# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=187 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 188 --- ## [(Old) PJD strikes again in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pjd-strikes-again-in-the-mmp/1025286)
**Author:** [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Replies:** 284\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pjd-strikes-again-in-the-mmp/1025286 "2025-12-08T03:48:00Z")
That’s right folks, it’s the second in an occasional series of pjd created MMPs. It’s currently what can only be described as grey here in the good old UK. Temperature appears to be about n C (or about x F). Just putt… --- ## [Virtually forgotten Christmas Cartoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtually-forgotten-christmas-cartoons/927853)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtually-forgotten-christmas-cartoons/927853 "2025-12-08T02:42:11Z")
We watch the same cartoons year after year – the Rankin-Bass Rudolph and all the other ones they made. A Charlie Brown Christmas (which you can see this year on PBS, even if you don’t have Apple+), and so on. But there a… --- ## [I hate to sound paranoid (about phone trying to unlock a secure folder)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-to-sound-paranoid-about-phone-trying-to-unlock-a-secure-folder/1025487)
**Author:** [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-to-sound-paranoid-about-phone-trying-to-unlock-a-secure-folder/1025487 "2025-12-08T02:29:48Z")
My phone keeps wanting me to unlock my secure folder. This is a recent development. Notifications pop up and if I click it, it goes to my secure folder login. I did login to see where it ended up and it was a calenda… --- ## [If Pete Hegseth is guilty of a war crime punishable by the ICC ... so what?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-pete-hegseth-is-guilty-of-a-war-crime-punishable-by-the-icc-so-what/1025368)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 81\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-pete-hegseth-is-guilty-of-a-war-crime-punishable-by-the-icc-so-what/1025368 "2025-12-08T01:36:06Z")
I’ve read here and there, mostly via memes, that it’s not unlikely that the ICC will want a word with Pete Hesgeth regarding possible war crimes as relates to the strikes on Venezuelan “drug” boats. The thing is, I’m pre… --- ## [The next Dem candidate for president](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-dem-candidate-for-president/1025453)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-dem-candidate-for-president/1025453 "2025-12-08T01:19:51Z")
Would the following be part of a viable platform for the next candidate? Or would it be better to just do it, if elected, without explicitly campaigning on the points? In other words, stick to the economy and (maybe) for… --- ## [Why are Danish style butter cookies so cheap?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-danish-style-butter-cookies-so-cheap/1024969)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-danish-style-butter-cookies-so-cheap/1024969 "2025-12-07T23:26:40Z")
Not only are they delicious and come in an expensive tin but they are shipped halfway around the globe. Last week we bought the large 2 lb tin at an Asian market for about 10 bucks (a bit high, my wife bought them). Toda… --- ## [How to specify bifocal glasses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-specify-bifocal-glasses/1025300)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-specify-bifocal-glasses/1025300 "2025-12-07T23:22:03Z")
In my family (parents and 5 siblings) I’m the only one that never needed glasses. But for some time (I’m 79) I do use over the counter reading glasses for close work. I use +1.75 for using the computer and I just went u… --- ## [Which athlete is on the most last championship rosters?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-athlete-is-on-the-most-last-championship-rosters/1025358)
**Author:** [@Xocomil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xocomil)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-athlete-is-on-the-most-last-championship-rosters/1025358 "2025-12-07T23:14:44Z")
The question is inspired by Deion Sanders, who played for the Niners when they won their last Super Bowl (I’ve been a Niners fan ever since) and was traded to the Cowboys the next season where he won another ring. If you… --- ## [What's your Autumn/Winter music?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-autumn-winter-music/1025384)
**Author:** [@Shot\_Clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_Clock)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-autumn-winter-music/1025384 "2025-12-07T22:07:21Z")
My musical tastes seem to have become seasonal in recent years. This time of year I’m listening to a lot of: Canterbury sound groups (Caravan, etc.); Jethro Tull; Assorted Shoegaze/Dreampop; Moody Blues; Jefferson Airpl… --- ## [Turkey soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-soup/1025344)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-soup/1025344 "2025-12-07T19:42:14Z")
So, i have just strained a big pot of turkey broth. I actually brewed it shortly after t-day, but didn’t get around to straining it. It’s been sitting chilled-but-unstrained for days. I have a hankering for turkey bean … --- ## [Painting miniatures, but extremely lazily? \[or other techniques\] (As in tabletop games)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-miniatures-but-extremely-lazily-or-other-techniques-as-in-tabletop-games/1020821)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-miniatures-but-extremely-lazily-or-other-techniques-as-in-tabletop-games/1020821 "2025-12-07T17:19:01Z")
I recently Kickstarted a detective-noir board game set in New Orleans (The Dark Quarter — a fun and well-written co-op mystery game!), which came with several dozen gray plastic miniatures. The figurines are hard to dif… --- ## [\[Over\] 30 Years Ago Today, 14 Engineering Students Were Murdered in Montréal - Because They Were Women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/over-30-years-ago-today-14-engineering-students-were-murdered-in-montreal-because-they-were-women/844499 "2025-12-07T17:13:37Z")
Thirty years ago today, a young man with a gun went into a classroom at the École polytechnique de Montréal, where an engineering class was being taught. He separated the students by gender and let the male students go. … --- ## [US and Canadian National Parks: A study in contrasts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-and-canadian-national-parks-a-study-in-contrasts/1025294)
**Author:** [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-and-canadian-national-parks-a-study-in-contrasts/1025294 "2025-12-07T16:06:30Z")
Canada has announced the renewal of the Canada Strong Pass: The Government of Canada is offering free admission and a 25% discount on fees for camping and overnight stays from: December 12, 2025 to January 15, 2026 i… --- ## [It's that time of year-- Split Pea and Ham Bone Soup!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-that-time-of-year-split-pea-and-ham-bone-soup/1025332)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-that-time-of-year-split-pea-and-ham-bone-soup/1025332 "2025-12-07T14:44:07Z")
Everybody makes theirs different and I want to hear how you do it. Here’s me: Rough chop an onion and soften in soup pot with a bit of olive oil. Add mushed (or diced or sliced-- matters how I’m feeling) garlic. Stir. A… --- ## [Who Married You? (that’s not what I mean-- check out the poll)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-married-you-that-s-not-what-i-mean-check-out-the-poll/1025281)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 131\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-married-you-that-s-not-what-i-mean-check-out-the-poll/1025281 "2025-12-07T12:01:25Z")
poll I got to thinking about this after I quoted a line in the “commercials” thread. Just wondering how common this is becoming. Feel free to post the year you were married, and whether it was by a man or a woman-- but … --- ## [Recipe for personal pizzas from pre-made dough? (also rant about enshittification of Google)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-personal-pizzas-from-pre-made-dough-also-rant-about-enshittification-of-google/1025403)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-personal-pizzas-from-pre-made-dough-also-rant-about-enshittification-of-google/1025403 "2025-12-07T05:51:20Z")
So the actual factual question, first: Anyone have a good recipe for personal pizzas from pre-made fresh dough? The dough (from Whole foods) comes in 1 pound bags (unfrozen), how do I subdivide them to make personal piz… --- ## [Causes of deaths of actors from "The Conqueror" (1956)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/causes-of-deaths-of-actors-from-the-conqueror-1956/1025482)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/causes-of-deaths-of-actors-from-the-conqueror-1956/1025482 "2025-12-07T03:21:15Z")
There’s no mention of “The Conqueror” without a conversation about cancer deaths attributed to radiation exposure. I went down the list of 63 actors and stunt people listed on IMDB and made a table of their causes of de… --- ## [If my green ground wire is carrying current, how would I know?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-green-ground-wire-is-carrying-current-how-would-i-know/1025346)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-my-green-ground-wire-is-carrying-current-how-would-i-know/1025346 "2025-12-07T02:18:15Z")
I understand that the green wire attaches to a bare ground wire and provides a path to ground in case the hot wire touches something that it’s not supposed to. But doesn’t this just complete the circuit? Assuming that a… --- ## [Submarine pressure hull](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/submarine-pressure-hull/799048)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/submarine-pressure-hull/799048 "2025-12-07T00:29:58Z")
I’m reading about the USS Nautilus. For traveling under the ice, reverse fathomometers were installed during a refit. Are there covered openings in the pressure hull for installing new equipment, or are they cut as neede… --- ## [Shang Tsung has returned to Outworld (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has died)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shang-tsung-has-returned-to-outworld-cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-has-died/1025426)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shang-tsung-has-returned-to-outworld-cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-has-died/1025426 "2025-12-06T23:52:55Z")
--- ## [Help me figure out this chest pressure/breathing problem](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-chest-pressure-breathing-problem/1010974)
**Author:** [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-figure-out-this-chest-pressure-breathing-problem/1010974 "2025-12-06T23:51:46Z")
I know you’re not my doctor, I’ve been to a number, I’m trying to see if anyone can help me ask the doctor the right questions. Twenty years ago I was walking up a few flights of stairs, when I got to the top I felt out… --- ## [Looking for an (SNL?) robot-AI based sketch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478 "2025-12-06T23:45:51Z")
A group of around 8 to 12 characters supposed to be children sitting around. They discuss personal robot (or somehow artifical companions) somehow one of the group (which is an AI companion) decides that they are no long… --- ## [Call for 1997 mods](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-for-1997-mods/1025465)
**Author:** [@Nickrz2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz2)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-for-1997-mods/1025465 "2025-12-06T22:51:40Z")
Hello all, I’m a former GQ moderator from the late 1990s — known back then as Nickrz. I moderated General Questions for about a year during the early era of the SDMB. I’m reaching out because I recently rediscovered a … --- ## [Time Wasters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-wasters/1025037)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-wasters/1025037 "2025-12-06T21:38:13Z")
Let’s start small: is there a TV personality or show that habitually wastes your time? For example, Rachel Maddow, with whom I agree on most everything, is unwatchable for me because she takes an hour to deliver about tw… --- ## [Why am I seeing Donald Trump dancing to the Village People?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435 "2025-12-06T21:12:02Z")
I’m in a bar for lunch and suddenly the tv is showing the Village People singing and dancing on a stage. Trump is in a balcony watching them and shaking his booty. ??? --- ## [Please recommend a laptop for me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-laptop-for-me/1024042)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-a-laptop-for-me/1024042 "2025-12-06T19:37:28Z")
I know there are other threads on this, but I want to make my requirements clear. It must be a Windows machine since the editor I have used for over 40 years runs only under windows. It should be 15” although I guess 14… --- ## [I don't know why I cannot do this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-i-cannot-do-this/1025441)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-know-why-i-cannot-do-this/1025441 "2025-12-06T19:13:43Z")
I was digging in a drawer and found a metal clip. It’s a flat folded over piece of metal with a decorative thingy on front. A money clip. Now, I don’t carry much cash, ever. A few dollars, at most. I cannot get the b… --- ## [Do flat earthers actually believe their stated beliefs? Or are they just having a laugh at taking up space in our heads?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-flat-earthers-actually-believe-their-stated-beliefs-or-are-they-just-having-a-laugh-at-taking-up-space-in-our-heads/1010380)
**Author:** [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Replies:** 152\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-flat-earthers-actually-believe-their-stated-beliefs-or-are-they-just-having-a-laugh-at-taking-up-space-in-our-heads/1010380 "2025-12-06T16:54:22Z")
I personally don’t know anyone that claims to be a FE believer. Granted, I don’t talk with legions of people, so the sample pool is relatively small. The reason I doubt is that it is so easy to disprove. I can go onto… --- ## [Superman (2025)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-2025/1011886)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 464\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-2025/1011886 "2025-12-06T16:34:00Z")
This already looks amazing. Hoping my favorite hero is done right this time. --- ## [Thought there was a Murder on the Orient Express Thread, but can't find it, so.... (spoilers, maybe)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-there-was-a-murder-on-the-orient-express-thread-but-cant-find-it-so-spoilers-maybe/801266)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-there-was-a-murder-on-the-orient-express-thread-but-cant-find-it-so-spoilers-maybe/801266 "2025-12-06T16:12:30Z")
Who has seen the new one? I’ll say right off that I didn’t like it very much. I didn’t think it held up to the 1974 version at all. It was so busy being elegant, it forgot to be suspenseful, and no, it’s not just becaus… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=186) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=188)