# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1145 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1146 --- ## [Have you ever bought \*and actually needed\* travel insurance?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-bought-and-actually-needed-travel-insurance/961523)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-bought-and-actually-needed-travel-insurance/961523 "2022-04-08T21:02:56Z")
My wife and I are planning a major European cruise for the summer of 2023, and the total price tag will be in the neighborhood of $25,000. The cruise line has a deal with an insurance company, but when I looked up that c… --- ## [Reverse catchphrases](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-catchphrases/962274)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reverse-catchphrases/962274 "2022-04-08T19:41:00Z")
For the purposes of this thread, let’s define a catchphrase as an expression that is strongly associated with a particular person, real or fictional, because they themselves use it so often. Examples of catchphrases are … --- ## [I stopped being religious after having kids, but are still involved and love the church community](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-being-religious-after-having-kids-but-are-still-involved-and-love-the-church-community/962326)
**Author:** [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-stopped-being-religious-after-having-kids-but-are-still-involved-and-love-the-church-community/962326 "2022-04-08T19:22:56Z")
I was raised an active Catholic going to church every Sunday, Catholic school, the works. Although I always questioned everything, I just went with the flow. My wife had a very similar upbringing. We got married in th… --- ## [How many smartphones have you ever had stolen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-smartphones-have-you-ever-had-stolen/962432)
**Author:** [@MarkSh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkSh)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-smartphones-have-you-ever-had-stolen/962432 "2022-04-08T19:20:05Z")
I had two stolen last year, and the other night I’m pretty sure I witnessed someone stealing someone’s smartphone from a public charging station, even though I was outside smoking at the time. I’ve learned a lot about t… --- ## [Is it Disrespectful to Leave Dead Bodies for More than 18 Hours Lying in the Street?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-disrespectful-to-leave-dead-bodies-for-more-than-18-hours-lying-in-the-street/962269)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-disrespectful-to-leave-dead-bodies-for-more-than-18-hours-lying-in-the-street/962269 "2022-04-08T18:21:36Z")
Bodies stayed on the streets, covered, for more than 18 hours on Sunday before they were transferred to the coroner’s office around 8:30 p.m. The police chief said in Sunday afternoon’s news conference that the bodies … --- ## [How does the ocean warm?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-ocean-warm/962526)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-ocean-warm/962526 "2022-04-08T18:04:51Z")
Does it get it’s heat primarily from an exchange of heat at the surface or is it more radiant heat where the suns rays warm the ocean? --- ## [Phil Collins and Genesis play their last Gig](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phil-collins-and-genesis-play-their-last-gig/961842)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phil-collins-and-genesis-play-their-last-gig/961842 "2022-04-08T17:04:49Z")
I listened to Genesis throughout college and followed Phil’s solo career closely. Great musician. I’ve learned from Leland Sklar that Phil is a great guy and consumate professional. Lee played bass for Phil in the late 8… --- ## [Bad, bad, bad. Secrets, confusion, intriguing statements. Oh and occasional lies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-secrets-confusion-intriguing-statements-oh-and-occasional-lies/962437)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-secrets-confusion-intriguing-statements-oh-and-occasional-lies/962437 "2022-04-08T17:03:09Z")
Ae S\*\*\*\*, c Jk Sr Ds Ce Cs Js Cf Bb C\*h Bs T\*\*\*a --- ## [MLB Hot Stove / Offseason / Lockout 2021-2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-hot-stove-offseason-lockout-2021-2022/952531)
**Author:** [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Replies:** 425\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-hot-stove-offseason-lockout-2021-2022/952531 "2022-04-08T16:42:55Z")
So, I know that the season isn’t technically over yet, but the moves have already started. The Cards fired Shildt today. “Philosophical differences”? I’m sure we’ll hear more about this story over the coming weeks. N… --- ## [Eating in a flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-in-a-flight/962424)
**Author:** [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-in-a-flight/962424 "2022-04-08T16:14:01Z")
We’re flying for the first time in a long time for a trip that Covid delayed. How risky is it to take your mask off to eat for a fully vaxxed person? A lot of the sources I’m seeing are from last year. Thanks. --- ## [Fossils thought to be from animals killed by K-T asteroid found](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fossils-thought-to-be-from-animals-killed-by-k-t-asteroid-found/962470)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fossils-thought-to-be-from-animals-killed-by-k-t-asteroid-found/962470 "2022-04-08T16:11:52Z")
Maybe. We’ll see. My favorite part of the story, though, is the note at the end: P.S. I hadn’t realized that they changed it from K-T to K-Pg. I gotta keep up. Probably too many theatergoers thought it stood for “G… --- ## [Doctor Who and The Daleks (1966) movie on TCM March 7](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-and-the-daleks-1966-movie-on-tcm-march-7/962490)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-and-the-daleks-1966-movie-on-tcm-march-7/962490 "2022-04-08T15:50:02Z")
Unique chance to see a classic Doctor Who movie commercial fee. TCM 9:15 Central Peter Cushing is The Doctor. Jennie Lindin plays Barbara. --- ## [RIP Nehemiah Persoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nehemiah-persoff/962478 "2022-04-08T15:26:25Z")
I’ll always think of him as the U-Boat commander in The Twilight Zone episode ‘Judgement Night’. --- ## [Pink Floyd reunites to record new music in support of Ukraine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-reunites-to-record-new-music-in-support-of-ukraine/962487)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-floyd-reunites-to-record-new-music-in-support-of-ukraine/962487 "2022-04-08T15:10:17Z")
I hope this leads to a full album inspired by the current war in Ukraine. Seems surreal that its been 30 years since Pink Floyd recorded new material . Music video embedded in link. --- ## [Actually Pretty Funny: A time when someone you hate made you laugh](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-pretty-funny-a-time-when-someone-you-hate-made-you-laugh/962066)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actually-pretty-funny-a-time-when-someone-you-hate-made-you-laugh/962066 "2022-04-08T14:34:22Z")
I hate Donald Trump, all his advisors, and his entire worthless family with the passion of a million burning suns, but something he said in this news article from 2019 made me laugh: “We’ll see what happens,” Trump s… --- ## [Four Secret Service employees placed on leave for accepting gifts from men posing as federal agents](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451 "2022-04-08T13:44:44Z")
This sounds like a wild story. I wonder what these guys were hoping to achieve? The two men — Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36 — were taken into custody as more than a dozen FBI agents charged into a luxury ap… --- ## ["Is this a scam?" chapter seventy-billion, need answer fastish](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-scam-chapter-seventy-billion-need-answer-fastish/962247)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-scam-chapter-seventy-billion-need-answer-fastish/962247 "2022-04-08T13:03:18Z")
Yeah yeah, I know: if you have to ask “is this a scam” the answer is highly likely to be yes. In this case, though, I’m not so sure. So about three years ago I had brief contact with a neighbor, as some bamboo growing o… --- ## [Uncommon floor rug type](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-floor-rug-type/962222)
**Author:** [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncommon-floor-rug-type/962222 "2022-04-05T00:47:44Z")
This is a question, but I have a hard time expressing this in a clear way that people can understand and not think I am crazy (-ier), so I am not expecting an answer. Hoping, maybe, but not really expecting. In cleaning… --- ## [What does, or did, the U.S. Customs Service use those monumental custom houses for? Do they need all that space blocks away from the actual docks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-or-did-the-u-s-customs-service-use-those-monumental-custom-houses-for-do-they-need-all-that-space-blocks-away-from-the-actual-docks/962501)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-or-did-the-u-s-customs-service-use-those-monumental-custom-houses-for-do-they-need-all-that-space-blocks-away-from-the-actual-docks/962501 "2022-04-08T07:25:51Z")
(For example, this large neoclassical Custom House completed a few years before the Civil War, when the seaport was busier than it is today.) I’ve always imagined that the customs operations were carried out mostly at … --- ## [Russia was justified in its invasion of Ukraine..let's discuss](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-was-justified-in-its-invasion-of-ukraine-lets-discuss/960590)
**Author:** [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Replies:** 141\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-was-justified-in-its-invasion-of-ukraine-lets-discuss/960590 "2022-04-08T04:17:47Z")
So, I have seen this theme a lot on other media, especially Indian sites that cater to an India audience, but also Chinese sites that do the same…and of course Russia sites and their official line. The narrative goes so… --- ## [Neighbor placing food scraps in suburban yard to attract wildlife](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbor-placing-food-scraps-in-suburban-yard-to-attract-wildlife/962455)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neighbor-placing-food-scraps-in-suburban-yard-to-attract-wildlife/962455 "2022-04-08T04:11:09Z")
We live in a Chicago suburb, with lots approximately 60’x150’. Not terribly congested, but not rural either. Plenty of wildlife including skunks, raccoons, fox, possums, squirrels, chipmunks, mice… The neighbors diago… --- ## [Is there a "vexatious litigant" concept is U.S. federal courts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-vexatious-litigant-concept-is-u-s-federal-courts/962332)
**Author:** [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-vexatious-litigant-concept-is-u-s-federal-courts/962332 "2022-04-08T03:43:09Z")
Trump filed suit against Hillary Clinton et al a few weeks ago, saying she slandered him during the 2016 campaign. Of course, Trump has spent his life filing frivolous lawsuits. Now, an editorial in the St. Louis Post-… --- ## [The Solution To Partisans and Media Bubbles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-solution-to-partisans-and-media-bubbles/962459)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-solution-to-partisans-and-media-bubbles/962459 "2022-04-08T03:34:01Z")
The Atlantic offers a solution to the polarization of opinions that exists everywhere. Does this sort of stuff ever work? Will the future be more collaborative? --- ## [Rusting destroyed vehicles in Ukraine](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rusting-destroyed-vehicles-in-ukraine/962401)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rusting-destroyed-vehicles-in-ukraine/962401 "2022-04-08T03:33:00Z")
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen lots of photographs depicting destroyed tanks and other vehicles. It seems like a high percentage of these blown up vehicles have significant areas of what appears to be rust on them. S… --- ## [Which books are best experienced in the audio version?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-books-are-best-experienced-in-the-audio-version/938112)
**Author:** [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-books-are-best-experienced-in-the-audio-version/938112 "2022-04-08T03:14:46Z")
(I’m sure we’ve had threads like this before, but it’s been awhile, and since this came up in another thread, I thought I’d start this one rather than let that one get hijacked.) So, which books are best experienced as … --- ## [Lazy media people and imagery and footage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-people-and-imagery-and-footage/962485)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lazy-media-people-and-imagery-and-footage/962485 "2022-04-08T03:12:32Z")
Every so often I’ll be watching TV and there’ll be a documentary or a news clip where it seems like lazy or ignorant media person just chose some near-random piece of sort-of related media I actually have seen a WW II d… --- ## [They're always empty!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-always-empty/959378)
**Author:** [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Replies:** 158\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-always-empty/959378 "2022-04-08T02:37:23Z")
So SWMBO has pointed out something to me and now I see it everywhere. Since I refuse to suffer alone I’m going to share this fascinating, infuriating tidbit with you… Next time you watch a show, any show, pay attention … --- ## [Dexter coming back in 2021](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-coming-back-in-2021/922971)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dexter-coming-back-in-2021/922971 "2022-04-08T01:42:14Z")
10 episodes ‘Dexter’ Revived at Showtime for Limited Series – The Hollywood Reporter and yes I know a lot of people disliked the last season and the ending so please spare me those comments --- ## [There's been a Communist revolution and your house now belongs to the people. How did this play out in concrete terms?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-been-a-communist-revolution-and-your-house-now-belongs-to-the-people-how-did-this-play-out-in-concrete-terms/962335)
**Author:** [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-been-a-communist-revolution-and-your-house-now-belongs-to-the-people-how-did-this-play-out-in-concrete-terms/962335 "2022-04-08T01:34:20Z")
\[For context, I recently finished listening to Waiting For Snow In Havana, by Carlos Eire, who lived through the Cuban Revolution as a boy.\] Of course, I know that large estates/mansions belonging to former nobility and… --- ## [NASA to test next moon rocket soon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-to-test-next-moon-rocket-soon/961205)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-to-test-next-moon-rocket-soon/961205 "2022-04-08T01:07:12Z")
way behind schedule by 5 years. It will be an uncrewed test by June if things go as planned . It’s pretty similar to the Saturn V moon rocket in capacity it can handle also similar in height and width to Satur… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1144) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1146)