# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=653 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 654 --- ## [Interviewing Ramsey Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interviewing-ramsey-campbell/748204)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interviewing-ramsey-campbell/748204 "2016-03-09T06:47:43Z")
So here I was at Albacon in the audience waiting for the Guest of Honor talk with horror author Ramsey Campbell (there via Skype) when the con chair says to me, “This is going to be an interview. Chuck, you’ll be conduc… --- ## [I'm looking for the rule of law in a criminal case when the State increases its own burden..](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-the-rule-of-law-in-a-criminal-case-when-the-state-increases-its-own-burden/748353)
**Author:** [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-the-rule-of-law-in-a-criminal-case-when-the-state-increases-its-own-burden/748353 "2016-03-09T06:25:46Z")
Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but IIRC there is a tenet of law that once the state bites off a larger piece of the pie than they needed to, they are stuck with it. Suppose that in your jurisdiction, the elements of burgl… --- ## [Big Job Cuts at IBM in the U.S.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-job-cuts-at-ibm-in-the-u-s/747833)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-job-cuts-at-ibm-in-the-u-s/747833 "2016-03-09T03:38:45Z")
Supposedly a lot of jobs of being transferred offshore to places like Hungary and Brazil because of lower wage rates there. Aren’t there any Dopers who are personally affected or know what is going on? --- ## [I'm a sucker for click-bait - but this is one scary Japanese bridge! more like an artificial hill!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-sucker-for-click-bait-but-this-is-one-scary-japanese-bridge-more-like-an-artificial-hill/746527 "2016-03-09T00:50:10Z")
I wandered through a series of photos of “scariest bridges in the world.” Just had to share this one, of the Eshima Ohashi Bridge, Matsue, Japan. It’s more like an artificial hill than a bridge; and not a rolling, gen… --- ## [Unusual tips you've received for doing service jobs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-tips-youve-received-for-doing-service-jobs/748202)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-tips-youve-received-for-doing-service-jobs/748202 "2016-03-09T00:29:16Z")
I’m an Uber driver and I drove a guy to the airport yesterday. He gave me a large unopened bottled water, and a large – folding knife. Since he couldn’t take either on to the plane, I’m still not sure whether he consid… --- ## [Thought experiment: 50-50 chance of either gender getting pregnant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-experiment-50-50-chance-of-either-gender-getting-pregnant/748254)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-experiment-50-50-chance-of-either-gender-getting-pregnant/748254 "2016-03-08T22:28:53Z")
… Solution to rampant teenage pregnancy? The premise is that - what if - conception in humans was a fifty-fifty toss up between the woman, or the man, being the one to potentially become pregnant and carry the fetus to … --- ## [Good News: You saved 114% on your medical bill. Bad News: Pay up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-you-saved-114-on-your-medical-bill-bad-news-pay-up/748330)
**Author:** [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-you-saved-114-on-your-medical-bill-bad-news-pay-up/748330 "2016-03-08T21:47:33Z")
From a medical insurance explanation of benefits document that I received for an emergency room visit that my son had. It says: Amount billed: $1,062.80 (“This was the amount that was billed for your visit”) Discount:… --- ## [RIP, my darling doggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-my-darling-doggy/748242)
**Author:** [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-my-darling-doggy/748242 "2016-03-08T20:17:22Z")
My big boy, Caleb, started breathing oddly yesterday and we took him to the pet ER last night. It turned out he had metastasized heart and lung cancer with internal bleeding and we made the horribly painful decision to l… --- ## [Women going topless may cause society to collapse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627 "2016-03-08T12:24:38Z")
We need more “reckless disregard”, IMHO. Especially when I read the next sentence: Bare-chested women in the library? I think that we should do all we can to encourage women to go topless at the beach. --- ## [Which of you male dopers fathered this young man? I know one of you did so fess up!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-you-male-dopers-fathered-this-young-man-i-know-one-of-you-did-so-fess-up/748170)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-you-male-dopers-fathered-this-young-man-i-know-one-of-you-did-so-fess-up/748170 "2016-03-07T23:57:29Z")
Time to man up and confess! I know it was one of you because it seems like something you would do. Say hello to your son! Man, 18, conceived at N.Y. ‘K-Rock’ concert seeks biological father via Facebook These were the… --- ## [Another Firefox PSA (Tab Groups/Panorama)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-firefox-psa-tab-groups-panorama/748239)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-firefox-psa-tab-groups-panorama/748239 "2016-03-07T22:48:12Z")
There is another change happening in Firefox. This is not as big as Australis, but it could affect some people. The Panorama/Tab Groups feature of Firefox is being split off into an addon. This is that feature where you… --- ## [Help me (harmlessly) prank my friend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-harmlessly-prank-my-friend/748181)
**Author:** [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-harmlessly-prank-my-friend/748181 "2016-03-07T21:52:53Z")
The full backstory on this one is long and boring, but it bears some explanation, so here you go…my friend “B” and I both play the card game Magic: The Gathering. An inside joke in our MTG group is that the deity Chronat… --- ## [Return of the Monarchs (on my land, anyway)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-monarchs-on-my-land-anyway/731119)
**Author:** [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-monarchs-on-my-land-anyway/731119 "2016-03-07T19:29:22Z")
As a kid in the midwest, I was always surrounded by Monarch butterflies this time of year. Our local fields were laden with milkweed (a necessary plant for Monarchs) and thousands of the damn butterflies. Sadly, the po… --- ## [Park with statues of America's most notorious historical characters. Marketable concept?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/park-with-statues-of-americas-most-notorious-historical-characters-marketable-concept/748133)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/park-with-statues-of-americas-most-notorious-historical-characters-marketable-concept/748133 "2016-03-07T15:58:35Z")
As a hypothetical let’s say as the result of an inheritance you have 100 acres and few spare billion to do with as you please. Let’s say the concept is to have statues of notorious characters in US history and a plaque … --- ## [Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email dies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-tomlinson-inventor-of-email-dies/748207)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ray-tomlinson-inventor-of-email-dies/748207 "2016-03-07T15:54:11Z")
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/ct-ray-tomlinson-modern-email-inventor-dies-20160306-story.html Passed away this past weekend, per Raytheon, his employer. Interesting facts: Ray selected the @ symbol… --- ## [Selfie Death Capital of the World](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-death-capital-of-the-world/748002)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-death-capital-of-the-world/748002 "2016-03-07T13:14:57Z")
It’s India, site of 19 or 38.8% of the 49 selfie-related deaths that have occurred in the world since 2014. In response, India has established 16 no-selfie zones nationwide. Be careful out there, shutterbugs! --- ## [Leaping into the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaping-into-the-mmp/747486)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 258\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaping-into-the-mmp/747486 "2016-03-07T13:10:29Z")
My sleep schedule was all screwed up thiese past few days. Early to work on Friday, stayed up late for the film festival. Early on Saturday to work, only half a day though, then movies until nearly 11:00PM. I skipped … --- ## [Innocent things you did as a child without repercussions, that would get you suspended today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-things-you-did-as-a-child-without-repercussions-that-would-get-you-suspended-today/718469)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/innocent-things-you-did-as-a-child-without-repercussions-that-would-get-you-suspended-today/718469 "2016-03-07T04:36:36Z")
In the news this morning was an Arab-American kid who asked a girl to the prom in a creative way. He made a suicide bomber costume and carried a sign that said ‘I kno it’s A little Late, But I’m kinda…THE BOMB! Rilea, W… --- ## [South High Marathon Dance-2016](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-high-marathon-dance-2016/748113)
**Author:** [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-high-marathon-dance-2016/748113 "2016-03-07T03:09:10Z")
I’ve been posting one of these threads once a year for the past couple of years. I’ll include a link to the story from our local paper. This is my old high school, I was a senior in high school during the 2nd marathon … --- ## [Explicit cupcakes (Or, I think I'm done with my eyes now)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explicit-cupcakes-or-i-think-im-done-with-my-eyes-now/747918)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explicit-cupcakes-or-i-think-im-done-with-my-eyes-now/747918 "2016-03-07T02:38:30Z")
One of the girls in my office is leaving today on maternity leave. To celebrate, she brought trays of cupcakes. The cakes on two of the trays were decorated with two variations on the theme: little baby faces peeking o… --- ## [Share your funny sleep talking stories](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-funny-sleep-talking-stories/665986)
**Author:** [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-funny-sleep-talking-stories/665986 "2016-03-07T01:26:47Z")
My sweetie just rolled over towards me and clearly said: Him: I was going to say: I remember it being bigger… gracer: \[stifling giggle\] Him: … but actually I think it’s about the same as usual. gracer: \[barely contro… --- ## [Teaching the Birds and the Bees Is Going to Be Tough!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-the-birds-and-the-bees-is-going-to-be-tough/748091)
**Author:** [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-the-birds-and-the-bees-is-going-to-be-tough/748091 "2016-03-06T23:34:55Z")
My son is 12, and my wife and I have always been very open with him about sex. Indeed, we’ve often told him a lot more than he wants to know. The other day, I was driving him home from school, and we were stopped at a l… --- ## [Buy your MiGs here!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-your-migs-here/748127)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-your-migs-here/748127 "2016-03-06T22:17:01Z")
Link. The good news is that starting bids are $14,800. The bad news is… Wow. That’s over 800 gallons per hour. Not to mention getting them airworthy, maintenance expenses, transportation costs, insurance, etc. Any… --- ## [Caption this Chris Christie/Donal Trump photo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caption-this-chris-christie-donal-trump-photo/747740)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caption-this-chris-christie-donal-trump-photo/747740 "2016-03-06T22:14:49Z")
In case you missed it, during Donald Trump’s Super Tuesday victory speech, NJ Gov. Chris Christie stood behind him, looking…bewildered? Remorseful? Imprisoned? Neutered? All of the above? So now let the meme-ing begin. … --- ## [How Safe? {Driving Mexico betw Tijuana and Sonoyta (Sonora); San Diego CA to Lukeville AZ & Why AZ}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-driving-mexico-betw-tijuana-and-sonoyta-sonora-san-diego-ca-to-lukeville-az-why-az/746548)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-safe-driving-mexico-betw-tijuana-and-sonoyta-sonora-san-diego-ca-to-lukeville-az-why-az/746548 "2016-03-06T20:42:12Z")
I’m driving to Austin TX next week and am interested in the stretch of road along the US-Mexico border, on Mexico highways 2 and 20 which is about 300 miles long. I’d enter Tijuana at the Otay Mesa border crossing in the… --- ## [So now I have a completely appropriate girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-i-have-a-completely-appropriate-girlfriend/745608)
**Author:** [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Replies:** 89\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-i-have-a-completely-appropriate-girlfriend/745608 "2016-03-06T08:18:01Z")
So I’m posting this for the benefit of those who have mocked me in other threads. Not that your mockery was unwarranted. It was totally warranted, and was exactly what I needed. Thank you. I no longer obsess over that 1… --- ## [You know, DeepDrumpf, live real deep, big as a man \[Trump twitterbot\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-deepdrumpf-live-real-deep-big-as-a-man-trump-twitterbot/748079)
**Author:** [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-deepdrumpf-live-real-deep-big-as-a-man-trump-twitterbot/748079 "2016-03-06T02:15:41Z")
I can’t believe that joke is 14 years old. That makes me feel old. How about deep crow? Ok, eight years, I can live with that. I didn’t think this was sufficiently relevant to go in Elections. Mods, please move it w… --- ## [Who's Driven Drunk? (inspired by the "writing a letter" thread)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-driven-drunk-inspired-by-the-writing-a-letter-thread/747469)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-driven-drunk-inspired-by-the-writing-a-letter-thread/747469 "2016-03-06T00:08:39Z")
I did, once, when I was about 22. I had about 5 blocks to drive home, and if my car hadn’t been in danger of being towed if I’d left it where it was, I would have walked. It was maybe 3am, and I didn’t encounter another … --- ## [On this day in 1942, the Civil Air Patrol began anti-submarine patrols](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-this-day-in-1942-the-civil-air-patrol-began-anti-submarine-patrols/748004)
**Author:** [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-this-day-in-1942-the-civil-air-patrol-began-anti-submarine-patrols/748004 "2016-03-05T16:56:24Z")
I’m a bit of a history nut, and this seemed like the appropriate forum for this sort of thing: On this day in 1942, the Civil Air Patrol began anti-submarine patrols at Coastal Patrol No. 2’s base in Rehoboth, Delaware.… --- ## [Aviation: I recently experienced hypoxia.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aviation-i-recently-experienced-hypoxia/747916)
**Author:** [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aviation-i-recently-experienced-hypoxia/747916 "2016-03-05T01:39:17Z")
Don’t panic! I wasn’t flying at the time. It was part of some training to experience the effects of hypoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain). Ideally you would go into a decompression chamber for the most authentic experien… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=652) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=654)