# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=274 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 275 --- ## [Can anyone provide context for the viral video (undercover FBI agent on plane puts cop in his place)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-provide-context-for-the-viral-video-undercover-fbi-agent-on-plane-puts-cop-in-his-place/1019381)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-provide-context-for-the-viral-video-undercover-fbi-agent-on-plane-puts-cop-in-his-place/1019381 "2025-07-21T16:43:33Z")
This video has been going around for a few weeks/months. An undercover FBI agent is questioned intensively by a flight attendant and cop demanding ID, and he keeps insisting that he doesn’t have to give ID and keeps aski… --- ## [Sudden "sweet" rotten smell in room](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-sweet-rotten-smell-in-room/1020590)
**Author:** [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-sweet-rotten-smell-in-room/1020590 "2025-07-21T16:31:12Z")
Ive not changed anything, and ive got rid of my garbage that might smell. But 4-5 days ago there suddenly came a sweet rotten smell in my mini livingroom and my bedroom (connected). The rest of the apartment has no smel… --- ## [(Old) Get To the Chopper! A Bastille Day MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-get-to-the-chopper-a-bastille-day-mmp/1020844)
**Author:** [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Replies:** 273\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-get-to-the-chopper-a-bastille-day-mmp/1020844 "2025-07-21T14:54:33Z")
It’s Moanday, and back to work for us non-RDOSes, but let’s not lose our heads. You’re hotter than me, it’s only 73 degrees Ferret Height(22 Centipedes) here. But the Heat Index is 82. --- ## [The Great Dalek Race of 1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-dalek-race-of-1979/1020864)
**Author:** [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-dalek-race-of-1979/1020864 "2025-07-21T14:16:57Z")
TBH the exact year is a bit iffy, but here’s the story! The Australian National Science Fiction convention was to be in Melbourne, and as one of the fun events they put on a Dalek race. The BBC had published plans on ho… --- ## [Anyone remember this cat video?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-cat-video/1021078)
**Author:** [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-this-cat-video/1021078 "2025-07-21T14:03:36Z")
It must have been in the early-mid 2000’s. A beautiful really big longhaired cat in an expensive looking house was afraid or annoyed at something and made the oddest sounds. Possibly from Russia. ‘OWWwowowowowowow…’ … --- ## [Help me identify a Jeff Bridges movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111)
**Author:** [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-jeff-bridges-movie/1021111 "2025-07-21T13:00:33Z")
This is driving me crazy. I’m trying to remember a film that contains a line we use in my family to describe someone who isn’t all the way awake: “He/she’s still circling the airport.” Here’s what I know: It was a Jeff… --- ## [Lunch sack? Ok. Garbage sack? Cromulent. Sack waist pants? Nooooooo!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lunch-sack-ok-garbage-sack-cromulent-sack-waist-pants-nooooooo/1021129)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lunch-sack-ok-garbage-sack-cromulent-sack-waist-pants-nooooooo/1021129 "2025-07-21T09:04:39Z")
So I found these these linen slacks(turns out they’re very much slacker, alright). Description says: lightweight, easy fit slacks WITH 2 pockets, for women. Sack waist. Huh? So I consult the Lil’wrekker (my fashion g… --- ## [Trump has been diagnosed with Chronic Venous Insufficiency](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 120\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-been-diagnosed-with-chronic-venous-insufficiency/1020991 "2025-07-21T06:35:24Z")
This explains some of the swelling and bruising that people have observed in recent times, and that the White House is admitting to this indicates to me that it’s a pretty bad case. --- ## [Change the name of the Washington Redskins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-the-name-of-the-washington-redskins/659674)
**Author:** [@dflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dflower)\ **Replies:** 139\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/change-the-name-of-the-washington-redskins/659674 "2025-07-21T05:49:36Z")
So congress may pass a law to rid the team of the name Redskins. OK what should the new name be? The Washington Hogs? --- ## [I need a vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-vacation/1021070)
**Author:** [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-vacation/1021070 "2025-07-21T03:50:42Z")
I rarely vacation. I just don’t go away, leaving my animals. I don’t really trust others to care for them like I do. But I’m retired, I have money, and I want to go somewhere. But where? I don’t like crowds. I don’t care… --- ## ["Pacific Rim" question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-rim-question/1021098)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 21, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-rim-question/1021098 "2025-07-21T02:18:26Z")
I was curious about the movie being about a renaissance of the Jaegers when the Kaiju threat was renewed after a period of years. Why not just play it straight and show the original Kaiju-Jaeger war? --- ## [Sceloporus Hybrids?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sceloporus-hybrids/1021099)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sceloporus-hybrids/1021099 "2025-07-20T23:21:37Z")
In a place that I frequently go to photograph wildlife I often see many lizards of the genus Sceleporus. Some have the classic markings of the Prairie Lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus). (For a discussion of whether or not … --- ## [Advice for visiting Corsica?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-visiting-corsica/1021076)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-visiting-corsica/1021076 "2025-07-20T21:28:38Z")
My wife & I are thinking of a Corsica vacation later this year. We have spent quite a lot of time over the years in France & Italy, but never got to Corsica. We are fairly budget travellers: fine with B&Bs and neighbor… --- ## [If I put dry ice in my bong, will I inhale a dangerous amount of CO2 and pass out or something?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-put-dry-ice-in-my-bong-will-i-inhale-a-dangerous-amount-of-co2-and-pass-out-or-something/1021090)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-put-dry-ice-in-my-bong-will-i-inhale-a-dangerous-amount-of-co2-and-pass-out-or-something/1021090 "2025-07-20T20:34:22Z")
I have a bong with ice catchers in the neck and I’ll put (water) ice into it to cool the smoke. But if I wanted industrial strength cold, could I use dry ice? Or does this present a suffocation risk? --- ## [The Omnibus Good News Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-good-news-thread/979923)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 190\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-good-news-thread/979923 "2025-07-20T19:56:56Z")
You know, it kind of sucks that society… or at least the reflection of which is here on the SDMB… treats good news with embarrassment, the conversational equivalent to farting in church. You probably won’t get called out… --- ## [Does intelligence stop mattering for problem solving beyond a certain point](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-intelligence-stop-mattering-for-problem-solving-beyond-a-certain-point/1018780)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-intelligence-stop-mattering-for-problem-solving-beyond-a-certain-point/1018780 "2025-07-20T18:59:14Z")
So with advances in AI, people like Kurzweil have always predicted AI would reach AGI status around 2029. He predicted AI thousands of times smarter than humans by around 2045, and endless trillions of times smarter than… --- ## [Welcome to Wrexham](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-wrexham/970646)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-wrexham/970646 "2025-07-20T18:49:08Z")
This is a Hulu series/documentary covering the purchase of the Welsh football club Wrexham FC by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney Some background, Wrexham is a Welsh football club in the fourth tier of English football,… --- ## [Does Epstein Provide MAGA an Opportunity for an Honorable Exit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-epstein-provide-maga-an-opportunity-for-an-honorable-exit/1021042)
**Author:** [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-epstein-provide-maga-an-opportunity-for-an-honorable-exit/1021042 "2025-07-20T18:07:01Z")
My apologies for starting another thread about Trump/Epstein, but I wasn’t quite sure where else to post it. In numerous threads, many of us have expressed dismay and puzzlement over the seemingly iron grip Trump has ov… --- ## [Well, I am at the hospital](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-am-at-the-hospital/1019068)
**Author:** [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-am-at-the-hospital/1019068 "2025-07-20T17:25:13Z")
I somehow managed to break a glass and slice my wrist. The amount of blood was scary and my bathroom looks like a crime scene. The paramedic said it’s pretty deep. I had a brief glimpse of the injury and it made me thin… --- ## [Movie ID: A car pulls two gliders, as people escape the Germans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-a-car-pulls-two-gliders-as-people-escape-the-germans/1021093)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-id-a-car-pulls-two-gliders-as-people-escape-the-germans/1021093 "2025-07-20T14:58:04Z")
I just saw a Facebook reel depicting six people escaping from German soldiers in WWII. They are in two red gliders that are being pulled by a car. The driver of the car jams the accelerator and runs back to get into on… --- ## [Man attempts to damage the case around the Stone of Scone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-attempts-to-damage-the-case-around-the-stone-of-scone/1021052)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-attempts-to-damage-the-case-around-the-stone-of-scone/1021052 "2025-07-20T11:56:48Z")
This guy tried to smash the glass case around the Stone. Why? Was he trying to get to it and chip off a piece? Strike a blow against/for Scottish independence? Drunken dare? Will we ever know? https://www.smithsonianmag… --- ## [It's happening: Federal immigration officials telling American citizens they must leave the country](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-happening-federal-immigration-officials-telling-american-citizens-they-must-leave-the-country/1017168 "2025-07-20T11:13:02Z")
Continuing the discussion from The Trump deportation news thread: Okay, sports fans. These two stories have chilled me to the bone. Serious question: should we – those of us who condemn trump and his B.S. loudly on… --- ## [I object to the way this thread was closed, i.e. the contents of the final post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-object-to-the-way-this-thread-was-closed-i-e-the-contents-of-the-final-post/1020994)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-object-to-the-way-this-thread-was-closed-i-e-the-contents-of-the-final-post/1020994 "2025-07-20T08:23:29Z")
The thread closed is about the degenerate gambler (self-described) and their experiences with a hotel thermostat. (Note lack of moderator yellow, which did not copy from the original post.) @What\_Exit, this poster’s st… --- ## [Question on Presidential Immunity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-presidential-immunity/1021079)
**Author:** [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-presidential-immunity/1021079 "2025-07-20T02:33:12Z")
In last year’s Supreme Court ruling on Presidential Immunity, the Court held that private communications from the President would be presumed to be privileged and could not be used as evidence unless other facts could be… --- ## [Animatronic Walt Disney debuts today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animatronic-walt-disney-debuts-today/1020973)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animatronic-walt-disney-debuts-today/1020973 "2025-07-20T00:44:28Z")
Here’s a youtube video of robo-Walt in action. What do you think? Me, I think it’s an impressive piece of technology, but it gives me the willies. --- ## [VBA for excel; natural log, "LN()"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vba-for-excel-natural-log-ln/1021048)
**Author:** [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vba-for-excel-natural-log-ln/1021048 "2025-07-19T21:09:22Z")
I’m writing a VBA application in Excel. It’s coming back to me, but not entirely; to get the natural log of a cell value, the syntax is “Ln(number)” right? where number is a positive number. The program hangs up on t… --- ## [Lyrics to "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me"--underlying message, cultural context](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-to-do-nothing-till-you-hear-from-me-underlying-message-cultural-context/1021041)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-to-do-nothing-till-you-hear-from-me-underlying-message-cultural-context/1021041 "2025-07-19T20:34:38Z")
The subject song was a Duke Ellington tune written in the 1940s by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Bob Russell. It’s been recorded by many, ranging from Ella Fitzgerald to Boz Scaggs to Phil Collins. I don’t think quoting… --- ## [Tyrese Haliburton - has there been a severe injury as badly timed and with longterm impact like his?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrese-haliburton-has-there-been-a-severe-injury-as-badly-timed-and-with-longterm-impact-like-his/1020660)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrese-haliburton-has-there-been-a-severe-injury-as-badly-timed-and-with-longterm-impact-like-his/1020660 "2025-07-19T20:32:33Z")
For those unaware: The Indiana pacers were underdogs through much of the playoffs and yet, they made it to the NBA finals. They got the series tied 3-3 and the big game 7 arrived. Winner takes all. In the first half, t… --- ## [Why aren't cars with "sovereign citizen" plates summarily impounded and drivers charged?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-cars-with-sovereign-citizen-plates-summarily-impounded-and-drivers-charged/1020658)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-cars-with-sovereign-citizen-plates-summarily-impounded-and-drivers-charged/1020658 "2025-07-19T18:08:09Z")
I just saw a reddit post of a “sovereign citizen” type of license plate seen on the road in a DC suburb of Virginia. I have never seen one in the wild but have seen a lot of photos of them. Cops will pull you over if yo… --- ## [I'm determined to make good bread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-determined-to-make-good-bread/1021038)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-determined-to-make-good-bread/1021038 "2025-07-19T17:58:20Z")
My bread making is wildly inconsistent. It ranges between perfect to throw it out. It just can’t be that difficult so I threw out the recipes and approached it scientifically. Yeast. A packet of Fleischmann’s active … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=273) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=275)