# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=236&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 237 --- ## [Spatial reference in Films](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-reference-in-films/1023184)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spatial-reference-in-films/1023184 "2025-09-22T16:25:54Z")
I’ve long had an issue with “spatial reference,” a phrase I think I’ve derived from Hitchcock, meaning “where exactly people are, in relation to other people and things” in films, particularly films of a large scale, suc… --- ## [Glitch Productions Is Better Than Disney - Change My Mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch-productions-is-better-than-disney-change-my-mind/1023296)
**Author:** [@IMadeLem0nade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IMadeLem0nade)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glitch-productions-is-better-than-disney-change-my-mind/1023296 "2025-09-22T16:21:20Z")
Okay, change my mind. --- ## [My Apple Watch calendar](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apple-watch-calendar/1023269)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-apple-watch-calendar/1023269 "2025-09-22T15:53:45Z")
My watch is displaying the week as MTWTFSS instead of SMTWTFS like everything else. What’s up with that? --- ## [Star Trek (TOS)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos/921122)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 498\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-tos/921122 "2025-09-22T15:48:48Z")
Due to an unprecedented confluence of circumstances, this week, for the first time ever, I have (and am taking) the opportunity to watch ST:TOS. I’m just about finished with season 1, and I have, along with some observat… --- ## [Is the U.S. about to have civil war?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-u-s-about-to-have-civil-war/1015935)
**Author:** [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Replies:** 171\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-u-s-about-to-have-civil-war/1015935 "2025-09-22T15:01:49Z")
For reasons which I think are pretty obvious, I find myself wondering these things at the moment - and wondering whether Canada would even be far enough to escape, if it happens. Please show your work. --- ## [Cat Steven's search for a "hard headed woman"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-stevens-search-for-a-hard-headed-woman/1023227)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-stevens-search-for-a-hard-headed-woman/1023227 "2025-09-22T14:45:22Z")
Who the heck is he looking for? Is having a “hard head” a positive attribute? Does hard = stubborn? Stupid? --- ## [1950s computers: question #1](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1950s-computers-question-1/1021875)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1950s-computers-question-1/1021875 "2025-09-22T14:30:14Z")
In 1953 it seems the IBM 701 could add/subtract two ten-digit decimal numbers in 60 microseconds, so the magazine reported it could do 16666 additions per second. Which isn’t much help to people like me who wonder what s… --- ## [Country club shooting in New Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-club-shooting-in-new-hampshire/1023249)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-club-shooting-in-new-hampshire/1023249 "2025-09-22T14:25:54Z")
Few details at this point but police report multiple people were shot at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua after a single gunman opened fire. --- ## [The Long Walk Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-walk-trailer/1018115)
**Author:** [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-walk-trailer/1018115 "2025-09-22T12:59:39Z")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtUHeMQ1F8 I just saw this long awaited movie trailer. Is anyone else excited for this adaptation of the Stephen King (Richard Bachman) story? My son called me up and gushed. We have pr… --- ## [Yassa's African Restaurant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassas-african-restaurant/1023182)
**Author:** [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yassas-african-restaurant/1023182 "2025-09-22T12:38:25Z")
Yassa’s African Restaurant A great thing about Chicagoland is the access we have to truly ethnic restaurants that cook truly native dishes. On 35th and King Drive, only twenty blocks from the University of Chicago Me… --- ## [Is rejuvenation or significant life extension even on the radar yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rejuvenation-or-significant-life-extension-even-on-the-radar-yet/1023167)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rejuvenation-or-significant-life-extension-even-on-the-radar-yet/1023167 "2025-09-22T12:17:01Z")
Dopers are getting on in years and some of the greats have left us already. Forty years ago, given advances in genetics and molecular biology, at the time I thought there was maybe a 25% chance that I would see the adven… --- ## [Your favorite meat/cheese/bread sandwich combination](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-meat-cheese-bread-sandwich-combination/1022075 "2025-09-22T09:23:43Z")
I would like to know your favorite meat/cheese/bread combo when it comes to sandwiches…and your pick must have all three. If you don’t like this type of sandwich, then perhaps this isn’t your type of thread. I like a s… --- ## [(Old) Turning up the heat in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-turning-up-the-heat-in-the-mmp/1023053)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 321\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-turning-up-the-heat-in-the-mmp/1023053 "2025-09-22T06:29:40Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 14c/57f with a predicted high of 16c/61f and mostly cloudy. Weather app says “Cloudy with a chance of mild fucking depression.” Not here, this is the kind of weather I like. There’s a… --- ## [Has anyone been invited to Amazon Vine?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-been-invited-to-amazon-vine/1023262)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-been-invited-to-amazon-vine/1023262 "2025-09-22T01:45:59Z")
I just got an invitation to the exclusive, “invitation only” :roll\_eyes:, Amazon Vine. This is a program designed to generate reviews-- you get free stuff you request from things sold on Amazon, and then you review it. … --- ## [Resubscribing to the Washington Post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resubscribing-to-the-washington-post/1022946)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resubscribing-to-the-washington-post/1022946 "2025-09-22T00:33:22Z")
I picked up a subscription shortly after Trump was elected the first time, and really appreciated the paper. I dropped it when Bezos tried hard enough to kill it that a lot of the best reporters left. But they are still … --- ## [Basing nukes in space](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basing-nukes-in-space/1023062)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/basing-nukes-in-space/1023062 "2025-09-21T20:34:16Z")
This was a common idea in science fiction circa 1945-1965; Heinlein especially was convinced that nukes based in space would trump any other strategic weapons system. Yet obviously that didn’t happen so there must have b… --- ## [Plase recommend a solution for my password management needs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plase-recommend-a-solution-for-my-password-management-needs/1023259)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plase-recommend-a-solution-for-my-password-management-needs/1023259 "2025-09-21T18:25:14Z")
I use Firefox as a browser under an account that syncs across all my devices (an iPhone and several Windows machines), and I also use its built-in password manager (which used to be called Lockwise but is now simply the … --- ## [Quirky/Oddly Specific Things You're Attracted To](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815)
**Author:** [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quirky-oddly-specific-things-youre-attracted-to/1022815 "2025-09-21T17:31:27Z")
Just about everyone is drawn to physical indicators of health (clear skin, good teeth, etc.). And I haven’t met anyone who wasn’t drawn to confidence, intelligence, and a sense of humor. But what I’m interested in is c… --- ## [Recommend me a "writing icing" for cookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-writing-icing-for-cookies/1023229)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-writing-icing-for-cookies/1023229 "2025-09-21T15:53:54Z")
Title pretty much explains it. I need a brand of icing that comes in a few colors (blue being one), comes already in a tube for easy use in writing, and is pliant enough to be used by a 9- or 10-yr-old, but still hold to… --- ## [GOP Will Eat Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-will-eat-itself/1023186)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-will-eat-itself/1023186 "2025-09-21T15:36:26Z")
People have been saying for a while that the Republican Party collapse from infighting between factions. I’m starting this thread as a repository for stories about Republican infighting. Charlie Kirk’s murderer may be … --- ## [Fictional events that eventually become reality? (Read the OP.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-events-that-eventually-become-reality-read-the-op/1021077)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 130\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-events-that-eventually-become-reality-read-the-op/1021077 "2025-09-21T15:29:20Z")
This was brought to mind by the breaking news that Pee-Wee Herman’s bicycle is now really going to be in the Alamo: https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/iconic-red-bike-1985-peewee-big-adventure-alamo-san-antonio-do… --- ## [Do any coal mines ship to power plants and steel plants?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-coal-mines-ship-to-power-plants-and-steel-plants/1022239)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-coal-mines-ship-to-power-plants-and-steel-plants/1022239 "2025-09-21T14:11:12Z")
The same coal, I mean – if it’s good enough to make coke for a blast furnace (or whatever has replaced blast furnaces) is it too expensive for power plants? How about decades ago? Did most met coal come from mines that … --- ## [Am I allowed to post a thread inviting people to my Facebook recipe group?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-allowed-to-post-a-thread-inviting-people-to-my-facebook-recipe-group/1023246)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-allowed-to-post-a-thread-inviting-people-to-my-facebook-recipe-group/1023246 "2025-09-21T12:28:21Z")
I recently created a Facebook group called Quick, Easy and Awesome Recipes, where I’ve put about 25 recipes on it that meet those criteria. Group members are invited to participate by posting recipes and feedback of thei… --- ## [Found a fun website to plan trips around](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-fun-website-to-plan-trips-around/1023239)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-fun-website-to-plan-trips-around/1023239 "2025-09-21T11:40:27Z")
I recently discovered a website that points out fun and interesting things to check out between Point A and Point B. For instance, I thought I knew everything about the drive between Portland and Seattle-boy was I wrong… --- ## [Wedding vows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-vows/1023248)
**Author:** [@Happytree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happytree)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-vows/1023248 "2025-09-21T11:15:50Z")
I am eloping soon. This is not a seat- of -the -pants thing. “Mrs. Trees” and I have been living in sin for 20 years. We’ve only recently gotten a little sense of taking life seriously. We are to be wed 2 weeks from now… --- ## [What is "high society" today? Does it even exist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-high-society-today-does-it-even-exist/1023123)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-high-society-today-does-it-even-exist/1023123 "2025-09-21T11:15:26Z")
Yesterday, I watched “The Age of Innocence” - a story set in the late 19th/early 20th century. The main characters were members of “society”. Which got me to wondering… Are debutant balls still a thing? Do young women “… --- ## [OK, YouTube's algorithm is scaring the hell out of me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-youtubes-algorithm-is-scaring-the-hell-out-of-me/1023172)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-youtubes-algorithm-is-scaring-the-hell-out-of-me/1023172 "2025-09-21T09:42:08Z")
I write the transcript for Jimmy Fallon’s routine tonight about the Jimmy Kimmel suspension, and one of the things I typed was a reference to The Summer I Turned Pretty. Not 20 minutes later, I got a notification from Y… --- ## ["a while ago" vs. "while ago"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-while-ago-vs-while-ago/1023226)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-while-ago-vs-while-ago/1023226 "2025-09-21T09:17:42Z")
This is probably a regional phenomenon. Has anyone noticed a difference in meaning between the phrases “a while ago” where it is pronounced as three distinct words and the i pronounced with a distinct long i sound and “… --- ## [The Rise of “Karens”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rise-of-karens/987320)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 288\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rise-of-karens/987320 "2025-09-21T03:15:26Z")
Karen became, of course, the trendy word for excessively demanding, condescending, customers complaining constantly and asking to speak with management. I have heard Keith suggested as a male equivalent. A comedy sho… --- ## [Why do so many cars - not just Jeeps - have ducks and stuff on their dashboards?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-so-many-cars-not-just-jeeps-have-ducks-and-stuff-on-their-dashboards/1023036)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-so-many-cars-not-just-jeeps-have-ducks-and-stuff-on-their-dashboards/1023036 "2025-09-21T00:07:50Z")
Over the past year or so I’ve started noticing cars with a large number of little animals - often plastic ducks - on their dashboards. Jeep ducking - Wikipedia I looked it up, and apparently it started with Jeeps, and … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=235&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=237&state=muted)