# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=189&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 190 --- ## [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… --- ## [Will Russia and the US fight on the same side in the next World War?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-russia-and-the-us-fight-on-the-same-side-in-the-next-world-war/1025394)
**Author:** [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-russia-and-the-us-fight-on-the-same-side-in-the-next-world-war/1025394 "2025-12-06T16:07:40Z")
I have no idea if this is the correct forum for this. Obviously, please move if necessary. I’ve been thinking about this for weeks and have felt some trepidation about starting a thread, as if I might talk it into reali… --- ## [Betweenle, anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/betweenle-anyone/1025450)
**Author:** [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/betweenle-anyone/1025450 "2025-12-06T16:02:31Z")
I’m wondering if anyone has tried this game. It’s similar to Wordle in that you need to solve for an unknown five letter word, but instead of being given letters that you guessed correctly, you are guided as to whether t… --- ## [In practical terms, "refusing to obey illegal orders" as it might play out in the real world](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-practical-terms-refusing-to-obey-illegal-orders-as-it-might-play-out-in-the-real-world/1025290)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-practical-terms-refusing-to-obey-illegal-orders-as-it-might-play-out-in-the-real-world/1025290 "2025-12-06T10:42:52Z")
This event has been covered in lots of places, including elsewhere on this board, so I’ll just quote Krugman’s statement in his Substack today: On one side, the Trump administration is sinking small boats that it claim… --- ## [In praise of "stomp clap hey" music](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-stomp-clap-hey-music/1025392)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-stomp-clap-hey-music/1025392 "2025-12-06T09:29:28Z")
We’re getting to the point in the nostalgia cycle where people are starting to memorialize the early 2010s. In the past few days, I’ve started seeing the term “stomp clap hey” used to refer to the kind of acoustic folk-p… --- ## [Has Affirmative Action become a liability for the Left?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-affirmative-action-become-a-liability-for-the-left/1025434)
**Author:** [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-affirmative-action-become-a-liability-for-the-left/1025434 "2025-12-06T08:49:27Z")
Judicially I think it’s dead for the time being, rather I was curious if you believe this plank in The Democratic Party is still a viable tool to win votes? The AI had this to say when I asked it this question: Contin… --- ## [Clue online?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clue-online/1025444)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clue-online/1025444 "2025-12-06T08:05:19Z")
I recently got a vintage 1990s Clue game. (My wife says not to call things from the ‘90s ‘vintage’.) Clue is a game for a minimum of three players, I don’t think my wife is interested in playing it, and I haven’t playe… --- ## [How sensitive to disruption / efficient are modern airliner wings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-sensitive-to-disruption-efficient-are-modern-airliner-wings/1025398)
**Author:** [@DETXL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DETXL)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-sensitive-to-disruption-efficient-are-modern-airliner-wings/1025398 "2025-12-05T22:10:49Z")
I had a pre-dawn flight on an Airbus today, and found staring at the top of the wing, and the hoist points you can see here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Airbus\_A319\_left\_wing\_during\_the\_land… --- ## [The desert island problem](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-desert-island-problem/1023370)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-desert-island-problem/1023370 "2025-12-05T21:09:28Z")
Scenario: You are going to be shipped to a desert island for five years. Plenty of food and drink, but you only get to bring one book, one CD or record, and one movie (maximum length three hours). The operative word h… --- ## [Do YouTube chefs use too much salt?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-youtube-chefs-use-too-much-salt/1025377)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-youtube-chefs-use-too-much-salt/1025377 "2025-12-05T20:52:14Z")
Billy Parisi in particular says to use a crazy amount of salt (to my mind) on almost every dish he prepares. I was told by my doctor to cut back on my sodium intake, (strange, because I don’t use a lot of salt so I becam… --- ## [Laser Range Finder?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laser-range-finder/1025382)
**Author:** [@19USMC69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/19USMC69)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laser-range-finder/1025382 "2025-12-05T20:16:51Z")
I’ve seen these used by golfers and at shooting ranges. The terminal end of the laser is always a hard object. I want to measure the distance from the deck of a ship to the water. Obviously there’s a difference between … --- ## [YouTubers who do free stuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtubers-who-do-free-stuff/1025409)
**Author:** [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtubers-who-do-free-stuff/1025409 "2025-12-05T20:06:02Z")
I have been watching many videos of YouTubers who appear to perform free services for customers they don’t know (at least at first), like Midlife Stockman, Rodan Brothers. Such work can include installing entire new roo… --- ## [Black coffee and dark chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-coffee-and-dark-chocolate/1025053)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-coffee-and-dark-chocolate/1025053 "2025-12-05T20:04:39Z")
Word is that black coffee and dark chocolate are good for your health while milk chocolate and coffee with cream lack those benefits. So here I am eating dark chocolate and drinking black coffee. What if next I drink a … --- ## [Atheism vs. Toys for Tots](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheism-vs-toys-for-tots/126951)
**Author:** [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atheism-vs-toys-for-tots/126951 "2025-12-05T19:54:14Z")
Howdy all, I’ve got a situation at work I’d like to get some humbles opinions on… Our very large company (10k+ employees) has a dress code that doesn’t allow blue jeans any day. Yet, we are allowed to do fund raising a… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=188&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=190&state=watching)