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**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invisible-fence-for-dogs/854813 "2020-06-03T13:12:47Z")
Anyone have one? I think my older dog would be OK with it but maybe not my 4 year old who still acts like a puppy. Both are around lab size. Older dog is Aussie Shepherd mix , younger dog is red tick coonhound. --- ## ["1060 West Addison???....that's Wrigley Field!"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1060-west-addison-thats-wrigley-field/493714)
**Author:** [@ScatteredFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScatteredFrog)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1060-west-addison-thats-wrigley-field/493714 "2020-06-03T11:56:17Z")
Okay, I just wanted to get some opinions and thoughts here… My favorite movie ever is Blues Brothers, and my wife’s a big fan of it too…so we do have discussions once in a while about certain things in the movie, and re… --- ## [Photobucket has kidnapped my pictures.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photobucket-has-kidnapped-my-pictures/854852)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photobucket-has-kidnapped-my-pictures/854852 "2020-06-03T11:47:07Z")
Some years ago I opened a free account with Photobucket and for a while it worked fine. I now ant to recover all of them (several hundred) but I can only download them one at a time. It seems that if I want whole albums… --- ## [Getting rid of McAfee?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-mcafee/854686)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-mcafee/854686 "2020-06-03T10:58:37Z")
My new laptop came with the McAfee virus pre-installed. Even as Administrator, I was unable to delete. Once or twice a day, it pops up, usually when I am in the middle of something, nagging me to buy it. Needless to s… --- ## [How many complaints are filed against a typical police officer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-complaints-are-filed-against-a-typical-police-officer/854708)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-complaints-are-filed-against-a-typical-police-officer/854708 "2020-06-03T10:30:21Z")
The media has reported that the officer involved in the death of George Floyd had racked up 18 formal complaints against him over 18 years of duty. This was presented without any context. For context, how often does a … --- ## [Hong Kong; the End](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-the-end/854276)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-the-end/854276 "2020-06-03T05:34:44Z")
Relations with the US suck anyway, and besides everyone is distracted, the Chinese seem to be ending Hong Kong’s special status. I hope I am not being panicked by the headlines. But it seems President-for-Life Xi has dec… --- ## [My local newspaper didn't publish today, and didn't tell us they were going to (not) do this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-newspaper-didnt-publish-today-and-didnt-tell-us-they-were-going-to-not-do-this/854466 "2020-06-03T05:16:55Z")
I put this here because I don’t think it’s quite Pit-worthy, but it was sure annoying to go to several stores before I finally found YESTERDAY’S paper on a newsstand, and the clerk said, “Oh, yeah, we didn’t get any pape… --- ## [Republicans remove Rep. Steve King (Racist-Iowa) from committees](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-remove-rep-steve-king-racist-iowa-from-committees/827787)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-remove-rep-steve-king-racist-iowa-from-committees/827787 "2020-06-03T05:16:49Z")
The House Republicans surprised me by actually asking concrete action against habitual racist Rep. Steve King of Iowa Usually Republicans engage in empty platitudes when one of their fellow party members expresses rac… --- ## [Battling for Azeroth: The Upcoming WoW Expansion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battling-for-azeroth-the-upcoming-wow-expansion/813783)
**Author:** [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battling-for-azeroth-the-upcoming-wow-expansion/813783 "2020-06-03T04:13:52Z")
May be time for a new WoW thread, as Battle for Azeroth (BfA) is being released on August 14, with the pre-patch probably by mid-July. Anyone excited for the new expansion? Please spoiler datamined info or info gleaned f… --- ## [They can't kill us all](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-cant-kill-us-all/854943)
**Author:** [@MaverocK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaverocK)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-cant-kill-us-all/854943 "2020-06-03T02:48:57Z")
I am not from the US. I am not a dark skinned individual, and I most likely don’t count as “white” as well. I didn’t share anything in social media and didn’t join the protests where I live here in Germany (but I am no G… --- ## [An OMFG Reaction Video to Edgar Winters Frankenstein Live](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omfg-reaction-video-to-edgar-winters-frankenstein-live/854953)
**Author:** [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omfg-reaction-video-to-edgar-winters-frankenstein-live/854953 "2020-06-03T02:41:26Z")
I really didnt think I would like this but it absolutely rocks. Edgar moves from instrument to instrument. The musicianship is off the charts. Why he wasnt a bigger star astonishes me. Amazing. --- ## [What style refrigerator do you prefer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-style-refrigerator-do-you-prefer/854764)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-style-refrigerator-do-you-prefer/854764 "2020-06-03T01:48:36Z")
We’ve had side-by-sides for most of the past 35 years. My wife always wanted a freezer in the bottom, mainly because she’s short. When we bought our house a year ago, the previous owner left a freezer on the bottom style… --- ## [I don't really like binge watching TV shows.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-really-like-binge-watching-tv-shows/854577)
**Author:** [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-really-like-binge-watching-tv-shows/854577 "2020-06-03T01:46:26Z")
It seems like the default viewing method nowadays, but I just don’t enjoy watching that much of one thing all at once. I get the appeal, if you like it, great. I like the occasional movie marathon, and I’m fine watching … --- ## [cheeseburgers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheeseburgers/854837)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheeseburgers/854837 "2020-06-03T01:37:57Z")
It’s after midnight and I want a cheddar cheeseburger on toasted bread with lettuce, tomato and mayo. But I am too weary to make it. A reason to get up in the morning. I might dream of this burger, and while I do not cu… --- ## [What is this machine? (Supposedly the Nazi "Die Glocke" Wunderwaffen)(Cue Theramin)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-machine-supposedly-the-nazi-die-glocke-wunderwaffen-cue-theramin/854754)
**Author:** [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-machine-supposedly-the-nazi-die-glocke-wunderwaffen-cue-theramin/854754 "2020-06-03T01:32:41Z")
Many here I’m sure are aware of the rumor/popular myth of “Die Glocke” (“The Bell”), a mysterious device built in secret by Nazi Germany using fiendish superscience—described alternately as an anti-gravity device, a time… --- ## [Talk to me about dusters please (coats)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-dusters-please-coats/708389)
**Author:** [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-dusters-please-coats/708389 "2020-06-03T01:06:20Z")
I’m looking at dusters, the ones that look best to me are from the down under. Like this one. OK, that didn’t work right…scroll down to the combo drover coat. What are rain capes? Can they be used as hoods, or do they j… --- ## [Why did Nazi Germany allow foreign reporters?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-nazi-germany-allow-foreign-reporters/852161)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-nazi-germany-allow-foreign-reporters/852161 "2020-06-03T00:27:34Z")
I’m watching World on Fire and Helen Hunts character is an American journalist in Berlin. I get that the US was neutral at this time, but she has appears to have a surprising amount of freedom. She does have a minder fr… --- ## ["AND WHAT IS SO RARE AS A DAY IN JUNE?" audio?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-what-is-so-rare-as-a-day-in-june-audio/854875)
**Author:** [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-what-is-so-rare-as-a-day-in-june-audio/854875 "2020-06-03T00:00:37Z")
Can anyone find someone reading this poem on the internet somewhere? --- ## [Opinions on moving to Albuquerque](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-moving-to-albuquerque/854835)
**Author:** [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-on-moving-to-albuquerque/854835 "2020-06-02T23:37:13Z")
It feels like I do a thread like this every couple of months. (In fact, I did one 3 months ago asking about the Hampton Roads area, but I didn’t get that job.) So,here we go again: What are people’s opinions about relo… --- ## [Stupid little movies you love from the 90's-early 2000's](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 135\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-movies-you-love-from-the-90s-early-2000s/853100 "2020-06-02T23:04:40Z")
Not even guilty pleasure…just love U-571. I don’t care about the historical complaints. No one said it wasn’t fiction. Fast-paced. Great cast. Subverts a lot of expectations as far as the cast goes. Passenger 57. I’m p… --- ## [The Big Box Collection: game box nostalgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-box-collection-game-box-nostalgia/854043)
**Author:** [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-big-box-collection-game-box-nostalgia/854043 "2020-06-02T22:55:38Z")
I started PC gaming in a significant way around 2000 and I still have a nostalgia for the big boxes, fat manuals and other assorted goodies of that era. I still have the great Alpha Centauri box and manual somewhere. Fo… --- ## [Ok memorial weekend 1977 your at the movies which one would or did you see](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-memorial-weekend-1977-your-at-the-movies-which-one-would-or-did-you-see/854395)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-memorial-weekend-1977-your-at-the-movies-which-one-would-or-did-you-see/854395 "2020-06-02T22:44:40Z")
here’s an article talking about a rare feat … this weekend saw two popular movies open at the theaters at the same time and the sales pitch to the theatre bookers and it attempts to dispel a few myths about a certain mov… --- ## [Low-risk, low-reward or high-risk, high-reward?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-risk-low-reward-or-high-risk-high-reward/854877)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/low-risk-low-reward-or-high-risk-high-reward/854877 "2020-06-02T20:21:10Z")
Without getting into specifics (the scenarios could be myriad), which approach do you generally prefer? --- ## [Snowbird down.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowbird-down/854010)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowbird-down/854010 "2020-06-02T20:08:33Z")
One of the Snowbirds died today in a crash in Kamloops, British Columbia. The Snowbirds are the RCAF’s acrobatic team. They’ve been flying across Canada on a morale boosting effort, starting with flights in Nova Scotia … --- ## [Whatever happened to Capt. Thomas Stradling? \[From the events that inspired 'Robinson Crusoe'\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-capt-thomas-stradling-from-the-events-that-inspired-robinson-crusoe/854941)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-capt-thomas-stradling-from-the-events-that-inspired-robinson-crusoe/854941 "2020-06-02T19:49:59Z")
Alexander Selkirk, whose story formed the basis of the novel, was marooned after he decided his chances were better on a desert island than on the leaky old tub that he was traveling on. His suspicions turned out to be … --- ## [Supporting Floyd and BLM while opposing violence](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-floyd-and-blm-while-opposing-violence/854860)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/supporting-floyd-and-blm-while-opposing-violence/854860 "2020-06-02T19:47:07Z")
I am seeing Facebook memes/posts: MLK quotes “A riot is the language of the unheard” and memes: “White people: Can’t black people protest peacefully? (Image of Kaepernick kneeling) NOT LIKE THAT!” The consensus appears … --- ## [My new hobby - revisiting my old threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hobby-revisiting-my-old-threads/854940)
**Author:** [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-hobby-revisiting-my-old-threads/854940 "2020-06-02T19:26:32Z")
I’m looking back over some of the GQ threads I started years ago - I thought I was about to ask something I had asked years ago and I ended up jumping into a rabbit hole. And what a lovely rabbit hole it is! Cecil actu… --- ## [Who will replace Boeing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-boeing/854871)
**Author:** [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-replace-boeing/854871 "2020-06-02T19:24:26Z")
Here is a pointless question that came to me. Boeing is a very old, very large, and right now very challenged company. Exactly the kind of company that competition and new blood/ideas replace. Just what happened to Se… --- ## [I tried "butter cheese" for the 1st time!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tried-butter-cheese-for-the-1st-time/854367)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-tried-butter-cheese-for-the-1st-time/854367 "2020-06-02T19:19:48Z")
What new snacks have you tried out for the 1st time lately? Dr. Q the M knows his cheese, so I expect that he’s familiar with what ze Germans refer to as “butterkase” (there should be an umlaut above the a there). It’s … --- ## [May 2020 probabilistic senate prediction competition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-2020-probabilistic-senate-prediction-competition/853889)
**Author:** [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-2020-probabilistic-senate-prediction-competition/853889 "2020-06-02T19:14:12Z")
I have a Twitter robot that produces a probabilistic prediction for senate races of every day at 4:42 MT. My prediction is derived directly from the prediction market PredictIt which has markets for 13 of the 35 senate … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1847) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1849)