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**Author:** [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrefridgerated-food/855453 "2020-06-13T13:28:46Z")
Nasty storm last night, all along the coast of ohio. Some places got it bad, apparently a big M from McDonalds crashed to the ground in Avon. My electricity was off (at least my fridge and the building, my lights stayed … --- ## [Anyone Paint by Numbers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-paint-by-numbers/855387)
**Author:** [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-paint-by-numbers/855387 "2020-06-13T13:09:47Z")
I keep seeing ads online for paint by numbers kits and they looks like so much fun. I haven’t done one since I was a kid and these seem like they are of better quality than what I had back then. I am furloughed next mo… --- ## [Blinded by the Light](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/855421)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/855421 "2020-06-13T12:07:05Z")
Wrapped up like a douche … gave my anus curly-wurly … etc. You know what I’m talking about. I assert that this goes beyond misheard lyrics and that Manfred Mann deliberately ambiguously pronounced lyrics in order to ca… --- ## [Judge overturns Oregon Governor's Covid-19 restrictions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-overturns-oregon-governors-covid-19-restrictions/854083)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 113\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-overturns-oregon-governors-covid-19-restrictions/854083 "2020-06-13T10:18:14Z")
Prodded by a group of churches, a county judge has tossed restrictions laid down by Governor Brown, saying that she needed the approval of the Oregon legislature first. This is disturbing to me. --- ## [Would a geopolitical disagreement affect your marriage?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-geopolitical-disagreement-affect-your-marriage/855550)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-geopolitical-disagreement-affect-your-marriage/855550 "2020-06-13T07:13:10Z")
There has been a lot of talk about how political disagreements can tear a marriage apart - disagreements over race, gender, etc. - usually with the view that those are issues of fundamental human rights or truth/untruth … --- ## [Help me raccoon proof a garbage shed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-raccoon-proof-a-garbage-shed/855417)
**Author:** [@blood63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blood63)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-raccoon-proof-a-garbage-shed/855417 "2020-06-13T06:37:28Z")
A crafty raccoon has managed to penetrate the deterents of my girlfriend’s garbage shed. Currently a hefty 2 x 6 completely spans the double doors and slides neatly into two metal supports that are open at the top. The… --- ## [Photographers! Need help creating digital proof sheets: bad color balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photographers-need-help-creating-digital-proof-sheets-bad-color-balance/855461)
**Author:** [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photographers-need-help-creating-digital-proof-sheets-bad-color-balance/855461 "2020-06-13T06:17:45Z")
I’ve decided to start the gargantuan process of digitizing my still film negatives and slides. For much of my adult life I have been a semi-professional photographer and journalist. I started taking pictures in high scho… --- ## [What the fuck is going on at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-going-on-at-the-pittsburgh-post-gazette/855292)
**Author:** [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-is-going-on-at-the-pittsburgh-post-gazette/855292 "2020-06-13T04:44:59Z")
So apparently, Black reporters are not allowed to report or comment on black protests because…they’re biased. Holy Mary Mother of Christ. Since when did the Post Gazette become the Daily Caucasian? Very disappointin… --- ## [What would a time traveler have to do to convince you he's really one?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-time-traveler-have-to-do-to-convince-you-hes-really-one/855305)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-time-traveler-have-to-do-to-convince-you-hes-really-one/855305 "2020-06-13T04:24:12Z")
Related to this thread, but starting a separate one so as not to derail it: Say someone shows up in our world and claims he’s from the year 2200 and got here via time machine. You can hardly understand a word he’s sayin… --- ## [Sight-seeing bucket list.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-seeing-bucket-list/837708)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sight-seeing-bucket-list/837708 "2020-06-13T04:23:42Z")
Do you have a bucket list for sights, either in the US or elsewhere? What are the sights you want to see before you die? --- ## [Which countries have functional, law-abiding, non-hostile law enforcement...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-have-functional-law-abiding-non-hostile-law-enforcement/855409)
**Author:** [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-have-functional-law-abiding-non-hostile-law-enforcement/855409 "2020-06-13T03:13:42Z")
…and what lessons can the US take from them? Okay, the past couple of weeks have convinced me that America’s police forces are, in the main, rancid dumpster fires, as opposed to the proverbial few rotten apples. A lot o… --- ## [Water Deficiency.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-deficiency/855448)
**Author:** [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/water-deficiency/855448 "2020-06-13T03:05:34Z")
I don’t have a cite. But for some time, some people, allegedly emboldened by the experts, said water deficiency was a big problem in the U.S. Then more recently they said (again after consulting with the ‘experts’?) that… --- ## [If you could travel to the year 1820, how could you prove you were from the future?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-to-the-year-1820-how-could-you-prove-you-were-from-the-future/854931)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 208\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-travel-to-the-year-1820-how-could-you-prove-you-were-from-the-future/854931 "2020-06-13T03:03:22Z")
With no notice and no preparation, you are transported to the year 1820 stark naked. A passerby takes pity on you and gives you some clothes. “I am from the year 2020!” you claim. Telling them about technologies or worl… --- ## [Repeating the end of one's spoken sentence to one's self?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeating-the-end-of-ones-spoken-sentence-to-ones-self/855487)
**Author:** [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/repeating-the-end-of-ones-spoken-sentence-to-ones-self/855487 "2020-06-13T02:53:14Z")
Not at the same volume as the sentence, quite, almost contemplative or as listening to a recording of what one just said. And repeated regularly, not just a one time occurrence. Is there a word for it, and does it indi… --- ## [A poll on current events: racism vs. coronavirus](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-on-current-events-racism-vs-coronavirus/855343)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-on-current-events-racism-vs-coronavirus/855343 "2020-06-13T02:49:04Z")
Okay, no handholding with this poll, no requests for nuance or hypotheticals. Just answer the question in the way you feel is most accurate. Same with the political divisions. --- ## [concerning bum guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerning-bum-guns/855498)
**Author:** [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/concerning-bum-guns/855498 "2020-06-13T02:20:40Z")
AKA “hand held bidet sprayers”. During the great covid 19 TP crisis, I remembered I had one of these things lying around to try it out, and had never gotten around to installing it. Seemed like a good time. This is no… --- ## [Specific Gravities of liquids](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/specific-gravities-of-liquids/855568)
**Author:** [@DrForrester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrForrester)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/specific-gravities-of-liquids/855568 "2020-06-13T01:57:59Z")
Does anyone know if the Specific Gravities of liquids are linearly additive for mixtures? I know that volumes are not. I am hopeful that Specific Gravities are, because my company’s accounting software thinks that they… --- ## [Monster Train is fun!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-train-is-fun/855524)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-train-is-fun/855524 "2020-06-13T01:21:35Z")
It’s a new deck building game on Steam inspired by Slay the Spire (which is also good if you haven’t tried it). You have a battlefield with three levels where you can place units that defend against enemies that march up… --- ## [Clothesline, keep or remove?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothesline-keep-or-remove/855203)
**Author:** [@a6ka97](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a6ka97)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothesline-keep-or-remove/855203 "2020-06-13T00:56:31Z")
My wife and I bought a house that was built in 1955 to use as a rental property. The house has the typical 50s clothesline in the backyard, 2 large metal pipes sunk into the ground and 2 smaller metal pipes as the crossb… --- ## [You get looped back to January 1, 2020. Whatcha gonna do different?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-looped-back-to-january-1-2020-whatcha-gonna-do-different/855210)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-get-looped-back-to-january-1-2020-whatcha-gonna-do-different/855210 "2020-06-12T23:49:39Z")
You wake up January 1 knowing everything you know now. From the macro to the micro. Covid. Murder hornets. Riots. If you remember specific lottery numbers or stock swings, go for it. Friend unexpectedly passes? Ma… --- ## [Judicial responsibility for no-knock raids should not be ignored](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-responsibility-for-no-knock-raids-should-not-be-ignored/855573)
**Author:** [@Anita\_Dayoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Dayoff)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-responsibility-for-no-knock-raids-should-not-be-ignored/855573 "2020-06-12T23:40:12Z")
In our governmental system of checks and balances it appears that the judiciary has failed us by frequently acting as little more than a rubber stamp for requests by the executive branch. Every one of those warrants, ma… --- ## [What does this quote about gender by Judith Butler mean](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-quote-about-gender-by-judith-butler-mean/855406)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-quote-about-gender-by-judith-butler-mean/855406 "2020-06-12T23:19:08Z")
I was watching onion videos and saw this one where a guy quotes Judith Butler. What exactly does that mean? It was taken from Butler’s book ‘gender trouble’, but if the rest of the book is as heavy as tha… --- ## [Test poll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll/855359)
**Author:** [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-poll/855359 "2020-06-12T22:55:12Z")
It’s been too long, want to make sure I can still remember how. --- ## [Paw Patrol on Nickelodeon bye bye](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paw-patrol-on-nickelodeon-bye-bye/855530)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paw-patrol-on-nickelodeon-bye-bye/855530 "2020-06-12T22:47:44Z")
Cops, Live PD , now cartoon Paw Patrol! Come on…Paw Patrol!? --- ## [Got cicadas?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-cicadas/855535)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-cicadas/855535 "2020-06-12T22:42:40Z")
Here in my western burb of Chicago, we’ve got quite a few. As I understand, this is a brood that comes out 4 yrs before the big 17-yr brood. Not overwhelming as the big one, but still pretty loud, w/ a lot of shells an… --- ## [Suggestion - how about a "threadspotted" icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-how-about-a-threadspotted-icon/530413)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggestion-how-about-a-threadspotted-icon/530413 "2020-06-12T22:38:57Z")
Suggestion - When we look at the list of threads in a forum, how about an icon next to a thread title if it has been included in Tuba’s threadspotting section. Maybe a little rosette, or a little medal on a stripy ribbo… --- ## [If you're not wearing a mask at the grocery store by now, you're a fucking idiot.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-not-wearing-a-mask-at-the-grocery-store-by-now-youre-a-fucking-idiot/854558)
**Author:** [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Replies:** 96\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-not-wearing-a-mask-at-the-grocery-store-by-now-youre-a-fucking-idiot/854558 "2020-06-12T21:48:48Z")
I get that face masks aren’t the most comfortable thing to wear, especially now that it is getting warm. But you know what else isn’t comfortable? Being laid up in the hospital for days or weeks and not being able to se… --- ## [Armed groups at polling stations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-groups-at-polling-stations/855304)
**Author:** [@Turki-lurki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turki-lurki)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/armed-groups-at-polling-stations/855304 "2020-06-12T21:24:09Z")
Partisan poll workers are pretty common in elections. In Virginia at least they are held back (about 50’ I think)from the polling place. In some places in recent years they have apparently been intimidating to some voter… --- ## [I'm misplacing a lot of reality again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-misplacing-a-lot-of-reality-again/855424)
**Author:** [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-misplacing-a-lot-of-reality-again/855424 "2020-06-12T21:13:31Z")
I’m watching the same few shows, napping too often and too long when they aren’t on, and generally being freakishly bored. I’ve chosen to not bore you folks to death, but my brother has sent me his initial Covid researc… --- ## [To Tell The Truth anomaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-tell-the-truth-anomaly/855521)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-tell-the-truth-anomaly/855521 "2020-06-12T19:37:11Z")
So I just finished watching an episode of the latest version of To Tell The Truth a few minutes ago, and the last part caught my eye. I recognized one of the three people stepping up and I immediately realized what the … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1833) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1835)