# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=545 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 546 --- ## [Dear google chrome how I love thee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-google-chrome-how-i-love-thee/665677)
**Author:** [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-google-chrome-how-i-love-thee/665677 "2017-05-11T16:25:48Z")
So my computer died last week. The death from which there is no ressurection:( any way I quallified for a interest free loan and I got my new laptop today. I have already decided I hate windows 8 (Iwas using vista so Im … --- ## [Photoshop requests thread?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224)
**Author:** [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-requests-thread/786224 "2017-05-11T16:25:14Z")
Found an image of an attractive young woman on Reddit and I would like to have her image for a ‘face’ folder. :dubious: (inb4 weird)… This could also turn into a general photoshop request thread on MPSIMS but now I kind… --- ## [What If Everyone Could Swap Bodies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-everyone-could-swap-bodies/712062)
**Author:** [@Lewis47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lewis47)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-everyone-could-swap-bodies/712062 "2017-05-11T13:19:38Z")
What if everyone could swap bodies? Imagine the possibilities and experiences you could have. If you’re a guy, you could see what it feels like to be an attractive woman and vice versa. Who would you swap bodies with … --- ## [My bladder defies the laws of physics.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bladder-defies-the-laws-of-physics/786217)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bladder-defies-the-laws-of-physics/786217 "2017-05-11T13:11:35Z")
My bladder defies the laws of physics: 8oz of fluid goes in, 16oz comes out! It’s truly amazing! I swear, sometimes I feel like a walking pee factory! FU old age! :mad: :slight\_smile: --- ## [Blimps abounding...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blimps-abounding/786121)
**Author:** [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blimps-abounding/786121 "2017-05-11T01:53:25Z")
A fairly trivial thing lately noticed – but occasioning slight surprise for me. In the couple of years since my joining SDMB, I had somehow missed Scylla’s celebrated comic piece The Horror of Blimps. A passing referen… --- ## [Canada Post unveils stamp celebrating same-sex marriage rights in country](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-post-unveils-stamp-celebrating-same-sex-marriage-rights-in-country/786257)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 11, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-post-unveils-stamp-celebrating-same-sex-marriage-rights-in-country/786257 "2017-05-11T00:54:30Z")
As part of Canada’s 150 year celebration, Canada Post is issuing 10 stamps to commemorate significant events in the nation’s history. Same-sex marriage in 2005 is one of the events commemorated. Canada Post released th… --- ## [Screw politics. Here's a cute picture of Tonka.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-politics-heres-a-cute-picture-of-tonka/786169)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-politics-heres-a-cute-picture-of-tonka/786169 "2017-05-10T20:28:11Z")
The news is very wearying. So here is a picture of Tonka napping on an ottoman on the deck. There’s the paw over the nose, the truncated tail, the curled footsies, and the cute belly. All of the bases are covered! … --- ## [I need surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-surgery/786213)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-surgery/786213 "2017-05-10T19:03:01Z")
Gallbladder. The only surgery I ever had was tonsils, when 6. Which I don’t remember. Surgical eval on Thursday. --- ## [Mind blowing sleight of hand (magic)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mind-blowing-sleight-of-hand-magic/786286)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mind-blowing-sleight-of-hand-magic/786286 "2017-05-10T14:47:05Z")
Card trick sleight of hand. Amazing! --- ## [2nd grade, Oklahoma teacher arrested at school for heroin.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-grade-oklahoma-teacher-arrested-at-school-for-heroin/785839)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2nd-grade-oklahoma-teacher-arrested-at-school-for-heroin/785839 "2017-05-10T13:36:25Z")
Uh, didn’t anybody at the school notice her face and that unkempt hair? That’s emblematic of addict’s mug shots that are posted online. She looks like a street addict. How could she work as a teacher for 2 years? Didn’… --- ## [CNN: Grand jury subpoenas issued in FBI's Russia investigation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-grand-jury-subpoenas-issued-in-fbis-russia-investigation/786243)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-grand-jury-subpoenas-issued-in-fbis-russia-investigation/786243 "2017-05-10T13:05:20Z")
The timing of everything is interesting. --- ## [\*\*\*NSF Old people\*\*\*](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsf-old-people/785906)
**Author:** [@Esco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esco)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nsf-old-people/785906 "2017-05-10T11:45:04Z")
This will make some of you feel really, really old :eek: --- ## [In Praise of Flaherty](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-flaherty/786163)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-flaherty/786163 "2017-05-10T03:43:04Z")
Threads like this about a beloved pet don’t usually end well. They are usually announcing sickness, or hurt, or death of the animal. But this is a different thread. I want to praise my 17-year-old cat, Flaherty. She i… --- ## [Loneliness and living in the city.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loneliness-and-living-in-the-city/786189)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 10, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loneliness-and-living-in-the-city/786189 "2017-05-10T02:16:26Z")
My house is finally going on the market at the end of the week and my life is going to be very different after it sells. I haven’t quite decided what I want to do with the rest of my life. One of the options I’m consid… --- ## [Comey Fired](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comey-fired/786229)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comey-fired/786229 "2017-05-09T23:20:29Z")
Guess enough was enough. --- ## [Indian Supreme Court sends lower Caste member Judge to jail](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indian-supreme-court-sends-lower-caste-member-judge-to-jail/786194)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indian-supreme-court-sends-lower-caste-member-judge-to-jail/786194 "2017-05-09T22:59:27Z")
Probably not something that many here would be following, but the S Asian legal community has spent the past few months aghast at the antics of Mr Justice Chinnaswamy Swaminathan Karnan of the High Court of \[del\]Jackass… --- ## ["She was only a \_\_\_\_ daughter, but \_\_\_\_!"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-was-only-a-____-daughter-but-____/362826)
**Author:** [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-was-only-a-____-daughter-but-____/362826 "2017-05-09T21:56:55Z")
She was only a librarian’s daughter, but boy was she stacked! She was only a wrestler’s daughter, but she always came through in a clinch! She was only a telegraph operator’s daughter, but she didit and didit and didit… --- ## [Canadianisms!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadianisms/783368)
**Author:** [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Replies:** 178\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadianisms/783368 "2017-05-09T20:56:49Z")
From Mental Floss: Also, http://www.dchp.ca/dchp2/pages/welcome STUBBY-The stubby was a shorter-necked beer bottle that was standard in Canada from the 1960s until the early 1980s. Some current beer companies have be… --- ## [Princess Diana died 20 years ago this summer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-diana-died-20-years-ago-this-summer/786052)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-diana-died-20-years-ago-this-summer/786052 "2017-05-09T20:41:04Z")
I posted this here because I don’t think it’s quite Pit-worthy, at least not yet, anyway. The memorial programs are already beginning. :rolleyes: She married into the British royal family, bore two children with the h… --- ## [Samsung Galaxy S8: Most Fragile Phone Ever Made](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samsung-galaxy-s8-most-fragile-phone-ever-made/786214)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samsung-galaxy-s8-most-fragile-phone-ever-made/786214 "2017-05-09T19:51:05Z")
Well people who can afford to spend almost $800 on this phone surely know better than to drop it. And the battery won’t burst into flames! --- ## [3 days in hospital--I feel like Hell.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-days-in-hospital-i-feel-like-hell/786083)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-days-in-hospital-i-feel-like-hell/786083 "2017-05-09T18:30:32Z")
Acute Diverticulitis. Fever of 104 degrees (Fahrenheit, for our Eurodoper friends). I was so feverish. Chills, confusion, terrible muscle weakness. I’m at home now, with ciprofloxacin hcl 500, & the generic Flagyl 50… --- ## [Terrorists - kind of childish and spoiled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorists-kind-of-childish-and-spoiled/786204)
**Author:** [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorists-kind-of-childish-and-spoiled/786204 "2017-05-09T16:15:31Z")
it seems though that there is a sense of childlike entitlement among terrorists if you may put it. Take the famous OBL. Osama wasn’t exactly this great amazing man. Firstly his wealth was from his father. Obviously inhe… --- ## [Well,...That was odd. (Turtle content)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-was-odd-turtle-content/786129)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-was-odd-turtle-content/786129 "2017-05-09T14:21:04Z")
I’m still off work for medical reasons and I’ve been walking every morning. At about 8:15 AM it was quite chilly. I got to the part of my walk that passes along the edge of the lake and was amazed to see several turtles … --- ## [Move in this apartment on 5/15/16 and tonight was the very first time I seen a](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-in-this-apartment-on-5-15-16-and-tonight-was-the-very-first-time-i-seen-a/786054)
**Author:** [@mmkt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmkt)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-in-this-apartment-on-5-15-16-and-tonight-was-the-very-first-time-i-seen-a/786054 "2017-05-09T11:10:51Z")
mouse:eek: I mean I had gotten so used to not seeing mice anymore that when I saw the mouse I thought I was dreaming. Look how long I lived here without seeing any mice? For starters the building has pest control c… --- ## [Squee right outside our front door - Bunny Martial Arts Stunts!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-right-outside-our-front-door-bunny-martial-arts-stunts/786065)
**Author:** [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/squee-right-outside-our-front-door-bunny-martial-arts-stunts/786065 "2017-05-09T10:09:30Z")
Imagine the following: Sunday 7am. I have the front door open, with the glass storm door shut and am looking up periodically to see if the Sunday paper has arrived. As I look outside, two young bunnies, who live in… --- ## [One Less Case of Foot and Mouth Disease in the UK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-less-case-of-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-the-uk/785845)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [May 9, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-less-case-of-foot-and-mouth-disease-in-the-uk/785845 "2017-05-09T01:16:36Z")
Hey, that’s the way I read this bit of news about Prince Philip retiring from “royal engagements”. --- ## [congratulations to France](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-to-france/786076)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congratulations-to-france/786076 "2017-05-08T23:13:20Z")
Rejecting the far right candidate. Lets hope the polls hold up. --- ## [Got a George VI dime in my change!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-george-vi-dime-in-my-change/757168 "2017-05-08T12:55:20Z")
How has it avoided getting melted down for the silver?!? Minted in 1941. George and the Bluenose are both looking a bit worn. “GEORGIVS VI D.G. REX ET IND. IMP.” So, a 75 year old coin still circulating. --- ## [Haymarket, Kent State...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haymarket-kent-state/785879)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2017, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haymarket-kent-state/785879 "2017-05-08T09:11:32Z")
Haymarket Affair, 4 May 1886 Kent State, 4 May 1970 Just sayin’. Be careful out there, comrades. --- ## [Merry Month of May in the MMP!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-month-of-may-in-the-mmp/785631)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 226\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-month-of-may-in-the-mmp/785631 "2017-05-08T03:18:37Z")
OK, now who has the song stuck in their head? Happy May and Happy Moanday!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=544) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=546)