# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=772 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 773 --- ## [I just spent 40 minutes soaking my feet in tea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spent-40-minutes-soaking-my-feet-in-tea/561590)
**Author:** [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-spent-40-minutes-soaking-my-feet-in-tea/561590 "2015-01-26T04:48:53Z")
TMI: I have terribly sweaty feet. Thankfully, they don’t smell (trust me). But I am so sick of cold, clammy feet. I’ve read that the tannins in the tea will “clog” the sweat pores, limiting the sweating for a few week… --- ## [Saudi King Abdullah dead at 90](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-king-abdullah-dead-at-90/710633)
**Author:** [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saudi-king-abdullah-dead-at-90/710633 "2015-01-26T03:42:08Z")
…according to state television. --- ## [Manufactures now include batteries with almost zero useable life. Says so in the manual.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manufactures-now-include-batteries-with-almost-zero-useable-life-says-so-in-the-manual/710715)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manufactures-now-include-batteries-with-almost-zero-useable-life-says-so-in-the-manual/710715 "2015-01-26T00:29:14Z")
Well, at least they admit it in the manual.:rolleyes: To save 50 cents on a two hundred buck item they’ve found a way to manufacturer batteries with almost no useable life. This a new one for me. The supplied batteries… --- ## [Half a Second to Live - What Would You Do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-second-to-live-what-would-you-do/710348)
**Author:** [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-a-second-to-live-what-would-you-do/710348 "2015-01-25T15:15:54Z")
. WARNING The following post is extremely graphic and nasty and there is a good chance it will turn your stomach. So do not read after eating a large meal! We had a lot of snow in my city during the past week and it go… --- ## [I just ran 4 miles!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ran-4-miles/710791)
**Author:** [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ran-4-miles/710791 "2015-01-25T12:30:45Z")
Granted it was on a treadmill with no tilt, and at a slow 15 min mile, but I jogged nonstop for a whole hour and encompassed 4 miles! That’s the most I’ve ever done in my (not too terribly short) life. I joined the Plan… --- ## [Chantal 12 juni 2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chantal-12-juni-2009/710839)
**Author:** [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chantal-12-juni-2009/710839 "2015-01-25T10:17:55Z")
The insciption of my wedding ring that got snagged in my glove while I was out cycling in Schiedam yesterday. It somehow got of my finger and I lost it. On the of chance someone finds it and punches the inscription int… --- ## [Getting off Paxil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-off-paxil/710493)
**Author:** [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-off-paxil/710493 "2015-01-25T08:22:10Z")
So I have been taking Paxil for the better part of 13 years. I feel it’s time to get off for various reasons. The past weekend I ran out of my prescription and just didn’t fill it. In the past when I did this, on about … --- ## [It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-shouldnt-happen-to-a-dog/710728)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-shouldnt-happen-to-a-dog/710728 "2015-01-25T04:01:07Z")
A construction worker upcountry in Thailand has been arrested for sexually molesting a dog. I love the photo. The caption is possibly the best the Post has ever run. It’s so matter of fact. “Pakhin Lemwon, a constructio… --- ## [Murdering raping savages are on the loose](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdering-raping-savages-are-on-the-loose/710789)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murdering-raping-savages-are-on-the-loose/710789 "2015-01-25T03:46:42Z")
ISIS and Boko Haram. And what’s on the news? Inflategate. The big news is whether or not a foot ball may or not have been within regulation pressure. --- ## [Alternate History: The Republic of Texas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-history-the-republic-of-texas/710538)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-history-the-republic-of-texas/710538 "2015-01-24T06:25:24Z")
The annexation of Texas was originally ejected by the US Senate and it took negotiation by Presidents Tyler and Polk (some of it in secret) for the Senate to ratify the treaty. On to the alternate history. A current hi… --- ## [dream jobs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-jobs/6965)
**Author:** [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-jobs/6965 "2015-01-24T20:53:34Z")
What type of work at home jobs are truly viable? What would one have to do to find a job like that? Thanks, SC --- ## ["Can't you read the sign?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-read-the-sign/710340)
**Author:** [@DoggyDunnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoggyDunnit)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-you-read-the-sign/710340 "2015-01-24T16:49:36Z")
So, today, I stood at the corner of 6th and Magnolia here in Fort Worthless holding my protest sign, as I regularly do. There happens to be a vegan restaurant on the northeast side of the intersection, the Spiral Diner.… --- ## [Dear SUV Driver: Just Because You Didn't Crash into the Parked Car...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-suv-driver-just-because-you-didnt-crash-into-the-parked-car/710726)
**Author:** [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-suv-driver-just-because-you-didnt-crash-into-the-parked-car/710726 "2015-01-24T15:37:30Z")
…the first time you came zooming out of the cul-de-sac (at a speed too fast even if the roads had been dry, but they were icy) and skidded, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to be that lucky the next time you go zoom… --- ## [Can't stop the schadenfreude (Holly Hobby Lobby in the news again)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-stop-the-schadenfreude-holly-hobby-lobby-in-the-news-again/710481)
**Author:** [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-stop-the-schadenfreude-holly-hobby-lobby-in-the-news-again/710481 "2015-01-24T13:35:37Z")
Holly Fisher, aka Holly Hobby Lobby, social media star, military wife and mother, defender of conservative values and all around clueless moron, was exposed by a conservative blogger for sleeping with a tea party staffer… --- ## [Today is the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's death](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-sir-winston-churchills-death/710735)
**Author:** [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-the-50th-anniversary-of-sir-winston-churchills-death/710735 "2015-01-24T11:17:41Z")
He died on 24 January 1965. Some footage of his funeral has just been screening on television. The scene where the dock workers lowered their cranes as the funeral barge passed down the Thames was very poignant. --- ## [Siberian Town Encased in Ice After Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siberian-town-encased-in-ice-after-storm/710737)
**Author:** [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siberian-town-encased-in-ice-after-storm/710737 "2015-01-24T08:39:27Z")
Link. After the cold apparently caused the water main to break and then froze the ice, a good chunk of the town is literally embedded in ice; the pictures of parked cars halfway buried in ice are surreal. It looks like a… --- ## [Ask the guy who has been a patient in a psych ward](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-has-been-a-patient-in-a-psych-ward/710656)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Vitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Vitus)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-has-been-a-patient-in-a-psych-ward/710656 "2015-01-24T05:34:19Z")
Hi all, longtime lurker first time poster. Glad I have something unique to add to the board… Beginning in December I experienced a personal crisis, the details of which I won’t share. This led to a series of three hospi… --- ## [Good-bye Sweet CharlieCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-sweet-charliecat/709378)
**Author:** [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [January 24, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-bye-sweet-charliecat/709378 "2015-01-24T05:31:52Z")
I came home from work tonight to find that my sweet CharlieCat had passed away in his sleep, curled up on one of the dog beds. He had been losing a bit of weight lately, but otherwise seemed fine. He was, I suspect, old;… --- ## [Prius left tail light issue?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prius-left-tail-light-issue/710587)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prius-left-tail-light-issue/710587 "2015-01-23T19:31:26Z")
This could go into GQ because it may have a factual answer. It could go into IMHO because people may have anecdotes. But I’m putting it here because. I was pulled over by State Patrol last night. My speedometer indic… --- ## [Your inability to catch is baffling....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-inability-to-catch-is-baffling/710325)
**Author:** [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-inability-to-catch-is-baffling/710325 "2015-01-23T17:29:19Z")
A few minutes ago I tossed my son his cellphone only to have it bounce off his head. I bring that to you folks because I’ve noticed a troubling trend, young people can’t be bothered to pay enough attention to me to compl… --- ## [Never been this sad before](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-been-this-sad-before/710463)
**Author:** [@lonewolf221](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonewolf221)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-been-this-sad-before/710463 "2015-01-23T07:33:45Z")
I feel like crap. I’ve never felt so alone. I don’t know how to handle being like this. I lost some friends in a car accident recently. I’m trying to make new friends, but mostly I just hate the people I’ve been meet… --- ## [Sequential Threads Induce Global Warming](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-induce-global-warming/683066)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 2158\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2015, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sequential-threads-induce-global-warming/683066 "2015-01-23T07:11:36Z")
\*\* Relationships with friends that backfired If you could bring back one assassinated person . . .\*\* :eek: --- ## [What was your worst nightmare?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-worst-nightmare/710510)
**Author:** [@hyperspaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperspaz)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2015, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-worst-nightmare/710510 "2015-01-23T07:09:22Z")
…and by nightmare I mean an actual dream, not your job/marriage/kids. I had one the other night that was like watching a documentary being secretly filmed at a super-secret government site in Antarctica, where grisly ge… --- ## [Best way to sell an older car](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-sell-an-older-car/710607)
**Author:** [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-sell-an-older-car/710607 "2015-01-23T02:02:55Z")
My Aunt is no longer driving and I’ve been tasked with selling her car. Normally, I would simply do some research, find the approximate value and then post on the usual local sites (autotrader etc.) Some folks would co… --- ## [I'm 3% Neanderthal! And...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-3-neanderthal-and/710531)
**Author:** [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-3-neanderthal-and/710531 "2015-01-23T00:52:02Z")
My husband bought me a 23AndMe kit for Christmas. Today my initial results came back: my mitochondrial DNA is from the European/Near-East group (yawn), and I am 3.0% Neanderthal! This is more Neanderthal DNA than 93% of … --- ## [The SO is being laid off](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-so-is-being-laid-off/707467)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-so-is-being-laid-off/707467 "2015-01-22T22:01:28Z")
The SO came in from her morning class and said, ‘Well… I don’t have to worry about signing up for my 401k anymore.’ She was hoping to sign up, since she had been teaching Medical Assistant classes at a for-profit colle… --- ## [Ask the widow of an alcoholic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-widow-of-an-alcoholic/482446)
**Author:** [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-widow-of-an-alcoholic/482446 "2015-01-22T21:55:29Z")
I’m new round here as a member, but have been an avid lurker for years. I’m having some difficulties coming to terms with what has happened in my life, and thought that sharing it here might be therapeutic. I’ll try and… --- ## [The popularity of Ice Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485 "2015-01-22T20:18:01Z")
I plugged “Ice Cream” into the Google N-Gram viewer, and this is what popped up: I’m not surprised that there are relatively few references at the start of the 19th century, but I am surprised at how low. I assume tha… --- ## [OK, what's the other side of the story here \[HOA sueing over a pick-up truck\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whats-the-other-side-of-the-story-here-hoa-sueing-over-a-pick-up-truck/710351)
**Author:** [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-whats-the-other-side-of-the-story-here-hoa-sueing-over-a-pick-up-truck/710351 "2015-01-22T19:57:24Z")
Homeownerssued by HOA over a pickup truck they park in their driveway There are two sides to every story, right? I mean, this sounds batshit insane to me, but I’m not a homeowner. I’ve never lived under the iron rule… --- ## [So... Adult incest is legal in NJ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320)
**Author:** [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [January 22, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-adult-incest-is-legal-in-nj/710320 "2015-01-22T16:33:54Z")
According to this really creepy story it is. Who knew? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=771) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=773)