# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=553 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 554 --- ## [How long could you go without renewing your larder?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-you-go-without-renewing-your-larder/783612)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-you-go-without-renewing-your-larder/783612 "2017-04-10T13:00:15Z")
Let’s assume your food source was cut off. Given the current state of your in-house larder and the current occupants, how long could you survive without being dangerously hungry? I’m considering all usable foodstuffs i… --- ## [I think someone might be trying to hack me or dox me, what are my options](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-someone-might-be-trying-to-hack-me-or-dox-me-what-are-my-options/784028)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-someone-might-be-trying-to-hack-me-or-dox-me-what-are-my-options/784028 "2017-04-10T11:25:26Z")
This started about a month or two ago, I’m not sure if it is just coincidence or if it actually spells something out. In that time I’ve had \[ul\] \[li\]Someone tried to hack into my SD account by guessing the password an… --- ## [Opening Day in the MMP!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-in-the-mmp/783645)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 192\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2017, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-day-in-the-mmp/783645 "2017-04-10T08:33:47Z")
For whatever reason, my spousal unit has become a big baseball fan, and today is opening day for the Washington Nationals, among others. The game starts at 1, so we’ll just see the highlights on the news, but soon, we’l… --- ## [Kids riding the motorized scooters at the grocery store.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-riding-the-motorized-scooters-at-the-grocery-store/784027)
**Author:** [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-riding-the-motorized-scooters-at-the-grocery-store/784027 "2017-04-09T14:36:38Z")
While I’ve never used one, I understand why they are there. To allow older and disabled customers to do their shopping. However, in all the time I’ve seen those scooters in use, I’ve seen more young kids just having fu… --- ## [U.S. military strikes Syria with dozens of cruise missiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-military-strikes-syria-with-dozens-of-cruise-missiles/783949)
**Author:** [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2017, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-military-strikes-syria-with-dozens-of-cruise-missiles/783949 "2017-04-09T11:46:24Z")
I am certainly no fan of Syrian dictator Assad but that is a very dangerous move to make. The Assad regime is backed by Putin. I thought one of the things Trump was serious about was more isolationism. This type of thing… --- ## [Most original pick-up line you've heard](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-pick-up-line-youve-heard/400509)
**Author:** [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-original-pick-up-line-youve-heard/400509 "2017-04-09T05:29:40Z")
I went to a sports bar with my friend on Friday. A girl tapped me on the shoulder and said: “My roommate said she’d clean my room if I got your number. She doesn’t think that you’d give it to me. And the room is a mes… --- ## [Any "OZ" fans out there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-oz-fans-out-there/29874)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-oz-fans-out-there/29874 "2017-04-09T01:34:43Z")
For those of you who watch (and I do, faithfully, as unrealistic and outrageous as it often is, I love it) did you find this week’s episode to have an inordinately high PPE ratio? (Penises per Episode) I guess the envelo… --- ## [Popular Science: Body Decomposition in Water](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-body-decomposition-in-water/783826)
**Author:** [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-science-body-decomposition-in-water/783826 "2017-04-09T01:14:24Z")
Just wanted to share a fascinating article published in Popular Science about the need for a body farm in Florida to research decomp on bodies submerged in the ocean. Be warned the article contains very graphic details … --- ## [My "Donate My Body To Science" Thing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-donate-my-body-to-science-thing/781795)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-donate-my-body-to-science-thing/781795 "2017-04-09T00:19:55Z")
Hopefully these will show you, but these 2 pics are the back and front of one’s registration cards Science Care will send you once you sign up. Suggested tat: "Am I really dead? Pl… --- ## [What are some common activities that you have never engaged in? (and let's select a thread winner)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-common-activities-that-you-have-never-engaged-in-and-lets-select-a-thread-winner/783338)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 209\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-common-activities-that-you-have-never-engaged-in-and-lets-select-a-thread-winner/783338 "2017-04-08T22:57:26Z")
A character on Everybody Loves Raymond claims he has never eaten a muffin. What is the commonest activity that you have never done? I have never: \[ul\] \[li\]Water skied\[/li\]\[li\]Snow skied\[/li\]\[li\]Ridden a horse\[/li\]\[li… --- ## [Strange world: I got a drinking cup of Quassia wood that makes all water in it bitter tasting.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-world-i-got-a-drinking-cup-of-quassia-wood-that-makes-all-water-in-it-bitter-tasting/784061)
**Author:** [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-world-i-got-a-drinking-cup-of-quassia-wood-that-makes-all-water-in-it-bitter-tasting/784061 "2017-04-08T20:27:16Z")
My brother just gave me a cup carved from wood from the Quassia tree. He bought it in Suriname, South America. It looks a bit like this. A simple cup made from unpainted, untreated light colored wood. When you put water… --- ## [Funny Amazon reveiws: random numbers edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-amazon-reveiws-random-numbers-edition/784005)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-amazon-reveiws-random-numbers-edition/784005 "2017-04-08T13:09:49Z")
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, by The RAND Corporation. Judging from the Look Inside feature, it’s exactly what it sounds like: a very, very long table of random numbers. I don’t know why in Og’s n… --- ## [Pre-antibiotic tuberculosis treatment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-antibiotic-tuberculosis-treatment/784008)
**Author:** [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pre-antibiotic-tuberculosis-treatment/784008 "2017-04-08T04:21:21Z")
This isn’t really an IMHO medical thread, just some musing about the subject because of a book I read. I just read Betty MacDonald’s The Plague And I. She’s the same author who wrote 1945’s The Egg And I. After she ha… --- ## [A man's absolute worst nightmare.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mans-absolute-worst-nightmare/783896)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-mans-absolute-worst-nightmare/783896 "2017-04-08T02:58:42Z")
This happens more frequently than it should. A man gets a woman or kid angry and they may make false charges against you. . The legal burdon to disprove these charges is disproportionate to the relative ease of makin… --- ## [Possible terrorist attack in Stockholm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-terrorist-attack-in-stockholm/783981)
**Author:** [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-terrorist-attack-in-stockholm/783981 "2017-04-07T21:18:28Z")
A truck has driven through a group of people, killing three, and crashed in Åhléns on Drottinggatan in downtown Stockholm. On person is arrested, and the Swedish PM has classified it as a terrorist attack. --- ## [Graphene does water desalination](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphene-does-water-desalination/783682)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphene-does-water-desalination/783682 "2017-04-07T17:12:56Z")
This BBC article reports a potentially world-changing discovery: graphene can be used to desalinate water by blocking the salts. Here’s hoping that they can scale it up to industrial quantities. --- ## [Don Rickles RIP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907)
**Author:** [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-rickles-rip/783907 "2017-04-07T15:37:21Z")
I just saw a news alert that Don Rickles has died. I only ever knew him from The Tonight show, “ya hockey puck!” --- ## [Terrorist Attack in Stockholm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-attack-in-stockholm/783982)
**Author:** [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-attack-in-stockholm/783982 "2017-04-07T15:34:11Z")
Two dead, another truck attack. They caught the guy. --- ## [One Hundred Years Ago U.S. Enters World War I: April 6, 1917](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hundred-years-ago-u-s-enters-world-war-i-april-6-1917/783905)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-hundred-years-ago-u-s-enters-world-war-i-april-6-1917/783905 "2017-04-07T14:46:07Z")
I had a relative (great-uncle?) who died in the war. But not in combat, instead during the massive 1918 influenza pandemic. He died just a few weeks after reaching Europe. --- ## [Toddler puts down probably racist cashier](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toddler-puts-down-probably-racist-cashier/783925)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toddler-puts-down-probably-racist-cashier/783925 "2017-04-07T02:17:11Z")
Telegraph article here. Give the lass a medal! --- ## [Blasphemy in Coal Country -- Coal-mining museum goes solar.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasphemy-in-coal-country-coal-mining-museum-goes-solar/783937)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blasphemy-in-coal-country-coal-mining-museum-goes-solar/783937 "2017-04-07T02:04:11Z")
Harlan County, Ky., has a coal-mining museum. It’s putting solar panels on the roof, Christopher Wilson, Yahoo News, April 6, 2017. --- ## [Chimp Hurls Feces At Zoo’s Crowd, Nails Grandma Right In The Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chimp-hurls-feces-at-zoo-s-crowd-nails-grandma-right-in-the-face/783733)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chimp-hurls-feces-at-zoo-s-crowd-nails-grandma-right-in-the-face/783733 "2017-04-07T00:48:06Z")
Chimp Hurls Feces At Zoo's Crowd, Nails Grandma Right In The Face | HuffPost Weird News? What’s great about this is that on my computer the news piece is immediately below one of those automatically-running video comme… --- ## [The Civil War: Alternative history & timeline mix-up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-civil-war-alternative-history-timeline-mix-up/783871)
**Author:** [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-civil-war-alternative-history-timeline-mix-up/783871 "2017-04-06T20:19:26Z")
At the beginning of the Civil War, both sides suffered from poor-quality leadership in the field. Assume that you have access to a time machine, and you can move anybody you choose to a different time. For either the U… --- ## [Obama to visit Scotland.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-to-visit-scotland/783876)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-to-visit-scotland/783876 "2017-04-06T19:52:39Z")
BBC story here. And there’ll be a charity fundraiser too. I know he’ll be most welcome. £5K is a bit out of my price range, though. I wonder if he’ll play Trump’s golf course up here? :smiley: --- ## [How would you react if someone in your social circle claimed to be the God of the Old Testament?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-if-someone-in-your-social-circle-claimed-to-be-the-god-of-the-old-testament/783685)
**Author:** [@CHealy7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CHealy7)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-if-someone-in-your-social-circle-claimed-to-be-the-god-of-the-old-testament/783685 "2017-04-06T19:31:17Z")
Discuss --- ## [The thread of stupid questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-stupid-questions/783868)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thread-of-stupid-questions/783868 "2017-04-06T17:59:18Z")
Stupid because they are either A) unanswerable or because B) the answer is contained in the question. I’ll start: Why does it take Social Security more than 6 weeks to change the bank to which they will directly deposit… --- ## [Stupid Commercials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-commercials/783791)
**Author:** [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-commercials/783791 "2017-04-06T17:07:00Z")
OK, watching TV tonight I was stunned by some guy telling me that he was a “Spokeslistener”. I mean, WTF is a spokeslistener? Does he speak or listen? Perhaps both? At the same time? Maybe neither? Shouldn’t it be … --- ## [Great meta-typos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-meta-typos/783584)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-meta-typos/783584 "2017-04-06T12:54:14Z")
From the Jerusalem Report: In fact, they’re not even aware of the word “aware”! --- ## [Bid for a SDMB Mods services for a day!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bid-for-a-sdmb-mods-services-for-a-day/783499)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bid-for-a-sdmb-mods-services-for-a-day/783499 "2017-04-06T12:47:54Z")
This is an auction to buy my services, as mod, for a day. I could really use the money, so the highest bidder will win me doing THEIR bidding for a day. Things that the winner will get are: –Me banning anyone who they… --- ## [Ask the Spouse of a Disabled Person](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-spouse-of-a-disabled-person/521930)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-spouse-of-a-disabled-person/521930 "2017-04-06T10:26:00Z")
Yes, it’s another “ask the…” thread. I was reading an on-line blog about a man with just one foot who was musing on when the proper time to let a prospective date/mate know about his missing bit and in general relations… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=552) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=554)