# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1192&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1193 --- ## [Ovechkin: Supporter of Team Putin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ovechkin-supporter-of-team-putin/960163)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ovechkin-supporter-of-team-putin/960163 "2022-03-03T02:45:01Z")
Until Team Putin invades another country, and then “I’m not in politics, I’m an athlete.” Strange how Ovechkin, the non-political-athlete, started a social movement to support Putin, announcing it on his Instagram accou… --- ## [Who, in the US intelligence community, was in charge of feeding intelligence to Britain during the Falklands crisis?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-the-us-intelligence-community-was-in-charge-of-feeding-intelligence-to-britain-during-the-falklands-crisis/960280)
**Author:** [@cannonkuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cannonkuo)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-in-the-us-intelligence-community-was-in-charge-of-feeding-intelligence-to-britain-during-the-falklands-crisis/960280 "2022-03-03T02:34:08Z")
Any declassified documents have shown who was the key person carrying out the intelligence feeding. Thank you very much. --- ## [Facebook weirdness: How is this possible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-weirdness-how-is-this-possible/960369)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-weirdness-how-is-this-possible/960369 "2022-03-03T00:39:22Z")
And how can I fix it? My wife sent a PM to her niece on Facebook. For some reason it appeared on my newsfeed. When she went back to Messenger, it wasn’t there, nor is it on her home page. How is this possible, and how do… --- ## [Boric acid and cockroaches](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boric-acid-and-cockroaches/943117)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boric-acid-and-cockroaches/943117 "2022-03-03T00:24:07Z")
I used to live in NYC (grew up there in fact) and had cockroaches all the time–boric acid left all around the house was a popular remedy. What’s the current thinking? Is it still thought to be effective and cheap, or do… --- ## [Looking for very large pattern buffalo plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-very-large-pattern-buffalo-plaid/960370)
**Author:** [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-very-large-pattern-buffalo-plaid/960370 "2022-03-03T00:20:20Z")
I saw someone wearing a flannel shirt with a buffalo block pattern, except this one was visually striking because the blocks were HUGE, probably around 6" squares instead of the usual inch or two. The scale was similar t… --- ## [February Mini-Rants. Look on the bright side - it's the shortest month of the year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-look-on-the-bright-side-its-the-shortest-month-of-the-year/958742)
**Author:** [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Replies:** 187\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/february-mini-rants-look-on-the-bright-side-its-the-shortest-month-of-the-year/958742 "2022-03-02T23:27:34Z")
Highest snowfall in seven years predicted for Detroit area. My neighbor has had a concern with snow melt entering his basement - so I’m trying to NOT pile snow against his house on that side of the driveway. Instead I’… --- ## [Is it legal for an employee to go on unpaid leave and not have any benefits (at the employee's request?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-for-an-employee-to-go-on-unpaid-leave-and-not-have-any-benefits-at-the-employees-request/960320)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-legal-for-an-employee-to-go-on-unpaid-leave-and-not-have-any-benefits-at-the-employees-request/960320 "2022-03-02T22:41:03Z")
I am considering taking a long period of unpaid-leave absence from my company (long story) - perhaps 1 year or even longer - but the only way I think I could get this approved would be if my employer didn’t have to provi… --- ## [Composing music in dreams?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/composing-music-in-dreams/621290)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/composing-music-in-dreams/621290 "2022-03-02T22:09:53Z")
I recently read that any face you “see” while dreaming is really a memory of a face you’ve seen while awake. What about hearing music in dreams? I am not a musician but last night I dreamed about hearing a tune or even p… --- ## [Chelsea FC (Help me out, Im taking crazy pills)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chelsea-fc-help-me-out-im-taking-crazy-pills/960195)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chelsea-fc-help-me-out-im-taking-crazy-pills/960195 "2022-03-02T21:51:56Z")
Seriously help me out here guys. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Yesterday, the Chelsea owner (A rich Russian…supposedly oligarch) changed his position to protect his assets. Fine. Understandable. Its a business dec… --- ## [Is there a free photoshop/paint program with clear instructions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-free-photoshop-paint-program-with-clear-instructions/960305)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-free-photoshop-paint-program-with-clear-instructions/960305 "2022-03-02T20:59:36Z")
I’m a painter, and I work from photos on my computer—just to get me started, blocking out the stuff I want to put where on the canvas, and I find that photos help me get the proportions right. That is, I don’t do most o… --- ## [Subscription clothes service](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-clothes-service/960324)
**Author:** [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-clothes-service/960324 "2022-03-02T20:23:59Z")
Just wondering if anyone has used a subscription clothes service and if it is something you’d recommend. I hate shopping for clothes and avoid it. Also, is there a company that is recommended? --- ## [Are there any 3D picture phone apps available?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-3d-picture-phone-apps-available/943306)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-3d-picture-phone-apps-available/943306 "2022-03-02T20:13:05Z")
For phones that have three or more lens, are there any good phone apps that actually allow you to take 3D pictures (not 360 degree pictures, but actual 3D), preferably for Android phones? --- ## [Family Member just Died with no will - Who Has Right to Make Funeral Arrangements?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-member-just-died-with-no-will-who-has-right-to-make-funeral-arrangements/960218)
**Author:** [@edwin\_klockars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwin_klockars)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-member-just-died-with-no-will-who-has-right-to-make-funeral-arrangements/960218 "2022-03-02T20:00:14Z")
Context: My family contains a number of estranged members that do not communicate regularly with each other and have differing opinions on key topics such as making arrangements for this funeral. Question: Typically sp… --- ## [Idle speculation about Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-speculation-about-trump/960306)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idle-speculation-about-trump/960306 "2022-03-02T19:53:10Z")
If Trump says he won the last election, then he’s claiming that he was elected twice. Therefore, he can’t run again. The only way he can run again if he is willing to say that he wasn’t elected elected twice. He can’… --- ## [Hilarious math errors posted on Social Media](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-math-errors-posted-on-social-media/959529)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-math-errors-posted-on-social-media/959529 "2022-03-02T18:44:15Z")
This article makes me wonder what is happening in schools today. This article is funny. The most basic reasonable test hasn’t been applied. Last day as a teenager. Its scary to think when your twenty, you’ve been alive … --- ## [I'm being subpeonaed as a witness. Any advice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-subpeonaed-as-a-witness-any-advice/960301)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-being-subpeonaed-as-a-witness-any-advice/960301 "2022-03-02T18:32:05Z")
So sometime last summer a bunch of cars on my street were broken into a various things were stolen. First I knew about is was when my neighbor knocked on my door the next morning. His neighbor’s porch camera caught the … --- ## ['Fresh Water Otter' commercial?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-water-otter-commercial/960161)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fresh-water-otter-commercial/960161 "2022-03-02T17:29:46Z")
ISTR a commercial when I was very young in the '60s in San Diego, that had a ‘fresh water otter’ as a mascot. ‘\[Something, something\], the Fresh Water Otter!’ Does anyone else recall it? Was it a bottled water commerc… --- ## [You hear someone died of Covid. Do you ask?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-hear-someone-died-of-covid-do-you-ask/960234)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-hear-someone-died-of-covid-do-you-ask/960234 "2022-03-02T16:09:56Z")
If they were vaxxed? It seems like recently I’ve had a couple of people referring to memorial services and such for people who recently died from Covid. None of them have commented as to whether or not the deceased was… --- ## [How would I get a cat to space?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-i-get-a-cat-to-space/960250)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-i-get-a-cat-to-space/960250 "2022-03-02T16:03:55Z")
I was thinking about Alien/s and Ripley’s cat Jonesy. Could a cat survive liftoff in a rocket? Or would it need its own little spacesuit of some kind and presumably sedation? Assuming there’s some sort of artificial grav… --- ## [Looking for a proverb in French that resembles "Sois lent au choix, mais encore plus lent au changement." or carries the same meaning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-proverb-in-french-that-resembles-sois-lent-au-choix-mais-encore-plus-lent-au-changement-or-carries-the-same-meaning/960175)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-proverb-in-french-that-resembles-sois-lent-au-choix-mais-encore-plus-lent-au-changement-or-carries-the-same-meaning/960175 "2022-03-02T15:44:26Z")
Looking for a proverb in French that resembles the wording: \*“Sois lent au choix, mais encore plus lent au changement.”(Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.) or carries the same meaning \*The translatuion is mi… --- ## [Food allergies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-allergies/960317)
**Author:** [@Dbug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dbug)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-allergies/960317 "2022-03-02T15:02:01Z")
I read an article that said 80 to 90 % of people have some sort of food allergy or intolerance. I recently discovered i have something called oral allergy syndrome. which basically means my body thinks raw tomato raw on… --- ## [Expressway Plowed Snow "Snowramps" Are Coming To Kill You](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressway-plowed-snow-snowramps-are-coming-to-kill-you/960153)
**Author:** [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressway-plowed-snow-snowramps-are-coming-to-kill-you/960153 "2022-03-02T14:57:51Z")
Plowed snow pushed to the outer walls of highways, notably on elevated roadways, can form a ramp to launch you over the edge. It happened to this guy… --- ## [Russia and the Ukraine: Why should I care?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-and-the-ukraine-why-should-i-care/960067)
**Author:** [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-and-the-ukraine-why-should-i-care/960067 "2022-03-02T13:48:28Z")
I do not want to bog down the threads about Russia invading the Ukraine because presumably the people posting in those threads actually care about the issue. Whereas I am trying to figure out why I should. I am the oppo… --- ## [You know things are getting back to normal when](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-things-are-getting-back-to-normal-when/960351)
**Author:** [@cytop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cytop)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-things-are-getting-back-to-normal-when/960351 "2022-03-02T12:53:52Z")
The Atherstone ball game DCCCLXXXII has just been played… (The Super bowl has a way to go to match that :slight\_smile: ) --- ## [Someone Needs to Invent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-needs-to-invent/958689)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 229\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-needs-to-invent/958689 "2022-03-02T12:28:20Z")
It looks like this topic was brought up in 2008. I think it’s time it was revisited. A couch cover that stays on the couch. I keep our couch and loveseat covered because that’s where the dogs can usually be found. I’ve … --- ## [Would death still be bad if a positive afterlife existed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-death-still-be-bad-if-a-positive-afterlife-existed/960177)
**Author:** [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-death-still-be-bad-if-a-positive-afterlife-existed/960177 "2022-03-02T09:07:18Z")
The existence of an eternal afterlife is proven definitively. It’s a place of unimaginable bliss, fulfillment, wonder etc and is governed by a generic, deistic, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and omnibenevolent God.… --- ## [Question about book endpapers - Heinlein related](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-book-endpapers-heinlein-related/960298)
**Author:** [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-book-endpapers-heinlein-related/960298 "2022-03-02T02:42:04Z")
Robert Heinlein’s 1941 serial “Methuselah’s Children” was put into book form by Gnome Press in 1958. The volume is a bibliographer’s nightmare. There are at least four different colors of the boards and the publisher cha… --- ## [I Clearly Press Smiley, And Get A Frown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-clearly-press-smiley-and-get-a-frown/957102)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-clearly-press-smiley-and-get-a-frown/957102 "2022-03-02T02:20:03Z")
And I have had it happen more than once. I type “:”. Then I am given a choice of emojis. I clearly press smile. I know I do. And every time I get a frown. The only solution appears to be do it manually then. Anyone el… --- ## [What's the maximum amount of military intervention possible against a nuclear state without triggering nuclear war?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-maximum-amount-of-military-intervention-possible-against-a-nuclear-state-without-triggering-nuclear-war/960258)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-maximum-amount-of-military-intervention-possible-against-a-nuclear-state-without-triggering-nuclear-war/960258 "2022-03-02T01:53:20Z")
Anytime someone suggests direct military intervention against Russia, even if only a slight amount, some people immediately reply, “Then the nukes fly!” I would argue that this sort of absolutist stance ends up giving R… --- ## [What (if anything) is good about rural America?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-is-good-about-rural-america/922450)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 252\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-is-good-about-rural-america/922450 "2022-03-02T01:43:29Z")
The view of many these days is heavily negative of rural America: Opioids, taking in more taxpayer income from the blue states than vice versa, Trump country, “clinging to guns and Bibles,” coal-mining jobs lost, and thi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1191&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1193&state=tracking)