# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1923 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1924 --- ## [Prostate, again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prostate-again/849694)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prostate-again/849694 "2020-04-15T15:19:35Z")
Having learned the difference between Kegels and Kugel, I am now worried that I’ll bulk up so much that the upcoming surgery may be impeded :rolleyes: Am also starting to tell people I’m becoming a Mormon in case I need … --- ## [Why read dystopian novels](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-read-dystopian-novels/851363)
**Author:** [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-read-dystopian-novels/851363 "2020-04-15T15:10:51Z")
For those of you who like them, why? Isn’t the real world dark enough? I’m genuinely curious. I read to escape from reality, not to visit a worse version. What is it about dystopia that appeals to you? --- ## [What can be done (climate change debate)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-be-done-climate-change-debate/683384)
**Author:** [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Replies:** 395\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-be-done-climate-change-debate/683384 "2020-04-08T12:32:01Z")
We have a lot of debates about climate change on the board. To be honest, I’m not interested in another one debating whether or not it’s happening or whether or not humans are the cause. Let’s take it as a given that c… --- ## [Beck is having a bad, bad, bad telephone experience.(actual talking)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579 "2020-04-15T14:35:03Z")
I live in a place that has never has land lines run through (or anything else really). We’ve had cel service as long as we’ve lived here. Started off pretty bad, got better over the years. Never for voice calls, though. … --- ## [How concerned should I be about eating fast food in the covid-19 pandemic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-concerned-should-i-be-about-eating-fast-food-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/849494)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-concerned-should-i-be-about-eating-fast-food-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/849494 "2020-04-15T14:28:42Z")
In general, can I potentiallyy get the coronavirus from eating fast food. Also because this is the SDMB I don’t want the first 20 replies telling me about how you don’t eat fast food and nobody else should either. --- ## [Biggest drop off in quality for a TV Series (spoilers OK)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-drop-off-in-quality-for-a-tv-series-spoilers-ok/851791)
**Author:** [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biggest-drop-off-in-quality-for-a-tv-series-spoilers-ok/851791 "2020-04-15T13:59:51Z")
Major Crimes We are binging ‘Major Crimes’ on the ROKU channel before it leaves. Seasons 1-4? Love them. Not the best procedural, lots of stuff wrong from the law-talking guy perspective, but a great show. Love the cha… --- ## [Animals "Recognizing" footprints](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recognizing-footprints/851849)
**Author:** [@Sdowiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sdowiat)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recognizing-footprints/851849 "2020-04-15T13:07:47Z")
Do you know of ANY animal who can recognize a footprint ( without smell ) for what it is and know that it means some type of animal has gone that way? I don’t know of any… and that seems odd to me. I would think that… --- ## [Thoughts While In Quarantine - WRT The Flat Earthers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-while-in-quarantine-wrt-the-flat-earthers/851411)
**Author:** [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-while-in-quarantine-wrt-the-flat-earthers/851411 "2020-04-15T12:55:40Z")
Sitting and chatting with my daughter got me to thinking, do you all think that the Flat Earth people are truly earnest in what they are spouting, or rather that it is somewhat akin to “belief” in The Flying Spaghetti Mo… --- ## [how common is knowing a great-great grandparent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-knowing-a-great-great-grandparent/549786)
**Author:** [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-knowing-a-great-great-grandparent/549786 "2020-04-15T12:22:40Z")
I remember my great great grandma when I was a little boy. At one time i lived with my grandmother, her mother, and her mother’s mother all at the same time. The reason I ask, is because sometimes I have gotten that, p… --- ## [Movies where Brad Pitt plays an unlikable villain](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-brad-pitt-plays-an-unlikable-villain/851369)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-where-brad-pitt-plays-an-unlikable-villain/851369 "2020-04-15T09:22:28Z")
Pitt has played some rough and underworld characters in films like Inglorious basterds, killing them softly, fight club, tales from the crypt etc. But has he played a villain who the audience is supposed to dislike? I’m… --- ## [sony giving away the remastered uncharted series amd journey free due to covid 19](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-giving-away-the-remastered-uncharted-series-amd-journey-free-due-to-covid-19/851828)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sony-giving-away-the-remastered-uncharted-series-amd-journey-free-due-to-covid-19/851828 "2020-04-15T06:29:54Z")
here’s the story and how to get it …tho i dont know if id try to get it day one … I liked the first uncharted (and infamous)but we never developed much of a taste for the ps3 or 4 so never played the sequels but enjoy… --- ## [Ladies, tips for growing out bangs lest I go mad. please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-tips-for-growing-out-bangs-lest-i-go-mad-please/851746)
**Author:** [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-tips-for-growing-out-bangs-lest-i-go-mad-please/851746 "2020-04-15T06:23:33Z")
Always have had bangs, now, for various reasons, I’d like to grow them out. but bobby pins, barrettes, nothing seems to keep this effen hair out of my eyes. And sheesh, talk about not touching your face?? Please let me k… --- ## [Any Long-Term Effects for Survivors?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-long-term-effects-for-survivors/851618)
**Author:** [@Sean\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_the_Dog)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-long-term-effects-for-survivors/851618 "2020-04-15T06:12:20Z")
Probably a bit early to ask this… Has anyone heard of any long-term aftereffects for people who were seriously ill but recovered? I’m wondering if there is any permanent damage done to their bodies, especially lungs si… --- ## [RIP John Horton Conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-horton-conway/851649)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-john-horton-conway/851649 "2020-04-15T06:10:16Z")
The mathematician who invented the Game of Life (Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia not the Milton Bradley game!) passed away yesterday of Covid 19 COVID-19 Kills Renowned Princeton Mathematician, 'Game Of Life' Inventor … --- ## [Ain't I a stinker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-i-a-stinker/851813)
**Author:** [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-i-a-stinker/851813 "2020-04-15T05:51:41Z")
Today I got it into my head to change “the” to “buttocks” on my mom’s phone. She’s 70 and she’s having a fit right now. I was laughing so much I had to take my asthma medication. She called me over to show me and I start… --- ## [Whatever happened to "No shirt, no shoes . . . NO DICE!"?!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-no-shirt-no-shoes-no-dice/509384)
**Author:** [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-no-shirt-no-shoes-no-dice/509384 "2020-04-15T05:08:08Z")
OK, I couldn’t resist one of my favorite lines from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” but I’ve noticed an odd trend recently. In the past few weeks, on 3 separate occasions, I have witnessed people walking barefoot into con… --- ## [The Shaving Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shaving-thread/816301)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shaving-thread/816301 "2018-06-29T18:50:11Z")
One of the things I found, cleaning out the storage trailer over the weekend, was a Merkur safety razor I’d given to my dad for a birthday present in the late-'80s or early-'90s. Twenty minutes ago I put in a new Wilkin… --- ## [How hard is it to install a new garage door lifter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hard-is-it-to-install-a-new-garage-door-lifter/824723)
**Author:** [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-hard-is-it-to-install-a-new-garage-door-lifter/824723 "2018-11-21T20:08:42Z")
My garage door is FUBARed I guess. It started being really flighty a couple months ago. Stopping decent randomly and going back up. It got worse and worse until it wouldn’t go down at all. The the LED on the beam started… --- ## [Used underwear in really good condition; what to do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/used-underwear-in-really-good-condition-what-to-do/851695)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/used-underwear-in-really-good-condition-what-to-do/851695 "2020-04-15T04:45:55Z")
I’m looking for practical, factual answers, but if this ends up being a thread that mods think goes somewhere else, I understand. Here’s my situation: The boychik has always been really big for his age. Right now, he i… --- ## [Which Electric Shaver Is The Best?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-electric-shaver-is-the-best/380273)
**Author:** [@ChiMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiMagnet)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-electric-shaver-is-the-best/380273 "2006-11-14T05:19:03Z")
My Norelco finally dide. I need to get a new one. I have always had the three head Norelco and they work well, but I wanted to get some opinions if any other kinds may be better. You know like the Braun shavers with th… --- ## [Monty Python. So she was actually a witch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-so-she-was-actually-a-witch/851540)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monty-python-so-she-was-actually-a-witch/851540 "2020-04-15T04:34:02Z")
At the end of the “trial”, the accused says “It’s a fair cop.” I’d guesstimate that at least 98% of Americans are unfamiliar with the phrase. But when I googled it, I got the impression that it’s basically an admission … --- ## [The business equivalent of PubMed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-business-equivalent-of-pubmed/851749)
**Author:** [@WaitThatShouldntWork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WaitThatShouldntWork)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-business-equivalent-of-pubmed/851749 "2020-04-15T04:10:17Z")
I’m trying to create an automated reasoning system and need a load of documents to text mine and build a dataset. There is ample reliable sources In medicine - PubMed for example, but I’m struggling to find the equivila… --- ## [How often, and for what positions, are there elections in various countries?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-and-for-what-positions-are-there-elections-in-various-countries/851757)
**Author:** [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-and-for-what-positions-are-there-elections-in-various-countries/851757 "2020-04-15T04:04:31Z")
Currently I can only vote absentee in Norwegian national elections, but when I lived in Norway I could vote twice in every four year period. Once for a party list for parliament (with the ability to modify the list, whi… --- ## [Former Radio Shack CEO is now ER doctor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-radio-shack-ceo-is-now-er-doctor/851568)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-radio-shack-ceo-is-now-er-doctor/851568 "2020-04-15T04:03:34Z")
Props to him for not just hanging out and counting his money. --- ## [That '70s Show - Where was Fez from?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-show-where-was-fez-from/851536)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-show-where-was-fez-from/851536 "2020-04-15T03:55:27Z")
Yes, I know it was a running gag throughout the entire series that it was never revealed where Fez was from. But don’t all the clues suggest Aruba more than any other place? Can anyone make an argument for any place ot… --- ## [Found this on my land.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-this-on-my-land/851726)
**Author:** [@Kitwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitwick)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-this-on-my-land/851726 "2020-04-15T03:53:44Z")
https://i.ibb.co/FwT4RSG/20200413-160259.jpg So I found this plant on my land back behind my barn that is really old and wondering if it is what I think it is --- ## [Six (Impossible) Conditions Before People in California Are Free](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-impossible-conditions-before-people-in-california-are-free/851815)
**Author:** [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-impossible-conditions-before-people-in-california-are-free/851815 "2020-04-15T03:50:06Z")
Note that not one law was passed by the CA Legislature concerning these mandatory conditions. They were made by the Governor through a dictatorial edict (Comrade Newsom). --- ## [Quick tax question: IRA contributions...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-tax-question-ira-contributions/851667)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-tax-question-ira-contributions/851667 "2020-04-15T03:49:56Z")
TurboTax (and various websites) are telling me I can reduce my taxes owed by contributing to my IRA. But money for both a traditional and Roth IRA are already deducted from my paycheck every two weeks, and I’m fairly su… --- ## [Best (or worst) looking license plates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-worst-looking-license-plates/851704)
**Author:** [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-or-worst-looking-license-plates/851704 "2020-04-15T03:46:51Z")
Putting the mundane in MPSIMS:) This week I saw a car from Alaska that sported a great looking license plate (although the photo doesn’t give it justice). It’s a special Northern Lights license plate, not the normal o… --- ## [What’s up with LG TV?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-up-with-lg-tv/851724)
**Author:** [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-up-with-lg-tv/851724 "2020-04-15T03:40:37Z")
Friday my tv died. I couldn’t get help in the evening from Best Buy or lv, so I tried again today. LV’s help desk said there were too many people calling in - try later. wTF?!? I’ve never gotten this from a help desk … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1922) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=1924)