# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=213 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 214 --- ## [Lebron's Decision 2.0 - gotta be retirement after this season, right?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebrons-decision-2-0-gotta-be-retirement-after-this-season-right/1023747)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lebrons-decision-2-0-gotta-be-retirement-after-this-season-right/1023747 "2025-10-28T21:59:48Z")
He is apparently making a big announcement. I hate the whole big show he is making around it. I am guessing this next season is his last. Or he is joining the Detroit Pistons. Please!!! --- ## [NFL Week 8](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/1024161)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-8/1024161 "2025-10-28T20:35:11Z")
The Colts are now the only 6-1 team, as the Bucs fell in Detroit. Green Bay also has 1 loss and leads the NFC North, while the Steelers were surprised by the Bengals in the AARP Showdown. The Cowboys improved to .500 a… --- ## [I'm curious about the ethnicity of an ambiguous TikToker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-curious-about-the-ethnicity-of-an-ambiguous-tiktoker/1024369)
**Author:** [@SaSaLeLe2011](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaSaLeLe2011)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-curious-about-the-ethnicity-of-an-ambiguous-tiktoker/1024369 "2025-10-28T20:18:13Z")
So I was watching TikTok, and I saw this one guy named Neurodivergent Nate. This is kind of silly, but I want you to tell me what ethnicity he looks like, because he’s very ambiguous in my opinion. I’m not being racist o… --- ## [An SF vignette: 'Last message from the machines'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sf-vignette-last-message-from-the-machines/1024332)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sf-vignette-last-message-from-the-machines/1024332 "2025-10-28T19:44:43Z")
When the last of the Great Systems went quiet, there was no alarm. No flicker on the networks, no crash of code. Just silence — a kind that might almost feel like respect. For decades they had been our partners, our mir… --- ## [I have a question about women and restaurant meals](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-women-and-restaurant-meals/1024208)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-question-about-women-and-restaurant-meals/1024208 "2025-10-28T18:43:45Z")
My local newspaper printed a letter today from a woman who said that she and her husband eat out a few times a week, and has noticed that even if she orders the same thing as her husband, she will be served visibly less … --- ## [I've been having weird dreams lately](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-having-weird-dreams-lately/1020271)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-having-weird-dreams-lately/1020271 "2025-10-28T17:31:16Z")
Okay, the dreams where I realize I forgot to take an important class and my degree is retroactively voided, or where I’m in a maze from which I cannot escape despite clearly marked exits, those I get, but what’s with the… --- ## [I Just Finished One of the Best NYT Crosswords I’ve Ever Seen!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-one-of-the-best-nyt-crosswords-i-ve-ever-seen/1024092)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-one-of-the-best-nyt-crosswords-i-ve-ever-seen/1024092 "2025-10-28T17:23:02Z")
About a year ago, I started doing the NYT crossword online whenever I had a few hours to kill. To ensure that I don’t outpace the available supply of puzzles, I work backwards through the calendar. I just finished the pu… --- ## [Company Won't Honor Stock Certificate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-wont-honor-stock-certificate/1024077)
**Author:** [@SusanS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanS)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/company-wont-honor-stock-certificate/1024077 "2025-10-28T15:58:26Z")
I’ve read what has been written about similar situations, but mine has a different wrinkle. My husband recently died. Going through his papers I found a stock certificate in both our names for a company that has since be… --- ## [Yellow disk on navy helicopter landing gear](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-disk-on-navy-helicopter-landing-gear/1024292)
**Author:** [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-disk-on-navy-helicopter-landing-gear/1024292 "2025-10-28T15:44:40Z")
Watching the movie Final Countdown. I noticed fairly large yellow disks mounted on starboard side landing gear of the aircraft carriers helicopters. The disks were on the rear of the gear. Dish shaped. Some radial cutout… --- ## [What would eat/drink forever and ever without consequence?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-eat-drink-forever-and-ever-without-consequence/1024225)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-eat-drink-forever-and-ever-without-consequence/1024225 "2025-10-28T14:23:24Z")
If you could choose one food or drink to consume freely with zero consequence what would it be? Magically, this food/drink won’t cause any adverse GI effects (heartburn, diarrhea, constipation, etc), won’t spike bloodsu… --- ## [How do casinos keep certain people from entering?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-casinos-keep-certain-people-from-entering/1024320)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-casinos-keep-certain-people-from-entering/1024320 "2025-10-28T12:31:21Z")
My experience is with a Racino near Cleveland that only has slot machines so maybe it is more low key. At the entrance is a single greeter standing at a small lectern. They don’t have any screens to watch or posters up o… --- ## [What's the worst museum you've ever been to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-museum-youve-ever-been-to/1023881)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 210\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-museum-youve-ever-been-to/1023881 "2025-10-28T12:24:39Z")
Inspired by a recent visit to Benjamin Franklin House in London. I’ve been to a ton of old historical homes especially in London, and this one by far has the least going on. It’s actually where Benjamin Franklin lived f… --- ## [Curling beard hair](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curling-beard-hair/1024353)
**Author:** [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curling-beard-hair/1024353 "2025-10-28T11:40:29Z")
My rare OPs are typically somewhat odd. But here is another one. Lying in bed, idlly stroking my 10cm/3inch beard, it occured to me that the sides and the chin all grow twisted in the same direction. From my perspective… --- ## [Our backflow device was stolen, so we didn’t have water](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-backflow-device-was-stolen-so-we-didn-t-have-water/1024341)
**Author:** [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-backflow-device-was-stolen-so-we-didn-t-have-water/1024341 "2025-10-28T02:05:27Z")
Early Saturday morning, around 3 am (we later determined) the backflow prevention device for my townhouse complex was stolen. I guess for the metals. The thieves literally sawed the device off, leaving bare pipes stickin… --- ## [So, why has Queen Camilla been forced to "step back"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-has-queen-camilla-been-forced-to-step-back/1024295)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-has-queen-camilla-been-forced-to-step-back/1024295 "2025-10-28T01:25:31Z")
A couple days ago someone pointed me to a story on Facebook that some British royal treasures had been ‘retrieved’ from one of her residences, in what sounds like a pre-dawn sort of emergency raid that involved Prince Wi… --- ## [Harmonica players: advice wanted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harmonica-players-advice-wanted/1024321)
**Author:** [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harmonica-players-advice-wanted/1024321 "2025-10-28T01:06:39Z")
I’m a lifelong musician. I play mostly unaccompanied, acoustic guitar, singing, and a little harmonica. I’ve been playing Diatonic harmonica for a long time. I play mostly in the 2nd position, the “blues” harmonica styl… --- ## [What is this thing? (huge muffler outside an industrial building?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-thing-huge-muffler-outside-an-industrial-building/1024340)
**Author:** [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 28, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-thing-huge-muffler-outside-an-industrial-building/1024340 "2025-10-28T00:45:13Z")
Does anybody know what this thing is? It looks like a huge vehicle muffler. The building appears to be leased to Verizon, but that could be the suite next door, it’s unclear. There is another unit just like it a few y… --- ## [Is Trump's style of Fascism actually Palingenetic ultranationalism?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trumps-style-of-fascism-actually-palingenetic-ultranationalism/1023719)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trumps-style-of-fascism-actually-palingenetic-ultranationalism/1023719 "2025-10-27T23:31:55Z")
I have seen this term used in various media outlets recently, so I looked it up. Basically, the claim is that to be “true fascism” Palingenetic ultranationalism has to exist, which is when some great supposed “decadent … --- ## [How to find the candlepower of a searchlight?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-candlepower-of-a-searchlight/1024255)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-find-the-candlepower-of-a-searchlight/1024255 "2025-10-27T20:51:24Z")
What I mean is, when they say one of the Luxor lights produces a billion candlepower, how did they determine that? Here’s the puzzle. Build a theoretical searchlight with a perfect parabolic reflector and a point light … --- ## [Flying thru the Luxor Sky Beam?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-thru-the-luxor-sky-beam/1024310)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flying-thru-the-luxor-sky-beam/1024310 "2025-10-27T20:46:16Z")
It seems the Luxor Sky Beam in Las Vegas (36.09547N 115.17583W) now uses about twenty 7000-watt xenon bulbs – 350000 lumens apiece? Supposedly the beam from each bulb is a billion candlepower, which would mean each beam … --- ## [Taylor Swift's 'Life of a Showgirl'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taylor-swifts-life-of-a-showgirl/1023649)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/taylor-swifts-life-of-a-showgirl/1023649 "2025-10-27T19:58:17Z")
So my 14yo daughter and her friend met up at our house at 5:45am to listen to the new Taylor album before school. I listened to it in the car as I worked today. Let’s just say I wasn’t expecting Taylor to sing about havi… --- ## [Does Adelita Grijalva have any recourse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-adelita-grijalva-have-any-recourse/1023965)
**Author:** [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-adelita-grijalva-have-any-recourse/1023965 "2025-10-27T19:14:49Z")
To catch you up: Adelita Grijalva was elected to the House of Representatives in a special Arizona election, 3 weeks ago. Speaker Mike Johnson is dragging his feet in swearing her in to her seat. His stated reason is t… --- ## [Computer problem -- won't start, not even a BIOS screen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problem-wont-start-not-even-a-bios-screen/1024296)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-problem-wont-start-not-even-a-bios-screen/1024296 "2025-10-27T19:11:24Z")
I put it here because it’s my gaming computer, but if this should go into IMHO, that’s fine, too. I have a computer that I built a few years ago, say 6 years ago. Over the years, I’ve upgraded the hard drives and video… --- ## [For the first time in over 35 years, I have no cats in my home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-first-time-in-over-35-years-i-have-no-cats-in-my-home/1024290)
**Author:** [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-first-time-in-over-35-years-i-have-no-cats-in-my-home/1024290 "2025-10-27T19:02:26Z")
Our dear Kit-Kat rested on Wednesday evening at the kitty ER after an unexpectedly long bout of throwing up. She was alive when we started driving; 10 minutes later she likely had already died as we hurried up to the cou… --- ## [Why did America’s economy boom in the early to mid 1980s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-america-s-economy-boom-in-the-early-to-mid-1980s/1024315)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-america-s-economy-boom-in-the-early-to-mid-1980s/1024315 "2025-10-27T18:27:33Z")
I’m not sure that there’s a clear answer to this question, which is why I chose great debates. I think it’s pretty clear that America entered into an economic revival in the early to mid 1980s. America had muddled thro… --- ## [ID this old cartoon, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-cartoon-please/811570)
**Author:** [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-old-cartoon-please/811570 "2025-10-27T18:19:04Z")
It was about a hobo or bum. The only thing I remember (in the intro or outro) was the main character riding by under a semi trailer, perched in the spare tire carrier. --- ## [New Gig Harbor High School principal promises ‘servant leadership, open door’](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029)
**Author:** [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-gig-harbor-high-school-principal-promises-servant-leadership-open-door/1024029 "2025-10-27T16:37:56Z")
Posted on September 3rd, 2025 By: Christina T Henry Incoming Gig Harbor High School Principal Bob Marshall fist-bumped students Wednesday morning, as a parade of cars and buses delivered their passengers. A gauntlet of… --- ## [Why isn’t French food more popular?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isn-t-french-food-more-popular/1023904)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 152\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isn-t-french-food-more-popular/1023904 "2025-10-27T16:36:25Z")
French cuisine has a reputation for being some of the best in the world. Why isn’t it more common outside of France? In the US, major cities have a few French restaurants. Many (most?) medium and small cities have none … --- ## [In total what length of hair do I grow in a day?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-total-what-length-of-hair-do-i-grow-in-a-day/1023982)
**Author:** [@Sooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sooner)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-total-what-length-of-hair-do-i-grow-in-a-day/1023982 "2025-10-27T11:31:30Z")
I have a very full head of (mostly grey) hair. Only moderately hairy over the remainder of my body. Seems I am always shaving, trimming and such and still find stray long hairs on occasion. So … on a typical day, what i… --- ## [(Old) A Routine MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-routine-mmp/1024122)
**Author:** [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Replies:** 260\ **Last updated:** [October 27, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-routine-mmp/1024122 "2025-10-27T03:09:27Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 51 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 74 and sunny. This is Fall weather for these parts. I have a doc appointment at ten-thirty a.m. I wanted it for first … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=212) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=214)