# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=996 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 997 --- ## [The Truth About What Causes Homosexuality](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657)
**Author:** [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-truth-about-what-causes-homosexuality/654657 "2013-04-03T23:25:59Z")
You probably suspected this already - but the causative factor is…vaccination. I’d be tempted to dismiss the article as an April Fool’s joke, but the source is Italy (where cellphones have already been officially deemed… --- ## [Another terrorist put down tonight - an obituary](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-terrorist-put-down-tonight-an-obituary/654693)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-terrorist-put-down-tonight-an-obituary/654693 "2013-04-03T22:59:19Z")
Another terrorist was put down tonight. We won’t know with this one if it’s a case of nature vs. nurture because he had a very hard early life. He was quite obviously beaten as a young’un; then he was abandoned, litera… --- ## [Does your family have any Easter Traditions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-family-have-any-easter-traditions/654435)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-family-have-any-easter-traditions/654435 "2013-04-03T20:53:23Z")
When we lived in New England it was common to leave a carrot out for the Easter bunny. I always left it on the back porch and it was gone the next morning. Sneaky bunny got it. :stuck\_out\_tongue: Any traditions in you… --- ## [Screaming baby eagles!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-baby-eagles/654747)
**Author:** [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screaming-baby-eagles/654747 "2013-04-03T19:29:50Z")
For the last couple of weeks I have been hearing loud raptor calls around the house. “Eeeek, or Eeeep”. Very loud. I have seen adult Bald Eagles flying through the yard and a week ago I saw one swoop into the neighborin… --- ## [Google does April 1st.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-does-april-1st/654539)
**Author:** [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-does-april-1st/654539 "2013-04-03T19:01:06Z")
Introducing Google Nose. --- ## [Yep, Livin' That Single Life...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yep-livin-that-single-life/654290)
**Author:** [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yep-livin-that-single-life/654290 "2013-04-03T18:44:20Z")
Nothing better, huh? Being all single, unhitched and completely non-married? Yeah, gotta love it. Whoop…hold that thought, back in a few… --- ## [Google Street View does Fukushima](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-street-view-does-fukushima/654629)
**Author:** [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-street-view-does-fukushima/654629 "2013-04-03T18:09:09Z")
\[This is pretty interesting. Google Street View has recently added imagery of the areas close to Fukushima power plant that were evacuated, and are still deserted two years after the earthquake. \[url=Google Maps\]Fishing… --- ## [Euphemisms and terms that are confusing in context](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-and-terms-that-are-confusing-in-context/654684)
**Author:** [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-and-terms-that-are-confusing-in-context/654684 "2013-04-03T17:02:08Z")
My friend on Facebook was lamenting how another student she knew “passed”. As how he wasn’t always the nicest, but she felt bad for him. Why is she acting like him passing a class is something to feel bad for hi… oh, he … --- ## [presenting A Vandal's History of Everything](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presenting-a-vandals-history-of-everything/654726)
**Author:** [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presenting-a-vandals-history-of-everything/654726 "2013-04-03T16:37:25Z")
I have a little side project which might mesh well with some Dopers’ appreciation of absurdity. We’re all familiar with Wikipedia, and how its greatest strength is also its greatest weakness - anybody can edit it. Whil… --- ## [Happy birthday, Viagra!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-viagra/654171)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-viagra/654171 "2013-04-03T14:35:58Z")
I’m actually a little late. I meant to start this thread yesterday, but it was too hard. --- ## [What do you think of these photos?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-these-photos/654243)
**Author:** [@supery00n](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supery00n)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-these-photos/654243 "2013-04-03T11:17:06Z")
I’m somewhat interested in the Atlantis myth and I’ve read quite extensively about it. The photos in the link are screenshots of a place in the Caribbean seafloor, 14600 ft below sea level, and were taken by me. Atlanti… --- ## [So that happened... \[I won a writing award\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-happened-i-won-a-writing-award/654596)
**Author:** [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-that-happened-i-won-a-writing-award/654596 "2013-04-03T04:54:54Z")
I won a writing award the other day! I am so ridiculously pleased, you have no idea. I re-entered collegiate life last year, at the ripe old age of 37. My english teacher suggested a few weeks ago that some of my writin… --- ## [Have you ever revealed your real life identity here in your posts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-revealed-your-real-life-identity-here-in-your-posts/653624)
**Author:** [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-revealed-your-real-life-identity-here-in-your-posts/653624 "2013-04-03T04:49:38Z")
Seems real life identity has come up a few times in the past few months. \[ul\] \[li\]There was a Pit Thread in which one poster made a game of collecting clues from the Pitee’s posting history building up to a phone call … --- ## [I got hit by a car on my bike today!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-hit-by-a-car-on-my-bike-today/654079)
**Author:** [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-hit-by-a-car-on-my-bike-today/654079 "2013-04-03T02:42:18Z")
What the car was doing on my bike, I’ll never know. rimshot Well, I suppose I should be glad I’m posting this in MPSIMS of all places. I work in downtown Seattle and live in the suburbs; and today was the first day this… --- ## [Netflix's April Fools joke?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-april-fools-joke/654588)
**Author:** [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-april-fools-joke/654588 "2013-04-03T01:43:18Z")
It’s just gotta be. There is now a category on my streaming home page called Movies Starring Estelle Getty and Some Other Guy. And there’s that horizontal scrolling roll of film boxes underneath, and every single film … --- ## [neighbors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors/654510)
**Author:** [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbors/654510 "2013-04-02T22:54:46Z")
I was just wondering how most dopers feel about neighbors. I am not all that into neighbors. I say hi and hope they want no further conversation. Yesterday I got caught by a neighbor and he said he would like to have me… --- ## [Scooby Doo! Where are you!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scooby-doo-where-are-you/654360)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scooby-doo-where-are-you/654360 "2013-04-02T19:39:26Z")
A dear friend of mine just bought a big 150 year old house in a mountain town here in Colorado. It was last owned by a judge. It’s been empty for a few years. I’m taking some air mattresses and sleeping bags and am go… --- ## [Your cute/odd/woo relationship stories](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cute-odd-woo-relationship-stories/653794)
**Author:** [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cute-odd-woo-relationship-stories/653794 "2013-04-02T19:37:37Z")
I met MrTao online, about a decade ago. For 4 or 5 years, we knew each other through friends and in games we played online. We each had other relationships, and never did anything outside that. At some point we were bot… --- ## [I watched a man die last night (possibly TMI)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-man-die-last-night-possibly-tmi/654040)
**Author:** [@Kalea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalea)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-a-man-die-last-night-possibly-tmi/654040 "2013-04-02T19:31:15Z")
Neither mundane nor pointless to those involved, but I need to vent these emotions somewhere “safe”. My husband and I are staying on a little island off the coast of Belize. It has an airstrip, a small dock, and about … --- ## [Pay no attention to the Basketballs or you'll miss the Bicycle-Riding Gorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-no-attention-to-the-basketballs-or-youll-miss-the-bicycle-riding-gorilla/654572)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pay-no-attention-to-the-basketballs-or-youll-miss-the-bicycle-riding-gorilla/654572 "2013-04-02T18:38:21Z")
Saw this on I Can Haz Cheezburger. Ostensibly a Gorilla Riding a Bicyycle: Alas, if you watch the whole video it become very clear that it’s faked, using REALLY good gorilla suits and a not-yet-finished gorilla enclos… --- ## [The green label got me! (aka this just in, candy is still bad for you)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-label-got-me-aka-this-just-in-candy-is-still-bad-for-you/654429)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-green-label-got-me-aka-this-just-in-candy-is-still-bad-for-you/654429 "2013-04-02T16:28:18Z")
Yesterday on a checkout line as an impulse I grabbed a 3 Musketeers bar as a dessert/snack. When I got home and went to unwrap it I see the nutrition info on the bottom of the wrapper was listed large and in bright green… --- ## [Man, I'm worse at math than I thought...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-im-worse-at-math-than-i-thought/654367)
**Author:** [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-im-worse-at-math-than-i-thought/654367 "2013-04-02T14:49:27Z")
I’ve always known I suck at math. I can’t do simple addition and subtraction in my head without going through some convoluted process that always involves the number ten. But this morning I surprised even myself. My dad… --- ## [Macy's accidently marks down $1500 diamond necklace to $47!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macys-accidently-marks-down-1500-diamond-necklace-to-47/654498)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/macys-accidently-marks-down-1500-diamond-necklace-to-47/654498 "2013-04-02T08:31:14Z")
It was supposed to be marked down to $479, but somebody left off the 9. :smack: What I want to know is was the same mistake made in Macy’s POS, or did customers just show up waiving the catalogs? If it’s the latter w… --- ## [Notable people who lived into your lifetime](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-who-lived-into-your-lifetime/654492)
**Author:** [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-people-who-lived-into-your-lifetime/654492 "2013-04-02T05:31:44Z")
Can you think of any notable people who lived into your lifetime, but you were too young to appreciate who they were, or learned the fact years later? For me, it’s Salvador Dali. (I was born in 1978) --- ## [Achin' for the bacon - the bacon flavored condom has arrived!!!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achin-for-the-bacon-the-bacon-flavored-condom-has-arrived/654397)
**Author:** [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/achin-for-the-bacon-the-bacon-flavored-condom-has-arrived/654397 "2013-04-02T05:10:49Z")
My mind awash in allegory, metaphor and double entendre, I’ll just cut to the chase. More at sausage link. --- ## [The long and winding divorce.....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-and-winding-divorce/639510)
**Author:** [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Replies:** 279\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-and-winding-divorce/639510 "2013-04-02T05:05:37Z")
So anyway, tonight it’s official. My wife wants to leave and take the kids: 13 and 15 years old. We both knew this was looming. We’re both trying to be “adult” about it. We need to do things around the house to make … --- ## [So I just got off the phone with Samsung customer support...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-got-off-the-phone-with-samsung-customer-support/654457)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-got-off-the-phone-with-samsung-customer-support/654457 "2013-04-02T05:01:23Z")
…and the entire experiance was short, to the point, and surprisingly painless. I did have to 2 automated menus, but it didn’t take long to get to a live agent. Granted the first agent I spoke to was in the camera de… --- ## [Taking advantage of the poor, elderly, or ill-informed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-advantage-of-the-poor-elderly-or-ill-informed/654513)
**Author:** [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taking-advantage-of-the-poor-elderly-or-ill-informed/654513 "2013-04-02T04:40:21Z")
\*Warning: Long-winded author. \* Folks tell me, for reasons unknown to me, that I should write a book. I have on occasion given careful thought to the subject of such a book. I am just a dude, ordinary as hell, whose o… --- ## [Inappropriate laughter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-laughter/654265)
**Author:** [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inappropriate-laughter/654265 "2013-04-02T02:59:58Z")
My Grampa died when I was in my mid teens. We were pretty close. It was sudden and I missed him terribly. It was the first funeral I’d ever been to. I was sitting next to my father when, during a prayer, the place we… --- ## [Ever notice that dogs crash and sleep after eating?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-notice-that-dogs-crash-and-sleep-after-eating/654548)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 2, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-notice-that-dogs-crash-and-sleep-after-eating/654548 "2013-04-02T01:58:47Z")
You can almost set a watch by my dogs. They both want naps after eating. Usually about 90 minutes. If I pet them they just ignore me. They are curled up and won’t move. After 90 minutes they are ready for attention. Bel… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=995) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=997)