# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=313&state=watching [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 314 --- ## [Chemical castration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chemical-castration/1018676)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2025, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chemical-castration/1018676 "2025-05-23T10:04:47Z")
There seems to be a new movement towards this in the UK. What do we think? I will just mention Alan Turing… --- ## [Piper Mutt becomes suspicious of shrinkflation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-mutt-becomes-suspicious-of-shrinkflation/1018688)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piper-mutt-becomes-suspicious-of-shrinkflation/1018688 "2025-05-23T09:20:40Z")
The Piper Mutt is a big black-and-tan mutt who wouldn’t be out of place on a farm. Nonetheless, I’ve ended up with him. We have a morning ritual. I let him out, he comes bounding back in a bit later. I toss a chew stick… --- ## [Overrated cooking methods?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-cooking-methods/1018624)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overrated-cooking-methods/1018624 "2025-05-23T02:42:51Z")
I just saw a Cracker Barrel commercial where they advertise new ‘campfire meals’ in which everything- your protein, starch and veg- are all wrapped together in a foil packet and cooked. It’s presented as this magical exp… --- ## [You Decide You Have to Leave Your Country. Where Do You Go and Why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-decide-you-have-to-leave-your-country-where-do-you-go-and-why/1016395)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 122\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-decide-you-have-to-leave-your-country-where-do-you-go-and-why/1016395 "2025-05-23T01:49:38Z")
Title says it all. Let’s not make this another Trump thread. Just assume, for some reason, you decide to GTFO. Where are you now, and what’s your choice? Assume that you have some mechanism to be let in. I’m a US citize… --- ## [Unethical people & product warranties](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-people-product-warranties/1018585)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unethical-people-product-warranties/1018585 "2025-05-22T23:55:50Z")
So I asked a question on Reddit about hiking socks. Specifically, I asked if there were any that were machine washable with warm water, normal cycle, and tumble dry medium, because while my Darn Tough socks are great a… --- ## [Selfish, elderly democratic politicians are really pissing me off](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfish-elderly-democratic-politicians-are-really-pissing-me-off/1018638)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfish-elderly-democratic-politicians-are-really-pissing-me-off/1018638 "2025-05-22T23:39:45Z")
What brought this thread about was the vote in the house for the Trump budget which will, among other things, cut medicad enrollment by millions. I heard that the GOP can lose 4 votes and still pass the bill. I thought ‘… --- ## [When nature and geometry intersect](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-and-geometry-intersect/1018559)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-nature-and-geometry-intersect/1018559 "2025-05-22T23:06:30Z")
The built world offers all sorts of stark geometric compositions to explore. The natural world offers often softer organic compositions. Yin and yang, hard and soft, different photographic worlds, isn’t it? Oh, hell, … --- ## [The Ravenchord piano, and self-tuning pianos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ravenchord-piano-and-self-tuning-pianos/1003204)
**Author:** [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ravenchord-piano-and-self-tuning-pianos/1003204 "2025-05-22T21:22:13Z")
I believe this is just a concept, not actually prototyped yet (not sure) - here is the Ravenchord piano, a totally new way to construct the innards of a piano - https://www.whipsaw.com/work/ravenchord-piano It would use… --- ## [United healthcare CEO assassinated, the P&E edition {This is not a gun debate/statistics thread!}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-healthcare-ceo-assassinated-the-p-e-edition-this-is-not-a-gun-debate-statistics-thread/1011195)
**Author:** [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Replies:** 894\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/united-healthcare-ceo-assassinated-the-p-e-edition-this-is-not-a-gun-debate-statistics-thread/1011195 "2025-05-22T21:01:10Z")
This is the central meaning of this event, regardless of the killer’s actual motivation. --- ## [I want to write a "Choose Your Adventure" book for Christmas... any tips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-write-a-choose-your-adventure-book-for-christmas-any-tips/1018635)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-write-a-choose-your-adventure-book-for-christmas-any-tips/1018635 "2025-05-22T20:23:25Z")
Title says it all. Anyway, never done this before (I’ve written a book, but it was pretty easy). If anyone here has any suggestions, that would be great. The best thing would be a plot-generator (coining a phrase) that… --- ## [Is there any way of sending the IRS a pdf of your paper tax return?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-sending-the-irs-a-pdf-of-your-paper-tax-return/1018639)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-sending-the-irs-a-pdf-of-your-paper-tax-return/1018639 "2025-05-22T20:17:22Z")
As usual, I take advantage of the automatic 2 month extension given to non-residents to file US tax returns. I never owe anything anyway, given the foreign tax credit. Usually, I wait till mid-June and, for reasons, al… --- ## [Does Pope Leo XIV have diplomatic immunity in the United States](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-pope-leo-xiv-have-diplomatic-immunity-in-the-united-states/1018230)
**Author:** [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-pope-leo-xiv-have-diplomatic-immunity-in-the-united-states/1018230 "2025-05-22T18:29:01Z")
Pope Leo XIV (ne Robert Francis Prevost) is now simultaneously a foreign head of state and a US citizen (and also a Peruvian citizen). What’s the protocol if when he visits the USA? Would he have diplomatic immunity duri… --- ## [The song in my head... 46 years and still going strong!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-in-my-head-46-years-and-still-going-strong/1018607)
**Author:** [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-in-my-head-46-years-and-still-going-strong/1018607 "2025-05-22T18:03:15Z")
Had I had enough sense and foreknowledge to save the date, I would know… to the day… I entered puberty. Regardless, it was sometime between September 1978 - March 1979. I turn on Atlanta’s channel 17 (in a few years thi… --- ## [Non-Khadaji's What Non-existent Books are you Reading? May 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-khadajis-what-non-existent-books-are-you-reading-may-2025/1018620)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-khadajis-what-non-existent-books-are-you-reading-may-2025/1018620 "2025-05-22T16:15:19Z")
Writer for the Chicago Sun-Times turns out a list of books to read this summer that includes books that don’t exist. He claims that he used AI to generate the list, then didn’t check it for content, REALLY? You used AI… --- ## [Back from the dead for a sequel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-for-a-sequel/1018425)
**Author:** [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead-for-a-sequel/1018425 "2025-05-22T16:08:24Z")
Somewhat inspired by the thread What is the WORST immediate sequel to a great film?: You may recall Hallowe’en Resurrection, an (inferior) sequel to the (not-great) Hallowe’en H20. Michael Myers being decapitated in H20 … --- ## [Did we just get a drive-by hosiery fetishist?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-get-a-drive-by-hosiery-fetishist/1018664)
**Author:** [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-we-just-get-a-drive-by-hosiery-fetishist/1018664 "2025-05-22T14:20:47Z")
There are four ancient threads resurrected in IMHO… I mean I like lingerie on a lady as much as the next guy (and on men, in the Rocky Horror Picture Show!) but Zombies in Stockings is not something I had considered… eve… --- ## [Why don't movie theaters play older franchise movies when the sequel is incoming?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-movie-theaters-play-older-franchise-movies-when-the-sequel-is-incoming/1018599)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-movie-theaters-play-older-franchise-movies-when-the-sequel-is-incoming/1018599 "2025-05-22T14:05:57Z")
I’ve only noticed this happening now but it’s too little too late, my local theater had a showing of the original Twister when Twisters was a month away, and currently they’re doing a showing of the original Karate Kid a… --- ## [What color are the Ghostbusters uniforms?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-the-ghostbusters-uniforms/1018667)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-are-the-ghostbusters-uniforms/1018667 "2025-05-22T14:02:04Z")
I just watched Ghostbusters again recently, for possibly the 100th + time, and noticed something I had never noticed before. During the montage towards the middle of the movie (right after they capture Slimer) where the… --- ## [Acid reflux woes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acid-reflux-woes/1018561)
**Author:** [@Hal1776](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal1776)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acid-reflux-woes/1018561 "2025-05-22T13:20:51Z")
I have had acid reflux my entire life, and I need not one surgery, but two, as my reflux has completely ruined my teeth. On top of having a TIF procedure, I will also have to have all of my teeth extracted and replaced w… --- ## [Can an inner ear infection cause dizziness?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-inner-ear-infection-cause-dizziness/1018426)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-an-inner-ear-infection-cause-dizziness/1018426 "2025-05-22T13:19:29Z")
For about three weeks, I had the following symptom. When I laid down in bed an my left side, I would experience 2-3 seconds of the room spinning. When I sat up from lying on my left side, likewise. It never affected m… --- ## [Ladies: Pantyhose or Stockings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-pantyhose-or-stockings/505056)
**Author:** [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-pantyhose-or-stockings/505056 "2025-05-22T08:46:16Z")
And why one over the other? If stockings do you prefer thigh highs or garters? Colors, patterns or fishnets? Shiny or dull? Ever wear seamed? These are questions more about regular wearing, not so much the bedroom. --- ## [Do women like pantyhose?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-like-pantyhose/368640)
**Author:** [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-like-pantyhose/368640 "2025-05-22T07:38:46Z")
I’ve noticed it’s become rarer to see women wearing pantyhose or stockings in everyday wear. On the few times I see a women wearing stockings, they also wear dress slacks. Every time I hear or read about women wearing… --- ## [Stockings and suspenders](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stockings-and-suspenders/300029)
**Author:** [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stockings-and-suspenders/300029 "2025-05-22T07:36:32Z")
So I’ve got it in my head that wearing those might be a fun idea. But it’s making me a bit nervous, so here are some burning questions. For people who have tried them: Do they actually work or do you tights keep falli… --- ## [Suggest a source for FUNCTIONAL fully fashioned stockings and garter belts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-source-for-functional-fully-fashioned-stockings-and-garter-belts/562990)
**Author:** [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-source-for-functional-fully-fashioned-stockings-and-garter-belts/562990 "2025-05-22T07:33:32Z")
Okay, so are we agreed that nobody who isn’t one foot in the grave wears pantyhose anymore? Yet I’ve been dressing kind of Mad Men retro lately and I’d like the option to wear stockings sometimes, if I ever went out aft… --- ## [Romanian Presidential Election](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanian-presidential-election/1018515)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romanian-presidential-election/1018515 "2025-05-22T06:59:41Z")
The liberal candidate has won, but the nationalist candidate says he’s not going to accept the results. It’s the same old song. --- ## [What's a "Squibb"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-squibb/542260)
**Author:** [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-squibb/542260 "2025-05-22T05:08:10Z")
I re-read “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” recently. At one point, he tried to remember what his nagging wife wanted him to buy at the store; one of the possible items was “Squibb’s.” Was that a brand name, or a missp… --- ## [Sous vide chicken thighs -- Need answer soon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sous-vide-chicken-thighs-need-answer-soon/1018626)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sous-vide-chicken-thighs-need-answer-soon/1018626 "2025-05-22T03:35:39Z")
I have some Trader Joe’s sous vide chicken thighs in the fridge that I want to use, but I need quick and easy recipes. I thought I’d make stir-fry (no rice for me), but then I remembered that bell peppers upset my wife’… --- ## [George Wendt dead at 76 {Norm!}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-wendt-dead-at-76-norm/1018597)
**Author:** [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-wendt-dead-at-76-norm/1018597 "2025-05-22T03:03:11Z")
--- ## [Where would an authoritarian world government send dissidents?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-an-authoritarian-world-government-send-dissidents/1018011)
**Author:** [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-an-authoritarian-world-government-send-dissidents/1018011 "2025-05-22T02:56:20Z")
In the book Brave New World the World State sends dissidents to any number of islands for them to live the rest of their lives in peace and stop them from causing issues for the rest of society. Assuming a single author… --- ## [Tornado in St. Louis (2025 edition)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-in-st-louis-2025-edition/1018461)
**Author:** [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [May 22, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tornado-in-st-louis-2025-edition/1018461 "2025-05-22T02:18:16Z")
What was supposed to be a severe but relatively normal line of thunderstorms suddenly dropped a tornado right in the heart of the metropolitan area. The twister went through so fast there was little warning time, and it … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=312&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=314&state=watching)