# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1438 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1439 --- ## [How many syllables are there in your pronunciation of the word "oil"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-syllables-are-there-in-your-pronunciation-of-the-word-oil/942777)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-syllables-are-there-in-your-pronunciation-of-the-word-oil/942777 "2021-06-04T20:50:06Z")
How many syllables are there in your pronunciation of the word “oil”? poll The “one syllable” version I typically hear is a Southern-style “oyl” where the L is nearly silent. The “two syllable” version that I use mysel… --- ## [A hearty "fuck you" to irresponsible pet owners](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hearty-fuck-you-to-irresponsible-pet-owners/848010)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-hearty-fuck-you-to-irresponsible-pet-owners/848010 "2021-06-04T20:44:59Z")
The person 2 doors down is rarely (never?) at home, and decided to get cheap home security by installing a large shepherd/rottweiler mix in his back yard. As time has worn on, the dog is getting understandably bored. He’… --- ## [Would Chauvin have been convicted of anything if the BLM protests hadn't involved violence?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-chauvin-have-been-convicted-of-anything-if-the-blm-protests-hadnt-involved-violence/942797)
**Author:** [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-chauvin-have-been-convicted-of-anything-if-the-blm-protests-hadnt-involved-violence/942797 "2021-06-04T20:38:04Z")
This is a question that occurred to be when reading this thread. We need to be careful about excusing violence; that said I think a case can be made that without the violence over the summer that Chauvin doesn’t get con… --- ## [I'm already automatically logged into my Gmail account, but how do I find out what my password is, for future reference?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-already-automatically-logged-into-my-gmail-account-but-how-do-i-find-out-what-my-password-is-for-future-reference/943572)
**Author:** [@Something](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Something)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-already-automatically-logged-into-my-gmail-account-but-how-do-i-find-out-what-my-password-is-for-future-reference/943572 "2021-06-04T20:36:37Z")
My pc is already automatically logged into my gmail account, but I don’t remember my password, so I need to find out what it is for future reference. Repeat: I’m already IN my account, but for future reference I need to … --- ## [Suggestions wanted for making Horror game more Suspenseful](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-wanted-for-making-horror-game-more-suspenseful/942527)
**Author:** [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestions-wanted-for-making-horror-game-more-suspenseful/942527 "2021-06-04T20:29:24Z")
Hi. I am looking for suggestions on how to make the following RPG scenario more suspenseful and scary. The scenario is this: the PC is an engineer, 1 year into a 3 year stint on an undersea, automated, mining base on a … --- ## [How the CDC and WHO missed that Covid was airborne for so long](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-cdc-and-who-missed-that-covid-was-airborne-for-so-long/943144)
**Author:** [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-the-cdc-and-who-missed-that-covid-was-airborne-for-so-long/943144 "2021-06-04T19:11:46Z")
This is a fascinating article about how a “known fact” about how respiratory droplets behave was wrong, and what it took to get the WHO and CDC and medical establishment to acknowledge it, while it was costing lives. --- ## [Getting to first base in other cultures](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-to-first-base-in-other-cultures/942833)
**Author:** [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-to-first-base-in-other-cultures/942833 "2021-06-04T18:42:34Z")
Meandering through XKCD I came across this gem and I got to wondering, are there similar metaphors for high schoolers in cultures not interested in baseball? I mean, in a soccer-oriented country there’s always Sc-o-o-o-… --- ## [Cool things to do on public computers that you can't do on your own computers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-to-do-on-public-computers-that-you-cant-do-on-your-own-computers/943577)
**Author:** [@Something](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Something)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-things-to-do-on-public-computers-that-you-cant-do-on-your-own-computers/943577 "2021-06-04T18:22:52Z")
Well, are there any? I guess a) you can search for things that you don’t want your S.O. or family to potentially know about, b) you can search and not have google know it’s you so they can’t send you targeted ads, and c… --- ## [Help me find the right grill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-right-grill/623674)
**Author:** [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-the-right-grill/623674 "2021-06-04T17:29:23Z")
I’m in the market for a grill. Our needs are modest (just the two of us) but we would like to entertain once or twice a summer. We would likely be cooking steak, chicken, vegetables, maybe fish. I suppose hamburgers and… --- ## [Is this real or a hoax? (Reparations with a 'revolutionary mass organisation')](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-real-or-a-hoax-reparations-with-a-revolutionary-mass-organisation/943614)
**Author:** [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-real-or-a-hoax-reparations-with-a-revolutionary-mass-organisation/943614 "2021-06-04T16:34:06Z")
Reparations Are you white? Do you want to help? Do you want to be a good person, on the right side of history? The only way you can wash the blood off your hands is through following the leadership of African, Indigeno… --- ## [Results # 1-10 of 11](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/results-1-10-of-11/943570)
**Author:** [@blabbermeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blabbermeister)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/results-1-10-of-11/943570 "2021-06-04T15:52:40Z")
Do any kind of web search, query etc and they usually dole out the results 10 at a time (or 20 or 50 or whatever), to lower the load on the server. In cases where there’s just one or two results remaining I think those … --- ## [The Threat of Denialism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-threat-of-denialism/943515)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-threat-of-denialism/943515 "2021-06-04T15:39:21Z")
Excerpts from my latest Substack… It may be me, but the above seems an extremely weak approach to the situation we are facing today. “Work through the issue”? The issue is that the Internet is the single greatest vec… --- ## [Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski to retire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duke-coach-mike-krzyzewski-to-retire/943514)
**Author:** [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duke-coach-mike-krzyzewski-to-retire/943514 "2021-06-04T15:23:24Z")
Whatever you think about Duke (and fans tend to have pretty strong feelings one way or the other), Coach K has obviously had an enormous impact on college basketball. Coming just months after Roy Williams’ retirement, i… --- ## [Asian-Americans: has the rise in anti-Asian hostility changed your behavior?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asian-americans-has-the-rise-in-anti-asian-hostility-changed-your-behavior/943529)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asian-americans-has-the-rise-in-anti-asian-hostility-changed-your-behavior/943529 "2021-06-04T15:21:09Z")
The dramatic increase in reports of anti-Asian hostility in the US over the past year - and especially the reports of brutal physical attacks - is disturbing, disappointing, and sad (although to be fair, it was all of th… --- ## [17 year old girl pushes bear off a wall](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-girl-pushes-bear-off-a-wall/943511)
**Author:** [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-year-old-girl-pushes-bear-off-a-wall/943511 "2021-06-04T14:36:44Z")
…and gets away with it. She was protecting her dogs who were in the process of objecting to the bear’s(and her cubs) presence. --- ## [Talk me into (or out of) vacationing in Havana, Cuba](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-into-or-out-of-vacationing-in-havana-cuba/942594)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-into-or-out-of-vacationing-in-havana-cuba/942594 "2021-06-04T13:26:08Z")
My Beloved and I need to Get Da Fuck Outta Here (Portland, Oregon) as soon as it is feasible. We’ve looked at several various spots and, on a lark, I looked into Havana and found out that flights are damn cheap and Air … --- ## [Alphabetical order by first name?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabetical-order-by-first-name/942383)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alphabetical-order-by-first-name/942383 "2021-06-04T12:59:58Z")
Is that something that is common or becoming common now? I noticed it in the list of signees in this open letter from employees of IGN. --- ## [Harvard, "The Pig Book," and Facebook](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harvard-the-pig-book-and-facebook/700778)
**Author:** [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harvard-the-pig-book-and-facebook/700778 "2021-06-04T12:47:51Z")
A long time ago a friend at the University of Pennsylvania, I think, told me–or maybe I read it somewhere–that a thing at colleges, pre-computers or anything, was for guys to pass around a collection of pictures of incom… --- ## [Smartphone games- actual game completely different from ad](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smartphone-games-actual-game-completely-different-from-ad/943509)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smartphone-games-actual-game-completely-different-from-ad/943509 "2021-06-04T05:24:51Z")
While playing games on my Android I occasionally see ads for a game called “Puzzles & Survival”. Your character starts at the outbreak of a zombie plague, and has to move from room to room evading zombies while solving p… --- ## [Veracity of Ghost Claims on the Travel Channel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veracity-of-ghost-claims-on-the-travel-channel/943495)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veracity-of-ghost-claims-on-the-travel-channel/943495 "2021-06-04T04:55:27Z")
Alright, after getting tacit permission (you will note no moderator told me I couldn’t), I think I will go ahead with this thread. Has anyone ever seen any of the shows (there’s more than one) on ‘real’ ghost stories o… --- ## [Is there such a thing as 'customizable bowdlerizer' ap that will run on a kindle?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-a-thing-as-customizable-bowdlerizer-ap-that-will-run-on-a-kindle/943552)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-a-thing-as-customizable-bowdlerizer-ap-that-will-run-on-a-kindle/943552 "2021-06-04T02:35:31Z")
Yes, it’s stupid, but one of my ancient aunt’s greatest pleasure is reading, something that she can now do again thanks to a cataract operation AND her kindle with the option of goosing up the font size. The remaining p… --- ## [Is this the worst freshman class ever in the USA House of Representatives?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-worst-freshman-class-ever-in-the-usa-house-of-representatives/943374)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-worst-freshman-class-ever-in-the-usa-house-of-representatives/943374 "2021-06-04T01:52:05Z")
Both the Republicans and Democrats elected some horrible new members to Congress last November. Being a troll and being an asshole on Twitter is the only qualification for many of these For the Democrats, the most odio… --- ## [Email Spoofing - Has my wife's phone been compromised?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-spoofing-has-my-wifes-phone-been-compromised/943486)
**Author:** [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-spoofing-has-my-wifes-phone-been-compromised/943486 "2021-06-03T23:21:50Z")
My wife recently received an spoofed email that purportedly came from our veterinarian. There was a zip file attached, and my wife tapped it (she was on her iphone at the time). Nothing happened, but she almost immediat… --- ## [Help me Understand Non-Fungible Tokens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-non-fungible-tokens/938969)
**Author:** [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-non-fungible-tokens/938969 "2021-06-03T22:52:26Z")
Every now and then, I try to educate myself on the latest tech hype. Non-fungible tokens have been around for a while, but (at least in my perception), they’ve been really exploding lately, with digital artists earning r… --- ## [The Mosquito Wars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mosquito-wars/943300)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mosquito-wars/943300 "2021-06-03T22:49:39Z")
They are always bad here in South Texas, but this year is extra bad. Especially in my back yard. I have the cutest deck, which is practically unusable at this time of year without employing heavy artillery and clever str… --- ## [Annual moon photo question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-moon-photo-question/943152)
**Author:** [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-moon-photo-question/943152 "2021-06-03T22:22:06Z")
Hi! I live in a house with a narrow valley behind me, with a clear view of a prominent house a couple miles away on the next ridge: On the evening of my birthday in late April … --- ## [Things where prices have skyrocketed during the pandemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-where-prices-have-skyrocketed-during-the-pandemic/938356)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-where-prices-have-skyrocketed-during-the-pandemic/938356 "2021-06-03T22:09:41Z")
There is a thread for items that have disappeared due to the pandemic (certain less popular sodas for examples, or for a while toilet paper), but I don’t know if there is a thread for items that haven’t disappeared, just… --- ## [Where were horses first domesticated?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-horses-first-domesticated/943557)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-horses-first-domesticated/943557 "2021-06-03T21:26:02Z")
Somewhere I read that horses were first domesticated and ridden in war in Kazakhstan. Any truth to this? And if not, where did it happen as far as we can tell? --- ## [Do scientists fully understand the variability in human response, to the second dose of Covid vaccine?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-scientists-fully-understand-the-variability-in-human-response-to-the-second-dose-of-covid-vaccine/942837)
**Author:** [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-scientists-fully-understand-the-variability-in-human-response-to-the-second-dose-of-covid-vaccine/942837 "2021-06-03T20:48:38Z")
Pfizer and Moderna under discussion here. Understood : The vaccine is effective no matter the bodily response. Also understand all the simplified examples like : “The first shot is like this … and second shot is like th… --- ## [Interesting Supreme Court Case Regarding Computer Hacking](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-supreme-court-case-regarding-computer-hacking/941590)
**Author:** [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-supreme-court-case-regarding-computer-hacking/941590 "2021-06-03T19:39:53Z")
Short version. In a sting operation, a police officer took money to look up the DMV records of someone for unofficial use. He was convicted under a federal computer hacking law which makes it illegal for someone who … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1437) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1439)