# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=814 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 815 --- ## [Waking up too early for the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 261\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2014, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waking-up-too-early-for-the-mmp/696448 "2014-09-01T03:46:09Z")
I should have expected this - today’s the big travel day. Lots to do and lots will happen starting with our 75+ mile trek to Dulles International this afternoon. I woke early, which isn’t too much of a surprise, but I … --- ## [Anal Jihad 2: Pussy Jihad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anal-jihad-2-pussy-jihad/697043)
**Author:** [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anal-jihad-2-pussy-jihad/697043 "2014-09-01T02:31:18Z")
Pure evil, those monsters. I knew cats were mischievious, but I never suspected this. --- ## [Hearing loss in the Elderly robs them and their families of so much precious time.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearing-loss-in-the-elderly-robs-them-and-their-families-of-so-much-precious-time/696872)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hearing-loss-in-the-elderly-robs-them-and-their-families-of-so-much-precious-time/696872 "2014-08-31T22:40:20Z")
My mom came for a visit for a few days. It was… frustrating. She always protected her hearing throughout her life. She’d fuss at me for having my music too loud. She wouldn’t let me use headphones as a teenager. I sti… --- ## [I'm searching for a type of jewelry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-searching-for-a-type-of-jewelry/107025)
**Author:** [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-searching-for-a-type-of-jewelry/107025 "2014-08-31T22:19:51Z")
and hope a Doper out there can help me. I’ve been looking online for days for a specific type of pendant i can put on a silver chain I have. I’ve been searching for a carved amethyst cat pendant. I’ve been googling and … --- ## [Thought I would update](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-update/696812)
**Author:** [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-i-would-update/696812 "2014-08-31T21:03:41Z")
The prequel The TLDR version of the link was a business partner had is life totally derail but was still demanding to get paid. Closed down original business, opened new sole prop at same location under different nam… --- ## [Vitamin D Deficiency. In Summer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-summer/696602)
**Author:** [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-summer/696602 "2014-08-31T18:08:25Z")
For a variety of reasons, I saw a rheumatologist. I was feeling achy and tired, and I’ve had a weird arthritis thing going on with my hands for a while. So I basically went and said WTH? She ordered blood work that nece… --- ## [Runaway Beauty Queen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928 "2014-08-31T13:34:41Z")
So there’s this Burmese – or Myanmar, if you prefer – beauty queen named May Myat Noe, and she won the Miss Asia Pacific World beauty contest in Seoul a few months ago. And the South Korean organizers, who had funded her… --- ## [Globalization wins!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/globalization-wins/696932)
**Author:** [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/globalization-wins/696932 "2014-08-31T13:31:44Z")
I bought a few packs of Mach 3 razors on Groupon, paying about $15 per. The usual price for these blades is around $22. So they arrive, and I find that they were made in Poland for sale in India, and on the package, the … --- ## [I'm outta here...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-outta-here/7226)
**Author:** [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-outta-here/7226 "2014-08-31T04:32:49Z")
…Only for a week, though ;)! Tomorrow, bright and early, the old man and I will be loading up the motorcycle for a week-long trip to the Four Corners Motorcycle Rally, by way of Prescott, the South Rim of the Grand Cany… --- ## [Does anyone else hate weed whackers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-weed-whackers/696710)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-hate-weed-whackers/696710 "2014-08-31T03:18:27Z")
I’ve had a couple of these things over the years. Some electric, one battery powered, one gas. These stupid things make me nuts. The line never feeds like it’s supposed to. Automatic feed by butt. Eventually I end up op… --- ## [My roommate's decrepit old Pug is missing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommates-decrepit-old-pug-is-missing/696934)
**Author:** [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roommates-decrepit-old-pug-is-missing/696934 "2014-08-31T02:12:33Z")
Warning: incredibly sad. I am roommates with an older man- strictly platonic, he helps me, I help him, we get along very well for being so different, blah blah blah. He has (had, I guess :frowning: ) four pug dogs. I… --- ## [Why do semis block all lanes of traffic on the interstate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-semis-block-all-lanes-of-traffic-on-the-interstate/659280)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-semis-block-all-lanes-of-traffic-on-the-interstate/659280 "2014-08-30T23:59:25Z")
If there are 2 lanes on the interstate it is not uncommon for 2 semis to block them both, driving side by side so nobody can pass them. Either they will be staggered or they will be side to side and they will drive like … --- ## [Part of Bristol is named after ME!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/part-of-bristol-is-named-after-me/696472)
**Author:** [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/part-of-bristol-is-named-after-me/696472 "2014-08-30T23:09:28Z")
I’m sure that was the workers’ intention, when they changed a BUS STOP to a BUP STOP. Thanks guyp! --- ## [Cord-cutting: an update](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cord-cutting-an-update/695836)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cord-cutting-an-update/695836 "2014-08-30T22:10:13Z")
So we’re back around to the new season of a lot of shows, and the website portals that let us watch some of them free have closed up. You now have to be a valid cable subscriber of the channel to get the episodes from th… --- ## [Let's draw superficial conclusions about people based on their cars.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466)
**Author:** [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-draw-superficial-conclusions-about-people-based-on-their-cars/696466 "2014-08-30T21:38:23Z")
MB - I don’t know how half this shit works but you’d be driving this too if you could afford it. Audi - I’m a dick and I don’t care who knows it. BMW - I may be a dick but my car wasn’t designed in an anime studio. Ja… --- ## [Panda Fakes Pregnancy for Buns, Bamboo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-fakes-pregnancy-for-buns-bamboo/696718)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-fakes-pregnancy-for-buns-bamboo/696718 "2014-08-30T20:30:31Z")
Never mind Ferguson, Missouri! What is this world coming to when you can’t trust a panda? Ai Hin, a panda at China’s Chengdu Research Base, apparently caught on that she would be treated like a queen if she were pregnant… --- ## [Puppy predicament - I have allergies!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-predicament-i-have-allergies/696996)
**Author:** [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-predicament-i-have-allergies/696996 "2014-08-30T20:19:31Z")
Note: I received permission from the mods to post this thread. We adopted the world’s cutest puppy a little over a week ago. A couple of days in, I noticed that I was getting sniffly and had watery eyes around him. An… --- ## [Fiance unexpectedly got a job at my company. Our life is going to change for the AWESOME!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiance-unexpectedly-got-a-job-at-my-company-our-life-is-going-to-change-for-the-awesome/696871)
**Author:** [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiance-unexpectedly-got-a-job-at-my-company-our-life-is-going-to-change-for-the-awesome/696871 "2014-08-30T12:00:41Z")
I can’t tell anyone IRL this news yet. But I have to tell somebody or I’m going to explode into bits of confetti, happiness, and intestines. So, I’m sorry in advance for being overly bloggy. My fiance just “celebrated” … --- ## [If a friend is dying?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-friend-is-dying/696548)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-a-friend-is-dying/696548 "2014-08-30T06:42:48Z")
A coworker whom I’ve known for 15 years has cancer and probably isnt going to make it. I want to write something on a card but I’m not sure what to say. Obviously a “Get Well Soon” card or message would be in poor taste… --- ## [Have any of you ever encountered a mob?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-of-you-ever-encountered-a-mob/696773)
**Author:** [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-of-you-ever-encountered-a-mob/696773 "2014-08-30T05:33:10Z")
I misread a thread title, but then it occurred to me that my mistake might make an interesting thread in its own right. Have any of you ever encountered a mob? Run away from a mob? Been part of a screaming, rock-throw… --- ## [Dengue fever found in Japan for the first time in 70 years](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dengue-fever-found-in-japan-for-the-first-time-in-70-years/696834)
**Author:** [@Saturn\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saturn_Dreams)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dengue-fever-found-in-japan-for-the-first-time-in-70-years/696834 "2014-08-30T01:57:15Z")
Thread title was in the news yesterday in Japan: http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140827p2g00m0dm059000c.html Today, they did a piece on the news showing the top 5 animals that are responsible for hu… --- ## [Potential for major volcanic eruption in Iceland](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-for-major-volcanic-eruption-in-iceland/695868)
**Author:** [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/potential-for-major-volcanic-eruption-in-iceland/695868 "2014-08-30T00:28:12Z")
Volcano fans, get out the popcorn: a subglacial volcano in Iceland, known by the anglicised name of Bardarbunga, may be about to erupt. Considered to be the country’s largest volcanic system, Bardarbunga apparently last… --- ## [Jesus, Skynet became aware today 2:14 EST](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-skynet-became-aware-today-2-14-est/696858)
**Author:** [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-skynet-became-aware-today-2-14-est/696858 "2014-08-29T21:25:42Z")
Now What? Mod: not sure if this is CS. Personally, I think it should be a sticky in all forums. :: And I’m the first one to notice here? :: --- ## [Of course a nine-year-old girl can handle a Uzi, right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-course-a-nine-year-old-girl-can-handle-a-uzi-right/696631)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 167\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-course-a-nine-year-old-girl-can-handle-a-uzi-right/696631 "2014-08-29T20:32:54Z")
Guess not. I really can’t imagine what parents, gun range or instructor could be thinking… presupposing they had the equipment to think in the first place. Gun training for kids? Sure, I guess. Handing an alley broom to… --- ## [On Trial by Combat, and other things...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-trial-by-combat-and-other-things/696619)
**Author:** [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-trial-by-combat-and-other-things/696619 "2014-08-29T20:18:01Z")
OK, this is something that I found out only the other day. I was doing some research about the history of “trial by combat” and “trial by ordeal”… And then I found this delicious piece of news, dating to 2002: British m… --- ## [Go west, young man](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-west-young-man/696873)
**Author:** [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-west-young-man/696873 "2014-08-29T17:14:14Z")
So my lovely and talented wife Aries28 and I were heading to Lawton, Oklahoma last week, to see our 17-year-old graduate from basic training at Fort Sill. Our flight was leaving Birmingham at 2:35, heading to Dallas, whe… --- ## [Amish hate crimes trial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amish-hate-crimes-trial/632880)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amish-hate-crimes-trial/632880 "2014-08-29T15:44:18Z")
As to the criminal case of United States v. Samuel Mullet Jr. et al.: This is some messed-up shit, if true (and it looks like it is). I had a course on the Amish in college, and have had some dealings with them over … --- ## [Know how we said breakfast is the most important meal? Well not really we just made that up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-how-we-said-breakfast-is-the-most-important-meal-well-not-really-we-just-made-that-up/696340)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2014, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/know-how-we-said-breakfast-is-the-most-important-meal-well-not-really-we-just-made-that-up/696340 "2014-08-29T10:03:37Z")
Apparently breakfast is not more important than any other meal and you can skip breakfast and do just fine weight control and work performance wise. New research says - Breakfast Downgraded From ‘Most Important Meal of… --- ## [Seeking impartial careers ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-impartial-careers-ideas/696638)
**Author:** [@ItWasAGoodIdeaAtTheTime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ItWasAGoodIdeaAtTheTime)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-impartial-careers-ideas/696638 "2014-08-29T05:40:22Z")
I’m experiencing a really positive shift in my mood having been ill with severe depression for over 2.5 years and a previous breakdown about 5 years before that. I’m now at the point where I’m feeling ready and slightly … --- ## [Man tries to dig out boulder and gets crushed.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-tries-to-dig-out-boulder-and-gets-crushed/696690)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-tries-to-dig-out-boulder-and-gets-crushed/696690 "2014-08-29T05:08:32Z")
I can easily imagine this guy coming in from work every day. Changing clothes and digging away under this huge ass rock. Until he finally succeeds in removing all the supporting dirt. :smack: He should have thunk this … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=813) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=815)