# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1484 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1485 --- ## [Oohhh no, Ferry Halim's Orisinal games are gone!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oohhh-no-ferry-halims-orisinal-games-are-gone/940333)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oohhh-no-ferry-halims-orisinal-games-are-gone/940333 "2021-04-20T04:16:33Z")
Yes, I know, I’m prob the last person on the planet to realize Flash is gone (feel free to mock me) but damnit for a non-gamer those were not only fun games but a thing of beauty. Le sigh… --- ## [Press/Media STOP SAYING THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO KILL OTHERS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/press-media-stop-saying-the-names-of-those-who-kill-others/938817)
**Author:** [@Anita\_Dayoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Dayoff)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/press-media-stop-saying-the-names-of-those-who-kill-others/938817 "2021-04-20T04:12:23Z")
Call them murderers or cowards. Add accused or suspected if required but STOP SAYING THEIR NAMES. We should say the names of heroes, not those who kill others. --- ## [What Government/Military Agency Would Lead a Response to a Presumed Alien Landing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-government-military-agency-would-lead-a-response-to-a-presumed-alien-landing/940267)
**Author:** [@Malice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malice)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-government-military-agency-would-lead-a-response-to-a-presumed-alien-landing/940267 "2021-04-20T03:43:17Z")
Scenario: An object originating form outside the solar system is tracked as it makes several course corrections, strongly suggesting an intelligent operator, before landing somewhere in the continental U.S… Is there a g… --- ## [I'm a hippie. You're a hippie. Tell me your story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-hippie-youre-a-hippie-tell-me-your-story/940133 "2021-04-20T02:52:35Z")
I’m a young girl. Runaway and scared. My new adopted name is Starr. I love the Beatles. I have on embroidered jeans and a sweatshirt. On my way to Woodstock by thumb. On the way I meet Bob. Fall right in love. Bad t… --- ## [WWII destroyer question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-destroyer-question/940341)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-destroyer-question/940341 "2021-04-20T01:18:21Z")
I am reading “Tin Can Titans”. USS Radford, coming to the aid of another destroyer damaged by a mine, hit another mine. To lighten ship, anchors and “spare gun barrels” were thrown overboard. Were these BAR barrels, or… --- ## [Australia christens new ship with... a dance troupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-christens-new-ship-with-a-dance-troupe/940039)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/australia-christens-new-ship-with-a-dance-troupe/940039 "2021-04-20T01:06:41Z")
I’m really not sure what more to add. A new Australian navy ship was christened with, of all things, a hip hop performance from a troupe called 101 Doll Squadron. --- ## [Songs You'd Swear Were Sung by Someone Else](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-youd-swear-were-sung-by-someone-else/940331 "2021-04-20T00:42:36Z")
Sheryl Crow’s If It Makes You Happy popped up on my playlist recently. All through the 90s I was absolutely sure it was sung by Alanis Morissette. Of course, Rod Stewart was just messing with us. --- ## [Do we need to do Spring Cleaning in the MMP?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-need-to-do-spring-cleaning-in-the-mmp/939842)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 264\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-need-to-do-spring-cleaning-in-the-mmp/939842 "2021-04-19T23:24:57Z")
Actually, the real question is: Do you do spring cleaning, however you may describe it? I don’t think I ever did, and I can’t recall if my mom did, tho I expect she has some sort of end-of-winter cleaning routine. At a m… --- ## [Is it safe to stop wearing KN95 face masks and wear only cloth/surgical masks after getting fully vaccinated?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-stop-wearing-kn95-face-masks-and-wear-only-cloth-surgical-masks-after-getting-fully-vaccinated/940215)
**Author:** [@drkentries](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drkentries)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-stop-wearing-kn95-face-masks-and-wear-only-cloth-surgical-masks-after-getting-fully-vaccinated/940215 "2021-04-19T23:11:27Z")
So my husband and I are having a disagreement over when we can finally stop wearing KN95 masks and just wear cloth masks with a surgical mask underneath. He was under the impression that we no longer need to wear KN95 ma… --- ## [Active shooter situation in Austin, 3 dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/active-shooter-situation-in-austin-3-dead/940255)
**Author:** [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/active-shooter-situation-in-austin-3-dead/940255 "2021-04-19T23:04:25Z")
Active shooter situation underway in Austin, at least three dead and the gunman still on the loose. --- ## [Maximum number of mathematicians in this joke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-number-of-mathematicians-in-this-joke/939113)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-number-of-mathematicians-in-this-joke/939113 "2021-04-19T21:56:36Z")
Funny joke, but an infinite number of mathematicians is too many. There are only so many molecules in a pint of beer. To make it even more complex, there aren’t ‘beer molecules’, but a number of molecules that, in com… --- ## [What is a jsp extension?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-jsp-extension/940180)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-jsp-extension/940180 "2021-04-19T21:18:32Z")
There’s an online encyclopedia that I used to cite, but all of the pages were coming up as dead links. HOwever, I recently found one of the articles online. The difference is that instead of .html it has .jsp at the en… --- ## [Long lived marriages/relationships](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lived-marriages-relationships/939941)
**Author:** [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-lived-marriages-relationships/939941 "2021-04-19T21:07:55Z")
What are your secrets? Mrs. L and i are going on 7 years so I don’t know if we qualify. But I think for us, travel has been a biggie. --- ## [Homeless vs Unhoused, and other vocabulary shifts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-vs-unhoused-and-other-vocabulary-shifts/939993)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homeless-vs-unhoused-and-other-vocabulary-shifts/939993 "2021-04-19T20:53:24Z")
I’m starting to hear news stories about people living on the streets that refer to them as “unhoused”, rather than the more common “homeless”. I know that terminology and vocabulary changes, often to be more sensitive –… --- ## [Restaurant staff shortage causes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-staff-shortage-causes/939923)
**Author:** [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-staff-shortage-causes/939923 "2021-04-19T20:51:42Z")
Where I live there’s a trend recently toward staff shortage s in restaurants…to the point that we are seeing early closing times or random daily closings. People are grumbling about it on FB, placing 100% of the blame o… --- ## [Industries Ripe for Disruption](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/industries-ripe-for-disruption/939859)
**Author:** [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/industries-ripe-for-disruption/939859 "2021-04-19T20:39:32Z")
There are occasional threads here about car buying and dealers and it got me thinking about industries that should be or are ready to be disrupted. Here are a couple that come to mind… Car Dealerships. Fetid swamps of a… --- ## [Good Non-Ebay Alternative To Amazon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-non-ebay-alternative-to-amazon/939626)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-non-ebay-alternative-to-amazon/939626 "2021-04-19T20:30:45Z")
Amazon is becoming a hemorrhoid. I spend more time jousting with these idiots & their bureaucracy than I do filling orders. I’ve never been successful on Ebay. Are there other good alternatives for selling used books … --- ## [Mafia Hit Man?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-hit-man/940167)
**Author:** [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-hit-man/940167 "2021-04-19T20:05:19Z")
This goes back about 35-40 years or so. My parents lived (still do, actually) in Brooklyn, and they had a detached garage in the backyard, which they rented out. For a long while they rented it to an Italian guy, who kep… --- ## [Does anyone else remember that one podcast from about 5 years ago where a man read old news stories?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-remember-that-one-podcast-from-about-5-years-ago-where-a-man-read-old-news-stories/940128)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-remember-that-one-podcast-from-about-5-years-ago-where-a-man-read-old-news-stories/940128 "2021-04-19T19:59:42Z")
It was recommended on here about 5-7 years ago in a topic I can’t find, but basically it was a single guy reading old news stories for 30-40 minutes and he had a bunch of production around it to make it “old timey” inclu… --- ## [Biggest drop in suicide rate in 40 years - 6% in 2020 amid pandemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-drop-in-suicide-rate-in-40-years-6-in-2020-amid-pandemic/940084)
**Author:** [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-drop-in-suicide-rate-in-40-years-6-in-2020-amid-pandemic/940084 "2021-04-19T18:58:53Z")
Continuing the discussion from Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News: This is a big deal to me for a couple reasons. One of the reasons is because it was unexpected. Another reason is that Andr… --- ## [Fictional Future Fashion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-future-fashion/939799)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-future-fashion/939799 "2021-04-19T18:41:19Z")
The future of fashion is totally unpredictable-If you could show someone from the '20s what people would be wearing in the '50s, '80s, 2000s etc. their jaws would drop, and I’m pretty sure our jaws would drop if we got … --- ## [Is feeling completely sated a sign of overeating?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-feeling-completely-sated-a-sign-of-overeating/937491)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-feeling-completely-sated-a-sign-of-overeating/937491 "2021-04-19T18:27:05Z")
I just saw someone assert that it’s normal and healthy to always feel just a little bit hungry, because if you aren’t, you’re overeating. This was a new concept to me. Is there anything whatsoever to this? (I ask as I f… --- ## [Looks like a booster shot will be needed after a year](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-a-booster-shot-will-be-needed-after-a-year/940143)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-a-booster-shot-will-be-needed-after-a-year/940143 "2021-04-19T18:03:26Z")
I just heard on the news that a ‘third’ booster shot will be needed after a year. That’s assuming of course that one has gotten a two-shot dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. This is not surprising-- you need… --- ## [Bad, bad, bad kerfuffles. Mr. W flew in from Mexico. And....my Sister shows up](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-kerfuffles-mr-w-flew-in-from-mexico-and-my-sister-shows-up/940194)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-kerfuffles-mr-w-flew-in-from-mexico-and-my-sister-shows-up/940194 "2021-04-19T17:54:49Z")
First things first. Mr. Wrekker and Senior Sister hate each other. She was second Mother to us younguns. She is a bitch. I love her. Her kids love her. I think her employer kinda liked her. But she is the bossiest woma… --- ## [Has bullying actually got better?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bullying-actually-got-better/940162)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-bullying-actually-got-better/940162 "2021-04-19T17:30:52Z")
One of the random things I consider now I have kids of my own (though they are all still a long way from starting school properly) is whether bullying at school has actually got better since I was a kid. So for context … --- ## [Who was the most expendable character on Friends?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-expendable-character-on-friends/939415)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-expendable-character-on-friends/939415 "2021-04-19T17:00:23Z")
I define expendable as having the least effect on the show if the character had been written out. I vote for Phoebe. IMO, she didn’t really add much to the show. In second place would have been Joey. Chandler and Ross co… --- ## [House votes 415-2 on bill to reauthorize the National Marrow Donor Program. Guess which two voted nay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-votes-415-2-on-bill-to-reauthorize-the-national-marrow-donor-program-guess-which-two-voted-nay/940154)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-votes-415-2-on-bill-to-reauthorize-the-national-marrow-donor-program-guess-which-two-voted-nay/940154 "2021-04-19T16:56:32Z")
You’ll probably only need one guess each: What possible reason would those two fuckwits have for voting against it, I wonder? This Rawstory article has collected some choice twitter comments which slam them and basical… --- ## [Best battery-powered tools? Go!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-battery-powered-tools-go/940170)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-battery-powered-tools-go/940170 "2021-04-19T15:48:21Z")
I ask because, once you get the batteries then you may be fully invested in that ‘family’ of tools. I’m looking for basic tools. Nothing too exotic. So is it… Old Milwaukee? Ryobi? Craftsman? DeWalt? --- ## [What am I? I ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-i-ask/939947)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-i-ask/939947 "2021-04-19T14:46:48Z")
There’s a place you cannot go. There’s a thought you cannot think. There’s love you cannot love. There’s a person you cannot be. I am what I am. What am I? I do not know. --- ## [Anyone else feel unusually good after first Covid shot?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-unusually-good-after-first-covid-shot/940131)
**Author:** [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-feel-unusually-good-after-first-covid-shot/940131 "2021-04-19T14:04:19Z")
I got part one of my 2-part Covid-19 vaccine today (about 9 hours ago). I was expecting to feel at least some of the common side-effects. The only one that even comes close is a very mild soreness at the injection site. … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1483) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1485)