# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=223&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 224 --- ## [Knights of Guinevere](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-guinevere/1023632)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knights-of-guinevere/1023632 "2025-10-12T12:02:36Z")
This is an open-ended pilot episode produced with hopes of being able to produce more episodes but no guarantee. High animation quality for something produced with what must have been a shoestring budget and production t… --- ## [WW2- Armored flight deck, YEA or NAY?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ww2-armored-flight-deck-yea-or-nay/1023764)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ww2-armored-flight-deck-yea-or-nay/1023764 "2025-10-12T10:20:29Z")
The British used armored Flight decks on their aircraft carriers, and in a few instances where light bombs or a kamikaze hit, that armor came in real handy. The Royal Navy (RN) was convinced armor on the flight deck wa… --- ## [Nightmarishly gruesome graphic novel: "Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114 "2025-10-12T10:19:01Z")
(note: tag says manga which it isn’t although that’s the closest category I could find) I stumbled across this on YouTube where it’s been uploaded with narration. I took a look and Ho Lee Phuk! Cute little humanimals be… --- ## [Artists who have excellent technique but lack "artistry"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-have-excellent-technique-but-lack-artistry/1023718)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 129\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2025, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-have-excellent-technique-but-lack-artistry/1023718 "2025-10-12T05:56:16Z")
Inspired by the recent advances in AI including Tilly Norwood, an AI “actress”, and a song by Tocanna, an AI “singer”. Is there a term for artists, whether musicians, painters, writers, actors, etc. that are technically… --- ## [NFL Week 5](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-5/1023523)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 148\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-5/1023523 "2025-10-12T02:55:56Z")
And then there were two. Buffalo remained undefeated with a tougher-than-expected victory over the Saints, while the Eagles built a big lead and then survived a furious comeback by the previously unbeaten Bucs to also im… --- ## [Is dark matter real, or another 'Planet Vulcan'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dark-matter-real-or-another-planet-vulcan/1023625)
**Author:** [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dark-matter-real-or-another-planet-vulcan/1023625 "2025-10-12T02:29:19Z")
On the 19th century astronomers noted that the orbit of the planet Mercury didn’t quite match what was predicted by Newton’s laws. To explain this they concluded that there must be another planet, which they named ‘Vul… --- ## [What Would A Massive Nuclear Exchange Look Like From A Plane At Cruising Altitude?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-massive-nuclear-exchange-look-like-from-a-plane-at-cruising-altitude/1021964)
**Author:** [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-a-massive-nuclear-exchange-look-like-from-a-plane-at-cruising-altitude/1021964 "2025-10-12T02:11:16Z")
poll --- ## [Helping someone who can log onto Outlook and laptop with a PIN but forgot their password](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-someone-who-can-log-onto-outlook-and-laptop-with-a-pin-but-forgot-their-password/1023886)
**Author:** [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-someone-who-can-log-onto-outlook-and-laptop-with-a-pin-but-forgot-their-password/1023886 "2025-10-11T22:27:20Z")
Family member can log onto their laptop and Hotmail account with a PIN ok, but they want to change password and setup recovery options. Setting up recovery options requires them to verify with a text or email. The text … --- ## [Stupid human liquor tricks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-human-liquor-tricks/1023869)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-human-liquor-tricks/1023869 "2025-10-11T21:49:18Z")
Take a Mason jar half full of “Herman The German Sour Apple Balls” candy. Fill it to the brim with Laird’s Applejack. Let it sit at room temperature for a week. Pour concoction over a couple of ice cubes in a rocks glass… --- ## [Trump's War on Nonprofits](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-war-on-nonprofits/1023851)
**Author:** [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-war-on-nonprofits/1023851 "2025-10-11T21:11:49Z")
I’ve been wanting to start this thread for a while. I wanted to dedicate a space to articulate and complain about the ongoing saga between Trump’s administration and nonprofit organizations. I’m a federal grants writer … --- ## [What determines which avatars show at the bottom of a thread?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-determines-which-avatars-show-at-the-bottom-of-a-thread/1023302)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-determines-which-avatars-show-at-the-bottom-of-a-thread/1023302 "2025-10-11T21:09:54Z")
The limit seems to be 5 avatars per thread. The OP is always first (apparently). Then it seems to be the posters with the most posts in the thread, in descending order. But in short threads, where there are several poste… --- ## [Books you had read in high school that you absolutely hated](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-had-read-in-high-school-that-you-absolutely-hated/1022732)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 213\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-you-had-read-in-high-school-that-you-absolutely-hated/1022732 "2025-10-11T20:09:49Z")
There were many books and novellas we had to read that I hated so much I never read any more titles by the author. The Pearl, by John Steinbeck Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Fahrenheit 451 I will think of … --- ## [I don't need antiperspirant to last 72 hours (rant too mild for pit)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-antiperspirant-to-last-72-hours-rant-too-mild-for-pit/1023875)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-need-antiperspirant-to-last-72-hours-rant-too-mild-for-pit/1023875 "2025-10-11T19:08:11Z")
There used to be deodorant/antiperspirant; then there were ‘24 hour’ offerings. Then it was 48 hours and now it’s 72. I don’t need it to last six times longer than the time until my next shower. Also I don’t even want … --- ## [Artists with sloppy technique but great artistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-with-sloppy-technique-but-great-artistry/1023779)
**Author:** [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [October 11, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-with-sloppy-technique-but-great-artistry/1023779 "2025-10-11T18:33:33Z")
Continuing the discussion from Artists who have excellent technique but lack “artistry”: Let’s have some more examples of this, the inverse of the other thread. Exhibit A: “La China Leoncia Arreo la Correntinada Trajo… --- ## [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… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=222&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=224&state=muted)