# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=269 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 270 --- ## [OOOOH! Very Trippy Carousels!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooooh-very-trippy-carousels/1021409)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooooh-very-trippy-carousels/1021409 "2025-07-28T01:49:36Z")
Underwater creatures! Another is a double-decker carosel. And one with Giant Bugs! {LINK} --- ## [In other First World countries, do police have the same issues as American police (better explained in OP)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-first-world-countries-do-police-have-the-same-issues-as-american-police-better-explained-in-op/1021227)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-other-first-world-countries-do-police-have-the-same-issues-as-american-police-better-explained-in-op/1021227 "2025-07-28T00:50:50Z")
I’m trying not to poison the well here before the discussion starts, but I think that all Americans can agree, in the abstract, that American police kill people more often than they probably should, minorities in particu… --- ## [Is a thumbs-up emoji legally binding on a contract?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-thumbs-up-emoji-legally-binding-on-a-contract/1014622)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-thumbs-up-emoji-legally-binding-on-a-contract/1014622 "2025-07-27T23:09:27Z")
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal: :+1::+1::-1: Supreme Court of Canada : :thinking: --- ## [I have mixed oil types in my car. Is that a problem?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-mixed-oil-types-in-my-car-is-that-a-problem/1021119)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-mixed-oil-types-in-my-car-is-that-a-problem/1021119 "2025-07-27T23:02:26Z")
I had a car problem Friday - oil leak in my driveway, engine knocking. I walked to the nearest filling station, bought two litres of oil, topped up the car, drive it six blocks to a Midas and got it fixed. Apparently th… --- ## [Can the Triple Murderer Released into the U.S. Be Legally Detained?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-triple-murderer-released-into-the-u-s-be-legally-detained/1021298)
**Author:** [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-triple-murderer-released-into-the-u-s-be-legally-detained/1021298 "2025-07-27T22:41:35Z")
For the sake of this question, please assume, as is likely, that the following New York Times report is accurate, and their anonymous sources are truthful: Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is… --- ## [Commercials may have finally hit rock bottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 401\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-may-have-finally-hit-rock-bottom/973198 "2025-07-27T22:39:12Z")
We’ve suffered through abdominal discomfort ads, toilet paper ads that border on disgusting, diarrhea ads, feminine napkin absorbency, etc. And every year the ads get more specific, like the public is just too fucking st… --- ## [Woodie Guthrie biopic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodie-guthrie-biopic/696471)
**Author:** [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woodie-guthrie-biopic/696471 "2025-07-27T21:48:15Z")
We are fortunate enough to be subscribers of the small theater company that hosted a run of “Woody Sez,” a four-person biographical sketch musical portraying the life and music of Woody Guthrie. The lead and co-creator i… --- ## [Musicians who married their collaborators' spouses](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-who-married-their-collaborators-spouses/1021389)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-who-married-their-collaborators-spouses/1021389 "2025-07-27T21:26:44Z")
Eric Clapton and George Harrison became musical collaborators in the late 1960s, writing and recording many songs together. Clapton ended up falling in love with Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd, and eventually married her … --- ## [Tour de France 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-de-france-2025/1020630)
**Author:** [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tour-de-france-2025/1020630 "2025-07-27T20:55:20Z")
Since @Gorsnak hasn’t started it, I will create the 2025 TdF thread. I’m behind, just finished watching stage 2 highlights. Interesting wipeout on the cobblestones on stage 1. Brian --- ## [What are some things that you absolutely cannot have someone else do for you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-that-you-absolutely-cannot-have-someone-else-do-for-you/1020592)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-that-you-absolutely-cannot-have-someone-else-do-for-you/1020592 "2025-07-27T20:19:34Z")
I was thinking the other day of how I’d live my life if I were exhorbitantly wealthy, and one of the things I thought of would be having a valet do shit that I don’t want to do. He or she could, for example, schedule my … --- ## [Latitude "length" formula?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latitude-length-formula/648614)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latitude-length-formula/648614 "2025-07-27T19:14:42Z")
For simplification, let’s just pretend the Earth is 24000 miles around at the equator. So the “length” of 0º is 24000 miles. What is the formula for the “length” of the other latitudes? I think I’ve found the answer f… --- ## [Continuing the discussion from Do you believe in demons and is pornography sinful?:](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuing-the-discussion-from-do-you-believe-in-demons-and-is-pornography-sinful/1021247)
**Author:** [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/continuing-the-discussion-from-do-you-believe-in-demons-and-is-pornography-sinful/1021247 "2025-07-27T18:38:30Z")
Continuing the discussion from Do you believe in demons and is pornography sinful?: I think I’m doing this right in regards to forum. I flagged this comment: because I felt this went against the rules and was an atte… --- ## [Anyone here like Bluegrass (or Bluegrass-like) music?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-like-bluegrass-or-bluegrass-like-music/1021104)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-like-bluegrass-or-bluegrass-like-music/1021104 "2025-07-27T13:49:17Z")
We just heard Damn Tall Buildings live at a Music in the Mountains presentation in Bayfield, CO. They were great! Kind of amazing for a group from Brooklyn, of all places. --- ## [Jam-making advice sought](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jam-making-advice-sought/1003443)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jam-making-advice-sought/1003443 "2025-07-27T13:44:16Z")
No, discourse, this topic is not similar to “Jambalaya advice”. I just got into jam-making. I’ve made cherry/almond preserves, strawberry preserves, and apricot jam. All three of them are fabulous, but I like my jam a… --- ## [TREX for deck.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trex-for-deck/523294)
**Author:** [@Coalcracker0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coalcracker0)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trex-for-deck/523294 "2025-07-27T13:34:17Z")
Happy new year, all! I’m planning to add a deck to my house in the spring. Does anyone here have experience with TREX for a deck? I’ve heard both bad and good, so will you folks share your TREX stories with me? Thank… --- ## [Was Heinlein into polyamory IRL?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-heinlein-into-polyamory-irl/470827)
**Author:** [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-heinlein-into-polyamory-irl/470827 "2025-07-27T12:55:22Z")
After a long moratorium on reading anything by Heinlein (after forcing my way through the execrable Glory Road and The Number of the Beast), I’ve decided to finally break down and start reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistre… --- ## [Donald Trump's Sense of Humor](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-sense-of-humor/1021217)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-sense-of-humor/1021217 "2025-07-27T12:55:16Z")
As I mentioned in the Cafe Society section, I’m listening to the audiobook of Tim Alberta’s American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump and he speaks in there about T… --- ## [The draft IS coming. You heard it hear first.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-draft-is-coming-you-heard-it-hear-first/269469)
**Author:** [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-draft-is-coming-you-heard-it-hear-first/269469 "2025-07-27T12:52:49Z")
BBC news site. “Senior British military sources have told the BBC the US has asked British troops to fill in behind American soldiers, who are being sent elsewhere. It is believed the soldiers could be sent to an area s… --- ## [The Steepest Road?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-steepest-road/308247)
**Author:** [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-steepest-road/308247 "2025-07-27T12:39:06Z")
Last night, I had a dream that I was riding in a car that was driving down a highway somewhere. At one point, we were going down a really steep incline—I mean, really steep. It looked like we were going straight down t… --- ## [Did prohibition officials poison drinkers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-prohibition-officials-poison-drinkers/1020378)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-prohibition-officials-poison-drinkers/1020378 "2025-07-27T12:22:19Z")
I think Wheeler, the flagbearer of Prohibition, did so knowingly and deliberately. That attitude was widespread. To many “dry” activists, the idea that people would still drink despite the danger was baffling. But oth… --- ## [New book: Osama's inevitable nuke holocaust in the U.S.?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-osamas-inevitable-nuke-holocaust-in-the-u-s/251157)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-book-osamas-inevitable-nuke-holocaust-in-the-u-s/251157 "2025-07-27T12:44:12Z")
I came across this book at the store today, and it made me think of past news stories regarding similar topics. Basically, what I got from this book in initial flip-through is that, during the latter half of the 1990’s,… --- ## [Good news about he Asian Flu: It has apparently escaped a Canadian lab](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-about-he-asian-flu-it-has-apparently-escaped-a-canadian-lab/299126)
**Author:** [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-news-about-he-asian-flu-it-has-apparently-escaped-a-canadian-lab/299126 "2025-07-27T04:53:00Z")
www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7261 Fun! Fun! Fun! --- ## [How is this going to end?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-going-to-end/1013914)
**Author:** [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Replies:** 311\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-this-going-to-end/1013914 "2025-07-27T04:13:40Z")
For barely a couple of weeks 45/47 has been disrupting with intent any & all spheres of influence within grasp. Glorifying in it. Conventions, institutions, allies. Internal, external, ideological. Pretty much as he c… --- ## [Are you posting less? Is it because of the way the world is? Well, let's fix that!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-posting-less-is-it-because-of-the-way-the-world-is-well-lets-fix-that/1018456)
**Author:** [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-posting-less-is-it-because-of-the-way-the-world-is-well-lets-fix-that/1018456 "2025-07-27T03:49:26Z")
A few days ago, I was exchanging DMs with another poster (they know who they are, but I won’t @ them without their permission!) and we were talking about how it seems everyone was posting less these days. I felt (and th… --- ## [Canada: Judge halts non-binary person's deportation to the U.S](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-judge-halts-non-binary-persons-deportation-to-the-u-s/1021306)
**Author:** [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-judge-halts-non-binary-persons-deportation-to-the-u-s/1021306 "2025-07-27T03:11:05Z")
I couldn’t find a thread that I thought would fit this story, so here it is, in a new thread. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/non-binary-deportation-ruling-1.7588820 This is something I’ve been expecting these las… --- ## [The best money you NEVER spent? (Better explained in OP)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-money-you-never-spent-better-explained-in-op/1021336)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-money-you-never-spent-better-explained-in-op/1021336 "2025-07-27T02:55:25Z")
What are some things you’ve gotten that you didn’t necessarily ask for or earn, but instead were given to you out of nowhere, or you found, or whatever. The most obvious answer for me would be my house. We were renting … --- ## [Sympathy for Trump?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sympathy-for-trump/1021361)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sympathy-for-trump/1021361 "2025-07-27T02:52:03Z")
Yeah, I know. I hate most of the things he and his cohort are doing/attempting, and yet… Increasingly I see a flood of suggested youtube vids about Trump stinking. As in, literally smelling so bad people around him ar… --- ## [Similar triangles: how do US students get taught about them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/similar-triangles-how-do-us-students-get-taught-about-them/1021241)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/similar-triangles-how-do-us-students-get-taught-about-them/1021241 "2025-07-26T23:08:47Z")
Some? many? most? students in the US nowadays are taught that if triangle ABC is similar to triangle DEF then angle A equals angle D and angle B equals angle E. In other words, if scalene triangle ABC is similar to trian… --- ## [Eponyms and such](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eponyms-and-such/1021349)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eponyms-and-such/1021349 "2025-07-26T17:52:14Z")
I coined, I think, the term “coldplaying” to mean cheating on someone, in the Coldplay couple thread. Like “gaslighting” for the movie Gaslight. Do you know or can you come up with other cromulent ones? I’m just a be… --- ## [What was the Final Jeopardy clue in tonight's episode of Celebrity Jeopardy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-final-jeopardy-clue-in-tonights-episode-of-celebrity-jeopardy/1021343)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 26, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-final-jeopardy-clue-in-tonights-episode-of-celebrity-jeopardy/1021343 "2025-07-26T16:13:13Z")
I didn’t turn the Mute button off in time to hear it… :flushed\_face: I know what the response was: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=268) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=270)