# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=211 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 212 --- ## [Who is responsible for insurance and other costs in two-story duplexes? (Example photo in OP)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-responsible-for-insurance-and-other-costs-in-two-story-duplexes-example-photo-in-op/1024316)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-responsible-for-insurance-and-other-costs-in-two-story-duplexes-example-photo-in-op/1024316 "2025-11-01T07:57:01Z")
Saint Louis, MO, and I assume multiple other US cities as well, has a lot of houses like this. Is it custom for the owner to occupy one floor and for him or her to rent out the other? Or can each floor be separately o… --- ## [Man drove truck into, shot up, set church on fire (Sept 28, 2025, Grand Blanc, MI)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-drove-truck-into-shot-up-set-church-on-fire-sept-28-2025-grand-blanc-mi/1023461)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-drove-truck-into-shot-up-set-church-on-fire-sept-28-2025-grand-blanc-mi/1023461 "2025-11-01T05:16:36Z")
Shooting at a Mormon church north of Detroit this morning, right now three are dead (including shooter) and nine hospitalized. A Wikipedia page is already up: On the morning of September 28, 2025, a mass shooting\[1\] o… --- ## [Thought-provoking YT video about vintage stage makeup](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-provoking-yt-video-about-vintage-stage-makeup/1024373)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-provoking-yt-video-about-vintage-stage-makeup/1024373 "2025-11-01T02:17:14Z")
This popped up in my “suggested videos” feed last night, and apparently those of a lot of other people too. I knew about some of the tricks used in B&W film photography, mainly using pink instead of white because pink a… --- ## [You’re suddenly given an extra $1000 per month](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-suddenly-given-an-extra-1000-per-month/1024206)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-suddenly-given-an-extra-1000-per-month/1024206 "2025-11-01T01:06:02Z")
How do you spend it? And if you don’t mind sharing your sense of currently solid middle to above and secure or lower middle to below. --- ## [Suddenly a new form of advertising appears](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-a-new-form-of-advertising-appears/1012830)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-a-new-form-of-advertising-appears/1012830 "2025-10-31T23:43:01Z")
I was walking along the display of large screen TVs in Walmart when I noticed that two of them are using the image of the TV on the box to advertise a show on that TV. The first was for Conan O’Brien Plus which is appare… --- ## [What does this mean? ‘Give your money away, shorties’](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-mean-give-your-money-away-shorties/1024441)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-this-mean-give-your-money-away-shorties/1024441 "2025-10-31T23:11:26Z")
She proceeded to deliver a blunt call to action directly to the heavy hitters in the room. “I’d say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and give it to some people that need it,” Eilish told … --- ## ["As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-trump-s-policies-worry-scientists-france-and-others-put-out-a-welcome-mat/1016334)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-trump-s-policies-worry-scientists-france-and-others-put-out-a-welcome-mat/1016334 "2025-10-31T21:52:20Z")
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/europe-trump-science-research.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.704.La7s.wtrw55oJfxcB&smid=url-share European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the admi… --- ## [Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - October 2025 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-october-2025-edition/1023626)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 82\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-october-2025-edition/1023626 "2025-10-31T20:52:13Z")
My apologies! I totally forgot the new thread in all the hubbub of discovering a couple new Youtube channels. I am such a teenaged sexagenarian :laughing: So Whatcha all readin? The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. I … --- ## [Introducing new cat Molly. Um...Milo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-new-cat-molly-um-milo/1024409)
**Author:** [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introducing-new-cat-molly-um-milo/1024409 "2025-10-31T18:55:30Z")
Saturday I picked up a stray cat from a rescuer. Molly is a very sweet and cuddly Siamese mix. Today was her first vet visit for a check up, scan for a chip, FIV & FLeuk tests, vax and deworming. And to see if they could… --- ## [Pets and pets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pets-and-pets/1024454)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pets-and-pets/1024454 "2025-10-31T17:09:40Z")
Are pets “pets” because we pet them or do we “pet” pets because they are pets? This is my cute way of asking which came first, the verb or the noun and is the first word related to the second? --- ## [Mail sent to non-existent address](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-sent-to-non-existent-address/1024339)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-sent-to-non-existent-address/1024339 "2025-10-31T16:21:03Z")
We are waiting for a check and found out today that despite repeated confirmations of our address, rather than sending it to 123 E Fake St. It got sent to 12 Fake St which doesn’t exist. I have no hope of tracking the … --- ## [Name this Taunt Song...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-taunt-song/470160)
**Author:** [@SharkB8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharkB8)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-taunt-song/470160 "2025-10-31T15:26:13Z")
I’m working on a screenplay and I want one of the characters to beep a horn in a very recognizable fashion, but I don’t know the name of the tune. Think of when someone knocks on your door in an attempt to be cute. Give… --- ## [Do commercial super-sonic flights make sense today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-commercial-super-sonic-flights-make-sense-today/1024395)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-commercial-super-sonic-flights-make-sense-today/1024395 "2025-10-31T15:14:03Z")
I heard a podcast about the SST Concord the other day and it’s been on my mind. Apparently there were several things that led to it’s demise. One was the crash which ironically was not the fault of the SST. It was cause… --- ## [Libraries have a problem](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libraries-have-a-problem/1024425)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/libraries-have-a-problem/1024425 "2025-10-31T14:17:10Z")
Baker & Taylor is a corporation that specializes in selling books and other material to libraries. Apparently, they are the major source that libraries buy from. Which is why libraries have a problem. Because Baker & Ty… --- ## [Looking for a Time/Life three-volume set from the 1970s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-time-life-three-volume-set-from-the-1970s/1004851)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-time-life-three-volume-set-from-the-1970s/1004851 "2025-10-31T12:47:34Z")
This was a set of books (hardback, 8 1/2 x 11 inches I think, fairly thin) about science that one of my cousins had. The whole set of three was intended to cover all of science - and volume three was “the cosmos” as a w… --- ## [Kamala should run for president again in 2028](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774)
**Author:** [@Ash\_trav511](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ash_trav511)\ **Replies:** 466\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774 "2025-10-31T11:50:25Z")
I feel she should run again in 2028 and become the first woman president. I feel she stands better chance in 4 years time than in the present election where she was saddled with the twin burdens of inflation and border… --- ## [Am I behind for my age?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-behind-for-my-age/1024365)
**Author:** [@SaSaLeLe2011](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaSaLeLe2011)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-behind-for-my-age/1024365 "2025-10-31T11:32:51Z")
So I’m 14, never kissed a girl, never had sex, never dated a girl. I have no autonomy whatsoever, and I moved to Europe from America recently. No girls at my brand new school in Europe like me (not many did in America). … --- ## [Is a Category 6 Hurricane Meteorologically Possible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-category-6-hurricane-meteorologically-possible/1024326)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-category-6-hurricane-meteorologically-possible/1024326 "2025-10-31T11:25:19Z")
This question is derived from Hurricane Melissa, whose strength is shocking given the late time of year. I’m posting this in “Factual Questions” because there are numerous conditions that govern the strength of hurrican… --- ## [What's your "Go To" OTC pain reliever?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-go-to-otc-pain-reliever/1024392)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-go-to-otc-pain-reliever/1024392 "2025-10-31T11:23:14Z")
I take a daily low dose aspirin but it got to me wondering, do people still take aspirin for pain relief? So here’s a poll. I realize that what’s available over the counter will be dependent on location but since this … --- ## [Jurassic World Rebirth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-rebirth/1024445)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jurassic-world-rebirth/1024445 "2025-10-31T11:15:49Z")
After getting burned by each one being utterly terrible I did not see this one in theaters but it’s on Peacock now and actually, it was not so bad. Probably the best one since the original Jurassic Park (which is faint p… --- ## [Friend got fired as job of substitute teacher for a "false Positive" drug test, any truth?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-got-fired-as-job-of-substitute-teacher-for-a-false-positive-drug-test-any-truth/1023978)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-got-fired-as-job-of-substitute-teacher-for-a-false-positive-drug-test-any-truth/1023978 "2025-10-31T07:01:19Z")
Curious to see if he’s lying to me, though I’ll keep it vague just in case. Friend worked as a substitute teacher at a California public school for 14 years but iirc he’s not part of a Union. He randomly got drug tested… --- ## [Laundry pods and microplastics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laundry-pods-and-microplastics/1024335)
**Author:** [@Cachalot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cachalot)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laundry-pods-and-microplastics/1024335 "2025-10-31T06:16:05Z")
More and more, laundry detergent is coming in “pods” – single doses enclosed in a plastic(?) skin. They are undoubtedly convenient. No need to measure, just drop one in the washer with your laundry and press start. But … --- ## [The Float-Up Bar/Restaurant Shooter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-float-up-bar-restaurant-shooter/1023453)
**Author:** [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-float-up-bar-restaurant-shooter/1023453 "2025-10-31T02:20:10Z")
What The Ever-Loving Fuck! I’m shocked by this on so many levels. First of all, when on vacation near the water, who hasn’t taken a date to a nice seafood restaurant? The crowd is higher class, often a better vintage… --- ## [Dutch elections 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-elections-2025/1024412)
**Author:** [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 31, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-elections-2025/1024412 "2025-10-31T00:41:47Z")
The election was brought on because the leading far-right populist (Wilders/PVV) collapsed the government it had been allowed to lead, because the other parties wouldn’t accept all of his proposals. And the election resu… --- ## [Help with reading/translating shirt design](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-reading-translating-shirt-design/1024436)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-reading-translating-shirt-design/1024436 "2025-10-30T22:49:47Z")
I don’t even know if this is English (Russian?) And, sorry, this fuzzy screen grab is as good as it’s going to get. All help appreciated. --- ## [Is research necessary to write a good novel?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-research-necessary-to-write-a-good-novel/1024396)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-research-necessary-to-write-a-good-novel/1024396 "2025-10-30T22:24:34Z")
I get that even if you’re writing about a piece fiction that takes place in a real city, it’s a good idea to do your research. But what if it’s a completely fictional place made up in your head? Even that would need res… --- ## [Songs whose title appears only in the bridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-whose-title-appears-only-in-the-bridge/1024420 "2025-10-30T20:40:04Z")
We can divide song titles into two categories: those that appear somewhere in the lyrics, and those that don’t. For songs that follow the verse–chorus–bridge form, the first category can be further broken down into titl… --- ## [Mary Trump recites donald](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-trump-recites-donald/1024424)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-trump-recites-donald/1024424 "2025-10-30T18:33:46Z")
I think this is pretty funny/ scary. It’s his words verbatim. --- ## [Strong unpleasant reactions to vaccines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strong-unpleasant-reactions-to-vaccines/1024417)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strong-unpleasant-reactions-to-vaccines/1024417 "2025-10-30T18:15:04Z")
Continuing the discussion from Is there any connection whatsoever between getting a flu shot and getting the flu?: This is related, but feels like a question for a new thread… Some of us (raises hand) get really sick … --- ## [Florida is scrapping their childhood vaccine mandates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-scrapping-their-childhood-vaccine-mandates/1022716)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [October 30, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-is-scrapping-their-childhood-vaccine-mandates/1022716 "2025-10-30T17:00:36Z")
Is there a way to make sure measles doesn’t escape the state lines? Seriously, though, this seems like a health disaster in the making. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=210) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=212)