# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=601 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 602 --- ## [Fuck, how much of a problem is this'll? (Appliance related)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-how-much-of-a-problem-is-thisll-appliance-related/766629)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-how-much-of-a-problem-is-thisll-appliance-related/766629 "2016-09-23T21:09:42Z")
Yesterday afternoon, I put some boxes from Costco into the freezer. I was pretty sure the door was closed all the way. But just now, I went to my fridge for the first time since then, and the door wasn’t closed all the … --- ## [Brothers, Sisters and their cell phones: this is a totally racist ERRR "cultural"? observation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brothers-sisters-and-their-cell-phones-this-is-a-totally-racist-errr-cultural-observation/765260)
**Author:** [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brothers-sisters-and-their-cell-phones-this-is-a-totally-racist-errr-cultural-observation/765260 "2016-09-23T19:42:59Z")
Just putting it out there. Now before I begin, YES, I have seen non-black people talk a lot on their cell phones. Its just seems to me some black people talk on them a lot more. And at all odd times the day and night, … --- ## [Anaamika?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anaamika/766530)
**Author:** [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anaamika/766530 "2016-09-23T18:15:37Z")
I just happened to notice she’s not been around in a while. Does anyone know if she’s okay? (I hate it when I suddenly realize that someone’s missing) --- ## [A shout-out to my fellow Doper NMI-ers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-to-my-fellow-doper-nmi-ers/766469)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-shout-out-to-my-fellow-doper-nmi-ers/766469 "2016-09-23T14:25:24Z")
As you would recognize if you were one of us (“one of us! one of us!”), NMI stands for “No Middle Initial”. For reasons moderately unclear to me, neither my brother nor I has a middle name. Mom says it’s because our last… --- ## [I owe those of you who use "Og" an apology](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467)
**Author:** [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-owe-those-of-you-who-use-og-an-apology/766467 "2016-09-23T05:14:55Z")
I’m a relative newcomer to these parts. I enjoy the board quite a bit, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say there are some things I find irritating. But most of those irritants are minor, and they don’t bug me much – that’s … --- ## [$1,234,567,890](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-234-567-890/766532)
**Author:** [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1-234-567-890/766532 "2016-09-23T02:27:53Z")
That’s the winning bid for building a section of California’s High Speed Rail Link “High-Speed Rail Authority Announces Bid Results on Next Segment of Construction in the Central Valley” {PDF} on page three. --- ## [Weird Dreams, Anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dreams-anyone/766413)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-dreams-anyone/766413 "2016-09-23T00:32:14Z")
Last night I had an odd one. Apparently, Hannibal Lecter has an identical twin brother, the same in every respect, who’s even being kept in the same kind of prison cell Hannibal was being held in through most of The Sile… --- ## [Dopers with two or more middle names?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-two-or-more-middle-names/766563)
**Author:** [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-two-or-more-middle-names/766563 "2016-09-23T00:10:35Z")
We already have a thread about Dopers with no middle name, so let’s go in the opposite direction: Who here has a multiplicity of middle names? I do, as do both of my siblings. To be clear, the names aren’t hyphenated or… --- ## [is this sentence correct?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-sentence-correct/766487)
**Author:** [@Reza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reza)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-sentence-correct/766487 "2016-09-22T20:01:25Z")
which one is correct? A. The water is boiling. B. The water is being boiled. I wrote the first one, but somebody said that the water looks like the subject of the verb so it must be in passive form as the sentence B. … --- ## [What is the best/worst gift you have received?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-worst-gift-you-have-received/766384)
**Author:** [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-worst-gift-you-have-received/766384 "2016-09-22T19:02:12Z")
For me Best - a ps4 Worst six cans of pepsi --- ## [Driving from Madison to Denver via Omaha, and back via Sioux Falls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-from-madison-to-denver-via-omaha-and-back-via-sioux-falls/761762)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-from-madison-to-denver-via-omaha-and-back-via-sioux-falls/761762 "2016-09-22T18:55:19Z")
On the way to spending a few days in Denver, I’m going to stay overnight in Omaha. Just looking for ideas of some places to stop and look around between Madison and Omaha, or Omaha and Denver, pretty close off I 80. I … --- ## [Red Dragon, SpaceX and Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dragon-spacex-and-mars/766588)
**Author:** [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-dragon-spacex-and-mars/766588 "2016-09-22T17:33:38Z")
Well they details are out on SpaceX’s Red Dragon to Mars. Basically NASA will do 7 Technology Exchanges with SpaceX and get all the flight telemetry that comes from trying to fly multiple tons of hardware to the surface … --- ## [Questions to ponder.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-to-ponder/766582)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-to-ponder/766582 "2016-09-22T17:11:31Z")
How do we know that Dunning and Kruger are not themselves victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect? --- ## [Have you ever heard someone pronounce "flaccid" as "flaksid"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-someone-pronounce-flaccid-as-flaksid/717606)
**Author:** [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-someone-pronounce-flaccid-as-flaksid/717606 "2015-04-21T21:21:03Z")
A minor point in last night’s Silicon Valley was that the “correct” pronunciation of flaccid is actually “flaksid” which I thought was just a weird joke for the show. But indeed, if you go to Google Definitions and hit t… --- ## [This is a weird week for me.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-week-for-me/766507)
**Author:** [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-week-for-me/766507 "2016-09-22T14:59:16Z")
Last night I went to the first weekly meeting of a 3-month medically supervised weight loss program. Today is my first day on “the product.” This is hopefully the start of a non-obese, much healthier Misnomer. In additio… --- ## [The General Encouragement Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-general-encouragement-thread/766461)
**Author:** [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-general-encouragement-thread/766461 "2016-09-22T09:37:59Z")
Inspired by this thread about running, I wanted to start a general encouragement thread. The goal here is for people to post in something that they need encouragement for (from as mundane as “I want to knit my first pai… --- ## [Joss Save the Day shot at Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joss-save-the-day-shot-at-trump/766537)
**Author:** [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joss-save-the-day-shot-at-trump/766537 "2016-09-22T01:37:11Z")
Just a MPSIMS video on CNN I thought I’d share. --- ## [Do all cats do the bum wiggle before they pounce?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-cats-do-the-bum-wiggle-before-they-pounce/766076)
**Author:** [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-cats-do-the-bum-wiggle-before-they-pounce/766076 "2016-09-22T00:21:53Z")
I have a three year old short hair that’s tipping the morbidly obese side, he’s just over 7 kg. He’s a rescue I adopted after his owner died and he was already fat, I’ve tried putting him on special diet food but the ne… --- ## [This was fun, and I hope I made sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-was-fun-and-i-hope-i-made-sense/766421)
**Author:** [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-was-fun-and-i-hope-i-made-sense/766421 "2016-09-21T21:11:55Z")
Tonight, I decided to look up a particular music video, because I heard the song on the radio, and I thought it was a good song for me to sing to my wife. Erg. Then I read the comments on the video. “Wow. no homo but h… --- ## [Faked Youtube videos that are convincingly real?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faked-youtube-videos-that-are-convincingly-real/766283)
**Author:** [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faked-youtube-videos-that-are-convincingly-real/766283 "2016-09-21T19:43:28Z")
Personally I find it annoying how every video uploaded on youtube that seems the slightest bit unusual or outside someone’s experience and knowledge results in a chorus of ‘fake!’ I realise that this question is somewha… --- ## [What are the good old days to you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-good-old-days-to-you/765646)
**Author:** [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-good-old-days-to-you/765646 "2016-09-21T19:06:08Z")
People use this phrase a lot What is the first thing you think off when you hear it? --- ## [One of those "die happy" experiences...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-those-die-happy-experiences/763421)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-those-die-happy-experiences/763421 "2016-09-21T18:25:00Z")
I’m sorry, I’m going to be a bit spooky-mysterious here, because I’m still waiting on some details. But I just gotta sound off/gloat/yell yee-haaaaa. In a couple of weeks, I am attending a reception. A small, intimate r… --- ## [Shiver Me Timbers...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiver-me-timbers/766341)
**Author:** [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shiver-me-timbers/766341 "2016-09-21T17:55:01Z")
'Tis International Talk Like a Pirate Day, ye scurvy dogs, arrr. Abaft the mizzen yardarms, keel haul the lubberly lubbers, and tip yer maties the Black Spot, arr. Fer the day, I be Plank Monkey Eugene, arr. Avast, me… --- ## [And you thought your college roommate was demanding.....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-your-college-roommate-was-demanding/766192)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-your-college-roommate-was-demanding/766192 "2016-09-21T15:45:03Z")
This college student sounds like a roommate-situation nightmare, and just - “selfish” or “self-centered” doesn’t even do it justice; wonder what the psychological condition is. --- ## [May 21st, the end of the world.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-21st-the-end-of-the-world/573825)
**Author:** [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-21st-the-end-of-the-world/573825 "2016-09-21T12:51:26Z")
There is a house I drive by sometimes and it always has the same SUV parked in the front. The car is covered in a giant decal that proclaims the end of the world will be May 21, 2011. Well, you can imagine that I’m sta… --- ## [God’s Database – What would you look up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-s-database-what-would-you-look-up/766059)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-s-database-what-would-you-look-up/766059 "2016-09-21T12:24:22Z")
You are allowed access to God’s Database three times per month to obtain exact and correct answers to your specific and objective questions about yourself or other human beings. What’s this? You say you don’t know from … --- ## [If you had 24 hours to live , what would you do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-24-hours-to-live-what-would-you-do/766312)
**Author:** [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-24-hours-to-live-what-would-you-do/766312 "2016-09-20T23:43:32Z")
If you had 24 hours to live , what would you do? --- ## [The flying monkeys! Someone stole the plans! Hey Skaldy!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-monkeys-someone-stole-the-plans-hey-skaldy/766432)
**Author:** [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flying-monkeys-someone-stole-the-plans-hey-skaldy/766432 "2016-09-20T22:54:28Z")
The flying monkeys! Someone stole the plans! Hey Skaldy!!! Creepy --- ## [25+ injured in Chelsea, NYC explosion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-injured-in-chelsea-nyc-explosion/766233)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-injured-in-chelsea-nyc-explosion/766233 "2016-09-20T17:01:35Z")
This is CNN’s preliminary report. Not much is known yet, but the explosion happened Saturday evening in a trash receptacle near 23rd Street and 6th Avenue. It was definitely a bomb, not anything like a gas leak. I used … --- ## [My Idea For an AIDS Benefit Calendar.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idea-for-an-aids-benefit-calendar/766424)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-idea-for-an-aids-benefit-calendar/766424 "2016-09-20T15:34:52Z")
Actually, I have had this idea for some time now, and could have shared it sooner. The inspiration for the calendar idea came when I saw a recent picture of Magic Johnson. You know, even now, Magic Johnson looks pretty … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=600) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=602)