# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=555 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 556 --- ## [Glue shortage - has anyone else noticed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glue-shortage-has-anyone-else-noticed/783011)
**Author:** [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glue-shortage-has-anyone-else-noticed/783011 "2017-04-01T12:52:48Z")
Kids making “slime” from white glue, borax, and water have caused a nation-wide shortage of glue. Supposedly, tweens are creating slime “by the gallon”. Slime Craze Causing Glue Shortage Snopes says, ‘Slime’ Fad Boos… --- ## [I shot a couple of suppressed firearms yesterday...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shot-a-couple-of-suppressed-firearms-yesterday/782549)
**Author:** [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [April 1, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shot-a-couple-of-suppressed-firearms-yesterday/782549 "2017-04-01T06:09:40Z")
…And I liked them (the supressors, that is) SIG arms has their portable shooting trailer, an 18 wheeler trailer heavily reinforced and ventilated, at Kittery Trading Post this weekend, with a small selection of handguns… --- ## [Ask the computer forensics (and general computer security) guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-computer-forensics-and-general-computer-security-guy/691238)
**Author:** [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-computer-forensics-and-general-computer-security-guy/691238 "2017-03-31T19:07:05Z")
I know there are a lot of IT people around here and at least some security specialists, so maybe there won’t be much of a demand for this thread. But I’ll give it a whirl. I’m an IT guy with about 14 years of overall I… --- ## [NC has 48 hours to repeal HB2 or lose 100 bids to sponsor NCAA sporting events until 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-has-48-hours-to-repeal-hb2-or-lose-100-bids-to-sponsor-ncaa-sporting-events-until-2022/783256)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nc-has-48-hours-to-repeal-hb2-or-lose-100-bids-to-sponsor-ncaa-sporting-events-until-2022/783256 "2017-03-31T17:55:57Z")
Tick Tock The NCAA reportedly imposed a 48-hour ultimatum on North Carolina to repeal its ‘bathroom law’ --- ## [dog food](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-food/783311)
**Author:** [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-food/783311 "2017-03-31T15:28:05Z")
I bought my dog a bag of food (small dog) and it had real looking chicken jerky in it… I threw the bag away as I put it in a larger container… and now I cannot recall what it was. Any ideas… it wasnt a cheapo brand and w… --- ## [RFP For border wall. Who's in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfp-for-border-wall-whos-in/783358)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfp-for-border-wall-whos-in/783358 "2017-03-31T05:45:38Z")
The RFP’s for the ‘wall’ where due yesterday. The request went out the 20th, so nine days to put together the RFP. So do you think anyone was dumb enough to submit? Anyone hear anything? I suspect that Trump is heari… --- ## [Seward's Folly Happened 150 Years Ago--March 30, 1867](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sewards-folly-happened-150-years-ago-march-30-1867/783380)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sewards-folly-happened-150-years-ago-march-30-1867/783380 "2017-03-31T01:32:52Z")
Surely everyone remembers Seward’s Folly from history class in high school? NO GOOGLING! --- ## [Post Something Interesting About English](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-interesting-about-english/782836)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 224\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-something-interesting-about-english/782836 "2017-03-31T00:10:29Z")
The English language is lots of fun. Post a fact about grammar, spelling, vocabulary, definitions of words changing with time, pronounciation, something factual and cool. I’ll start. The origin of the word “bird” is … --- ## [I spend an hour in a sensory deprivation chamber](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spend-an-hour-in-a-sensory-deprivation-chamber/769461)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-spend-an-hour-in-a-sensory-deprivation-chamber/769461 "2017-03-30T23:58:26Z")
Yesterday I paid a visit to a place in Milwaukee where one can crawl into an egg-shaped pod filled with warm water absolutely saturated with epsom salts. The resultant solution is quite dense, and as a result one floats… --- ## [Cyclone Debbie - A sub-editor's dream](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyclone-debbie-a-sub-editors-dream/783125)
**Author:** [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cyclone-debbie-a-sub-editors-dream/783125 "2017-03-30T23:29:09Z")
I’m in Far North Queensland at the moment and Cyclone \[Hurricane\] Debbie is currently bearing down on the coast to the south. Extremely high winds and monster tides are expected on Tuesday morning. But that’s not impor… --- ## [This is the thread where all the cool kids hang out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-thread-where-all-the-cool-kids-hang-out/783233)
**Author:** [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-the-thread-where-all-the-cool-kids-hang-out/783233 "2017-03-30T21:42:49Z")
Well - this is it. Who are the cool kids? Are you one of them? --- ## [My Past Workplaces are GONE!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-past-workplaces-are-gone/783282)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-past-workplaces-are-gone/783282 "2017-03-30T20:35:57Z")
A distressing number of the places I used to work aren’t there any more. Some of them still exist, physically, but the buildings are empty, or someone else has moved in. The business I used to work at has either moved o… --- ## [Calculating what it costs NC every time a trans person uses a public bathroom](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-what-it-costs-nc-every-time-a-trans-person-uses-a-public-bathroom/783099)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calculating-what-it-costs-nc-every-time-a-trans-person-uses-a-public-bathroom/783099 "2017-03-30T20:07:50Z")
So this says there are an estimated 37,000 trans persons in NC affected by the law. Here’s How Many Transgender People Are Affected by North Carolina’s Bathroom Law This says NC has lost 630,000,000 dollars because of … --- ## [I just found out the tape player on my Walkman doesn't work. :(](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-the-tape-player-on-my-walkman-doesnt-work/783305)
**Author:** [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-out-the-tape-player-on-my-walkman-doesnt-work/783305 "2017-03-30T18:47:59Z")
I wanted to play a mystery mix tape that I haven’t listened to in years. (I’m the one who created the tape, but I don’t remember what’s on it, and it’s not written down anywhere.) So, I decided I’d have a listen usin… --- ## [What are my options to listen to music through my amazon echo dot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-options-to-listen-to-music-through-my-amazon-echo-dot/783351)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-options-to-listen-to-music-through-my-amazon-echo-dot/783351 "2017-03-30T16:36:46Z")
I bought one of these because I visited someone who had one. They used it to voice control the lights, and if you wanted to listen to a song you’d just say 'Alexa play (song name) on Spotify. They’d say you had to menti… --- ## [Tenerife Disaster -- 40 Years Later](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenerife-disaster-40-years-later/783146)
**Author:** [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tenerife-disaster-40-years-later/783146 "2017-03-30T08:15:35Z")
On 27 March, 1977, two 747s collided on the runway of what is now Tenerife North Airport, killing 583 – the deadliest accident to this date in aviation. It seems aviation has come a long way since then. Communications h… --- ## [Telegraph's Alex cartoon displays a swastika](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegraphs-alex-cartoon-displays-a-swastika/783274)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telegraphs-alex-cartoon-displays-a-swastika/783274 "2017-03-30T06:17:59Z")
Am I being too sensitive over this? To me it looks uncomfortably like a swastika. --- ## [Following your own advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-your-own-advice/783253)
**Author:** [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-your-own-advice/783253 "2017-03-30T06:17:36Z")
After decades of having atrocious handwriting, I decided that I ought, at this late date, to make a stab at improving it. So I’ve been looking at the internet for “improving handwriting” - there’s a TON of stuff out the… --- ## [Tell me about your crappy driving mistakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-crappy-driving-mistakes/625298)
**Author:** [@BTEzra04](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BTEzra04)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [March 30, 2017, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-crappy-driving-mistakes/625298 "2017-03-30T06:14:10Z")
And help me feel better. I feel like an idiot. Failure to yield ticket. And I should know better, because I’ve had bad luck with left turns before. It had been a long ass day at work–10.5 hours in the office. I just hop… --- ## [Real reasons Trump won't attend the WH correspondents dinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-reasons-trump-wont-attend-the-wh-correspondents-dinner/783285)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-reasons-trump-wont-attend-the-wh-correspondents-dinner/783285 "2017-03-29T21:26:56Z")
The jaded and cynical among us might unfairly conclude the reason Trump has refused to attend the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is simply because he was afraid of being made fun of, but the more e… --- ## [Get out of my head President Trump!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-president-trump/782851)
**Author:** [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-my-head-president-trump/782851 "2017-03-29T21:02:37Z")
I’m not even American and he’s pretty much unavoidable but now he’s started invading my dreams! In the dream I was having a meal with my brother at a fancy restaurant or some sort of formal reception (not quite as weird… --- ## [Trump funds NASA mission to Mars.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-funds-nasa-mission-to-mars/783169)
**Author:** [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-funds-nasa-mission-to-mars/783169 "2017-03-29T18:54:20Z")
Mars or bust by 2033. Got to admit, did not see that coming. --- ## [I ordered from Chewy.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ordered-from-chewy-com/783114)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ordered-from-chewy-com/783114 "2017-03-29T18:35:35Z")
So I have a tendency to forget to buy cat litter, and then to forget to bring it in from the car when I do get it (which pisses my husband off to no end). We have a division of chores, and the litter is on my list. Plus,… --- ## [Well, this is a pile of manure](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-a-pile-of-manure/783226)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-this-is-a-pile-of-manure/783226 "2017-03-29T14:51:02Z")
E.J. Dionne, is shocked, shocked to find that Donald Trump uses bad language. In a new op-ed, Dionne castigates the Prez for his “breathtaking contempt for policymaking” because he “used a barnyard epithet to deride the… --- ## [Hypothetical: A Dope By any Other Name...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-a-dope-by-any-other-name/783221)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 29, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-a-dope-by-any-other-name/783221 "2017-03-29T04:50:52Z")
Sometime in the far future The Powers That Be decide to quit the message board bidness…but decide to keep the rights to the name “The Straight Dope” and the tagline “FIGHTING IGNORANCE SINCE 1973 (IT’S TAKING LONGER THAN… --- ## [Are there flooded fields in the Sacramento area?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-flooded-fields-in-the-sacramento-area/782892)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 28, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-flooded-fields-in-the-sacramento-area/782892 "2017-03-28T20:58:43Z")
(A purely factual question, in a sense, but mundane enough to belong in MPSIMS without a doubt.) Sacramento-area people, this question is for you. (Twoflower? Are you reading this?) In the miles and miles of fields a… --- ## ["He don't lick that off the grass!" quote query](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-dont-lick-that-off-the-grass-quote-query/783149)
**Author:** [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 28, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-dont-lick-that-off-the-grass-quote-query/783149 "2017-03-28T20:57:31Z")
Am I the only person in the world who understands this expression? I have fought and pleaded with people (my EX, especially!) to get the gist of this quaint, old-timey phrase and nobody seems to “get it” except me and m… --- ## [Transgender weightlifter wins women's competition.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgender-weightlifter-wins-womens-competition/782763)
**Author:** [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [March 28, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transgender-weightlifter-wins-womens-competition/782763 "2017-03-28T20:53:18Z")
Here’s the story. Does anyone else have any concerns at all about this? I’m 100% behind transgenders in their goal to lead full lives in the sex they feel should have been theirs from birth as long as that does not imp… --- ## [Guardsman tells off tourist and cameraman.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardsman-tells-off-tourist-and-cameraman/783171)
**Author:** [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 28, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardsman-tells-off-tourist-and-cameraman/783171 "2017-03-28T20:32:29Z")
Video on Youtube here. Short and sweet and decidedly restrained by the guardsman given recent events. --- ## [I don´t get it, why are some words in a language always "bad"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-don-t-get-it-why-are-some-words-in-a-language-always-bad/783040)
**Author:** [@No\_Wikipedia\_Cites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Wikipedia_Cites)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 28, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-don-t-get-it-why-are-some-words-in-a-language-always-bad/783040 "2017-03-28T14:10:06Z")
I was reading a book of slang words for a non-English language I´m studying, and after reading one, someone who is a native speaker said ´no, that is vulgar´, but from a distance it seems strange some words are ´naughty´… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=554) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=556)