# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1409 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1410 --- ## [I pit drive-throughs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drive-throughs/945345)
**Author:** [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drive-throughs/945345 "2021-07-04T12:57:07Z")
There are (at least) three reasons restaurant drive-throughs suck: They take longer. I just picked up lunch at a local fast food place. There was a black Explorer third in line at the drive-through. I walked in, place… --- ## [Skateboard riding bulldogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skateboard-riding-bulldogs/945602)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skateboard-riding-bulldogs/945602 "2021-07-04T08:14:42Z")
Why always (afaict) bulldogs? I’m thinking maybe their lower center of gravity helps. Do the dogs actually steer and consciously go where they want? --- ## [Five Years Until the US Semiquincentennial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-years-until-the-us-semiquincentennial/945592)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-years-until-the-us-semiquincentennial/945592 "2021-07-04T06:32:54Z")
This makes me feel old. I graduated high school in 1976. Now we are staring the Semiquincentennial in the face. Probably time to start planning. The tour of the founding documents (by train last time) was a big hit. I b… --- ## [My Use of Single Quote Marks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-single-quote-marks/945354)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-use-of-single-quote-marks/945354 "2021-07-04T06:01:37Z")
I don’t know if anyone’s ever noticed. But I use the convention of the single quote marks instead of the more American double quote marks. (And BTW I definitely am American \[Michigander\*\].) It actually started about 20 … --- ## [Where are your glasses; or Brain Farts I Have Known](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-your-glasses-or-brain-farts-i-have-known/943958)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-your-glasses-or-brain-farts-i-have-known/943958 "2021-07-04T05:08:22Z")
I just spent five minutes looking for my glasses–only to realize that they were on top on my head. I had pupped them up on top for some reason, and completely forgot that they were there. I looked here and there, kitch… --- ## [Bizzaro life forms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizzaro-life-forms/945503)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizzaro-life-forms/945503 "2021-07-04T05:04:42Z")
The link is to a series of photos of creatures living in the ocean’s twilight zone. No need to look to outer space for aliens. You couldn’t make these things up. Evolution is an amazing process. --- ## [When did we convert to Discourse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-we-convert-to-discourse/945472)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-we-convert-to-discourse/945472 "2021-07-04T04:09:08Z")
I’m genuinely worried about my brain. I was thinking we’ve been using Discourse for only a few months, but it turns out to be a solid year. Why don’t I remember what I was doing the second half of 2020? Was there a so… --- ## [Delta Variant Incredibly Contagious In Australia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-variant-incredibly-contagious-in-australia/944924)
**Author:** [@Tilt-A-Whirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tilt-A-Whirl)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delta-variant-incredibly-contagious-in-australia/944924 "2021-07-04T02:39:48Z")
This news out of Australia seems horrible, the virus transmitted between strangers just walking past each other in a mall. Is this as bad as it seems? It sure looks bad to me. Also, is this Dr Eric Feigl-Ding a reliabl… --- ## [This has to be a scam, yeah?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-to-be-a-scam-yeah/945471)
**Author:** [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-has-to-be-a-scam-yeah/945471 "2021-07-04T02:32:27Z")
99% of me thinks it is. But I can’t figure out the angle, unless the link is dirty. Anyway, I got this text today… I haven’t clicked on the link yet. But I did text the phone number. And it turns out that it’s a landl… --- ## [Mimi...Telecaster Jam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimi-telecaster-jam/945564)
**Author:** [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimi-telecaster-jam/945564 "2021-07-04T01:23:06Z")
Thanks to a good friend for passing this along. --- ## [Disney Drops ‘Slave 1’ Name On Lego’s Boba Fett ‘Star Wars’ Ship](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-drops-slave-1-name-on-lego-s-boba-fett-star-wars-ship/945285)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-drops-slave-1-name-on-lego-s-boba-fett-star-wars-ship/945285 "2021-07-04T00:07:27Z")
Opinions? Personally I think it is ridiculous. Boba Fett is a bad guy. His ship’s name reflects his character. I see no reason to sanitize that. It is a fantasy world. Nothing to do with slavery on earth. It seems… --- ## [What is a cable? (communications)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-cable-communications/945547)
**Author:** [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-cable-communications/945547 "2021-07-03T23:34:14Z")
I’m reading a book about the Aldrich Ames spy case in which they communicate between embassies by sending and receiving “cables”. Most of the activity takes place in the 1970s and 1980s which is before the internet, and … --- ## [Trying to pay on eBay](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-pay-on-ebay/945511)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-pay-on-ebay/945511 "2021-07-03T21:04:38Z")
I’m trying to make a purchase. I click the “complete purchase” button. It takes me to the checkout page, where I have the option of PayPal or my debit card. If I choose debit, it needs me to update my security code. I do… --- ## [SoundCloud for music sucks (or I am doing something wrong)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundcloud-for-music-sucks-or-i-am-doing-something-wrong/945582)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundcloud-for-music-sucks-or-i-am-doing-something-wrong/945582 "2021-07-03T20:18:43Z")
My brother is a guitar player and posts to this site. I can never hear anything I click on, I get these endless dot dot dots, with a 140 mbps internet. But he posts links on FB and others can hear them. Do you have to h… --- ## [Your 'simple' requests for the holiday weekend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-simple-requests-for-the-holiday-weekend/945599)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-simple-requests-for-the-holiday-weekend/945599 "2021-07-03T19:34:41Z")
I thought this was simpler than it turned out to be: I’m freezing and I don’t have a roommate. If I could walk I’d turn down/off the air conditioner myself, but instead I asked the nurse to do it. “But it’s going to b… --- ## [Rock artists who also compose classical music](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-artists-who-also-compose-classical-music/944365)
**Author:** [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-artists-who-also-compose-classical-music/944365 "2021-07-03T18:37:20Z")
Today I heard Billy Joel’s Opus 2. Waltz # 1, from Fantasies and Delusions. It got me thinking, what other rock artists have composed classical music? Paul McCartney (Liverpool Oratorio, 1991; Standing Stone, 1997; Work… --- ## [Help finding a Leonard Cohen song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-leonard-cohen-song/945601)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-leonard-cohen-song/945601 "2021-07-03T17:37:24Z")
I’ve just spent 30 minutes bumbling my way through google to no avail. Not much to go on so sorry… Anyway, the song is about some people fighting or conflict, iirc. The governing body is watching from, by or across a l… --- ## [Scam or mistake? Need I worry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scam-or-mistake-need-i-worry/945608)
**Author:** [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scam-or-mistake-need-i-worry/945608 "2021-07-03T17:28:36Z")
I got three emails, sent within a 15 minute window, from Costco. The oldest one changed my Costco payment method (to a card held by someone with a different name), the next confirmed my order from costco.com; the newest… --- ## [An odd aerodynamic phenomenon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-aerodynamic-phenomenon/945519)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-odd-aerodynamic-phenomenon/945519 "2021-07-03T17:27:12Z")
The machine pictured is very similar to one I worked around in a corregated box plant. Where I worked, a die cutter would cookie-cut small boxes out of larger sheets and form a little stack which would be advanced to t… --- ## [A policy of political exploitation backed by military strength to gain control of the economic resources on which the Nato countries rely](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-policy-of-political-exploitation-backed-by-military-strength-to-gain-control-of-the-economic-resources-on-which-the-nato-countries-rely/945499)
**Author:** [@cannonkuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cannonkuo)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-policy-of-political-exploitation-backed-by-military-strength-to-gain-control-of-the-economic-resources-on-which-the-nato-countries-rely/945499 "2021-07-03T17:20:04Z")
Since the founding of NATO, the Soviet threat has become a global threat, no longer conveniently (for the Alliance) confined to the European central front, its flanks, and the transatlantic crossing the Atlantic ocean, o… --- ## [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: What's going on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-whats-going-on/852759)
**Author:** [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-whats-going-on/852759 "2021-07-03T14:43:58Z")
So the Pentagon has disclosed that three videos recorded by Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015 respectively are unknown craft performing aerodynamic manouvers that no existing aircraft, foreign or domestic, is capable of doing… --- ## [Google Play Store apps stealing FB credentials](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-play-store-apps-stealing-fb-credentials/945593)
**Author:** [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-play-store-apps-stealing-fb-credentials/945593 "2021-07-03T13:12:06Z")
Make sure that you haven’t linked any of these apps to a FB account. Unistall them if you have them. If you think your FB account may have been compromised change your password. PIP Photo Processing Photo Rubbish Clean… --- ## [My mother was scammed by a tech support person](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-was-scammed-by-a-tech-support-person/945510)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-mother-was-scammed-by-a-tech-support-person/945510 "2021-07-03T10:57:49Z")
Yesterday, she got sick of waiting to talk to someone at Verizon so she googled “How do I speak to a real live person at Verizon Wireless” and the first result is supportforusa .com (broken on purpose). From there, she … --- ## [Bicycles with gyroscopic effect "cancelled out"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bicycles-with-gyroscopic-effect-cancelled-out/942505)
**Author:** [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bicycles-with-gyroscopic-effect-cancelled-out/942505 "2021-07-03T09:21:49Z")
I keep seeing reference to the idea that bicycles don’t stay up because the wheels are gyroscopes. People even have built bikes with extra wheels that “cancel out the effect.” I thought that spinning objects don’t like t… --- ## [Forgotten desserts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-desserts/944024)
**Author:** [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Replies:** 181\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-desserts/944024 "2021-07-03T05:47:59Z")
I got to thinking about desserts that nobody seems to make any more, namely Nesselrode pie icebox cookies (plain dough shaped into oblongs, to be sliced/baked later) bombes Lady Baltimore cake or its cousin, Lord Bal… --- ## ['Once Upon a Time in Hollywood', the book](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-the-book/945443)
**Author:** [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-the-book/945443 "2021-07-03T03:43:43Z")
I’ve just finished reading the “novelization” of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, written by Tarantino himself. I absolutely loved it. It expands on the film entertainingly without duplication. There are a variety of genre… --- ## [How many steps does Giannis Alphabetokisis \[Antetokounmpo\] take in this clip?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-steps-does-giannis-alphabetokisis-antetokounmpo-take-in-this-clip/945121)
**Author:** [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-steps-does-giannis-alphabetokisis-antetokounmpo-take-in-this-clip/945121 "2021-07-03T03:31:27Z")
(Sorry. Can’t spell his name right. You know who I mean.) https://twitter.com/i/status/1408606000341471233 I count at least 5, maybe 6. Ridiculous. Also isn’t switching dribbling hands against the rules? It used to ge… --- ## [Why do we say "achoo" when we sneeze?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-say-achoo-when-we-sneeze/945061)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-say-achoo-when-we-sneeze/945061 "2021-07-03T02:57:40Z")
More specifically, why is there any vocalization at all? When I breathe heavily while working out I don’t vocalize. When I cough I don’t vocalize. What is it about a sneeze that activates the vocal cords? Note: prior th… --- ## [You're a Hall of Fame athlete, freshly retired. What do you do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-hall-of-fame-athlete-freshly-retired-what-do-you-do/944954)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-a-hall-of-fame-athlete-freshly-retired-what-do-you-do/944954 "2021-07-03T00:58:38Z")
Say you’re a Hall of Fame athlete - in whichever sport you prefer - but your body has now called it quits and you can’t do it anymore, and have just retired. You’ve made hundreds of millions of dollars, have suffered you… --- ## [You too can be an Audiophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-too-can-be-an-audiophile/940278)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-too-can-be-an-audiophile/940278 "2021-07-03T00:15:14Z")
Follow this handy step-by-step instructional. Buy your sixth “newly remastered” reissue copy of (pick one) “Kind of Blue” / “Dark Side of the Moon” / “Brothers in Arms” / “Aja”. Play it and compare to your other five c… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1408) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1410)