# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=855 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 856 --- ## [Becoming more fun.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becoming-more-fun/687162)
**Author:** [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/becoming-more-fun/687162 "2014-04-28T13:33:50Z")
Just to begin a disclaimer. I usually only post on the dope these days as sort of an interactive journal to the changes I make in my life. Please know what you read is always a snapshot of a moment in time that barely en… --- ## [UKIP, British anti-immigration party inadvertently uses immigrant in controversial poster campaign.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ukip-british-anti-immigration-party-inadvertently-uses-immigrant-in-controversial-poster-campaign/686956)
**Author:** [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ukip-british-anti-immigration-party-inadvertently-uses-immigrant-in-controversial-poster-campaign/686956 "2014-04-28T05:58:29Z")
Take a look at the ad in the linked article. I’m laughing to myself over it. --- ## [How I Express My Inner Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-express-my-inner-child/687161)
**Author:** [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-express-my-inner-child/687161 "2014-04-28T03:53:55Z")
…or, “My Week At Work at Penetrex”. Monday: At work. All is well. Phone rings. Answer phone. Situation unfolds. Follow Official Penetrex Policy regarding “How To Handle This Situation”. Situation handled, customer happy… --- ## [Live from Raleigh, It's The MMP!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 286\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/686594 "2014-04-28T03:17:12Z")
I’m up and caffeinated. I’m off at noon today, so I’m gonna \[del\]pour lava and boiling acid on\[/del\]give Gordie a bath(he acts like it’s the same thing). Have at it, y’all! --- ## [What am I getting into with this job?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-getting-into-with-this-job/687099)
**Author:** [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-getting-into-with-this-job/687099 "2014-04-27T23:04:57Z")
Monday I start training for a temp to perm position I got. I don’t really want it, but it’s the only job offer I received and you get cut off from unemployment if you turn down a job offer. I’m told the job is calling … --- ## [Long Distance photo of New York from 1950s proves the Earth curves up.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-distance-photo-of-new-york-from-1950s-proves-the-earth-curves-up/685930)
**Author:** [@karol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karol)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-distance-photo-of-new-york-from-1950s-proves-the-earth-curves-up/685930 "2014-04-27T18:01:34Z")
better quality photo: http://www.rolf-keppler.de/straubefh2.jpg The photo shown is taken from the “Foto-Magazin” No. 11/1954 which shows the horizon to be an optical illusion. Dr. Fritz Neugass comments, quote: “A ne… --- ## [Question for the ladies - work and gender](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-the-ladies-work-and-gender/686599)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-the-ladies-work-and-gender/686599 "2014-04-27T17:56:00Z")
Ladies, If you had a choice would you work at a place where; Its almost all men and your the only female? It’s a workforce thats fairly mixed. Its a all or nearly all women’s workplace. --- ## [One minor cell phone cultural effect I never realized...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-minor-cell-phone-cultural-effect-i-never-realized/686918)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-minor-cell-phone-cultural-effect-i-never-realized/686918 "2014-04-27T16:15:39Z")
It seems to me that it’s allowing more of a standardization of time, down to the minute, than ever before. I mean, I know about GMT and the atomic clock and “at the sound of the tone, the time will be” stuff, but it was… --- ## [After fracking blast, Chevron offers residents free pizza. WTF!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-fracking-blast-chevron-offers-residents-free-pizza-wtf/687101)
**Author:** [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-fracking-blast-chevron-offers-residents-free-pizza-wtf/687101 "2014-04-27T13:12:24Z")
After fracking blast, Chevron offers residents free pizza. WTF! “In an emailed statement, Chevron said the company wanted to offer a token of appreciation to the community.” Free pizza? :dubious: --- ## [How many of you have advanced degrees, and...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-have-advanced-degrees-and/686768)
**Author:** [@LinusK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinusK)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-have-advanced-degrees-and/686768 "2014-04-27T12:37:58Z")
What was your experience? Mine’s a JD. Went to UT Law. It was boring, and cost about 80k, not including interest. It did virtually nothing in terms of preparing me to practice law. What was your experience? --- ## [Looks like we have a budding serial killer in Yonkers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-we-have-a-budding-serial-killer-in-yonkers/686955)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-we-have-a-budding-serial-killer-in-yonkers/686955 "2014-04-27T03:34:55Z")
Or just someone that is seriously deranged. Somebody has been hanging dead cats in bags from a tree like Christmas tree ornaments. This has bad juju written all over it. --- ## [Woman kills teenager with her SUV then sues family for 1.35 million](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-kills-teenager-with-her-suv-then-sues-family-for-1-35-million/687083)
**Author:** [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-kills-teenager-with-her-suv-then-sues-family-for-1-35-million/687083 "2014-04-27T02:10:02Z")
This is a very bizarre news story. A 42 year old woman (wife of a police officer) was driving her SUV when she struck and killed a teenager who was one of three riding their bicycles. She is now suing the boys family… --- ## [Another good reason not to get a tattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-good-reason-not-to-get-a-tattoo/686823)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-good-reason-not-to-get-a-tattoo/686823 "2014-04-27T01:59:04Z")
Because a jury might be more likely to convict you of murder. A Great Bend, KS man who goes on trial next week for murder would like to have his giant neck tattoo of the word “MURDER” removed before the trial. Ya thin… --- ## [A great evening of star-gazing: 3 planets, first magnitude stars galore and the Milky Way](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-great-evening-of-star-gazing-3-planets-first-magnitude-stars-galore-and-the-milky-way/686863)
**Author:** [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 27, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-great-evening-of-star-gazing-3-planets-first-magnitude-stars-galore-and-the-milky-way/686863 "2014-04-27T00:35:23Z")
I’m out in country NSW and the local astronomy group had one of its regular evenings tonight. In very balmy autumn temperatures and under a lovely clear sky we spent several hours dining al fresco and star/planet spottin… --- ## [Some supermodels have a very narrow sense of acceptable, date-able, manhood. Brooklyn Decker, Andy.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-supermodels-have-a-very-narrow-sense-of-acceptable-date-able-manhood-brooklyn-decker-andy/687022)
**Author:** [@kstarnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kstarnes)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-supermodels-have-a-very-narrow-sense-of-acceptable-date-able-manhood-brooklyn-decker-andy/687022 "2014-04-26T22:47:48Z")
The supermodel Brooklyn Decker was on Jay Leno some months relaying the story about how she came to date tennis star Andy Roddick. It’s a nice sweet story, you can tell that she’s a quality woman from a nice family well … --- ## [The Child Fund commercials - are the kids actors, or are they real?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-child-fund-commercials-are-the-kids-actors-or-are-they-real/542693)
**Author:** [@DivineComedienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DivineComedienne)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-child-fund-commercials-are-the-kids-actors-or-are-they-real/542693 "2014-04-26T18:08:46Z")
Mods, feel free to move this thread if it’s in the wrong place. This morning while I was dressing, a commercial for Child Fund came on (formerly Christian Children’s Fund). It shows a bearded guy in a dirty alley, talk… --- ## [Hillary's jacket](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-jacket/686862)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillarys-jacket/686862 "2014-04-26T17:55:13Z")
This news article floated through my feed, the sort of thing I’d normally ignore had the accompanying photos not caught my eye. Is it just me, or would Clinton have to go a long, long ways in distance and time to find a… --- ## [Did you accept you were going to be single forever? Were you right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-accept-you-were-going-to-be-single-forever-were-you-right/488108)
**Author:** [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Replies:** 128\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-accept-you-were-going-to-be-single-forever-were-you-right/488108 "2014-04-26T17:10:21Z")
So far, I mean. I’m 31. I’ve had two relationships; one lasted two years, the other about a year and a half. Not so much as a date since 2002. Occasionally there are girls with whom I seem to share a connection, but … --- ## [If You Know How to Develop Smartphone Apps, Here's a Million-Dollar Idea (for free)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-how-to-develop-smartphone-apps-heres-a-million-dollar-idea-for-free/687055)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-how-to-develop-smartphone-apps-heres-a-million-dollar-idea-for-free/687055 "2014-04-26T15:07:24Z")
I don’t know how to develop smartphone apps. I don’t know anyone who does. Surely, someone on these boards does. Well, get on the phone with your financial advisor, because I’m about to show you how to make a million dol… --- ## [What do you have in your paranormal defense kit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-in-your-paranormal-defense-kit/470978)
**Author:** [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-have-in-your-paranormal-defense-kit/470978 "2014-04-26T15:01:01Z")
Inspired by this \[thread=490532\]thread\[/thread\], I started to wonder about paranormal home defense. I have a kukri, the preferred anti-zombie hand weapon of both Alice and T. Slothrop. I suspect it would also be of valu… --- ## [Dad finds out he's going to be a Grandpa. Love it.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-finds-out-hes-going-to-be-a-grandpa-love-it/686980)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-finds-out-hes-going-to-be-a-grandpa-love-it/686980 "2014-04-26T06:07:50Z")
His wife died 20 years ago and he’s been asking for grandkids since the wedding. His reaction is great. The Reveal To Grandpa --- ## [All Hail the Mighty Sarlacc!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-the-mighty-sarlacc/686965)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-hail-the-mighty-sarlacc/686965 "2014-04-26T03:43:20Z")
Normally ate when people just post a link and don’t explain, but I’d ruin this one if I did. Suffice it to say that it’s extremely geeky, and I expect to see it at some upcoming con. --- ## [Experience 10,000 things or enjoy a few things 10,000 times](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-10-000-things-or-enjoy-a-few-things-10-000-times/686964)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-10-000-things-or-enjoy-a-few-things-10-000-times/686964 "2014-04-26T00:47:04Z")
Who gets the most out of life, someone who experiences as many different things as possible or someone who experiences only a few things but seems to get more out of the same experience each time. I tend to fall into the… --- ## [Woman caught on camera stealing toy from baby's grave.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-caught-on-camera-stealing-toy-from-babys-grave/686831)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-caught-on-camera-stealing-toy-from-babys-grave/686831 "2014-04-25T23:50:21Z")
I hope these photos leads to her arrest. Why would anyone do this? You could buy that rubber duck at Walmart for less than $7. Stealing from a kids grave on Easter? For that? :dubious: That’s just pathetic. --- ## [Anti-evolutionary disbelief (“I’m not descended from monkeys.”)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-evolutionary-disbelief-i-m-not-descended-from-monkeys/686716)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-evolutionary-disbelief-i-m-not-descended-from-monkeys/686716 "2014-04-25T22:40:28Z")
Ever since Darwin, enemies of evolution have been protesting that they’re “not descended from monkeys.” Ok, Darwin in fact said that we and monkeys had a common ancestor. Be that as it may, why are these people still hun… --- ## [Isn't there a quick way to mute & 'unmute' my computer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-there-a-quick-way-to-mute-unmute-my-computer/686973)
**Author:** [@MizQuirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizQuirk)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-there-a-quick-way-to-mute-unmute-my-computer/686973 "2014-04-25T21:41:31Z")
Seems to me I’ve run into this before – a little toggle icon bugger that got clicked on by accident and turned off my sound. Now it’s happened again. It seems all the wires are connected properly, and it was playing mu… --- ## [There are two types of people...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-types-of-people/685909)
**Author:** [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-are-two-types-of-people/685909 "2014-04-25T21:30:35Z")
It seems certain types of consumer goods seem to be (or have been) dominated by two competing brands, to the virtual exclusion of others. If this were Facebook, I could tell you which Game of Thrones character you should… --- ## [Oh, crap, you have breast cancer! Oh, wait, no, I mean, you have a TATTOO...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-you-have-breast-cancer-oh-wait-no-i-mean-you-have-a-tattoo/686825)
**Author:** [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-you-have-breast-cancer-oh-wait-no-i-mean-you-have-a-tattoo/686825 "2014-04-25T20:40:52Z")
That was rather terrifying. Not myself, but a good friend, had her first mammogram and Something Showed Up. A rather large Something, that was fairly unambiguously a mass, half an inch in diameter, in a lymph node in he… --- ## [Kiloton asteroid strikes more frequent than we thought](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiloton-asteroid-strikes-more-frequent-than-we-thought/686759)
**Author:** [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiloton-asteroid-strikes-more-frequent-than-we-thought/686759 "2014-04-25T18:48:13Z")
Watch the skies… Not entirely new, but an organization called the B612 Foundation has been getting significant press in the past few days based on a visualization it has made of asteroid hits on earth, gleaned from nucl… --- ## [Are mattress springs "compressed" forever?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-mattress-springs-compressed-forever/686931)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-mattress-springs-compressed-forever/686931 "2014-04-25T16:51:20Z")
So I have two mattresses (regular inner spring) at home: one for my bed and one as a futon on a couch/foldable bed frame. I know you’re supposed to turn them regularly to even the wear, but I forget, especially with the… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=854) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=856)