# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=270&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 271 --- ## [Are we now at the point where future archeologists/historians can't possibly misunderstand or not know what our current-day items, objects and events are?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-now-at-the-point-where-future-archeologists-historians-cant-possibly-misunderstand-or-not-know-what-our-current-day-items-objects-and-events-are/1021235)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-now-at-the-point-where-future-archeologists-historians-cant-possibly-misunderstand-or-not-know-what-our-current-day-items-objects-and-events-are/1021235 "2025-07-29T01:00:45Z")
There are plenty of times when modern archeologists look at ancient Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt and think “What’s this object” or “What exactly happened in 3000 BC?” but I think we are now, or long-past, the point where ever… --- ## [Explain this t-shirt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-t-shirt/1021384)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-this-t-shirt/1021384 "2025-07-29T00:55:40Z")
I just saw an online ad for a t-shirt. The slogan has me confused. It said the following: I NEVER DREAMD THAT DAY A GRUMPY’‘D AM BRUMP OLD MAN BUT HERE I AM HERE I’M AM KIILLIN’ IT Okay, I have the general sens… --- ## [Identify a children's story - 1970s era; hero uses "Beltane" as distress signal](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-childrens-story-1970s-era-hero-uses-beltane-as-distress-signal/1021447)
**Author:** [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-a-childrens-story-1970s-era-hero-uses-beltane-as-distress-signal/1021447 "2025-07-29T00:34:50Z")
I’m thinking of a story I read 50-some years ago - maybe in Boys’ Life or Children’s Digest. As the story opens someone tells the hero-kid about the holiday of Beltane which occurs on May 1st. Later, when the kid is held… --- ## [Passenger Jet Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passenger-jet-questions/637696)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/passenger-jet-questions/637696 "2025-07-28T23:13:06Z")
Yer average domestic flight (over the US), in yer average “workhorse” aircraft (say, a Boeing 737) is flying a regular route (say, STL - MCO), at yer average domestic cruising altitude (which IIRC is 32K feet). Assume no… --- ## [American Civil War/ Reconstruction amendments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-civil-war-reconstruction-amendments/1021248)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-civil-war-reconstruction-amendments/1021248 "2025-07-28T21:27:30Z")
Has the validity of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments ever been formally challenged in court, on the grounds that the former rebel states weren’t free to not ratify them if they wanted to ever be repres… --- ## [Couple caught cheating at Coldplay concert and social media loses its mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-caught-cheating-at-coldplay-concert-and-social-media-loses-its-mind/1021060)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 281\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-caught-cheating-at-coldplay-concert-and-social-media-loses-its-mind/1021060 "2025-07-28T21:20:10Z")
The internet is such a weird place. If you’ve been on social media at all in the last few days, you’ve seen the couple whose affair was outed at a Coldplay concert. They were standing, with him behind her with his arms… --- ## [How Did They Measure Lat & Long?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-measure-lat-long/425530)
**Author:** [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Replies:** 85\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-they-measure-lat-long/425530 "2025-07-28T19:20:33Z")
Thinking back before GPS…we know latitude can be readily determined using Polaris, the pole star, for locations above the equator. But, below the equator? There is no obvious marker on the celestial hemisphere. Also, … --- ## [Alaska vacation wisdom?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaska-vacation-wisdom/1020214)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaska-vacation-wisdom/1020214 "2025-07-28T18:59:59Z")
I asked this board in a previous thread for wisdom about a Grand Canyon trip introduced as this: The experiences shared were very helpful, and having just finished that trip (it was great!) I return to the well asking … --- ## [Another day, another "persecuted' Christian](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-persecuted-christian/1021191)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-day-another-persecuted-christian/1021191 "2025-07-28T18:09:18Z")
Guy who just happened to be a newly ordained Baptist minister works for public library and purposefully misgenders people, and gets fired…and a very public “martyrdom” immediately ensues: Louisiana pastor fired from lib… --- ## [Why do new albums take so long these days?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-new-albums-take-so-long-these-days/1021326)
**Author:** [@SlipperyPete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlipperyPete)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-new-albums-take-so-long-these-days/1021326 "2025-07-28T17:50:55Z")
In the 60’s and 70’s, it seems like the popular bands were making a new album almost every year. Now, most big rock bands take 3-5 years between albums. What has changed? --- ## [Holding Hollandaise Sauce](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-hollandaise-sauce/1021411)
**Author:** [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-hollandaise-sauce/1021411 "2025-07-28T16:14:50Z")
I made eggs benedict earlier and it turned out fine, but it’s always a “scramble” (haha) to get the eggs poached AND keep the sauce warm and not separate or stiffen without a lot of attention. Does anyone know a reliabl… --- ## [Any suggestions on blocking a TV LED light while allowing remote to work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-suggestions-on-blocking-a-tv-led-light-while-allowing-remote-to-work/1020143)
**Author:** [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-suggestions-on-blocking-a-tv-led-light-while-allowing-remote-to-work/1020143 "2025-07-28T15:26:18Z")
I got a new TV for my bedroom. The issue is there is a bright white LED light on the bottom that comes on when you power the TV off. This is horrible in a dark bedroom. If you place both of your thumbs together, th… --- ## [Who measures angles in "grads"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-measures-angles-in-grads/290217)
**Author:** [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-measures-angles-in-grads/290217 "2025-07-28T15:23:28Z")
If you’ve ever used, or seen, a scientific calculator, you’ve seen a key to switch angle units between degrees, radians, and grads. Degrees and radians are both pretty common, of course, but why does anyone want to divi… --- ## [(Old) Water spots be us, our new MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-water-spots-be-us-our-new-mmp/1021132)
**Author:** [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Replies:** 355\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-water-spots-be-us-our-new-mmp/1021132 "2025-07-28T14:33:36Z")
Last week you all said we should, so here it is. Carry on. --- ## [Non-sketch TV shows written by the cast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sketch-tv-shows-written-by-the-cast/1021388)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-sketch-tv-shows-written-by-the-cast/1021388 "2025-07-28T14:06:09Z")
It’s not uncommon for a TV series to be created as vehicle for a single person who both stars in and writes the show. An example of this is Seinfeld, whose star Jerry Seinfeld co-wrote most episodes of the first two sea… --- ## [Dealing with stress / anxiety / depression](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dealing-with-stress-anxiety-depression/1017462)
**Author:** [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dealing-with-stress-anxiety-depression/1017462 "2025-07-28T13:50:19Z")
Over the past several years, I suppose I’ve been feeling a buildup of stress related to my job, raising two kids, the political climate, the economy, and recently some potential health issues. The way I would describe i… --- ## [Who wrote Weird Al Yankovic's song on North Korea?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-weird-al-yankovics-song-on-north-korea/1021405)
**Author:** [@Timz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timz)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wrote-weird-al-yankovics-song-on-north-korea/1021405 "2025-07-28T13:33:43Z")
It’s at the end of a John Oliver show from about 2018 – if you search for John Oliver Charlottesville North Korea, that will find it. It seems North Koreans are accordion fans (!), so John Oliver recruited accordion-pla… --- ## [Now seeing discourse ads](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-seeing-discourse-ads/1021270)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-seeing-discourse-ads/1021270 "2025-07-28T12:19:55Z")
I’m not sure if this goes here or in the “about this site” forum. I am seeing an ad for discourse mixed in the threads in imho. I’m not particularly upset at this point, at least, not with discourse. I am a little con… --- ## [What is the difference between smoking and vaping-- from the user's point of view?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-smoking-and-vaping-from-the-users-point-of-view/1021366)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-smoking-and-vaping-from-the-users-point-of-view/1021366 "2025-07-28T10:35:00Z")
What is the difference in the experience from the point of view of the smoker? Taste, relaxation, the buzz, addictiveness, cost, the coolness factor? (I grew up in an era when smoking was very cool.) Full disclosure: I … --- ## [Eat me, United Healthcare](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-me-united-healthcare/408797)
**Author:** [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eat-me-united-healthcare/408797 "2025-07-28T06:54:02Z")
So a year ago, actually a year and a week ago tomorrow, I broke my arm. I tripped on the fucking stairs in the back of my house which caused me to take a header into the pantry door and then down onto the concrete floor… --- ## [Random Steely Dan Lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006)
**Author:** [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Replies:** 78\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006 "2025-07-28T04:35:50Z")
You must be joking son, where did you get those shoes ? --- ## [Wonky GPS Experience](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonky-gps-experience/1021209)
**Author:** [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonky-gps-experience/1021209 "2025-07-28T03:00:43Z")
While traveling this week I was using my phone as a back up to my friend’s wonky car GPS which kept going silent or refusing to work at all. At one point the entire map on my phone was suddenly upside down and I was a b… --- ## [Hypothetical: Thirty more years of music](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-thirty-more-years-of-music/1021263)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hypothetical-thirty-more-years-of-music/1021263 "2025-07-28T02:36:40Z")
Almost all of us have favorite musicians and/or groups to were cut down before their time, or just abruptly just stopped performing. Can you name one person or group you would give thirty more years of performing to? I… --- ## [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… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=269&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=271&state=watching)