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**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-you-decide-when-how-youll-rejoin-society/959196 "2022-03-24T15:28:49Z")
Mask mandates are going away soon worldwide. Regardless of what you think of the wisdom of this, eventually everyone’s going to have to decide whether, when, and how to resume interacting with other human beings on the l… --- ## [Putin's attempts to reconstruct the Soviet Union](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-attempts-to-reconstruct-the-soviet-union/961275)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putins-attempts-to-reconstruct-the-soviet-union/961275 "2022-03-24T15:25:07Z")
Okay, so Russia and Belarus are collaborating on the current crisis in Ukraine, trying to wrest away Ukrainians’ freedom. If Putin continues down this path and tries to retake the rest of the former Soviet countries, by… --- ## [Any way to get these images full resolution from the British Museum?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-these-images-full-resolution-from-the-british-museum/961594)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-get-these-images-full-resolution-from-the-british-museum/961594 "2022-03-24T14:13:50Z")
There are two scans that I want for my personal, non-commercial use. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A\_1881-1210-0-1858 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A\_1881-1210-0-1871 Apparently the… --- ## [Multiple Tornados Reported in New Orleans (22 March)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-tornados-reported-in-new-orleans-22-march/961544)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-tornados-reported-in-new-orleans-22-march/961544 "2022-03-24T13:42:45Z")
I hope y’all safe down there! --- ## [Do Radio Shock Jocks Still Exist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-radio-shock-jocks-still-exist/961461)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-radio-shock-jocks-still-exist/961461 "2022-03-24T13:04:22Z")
It seems like they were the bane of the radio waves for most of the 90’s until the mid-00’s, then rapidly they all went to Satellite Radio after either getting bought out or kicked out of regular radio, and now even thos… --- ## [I may have found a way to take fewer spam calls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-found-a-way-to-take-fewer-spam-calls/961525)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-found-a-way-to-take-fewer-spam-calls/961525 "2022-03-24T10:30:30Z")
I answer the phone not with “Hello”, but with “This is Carnivorous”. I receive many calls on my work phone, get no response for several seconds, so I hang up. I discussed this with Mrs. Plant; does a device wait to hear … --- ## [Better Coffee From Pods? Folgers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-coffee-from-pods-folgers/951392)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-coffee-from-pods-folgers/951392 "2022-03-20T17:45:23Z")
I remember being intrigued travelling to hotels in Europe years ago and seeing Nespresso coffee machines. The pods made a delicious cup of coffee. It took a long time to see Nespresso machines in Canada, but the pods s… --- ## [CPR strike - going out to stick up!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpr-strike-going-out-to-stick-up/961358)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpr-strike-going-out-to-stick-up/961358 "2022-03-24T04:28:04Z")
If the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 taught me anything, it’s the need to stick up when there may be supply chain issues. Canadian Pacific Railways are heading for a strike / lockout, so off to the grocery store w… --- ## [Darned cursor loves to stay on top](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darned-cursor-loves-to-stay-on-top/960084)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darned-cursor-loves-to-stay-on-top/960084 "2022-03-24T02:01:47Z")
I’ve no idea what to do here. The cursor, randomly but often, decides that the spot I tell it to go to is Coventry and thus runs to the top of the screen and stays there. I’m on a Dell laptop running Windows 10 and using… --- ## [RIP my poor, poor, poor 'possum. Clarence has kicked the 'bucket'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-my-poor-poor-poor-possum-clarence-has-kicked-the-bucket/959116)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-my-poor-poor-poor-possum-clarence-has-kicked-the-bucket/959116 "2022-03-24T01:49:50Z")
I missed Clarence Monday morning. I had to leave for dialysis. I just left his Cheerios down for him, by his bucket home, in the garage. When I came home the Cheerios were gone. I assumed he was close. I had the kids l… --- ## [You Read It Here First](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-read-it-here-first/959327)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-read-it-here-first/959327 "2022-03-24T01:30:07Z")
I could have sworn there was once a thread where folks took turns writing sentences that had (almost certainly) never been typed before in human history. I can’t find it, but it’s time for one now in any case. Whenever … --- ## [American Naval Power?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-naval-power/961404)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-naval-power/961404 "2022-03-24T01:04:25Z")
I am not remotely a military expert. However, I read with interest an article in the recent Foreign Affairs which argues a dangerous decline in American naval power. The article is written by a director of the American… --- ## [GOP Indiana Senator says Supreme Court legalizing interracial marriage was a mistake; backtracks rather unconvincingly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-indiana-senator-says-supreme-court-legalizing-interracial-marriage-was-a-mistake-backtracks-rather-unconvincingly/961587)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-indiana-senator-says-supreme-court-legalizing-interracial-marriage-was-a-mistake-backtracks-rather-unconvincingly/961587 "2022-03-24T00:56:01Z")
Oops. Maybe he should have said that some forms of judicial activism are okay. --- ## [Missing TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-tubadiva/961452)
**Author:** [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-tubadiva/961452 "2022-03-24T00:08:20Z")
Not sure if this is the best place for this, but I just had to share this, even though its far from mundane. I haven’t post here in a great long while, and kinda just drifted away from the SDMB community. Except for on… --- ## [Manafort's passport](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manaforts-passport/961570)
**Author:** [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manaforts-passport/961570 "2022-03-23T23:28:11Z")
Manafort was removed from a plane because his passport had been revoked. Any info/ideas on why his passport was revoked? If someone’s passport is revoked, wouldn’t they be informed? --- ## [Sentences you never thought you would say\\type](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sentences-you-never-thought-you-would-say-type/961584)
**Author:** [@PackerMan2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PackerMan2)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sentences-you-never-thought-you-would-say-type/961584 "2022-03-23T23:05:00Z")
I just informed one of my coworkers the following. “One of the wolves is pregnant and we have to be out of that area ASAP.” My company is installing utility infrastructure at the local zoo and we just had a conference … --- ## [How do you cope with osteoarthritis pain?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cope-with-osteoarthritis-pain/961460)
**Author:** [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cope-with-osteoarthritis-pain/961460 "2022-03-23T23:02:13Z")
If you have moderate or severe osteoarthritis, how do you treat the pain? I have spinal arthritis (lumbar region) and have had both spinal stenosis surgery and, a few weeks later, an epidural, but of course I still have … --- ## [If you met God what questions would you ask him?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323)
**Author:** [@a\_dudes\_thought\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_dudes_thought_s)\ **Replies:** 111\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323 "2022-03-23T22:57:38Z")
I’ve been watching a lot of videos on you tube about people going to hell or heaven. Watched one where a guys claims he met God and God asked him if he had any questions. I was wondering what the heck I would ask if I me… --- ## [Order Your Meal: Appetizer, Entree with Two Sides, Beverage and Dessert](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-your-meal-appetizer-entree-with-two-sides-beverage-and-dessert/961117)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/order-your-meal-appetizer-entree-with-two-sides-beverage-and-dessert/961117 "2022-03-23T22:49:01Z")
Me first. I’ll start with a nice cinnamon scented pumpkin bisque, and for the main course, a medium rare T-bone steak with horseradish mashed potatoes and a big scoop of cottage cheese on a separate plate. For drink, s… --- ## ["All the Girls in France Do the Hoochie-Coochie Dance"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-girls-in-france-do-the-hoochie-coochie-dance/213304)
**Author:** [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-girls-in-france-do-the-hoochie-coochie-dance/213304 "2022-03-23T22:35:40Z")
Thanks to those wonderful old-music sites from a recent thread, I have been listening to a lot of pop tunes, c1910–30. One musical leitmotif that recurs frequently is the “Little Egypt” music, which I sang as a child as, … --- ## [Are these movies school-appropriate?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-movies-school-appropriate/961381)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-movies-school-appropriate/961381 "2022-03-23T22:02:40Z")
State “end of course” tests are coming up next week (with a full quarter yet to go in the course, of course), and while we’re doing intensive test prep until them, I figure that on the test days, my students will have th… --- ## [Creative works set in the early 1940s that ignore WWII?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-works-set-in-the-early-1940s-that-ignore-wwii/959578)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-works-set-in-the-early-1940s-that-ignore-wwii/959578 "2022-03-23T22:02:08Z")
I’m currently watching seasons 6 and 7 of When Calls the Heart, which are set in 1916 and 1917. And they’ve yet to mention World War I, despite the fact that Canadians fought in it. This got me wondering…while this over… --- ## [How did people in 1850 deal with strep throat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-people-in-1850-deal-with-strep-throat/959747)
**Author:** [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-people-in-1850-deal-with-strep-throat/959747 "2022-03-23T21:59:09Z")
I just got diagnosed with strep but thanks to modern antibiotics, I will be back and ready to go in a couple of days. It got me wondering, what did people do prior to antibiotics? Either die or get better? But then I … --- ## [Half Remembered Skit or Commercial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-skit-or-commercial/961571)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/half-remembered-skit-or-commercial/961571 "2022-03-23T20:41:09Z")
I have a fragment of a memory and I was hoping someone can ID it. It was either a skit or a commercial with football players in a huddle. The QB was a real and famous QB and the rest of the players were kids. The QB wo… --- ## [The Babylon Bee](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-babylon-bee/839152)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-babylon-bee/839152 "2022-03-23T20:17:51Z")
A Babylon Bee article was just cited in Great Debates, and rather than derail that thread, I decided to start a new one. The site is the Cargo Cult equivalent of humor and good writing written by the Far Right who think … --- ## [Should the Baltic countries cut all roads and rail connections with Russia and Belorus?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-baltic-countries-cut-all-roads-and-rail-connections-with-russia-and-belorus/961542)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-baltic-countries-cut-all-roads-and-rail-connections-with-russia-and-belorus/961542 "2022-03-23T19:48:20Z")
In light of what’s happened in Ukraine, should the three Baltic countries cut all or most roads and rail connections to Russia (including Kaliningrad) and Belorus? Russia has demonstrated that it’s willing to invade the… --- ## [The public's right to know](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-publics-right-to-know/961533)
**Author:** [@SpacemanSpiff\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpacemanSpiff_II)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-publics-right-to-know/961533 "2022-03-23T19:35:57Z")
I understand that by law the public has rights to know certain things about various government officials and their actions. But I’m wondering by what legal principle the public has the right to see a private entity’s int… --- ## [Have you memorized all the POTUSes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-memorized-all-the-potuses/961425)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-memorized-all-the-potuses/961425 "2022-03-23T19:09:12Z")
If so, what tricks do you use, historical or mnemonic, to keep them all straight (except Buchanan) and in the right order? I tried memorizing them all in grade school–back then there were many fewer, of course, but keep… --- ## [Consumption to ensure a properly small Cologuard stool specimen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consumption-to-ensure-a-properly-small-cologuard-stool-specimen/960474)
**Author:** [@PLGJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PLGJ)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/consumption-to-ensure-a-properly-small-cologuard-stool-specimen/960474 "2022-03-23T18:32:46Z")
Cologuard clearly say the bowel movement must be complete and still be only a small specimen. What and when to eat in order to manufacture such a bespoke turd? Cologuard states only that no preparation or special diet … --- ## [Whatever happened to the huge debt Trump was going to face after leaving office?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-huge-debt-trump-was-going-to-face-after-leaving-office/959648)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-huge-debt-trump-was-going-to-face-after-leaving-office/959648 "2022-03-23T18:07:18Z")
Wasn’t outgoing President Trump facing collection of something like 400 million dollars a few months later? Summer of 2021 maybe? I think it involved heavily leveraged properties that had become much less profitable duri… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1160) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1162)