# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=248&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 249 --- ## [Why do credit card companies charge annual fees for certain cards?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-credit-card-companies-charge-annual-fees-for-certain-cards/1022640)
**Author:** [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-credit-card-companies-charge-annual-fees-for-certain-cards/1022640 "2025-09-02T20:52:46Z")
OK, to make money…i get that. But is that it? Is it to make it appear more “exclusive”? It seems that alot of people looking for a new card may skip the one with an annual fee and go with a no fee card that perhaps o… --- ## [Inflation index relative to silver and gold?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inflation-index-relative-to-silver-and-gold/1022605)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inflation-index-relative-to-silver-and-gold/1022605 "2025-09-02T20:44:25Z")
In the A time travelers dilemma: where to store vintage documents for hundreds of years thread, the question was raised of having to pay e.g. a law firm for document storage and thus eating into potential profits. I was … --- ## [Head injuries and criminal behavior](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-injuries-and-criminal-behavior/1022005)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-injuries-and-criminal-behavior/1022005 "2025-09-02T20:22:39Z")
I put this in debates, because right now although it is too soon, it my either become established fact, or dropped by the wayside, so form your opinions carefully! It’s long, so you can skip to the TL;DR: if you want. B… --- ## [Can you see these images?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-see-these-images/1022643)
**Author:** [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-see-these-images/1022643 "2025-09-02T19:47:53Z")
Yes, it’s another thread about difficulties with image posting on the SDMB, but I’ve never before encountered this particular problem. In this thread, several people are unable to see the posted images, while I and sever… --- ## [How often do police officers commit murder?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-police-officers-commit-murder/1022609)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-police-officers-commit-murder/1022609 "2025-09-02T19:00:07Z")
Specifically excluding the use of excessive force in confrontations with the public while on duty. That is, how often do police officers jealously murder their significant others, or get into lethal bar fights while off-… --- ## [Four days in Barcelona in August](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-days-in-barcelona-in-august/1018447)
**Author:** [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-days-in-barcelona-in-august/1018447 "2025-09-02T18:36:21Z")
My wife is presenting at a conference in Barcelona this August (paid for by work), so I’ll be taking the opportunity to join her for a short stay. August would not normally be my choice of times to visit Barcelona, but c… --- ## [Ugh. Doggie Diarrhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-doggie-diarrhea/1022373)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-doggie-diarrhea/1022373 "2025-09-02T15:20:41Z")
Der Hund hat Der D. No reason to worry, this happens with dogs from time to time. Inevitably, the day I say “shit, better call the vet” (because it’s been 5 or 6 days) is the day it just clears up, sometimes because he p… --- ## [Anyone else's dog do this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-elses-dog-do-this/1022591)
**Author:** [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-elses-dog-do-this/1022591 "2025-09-02T14:38:55Z")
Burp like a person. If you were in the other room you’d assume it was a person. BUUUURRRRRPPP --- ## [New Study on Nutrition and Healthy Aging](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-study-on-nutrition-and-healthy-aging/1016419)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-study-on-nutrition-and-healthy-aging/1016419 "2025-09-02T10:01:48Z")
An interesting study came out recently in Nature, looking at the self-reported diet of 105,015 people and comparing various foods and diets over 30 years. The study prioritized “healthy aging”, which it defined as reachi… --- ## [Developing an AI feature for free?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/developing-an-ai-feature-for-free/1022660)
**Author:** [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/developing-an-ai-feature-for-free/1022660 "2025-09-02T09:40:21Z")
We’re producing a new version of an app that provides geospatial data and I want to explore adding a search feature that can turn a natural language query into structured data which contains the type of data (basically a… --- ## [Putting a golf ball on a rotating green](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-a-golf-ball-on-a-rotating-green/1022495)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-a-golf-ball-on-a-rotating-green/1022495 "2025-09-02T03:11:29Z")
This came up in a movie I watched recently: a golfer was tyring to make a simple putt (3 or so meters) on a perfectly flat, level green. Because reasons, the green was rotating clockwise at a certain number of RPMs (use … --- ## [Snow plowing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-plowing/1022625)
**Author:** [@mglambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mglambo)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-plowing/1022625 "2025-09-02T00:12:43Z")
A friend of mine lives in the mountains of Colorado on a dirt Forest Service road. The road is pretty rough with some pretty bumpy spots and depressions. It’s at 9,300 ft elevation and gets plenty of snow. Probably a qu… --- ## [Unjust August (Mini-Rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570)
**Author:** [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Replies:** 396\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unjust-august-mini-rants/1021570 "2025-09-02T00:05:36Z")
Continuing the discussion from Jewel Eye: Staring down the beryl (July Mini-Rants): I’m going to start off the month with a real mini mini-rant but a funny one. One of my toilet seats broke so I’m looking to replace it… --- ## [Last Day of August Grief](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-day-of-august-grief/1022641)
**Author:** [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-day-of-august-grief/1022641 "2025-09-01T23:52:23Z")
The last day of August always brings me grief. The anemic bleating of the end of summer crickets, the early darkness, the chill in the air. Seventeen years ago on this day my son was killed in a car accident. The raw,… --- ## [Rudy Giuliani seriously injured in a car accident (Breaking News)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudy-giuliani-seriously-injured-in-a-car-accident-breaking-news/1022633)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudy-giuliani-seriously-injured-in-a-car-accident-breaking-news/1022633 "2025-09-01T23:51:36Z")
Shortly after rendering aid to a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident, Rudy Giuliani was driving home on the highway when his vehicle was struck from behind. He suffered a fractured thoracic vertebra… --- ## [Does anyone here sleep at night in a recliner instead of in your bed, either routinely or occasionally?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-sleep-at-night-in-a-recliner-instead-of-in-your-bed-either-routinely-or-occasionally/1021898)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-sleep-at-night-in-a-recliner-instead-of-in-your-bed-either-routinely-or-occasionally/1021898 "2025-09-01T23:09:31Z")
I’m not crazy about recliners, but my pedicurist has one in her salon that is insanely comfortable. It is a La-Z-Boy, and it’s kind of smallish. It rocks (in more ways than one). And it is so incredibly soft and supporti… --- ## [Will sports books take parlays on just about anything (as long as it’s sports, obvs)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sports-books-take-parlays-on-just-about-anything-as-long-as-it-s-sports-obvs/1022663)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-sports-books-take-parlays-on-just-about-anything-as-long-as-it-s-sports-obvs/1022663 "2025-09-01T22:47:17Z")
I understand that a parlay is effectively a bet on the outcome of multiple propositions at once. But the math isn’t mathing for me. If I bet $100 on Tennessee to beat Clemson AND Arsenal to draw against Burnley, I’d prob… --- ## [NFL 2025 Preseason Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2025-preseason-thread/1021746)
**Author:** [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2025-preseason-thread/1021746 "2025-09-01T22:19:29Z")
With the first full slate of preseason games this weekend, starting on Thursday, we’re officially out of the off-season, so starting a new thread. In addition to the news about Shedeur Sanders getting the nod to start i… --- ## [Put the … down](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-down/1022622)
**Author:** [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-down/1022622 "2025-09-01T20:30:24Z")
This is killing me, it’s right on the tip of my brain and I can’t get it. What movie has a line, where somebody tough is talking to somebody and growls “put the … down”. I feel like this is iconic and I can hear those wo… --- ## [How many SDMB mods can you list, just off the top of your head?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-sdmb-mods-can-you-list-just-off-the-top-of-your-head/1022616)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-sdmb-mods-can-you-list-just-off-the-top-of-your-head/1022616 "2025-09-01T19:59:22Z")
Without doing any searching or deep dives or going out of this thread, how many SDMB mods can you name? I’m talking about any member who has ever been a moderator (however short the tenure was–thinking of two specific o… --- ## [Quote source? "You cannot rationally argue out..."](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-source-you-cannot-rationally-argue-out/532815)
**Author:** [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quote-source-you-cannot-rationally-argue-out/532815 "2025-09-01T18:02:44Z")
“You cannot rationally argue out what wasn’t rationally argued in”. I am trying to identify where this quotation comes from. Google doesn’t know, and the quotation websites I have searched also don’t seem to help. Once … --- ## [Have you ever called 911?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-called-911/1021736)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-called-911/1021736 "2025-09-01T16:45:33Z")
As of today I have 3 times First was a guy passed out on my front lawn. I thought it might be a medical emergency but when the paramedics arrived it was just that he was overly drunk. Second were two children (8-12 I … --- ## [Great Business Names, real or otherwise.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375)
**Author:** [@psychogumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychogumby)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-business-names-real-or-otherwise/76375 "2025-09-01T16:31:48Z")
I have always been intrigued by some of the wacky names self-employed people cook up for their businesses and have thought ‘hmm, I wish I had a trade where I could use a wacky name too!’. If I were a baker, my bakery wo… --- ## ["Shooting reported at Catholic School in Minneapolis" BREAKING NEWS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-reported-at-catholic-school-in-minneapolis-breaking-news/1022532)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shooting-reported-at-catholic-school-in-minneapolis-breaking-news/1022532 "2025-09-01T16:13:28Z")
Shooting reported at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis https://wapo.st/420xPXq At least five children were injured in a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Gov. Tim Walz (D) said the i… --- ## [Hard Drive Installation Advice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-drive-installation-advice/1022629)
**Author:** [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-drive-installation-advice/1022629 "2025-09-01T15:55:20Z")
(I’m not sure exactly if this is the right forum, but since I’m seeking advice and guidance, I figured this might be a better fit than FQ, but I’m happy to have the thread moved if the mods should differ.) So I recently… --- ## [Harry Potter universe question (invisibility cloak related)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-universe-question-invisibility-cloak-related/1022653)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-universe-question-invisibility-cloak-related/1022653 "2025-09-01T15:53:38Z")
If you put the Invisibility Cloak on inside-out, does it render you unable to see anything at all? --- ## [Can't access my Facebook account](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-access-my-facebook-account/1021331)
**Author:** [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-access-my-facebook-account/1021331 "2025-09-01T15:11:44Z")
A couple of days ago, my browser updated and that logged me off Facebook - and now I can’t log back in. At first, it just didn’t recognize my device - which is the only device that I’ve ever used Facebook on. I tried t… --- ## [Would we have to give back our dog?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-we-have-to-give-back-our-dog/1022533)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-we-have-to-give-back-our-dog/1022533 "2025-09-01T13:17:59Z")
Not a real legal issue (yet?). We took in a rescue dog. She is 15 and the owner is away at college and her parents move out of the country. The owner new if she took the dog to the pound (pooch prison) she would never… --- ## [Another "miracle" power source from 10 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-miracle-power-source-from-10-years-ago/1022608)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-miracle-power-source-from-10-years-ago/1022608 "2025-09-01T12:14:34Z")
I really wish I could remember more about this contraption (or bookmarked the damn thing, duh). I think it was about 10 years ago and we did discuss it. It was, as best as I recall, similar to those types of perpetual mo… --- ## [How much money should you be getting monthly in retirement?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-should-you-be-getting-monthly-in-retirement/1019004)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-money-should-you-be-getting-monthly-in-retirement/1019004 "2025-09-01T11:12:08Z")
I understand that there are more variables than can be accounted for with retirement planning and that any adventure into this is clearly a large estimate. I am going to be working with my students on retirement planning… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=247&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=249&state=tracking)