# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1332 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1333 --- ## [DM Academy After-school club for fourth and fifth graders: how would you handle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dm-academy-after-school-club-for-fourth-and-fifth-graders-how-would-you-handle/951031)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dm-academy-after-school-club-for-fourth-and-fifth-graders-how-would-you-handle/951031 "2021-09-21T15:42:45Z")
In a month or so, I’ll be starting an eight-week long, one-hour-a-week afterschool club for fourth and fifth graders who want to try their hands at running D&D as a dungeon master. It’ll only be for kids with previous ex… --- ## [What Are You Teaching Your Grandkids?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-teaching-your-grandkids/951002)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-teaching-your-grandkids/951002 "2021-09-24T23:04:28Z")
For those of you that are grandparents, what bits of wisdom/experiences are you passing down to the grandkids? I’m not talking about the stuff the parents should be teaching them, but the things you are interested in. I… --- ## [Something I'd Like to Share About Michigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-id-like-to-share-about-michigan/951266)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-id-like-to-share-about-michigan/951266 "2021-09-24T21:46:25Z")
Michigan being my home state, if you don’t know that by now. Michigan (when it was still a territory) became the first place in the English-speaking world to outlaw the death penalty. And the State of Michigan has never… --- ## [Any advice/recommendations for my son moving to uptown Charlotte, NC?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-advice-recommendations-for-my-son-moving-to-uptown-charlotte-nc/951028)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-advice-recommendations-for-my-son-moving-to-uptown-charlotte-nc/951028 "2021-09-24T21:16:18Z")
Well, the title says it, basically. It’s my son first post-college job, and he’ll be moving to Charlotte in about a month. We’re helping him look at apartments online (initial read: wow they’re inexpensive relative to wh… --- ## [RIP Michael K Williams](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-k-williams/950184)
**Author:** [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-michael-k-williams/950184 "2021-09-24T21:12:33Z")
Terrible loss. Always such a great presence. --- ## [Driving school for an adult who is returning to the road?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-school-for-an-adult-who-is-returning-to-the-road/480147)
**Author:** [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driving-school-for-an-adult-who-is-returning-to-the-road/480147 "2021-09-24T18:23:02Z")
After seven years, I have a real credit card again. This means that I can easily rent a car again. However, I am very rusty on driving, having done almost none since 2000. I’d like to take a refresher course to reacquain… --- ## [Day trips from Monterey. Suggestions sought](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/day-trips-from-monterey-suggestions-sought/950823)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/day-trips-from-monterey-suggestions-sought/950823 "2021-09-24T17:45:21Z")
Back in June, while I was on leave recovering from surgery, I planned a road trip with my fiancée. The idea was to drive from Orange County, check into a hotel in Monterey for several days, and do a day trip every day, t… --- ## [Original Star Trek-The Alternate Cast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-star-trek-the-alternate-cast/950571)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/original-star-trek-the-alternate-cast/950571 "2021-09-24T17:42:32Z")
I am looking for alternate contemporary actors that you think would have made the original series even better. I’ll start with James Coburn as James Tiberius Kirk. I think he would have interacted with the crew even be… --- ## [Windows 10 without SSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-without-ssd/951152)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-without-ssd/951152 "2021-09-24T17:38:43Z")
Have you every used Win10 on a machine with an old-style hard disk? Is it usable? I just swapped out a SSD for a 6yr old (new) 1TB 2.5’ laptop HD, and Win10 was effectively unusable. I was surprised: I hadn’t heard that… --- ## [Is Nickelodeon really a cesspit of child abuse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nickelodeon-really-a-cesspit-of-child-abuse/950942)
**Author:** [@AtheistZara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtheistZara)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nickelodeon-really-a-cesspit-of-child-abuse/950942 "2021-09-24T16:47:30Z")
I hope this is the right forum for this question. I need educated opinions on this subject. So I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole and wound up on a video of Amanda Bynes on the Howie Mandel show in 1999. Amanda was not… --- ## [NOOOOOOO the political ads are already starting!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nooooooo-the-political-ads-are-already-starting/951199)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nooooooo-the-political-ads-are-already-starting/951199 "2021-09-24T16:34:54Z")
I have the news on as background in the morning while I WAH. Just in the last few days political ads have started running. WTF? The midterm elections are over a year away. These ads are not for or against any proposed ca… --- ## [Grant Imahara dies at 49 of an aneurysm](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grant-imahara-dies-at-49-of-an-aneurysm/915278)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grant-imahara-dies-at-49-of-an-aneurysm/915278 "2021-09-24T15:12:47Z")
This makes me so sad. Not only did I like him on MythBusters, if you’re pretty regularly on Wil Wheaton’s board game show, where he was a fun person to watch. This fucking year. --- ## [A large meteor may have destroyed a Middle Eastern region in 1600BC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-meteor-may-have-destroyed-a-middle-eastern-region-in-1600bc/951130)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-large-meteor-may-have-destroyed-a-middle-eastern-region-in-1600bc/951130 "2021-09-24T14:09:01Z")
Interesting article. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3 The evidence seems to be a layer of Quartz, which is something found after high-pressure events (like a nuclear or meteor burst) and not otherwise… --- ## [Are there generally accepted lyrics to Have A Tequila?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-generally-accepted-lyrics-to-have-a-tequila/951216)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-generally-accepted-lyrics-to-have-a-tequila/951216 "2021-09-24T13:49:47Z")
Have A Tequila is a parody of Hava Nagila. The thing is, I’ve only heard these partial lyrics: ♫ Have a tequila Have a tequila Have a tequila \[something something something\] ♫ ♫ Uncle Herschel brought some schnapps … --- ## [Dishwasher recommendations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-recommendations/949021)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dishwasher-recommendations/949021 "2021-09-24T13:35:51Z")
Looks like the last time this question was asked was in '17, long enough ago that things may have changed enough to ask again I think, though I did skim through the '17 thread. Our 5 year old Whirlpool dishwasher has be… --- ## [Diablo II: Resurrected](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-ii-resurrected/950903)
**Author:** [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-ii-resurrected/950903 "2021-09-24T12:42:54Z")
The new remake of Diablo II is coming out in just a few days, September 23rd @ 11am eastern. I greatly enjoyed playing it back in the day, I’ve played many ARPGs, I had so much fun playing this back in the day, so, I wen… --- ## [RIP: Roger Michell (Notting Hill Director) Dead at 65](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-roger-michell-notting-hill-director-dead-at-65/951236)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-roger-michell-notting-hill-director-dead-at-65/951236 "2021-09-24T03:39:08Z")
I like Notting Hill, but I think that is the only movie of his I’ve seen. --- ## [Australians: where to buy good wine for delivery in your country?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australians-where-to-buy-good-wine-for-delivery-in-your-country/416657)
**Author:** [@Barrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 25, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australians-where-to-buy-good-wine-for-delivery-in-your-country/416657 "2007-08-25T04:39:00Z")
My sister emigrated to Australia years ago, and is now living in Brisbane, and her 50th birthday is coming up. Our parents and I are still back in the UK, and we want to buy here something special for her birthday. Our… --- ## [How should I overwinter my garden?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-overwinter-my-garden/951077)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-overwinter-my-garden/951077 "2021-09-24T07:11:06Z")
I have a section of my garden that are all wildflowers - no real landscaping just wild flowers. There are a combination of annuals and perennials and some from bulbs most from seed. So when should I weedwack them (if e… --- ## [General Milley promising to tip off China in advance if America planned to attack: OPSEC violation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-milley-promising-to-tip-off-china-in-advance-if-america-planned-to-attack-opsec-violation/950665)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 73\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-milley-promising-to-tip-off-china-in-advance-if-america-planned-to-attack-opsec-violation/950665 "2021-09-24T04:17:24Z")
This is more of a GQ question, but I suspect mods will shift it over to Great Debates sooner or later, so I might as well put it here: In January, during Trump’s last days, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Mark Mi… --- ## [Blacked out from Gabapentin, anyone know how that happened?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacked-out-from-gabapentin-anyone-know-how-that-happened/657388)
**Author:** [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacked-out-from-gabapentin-anyone-know-how-that-happened/657388 "2021-09-24T04:09:22Z")
Hello everyone, I’m a chronic pain patient and my doctor is trying to find an alternative treatment besides opiates to combat the pain. Recently he had me using Gabapentin and things seemed to be going well. I first sta… --- ## [Screening IVF embryos for different traits (poll)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screening-ivf-embryos-for-different-traits-poll/951058)
**Author:** [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screening-ivf-embryos-for-different-traits-poll/951058 "2021-09-24T04:08:04Z")
Companies have started to offer the option to screen IVF embryos for traits encoded by multiple genes, in order to reduce the chance that the child will suffer from diseases like diabetes or heart attack, and the same te… --- ## [Return of the son of what are the best rock concerts you've seen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-son-of-what-are-the-best-rock-concerts-youve-seen/950951)
**Author:** [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/return-of-the-son-of-what-are-the-best-rock-concerts-youve-seen/950951 "2021-09-24T03:16:57Z")
Really enjoying the most disappointing concert thread, and being reminded of a few meh live experiences I’ve had got me thinking in the other direction. I did a search and AFAICT the last time there was a “best concerts”… --- ## [Are iMacs vulnerable to 'ForcedEntry' (the recently discovered zero-click remote exploit)? If so, is it possible to patch an old machine running OS10.12.6?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-imacs-vulnerable-to-forcedentry-the-recently-discovered-zero-click-remote-exploit-if-so-is-it-possible-to-patch-an-old-machine-running-os10-12-6/951193)
**Author:** [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-imacs-vulnerable-to-forcedentry-the-recently-discovered-zero-click-remote-exploit-if-so-is-it-possible-to-patch-an-old-machine-running-os10-12-6/951193 "2021-09-24T03:14:31Z")
I have an old (2015) iMac running OS 10.12.6. Because of hardware constraints (I think) I haven’t been able to update the OS for years now so am stuck with using 10.12.6. Is my machine vulnerable to ForcedEntry? If so, … --- ## [Can a person knowledgeable in HVAC help a doper out?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-knowledgeable-in-hvac-help-a-doper-out/951208)
**Author:** [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-knowledgeable-in-hvac-help-a-doper-out/951208 "2021-09-24T02:58:56Z")
So I have had some leakage on my basement floor. Took a while to find where it was coming from, but it is coming from fine streams of water coming out our furnace/AC. Here’s a pic. … --- ## [Used car prices (near term predictions)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/used-car-prices-near-term-predictions/923622)
**Author:** [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/used-car-prices-near-term-predictions/923622 "2021-09-24T02:52:29Z")
When the pandemic started there was a dip in used car prices, and predictions that they would drop further due to the Hertz bankruptcy. But this has not happened, and used car prices are actually relatively high these da… --- ## [ABBA is making a comeback. When should entertainers call it quits?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-making-a-comeback-when-should-entertainers-call-it-quits/950121)
**Author:** [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-making-a-comeback-when-should-entertainers-call-it-quits/950121 "2021-09-24T02:51:02Z")
Heard on the radio yesterday, that ABBA is releasing a new album and doing a virtual concert with ABBA-tars, where they’re singing, but are replaced by holographic versions of their younger selves. https://www.ft.com/con… --- ## [Why hasn't the media rubbed our noses in COVID deaths? It might be the thing that saves us](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-the-media-rubbed-our-noses-in-covid-deaths-it-might-be-the-thing-that-saves-us/926555)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 276\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hasnt-the-media-rubbed-our-noses-in-covid-deaths-it-might-be-the-thing-that-saves-us/926555 "2021-09-24T02:46:38Z")
Famously, in the US, the Vietnam War became unpopular as the media showed Americans dying in jungles and showed their caskets coming back from the war. In Vietnam we lost around 50,000 soldiers. Depending how you want … --- ## [Car electronics issue. Small but weird](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-electronics-issue-small-but-weird/951211)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-electronics-issue-small-but-weird/951211 "2021-09-24T01:58:54Z")
On my 2005 GMC Envoy Denali, have two issues that are impossible to find on the internet. The seat warmer lights - y’know the LEDs that indicate the heater is on - doesn’t come on. But the heater seems to work just fi… --- ## [Humor that doesn’t age well](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humor-that-doesn-t-age-well/949723)
**Author:** [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Replies:** 278\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/humor-that-doesn-t-age-well/949723 "2021-09-23T22:17:40Z")
I’m watching Steve Martin’s “Wild and Crazy Guy” routine, and find it hard to believe that people paid good money to watch him back then. Was he universally liked? If so, that humor REALLY hasn’t aged well: … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1331) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1333)