# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=366 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 367 --- ## [TV series ID: English/Australian women captured by Japanese in WWII, with Jenny Agutter](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-id-english-australian-women-captured-by-japanese-in-wwii-with-jenny-agutter/1014714)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-id-english-australian-women-captured-by-japanese-in-wwii-with-jenny-agutter/1014714 "2025-02-24T20:55:34Z")
I remember watching a tv series about a group of English and Australian women in the Philippines in WWII, who were captured by the Japanese. Tenko is too early. (And the title is not familiar to me.) I’m sure this was… --- ## [Arson in NY and NJ in the 1970s & 80s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arson-in-ny-and-nj-in-the-1970s-80s/1014676)
**Author:** [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arson-in-ny-and-nj-in-the-1970s-80s/1014676 "2025-02-24T20:55:03Z")
I am poring through old issues of the New York Times. Having used key words like “4 killed,” I have now turned to “arson.” Wow there were a lot of arsons in New York and New Jersey in these decades. (Of course the Times… --- ## [Roberta Flack dies at age 88](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roberta-flack-dies-at-age-88/1014735)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roberta-flack-dies-at-age-88/1014735 "2025-02-24T20:43:19Z")
One of the iconic voices of our time has died of cardiac arrest. Sing it softly, sweetie. --- ## [Unauthorized Paypal transaction. A scam?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unauthorized-paypal-transaction-a-scam/1014645)
**Author:** [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unauthorized-paypal-transaction-a-scam/1014645 "2025-02-24T20:10:31Z")
I received this email today: Unauthorized Payment Processed from Your PayPal Account. Your PayPal account was used for an unauthorized transaction of $654.92 to Coinbase, and you must immediately contact PayPal’s Fraud… --- ## [Has anyone tried Airpods as hearing aids yet?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-airpods-as-hearing-aids-yet/1014693)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-tried-airpods-as-hearing-aids-yet/1014693 "2025-02-24T18:40:33Z")
A few months ago, Apple (with US FDA approval) made it so that Airpods Pro can be used as over-the-counter hearing aids. Initial reviews seem promising (Apple AirPods Pro 2 Hearing Aids Expert Review), especially at thei… --- ## [How do you manage gastritis, food and drink-wise?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-manage-gastritis-food-and-drink-wise/1014713)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-manage-gastritis-food-and-drink-wise/1014713 "2025-02-24T18:04:34Z")
So yesterday I had my first endoscopy, at 65 yrs old, and discovered that I have gastritis. I basically have no symptoms but my dad was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in his early 80s. From what I have read online (I’… --- ## [Have you ever flopped the nuts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-flopped-the-nuts/1014704 "2025-02-24T17:33:49Z")
Because it’s quite attractive if you have… I have… a few times. It’s always a really pleasurable feeling. --- ## ["Send lawyers, guns and money" original to Warren Zevon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-lawyers-guns-and-money-original-to-warren-zevon/1014586)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/send-lawyers-guns-and-money-original-to-warren-zevon/1014586 "2025-02-24T16:08:55Z")
Or was it a term in use already? Has to be the best phrase ever about being in trouble! --- ## [Wordplay and word puzzles in different scripts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay-and-word-puzzles-in-different-scripts/1014677)
**Author:** [@Hapy-Mizri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hapy-Mizri)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordplay-and-word-puzzles-in-different-scripts/1014677 "2025-02-24T15:55:17Z")
Given differences between same-language (US and UK) crossword puzzles, what greater variations of word games are available in eg Hebrew script and others farther flung? --- ## [How do you see the future of the SDMB in light of the current political situation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-see-the-future-of-the-sdmb-in-light-of-the-current-political-situation/1014567)
**Author:** [@LouMa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouMa)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-see-the-future-of-the-sdmb-in-light-of-the-current-political-situation/1014567 "2025-02-24T15:46:34Z")
The First Amendment in the US constitution protects free speech, the freedom of press and the right of people to peaceably assemble. Well and good so far. But there are some restrictions too. “The categories of unprotect… --- ## [Now what should people on the left do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-what-should-people-on-the-left-do/1009778)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 478\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-what-should-people-on-the-left-do/1009778 "2025-02-24T14:55:36Z")
I know it’s bad. It obviously is. What I want to “settle” once and for all is what you’re saying we, as individuals or whatever, should do now. If it’s “give up” or “smother your kids, then kill yourself,” I want you to … --- ## [Best way to get hearing test and shop for hearing aids? What's your experience?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-get-hearing-test-and-shop-for-hearing-aids-whats-your-experience/1005847)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-get-hearing-test-and-shop-for-hearing-aids-whats-your-experience/1005847 "2025-02-24T14:50:37Z")
This is one area where I feel like I don’t want to go there. I’m not averse to the idea of wearing hearing aids, but I’m not sure how much I need them or how much of what I might actually need they would help with. I thi… --- ## [Correlation and percent of error](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correlation-and-percent-of-error/1014583)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correlation-and-percent-of-error/1014583 "2025-02-24T14:25:33Z")
I don’t think there is a natural relationship between the correlation coefficient and expected percent of error but maybe here is. Specifically using R^2 is there a general rule (does not have to be mathematically preci… --- ## ["It is a pune or play on words" (Terry Pratchett)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-a-pune-or-play-on-words-terry-pratchett/139849)
**Author:** [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-a-pune-or-play-on-words-terry-pratchett/139849 "2025-02-24T13:24:36Z")
This line pops up a few times in the Discworld books, and my husband and I like to quote it to each other. The problem is that we can’t figure out how to pronounce “pune.” Pun? Poon? Pyoon? --- ## [I was this old when I learned](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-this-old-when-i-learned/995405)
**Author:** [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-this-old-when-i-learned/995405 "2025-02-24T08:58:16Z")
I was 65 yrs old when I found out that hawmow rhymes with COW, not THROW. I was 65 yrs old when i found out the lyrics to Sweet Home Alabama are: ingin’ songs about the Southland I miss Alabamy once again, and I think… --- ## [Maine Governor spars with Trump](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-spars-with-trump/1014666)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-governor-spars-with-trump/1014666 "2025-02-24T08:27:23Z")
Janet Mills, Governor of Maine, had a brief argument with DJT over Maine’s enforcement of transgender policy. Trump spars with Maine’s governor at the White House over transgender athletes (MSN link) “Is Maine here, t… --- ## ["...miner for heart of gold"\*](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miner-for-heart-of-gold/1014709)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miner-for-heart-of-gold/1014709 "2025-02-24T07:50:45Z")
And, I’m growing old. Not sure how much more I can take. It’s been an altogether trying few days. There are ups and there are downs, there is ins and there’s outs…oh wait, another song. . Very cold. Actually CAF. … --- ## [“The failing” this. “The failing” that](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-failing-this-the-failing-that/1014696)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-failing-this-the-failing-that/1014696 "2025-02-24T03:54:01Z")
Has any business Trump has described as “failing” actually failed? --- ## [New executive order seizes complete control of all regulatory agencies, interpretation of law](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-executive-order-seizes-complete-control-of-all-regulatory-agencies-interpretation-of-law/1014508)
**Author:** [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-executive-order-seizes-complete-control-of-all-regulatory-agencies-interpretation-of-law/1014508 "2025-02-24T03:33:57Z")
I know there are already a lot of Trump threads, but this feels like the big one to me. The moment we essentially officially become a dictatorship. Thes executive order states: The title does not say “attempts to sei… --- ## [Russia is mapping undersea fiber cables](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-is-mapping-undersea-fiber-cables/1013786)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-is-mapping-undersea-fiber-cables/1013786 "2025-02-24T03:04:19Z")
Apparently for some years now. Yes, suspicious yet-we-do-not-quite-know-why Same article: Finnish police last month seized a tanker carrying Russian oil and said they suspected the vessel had damaged the Finnish-Es… --- ## [Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958)
**Author:** [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Replies:** 290\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958 "2025-02-24T00:16:55Z")
I just tried posting a couple of YouTube links in and got the message An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post. What’s going on? --- ## [Only 2 dates, but Valentines Day is Friday. What to do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-2-dates-but-valentines-day-is-friday-what-to-do/1014185)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-2-dates-but-valentines-day-is-friday-what-to-do/1014185 "2025-02-23T23:28:19Z")
So, ole’ me, who rarely dates, has been on 2 in the past week. I think I’m smitten. Or at least heavily in lust. We met because she’s the daughter of a co-worker’s friend, and she met me because she needed some legal … --- ## [Stories with flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-with-flashbacks-within-flashbacks-within-flashbacks/1014669)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-with-flashbacks-within-flashbacks-within-flashbacks/1014669 "2025-02-23T23:03:25Z")
Last night I watched an old Humphrey Bogart movie called “Passage To Marseille”. The movie starts out in WWII with a war reporter visiting an outpost of the Free French Air Force, who are preparing for a bombing run that… --- ## [Trying to find out about chimney theory](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-out-about-chimney-theory/1014633)
**Author:** [@sweeteviljesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweeteviljesus)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-out-about-chimney-theory/1014633 "2025-02-23T16:21:19Z")
There is a type of side draft forge hood used by blacksmiths who burn coal called a “super sucker” and I’ve never understood the theory of its construction. I gather it uses the Venturi effect to create a natural draft … --- ## [Universal Yardsticks?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universal-yardsticks/1014612)
**Author:** [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/universal-yardsticks/1014612 "2025-02-23T16:04:23Z")
Suppose we wish to send a message to the stars (via radio signal or mechanical probe) and attempt to describe various measurements understandable to extra-terrestrial intelligences. We cannot use such distances known to… --- ## [Dumb thing(s) we did today](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-thing-s-we-did-today/1014456)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-thing-s-we-did-today/1014456 "2025-02-23T15:55:06Z")
I do dumb things often-ish, and I’ve decided to celebrate them! Feel free to join in (or mock me, that’s also good). Today I bought a lovely new bird feeder for outside the window, to replace the old, gross one that’s h… --- ## [Impeachment of SCOTUS judges](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeachment-of-scotus-judges/1014672)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impeachment-of-scotus-judges/1014672 "2025-02-23T15:43:52Z")
Of all the techniques that Republicans have used to stack the court, most notably McConnell refusing to hold a confirmation hearing for Garland, why haven’t they tried to outright impeach a liberal justice? --- ## [And Now for Something Completely Different (Finnish Hobby Horse Championships)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-finnish-hobby-horse-championships/1014681)
**Author:** [@Ynnad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ynnad)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-for-something-completely-different-finnish-hobby-horse-championships/1014681 "2025-02-23T13:34:08Z")
See the following: or “Finnish Hobby Horse Championships 2023” on YouTube. Google will bring up much more. Discourse wouldn’t let me post a Youtube link. I don’t think it is necessary for me to ask a question or s… --- ## [Your attention-getting clothes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-attention-getting-clothes/1014390)
**Author:** [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-attention-getting-clothes/1014390 "2025-02-23T13:03:10Z")
Do you have any garments that draw the eyeballs or invite commentary from strangers? Now obviously any of us may have access to some silly costume. No, I’m talking about items you wear regularly, that for some reason a… --- ## [How quickly should a car be washed after driving on salt treated roads?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-should-a-car-be-washed-after-driving-on-salt-treated-roads/1014502)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [February 23, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-should-a-car-be-washed-after-driving-on-salt-treated-roads/1014502 "2025-02-23T12:31:01Z")
Little Rock treated our roads heavily before yesterdays snow and ice storm. They’ll retreat the roads for the next couple days. I watch car repair channels on YouTube. It’s shocking to see a rusted car frame and body … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=365) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=367)