# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1016 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1017 --- ## [Fucking Bekins (moving company)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-bekins-moving-company/970172)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-bekins-moving-company/970172 "2022-08-26T21:01:32Z")
We moved from Oregon to MN a few months back, and we of course shipped all our stuff out here. Dozens and dozens of boxes of stuff, in fact. In the process of unpacking them, we discovered a broken piece of art glass. Si… --- ## [Who is your favorite cast member from The Dick Van Dyke Show? {POLL added 2022-08-26}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-cast-member-from-the-dick-van-dyke-show-poll-added-2022-08-26/591882)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-cast-member-from-the-dick-van-dyke-show-poll-added-2022-08-26/591882 "2022-08-26T20:34:41Z")
This is the first in a series of favorite character polls I’ll be posting. mmm poll Poll added by What Exit? As per mmm. --- ## [I’m 65 and have $300,000 in student debt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-65-and-have-300-000-in-student-debt/970345)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-65-and-have-300-000-in-student-debt/970345 "2022-08-26T19:11:48Z")
Editorial is from a woman that at age 53 decided to pursue her doctoral degree through a for-profit university, to show her kids how important education is. She racked up $300k in student debt, resulting in her own in… --- ## [Are magazine fed, semi-auto shotguns any good](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-magazine-fed-semi-auto-shotguns-any-good/969843)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-magazine-fed-semi-auto-shotguns-any-good/969843 "2022-08-26T18:42:44Z")
I know this isn’t the best place to ask this, but I’ve learned that asking hobbyists for their opinion usually isn’t a good idea because they basically say unless you’re buying the most expensive item available, you’re w… --- ## ["Vocational Training" for homeowners?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocational-training-for-homeowners/970185)
**Author:** [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vocational-training-for-homeowners/970185 "2022-08-26T17:33:27Z")
Do such programs exist? As a homeowner who has no background in plumbing, residential construction, electrical work, carpentry, etc. I would love to find some kind of “Vo-Tech” training program where I could learn the ba… --- ## [I wonder ...? (This is a thread game)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-this-is-a-thread-game/970016)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-this-is-a-thread-game/970016 "2022-08-26T17:28:49Z")
I wonder…why do Sherpa guides at Everest not have high altitude sickness? (No need to answer, what do you wonder about?) --- ## [Wacky news omnibus thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wacky-news-omnibus-thread/970397)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wacky-news-omnibus-thread/970397 "2022-08-26T14:23:55Z")
I’ll start this off in MPSIMS and see how long before it lands in the Pit. This thread is for offbeat news of weird crimes, strange events, and things that don’t really go anywhere else. I’ll start with this story I sa… --- ## [Gardening season has begun (2022 edition)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardening-season-has-begun-2022-edition/961798)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardening-season-has-begun-2022-edition/961798 "2022-08-26T13:55:31Z")
I always start with optimism in the spring, and move on to disappointment as the critters eat everything I’ve tried to grow. So, here’s my spring optimism. :slight\_smile: Speaking of trialing varieties, I decided to pl… --- ## [Anti-Homeless Benches with Armrests - Do they really prevent sleeping?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-homeless-benches-with-armrests-do-they-really-prevent-sleeping/969940)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-homeless-benches-with-armrests-do-they-really-prevent-sleeping/969940 "2022-08-26T12:25:20Z")
You’ve seen them, the benches that have either actual armrests or just small bars that prevent someone from laying fully across the length of the bench and instead make it so each bench has two or three seperate seats. I… --- ## [Joey DeFrancesco has died, aged 51](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joey-defrancesco-has-died-aged-51/970388)
**Author:** [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joey-defrancesco-has-died-aged-51/970388 "2022-08-26T10:47:39Z")
Damn. One of my favorite go to videos features Joey playing with Miles Smiles… I will be watching this again soon. --- ## [Remember the finger-circle-punch-in-the-shoulder game?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-finger-circle-punch-in-the-shoulder-game/248336)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-finger-circle-punch-in-the-shoulder-game/248336 "2022-08-26T11:30:15Z")
Did anyone else play that game where you make your thumb and forefinger into a circle, place it below your waist, hope the poor sap next to you looked down, and if he did you got to whale on him? But if he happened to br… --- ## [The person responsible for the sound design on the "Stadium Tour" should be brought up on criminal charges](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-person-responsible-for-the-sound-design-on-the-stadium-tour-should-be-brought-up-on-criminal-charges/970201)
**Author:** [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-person-responsible-for-the-sound-design-on-the-stadium-tour-should-be-brought-up-on-criminal-charges/970201 "2022-08-26T08:14:23Z")
On Sunday, my wife and I attended “The Stadium Tour”, a show featuring Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Poison, Def Leppard, and Motley Crue. The show we saw was held at the Alamodome, an indoor stadium in San Antonio. W… --- ## [Another bathroom etiquette memo: Do you have a prehensile rectum?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bathroom-etiquette-memo-do-you-have-a-prehensile-rectum/75367)
**Author:** [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bathroom-etiquette-memo-do-you-have-a-prehensile-rectum/75367 "2022-08-26T07:51:08Z")
Look, Fuckwicket,I know you got your problems. I’m aware of the fact that your metabolisim causes you to have to be in the bathroom five seconds after you eat. Or you’re taking exlax with each meal, I don’t know, but wha… --- ## [What is the fastest paced production-type job?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-fastest-paced-production-type-job/970099)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-fastest-paced-production-type-job/970099 "2022-08-26T05:19:51Z")
Spoke with someone who recently spoke with an Amazon worker. She does the mailer envelopes, and over the course of a 10 hour shift with 2 30 minute breaks, she is expected to process 600 items an hour! That is one ever… --- ## [I pit Martin Hyde (a different Martin Hyde)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024)
**Author:** [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-martin-hyde-a-different-martin-hyde/970024 "2022-08-26T03:50:41Z")
Just saw this snob in a video online. He was pulled over by a policewoman & started acting like he could go over her head. All the time speaking in this upper-class English accent. Turns out he’s “Martin Hyde”, a GOP pr… --- ## [Trumps Secret Service Detail Assignments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-secret-service-detail-assignments/970333)
**Author:** [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-secret-service-detail-assignments/970333 "2022-08-26T02:15:36Z")
Does Trump get to pick who is assigned to his SS detail? Since they are a government agency could a FBI agent be assigned the task if there was reason to suspect he was selling secrets to foreign dictators? If not, why… --- ## [Why wasn't I taught anything about economics in "home economics" class?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-taught-anything-about-economics-in-home-economics-class/970200)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wasnt-i-taught-anything-about-economics-in-home-economics-class/970200 "2022-08-26T01:25:26Z")
I took “home ec” at least 3 times throughout my formal education experience. I learned how to sew, both by hand and with a sewing machine, and I learned how to cook a few basic dishes, but not once was I taught anything … --- ## [How would you limit an offensive teleporter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-limit-an-offensive-teleporter/970056)
**Author:** [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-limit-an-offensive-teleporter/970056 "2022-08-26T01:01:41Z")
I had an idea for a villain that can teleport objects by touch and place them inside other objects. They primarily use this power to teleport objects inside people to incapacitate or kill them. An example would be telepo… --- ## [Is a fly clean when he emerges from his pupa?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-fly-clean-when-he-emerges-from-his-pupa/970105)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-fly-clean-when-he-emerges-from-his-pupa/970105 "2022-08-26T00:37:07Z")
Does a fly pick up most of his bacteria from things he lands on? Or is it a carryover from his maggot days? --- ## [Blue Bloods and real life current US politics; how does the Reagan family view Trump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-and-real-life-current-us-politics-how-does-the-reagan-family-view-trump/970244)
**Author:** [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blue-bloods-and-real-life-current-us-politics-how-does-the-reagan-family-view-trump/970244 "2022-08-25T23:21:53Z")
Over the last several weeks I became reacquainted with this TV show due to it being on in the background, often while doing something else. (It turns out some household chores do not require a great deal of focus so the… --- ## [How would a very early Homo sapiens do today?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-a-very-early-homo-sapiens-do-today/970129)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-a-very-early-homo-sapiens-do-today/970129 "2022-08-25T22:38:57Z")
Suppose I fire up my time machine, which isn’t in anything as cool as a DeLorean. (It’s a Kia Forte.) I go back to the earlier years of homo sapiens - let’s say about 150,000 years ago, to when we were definitely, well… --- ## [Ask the previously 'quiverful' girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-previously-quiverful-girl/702705)
**Author:** [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Replies:** 234\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-previously-quiverful-girl/702705 "2022-08-25T22:24:04Z")
Necessary background: between the ages of about 6 through 17 (when I left for college) I was involved on the periphery of a movement now known as ‘quiverful.’ I am not now christian at all, let alone fundamentalist. I… --- ## [What franchises or chains did you Home Town have](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-franchises-or-chains-did-you-home-town-have/970231)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-franchises-or-chains-did-you-home-town-have/970231 "2022-08-25T22:17:18Z")
I’m assuming that you grew up in a relatively small town, and long enough ago that such things weren’t common. It’s no big deal if you grew up in New York City and had a MacDonald’s. But in my circa 17,000 person town in… --- ## [Can a spouse sue the other spouse during a divorce for "discrimination"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-spouse-sue-the-other-spouse-during-a-divorce-for-discrimination/970150)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-spouse-sue-the-other-spouse-during-a-divorce-for-discrimination/970150 "2022-08-25T22:06:40Z")
Long story short someone I know is going through a bitter divorce. According to their “consultations with attorneys” they are claiming that they were told they can “sue their spouse for discrimination” mainly because bot… --- ## [Ryan Reynolds wants to remake Clue!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan-reynolds-wants-to-remake-clue/970322)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan-reynolds-wants-to-remake-clue/970322 "2022-08-25T21:35:49Z")
I’m both horrified and mildly intrigued. As long as he doesn’t insist on casting himself. --- ## [Post Humanity Intelligence?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-humanity-intelligence/969566)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-humanity-intelligence/969566 "2022-08-25T20:37:13Z")
Do you ever sit and idly wonder what, if any, creature would evolve to fill the role and niche humans fill today? Ants? Termites? Octopus? Maybe it will be a joint venture between two different animals such as crows or… --- ## [Tethering a mobile game: which internet monolith should I use?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tethering-a-mobile-game-which-internet-monolith-should-i-use/970338)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tethering-a-mobile-game-which-internet-monolith-should-i-use/970338 "2022-08-25T20:07:53Z")
There’s a mobile game that I play and enjoy. In order to keep access to my account should something happen or I switch devices, I have my game account connected with my Facebook account. Well, right now, there’s a glitch… --- ## [Jim\_B has been banned for violating the Terms of Service](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-b-has-been-banned-for-violating-the-terms-of-service/968872)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-b-has-been-banned-for-violating-the-terms-of-service/968872 "2022-07-31T16:51:06Z")
Jim\_B is being banned for a history of not following our rules and ignoring moderator guidance. He has broken the cardinal rule (don’t be a jerk) specifically by posting hate speech. That and other rule violations are do… --- ## [I've decided to retire my truck](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-to-retire-my-truck/970327)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-decided-to-retire-my-truck/970327 "2022-08-25T18:00:53Z")
I’ve posted many times about my Envoy Denali’s troubles but now it’s gotten to the point where I cannot keep the oil pressure up at a idle once it has warmed up. Pretty sure the oil pump will completely fail any day now… --- ## [Lyrics of Eagle's song Hotel California](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-eagles-song-hotel-california/459488)
**Author:** [@deedeewp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deedeewp)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-of-eagles-song-hotel-california/459488 "2022-08-25T17:35:22Z")
In this song, reference is made to ‘pink champagne on ice’ and I remeber reading somewhere that this was a drug for treatment of schizophrenia, that had to be injected cold or it was too thick to go through the hypodermi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1015) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1017)