# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=852 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 853 --- ## [UKIP 'Common Sense Tour' bus crashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ukip-common-sense-tour-bus-crashes/687203)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ukip-common-sense-tour-bus-crashes/687203 "2014-05-08T09:55:23Z")
This happened right next to where I work today - the UK \[del\]Xenophobic\[/del\]Independence Party ‘Common Sense Tour’ bus crashed into the parapet of the train station in Portsmouth (as it was performing a U turn to avoid … --- ## [Help me get over a video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-over-a-video/687770)
**Author:** [@Blue\_V](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_V)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-get-over-a-video/687770 "2014-05-08T09:13:09Z")
Hi all, it was rather unfortunate that I tuned into discovery channel some days ago. Here is the nasty bit, it was all over in about 10 seconds, before I could even say “change, change, its going to be nasty!”. A man is … --- ## [A modest little quake](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-little-quake/687956)
**Author:** [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-modest-little-quake/687956 "2014-05-08T07:14:52Z")
Just had a modest, unpretentious quake at 11:40 this evening from the South gate/Downey area. 3.3 on the Richter. Felt here in Carson as a Thoomp! --- ## [Have you crossed any unusual state or national borders?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-crossed-any-unusual-state-or-national-borders/687811)
**Author:** [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-crossed-any-unusual-state-or-national-borders/687811 "2014-05-08T03:57:23Z")
Recently, while gazing at a map of the United States, I began to ponder which two adjacent states get the least cross-border traffic. For example, Missouri and Kentucky share a Mississippi River border, but there don’t … --- ## [Singapore Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singapore-vacation/659161)
**Author:** [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singapore-vacation/659161 "2014-05-08T03:25:27Z")
It’s that time again. My wife and I have started to plan for our next adventure. Last vacation destination was Hawaii. It was great. And being able to get by speaking English or Japanese was amazing. If we could move to… --- ## [Clever SPCA advertising posters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-spca-advertising-posters/687835)
**Author:** [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clever-spca-advertising-posters/687835 "2014-05-08T02:30:59Z")
It’s election day tomorrow in South Africa, and the SPCA has come up with a nifty way to capitalize on the profusion of election posters. It makes me a little less annoyed at all the smiley cardboard faces that have been… --- ## [UFO-shaped home for sale](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-shaped-home-for-sale/687936)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ufo-shaped-home-for-sale/687936 "2014-05-08T01:34:38Z")
Needs a lot of rehab though but 1 of only 20 in US & 1/96 total built. I like the photo on the mountain top; think how you could freak the hikers out! :smiley: on ebay --- ## [Internetman](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internetman/687888)
**Author:** [@JimNightshade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimNightshade)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internetman/687888 "2014-05-08T01:08:49Z")
…can’t spell. He claims to be a Web Progrmming expert. http://www.internetman.com/ --- ## [More Blatant Oppression of Christians](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-blatant-oppression-of-christians/687568)
**Author:** [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-blatant-oppression-of-christians/687568 "2014-05-08T00:42:15Z")
Over the last few months, you may have read stories about wedding photographers or cake makers not wanting to accept gay couples as clients. In some cases they were sued, so Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant took steps… --- ## [Firefighting air tanker question.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefighting-air-tanker-question/687627)
**Author:** [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefighting-air-tanker-question/687627 "2014-05-07T23:59:20Z")
Air Tanker Fleet Incomplete. What types of aircraft are required? What does it take to maintain these aircraft on a yearly basis? Tell me about pilots and maintenance crews in addition to their support logistics with reg… --- ## [Landlord notifies prospective tenants of property surveillance and monitoring of fluids](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landlord-notifies-prospective-tenants-of-property-surveillance-and-monitoring-of-fluids/687733)
**Author:** [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/landlord-notifies-prospective-tenants-of-property-surveillance-and-monitoring-of-fluids/687733 "2014-05-07T20:13:38Z")
In anticipation of renting out an apartment i was scrolling through the local craigslist ads in the area. So from a local landlord’s ad there was a link to his website with pictures and info. His apartments are in need… --- ## ["Hello My Big Big Honey!" Co-Author Missing in Cambodia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-big-big-honey-co-author-missing-in-cambodia/681769)
**Author:** [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-my-big-big-honey-co-author-missing-in-cambodia/681769 "2014-05-07T14:37:11Z")
Dave Walker, Canadian co-author of Hello My Big Big Honey!: Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews, has gone missing in Cambodia. I know there are some fans of this very interesting book on the … --- ## [Question for non-Americans. Car question.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-car-question/687621)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [May 7, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-non-americans-car-question/687621 "2014-05-07T09:08:56Z")
In trhe front of a car you have 2 seats. The driver and the passenger. In the US we often call the passenger seat “shotgun”. What do you call it? BTW, why do we call it “shotgun”? It was a term used in the 1800’s for … --- ## [Local(-ish) gun store shut down](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-ish-gun-store-shut-down/687585)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-ish-gun-store-shut-down/687585 "2014-05-06T19:29:51Z")
Kesselring’s was not exactly local, but compared to how much driving I do every week it was relatively close. I found out the other day that Kesselring’s gun store has been shut down by the Feds. It was a neat place, a… --- ## [Target Fiasco](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/target-fiasco/678450)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/target-fiasco/678450 "2014-05-06T16:00:13Z")
The latest numbers released by Target would seem to indicate that 23% of all Americans made at least one purchase at one of their stores during that three week period. This doesn’t take into account people who paid cash… --- ## [Healthcare in the USA sucks if you're poor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthcare-in-the-usa-sucks-if-youre-poor/687694)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/healthcare-in-the-usa-sucks-if-youre-poor/687694 "2014-05-06T15:08:02Z")
Yea yea anecdotes,if you want double blind studies and statistics go to GD. My mom has metastasizing cancer, she is scheduled to have a 12 hour surgery and have a ostomy and urostomy installed. She was at the point she … --- ## [Anyone else have "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" eternal earworm because of those Boko Haram assholes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-whiter-shade-of-pale-eternal-earworm-because-of-those-boko-haram-assholes/687727)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-whiter-shade-of-pale-eternal-earworm-because-of-those-boko-haram-assholes/687727 "2014-05-06T15:07:35Z")
Not to make light of a horrible situation, but every headline I see mentioning those evil pricks starts the church organ going in my head. --- ## [Cashiers unwilling to say $6.66](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966)
**Author:** [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966 "2014-05-06T12:52:35Z")
Over the past few months, I have done A LOT of travel, both for business and personal reasons. I’ve unfortunately had to have a number of meals at fast food joints, or fast casual restaurants. I am a creature of habit… --- ## [World Whisky Day is coming !!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-whisky-day-is-coming/687804)
**Author:** [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-whisky-day-is-coming/687804 "2014-05-06T12:29:23Z")
For those of you that enjoy a good single malt the Second Annual World Whisky Day is but 10 days away. A colleague of mine from Aberdeen alerted me of this monumental day so a group of us are meeting at an as yet undeter… --- ## [Do you give "dead fish" handshakes? Why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-give-dead-fish-handshakes-why/261189)
**Author:** [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-give-dead-fish-handshakes-why/261189 "2014-05-06T09:48:17Z")
Too many people do this for not one of them to be on these boards. So fess up. Admit it. Why do you do it? --- ## [India decalred polio free](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-decalred-polio-free/684714)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-decalred-polio-free/684714 "2014-05-06T09:36:26Z")
Three years without a case. This leaves Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria Last year I participated in a local bicycle ride where the proceeds when to polio elimination (via Rotary International), so I feel I can tak… --- ## [I hate my mother](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-mother/683793)
**Author:** [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-my-mother/683793 "2014-05-06T05:25:35Z")
I don’t think I could even describe how manipulative, emotionally abusive, seriously mentally ill, embarrassing, hateful, , delusional and selfish she is even if I typed a mile long post so I won’t. I’m three thousand m… --- ## [BASIC Programming Language: 50 Year Anniversary](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basic-programming-language-50-year-anniversary/687726)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basic-programming-language-50-year-anniversary/687726 "2014-05-06T03:40:01Z")
No one seemed to remember the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language: And I expect no one remembers (according to what I have read) that one of the beauties of BASIC was that you could run programs immedia… --- ## [The Broken Heart Diet](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-broken-heart-diet/687747)
**Author:** [@Nikki\_Tikki\_Tavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikki_Tikki_Tavi)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 6, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-broken-heart-diet/687747 "2014-05-06T02:10:06Z")
I have found the perfect balance between nausea and appetite. My stomach grumbles to remind me to eat, but eating makes me feel sick so I’m putting down the bare minimum so that when puking happens it’s not a bellyful. I… --- ## [FedEx worker goes postal? 6 people hospitalized after shooting at FedEx warehouse; suspect dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fedex-worker-goes-postal-6-people-hospitalized-after-shooting-at-fedex-warehouse-suspect-dead/687273)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fedex-worker-goes-postal-6-people-hospitalized-after-shooting-at-fedex-warehouse-suspect-dead/687273 "2014-05-05T19:52:05Z")
\[The shooting, which was reported at 5:54 a.m., happened at the FedEx located on Grist Lake Road in Kennesaw. Six people were taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital. Their conditions range from minor to those in surgery.… --- ## [Doctors implant lab-grown vagina](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctors-implant-lab-grown-vagina/685892)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctors-implant-lab-grown-vagina/685892 "2014-05-05T18:42:24Z")
I checked for multiple cites before posting this incredible story. All jokes aside, the progress of stem cell research is amazing. I’m looking forward to the day when amputees will be unknown in society. I think it will … --- ## [The sure sign of Spring MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sure-sign-of-spring-mmp/687175)
**Author:** [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Replies:** 326\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2014, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sure-sign-of-spring-mmp/687175 "2014-05-05T08:40:00Z")
Hijacked before this week’s MMP ever started. I had yet another sure sign of Spring this morning: my first tick of the season. I probably picked it up fishing yesterday, but I won’t rule out Saturday’s yard work session… --- ## [Just discovered a long-lost short story!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-discovered-a-long-lost-short-story/687684)
**Author:** [@FasterThanMeerkats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FasterThanMeerkats)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-discovered-a-long-lost-short-story/687684 "2014-05-05T02:11:47Z")
So when I was a kid in middle school we read a short story about a would-be hero who think he’s found a villain-in-hiding and can defeat him because the hero knows the villain’s true name. Turns out the villain is a dra… --- ## [Hamsters eating tiny burritos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamsters-eating-tiny-burritos/687389)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamsters-eating-tiny-burritos/687389 "2014-05-05T01:17:34Z")
They said it couldn’t be done. They were wrong. --- ## [I finished the Tough Mudder!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finished-the-tough-mudder/687202)
**Author:** [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finished-the-tough-mudder/687202 "2014-05-05T00:44:31Z")
Tough Mudder Atlanta was this past weekend - 10.6 miles, 19 obstacles, lots of mud, and 3000 of your closest friends. Thanks to everyone that gave meadvice in my last thread- even those of you that told me not to even tr… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=851) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=853)