# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=373 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 374 --- ## [Naming decades: The twenties](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-decades-the-twenties/1014235)
**Author:** [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naming-decades-the-twenties/1014235 "2025-02-12T22:22:47Z")
I find it interesting that when someone refers to “The Twenties”, they are more likely to be referring to the 1920s than our current decade. Since we never came up with a catchy word for the past two decades, did we jus… --- ## [Where do you go for advice and discussion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-go-for-advice-and-discussion/1014242)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-go-for-advice-and-discussion/1014242 "2025-02-12T22:01:06Z")
My other thread sparked thought on advice in general and its sources. Where and to whom do you turn when you’re unsure and want advice, or just need to discuss/vent whatever is on your mind? This could be an individual,… --- ## [OMGosh, FFOTUS just announced US to sponsor ethnic cleansing in Gaza](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omgosh-ffotus-just-announced-us-to-sponsor-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza/1013898)
**Author:** [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Replies:** 203\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omgosh-ffotus-just-announced-us-to-sponsor-ethnic-cleansing-in-gaza/1013898 "2025-02-12T21:33:57Z")
At first I was just surprised when he said that Oct 7 would have never happened if he had been president, he actually said it twice. But then he said the US will occupy Gaza, move out all the Palestinians to a number of… --- ## [How to profit on currency devaluation?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-profit-on-currency-devaluation/1014144)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-profit-on-currency-devaluation/1014144 "2025-02-12T21:24:47Z")
Let’s imagine that I’m an unrestrictable God-Emperor of the USA with a goal to accomplish three things: Devalue the currency, to undo decades of trade deficit and bring US wages into parity with Southeast Asia and ther… --- ## [Still go to heaven, but \_\_ for all eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-go-to-heaven-but-for-all-eternity/1014151)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-go-to-heaven-but-for-all-eternity/1014151 "2025-02-12T20:45:31Z")
This popped into my head during an idle moment at work - so it may not be original - but I seem to recall reading or dreaming up a story prompt or Tumblr convo or something, around the lines of what should happen to some… --- ## [What kung-fu movie has a scene where a guy takes a shuriken to the eye in a forest?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kung-fu-movie-has-a-scene-where-a-guy-takes-a-shuriken-to-the-eye-in-a-forest/304490)
**Author:** [@Cagey\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cagey_Drifter)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kung-fu-movie-has-a-scene-where-a-guy-takes-a-shuriken-to-the-eye-in-a-forest/304490 "2025-02-12T20:43:21Z")
One of my earliest memories of TV is of a scene in a kung fu-- or kung fu style-- movie where some people are fighting in a forest and then one guy takes a shuriken in the eye. This is followed by the man who was hit emi… --- ## [Access: what could be causing error importing data into a calculation field?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/access-what-could-be-causing-error-importing-data-into-a-calculation-field/1014186)
**Author:** [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/access-what-could-be-causing-error-importing-data-into-a-calculation-field/1014186 "2025-02-12T20:39:44Z")
I have an Access table, originally designed to get populated by manual input from a form. It has some fields that auto-populate without needing the person filling out the form to fill in that information: the fiscal ye… --- ## [I called Representative Gary Palmer's Office](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-called-representative-gary-palmers-office/1014172)
**Author:** [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-called-representative-gary-palmers-office/1014172 "2025-02-12T19:45:39Z")
I called and expressed my concern that even if we support Trump’s aims, we have to make sure that Congress maintains its role as an equal branch of government and that we need to respect things like the power of the purs… --- ## [Article claims that Elon Musk's Cybertruck far more likely to catch fire than the Ford Pinto](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-claims-that-elon-musks-cybertruck-far-more-likely-to-catch-fire-than-the-ford-pinto/1014164)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-claims-that-elon-musks-cybertruck-far-more-likely-to-catch-fire-than-the-ford-pinto/1014164 "2025-02-12T17:09:38Z")
I thought about putting this in the Musk thread, but I haven’t opened it, abnd it’s got over a thousand entries. So I started this. Stumbled across this this morning: --- ## [Brownies! The dessert kind, not the girl scouts in training](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownies-the-dessert-kind-not-the-girl-scouts-in-training/1014023)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brownies-the-dessert-kind-not-the-girl-scouts-in-training/1014023 "2025-02-12T15:19:31Z")
This should be pretty straighforward. Nuts or no nuts? If nuts, what kind? Chocolate chips, M&Ms, Reeses, nothing? Frosted or not? Inside piece or edge? Box mix or made from scratch? Anything else? My choices: Pr… --- ## [Have there been any remastered episodes of The Avengers from seasons 1--3?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-remastered-episodes-of-the-avengers-from-seasons-1-3/1004180)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-remastered-episodes-of-the-avengers-from-seasons-1-3/1004180 "2025-02-12T15:10:52Z")
I’ve been watching these in the afternoon on CHCH the last couple of weeks. I realize that the series was recorded live in the studio almost 65 years ago, but the sound and (sometimes) the images are so bad, I have trou… --- ## [PA looking at removing sex from birth certificates](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-looking-at-removing-sex-from-birth-certificates/1013583)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-looking-at-removing-sex-from-birth-certificates/1013583 "2025-02-12T11:08:52Z")
I think it’s a good idea. Doubtless some fool will pitch a fit about the idea, though. It was proposed by Democrats, and will obviously be leaped upon by the GOP. Almost seems foolish to even propose the idea. https://w… --- ## [How should Biden finish out his Presidency?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-biden-finish-out-his-presidency/1004791)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-biden-finish-out-his-presidency/1004791 "2025-02-12T05:24:54Z")
I feel like he needs to go big in a way that doesn’t hurt Harris. Try to hammer out a new Iran nuclear deal? Normalize stuff with Cuba? I know people will be hesitant because Trump might just come in and wipe his feet wi… --- ## [What does one do with black garlic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-one-do-with-black-garlic/1014184)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-one-do-with-black-garlic/1014184 "2025-02-12T05:17:06Z")
The other day I was looking at the spice section at Trader Joe’s and noticed they had jars of (dried) black garlic. So I impulsively bought one. And now I have no idea what do do with it. Honestly, most of my knowledg… --- ## [What Exit And My Thread Ban In The Accupuncture Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit-and-my-thread-ban-in-the-accupuncture-thread/1013821)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exit-and-my-thread-ban-in-the-accupuncture-thread/1013821 "2025-02-07T18:03:26Z")
Okay, I just received what I am pretty sure is my first thread ban. It was an IMHO thread asking for advice on accupuncture. Here is a link The short version- I made the usual posts that accupunctues has never been sh… --- ## [How easy would it be to get into the works of Allen Ginsberg?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-would-it-be-to-get-into-the-works-of-allen-ginsberg/1014192)
**Author:** [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-would-it-be-to-get-into-the-works-of-allen-ginsberg/1014192 "2025-02-12T02:49:48Z")
This is sort of a meta thread, inspired by the current thread about rap in which @NAF1138 mentions Allen Ginsberg, and my own thread on Haruki Murakami’s Pinball. In Wild Sheep Chase, the sequel to Pinball, which I jus… --- ## [Can a Cyberpowerpc Tracer V battery be replaced?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-cyberpowerpc-tracer-v-battery-be-replaced/1014178)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-cyberpowerpc-tracer-v-battery-be-replaced/1014178 "2025-02-12T01:00:06Z")
Just as the title says. I am trying to find out, but I keep getting shunted to Cyberpower UPS devices, which is something else entirely. --- ## [British Posters: Where can I get the Curry Sauce you put on Chips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175)
**Author:** [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/british-posters-where-can-i-get-the-curry-sauce-you-put-on-chips/1014175 "2025-02-11T22:49:50Z")
I went to Uni in Birmingham two decades ago and there became addicted to the traditional salt and vinegar chips everyone ate after a night out. Turns out, that is not vinegar. Apparently, Curry Sauce on chips is the ne… --- ## [Quick question on police forcing unlock of facial recognition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-on-police-forcing-unlock-of-facial-recognition/1014036)
**Author:** [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-on-police-forcing-unlock-of-facial-recognition/1014036 "2025-02-11T22:18:42Z")
My understanding is that cops can’t make you enter a passcode to unlock a phone, but can force you to use facial recognition or fingerprint unlocks. Suppose my phone doesn’t recognize my face unless I have my glasses on… --- ## [Euphemism for "b\*\*w j\*b"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemism-for-b-w-j-b/15021)
**Author:** [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemism-for-b-w-j-b/15021 "2025-02-11T21:59:30Z")
Please excuse the “M. Masterdomesque” tone to this query. In normal conversation, not one intended to titillate or excite, I’ve come across a mental block when I need to say “blow job” – especially when genteel persons … --- ## [Songs about planes and flying](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 222\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675 "2025-02-11T20:50:39Z")
I hope this post isn’t considered in bad taste considering the timing; let me explain why I’m making it: I’ve typically been kind of a nervous flyer. That didn’t stop me from flying quite a bit from my early adulthood t… --- ## [I have an idea for a mobile app. How should I go about it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-idea-for-a-mobile-app-how-should-i-go-about-it/1014149)
**Author:** [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-idea-for-a-mobile-app-how-should-i-go-about-it/1014149 "2025-02-11T19:49:37Z")
I recently got an idea for the concept of a mobile phone app. To make it clear right of the bat, this is something I would develop as a commercial product. Not merely for personal use. Obviously I can’t divulge its funct… --- ## [Voyager Golden Record (bones)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-golden-record-bones/1014004)
**Author:** [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voyager-golden-record-bones/1014004 "2025-02-11T19:47:40Z")
We all know this space vessel, to which it might meet a foreign civilization. So there are mathematical clues and musical clues left there. Why would they also not leave a piece of a human leg bone? to the aliens to insp… --- ## [Damn coffee pots!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-coffee-pots/41818)
**Author:** [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-coffee-pots/41818 "2025-02-11T18:32:50Z")
I just made a pot of coffee (French roast! Yum!), and when pouring the first cup, coffee leaked out around the rim and spilled on my socks (scorching my little piggies!)… After the ritual cursing of fate and the unkind … --- ## [You must give us--A SHRUBBERY! The World's longest shrubbery. History, not Monty Python. With link](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-must-give-us-a-shrubbery-the-worlds-longest-shrubbery-history-not-monty-python-with-link/1014092 "2025-02-11T15:30:24Z")
In British-controlled India, they had a problem with smugglers. In a manner typical of English gardeners, they solved it with a Shrubbery. A 3,701km Shrubbery. With spines. And Thorns. And nasty, sharp, sticky-thing… --- ## [What happens when you mix bleach and phosphoric acid / what's actually in the newer disinfectants?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-bleach-and-phosphoric-acid-whats-actually-in-the-newer-disinfectants/1014167)
**Author:** [@LivingGhost371](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LivingGhost371)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-bleach-and-phosphoric-acid-whats-actually-in-the-newer-disinfectants/1014167 "2025-02-11T14:16:36Z")
There’s a lot of new disinfectant products out that are variously labeled “sodium hypochlorite and phosphoric acid”, or “hypochlorous acid”. From chemistry in high school, I remember bad things happen if you mix bleach a… --- ## [Oddball Patron Saints](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddball-patron-saints/461397)
**Author:** [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddball-patron-saints/461397 "2025-02-11T13:01:11Z")
“Patron Saints” seem to be a survival of the old Roman household gods, into Christianity. Some of them are logical (Joseph, the father of Jesus was a carpenter, hence St. Joseph is the patron of carpenters). But what abo… --- ## [A really beautiful essay on Inclusivity in media](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-really-beautiful-essay-on-inclusivity-in-media/1014127)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-really-beautiful-essay-on-inclusivity-in-media/1014127 "2025-02-11T10:33:20Z")
Mark Rosewater is the head designer of the game Magic the Gathering. He has a blog where he answers questions from people. Magic is not a perfect game but one thing they have done in the last decade or so is increase the… --- ## [First name only signatures?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-name-only-signatures/1014047)
**Author:** [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-name-only-signatures/1014047 "2025-02-11T07:50:34Z")
My daughter is 15 and just renewed her US passport. Inside the cover page she is asked to sign the document. Because she is still pretty young, she has never been required to give a legal signature on anything, but now s… --- ## [Pacific Whiting (Hake) General Q’s: is good? Recipe tips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-whiting-hake-general-q-s-is-good-recipe-tips/1014083)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacific-whiting-hake-general-q-s-is-good-recipe-tips/1014083 "2025-02-11T00:54:37Z")
So I’m trying to eat healthier, and one way is to eat more seafood. I bought a big bag of frozen Pacific Whiting filets since they were relatively inexpensive. I had never heard of ‘Whiting’, but googling I learned that… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=372) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=374)