# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=240&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 241 --- ## [Recent Developments in Memphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-developments-in-memphis/979302)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-developments-in-memphis/979302 "2025-09-16T02:45:58Z")
I just did a quick search for “Memphis” to make sure there wasn’t a threat about the horrible murder by the police in that city. There does not seem to be one. (There are threads about lots of bad things that have happen… --- ## [Luna Lovegood is NOT supposed to be the hottest little thing at Hogwarts!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luna-lovegood-is-not-supposed-to-be-the-hottest-little-thing-at-hogwarts/410232)
**Author:** [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luna-lovegood-is-not-supposed-to-be-the-hottest-little-thing-at-hogwarts/410232 "2025-09-16T01:20:41Z")
So why does she look like this: WarnerBros.com | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Movies (pick Luna from the drop-down menu). That girl is seriously cute. And while I understand the idea that practically all… --- ## [Charlie Kirk threads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-threads/1022986)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-threads/1022986 "2025-09-16T00:38:42Z")
There seem to be a lot of these threads about Charlie Kirk and his murder. Do we think that maybe there should be an omnibus thread or at least cleaned up into 2 or 3 threads? There’s a lot of overlap in them. --- ## [Removing algae from artificial turf](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-algae-from-artificial-turf/1023071)
**Author:** [@mglambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mglambo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-algae-from-artificial-turf/1023071 "2025-09-16T00:09:26Z")
I have algae forming on my artificial putting green. Does anyone know the best way to remove the algae without harming the turf? I see methods online but I want it to be safe before I apply. --- ## [Phonetic Alphabet question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phonetic-alphabet-question/1022768)
**Author:** [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phonetic-alphabet-question/1022768 "2025-09-16T00:03:26Z")
In the Phonetic Alphabet for the letter “L” one uses “lima”. Is it pronounced “lyma” like the bean or “leema” like the city in Peru? --- ## [Sean Astin, the ring bearer, elected SAG-AFTRA president](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-astin-the-ring-bearer-elected-sag-aftra-president/1023018)
**Author:** [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sean-astin-the-ring-bearer-elected-sag-aftra-president/1023018 "2025-09-15T22:27:45Z")
Well, congratulations for becoming mayor of the shire President of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Sam: It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. I… --- ## [Finish Carpentry Advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-carpentry-advice/1023040)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-carpentry-advice/1023040 "2025-09-15T22:25:02Z")
Hi everyone. In another thread, I mentioned that I decided to make my own custom sliding closet doors. Well, the first one is built, and now I just need to route in the door pull and then stain & urethane. If you look a… --- ## [Emmy Awards 2025 watch along](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emmy-awards-2025-watch-along/1023048)
**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emmy-awards-2025-watch-along/1023048 "2025-09-15T21:50:15Z")
I watched a lot of TV this year so I’m tuning in live. The host is Nate Bargatze. He did a sketch at the top with some SNL cast members in the same vain as his very funny SNL George Washington sketches. Bargatze played … --- ## [Replacing an iPad battery and privacy issues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-an-ipad-battery-and-privacy-issues/1023047)
**Author:** [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacing-an-ipad-battery-and-privacy-issues/1023047 "2025-09-15T20:54:15Z")
Several years ago, my beloved Samsung Galaxy phone was starting to die. It was the first cell I’d owned where I could not pop open the back and swap out batteries. Ahh well, I thought. I can just take it to a cell phone… --- ## [Old bottled water -- wow!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-bottled-water-wow/1001141)
**Author:** [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-bottled-water-wow/1001141 "2025-09-15T20:38:37Z")
For obscure reasons, I’ve had a case of bottled spring water sitting on the landing at the top of the basement stairs untouched for what must be several years now. Normally I keep it in the garage in the winter and down… --- ## [How old a car can I buy without worrying about scarce parts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-a-car-can-i-buy-without-worrying-about-scarce-parts/1021874)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-a-car-can-i-buy-without-worrying-about-scarce-parts/1021874 "2025-09-15T20:04:56Z")
For 25 years my partner and I were happily carless, but we recently moved to a city where cars are virtual necessities. My father sold us his ten-year-old car, which my partner drives most days, and now I’m looking for … --- ## [Virtual Boy games coming to Nintendo Switch 1 and 2 Online in February; need dedicated headset](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtual-boy-games-coming-to-nintendo-switch-1-and-2-online-in-february-need-dedicated-headset/1022985)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtual-boy-games-coming-to-nintendo-switch-1-and-2-online-in-february-need-dedicated-headset/1022985 "2025-09-15T17:25:38Z")
When I first saw this on Facebook I didn’t believe it, so I looked for a reputable source before posting it here Remember the ill-fated Nintendo Virtual Boy? It’s coming back. Sorta. Its games will be released over time… --- ## [Aftermarket License Plates Displayed on Car as if Real](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aftermarket-license-plates-displayed-on-car-as-if-real/1020504)
**Author:** [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aftermarket-license-plates-displayed-on-car-as-if-real/1020504 "2025-09-15T15:14:34Z")
Continuing the discussion from Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild: It has become increasingly stylish around here (South FL) to put completely aftermarket AKA fake license plates on the back of your car. Folks ma… --- ## [Anyone Seen AI submissions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-ai-submissions/1000022)
**Author:** [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-ai-submissions/1000022 "2025-09-15T15:04:10Z")
We’ve all seen, I’m sure, that Clarkesworld and Asimov’s got flooded with AI submissions. It’s not ending there. I just looked at the submitted paper list for a conference in India where I’m on the program committee, and… --- ## [How to tell what fuses to use?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-what-fuses-to-use/1022905)
**Author:** [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-tell-what-fuses-to-use/1022905 "2025-09-15T14:59:06Z")
My 93-year-old aunt’s dryer went out today. The problem was a blown fuse (it’s an old house that still uses Edison-base fuses). When I looked in the fuse boxes, I saw that most of the fuses are 30 amp. A couple are 20 am… --- ## [(Old) Pet pics in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pet-pics-in-the-mmp/1022838)
**Author:** [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Replies:** 344\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pet-pics-in-the-mmp/1022838 "2025-09-15T14:46:40Z")
I’m up late for no good reason, maybe because I have next week off. Hijack away. --- ## [Latest Plot Chasms driving you nuts (assume spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-plot-chasms-driving-you-nuts-assume-spoilers/1023021)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-plot-chasms-driving-you-nuts-assume-spoilers/1023021 "2025-09-15T12:29:27Z")
If I’m supposed to hide this, I don’t know how and I apologize. Show/movie: “Invasion” On AppleTV Trevante Cole returns from being on the supposedly dead useless “mothership”. Everybody’s thrilled to have him back, the… --- ## [The Paper - sitcom on Peacock](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-paper-sitcom-on-peacock/1022777)
**Author:** [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-paper-sitcom-on-peacock/1022777 "2025-09-15T06:38:15Z")
The wife and I watched the first 3 episodes yesterday (they all dropped at once, which is something I didn’t realize until we started watching). Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, it is a follow up and spinoff of… --- ## [Your experiences with natural disasters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experiences-with-natural-disasters/1022615)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-experiences-with-natural-disasters/1022615 "2025-09-15T05:32:45Z")
I’ve been fortunate enough to have spent most of my life in places where natural disasters are not uncommon. However, I’ve been through a few. Earthquakes I spent a few months teaching English in Japan in 1996. The mor… --- ## [What IF. Warped space-time IS matter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-warped-space-time-is-matter/1023029)
**Author:** [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-warped-space-time-is-matter/1023029 "2025-09-15T01:55:49Z")
The theory is that matter warps space-time. What if it’s the other way around? --- ## [Buffy the Vampire Slayer - skipping early episodes? {Warning, posters posted spoilers}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-skipping-early-episodes-warning-posters-posted-spoilers/1023011)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-skipping-early-episodes-warning-posters-posted-spoilers/1023011 "2025-09-15T01:45:37Z")
I watched this show many years ago and remember it as being superb. I don’t remember a lot of details, or specific episodes (except Once More with Feeling and The Body, which are two very memorable episodes for very diff… --- ## [Colorado Rockies baseball - how bad will it get?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-rockies-baseball-how-bad-will-it-get/1019090)
**Author:** [@justdoit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justdoit)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorado-rockies-baseball-how-bad-will-it-get/1019090 "2025-09-15T01:42:09Z")
The Colorado Rockies baseball team has a dismal 9-50 record so far which is only .153 winning percentage. At that rate they will finish 25-137. According to Gemini, that would give them the most MLB losses of all time… --- ## [The Wonder Bread Giant](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wonder-bread-giant/660359)
**Author:** [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-wonder-bread-giant/660359 "2025-09-14T23:57:00Z")
Several years ago, my Grandma told me about a man known as the “Wonder Bread Giant.” He was apparently some sort of mascot for Wonder Bread. I don’t know exactly how tall he was, but I’m quite certain that he was over … --- ## [Freakouts of the Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 847\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631 "2025-09-14T22:31:23Z")
(feel free to make the alt-thread) Looking for a simple list of all the crap the Right has freaked out about since, oh, 2000. Crap like Big Bird, Mr Potato head losing his dick, CRT, Terry Schiavo, kneeling, etc. There… --- ## [J. D. Vance cannot be elected - here's one reason why](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-d-vance-cannot-be-elected-heres-one-reason-why/971859)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/j-d-vance-cannot-be-elected-heres-one-reason-why/971859 "2025-09-14T22:13:54Z")
I read “Hillbilly Elegy” before he announced his run for Congress, and if this doesn’t get him, ahem, not elected, it should. --- ## [Discounted EE Savings Bonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discounted-ee-savings-bonds/1022969)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discounted-ee-savings-bonds/1022969 "2025-09-14T21:48:09Z")
US Savings Bonds - Series EE use to be sold at a discount. A $100 bond was sold for $50 and reached full value in 20 years. That has not been true for many years, or so I thought. I see so many videos insisting EE bon… --- ## [You Tube NFL Sunday Ticket \[how to record games\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-tube-nfl-sunday-ticket-how-to-record-games/1023037)
**Author:** [@mglambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mglambo)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-tube-nfl-sunday-ticket-how-to-record-games/1023037 "2025-09-14T18:22:10Z")
I pay for the YouTube NFL Sunday ticket to watch all NFL games. I can’t figure out how to record games.. chat GTP can’t figure out how to help me either. I watch it via Apple TV. Can anybody help me out here? Thank you… --- ## [What are miles-per-gallon (MPG) displays in cars actually for?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-miles-per-gallon-mpg-displays-in-cars-actually-for/1023027)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-miles-per-gallon-mpg-displays-in-cars-actually-for/1023027 "2025-09-14T16:55:30Z")
My new car has three different displays of the current gas mileage or MPG. But I don’t know what they’re used for. Obviously high gas mileage is good. Momentary MPG depends on lots of things, but whether you’re climbing… --- ## [BREAKING NEWS thread for Charlie Kirk murder and investigation (10SEP2025)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-thread-for-charlie-kirk-murder-and-investigation-10sep2025/1022964)
**Author:** [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-thread-for-charlie-kirk-murder-and-investigation-10sep2025/1022964 "2025-09-14T16:45:20Z")
I’m creating this thread for updates into the investigation on Charlie Kirk’s murder, the identification or ongoing investigation into the shooter, and other direct reporting on such. I and several other posters I’m sur… --- ## [RIP Graham Greene](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [September 14, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-graham-greene/1022668 "2025-09-14T16:17:30Z")
Damn. I’ve liked him in everything I’ve seen him in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=239&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=241&state=tracking)