# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=496 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 497 --- ## [This whole sexual accusation thing – a perspective I’ve not heard discussed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-whole-sexual-accusation-thing-a-perspective-i-ve-not-heard-discussed/803295)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 359\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-whole-sexual-accusation-thing-a-perspective-i-ve-not-heard-discussed/803295 "2017-12-30T21:22:11Z")
I went to see a movie by myself last week. Sitting to my left was a young girl, maybe 6 or 7; to her left, her father (I presume). A normal day, a normal occurrence. Except, with all the sexual stuff that has permeated … --- ## [I love this Keurig coffee maker.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-keurig-coffee-maker/805462)
**Author:** [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-keurig-coffee-maker/805462 "2017-12-30T00:45:35Z")
Seems I suffered in the ancient world of Mr. Coffee long enough. I have arrived. No more finding a filter, spreading it open and filling it with the proper amount of coffee only to have it leak and put grounds in the … --- ## [Older people and technology. It's a bumpy road.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-people-and-technology-its-a-bumpy-road/805383)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/older-people-and-technology-its-a-bumpy-road/805383 "2017-12-29T21:43:25Z")
Some of these are quite funny. I did notice Instagram apparently is a bit flawed. I’ve been a programmer for 35 years. It’s my job to make interfaces easy and intuitive. I take pride in coding applications that are alm… --- ## [What's the rarest or most unusual animal you've seen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-rarest-or-most-unusual-animal-youve-seen/758650)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 176\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-rarest-or-most-unusual-animal-youve-seen/758650 "2017-12-29T15:53:26Z")
As a spin-off to the sheep and fox thread that dealt with fairly mundane animals. Let’s keep it to ‘seen in the wild’ rather than in a zoo. For me, the rarest would have to be a black rhinoceros that we saw at a pretty … --- ## [What did Santa bring you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276)
**Author:** [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-santa-bring-you/805276 "2017-12-29T11:02:13Z")
Merry Christmas! Santa was good to me. I got lots of chocolate and candy, slippers, various creams and bath stuff, a calendar, mug and a new Fitbit Charge (which I was hoping for as my budgies have chewed all over my ol… --- ## [It is the day after Christmas and I am broke as all heck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-the-day-after-christmas-and-i-am-broke-as-all-heck/805308)
**Author:** [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-the-day-after-christmas-and-i-am-broke-as-all-heck/805308 "2017-12-29T09:41:58Z")
At least I have leftover Christmas wrap. And the windchill here is -17F. And even my dog doesn’t want to go outside let alone myself. And this wireless keyboard is running on empty. The Energizer bunny battery is on l… --- ## [How will small business owners and the professional class be affected by the tax bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-small-business-owners-and-the-professional-class-be-affected-by-the-tax-bill/805493)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-small-business-owners-and-the-professional-class-be-affected-by-the-tax-bill/805493 "2017-12-29T03:23:37Z")
Professional class = those with high paying graduate degrees. Physicians, dentists, lawyers, MBA types. For those living in blue states how will someone earning 200k a year be affected? I don’t itemize, so I don’t know … --- ## [Last day of work today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-day-of-work-today/805063)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [December 29, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-day-of-work-today/805063 "2017-12-29T02:13:37Z")
Got laid off after 6 years. I’m shooting for blackout drunk. I have a high tolerance, but I’m going to down an entire fifth of hard alcohol today. I liked my job, and I saved money when I worked there. In between unemp… --- ## [It is better without the milk](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-better-without-the-milk/805414)
**Author:** [@Sveltington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sveltington)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-better-without-the-milk/805414 "2017-12-28T23:24:04Z")
It being the Holiday season I decided to treat myself to some cocoa. I know many of you will laugh at that being a treat; but whatever. I had already completed all my shopping so I thought “Yipee I’ll buy some exotic coc… --- ## [Euphoria](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphoria/805459)
**Author:** [@Nesto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nesto)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphoria/805459 "2017-12-28T21:54:29Z")
I have been doing meth for a lil over a year and a half. Let me tell you the euphoria that I feel each time that I take it that big hit my body is enveloped in complete bliss. My body becomes all tingly and my feet becom… --- ## [My son just came out to us as trans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-just-came-out-to-us-as-trans/803176)
**Author:** [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-just-came-out-to-us-as-trans/803176 "2017-12-28T20:57:51Z")
(don’t flame me for terminology; he used that exact word himself) (and don’t flame me for my choice of pronoun; he’s been “he” for more than 20 years to me; I’m going to need some time to get used to using the “correct”… --- ## [Pillow consumers are very picky.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pillow-consumers-are-very-picky/805101)
**Author:** [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pillow-consumers-are-very-picky/805101 "2017-12-28T19:08:38Z")
It’s really annoying. I mean, how can every pillow be 3.5 stars? Have they not perfected the pillow yet - they’ve been around for several hundred years and they aren’t particularly technologically complex. Well, I guess … --- ## [I have figured out why we are mortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-figured-out-why-we-are-mortal/805306)
**Author:** [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-figured-out-why-we-are-mortal/805306 "2017-12-28T02:31:14Z")
If no one could die, if we were all immortal, then nobody could ever sacrifice their life for someone else. And what is love if not that willingness to die saving someone’s life? Mothers have willingly died so their ch… --- ## [Odd or incomprehensible things your parents said to you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-or-incomprehensible-things-your-parents-said-to-you/804721)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 124\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-or-incomprehensible-things-your-parents-said-to-you/804721 "2017-12-28T00:43:27Z")
I was showing my wife how to crack two eggs at once this morning: one in each hand, tap both on the counter and break into a bowl. She was suitably impressed. Anyway, in reminded me of my step-father, who, upon seeing me… --- ## [CNN - US slashes UN budget by $285B](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-us-slashes-un-budget-by-285b/805389)
**Author:** [@SeniorCitizen007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeniorCitizen007)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-us-slashes-un-budget-by-285b/805389 "2017-12-27T21:07:04Z")
The CNN home page had (at the time I posted this) this link … the actual figure in the article is, of course, $285M --- ## [Anyone else here into hypnosis? Ask an amateur hypnotist anything](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-into-hypnosis-ask-an-amateur-hypnotist-anything/772046)
**Author:** [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-here-into-hypnosis-ask-an-amateur-hypnotist-anything/772046 "2017-12-27T20:49:41Z")
Dunno where to put this thread, MPSIMS seems about right. I’ve recently gotten into recreational hypnosis as both a hypnotist and a subject. While I am relatively new to it (have been doing it for a few months, whereas … --- ## [Three reindeer walk into a bar...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-reindeer-walk-into-a-bar/805108)
**Author:** [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-reindeer-walk-into-a-bar/805108 "2017-12-27T19:48:50Z")
… The bartender says “Merry Christmas! What’ll you have?” The first reindeer is wearing a really fake blinking red nose. (You can see the wires.) He struts up to the bar and says “I’ll just have a glass of water. I’m dr… --- ## [Steam Power!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-power/805110)
**Author:** [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steam-power/805110 "2017-12-27T19:26:29Z")
Just wanted to share the small steam engine I have been building in the machine shop: Steam engine, as it was last month, without reversing gear Today’s first trial fitting of the Stephenson reversing gear (fingers cr… --- ## [The story of Dufus and Buddy (dog story with a happy ending)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-of-dufus-and-buddy-dog-story-with-a-happy-ending/805279)
**Author:** [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-of-dufus-and-buddy-dog-story-with-a-happy-ending/805279 "2017-12-27T18:43:11Z")
Our neighbor bought a 4 month old Great Dane who came with a long and impressive sounding kennel name which was quickly changed to Dufus. Dufus is a very sweet happy idiot who doesn’t realize how big he is. When Dufus wa… --- ## [Christmas afternoon: Listened to the Queen's Christmas message](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-afternoon-listened-to-the-queens-christmas-message/805286)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-afternoon-listened-to-the-queens-christmas-message/805286 "2017-12-27T16:14:18Z")
As Mrs Piper was working to bring it up as an internet stream, I thought: “My grandmother first heard the Queen’s grandfather give the Christmas message on the radio, and in the latter part of her life, watched it on th… --- ## [Adult thumb suckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adult-thumb-suckers/156622)
**Author:** [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adult-thumb-suckers/156622 "2017-12-27T13:08:40Z")
Are there any other thumb suckers out there apart from me? I’ve always sucked my thumb, and I’ve never managed to get rid off the habit. I don’t want to. I mainly do it when I’m tired, stressed or watching tv/reading. … --- ## [Wireless keyboards and mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wireless-keyboards-and-mouse/804511)
**Author:** [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 27, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wireless-keyboards-and-mouse/804511 "2017-12-27T00:54:06Z")
Why are these things lagging?? Not always but enough to drive me nuts, going along then all of a sudden, pow, stalls! I’ve never had a wireless keyboard before. :smack::smack: --- ## [Who is working today?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-working-today/805273)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-working-today/805273 "2017-12-26T23:25:23Z")
Checking in from work…and bored shitless. --- ## [Merry Christmas 2017](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-2017/805247)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-2017/805247 "2017-12-26T20:59:55Z")
Good tidings and joy to all. --- ## [Christmas Alertness Test, do you have the reaction times of a drunk, hungover, OAP or an Athlete?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-alertness-test-do-you-have-the-reaction-times-of-a-drunk-hungover-oap-or-an-athlete/804414)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-alertness-test-do-you-have-the-reaction-times-of-a-drunk-hungover-oap-or-an-athlete/804414 "2017-12-26T19:47:57Z")
Using my phone, I mostly got rated as a hung over person. I got the tipsy mark one time. That’s considered better. .298 I could get my score lower with my practice. I think I’d do better on a PC. The phone’s touch scree… --- ## [Those who love (or at least, don't terribly mind) snow, check in!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-who-love-or-at-least-dont-terribly-mind-snow-check-in/804711)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-who-love-or-at-least-dont-terribly-mind-snow-check-in/804711 "2017-12-26T15:32:38Z")
We got our first significant snowfall the other day, and I caught myself enjoying it. Even the shoveling/blowing, even the driving (4-wheel drive helps here). It seems everyone bitches about the snow - I’m as guilty as … --- ## [Question about 2018 Nissan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-2018-nissan/805300)
**Author:** [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-2018-nissan/805300 "2017-12-26T13:20:29Z")
My friend wants to buy a new Nissan NV200, 2018 model. The nearest dealer is in Spokane, about 80 miles away. For over a month they’ve refused to tell him when the 2018 models will be available for purchase, and now … --- ## [Horse people-how well does roy moore ride?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horse-people-how-well-does-roy-moore-ride/804404)
**Author:** [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Replies:** 111\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horse-people-how-well-does-roy-moore-ride/804404 "2017-12-26T11:05:58Z")
Horse people. What do you think of Roy Moore’s riding ability? Will someone please link him leaving the polls yesterday on his horse Sassy. #Free Sassy --- ## [Health Care Freeloaders!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-freeloaders/804979)
**Author:** [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-care-freeloaders/804979 "2017-12-26T03:07:38Z")
Plainspoken truth from a Texas physician in the trenches. Hopefully, more will speak up about this. --- ## [Christmas Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve/805251)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 25, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve/805251 "2017-12-25T21:36:44Z")
A quiet Christmas Eve chez Pipers. All the hustle and bustle over. Ham in the oven, potatoes and corn cooking, Nat King Cole Christmas Album playing … and one excited Cub! Best wishes, everyone! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=495) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=497)