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**Author:** [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-change-from-steel-nylon-string-on-any-guitar/854264 "2020-05-23T23:24:38Z")
I mean, is a guitar designed for a specific string type? --- ## [The Masked Singer Season 3 (Spoilers for aired episodes)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-season-3-spoilers-for-aired-episodes/847453)
**Author:** [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-masked-singer-season-3-spoilers-for-aired-episodes/847453 "2020-05-23T23:07:51Z")
Episode 1’s six performers: \[ol\] \[li\]Turtle\[/li\]\[li\]Llama\[/li\]\[li\]White Tiger\[/li\]\[li\]Kangaroo\[/li\]\[li\]Miss Monster\[/li\]\[li\]Robot\[/li\]\[/ol\] I think maybe Turtle is a former boy-band member, perhaps Jordan Knight. Any… --- ## [If DJT croaks before November, could Ivanka replace him on the ballot?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-djt-croaks-before-november-could-ivanka-replace-him-on-the-ballot/853573)
**Author:** [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-djt-croaks-before-november-could-ivanka-replace-him-on-the-ballot/853573 "2020-05-23T22:58:58Z")
Opinions, please. With daddy gone, could the GOP base and leadership see Ivanka as a viable candidate? --- ## [High-risk people who are called back to work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-risk-people-who-are-called-back-to-work/854307)
**Author:** [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-risk-people-who-are-called-back-to-work/854307 "2020-05-23T22:20:33Z")
Suppose someone has been identified by MD’s as being at high risk for a severe, possibly fatal case of COVID. When that person’s place of employment reopens and he’s called back to work, are his only choices to return to… --- ## [Quick, no- or low-prep snacks or meals?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-no-or-low-prep-snacks-or-meals/854353)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-no-or-low-prep-snacks-or-meals/854353 "2020-05-23T22:06:22Z")
Shift worker, so breaks are a hasty affair. The less time prepping, the more time I have to pee, eat, or take my weight off my feet. There’s a microwave, tiny shared fridge, and running water. Lay your suggestions on m… --- ## [Should Homeschooling be banned?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-homeschooling-be-banned/853721)
**Author:** [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Replies:** 241\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-homeschooling-be-banned/853721 "2020-05-23T21:14:12Z")
THIS Harvard professor says yes. The article says" A Harvard University law professor has sparked controversy after calling for a ban on homeschooling. Elizabeth Bartholet told Harvard Magazine that it gives parents “… --- ## [Can you apply percentage calculations when the changing value crosses the zero point?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-apply-percentage-calculations-when-the-changing-value-crosses-the-zero-point/854290)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-apply-percentage-calculations-when-the-changing-value-crosses-the-zero-point/854290 "2020-05-23T21:13:43Z")
Recently oil prices went negative, changing from about +20$/barrel to -27$/barrel (citing from memory, the exact numbers are not relevant here), to then become positive again the next day. And I read somewhere that the p… --- ## [Trump not unveiling Obama portrait](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-not-unveiling-obama-portrait/854134)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-not-unveiling-obama-portrait/854134 "2020-05-23T20:55:26Z")
Not a big deal but yet another example of how he doesn’t give a f\*\*k about normal traditions. --- ## [Attempted assinations of Queen Victoria](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempted-assinations-of-queen-victoria/854218)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attempted-assinations-of-queen-victoria/854218 "2020-05-23T20:37:32Z")
Why were there two attempts on her life? Corn laws, land owners having the only voting rights…MPs, PMs I can understand, but why the young Queen, and possibly her angel, Albert? --- ## [Do you think at the end of losing wars...many soldiers just 'went home'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-at-the-end-of-losing-wars-many-soldiers-just-went-home/854299)
**Author:** [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-at-the-end-of-losing-wars-many-soldiers-just-went-home/854299 "2020-05-23T20:10:14Z")
I’m talking about taking off their uniforms and just going home? It would require: A large area of unoccupied territory at the time of going AWOL. Ideally, home being in that territory. Utter chaos and breakdown of e… --- ## [We need pro-lockdown protests to drown out the anti-lockdown protests](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-pro-lockdown-protests-to-drown-out-the-anti-lockdown-protests/854059)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-pro-lockdown-protests-to-drown-out-the-anti-lockdown-protests/854059 "2020-05-23T20:09:05Z")
Right now, the anti-lockdown folks are completely dominating the protest narrative: All the media focus is on them protesting against lockdowns. Meanwhile, the pro-lockdown crowd, despite being the statistical Silent Ma… --- ## [Welcome to Canadoper Pub, 2019!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 265\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022 "2020-05-23T19:59:18Z")
It’s New Year’s already on Cape Spear, Canada’s easternmost point! Come in, come in, out of the cold and the storm. Canadoper Pub is open for another year. There’s a fire burning in the corner fireplace, and friendly Ca… --- ## [Ambiance Nocturnae (re: 13 Ghosts)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ambiance-nocturnae-re-13-ghosts/434114)
**Author:** [@Cat\_In\_A\_Top\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_In_A_Top_Hat)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ambiance-nocturnae-re-13-ghosts/434114 "2020-05-23T19:48:41Z")
So there’s this movie called 13 Ghosts. Fun. Not Oscar-faire, by any stretch, but really fun. The guy who played Shaggy in the Scooby Doo movie’s a supporting character (he’s a paranoid psychometric), among other amus… --- ## [Father Pelc and his Holy Water Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-pelc-and-his-holy-water-gun/854300)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-pelc-and-his-holy-water-gun/854300 "2020-05-23T19:32:41Z")
I can’t believe no one’s brought this up yet: I love it. It’s a creative theological solution to a prctical problem. I don’t find it in any way demeaning or disrespectful, but then, I’m of a leient nature. As the ab… --- ## [Ethical thought experiment - reanimating a frozen person](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethical-thought-experiment-reanimating-a-frozen-person/853564)
**Author:** [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ethical-thought-experiment-reanimating-a-frozen-person/853564 "2020-05-23T18:45:01Z")
So at some point in the near future, explorers find someone who has frozen “to death” N years ago but is, due to the circumstances of the freezing, preserved enough that, with recent (imaginary) advances in nanotech surg… --- ## [Atlantic Hurricane season predicted to be busier than normal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantic-hurricane-season-predicted-to-be-busier-than-normal/854255)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantic-hurricane-season-predicted-to-be-busier-than-normal/854255 "2020-05-23T17:48:26Z")
Just what East coast people need. We already had a tropical storm. --- ## [Odd cheese phenomenon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-cheese-phenomenon/854253)
**Author:** [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-cheese-phenomenon/854253 "2020-05-23T17:47:40Z")
In Trader Joes the other day I found a “Tapas \[something\]” that was a sampler of three Spanish cheeses. The price per ounce was kind of high but, knowing next to nothing about Spanish cheeses, I figured it was getting a… --- ## [Porcelain tile - do I have to grout between them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porcelain-tile-do-i-have-to-grout-between-them/854335)
**Author:** [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porcelain-tile-do-i-have-to-grout-between-them/854335 "2020-05-23T17:36:05Z")
We have a 4’x4’ area that I am going to lay some porcelain tile on. Similar to this. It will go under our new propane fired Heat stove. We are only installing the tile under the stove. The stove is a replacement and I’… --- ## [Bannings reversed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bannings-reversed/854203)
**Author:** [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bannings-reversed/854203 "2020-05-23T15:29:34Z")
This thread discussing the reversal of warnings, and the recent thread regarding Shodan’s banning, got me thinking: has a banned poster ever had their posting privileges reinstated? Un-banned, as it were? I’m not talkin… --- ## [How big a lead (in the polls) does it take for you to feel safe?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-a-lead-in-the-polls-does-it-take-for-you-to-feel-safe/854196)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-a-lead-in-the-polls-does-it-take-for-you-to-feel-safe/854196 "2020-05-23T15:23:41Z")
The 2016 polling actually wasn’t that far off: The popular vote ended up being similar to what pre-election polls had predicted, but the Hillary campaign stumbled in the Rust Belt swing states. Generally, how much of a … --- ## [Police killing protesters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-killing-protesters/853849)
**Author:** [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-killing-protesters/853849 "2020-05-23T14:49:27Z")
Google seems to be failing me here. I’m looking for recent (say, within the past 40 years) US cases where police have killed one or more of a group of protesters. Also of interest would be cases where police made a gen… --- ## [Generator to run a fridge?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generator-to-run-a-fridge/854259)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generator-to-run-a-fridge/854259 "2020-05-23T14:16:24Z")
Looks like I need 2000 watts. Or should I spend more and get 3000? I am in hurricane country and we had 1 bad hit and several close calls. --- ## [Musicians, Movie and Tv Celebrities with Coronavirus. Discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 113\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-movie-and-tv-celebrities-with-coronavirus-discussion/849312 "2020-05-23T14:04:04Z")
Well, the first Coronavirus entry is Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson. Hanks was in Australia preparing to play Colonial Tom Parker in an Elvis film. Tom & Rita are 63 and in good health. Hopefully they’ll recover and… --- ## [Trump says the US leading the world in coronavirus cases is 'a badge of honor'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-says-the-us-leading-the-world-in-coronavirus-cases-is-a-badge-of-honor/854149)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-says-the-us-leading-the-world-in-coronavirus-cases-is-a-badge-of-honor/854149 "2020-05-23T13:49:35Z")
You just can’t make this shit up: --- ## [You vote third party for President, and the worse option gets in. Do you feel any responsibility?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-vote-third-party-for-president-and-the-worse-option-gets-in-do-you-feel-any-responsibility/853949)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 160\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-vote-third-party-for-president-and-the-worse-option-gets-in-do-you-feel-any-responsibility/853949 "2020-05-23T13:24:29Z")
This question has come up a lot, obviously, in the discussion of the last couple of presidential elections and the “lesser of two evils” vote. Obviously, most of the people who say that the Nader/Sanders voters bear at l… --- ## [5-20-2020, not my favorite day.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-20-2020-not-my-favorite-day/854252)
**Author:** [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-20-2020-not-my-favorite-day/854252 "2020-05-23T11:18:06Z")
So, let me tell you about my day. The day of my grandmother’s funeral. She died two weeks ago, but with her being down in Florida, travel and transport issues, and that they had a service down there (where she had lived… --- ## [Professional sports pet peeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-sports-pet-peeves/853734)
**Author:** [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-sports-pet-peeves/853734 "2020-05-23T04:33:06Z")
What things about individual professional sports are really off putting to you? Maybe so much so that you can’t stand to watch that sport? MLS- Was never that big of a soccer fan but since Minnesota has a nice new stad… --- ## [Stop motion Gundam video - what are these visual effects?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-motion-gundam-video-what-are-these-visual-effects/854242)
**Author:** [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-motion-gundam-video-what-are-these-visual-effects/854242 "2020-05-23T02:34:07Z")
There’s a stop motion video from animator Moouyo that uses a Gundam figure to copy Michael Jackson dance moves: YouTube link. I suggest watching at 480P, which seems to be the best quality that doesn’t jitter. I’m curiou… --- ## [How do I convince the mama cat to turn off the milk machine?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-convince-the-mama-cat-to-turn-off-the-milk-machine/854305)
**Author:** [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-convince-the-mama-cat-to-turn-off-the-milk-machine/854305 "2020-05-23T02:34:06Z")
The three kittens are eleven weeks old. They are really healthy=fat. Mama cat is very skinny. And always cries for more food. Which I give, and which the kittens also consume. I started feeding the mama cat, when she cr… --- ## [How are you personally affected by the Corona Virus?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-personally-affected-by-the-corona-virus/849340)
**Author:** [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Replies:** 646\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-personally-affected-by-the-corona-virus/849340 "2020-05-23T02:29:40Z")
My wife and I work in the same building but for different companies. Normally has about 3,000 people there. About 4 cars in the parking lot when I met my boss to grab my laptop this morning. They wouldn’t let me inside. … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1862) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1864)