# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1862 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1863 --- ## [Government Admissions of Guilt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-admissions-of-guilt/854400)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-admissions-of-guilt/854400 "2020-05-24T21:55:10Z")
It usually takes a while, but I don’t think people are aware. And first impressions (or convenient ones) really do stick in your head. I think the media does this all the time - throwing something they know they’ll have … --- ## [CDC Lumping Together Active and Recovered Testing Data](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-lumping-together-active-and-recovered-testing-data/854342)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cdc-lumping-together-active-and-recovered-testing-data/854342 "2020-05-24T21:05:14Z")
The idiots at the CDC have been mixing together testing numbers from active COVID-19 cases with serology (antibody?) tests. Here is a semi-paywalled article: Epidemiologists in the article seem to think this is disas… --- ## [Rest in peace, former lead singer of The Pretty Things](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-former-lead-singer-of-the-pretty-things/854393)
**Author:** [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rest-in-peace-former-lead-singer-of-the-pretty-things/854393 "2020-05-24T20:50:55Z")
Phil May, British Rocker of Unbridled Energy, Is Dead at 75. Complications following hip replacement surgery. My favorite song of theirs. --- ## [Test post: 12345678901234](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-12345678901234/852684)
**Author:** [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-12345678901234/852684 "2020-05-24T19:23:22Z")
Trying to see how many characters fit into the title of a post. ETA: looks like 100. --- ## [South Korean soccer team fills stands with sex dolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korean-soccer-team-fills-stands-with-sex-dolls/854268)
**Author:** [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-korean-soccer-team-fills-stands-with-sex-dolls/854268 "2020-05-24T19:03:40Z")
In the category of “Who could have possibly thought this was a good idea?,” a South Korean soccer team, in a no-spectator match, placed about two dozen sex dolls in the stands to make it look like fans were present. Eve… --- ## [Warnings Reversed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-reversed/854195)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnings-reversed/854195 "2020-05-24T18:28:02Z")
Out of pure curiosity, I was wondering if a Moderator Warning was ever reversed on the basis of the kind of appeals I see posted here. I haven’t seen any that have been reversed or, for that matter, worthy of being reve… --- ## [Body shaming men.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-shaming-men/854361)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-shaming-men/854361 "2020-05-24T18:27:09Z")
Small rant. I saw my ex girlfriend post a tweet making fun of some guys height. She’s also goes after a men’s penis size as well. This is a person who should understand the effects body shaming can have on someone. I k… --- ## [Otherwise good/great movies stolen by a terrible performance?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/otherwise-good-great-movies-stolen-by-a-terrible-performance/620498)
**Author:** [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Replies:** 150\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/otherwise-good-great-movies-stolen-by-a-terrible-performance/620498 "2020-05-24T17:32:35Z")
We’ve done the thread a million times where we all post about a good or great (or even mediocre) movie completely stolen by a supporting actor. Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone usually wins that thread. What abou… --- ## [NASA / Spacex employees with numbers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-spacex-employees-with-numbers/854380)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-spacex-employees-with-numbers/854380 "2020-05-24T15:36:51Z")
Are they going to play FB once everything is ready? Or maybe they think it’s easier to write #4 does X , #5 does Y --- ## [Do larger things fall faster?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-things-fall-faster/854154)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-larger-things-fall-faster/854154 "2020-05-24T14:40:31Z")
In this video called “Being Big on Land: The bigger they are, the harder they fall” at 1:32, it makes the claim that “larger bodies fall faster because, relative to their weight, air drag slows them down less.” Is that … --- ## [The curve is flattened enough](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curve-is-flattened-enough/854050)
**Author:** [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Replies:** 112\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-curve-is-flattened-enough/854050 "2020-05-24T14:36:23Z")
The “flatten the curve” idea became well-known a couple of months ago, and we in the US have responded better than I could have imagined. The whole point of that was not to reduce the number of people who eventually get… --- ## [So....My Cats.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-cats/854323)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-my-cats/854323 "2020-05-24T13:51:29Z")
Ok, who walked in the back door and switched my Cats? Don’t get me wrong, they’re still mostly jerks The two most snooty, bossy, entitled Siamese cats that were ever born have gotten a new attitude. The 2 Chihuahuas, … --- ## [If we went all Jenner on vaccine research, how long would it take to develop one for use?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-went-all-jenner-on-vaccine-research-how-long-would-it-take-to-develop-one-for-use/853140)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-went-all-jenner-on-vaccine-research-how-long-would-it-take-to-develop-one-for-use/853140 "2020-05-24T13:42:32Z")
Edward Jenner’s experiment had some serious ethical problems to say the least. He gave his gardener’s son cowpox and a few weeks later administered smallpox variolous material, multiple times. (After he came of age, Jen… --- ## [Time to Think About a Covid-19 Memorial](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-think-about-a-covid-19-memorial/854368)
**Author:** [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-think-about-a-covid-19-memorial/854368 "2020-05-24T13:36:19Z")
Gosh, I hope the world is past the halfway point in this plague. Maybe it is time to start thinking about both national and local Covid-19 memorials. I understand a generous scholarship fund or a national prize for rese… --- ## [How do social security spousal benefits work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-social-security-spousal-benefits-work/854301)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-social-security-spousal-benefits-work/854301 "2020-05-24T12:44:04Z")
Assume you have a retired couple, one worked and one was a homemaker their adult lives. I believe SS is set up so the one who worked gets their SS benefits (lets say $1500/month) and their spouse who was a homemaker get… --- ## [Songs that recap previous verses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-recap-previous-verses/853720)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-recap-previous-verses/853720 "2020-05-24T10:06:49Z")
On Todd Rundgren’s “Something/Anything?” album he has a song called “Piss Aaron” where he and his daddy reminisce about kids they knew in school. The first verse is about Piss Aaron, the second verse is about Dumb Larry,… --- ## [Are potatoes that have sprouted safe to eat? (need answer kinda fast)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-potatoes-that-have-sprouted-safe-to-eat-need-answer-kinda-fast/854147)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-potatoes-that-have-sprouted-safe-to-eat-need-answer-kinda-fast/854147 "2020-05-24T06:34:11Z")
I was preparing a dish for dinner, opened a bag of fingerling potatoes I bought two days ago, and dumped them in the bowl with the sauce I had prepared. Only then did I realize most of them had sprouted…some sprouts as … --- ## [Can you tell me anything about these lamps?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-tell-me-anything-about-these-lamps/854320)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-tell-me-anything-about-these-lamps/854320 "2020-05-24T05:26:00Z")
These lamps are in my late parents’ room: male and female. As you can see they’re a matched set. And hideous. The only thing I know about them is that they were originally my maternal grandparents’ and they predate me, … --- ## [Remdesivir?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remdesivir/852824)
**Author:** [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remdesivir/852824 "2020-05-24T05:25:16Z")
So today the stock market has gone up, supposedly because of the news that Gilead’s (what a name) early trials of remdesivir show promise as a treatment for COVID 19. However, from what I can tell it was a small group of… --- ## [You and your spouse's/SO's tastes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-your-spouses-sos-tastes/854277)
**Author:** [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-and-your-spouses-sos-tastes/854277 "2020-05-24T04:10:04Z")
Does your taste in music, movies, or TV differ from that of your spouse or significant other, or are they largely the same? Have they come closer since you started being a couple? --- ## [The assholes who pretend to have corona.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-assholes-who-pretend-to-have-corona/850283 "2020-05-24T03:44:43Z")
We have two who did it in Walmarts and one from a Karns grocery store. All arrested. --- ## [what to do to protect from corona](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-to-protect-from-corona/849166)
**Author:** [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-to-protect-from-corona/849166 "2020-05-24T03:16:36Z")
They announced on the news today there are 3 cases of coronavirus in a county of Cleveland. I am not panicking or anything, but I would like to know what I should be concerned about. DO I stock up on foodstuffs and toile… --- ## [What causes “mouth blisters”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-causes-mouth-blisters/854350)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-causes-mouth-blisters/854350 "2020-05-24T03:03:21Z")
I assume I’m not the only person this happens to… Every so often, I will develop a painless blister on the inside of my cheek, typically up above the gumline. If I pop it, it is filled with some clear, salty fluid, and … --- ## [What did "two cream cheeses" mean in the Napoleonic era? (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-two-cream-cheeses-mean-in-the-napoleonic-era-jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell/854354)
**Author:** [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-two-cream-cheeses-mean-in-the-napoleonic-era-jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell/854354 "2020-05-24T02:59:04Z")
I’m reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. At one point, Vinculus has gained access to Norrell’s house and it is reported that he has eaten “three meat pies” and “two cream cheeses.” In this context, what might be m… --- ## [Songs You Can Listen To Over and Over..](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-can-listen-to-over-and-over/853690)
**Author:** [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-can-listen-to-over-and-over/853690 "2020-05-24T02:58:23Z")
Starting at the 45 Minute mark. Its called La Percusion (apologies I dont know how to post with accent marks) and the vocalist is Idania Valdés. Its propulsive rhythmic Cuban dance music. But in these time… --- ## [Back to work next week.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-work-next-week/853422)
**Author:** [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-work-next-week/853422 "2020-05-24T02:45:07Z")
I’m getting recalled to my normal schedule (for now) starting next week. I thought we were starting to return to normal, slowly but surely ramping up. But then I got a text with details. Apparently I’m the only one gett… --- ## [Whats going on with my Nord VPN?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-my-nord-vpn/854226)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-my-nord-vpn/854226 "2020-05-24T01:50:33Z")
I have an subscription to Nord VPN. I often leave it connected but there are some sites like Wikipedia that don’t like working with a Nord server. So I disconnected it a couple of days ago. I tried to re-connect today a… --- ## [If you Like Groo the Wanderer, you Might Like...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-groo-the-wanderer-you-might-like/854356)
**Author:** [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-like-groo-the-wanderer-you-might-like/854356 "2020-05-24T00:48:09Z")
Play gift counselor for me, please: I’m buying a birthday gift for a friend, and wanted to get a funny graphic novel. He adores Groo the Wanderer (has all the gns and other merch.) What’s funny in more or less a compa… --- ## [Church in my neigbourhood is featured on a Tweet by a British-German-Singaporean, about atheists.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/church-in-my-neigbourhood-is-featured-on-a-tweet-by-a-british-german-singaporean-about-atheists/854359)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/church-in-my-neigbourhood-is-featured-on-a-tweet-by-a-british-german-singaporean-about-atheists/854359 "2020-05-24T00:38:17Z")
The wonders of the web. Poking around on Pinterest for something completely different, I saw a picture of one of our neighbourhood churches, which ran a sign about kind atheists awhile ago. I thought “Neat”. Somebody l… --- ## [Dopers from Michigan, are you affected by the flooding?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-from-michigan-are-you-affected-by-the-flooding/854189)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-from-michigan-are-you-affected-by-the-flooding/854189 "2020-05-24T00:18:04Z")
It’s not like y’all needed another disaster on top of the current one! :smack: Let us know how you’re doing. Mod: will someone edit my title? I wasn’t really trying to introduce a Zen note or anything… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1861) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1863)