# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1085 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1086 --- ## [Arcade ,console, PC ,mobile, handheld video games you’ve recently watched, played or are now watching ,playing or have given up on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-console-pc-mobile-handheld-video-games-you-ve-recently-watched-played-or-are-now-watching-playing-or-have-given-up-on/962813)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arcade-console-pc-mobile-handheld-video-games-you-ve-recently-watched-played-or-are-now-watching-playing-or-have-given-up-on/962813 "2022-06-13T21:20:50Z")
Having seen this type of thread be ver successful in cafe society for movies and tv I figured id steal the idea for gaming Ive been playing old games on abandonware/preservation sites where you can play the game on the… --- ## [A couple of question on writing good](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-question-on-writing-good/966032)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-question-on-writing-good/966032 "2022-06-13T19:38:36Z")
Two concepts about which I am not certain - quotation marks and writing numbers. In each of the following cases, which is proper? I like the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird”. I like the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” I l… --- ## [Why did DHL do this with my package?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-dhl-do-this-with-my-package/457368)
**Author:** [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-dhl-do-this-with-my-package/457368 "2022-06-13T19:35:37Z")
The other day I ordered something from a vendor on the internet, and got an email with shipping date, tracking number, etc. The package was shipped via DHL. When I go to DHL’s website to track my package, I see that th… --- ## [Does your car insurance have STD coverage?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-car-insurance-have-std-coverage/965953)
**Author:** [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-car-insurance-have-std-coverage/965953 "2022-06-13T18:52:19Z")
GEICO ordered to pay $5.2 million after woman gets STD from having sex with her then-boyfriend in his car. They’ve already lost an appeal that the arbitration wasn’t valid even though one of the appellate judges stated … --- ## [Dual citizenship - has anyone here relinquished your US citizenship?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-citizenship-has-anyone-here-relinquished-your-us-citizenship/965254)
**Author:** [@wombattver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wombattver)\ **Replies:** 123\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-citizenship-has-anyone-here-relinquished-your-us-citizenship/965254 "2022-06-13T18:55:04Z")
I’ve asked this before, a long time ago but am unable to find the thread. We have not lived in the US for 6 years. Our daughter, 18, will go to uni either in the UK or Australia. She and dad are dual citizens USA/Aussie.… --- ## [Words With Friends-Coin? \[ad problem\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-friends-coin-ad-problem/966102)
**Author:** [@19USMC69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19USMC69)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-friends-coin-ad-problem/966102 "2022-06-13T18:51:25Z")
Watching the short videos/ads one can accumulate coins. There’s a new video/ad for Progressive Insurance I cannot get past. Anyone know how to do so? --- ## [Housing prices and inflation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/housing-prices-and-inflation/966082)
**Author:** [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/housing-prices-and-inflation/966082 "2022-06-13T18:41:24Z")
We’ve seen huge increases in US housing prices over the past few years. We know that housing markets go through boom-and-bust cycles. How is inflation likely to factor into that this time? On the one hand, higher inte… --- ## [The Last Howard Johnson's has closed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-howard-johnsons-has-closed/965565)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-howard-johnsons-has-closed/965565 "2022-06-13T18:19:40Z")
Just outside Lake George, New York. I went there a couple of years ago, and made a point of eating at the HoJo’s, partly to say that I had, and partly to experience it again. Howard Johnson owned the food franchises alo… --- ## [Anyone familiar with old defunct cheap wines?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-familiar-with-old-defunct-cheap-wines/290080 "2022-06-13T18:19:10Z")
Like “Annie Green Springs” and “Black Bear.” Seems like there might have been one called “Cold Duck,” but I’m not sure. Anyone every try any of those (and any idea on when they went under)? I remember them in the mid-… --- ## [I got new tires on my car, but the tire store over inflated them. Is there a reason?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-new-tires-on-my-car-but-the-tire-store-over-inflated-them-is-there-a-reason/965904)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-new-tires-on-my-car-but-the-tire-store-over-inflated-them-is-there-a-reason/965904 "2022-06-13T18:11:53Z")
My car says to inflate tires to 30 psi. Fine and good, but I just got 4 new tires a few weeks ago and when I checked the pressure (using one of those cheap, $1 pencil tire pressure gauges) I noticed my tires are all in t… --- ## [Obscure 3D Technology Idea From the Early 1980s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-3d-technology-idea-from-the-early-1980s/966080)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-3d-technology-idea-from-the-early-1980s/966080 "2022-06-13T18:00:30Z")
Now this one you’d have to be alive in the early 80’s to even remember. Because I haven’t heard anything about it since then. It was the early 1980s. And I was about 11 or 12, if you must know. And there was this human … --- ## [Author of "How to Murder Your Husband" charged with murdering husband \[update: sentenced to life in prison\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/author-of-how-to-murder-your-husband-charged-with-murdering-husband-update-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/962407)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/author-of-how-to-murder-your-husband-charged-with-murdering-husband-update-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/962407 "2022-06-13T17:40:03Z")
Maybe keep an eye on what your spouse is writing about on-line? --- ## [Bicycles treating stop lights as yield signs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bicycles-treating-stop-lights-as-yield-signs/832010)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bicycles-treating-stop-lights-as-yield-signs/832010 "2022-06-13T17:39:27Z")
Arkansas has a new law allowing cyclists to treat stop lights as yield signs. A cyclist several months ago ran a stop sign in front of me, but he was going pretty fast, and I thought perhaps he hadn’t seen the sign. I… --- ## [iPhone Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-questions/966078)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-questions/966078 "2022-06-13T17:27:16Z")
I have a new recent model phone which comes with a lightning cable. I had my previous phone for many years which was charged using a 5V magnetic disc and a USB cable plugging into a 1A or 2.1A adaptor. I presume the po… --- ## [Would a cross tattoo repel a vampire?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-cross-tattoo-repel-a-vampire/965739)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-cross-tattoo-repel-a-vampire/965739 "2022-06-13T15:37:47Z")
Don’t know that I’ve seen it done in a movie or TV show. Seems like an easy way to keep them off. Edit: It occurs to me that perhaps this belongs in CS. If a Mod wants to move it they can, or not. --- ## [The "Bird Man of Alcatraz"-What Was He Really Like?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bird-man-of-alcatraz-what-was-he-really-like/504330)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bird-man-of-alcatraz-what-was-he-really-like/504330 "2022-06-13T15:13:38Z")
I caught the old movie on Turner Classics yeaterday. It was a well-acted flick, and Burt Lancaster did a good job. Knowing how Hollywood fictionalizes stuff, I had a few questions: -this guy (the “Birdman”) was doing l… --- ## [" Who are you"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you/965639)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you/965639 "2022-06-13T14:57:56Z")
I wonder what kind of answers I would get if I asked this question to everyone I talked to. I could easily describe who I would like to be. There are few professions that I would accept as an acceptable answer. For some … --- ## [Really tiny pencils](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-tiny-pencils/966060)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-tiny-pencils/966060 "2022-06-13T14:52:51Z")
Anyone remember these? Decades ago Time and Newsweek magazines would include a subscription card you could remove, fill out and mail. At one point they would also include a really tiny pencil, about three inches long and… --- ## [Why do vacuums and fans spin faster when airflow is restricted?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-vacuums-and-fans-spin-faster-when-airflow-is-restricted/709300)
**Author:** [@Quiztor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiztor)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-vacuums-and-fans-spin-faster-when-airflow-is-restricted/709300 "2022-06-13T12:48:58Z")
When you put your hand over a shop vac’s hose, or block the intake of a blower fan, it spins faster and the sound it makes gets higher pitched. Why exactly? My hypothesis is that by restricting the intake of air, a par… --- ## [What happened to the Holograms?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-holograms/966085)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-holograms/966085 "2022-06-13T12:46:07Z")
Back in the 1970s, when I was still in high school, Holograms were all the rage, and we were told live entertainment would be revolutionized by these lifesized 3-D laser illusions. I believe Disneyland even had a ride wi… --- ## [How to fix bleached ombre hair?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-fix-bleached-ombre-hair/966075)
**Author:** [@IDKittyKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDKittyKat)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-fix-bleached-ombre-hair/966075 "2022-06-13T11:05:01Z")
Ruined my hair from bleaching it at the salon…was trying to go from black (I’ve got natural dark hair w/blue-black dye in it) to platinum blonde but ruined it after the first round. The texture is awful. How can this be … --- ## [When Pence said "I'm not getting in that car"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pence-said-im-not-getting-in-that-car/965942)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-pence-said-im-not-getting-in-that-car/965942 "2022-06-13T04:59:49Z")
Now the story is that he didn’t want the opticals of his retinue retreating from the Capitol. Am I the only one who assumed he was afraid of a “Tessio from the Godfather” scenario? --- ## [How (theoretically) can metal detectors be defeated?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-theoretically-can-metal-detectors-be-defeated/686830)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-theoretically-can-metal-detectors-be-defeated/686830 "2022-06-13T04:47:45Z")
I’m only asking because I’m sure that if there is any possible combination of materials that could hide a metal object from metal detectors, the major intelligence agencies are using them. But from a physics standpoint, … --- ## [Are there are any other current American products named after stereotypes/slurs, like Scotch Tape (and maybe Scottish Inns)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-are-any-other-current-american-products-named-after-stereotypes-slurs-like-scotch-tape-and-maybe-scottish-inns/965706)
**Author:** [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Replies:** 166\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-are-any-other-current-american-products-named-after-stereotypes-slurs-like-scotch-tape-and-maybe-scottish-inns/965706 "2022-06-13T04:37:28Z")
I understand “Scotch Tape” was named so because of the stereotype of Scottish people being cheap, and it was perceived the makers of the tape were being cheap with the adhesive. I’ve also read that “Scottish Inns” were … --- ## [A D Day MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-d-day-mmp/965733)
**Author:** [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Replies:** 279\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-d-day-mmp/965733 "2022-06-13T04:31:17Z")
I’m old enough that my dad was in WWII (the big one according to Herbert T. Gillis). But are the young ‘uns aware of what happened on June 6, 1944? Still in England where it is dreary and rainy. We did not attend any … --- ## [Admins and mods: what is your vision for this board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admins-and-mods-what-is-your-vision-for-this-board/965590)
**Author:** [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admins-and-mods-what-is-your-vision-for-this-board/965590 "2022-06-13T03:27:45Z")
Not a complaint or challenge. I’m not here to argue or invite anyone else to argue. This is a good faith question to those most invested in this boards operation to share their views as individuals. The individuals’ back… --- ## [What are my options if I can't find a job within my career field?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-options-if-i-cant-find-a-job-within-my-career-field/966076)
**Author:** [@IDKittyKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDKittyKat)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-my-options-if-i-cant-find-a-job-within-my-career-field/966076 "2022-06-13T00:31:16Z")
Not sure what to do here. I have a degree in industrial design, which is essentially an art degree. It’s a great field to get into and you work on things such as product styling. I left my internship a year ago and moved… --- ## [Is random sampling factually accurate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-random-sampling-factually-accurate/965865)
**Author:** [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-random-sampling-factually-accurate/965865 "2022-06-13T00:15:30Z")
I haven’t seen this question asked here to my knowledge but has there ever been an empirical verification that random sampling is actually a true predictor of results. Let me explain: there are 10 barrels of apples. Exam… --- ## [On the ethics of doing business with tyrants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-ethics-of-doing-business-with-tyrants/966033)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-ethics-of-doing-business-with-tyrants/966033 "2022-06-12T23:03:04Z")
This is a spin-off of the thread in the Game Room about the LIV golf league, but I think there’s a bigger issue here, which goes beyond sports. Not infrequently (such as with the golf league), there’s a controversy abou… --- ## [NYT article - Do Swedish People Feed Their Guests?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-article-do-swedish-people-feed-their-guests/965574)
**Author:** [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Replies:** 125\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyt-article-do-swedish-people-feed-their-guests/965574 "2022-06-12T22:48:30Z")
So I read this NYT article and I’m confused. At the beginning of the article it says: Instead, when it’s time to eat, a child might go home, stay in the friend’s room and play or sit at the table with the family and no… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1084) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1086)