# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=223 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 224 --- ## [Anybody here with Cochlear Implant(s)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-with-cochlear-implant-s/923550)
**Author:** [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-with-cochlear-implant-s/923550 "2025-10-11T17:21:28Z")
Anybody here with Cochlear Implants? I’m asking for input only from people with first-hand experience. I’m 70 and my diseased hearing has reached the point where even state of the art hearing aids are no longer very e… --- ## [Jack Links you dirty dogs!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-links-you-dirty-dogs/1023860)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-links-you-dirty-dogs/1023860 "2025-10-11T15:53:05Z")
I ate lunch at a local sammich shop. It was a reuban. Very large. I only ate half. On the way over to my treatment my BG wasn’t hopping up like I needed it to. I was over excited because I had picked up a package I was… --- ## [The Amazing Race (fall 2025) Is nobody at all watching this one?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-fall-2025-is-nobody-at-all-watching-this-one/1023704)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-fall-2025-is-nobody-at-all-watching-this-one/1023704 "2025-10-11T12:32:44Z")
I mean, the ideas of all Big Brother alums and only in Europe sound like two kisses of death, but nobody can even be bothered to rag on it??? --- ## [Running a local copy of Wikipedia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-a-local-copy-of-wikipedia/1015611)
**Author:** [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-a-local-copy-of-wikipedia/1015611 "2025-10-11T11:43:03Z")
Given the recent attacks on Wikipedia by Musk and his cronies, I have a strong feeling that the site will be forced offline within the next year or so. So I’d like to preserve its content, at least for my use – and it ma… --- ## [What's up with the U key (back) function?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-u-key-back-function/1023872)
**Author:** [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-u-key-back-function/1023872 "2025-10-11T10:52:41Z")
I use the U key on my laptop to go up/back a level in the SDMB. Today it appears to not work most of the time.. Eg, I’m in MPSIMS reading a post.. I hit U to go back up to MPSIMS, and it goes to the post in MPSIMS I w… --- ## [50s/60/70s: What was it with kids' bedtimes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60-70s-what-was-it-with-kids-bedtimes/1023778)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50s-60-70s-what-was-it-with-kids-bedtimes/1023778 "2025-10-11T10:16:17Z")
Like many kids, I had a bedtime. But I always found it to be absurdly early. I wasn’t tired, I wasn’t ready for bed, I’d go to bed at 7 pm or 8 pm as my parents demanded, and lie awake for hours (often until 11 pm) sta… --- ## [Weirdest road you’ve ever been on](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 185\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-road-you-ve-ever-been-on/1007098 "2025-10-11T08:10:57Z")
There are lots of winding roads, and of course long ones, and certainly narrow and crooked ones, but this one is one of the weirdest I’ve ever encountered. The first time I drove on it, I couldn’t figure out what was goi… --- ## [ID this comedy sketch (sperm donor)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785)
**Author:** [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-comedy-sketch-sperm-donor/1023785 "2025-10-11T06:30:58Z")
Last weekend on SNL, there was a sketch where a young couple in a restaurant discussed their infertility problems, and Bad Bunny (and later Kenan Thompson), looking and acting really skeevy, volunteered to be sperm donor… --- ## [Deportations Under US Presidents: Surprising Statistics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deportations-under-us-presidents-surprising-statistics/1023849 "2025-10-11T01:54:24Z")
I’m having a ‘discussion’ with someone on another board of a political nature when the subject of deportations came up. I, of course, brought up Trump’s use of masked ICE agents who were known to arrest and deport legal … --- ## [The French government fell today (12/4/24). Does anyone care?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-government-fell-today-12-4-24-does-anyone-care/1011176)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-french-government-fell-today-12-4-24-does-anyone-care/1011176 "2025-10-11T01:47:36Z")
I heard a brief newsradio headline that France’s Prime Minister Barnier and his entire cabinet lost a no-confidence vote when opponents on the left and right joined forces. And then I haven’t heard anything else until I … --- ## [What was the most interesting \*overlapping\* century in world history?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-interesting-overlapping-century-in-world-history/1019974)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-interesting-overlapping-century-in-world-history/1019974 "2025-10-11T00:52:23Z")
Over the millennia, any civilization or cluster of cultures will have had its ups and downs. But when you overlap the world’s major ones on a single timeline like this: or … --- ## [American Science and Surplus is dead. Suggestions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-science-and-surplus-is-dead-suggestions/1023854)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-science-and-surplus-is-dead-suggestions/1023854 "2025-10-10T23:42:55Z")
The much-beloved American Science And Surpus has closed it’s door, at least online, & maybe altogether. Can you Dopers suggest another, similar alternative? --- ## [Are you a Star Bellied Sneetch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-star-bellied-sneetch/1000893 "2025-10-10T22:28:10Z")
I am a star bellied sneetch. But I think it is genetic. --- ## [Ironic Mortgage Shuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironic-mortgage-shuffle/1023829)
**Author:** [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ironic-mortgage-shuffle/1023829 "2025-10-10T21:34:10Z")
My daughter recently got her first house and mortgage to go with it. She did business with Rocket Mortgage and had a good experience with them. Then of course inevitably her mortgage got sold to another company, so she… --- ## [Ass Gasket for real](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ass-gasket-for-real/1023847)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ass-gasket-for-real/1023847 "2025-10-10T20:19:39Z")
I didn’t want to hijack and derail the current BBQ Pit thread with “assgasket” in the title … ( Because Some Assgaskets Will Get Pissed If I Bump the Thread (Update on 20 year old murder thread) ) … so I started this new… --- ## [Reddit's stupid anti-violence censorship](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddits-stupid-anti-violence-censorship/1023677)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddits-stupid-anti-violence-censorship/1023677 "2025-10-10T20:19:32Z")
WTF is up with Reddit these days? I’ve gotten dinged twice in the past couple of months for posts that were describing figurative violence, or hypotheticals, and recently got my account permanently banned. It’s like th… --- ## [Word for Word. (game)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-for-word-game/122708)
**Author:** [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Replies:** 122\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-for-word-game/122708 "2025-10-10T20:02:18Z")
The rules:\[ul\]\[li\]Each poster must post a word that is completely unrelated to the preceding word.\[\]You can earn a point by finding a valid connection between two consecutive words.\[\]You lose a point if nobody buys your … --- ## [Shrinking the US Military News Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-the-us-military-news-thread/1023088)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shrinking-the-us-military-news-thread/1023088 "2025-10-10T19:44:52Z")
Just posting news, tracking any sly efforts to reduce the headcount of the US military. Today’s is Troops with medical shaving waivers to face separation, Hegseth says Troops with beards will either need to leave the a… --- ## [Third interstellar body discovered in our solar system](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-interstellar-body-discovered-in-our-solar-system/1020471)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-interstellar-body-discovered-in-our-solar-system/1020471 "2025-10-10T19:21:15Z")
On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space. Arriving from the d… --- ## [An overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-overfed-long-haired-leaping-gnome/29900)
**Author:** [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-overfed-long-haired-leaping-gnome/29900 "2025-10-10T19:15:04Z")
I know this doesn’t really fit on this forum. I know. But I thought you all might get a kick out of this. Watching tv the other night and on comes Eric Burdon. Starts singing ‘Spill the Wine.’ Everybody in the room wond… --- ## [Need mouse advice (not computer-related)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-mouse-advice-not-computer-related/1023790)
**Author:** [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-mouse-advice-not-computer-related/1023790 "2025-10-10T19:01:53Z")
Here is the situation. I live in a townhouse where the front door is on the middle floor and opens into a little entryway which is down three steps from the main floor. I rarely use this entrance and usually go in and ou… --- ## [What is this musical mode?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-musical-mode/1023828)
**Author:** [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-musical-mode/1023828 "2025-10-10T18:59:32Z")
Starting after the chorus at 4:02, Guantanamera, the singer goes into a mode that I don’t recognize. Not minor, not major, or any of the other modes that I know of. Is there a term for what he’s doing here? --- ## [Monster: The Ed Gein Story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-the-ed-gein-story/1023662)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-the-ed-gein-story/1023662 "2025-10-10T18:00:53Z")
Netflix just dropped this today. I Halloween is as good a season to release it as Mother’s Day. :wink: Ryan Murphy may have stepped back, but Charlie Hunnam still got a lengthy nude scene before the opening credits. --- ## [Is my DNA scattered around the world? A pondering](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-dna-scattered-around-the-world-a-pondering/1023816)
**Author:** [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-dna-scattered-around-the-world-a-pondering/1023816 "2025-10-10T17:21:47Z")
Sometimes I have pondered whether my DNA might be found on continents east and west, hither and yon, from here to the back of beyond. My scenario is I scratch my head in an airport in Melbourne, or in Indonesia or Engla… --- ## [Trump will invade Canada](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-invade-canada/1023567)
**Author:** [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Replies:** 197\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-will-invade-canada/1023567 "2025-10-10T15:58:17Z")
Trump has the examples he needs. Netanyahu and Putin have not suffered politically from their blatant invasions. Same for Trump sending troops into US cities. You take some flak, but when it’s done it can’t be undone, y… --- ## [Executive Order signed to increase H-1B Visa Fee to $100,000](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-order-signed-to-increase-h-1b-visa-fee-to-100-000/1023211)
**Author:** [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/executive-order-signed-to-increase-h-1b-visa-fee-to-100-000/1023211 "2025-10-10T15:10:43Z")
What an incredible own-goal this will be to the US economy. Is there any possible way that keeping skilled workers out of the country will help the economy. --- ## [Did Nietszche ever claim to himself be an Übermensch?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-nietszche-ever-claim-to-himself-be-an-ubermensch/1023607)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-nietszche-ever-claim-to-himself-be-an-ubermensch/1023607 "2025-10-10T14:51:56Z")
Not that I’ve ever heard, although that’s no guarantee. If not it raises a philosophical question: how did Nietszche claim to be able to anticipate or conceive of what an Übermensch was, while not being able to be one hi… --- ## [Help with Spanish translation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-spanish-translation/1023848)
**Author:** [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-spanish-translation/1023848 "2025-10-10T14:38:40Z")
I’m looking for help translating a one-page form into Spanish, for a free health care event. At the event, we will be distributing information and equipment so that people in need can monitor their health data and share… --- ## [The night before Halloween](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-before-halloween/1023803)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-night-before-halloween/1023803 "2025-10-10T14:35:56Z")
In your area, what do/did you call the night before Halloween (when pranksters were often on the loose)? We called it “Mat Night” - residents were encouraged to bring their doormats inside, otherwise they would end up i… --- ## [If we ever get out of this mess, what Trump deeds will make for the best movie plots?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-ever-get-out-of-this-mess-what-trump-deeds-will-make-for-the-best-movie-plots/1023244)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [October 10, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-we-ever-get-out-of-this-mess-what-trump-deeds-will-make-for-the-best-movie-plots/1023244 "2025-10-10T13:20:01Z")
There have been innumerable movies about Nixon. One day, unless the damage to the US is truly irrevocable and we become a dictatorship for a hundred years, someone somewhere will make movies about the worst excesses of t… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=222) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=224)