# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=330&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 331 --- ## [Why the hate for dairy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hate-for-dairy/1017285)
**Author:** [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hate-for-dairy/1017285 "2025-04-24T03:19:51Z")
I’ve met some people who seem to think dairy products are to be avoided at all costs, and there are numerous websites that embrace this notion. Said websites strike me as being long on hysteria and short on evidence. Obj… --- ## [Name of old circa 1970 comic strip featuring two beach bums?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-old-circa-1970-comic-strip-featuring-two-beach-bums/1017425)
**Author:** [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-old-circa-1970-comic-strip-featuring-two-beach-bums/1017425 "2025-04-24T03:16:13Z")
An old comic strip I used to read many years ago came to my mind today but I can’t recall the name of it. It ran late 60s to early 70s and featured two beach bums - one tall and thin the other short and a bit stout. Th… --- ## [Google Search/AI makes up explanations for any "idiom" you come up with](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-ai-makes-up-explanations-for-any-idiom-you-come-up-with/1017395)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-search-ai-makes-up-explanations-for-any-idiom-you-come-up-with/1017395 "2025-04-24T03:04:34Z")
I made up some idioms, typed them into Google search, and it turns out they’re meaningful! That second one below is really something. Good old AI. AI Overview: The statement “you can’t fry a pineapple with a toothbrus… --- ## [Only 30-50% of people have inner monologues?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-30-50-of-people-have-inner-monologues/1016567)
**Author:** [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Replies:** 115\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-30-50-of-people-have-inner-monologues/1016567 "2025-04-24T02:40:53Z")
I saw on a reddit thread that only 30-50% of people have inner monologues- i.e. don’t think in words. That seemed utterly ridiculous and fantastic, but lo and behold, it’s true. Woman without an inner monologue explain… --- ## [JD Vance you unctuous dithering prat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-you-unctuous-dithering-prat/1017320)
**Author:** [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jd-vance-you-unctuous-dithering-prat/1017320 "2025-04-24T02:01:45Z")
Now the sins and failing of this reprehensible, toadying reptile elected to high office on 45/47’s coat tails have been discussed in detail and length in many other threads. That he resides within a mere Big Mac choking … --- ## [Cloned humans raised without parents. They grow to do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloned-humans-raised-without-parents-they-grow-to-do/1016921)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 108\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cloned-humans-raised-without-parents-they-grow-to-do/1016921 "2025-04-24T01:44:25Z")
Inspired by the thread reanimated due to the Dire Wolf looking designer dog bit. In the old thread a point was made several times that without parents, pack, herd, flock, to learn from they wouldn’t be the true animal. … --- ## [New information suggests a laboratory accident that might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-information-suggests-a-laboratory-accident-that-might-have-been-the-spark-that-started-the-covid-19-pandemic/1015672)
**Author:** [@LouMa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouMa)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-information-suggests-a-laboratory-accident-that-might-have-been-the-spark-that-started-the-covid-19-pandemic/1015672 "2025-04-24T01:33:32Z")
NYT writes that scientists have withheld information about the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. This undermines trust in government structures and science. How can we trust the information we get from them? How dangero… --- ## [What information do dogs get from sniffing other dogs’ asses?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-information-do-dogs-get-from-sniffing-other-dogs-asses/1017217)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-information-do-dogs-get-from-sniffing-other-dogs-asses/1017217 "2025-04-24T01:22:31Z")
Cats, too. Both species “greet” each other by sniffing anuses. Does the anus convey any information to the sniffer — age, sex, fertility, etc.? Or does it just convey a specific identifier, the way a face conveys someone… --- ## [Reading the Odyssey book by book - an ongoing discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-the-odyssey-book-by-book-an-ongoing-discussion/1015773)
**Author:** [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-the-odyssey-book-by-book-an-ongoing-discussion/1015773 "2025-04-23T23:33:57Z")
My spouse and I have just begun reading the Odyssey. We’re going at a casual pace, taking it one book (chapter) at a time and then discussing things that stand out. Once upon a time I was a classics student, and though … --- ## [The two doors riddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-doors-riddle/1017191)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-two-doors-riddle/1017191 "2025-04-23T23:06:33Z")
So one door tells the truth the other one always lies. Why wouldn’t asking “are you a door”? Work? --- ## [Reliable singing voices](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reliable-singing-voices/1017405)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reliable-singing-voices/1017405 "2025-04-23T22:59:05Z")
I have often wondered if professional singers ever days have where they just can’t sing. I have always enjoyed singing around the house but would never dare step outside that simply because I was never sure what was goin… --- ## [Long shot, but...what was the name of the play we put on in high school (1960)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-but-what-was-the-name-of-the-play-we-put-on-in-high-school-1960/1017279)
**Author:** [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-but-what-was-the-name-of-the-play-we-put-on-in-high-school-1960/1017279 "2025-04-23T21:11:58Z")
The Drama Club, or whatever it was called, put on a play. It was a courtroom murder mystery, I think. The gimmick was that a number of people from the audience would be “empaneled” as the jury prior to the first act. … --- ## [What is considered art?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-considered-art/1017412)
**Author:** [@melaniethewitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melaniethewitch)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-considered-art/1017412 "2025-04-23T20:44:51Z")
What would be considered art and what wouldn’t? because there’s the opinion of everything should be considered art? and then There’s also the opinion of any some categories should be considered art… And finally is a … --- ## [If you could choose where to live in GoT](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-where-to-live-in-got/1017297)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-choose-where-to-live-in-got/1017297 "2025-04-23T19:23:27Z")
I have been rereading the books of Game of Thrones. Seems like it could be pretty hard to stay alive someimes. So if yould choose where to live where would it be? At this point I’m thinking of the Free city of Braavos… --- ## [Does the date of Easter favor some dates over others?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-date-of-easter-favor-some-dates-over-others/1017173)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-date-of-easter-favor-some-dates-over-others/1017173 "2025-04-23T18:53:52Z")
I know that there are 35 possible days which can be Easter Sunday, but over the millennia, has the distribution been consistent across all 35 dates? Is there a one in 35 chance that any Easter will be on 4/20? Or does th… --- ## [Realistically, if the President/Vice President were both incapacitated and the Speaker of the House was from an opposing party, what would happen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistically-if-the-president-vice-president-were-both-incapacitated-and-the-speaker-of-the-house-was-from-an-opposing-party-what-would-happen/1017264)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realistically-if-the-president-vice-president-were-both-incapacitated-and-the-speaker-of-the-house-was-from-an-opposing-party-what-would-happen/1017264 "2025-04-23T17:42:13Z")
This is a thing that I’ve seen constantly in fiction, a conspiracy to kill/incapacitate both the President and the Vice President in order to allow the third in line of succession to take over, almost always somebody fro… --- ## [Bill Maher and Larry David](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-and-larry-david/1017362)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-maher-and-larry-david/1017362 "2025-04-23T16:31:45Z")
Larry David just wrote this op-ed piece for the NY Times (gift link): It’s spoofing something that Bill Maher did (talked about? wrote about?), some dinner he had with Trump. I tried to track down what happened, but… --- ## [Name changed to protect no one in particular](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changed-to-protect-no-one-in-particular/1017259)
**Author:** [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-changed-to-protect-no-one-in-particular/1017259 "2025-04-23T16:28:16Z")
I have had my username changed from NotherYinzer because it didn’t really fit me anymore. I’m now Reeses\_Monkey, both because I like the pun and because I’m a Reese’s lover from waaay back. What would I do for a Klondike… --- ## [Is there any alternative to plex if you want to watch movies and TV shows from your server outside of your home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-alternative-to-plex-if-you-want-to-watch-movies-and-tv-shows-from-your-server-outside-of-your-home/1017055)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-alternative-to-plex-if-you-want-to-watch-movies-and-tv-shows-from-your-server-outside-of-your-home/1017055 "2025-04-23T15:53:35Z")
My Plex server works fine when I’m at home, but if I’m outside my wifi network it doesn’t let me view my library. Even if I disable wifi connection on my phone and try to log in with 5G, it won’t let me log in. I know t… --- ## [Who should progressives target for primaries in the 2026 election cycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-progressives-target-for-primaries-in-the-2026-election-cycle/1017371)
**Author:** [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-progressives-target-for-primaries-in-the-2026-election-cycle/1017371 "2025-04-23T15:35:39Z")
With David Hogg talking about putting 20 million into helping more aggressive, leftist candidates as primary contenders in safely blue districts, who should the left attempt to primary in safe blue districts? Hakeem Jef… --- ## [What's the strangest thing you've heard of that has been transformed into "milk"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-strangest-thing-youve-heard-of-that-has-been-transformed-into-milk/1017347 "2025-04-23T14:55:48Z")
How about watermelon seeds? --- ## [We need uplifting videos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-uplifting-videos/1013056)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-need-uplifting-videos/1013056 "2025-04-23T14:03:50Z")
There are many reasons in our lives that it can all seem too much. Sometimes it seems that if life were a dumpster fire, that would be an improvement. So let’s share videos that we can come back to and watch oat those … --- ## [Has the Android web client gotten worse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-android-web-client-gotten-worse/1017400)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-android-web-client-gotten-worse/1017400 "2025-04-23T13:05:37Z")
(Moved from About this message board) I mainly use the android web client on Chrome for SDMB it seems to have gotten worse recently, particularly about caching unfinished posts. It used to be really good at it, you coul… --- ## [Do you respect some areas of "trivia expertise" yet disdain others?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-respect-some-areas-of-trivia-expertise-yet-disdain-others/1017117)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-respect-some-areas-of-trivia-expertise-yet-disdain-others/1017117 "2025-04-23T13:02:45Z")
This was motivated by a thread in which folk were debating Tolkein. There was a time at which The Hobbit/Fellowship were my favorite “book”. I probably read them at least 5x - more than I’ve read/re-read any other book… --- ## [English translations with English that is obscure in English?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-translations-with-english-that-is-obscure-in-english/1017088)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-translations-with-english-that-is-obscure-in-english/1017088 "2025-04-23T12:47:14Z")
The two titles I’m currently thinking of are manga/anime series. Their official English names are Dance in the Vampire Bund and Witch Hat Atelier. Both “bund” and “atelier” are words that are used in the English language… --- ## [What's it like to be a Chewy.com reviewer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-it-like-to-be-a-chewy-com-reviewer/1017346)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-it-like-to-be-a-chewy-com-reviewer/1017346 "2025-04-23T07:12:40Z")
So, what’s involved in producing reviews for that merchant website, and how do you get the gig in the first place? Chewy.com asked me via email a while back, out of the blue, if I’d like to get pet goods and write revie… --- ## [Judge OK's Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against NYTimes - could this portend a wheelbarrowful of suits against Fox "News"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-oks-sarah-palins-libel-lawsuit-against-nytimes-could-this-portend-a-wheelbarrowful-of-suits-against-fox-news/919611)
**Author:** [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judge-oks-sarah-palins-libel-lawsuit-against-nytimes-could-this-portend-a-wheelbarrowful-of-suits-against-fox-news/919611 "2025-04-23T02:38:44Z")
Palin’s lawsuit alleges The initial version of \[the 2017 Times editorial\] said it was “clear” that the 2011 shooting \[of Rep. Gabby Giffords\] was linked to a map Palin’s political action committee released that included… --- ## [Why is there no meme for \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-meme-for/1017339)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-meme-for/1017339 "2025-04-23T00:55:01Z")
I’ll start. Why is there no meme for Antonio Salieri, as portrayed by F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus (1984), saying, ‘And do you know what happened? A miracle!’? --- ## [Raiders of the Lost Parachute Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-parachute-pants/1017372)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-parachute-pants/1017372 "2025-04-22T23:33:37Z")
Raiders came out in 1981. It was set in 1936. If it came out today and had the same gap it would be set in 1981. Time marches on and on. --- ## [Quarks and Black Hole Spaghettification](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarks-and-black-hole-spaghettification/1011531)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quarks-and-black-hole-spaghettification/1011531 "2025-04-22T22:58:35Z")
As an object falls into the gravity well of a black hole, extreme tidal forces can tear apart the object…even down to the quantum level. As you pull a quark from the pair or triple it is bound to, the energy pulling it … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=329&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=331&state=tracking)