# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=237&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 238 --- ## [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 … --- ## [Can a military pilot who was downed pull rank on his rescue team?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-military-pilot-who-was-downed-pull-rank-on-his-rescue-team/1003193)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-military-pilot-who-was-downed-pull-rank-on-his-rescue-team/1003193 "2025-09-20T23:24:31Z")
So military pilots are almost always officers (yeah yeah warrant officers I know don’t make a weird distinction tangent), so what happens if say a military pilot is shot down over enemy territory, a rescue squad made up … --- ## [Is depleted uranium at all useful for defeating body armor?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-depleted-uranium-at-all-useful-for-defeating-body-armor/1023168)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-depleted-uranium-at-all-useful-for-defeating-body-armor/1023168 "2025-09-20T22:47:00Z")
Since the introduction of practical, militarily significant infantry body armor, armaments manufacturers have been working to defeat it. Submachine guns firing pistol rounds have been displaced by Personal Defense Weapon… --- ## [Help finding laws that require a drug test for tramadol prescription](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-laws-that-require-a-drug-test-for-tramadol-prescription/1023233)
**Author:** [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-laws-that-require-a-drug-test-for-tramadol-prescription/1023233 "2025-09-20T20:48:38Z")
Neither my rheumatologist nor physicians at pain centers can tell me the title or name of laws that require drug tests to receive a tramadol prescription. What should I google to find the titles of federal and Arkansas … --- ## [Yet another L&O Legal Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-l-o-legal-question/1023223)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-l-o-legal-question/1023223 "2025-09-20T20:29:29Z")
Previously on the Straight Dope, I asked: Today the episode is Pledge: During a hearing on a pretrial motion to dismiss, during witness testimony that skirts the edge of perjury, the defendant has an outburst that amou… --- ## [Where do I go for Washington State ticket information](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-go-for-washington-state-ticket-information/1023193)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-i-go-for-washington-state-ticket-information/1023193 "2025-09-20T20:22:40Z")
My attempt to get an Oregon Real ID was stalled because there is apparently some sort of ticket in the system in Washington State. All I have to go on is the ticket number-no “type of citation”, no county, no city, no d… --- ## [SDMB won't let me log out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-wont-let-me-log-out/1023170)
**Author:** [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-wont-let-me-log-out/1023170 "2025-09-20T17:58:57Z")
Yes, I can’t use SDMB anymore. Yes, I was warned. Yes, I’m a second-class citizen and in the minority. However, I just wanted to mention that, if you are logged in, the new software won’t display content at all, and does… --- ## [Trump doubling down on his assault on the 1st Amendment](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-doubling-down-on-his-assault-on-the-1st-amendment/1023187)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-doubling-down-on-his-assault-on-the-1st-amendment/1023187 "2025-09-20T16:46:27Z")
I was going to add this on to the Jimmy Kimmel thread, but I really think it deserves its own thread. Very simply, Trump is now saying the FCC should pull the license of any station that talks negatively about him. The… --- ## [Lip-synching in concerts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lip-synching-in-concerts/481505)
**Author:** [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lip-synching-in-concerts/481505 "2025-09-20T15:54:43Z")
How is lip-synching handled in concert, I can imagine during a world tour an artiste might perfer to lip-synch at least some of the time to protect their lungs. Wiki seems to think it happens all the time. --- ## [Cleaning mold on furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-mold-on-furniture/1023178)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleaning-mold-on-furniture/1023178 "2025-09-20T15:41:07Z")
I just realized that a chair I own similar to this one has white spots (on black fabric) that look like mold to me. Ignoring how it got there for the purposes of this thread (I think I just sat back in it while my back … --- ## [Do American Neo-Nazis care about German culture and the German language, or not really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-neo-nazis-care-about-german-culture-and-the-german-language-or-not-really/1023141)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-american-neo-nazis-care-about-german-culture-and-the-german-language-or-not-really/1023141 "2025-09-20T15:40:11Z")
So, in the midst of the heated MAGA-fascism Nazism debate, I had more of an FQ question although I’m sure the mods may move it to IMHO anyway: Do neo-Nazis, Stormfront, KKK, far-right or other fascists in America partic… --- ## [Had you heard of Charlie Kirk before he was killed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-you-heard-of-charlie-kirk-before-he-was-killed/1023003)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-you-heard-of-charlie-kirk-before-he-was-killed/1023003 "2025-09-20T14:47:36Z")
poll No political discussion, no gun control discussion, not even any suspect or assassination discussion, please… Just one, simple question: Who here had NOT heard of Charlie Kirk before he was killed? Raise your hand… --- ## [Optics for countering a rotating view?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/optics-for-countering-a-rotating-view/1023215)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/optics-for-countering-a-rotating-view/1023215 "2025-09-20T14:02:09Z")
Wikipedia’s article on the British Interplanetary Society and their proposed moon rocket has one rather remarkable cite tossed away virtually in passing: As it was considered that the cabin would have to rotate, BIS me… --- ## [Why was the Trump Doubling Down 1st Amendment thread closed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-the-trump-doubling-down-1st-amendment-thread-closed/1023216)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-the-trump-doubling-down-1st-amendment-thread-closed/1023216 "2025-09-20T06:00:27Z")
By What\_Exit? No warning. No explanation. Just closed. --- ## [Starship keeps exploding](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-keeps-exploding/1018911)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 116\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starship-keeps-exploding/1018911 "2025-09-20T03:43:10Z")
SpaceX blew up another Starship. Like… Mercury, Gemini and Apollo didn’t blow up four or five times. The shuttle program killed two shuttles’ worth of astronauts, but that was over 100 missions. And it still wasn’t ac… --- ## [Time Traveler claims dogs will rule by 2087](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-traveler-claims-dogs-will-rule-by-2087/1023165)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-traveler-claims-dogs-will-rule-by-2087/1023165 "2025-09-19T23:16:48Z")
It certainly sounds like an interesting world, and not a prophecy I’ve heard before now. --- ## [Crosswords and the death of the monoculture](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crosswords-and-the-death-of-the-monoculture/1023058)
**Author:** [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crosswords-and-the-death-of-the-monoculture/1023058 "2025-09-19T22:32:24Z")
Brief personal history - in my younger years (20s), I used to attempt the Sunday NYT crossword. I would spend hours over the course of the week, coming back to it and getting a 70% solution that was still somehow 30% wr… --- ## [MMA Rampage Jackson's son, Raja under investigation for assaulting pro Wrestler](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mma-rampage-jacksons-son-raja-under-investigation-for-assaulting-pro-wrestler/1022539)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mma-rampage-jacksons-son-raja-under-investigation-for-assaulting-pro-wrestler/1022539 "2025-09-19T19:39:07Z")
It was an horrific attack on an unconscious man. There were over 20 blows. There’s speculation attempted murder or assualt charges will be filed on MMA Fighter Raja Jackson. It gets worse. Raja was being filmed and live… --- ## [Persistence of Vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persistence-of-vision/1022142)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/persistence-of-vision/1022142 "2025-09-19T17:28:32Z")
You know how in Sixties-era Western TV shows like Bonanza, when they showed a wagon wheel rotating, it would look like the wheel was going backwards (primarily due to shutter speed on the camera doing the filming, AIUI)?… --- ## [Examples of internal demonyms as surnames?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-internal-demonyms-as-surnames/1022719)
**Author:** [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-internal-demonyms-as-surnames/1022719 "2025-09-19T16:16:18Z")
In a recent Politics & Elections post, @John\_Bredin wrote the following about Hungarian politician Péter Magyar: John \_Bredin is right. Some (or even many) cultures do have demonyms serve as surnames. Most common are t… --- ## [For those that walk outside regularly. Prefer winter or summer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-that-walk-outside-regularly-prefer-winter-or-summer/1023074)
**Author:** [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-that-walk-outside-regularly-prefer-winter-or-summer/1023074 "2025-09-19T15:23:55Z")
This is a binary choice, no spring/fall bullshit. I’d rather be wearing boots/coat/gloves/scarf walking in snow. --- ## [Baseball - why was Ballesteros out?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-why-was-ballesteros-out/1023188)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-why-was-ballesteros-out/1023188 "2025-09-19T14:48:46Z")
Cubs game Wednesday. Ballesteros on first, taking a lead. One out. Batter hits a liner toward right. Ball hits Ballesteros on the helmet, knocking him down for a moment. Ball dribbles into right center. He gets up and… --- ## [Albums whose titles are lyrics from one of the songs, but not the title of a song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785)
**Author:** [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Replies:** 75\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-whose-titles-are-lyrics-from-one-of-the-songs-but-not-the-title-of-a-song/368785 "2025-09-19T14:30:07Z")
Two examples: Katy Lied by Steely Dan. The album’s title is the first words from the song Doctor Wu. Whatever and Ever Amen by the Ben Folds Five. The title is a lyric from The Battle of Who Could Care Less. I love it… --- ## [Recommendation for a lock](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-a-lock/1023107 "2025-09-19T12:43:43Z")
I live in a condo. The management wants to have a key for each apartment in case of smoke detector inspection or something similar. However the previous occupant replaced the lock with a Medeco lock and gave the manage… --- ## [Number of Christians in Indonesia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-christians-in-indonesia/1021806)
**Author:** [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-christians-in-indonesia/1021806 "2025-09-19T08:26:31Z")
I’ve just come back from a wonderful two-week trip to Indonesia, Java and Bali specifically. What an amazing country, I’m already planning to go back next year. It is a well-known fact that Indonesians are overwhelming … --- ## [Thorium bomb](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thorium-bomb/991037)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thorium-bomb/991037 "2025-09-19T06:34:03Z")
Can a nuclear bomb be made with some amount of thorium? I understand that, although thorium itself is not fissionable, it can absorb neutrons and transmute into Uranium 233, which is fissionable. So, can a bomb be made… --- ## [Albums named after a song that isn't on the album, but was released before or after (or never)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-named-after-a-song-that-isnt-on-the-album-but-was-released-before-or-after-or-never/1022897)
**Author:** [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-named-after-a-song-that-isnt-on-the-album-but-was-released-before-or-after-or-never/1022897 "2025-09-19T05:45:37Z")
The title should tell what I’m after, but I’ll explain further: I was thinking about the AC/DC live album “If You Want Blood” from 1978 and the song of the same name released as an studio album track on “Highway To Hell”… --- ## [I'm starting to think that Kohl's is now a data-mining operation that sells clothing and small appliances](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-think-that-kohls-is-now-a-data-mining-operation-that-sells-clothing-and-small-appliances/1023100)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-think-that-kohls-is-now-a-data-mining-operation-that-sells-clothing-and-small-appliances/1023100 "2025-09-19T04:32:49Z")
I got a $20 coupon, with 30% off if I used my credit card, and the cashier told me that the card was obsolete (I figured it was) and I had to present my driver’s license (which didn’t weird me out) and give my SSN on the… --- ## [What misconceptions do you think there are about societal collapse and its aftermath?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-misconceptions-do-you-think-there-are-about-societal-collapse-and-its-aftermath/1022496)
**Author:** [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2025, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-misconceptions-do-you-think-there-are-about-societal-collapse-and-its-aftermath/1022496 "2025-09-19T04:05:20Z")
What misconceptions do you think there are about societal collapse and its aftermath? My example is the idea from pop culture that there would be a single faction representing what’s left of the US government that may o… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=236&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=238&state=muted)