# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1073 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1074 --- ## [Magpies and a dead pigeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magpies-and-a-dead-pigeon/966880)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/magpies-and-a-dead-pigeon/966880 "2022-06-27T20:12:51Z")
Early this morning I was woken up by screeching magpies outside the bedroom window. When I looked out onto the patio, I see a dead pigeon under the bird feeder and a lot of feathers. Is this weird, unusual or normal beh… --- ## [Missouri Senate Candidate supports shooting RINOs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-senate-candidate-supports-shooting-rinos/966519)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob1)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-senate-candidate-supports-shooting-rinos/966519 "2022-06-27T20:04:07Z")
https://twitter.com/EricGreitens/status/1538876823978713089 LITERALLY wanting to shoot people who don’t support Trump. Tell me again how both parties are TOTALLY the same. Tell me again how the Republican party is TOTA… --- ## [Corporate Speak That Pisses You Off](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-speak-that-pisses-you-off/928852)
**Author:** [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Replies:** 456\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corporate-speak-that-pisses-you-off/928852 "2022-06-27T19:06:45Z")
My two contributions: Today I heard about a “Call Navigator” who would answer my call shortly when on hold for an hour. How about you staff your place to answer my fucking phone call? I just want an answer from a hu… --- ## [How Quickly Could Someone be Taught to land a 747?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-could-someone-be-taught-to-land-a-747/939125)
**Author:** [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-could-someone-be-taught-to-land-a-747/939125 "2022-06-27T18:36:55Z")
This is a variation on an old chestnut: “Could a layperson land a passenger jet?” I’m curious how quickly people think a layperson could be taught to land a big jet. Let’s say the amount of time it would take to teach a… --- ## [We are currently in the vanguard of the inner solar system!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-currently-in-the-vanguard-of-the-inner-solar-system/966188)
**Author:** [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-are-currently-in-the-vanguard-of-the-inner-solar-system/966188 "2022-06-27T17:43:29Z")
… if I have worked this out correctly. Even if I have, this will be simplistic, all figures are very approximate and much of this won’t apply any more in a few months. But the point is that wherever you are in the next f… --- ## [Do you read/watch negative reviews of your favorites?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-watch-negative-reviews-of-your-favorites/966861)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-watch-negative-reviews-of-your-favorites/966861 "2022-06-27T17:40:50Z")
Let’s say you like a movie called “Killer Wombats.” You often rewatch it, you read information about it, etc. One day you see an article or video called “Why Killer Wombats was a bad movie!” Do you read it or click on th… --- ## [Email insisting I install Antivirus program?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-insisting-i-install-antivirus-program/966913)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-insisting-i-install-antivirus-program/966913 "2022-06-27T17:23:08Z")
A friend of ours sent us an email with a MS Excel worksheet attached. Clicking on the attachment brought up an installation page for the AVAST antivirus program, and in fact, refused to open the spreadsheet unless we fir… --- ## [Why does the British press use titles when referring to people?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-british-press-use-titles-when-referring-to-people/966691)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-british-press-use-titles-when-referring-to-people/966691 "2022-06-27T17:22:18Z")
Why do the US and British press have two different styles of address? On my CNN app, for example, the headline is an article about Mike Pence having been asked to consider invoking the 25th amendment after 1/6. Throug… --- ## [Why do antacids normally come in bottles of 96?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-antacids-normally-come-in-bottles-of-96/966467)
**Author:** [@parkerlreed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parkerlreed)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-antacids-normally-come-in-bottles-of-96/966467 "2022-06-27T16:37:12Z")
Why not 100? 120? The recommended dosage is two to four. 2, 3, and 4 do go into 96 evenly. Maybe just to make you feel better when it evenly runs out? --- ## [Will Biden run for a second term?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-biden-run-for-a-second-term/966389)
**Author:** [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-biden-run-for-a-second-term/966389 "2022-06-27T16:30:19Z")
Whether or not you want him to, or think he should, do you predict he will run for a second term ? I’m not convinced. The demands, coupled with his age, give me pause. And I can’t read the tea leaves, because he’s a f… --- ## [Black Norwegians](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-norwegians/33927)
**Author:** [@KenP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KenP)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-norwegians/33927 "2022-06-27T15:39:09Z")
As I understand it, Black Norwegians are pretty much what the name says… a minority of dark-skinned people who live among the blond and pale skinned Scandanavians. Who are these people, and how did they come to be there? … --- ## [IMHO version of "Effective, massive, unprecedented civil disobedience in protest of SC re Roe?"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-version-of-effective-massive-unprecedented-civil-disobedience-in-protest-of-sc-re-roe/966953)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imho-version-of-effective-massive-unprecedented-civil-disobedience-in-protest-of-sc-re-roe/966953 "2022-06-27T15:29:17Z")
OK, as a prefatory note, this was posted originally in “Great Debates” but closed by a mod because he felt it was encouraging people to offer illegal suggestions and also because, in his view, I was calling on the good … --- ## [Don't get it, What Exit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-what-exit/966897)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-what-exit/966897 "2022-06-27T15:23:39Z")
You just closed my “civil disobedience” thread re: SCOTUS , on the grounds that: This is not a Great Debate, not sure where it would belong, but not here. This is a call of action and we do not allow those without pri… --- ## [The simple science behind the pitch of xylophone keys (Need answer fastish)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simple-science-behind-the-pitch-of-xylophone-keys-need-answer-fastish/966709)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simple-science-behind-the-pitch-of-xylophone-keys-need-answer-fastish/966709 "2022-06-27T14:40:35Z")
I have been dragooned into teaching a STEAM music class for 9-11 year olds this summer and am working out the science part of the curriculum. (The is my second time posting a related question, and I just want to say that… --- ## [Is there anything you can take for your joints that has scientific evidence backing it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-you-can-take-for-your-joints-that-has-scientific-evidence-backing-it/966728)
**Author:** [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-you-can-take-for-your-joints-that-has-scientific-evidence-backing-it/966728 "2022-06-27T13:17:23Z")
Hello. I once had a roommate that took all sorts of exotic dietary supplements that he said were good for your joints and stopping joint pain. I took one for awhile but it seemed like it made things worse. I also do no… --- ## [Depicting crazy ala A Beautiful Mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depicting-crazy-ala-a-beautiful-mind/966870)
**Author:** [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depicting-crazy-ala-a-beautiful-mind/966870 "2022-06-27T13:07:23Z")
A Beautiful Mind was the first time I’d ever seen crazy depicted like this. However, since then, I’ve seen multiple examples of crazy being signaled by the discovery of some room where a huge tangle of strings connects a… --- ## [Coronavirus Information, Maps, Trackers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-information-maps-trackers/849623)
**Author:** [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-information-maps-trackers/849623 "2021-09-25T18:08:09Z")
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for System Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University Thanks to Cardinal Fang for the fix. Coronavirus Dashboard Supposedly run by a high school student … --- ## [Canada to examine pornography to make sure it is sufficiently Canadian](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-to-examine-pornography-to-make-sure-it-is-sufficiently-canadian/966756)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-to-examine-pornography-to-make-sure-it-is-sufficiently-canadian/966756 "2022-06-27T10:36:52Z")
A National Post article claims Canada’s bureaucracy wants to make sure webporn is sufficiently Canadian. I am wondering what this involves. Here are my suggestions, but please add yours. Pizza carried by delivery ma… --- ## [Is there a decent recent multiplayer PC RTS which I can play against a friend?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-recent-multiplayer-pc-rts-which-i-can-play-against-a-friend/966564)
**Author:** [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-recent-multiplayer-pc-rts-which-i-can-play-against-a-friend/966564 "2022-06-27T07:53:44Z")
My friend has been lost to World Of Warcraft for a long time, and never really a 3D shooter person, and one of the successful and fun times we had was back on modems playing Command and Conquer and Red Alert over the pho… --- ## [Heres some dune 2 (movie)news](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-some-dune-2-movie-news/966623)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-some-dune-2-movie-news/966623 "2022-06-27T07:24:17Z")
I have just seen this and sorry dumb msn put it in a slide show but it’s a short one and Christopher walken can add yet another part to his impressive resume : Christopher Walken taking on the role of Emperor Shadd… --- ## [Women with little girl voices](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-little-girl-voices/966182)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-with-little-girl-voices/966182 "2022-06-27T06:13:24Z")
Hearing an interview on NPR brought this topic to mind. The woman is a professional something or other, and sounded as though she were 14. I have worked with women who spoke in the same way, like a girl. A high, light vo… --- ## [When to uise 'depuis des heures' vs 'pendant des heures'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-to-uise-depuis-des-heures-vs-pendant-des-heures/966922)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-to-uise-depuis-des-heures-vs-pendant-des-heures/966922 "2022-06-27T05:24:12Z")
I’m still not sure when to use ‘depuis des heures’ as oppose to ‘pendant des heures’. Does 'pendant des heurs convey more flexibility in terms of when an activity began and ended ? You sleep for hours every day.Tu dors… --- ## [The Haboobs are here!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haboobs-are-here/966712)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haboobs-are-here/966712 "2022-06-27T04:48:59Z")
We are getting our first rain in months. --- ## [Hey, bad bad bad Beck can eat 'drunkin' picante sauce. (Canned some to day)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-bad-bad-bad-beck-can-eat-drunkin-picante-sauce-canned-some-to-day/966923)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-bad-bad-bad-beck-can-eat-drunkin-picante-sauce-canned-some-to-day/966923 "2022-06-27T04:16:36Z")
I didn’t have much to offer the cooks. I did a bunch of chopping, tho’. My sister is here (her recipe). Mid-D and the Li’l wrekker helped. Son-of-a-wrek helped as well. There is a bit of sugar in it. Not too much. We … --- ## [First World Problem: How Do I Order a Sweetened Latte at Starbucks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-world-problem-how-do-i-order-a-sweetened-latte-at-starbucks/966927)
**Author:** [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-world-problem-how-do-i-order-a-sweetened-latte-at-starbucks/966927 "2022-06-27T04:11:11Z")
This is as Firsty as First-World problems get but it bugs me. I like my lattes sweetened but it’s all but impossible to add granulated sugar to foamed milk. So for a while I would ask for the cup first so I could add su… --- ## [New Downton Abbey movie in 2022 - Robert Crawley](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-downton-abbey-movie-in-2022-robert-crawley/951235)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-downton-abbey-movie-in-2022-robert-crawley/951235 "2022-06-27T03:57:34Z")
I know that there’ll be a new Downton Abbey movie in 2022. But Hugh Bonneville, who plays Robert Crawley, has lost a lot of weight. What kind of a story will they build around that to explain it? --- ## [Is the Star Trek transporter inspired by The Fly?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-star-trek-transporter-inspired-by-the-fly/953549)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-star-trek-transporter-inspired-by-the-fly/953549 "2022-06-27T02:55:25Z")
I’m watching The Fly 1958 Halloween evening. André Delambre (Al Hedison) experiments transferring plates, newspapers, and a cat from one room to another. He tragically experiments on himself. Did Roddenberry rip off th… --- ## [How are you preparing for the coming fascist authoritarian regime?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-preparing-for-the-coming-fascist-authoritarian-regime/966426)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 386\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-preparing-for-the-coming-fascist-authoritarian-regime/966426 "2022-06-27T01:18:50Z")
So we are approaching a midterm election two years after barely unseating a would be dictator from the presidency and the Democratic Party has made seemingly no effort to persuade the public that it can’t be allowed to h… --- ## [I'm Back from My Vacation WITH TRUMPISTS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-my-vacation-with-trumpists/964235)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-from-my-vacation-with-trumpists/964235 "2022-06-27T01:01:30Z")
I’m back from my vacation visiting my aunt and uncle…and it was the best vacation I’ve had in years. I could’ve spent the whole vacation just lazing about on their deck and I would’ve been happy. There’s the mountain v… --- ## [Shadowrun returns Xbox camera question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadowrun-returns-xbox-camera-question/966915)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shadowrun-returns-xbox-camera-question/966915 "2022-06-27T00:24:30Z")
Is there a setting that I missed that has the camera follow /go ahead of you a bit? right now it’s set up where if I walk to the edge of a screen I have to move the camera manually so I could see where I’m going/what’s… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1072) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1074)