# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=849 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 850 --- ## ["Friend zone" dilemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-zone-dilemma/688306)
**Author:** [@drewc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewc)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-zone-dilemma/688306 "2014-05-16T15:12:38Z")
I’m 99% certain the person of which I speak doesn’t know of the SDMB. I’m 42 years old, a year post divorce, and haven’t been in the dating scene for decades. Nor have I been in a situation quite like this before and a… --- ## [Ever been around any crazy people?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-around-any-crazy-people/686210)
**Author:** [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-around-any-crazy-people/686210 "2014-05-16T15:07:59Z")
I was responding in a different thread the other day when I was notified that I misunderstood the question (slightly). So I’m starting my own: Has anybody ever had an interaction with someone about whom it could rightful… --- ## [Summer job question - and lawnmowing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-job-question-and-lawnmowing/688583)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summer-job-question-and-lawnmowing/688583 "2014-05-16T13:40:04Z")
I had hoped I would get my 12 year old making some extra money in the summers mowing lawns like I used to do when I was his age. The problem I’m finding is there are just soooo many people out there mowing lawns now - re… --- ## [How do I help my wife deal with her friends death?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-help-my-wife-deal-with-her-friends-death/688554)
**Author:** [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-help-my-wife-deal-with-her-friends-death/688554 "2014-05-16T12:46:04Z")
Things have not been fun at Beitz Stately Manor. A little over a month ago my wifes best friend Tonya died suddenly. No bad health, not overweight, not a smoker or drinker, no previous symptoms. Was walking into her ki… --- ## [I join the Mafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-join-the-mafia/688522)
**Author:** [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-join-the-mafia/688522 "2014-05-16T03:53:45Z")
The Analog Mafia, that is. My story, “Ulenge Prime,” has just been accepted by Analog Science Fiction, the oldest continuously published science fiction magazine. As its Wikipedia entry says, it “is perhaps the most in… --- ## [Happier with less "stuff"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happier-with-less-stuff/688521)
**Author:** [@Whitney\_Harper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whitney_Harper)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happier-with-less-stuff/688521 "2014-05-16T02:12:47Z")
Several months ago when I was moving, I decided not to buy any unnecessary items, for about three of four months before I moved, because I’d have more things to move. To my surprise, I have found that there is a sense o… --- ## [Amazing Tribute Video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-tribute-video/688413)
**Author:** [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 16, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-tribute-video/688413 "2014-05-16T00:47:06Z")
A couple I am friends with have two young children. The eldest (age 7) is now a five-year cancer survivor. Normally, on the anniversary of the diagnosis, my friend makes movie-style posters starring his son. This year, h… --- ## [Nice Google home page today (16 May) for Maria Agnesi's 296th birthday](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-google-home-page-today-16-may-for-maria-agnesis-296th-birthday/688556)
**Author:** [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-google-home-page-today-16-may-for-maria-agnesis-296th-birthday/688556 "2014-05-15T23:56:41Z")
The doodle is rather a mesmerising one constructing the famous curve named for her, the Witch of Agnesi. --- ## [Gen con scouts - Yamie Chess children's tournament](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-scouts-yamie-chess-childrens-tournament/688504)
**Author:** [@bambifighter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bambifighter)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gen-con-scouts-yamie-chess-childrens-tournament/688504 "2014-05-15T21:26:48Z")
Gen Con (the large gaming convention) is trying to find enough kids to take part in a children’s chess simul tournament with US chess champ Jennifer Shahade for Yamie Chess: https://www.yamiechess.com/jennifer-shahade-ch… --- ## ["Over the door" X means giving up your door. Fail.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-the-door-x-means-giving-up-your-door-fail/688039)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-the-door-x-means-giving-up-your-door-fail/688039 "2014-05-15T20:55:45Z")
Anytime any tool needs to be hung on a door in order to function, the door will no longer close, effectively breaking its essential doorness. Since doors are generally better, more useful things than things made to hang… --- ## [How fast can you double-click?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-double-click/688203)
**Author:** [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-can-you-double-click/688203 "2014-05-15T19:58:17Z")
Try this stopwatch link: . . . and see what is your fastest double-click time. It took me several tries to get down to 0.124. Using the fingers of two hands, sequentially, I could get 0.049. --- ## [Your resemblance to your same sex parent at your current age.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-resemblance-to-your-same-sex-parent-at-your-current-age/688195 "2014-05-15T17:54:34Z")
Do you at your current age resemble your same sex parent when they were the same age? Are you ordinarily considered to take after said parent? Me: Male, 29. Yes. No Looking at the picture, my complexion is lighter, he… --- ## [Cat attacks dg in childs defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-attacks-dg-in-childs-defense/688520)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-attacks-dg-in-childs-defense/688520 "2014-05-15T13:23:20Z")
This has to be the coolest video I have ever seen. It also helps to debunk the myth that cats will not defend their owners. I predict this will become one of the most watched videos of all time. --- ## [Do you smell that?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-smell-that/688401)
**Author:** [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-smell-that/688401 "2014-05-15T13:18:09Z")
Another thread about sensitivity to smells triggered me to do this one to see if anyone else here has this… I have Phantosmia. Phantom smells, olfactory hallucinations. There’s a strong odor I smell that no one else d… --- ## [I want to go on an adventure!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-go-on-an-adventure/688244)
**Author:** [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-go-on-an-adventure/688244 "2014-05-15T13:08:25Z")
Well… I just turned 25. That is a quarter of a century. My only adventures involved getting stuck on some places, drinking way too much and ending up in a park bench at 5 am on the middle of the night, some cave explori… --- ## [Rule 34: Cows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rule-34-cows/682169)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 170\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rule-34-cows/682169 "2014-05-15T11:48:51Z")
Suspicious Farmer Busts Alleged Cow Porn Ring So… They were making moovies? --- ## [4 years ago I lost my big brother.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-years-ago-i-lost-my-big-brother/688402)
**Author:** [@Artemis\_Tardis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Artemis_Tardis)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-years-ago-i-lost-my-big-brother/688402 "2014-05-15T10:05:41Z")
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/9032\_149525993208\_2344404\_n.jpg He is the guy on the bottom left. My brother was 14 years older than me. He lived in Rotterdam, working for IBM, and later f… --- ## [One is the loneliest number](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/688382)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/688382 "2014-05-15T01:34:33Z")
Usually Anna’s hatch two eggs. Mama only got one this year, and it’s almost ready to fly: --- ## [Feeling a bit down (teaching)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-a-bit-down-teaching/688317)
**Author:** [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 15, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-a-bit-down-teaching/688317 "2014-05-15T01:02:35Z")
I’m feeling a bit bad lately. I’ve been in a teaching job for about five months. At best I can say it’s gone okay. I feel bad because the job is about to end, and I don’t feel I’ve left the best impression…yet at the sam… --- ## [Commuter Bus Rolls Downhill, Topples Over](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commuter-bus-rolls-downhill-topples-over/688365)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commuter-bus-rolls-downhill-topples-over/688365 "2014-05-14T20:05:01Z")
Passengers were disembarked when the driver realised he or she would have trouble climbing the hill. Took a little over four hours to right the bus and tow it out. I’d have likely been on that bus had I not been reassig… --- ## [Nothing ever happens here. Well, except for the Boulder](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-ever-happens-here-well-except-for-the-boulder/688113)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-ever-happens-here-well-except-for-the-boulder/688113 "2014-05-14T20:03:08Z")
I miss all the Good Stuff in town. This happened about a mile from my house. http://www.whdh.com/story/25478136/video-boulder-stops-inches-from-saugus-church They’ve been doing construction behind this church along the… --- ## [Another thread about Cliven Bundy.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-about-cliven-bundy/686845)
**Author:** [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-thread-about-cliven-bundy/686845 "2014-05-14T19:35:12Z")
His father bought the Bunkerville ranch in 1948; they began renting BLM land in 1954. This is the first I read about that. What a bullshitter, and his militia of weenies too. --- ## [What's the cyclic for again?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-cyclic-for-again/688399)
**Author:** [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-cyclic-for-again/688399 "2014-05-14T19:18:09Z")
Some fun near-disasters in aircraft that are \*\*\*supposed \*\*\*to be controlled by intelligent people… --- ## [A Rabbit Races a Deer....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rabbit-races-a-deer/688400)
**Author:** [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rabbit-races-a-deer/688400 "2014-05-14T16:23:18Z")
This was just too perfect for words… Let me set the scene, about 5 minutes ago, on a two lane back road heading towards home. Car; 2007 VW Rabbit (2.5L five cylinder , 150 HP, 175 TQ) 2 door manual. Tunes; the theme … --- ## [Have you ever saved the life of another person?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-saved-the-life-of-another-person/687895)
**Author:** [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-saved-the-life-of-another-person/687895 "2014-05-14T08:59:42Z")
Share! --- ## [Baltimore TV Station Visited by "God", Nearby School On Lockdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baltimore-tv-station-visited-by-god-nearby-school-on-lockdown/688368)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baltimore-tv-station-visited-by-god-nearby-school-on-lockdown/688368 "2014-05-14T06:42:57Z")
A possibly armed man reportedly claiming to be God drove a landscaping truck into WMAR, Baltimore’s ABC affiliate, in Towson. --- ## [Socially acceptable ways of talking about below average looks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socially-acceptable-ways-of-talking-about-below-average-looks/688178)
**Author:** [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/socially-acceptable-ways-of-talking-about-below-average-looks/688178 "2014-05-14T06:21:48Z")
What do you think about this photo? Perhaps if you can’t say anything good it is better not to say anything at all? What if this woman was attracted to you - what would you think? --- ## [My vision got \*better\* ??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vision-got-better/687293)
**Author:** [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-vision-got-better/687293 "2014-05-14T04:06:53Z")
My vision had been troubling me lately, so I had a visit to the optometrist the other day. I was surprised by the results: my eyeglass prescription was out of whack because my vision had improved. Wait, what? The optome… --- ## [Reggie the 3-legged cat joins our household](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-the-3-legged-cat-joins-our-household/688272)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reggie-the-3-legged-cat-joins-our-household/688272 "2014-05-14T02:48:55Z")
We have taken in a rescue cat that was tortured by local kids in our neighborhood - his tail was burned off and his leg so badly damaged that it had to be amputated. The school Animal Welfare Club, of which my son is an … --- ## [So, I deactivated my Facebook account today.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-deactivated-my-facebook-account-today/688279)
**Author:** [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [May 14, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-deactivated-my-facebook-account-today/688279 "2014-05-14T02:43:24Z")
Depending on your own lifestyle and age, you may now be thinking any of the following: \[ol\] \[li\] “So what, I myself could take it or leave it anytime.”\[/li\]\[li\] “Why is this worth making a thread over? I’ve don’t even … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=848) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=850)