed when I come across a photo of a young couple who were going to homecoming. As I get older, young people only look younger, and I think they’re high schoolers rather than college. The kid… --- ## [How do you think? Inner dialogue? Images? No images? Can you hear anything?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-think-inner-dialogue-images-no-images-can-you-hear-anything/1022800)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-think-inner-dialogue-images-no-images-can-you-hear-anything/1022800 "2025-09-16T13:32:35Z")
The fact that people don’t think alike has only in recent years become known to me. And by “think alike” I’m not referring to content, I’m referring to style, manner, system. I think in words, sentences, including the s… --- ## [Recent Developments in Memphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-developments-in-memphis/979302)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-developments-in-memphis/979302 "2025-09-16T02:45:58Z")
I just did a quick search for “Memphis” to make sure there wasn’t a threat about the horrible murder by the police in that city. There does not seem to be one. (There are threads about lots of bad things that have happen… --- ## [Replacing an iPad battery and privacy issues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-an-ipad-battery-and-privacy-issues/1023047)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-an-ipad-battery-and-privacy-issues/1023047 "2025-09-15T20:54:15Z")
Several years ago, my beloved Samsung Galaxy phone was starting to die. It was the first cell I’d owned where I could not pop open the back and swap out batteries. Ahh well, I thought. I can just take it to a cell phone… --- ## [Old bottled water -- wow!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-bottled-water-wow/1001141)
**Author:** [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-bottled-water-wow/1001141 "2025-09-15T20:38:37Z")
For obscure reasons, I’ve had a case of bottled spring water sitting on the landing at the top of the basement stairs untouched for what must be several years now. Normally I keep it in the garage in the winter and down… --- ## [Aftermarket License Plates Displayed on Car as if Real](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aftermarket-license-plates-displayed-on-car-as-if-real/1020504)
**Author:** [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aftermarket-license-plates-displayed-on-car-as-if-real/1020504 "2025-09-15T15:14:34Z")
Continuing the discussion from Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild: It has become increasingly stylish around here (South FL) to put completely aftermarket AKA fake license plates on the back of your car. Folks ma… --- ## [(Old) Pet pics in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pet-pics-in-the-mmp/1022838)
**Author:** [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Replies:** 344\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pet-pics-in-the-mmp/1022838 "2025-09-15T14:46:40Z")
I’m up late for no good reason, maybe because I have next week off. Hijack away. --- ## [BREAKING NEWS thread for Charlie Kirk murder and investigation (10SEP2025)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-thread-for-charlie-kirk-murder-and-investigation-10sep2025/1022964)
**Author:** [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-thread-for-charlie-kirk-murder-and-investigation-10sep2025/1022964 "2025-09-14T16:45:20Z")
I’m creating this thread for updates into the investigation on Charlie Kirk’s murder, the identification or ongoing investigation into the shooter, and other direct reporting on such. I and several other posters I’m sur… --- ## [Container ship has an oopsy in Long Beach](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/container-ship-has-an-oopsy-in-long-beach/1022895)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/container-ship-has-an-oopsy-in-long-beach/1022895 "2025-09-14T01:55:49Z")
Happened not long ago (BREAKING NEWS). I know that containers going for a swim isn’t an uncommon thing, but this looks like a lot of them. And as a free bonus, half of them fell on another boat. --- ## [Have you ever had experience(s) dealing with someone who had the same name as you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-experience-s-dealing-with-someone-who-had-the-same-name-as-you/1021406)
**Author:** [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Replies:** 127\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-had-experience-s-dealing-with-someone-who-had-the-same-name-as-you/1021406 "2025-09-13T18:12:16Z")
Back in the 90s, a woman knocked on my door one afternoon. She accused me of having an affair with her husband. I told her I was pretty sure I wasn’t. She handed me a matchbook with my name and phone number on it and s… --- ## [Why aren't elective mastectomies a 'thing'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-elective-mastectomies-a-thing/1022840)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-elective-mastectomies-a-thing/1022840 "2025-09-13T15:56:22Z")
I’m old now. My tits sag nearly down to my knees. I breast-fed four kids (which tits are made for) but I am long past feeding anything. Bras cost money. GOOD bras cost a fortune. And they’re always uncomfortable, regard… --- ## [Random, pointless thought](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-thought/1023013)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-pointless-thought/1023013 "2025-09-13T15:56:12Z")
Today I looked out my window just as some little brown bird landed on one of the lines strung between the telephone poles, and I thought, “How long passed between the time the first human strung a wire like this and the … --- ## [Musical travel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-travel/1022868)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [September 13, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-travel/1022868 "2025-09-13T00:55:52Z")
Have you ever ridden the train they call The City Of New Orleans, and how far did you travel ‘fore the day was done? I used to ride it from Champagne-Urbana to Chicago back in the 70’s, so yes…but not really that far. --- ## [Spam texts; DeleteMe subscription made it worse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-texts-deleteme-subscription-made-it-worse/1022987)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 12, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-texts-deleteme-subscription-made-it-worse/1022987 "2025-09-12T18:20:16Z")
I tried a subscription to DeleteMe (https://joindeleteme.com) to help cut down on spam emails and texts, and since doing so the problem with texts has gotten noticeably worse. I use a Google Voice number for any and all… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=45)