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**Author:** [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lack-of-coordination/929420 "2021-01-01T21:21:26Z")
Both approved vaccines in the US require a followup shot about 4 weeks later. Somewhere I read that Operation Warpspeed is holding back 55% of the vaccines to allow for this. (They had a reason for holding back more than… --- ## [Wifa skates: anybody familiar with them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wifa-skates-anybody-familiar-with-them/922920)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wifa-skates-anybody-familiar-with-them/922920 "2021-01-01T20:46:10Z")
Full disclosure: I was a figure skater; dance mostly, and I naturally had a partner. Wifa (pronounced “whiffa”) was (still is?) a high-end Austrian skate manufacturer that mostly did custom-made skates. I had the great… --- ## [Post Videos of Non-Drummers Playing Drums](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-videos-of-non-drummers-playing-drums/929364)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-videos-of-non-drummers-playing-drums/929364 "2021-01-01T20:33:14Z")
A member of a band who is not the drummer, but is playing drums… I know some are thinking of Paul McCartney, and I could see both sides. He does play drums on some songs, so you can decide for yourself. I would rather se… --- ## [Having tonsils out as an adult](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-tonsils-out-as-an-adult/928440)
**Author:** [@Dbug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dbug)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-tonsils-out-as-an-adult/928440 "2021-01-01T20:31:15Z")
Any one had there tonsils out as an adult? I am having it done the 30th and am quite nervous any tips for afterwords --- ## [Is there a decent pre-made chocolate pudding?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-pre-made-chocolate-pudding/929380)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-pre-made-chocolate-pudding/929380 "2021-01-01T20:10:48Z")
I like Kozy Shack brand but my store hasn’t had it since the pandemic began, I don’t know why. Their other products are there, just not this one. So I tried Hershey’s, and found it thick, gloppy and tasteless. I tried J… --- ## [Best Bond movie with the worst song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bond-movie-with-the-worst-song/929338)
**Author:** [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bond-movie-with-the-worst-song/929338 "2021-01-01T20:02:15Z")
My question here is not just about bad Bond songs. I’m asking about, in your opinion, the greatest contrast between the song and the movie it accompanies. For example: “Die Another Day” is a terrible Bond song. Out of c… --- ## [What do you think of as traditional for Christmas dinner?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-as-traditional-for-christmas-dinner/929101)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-of-as-traditional-for-christmas-dinner/929101 "2021-01-01T19:31:15Z")
This is a tangent from a thread in the pit about Christmas music. So, I’m not asking what you like to eat on Christmas, but what you think of as traditional foods (and especially “main courses”) and what part of the w… --- ## [Accessing straightdope boards using Firefox 84](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accessing-straightdope-boards-using-firefox-84/929372)
**Author:** [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accessing-straightdope-boards-using-firefox-84/929372 "2021-01-01T18:07:42Z")
I updated to Firefox 84.x.y.z a few days ago and instantly lost access to the Dope. It appears as if page requests to Discourse are being made and data is being transmitted but things eventually time out. Nothing appears… --- ## [Velvet Buzzsaw: When "great art" is bad art: SPOILER'S](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velvet-buzzsaw-when-great-art-is-bad-art-spoilers/929185)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/velvet-buzzsaw-when-great-art-is-bad-art-spoilers/929185 "2021-01-01T17:59:06Z")
I watched Velvet Buzzsaw last night. The central plot element is that a man living alone in an apartment dies, leaving behind a lifetme of paintings he’s never shown to anyone.\* An ambitious art gallery employee finds th… --- ## [James "Scotty" Doohan smuggled aboard the International Space Station!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-scotty-doohan-smuggled-aboard-the-international-space-station/929180)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-scotty-doohan-smuggled-aboard-the-international-space-station/929180 "2021-01-01T17:48:40Z")
According to his family, NASA turned dowm James Doohan’s request to have some of his asahes placed about the International Space Station. But they got him up there anyway. \[quote\] Doohan’s son Chris contacted \[Video g… --- ## [New Year, Old Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-year-old-crap/929439)
**Author:** [@Dinoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinoguy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-year-old-crap/929439 "2021-01-01T17:10:38Z")
New Year, Old Crap by Dinoguy . All cranked up to fail, everyone needs a new buzz. Straining at the latest pestilence, the children of the damned march to the last valley, where a wall of human bones bleache… --- ## ["Polls must have no more than 20 options"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-must-have-no-more-than-20-options/929424)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-must-have-no-more-than-20-options/929424 "2021-01-01T16:41:28Z")
I’ve run into this error tonight while trying to create my annual poll for best #1 song of the year, which I’ve been running since 2010. There are 22 songs that made #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2020, and I can’t list … --- ## [Cut Nails in the 1940s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-nails-in-the-1940s/929352)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-nails-in-the-1940s/929352 "2021-01-01T16:34:37Z")
This didn’t seem worthy of GQ, as it’s not all that important. We bought an older, neglected house and we’re trying to put it back to its glory. It isn’t clear whether it was built in 1930 or 1940, since various documen… --- ## [Inventions That Are Long Overdue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inventions-that-are-long-overdue/928032)
**Author:** [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Replies:** 238\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inventions-that-are-long-overdue/928032 "2021-01-01T16:23:07Z")
I’m surprised that in 2020, we still don’t have… A lightweight portable refrigerator that is around the size of a regular backpack, runs on a battery, and is easily affordable to the average household. What sort of gad… --- ## ["Scrape" as a term for clearing in a forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrape-as-a-term-for-clearing-in-a-forest/929181)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrape-as-a-term-for-clearing-in-a-forest/929181 "2021-01-01T16:13:18Z")
In some forests around here, people refer to some clear areas as “scrapes”. Is this a general usage for the word? Or perhaps just a localism? Does it imply anything, such as being human-made by scraping with heavy equipm… --- ## [Well, my Little Debbie Christmas Trees Cakes were delicious while they lasted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-little-debbie-christmas-trees-cakes-were-delicious-while-they-lasted/929408)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-my-little-debbie-christmas-trees-cakes-were-delicious-while-they-lasted/929408 "2021-01-01T15:42:45Z")
I look forward to buying 4 boxes of Little Debbie Christmas trees every year. 2 boxes Chocolate and 2 boxes Yellow cake. Just ate the last chocolate Christmas Cake Tree.:blush: There will be no more till December 2021. … --- ## [The temperature of ice water](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-temperature-of-ice-water/929259)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-temperature-of-ice-water/929259 "2021-01-01T15:26:21Z")
A popular physics trivia question asks what the temperature of ice water is. The answer is, unsurprisingly, 0 °C, 32 °F, 273 K, but the surprising bit about it is that this is inevitably so; even if you put the vessel wi… --- ## [Thread's last word was insults against me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-last-word-was-insults-against-me/929126)
**Author:** [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-last-word-was-insults-against-me/929126 "2021-01-01T15:14:06Z")
I’m unhappy with how the thread: The next pandemic in the US must be met with lethal force was closed. Basically, XT wrote a long evidence and logic-free accusation of me of being under the CCP’s thumb and knowingly l… --- ## [Does anyone else watch the youtube channel "Curiosity Incorporated"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-the-youtube-channel-curiosity-incorporated/928912)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-else-watch-the-youtube-channel-curiosity-incorporated/928912 "2021-01-01T14:37:23Z")
It’s a channel founded by an antiques dealer in Edmonton, Alberta. I’ve followed along as he has bought hoarder houses and rummaged through them for antiques and collectibles hidden beneath the layers. He auctions off … --- ## [Carbon dating artifacts. Does it date the item or when the item was created?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carbon-dating-artifacts-does-it-date-the-item-or-when-the-item-was-created/929313)
**Author:** [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carbon-dating-artifacts-does-it-date-the-item-or-when-the-item-was-created/929313 "2021-01-01T10:59:37Z")
Hello Everyone, I was listening to a podcast tonight and they were discussing an ancient wood carving. They said when it was found it was believed to be something like 600 years old, but carbon dating a few years ago … --- ## [Can you tell the difference between meats just by smell?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-meats-just-by-smell/929206)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-meats-just-by-smell/929206 "2021-01-01T10:05:00Z")
This is a question about food, but it’s not really a cuisine question, and I’m seeking information that’s mostly going to be opinions that are no doubt going to run into speculation, so I put it here, and not the Cafe, b… --- ## [Explain Simple Machines to me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-simple-machines-to-me/929039)
**Author:** [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-simple-machines-to-me/929039 "2021-01-01T07:11:15Z")
Wikipedia lists the simplest machine types as: \*Lever \*Wheel and axle \*Pulley \*Inclined plane \*Wedge \*Screw Now when I learned about simple machines, around the time of the Boer Wars, I was taught that there are t… --- ## [COVID vs. a nuclear strike](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-vs-a-nuclear-strike/929384)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/covid-vs-a-nuclear-strike/929384 "2021-01-01T02:31:46Z")
Saw this on Twitter this morning and I ran the simulation myself… Scenario 1: 800kt airburst of a Russian Topol nuclear warhead on midtown Atlanta Scenario 2: Actual COVID deaths in the United States in 2020 Answer… --- ## [Dick Clark's New Year's Rocking Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-clarks-new-years-rocking-eve/929391)
**Author:** [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dick-clarks-new-years-rocking-eve/929391 "2021-01-01T01:40:41Z")
It’s a bummer. I understand the need for no crowds, but it is just depressing. And the mask thing seems forced. There are about 11 people in Times Square and they are all wearing masks for the TV. I’m changing the ch… --- ## [Updating my IT skillset before my current job dries up and blows away](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/updating-my-it-skillset-before-my-current-job-dries-up-and-blows-away/917926)
**Author:** [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/updating-my-it-skillset-before-my-current-job-dries-up-and-blows-away/917926 "2021-01-01T00:39:07Z")
Earlier this year, before Covid-19 made it’s presence known in a big way, my company told me that they would be closing most or all of their business units and I would most likely be out of a job by the end of the year. … --- ## [Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - December 2020 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-december-2020-edition/926817)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [January 1, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-december-2020-edition/926817 "2021-01-01T00:24:49Z")
Well, we made it. This kidney stone of a year is nearly passed. However, Christmas approaches… and the dreaded Christmas Carols on endless loop shudder Soooo Whatcha all readin? Khadaji was one of the earlier members o… --- ## [Turnabout Is Fair Play](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turnabout-is-fair-play/929300)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turnabout-is-fair-play/929300 "2020-12-31T23:53:21Z")
Looks like the GiraffeBoards is down. Shall we welcome any refugees who need a place to hang out and post for the interim? --- ## [Which successful bands had the LEAST internal strife?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-successful-bands-had-the-least-internal-strife/929365)
**Author:** [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-successful-bands-had-the-least-internal-strife/929365 "2020-12-31T23:01:17Z")
We’ve all heard stores of bands that broke up, lost members, or just had lots of drama due to the band members’ failure to get along with one another. Which successful bands had members that all got along with one anoth… --- ## [The TV series: Fargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-series-fargo/928946)
**Author:** [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tv-series-fargo/928946 "2020-12-31T22:45:19Z")
OMG! Just into episode 2. No spoilers, please. I’m just flabbergasted, ya! --- ## [Could anyone help me with Sandboxie problems?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-anyone-help-me-with-sandboxie-problems/929385)
**Author:** [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-anyone-help-me-with-sandboxie-problems/929385 "2020-12-31T22:09:29Z")
I have downloaded Sandboxie at https://www.sandboxie.com/ For several months the program served me well – I ran Firefox sandboxed always. Suddenly, the program stopped working. I downloaded SandboxiePlus, but it did n… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1595) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1597)