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**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-ups-activity-unusual/1010478 "2024-11-22T03:18:57Z")
I have a package I ordered. I received an email from the company on November 6: Your order ---- has been shipped via ups and your tracking number is ---- But when I go to check the tracking on the UPS website, it sa… --- ## [Recommend a tabletop RPG](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-tabletop-rpg/1008626)
**Author:** [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-tabletop-rpg/1008626 "2024-11-22T01:54:58Z")
A friend wants to start a role-playing group and asked me for advice (“Do you know what Dungeons and Dragons is?”— so evidently he has heard of it somewhere but has zero previous exposure or experience) I more or less ex… --- ## [Your unabashed tearjerker movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-unabashed-tearjerker-movies/1010391 "2024-11-22T01:54:22Z")
Movies don’t make me cry, ever. You think you saw some welling up of water in my eyes after a film I just saw? Yeah, no, didn’t happen. Just your imagination. For example, I just now watched the Tom Hanks film, A Man Cal… --- ## [Witnessing your own mental decay](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing-your-own-mental-decay/988436)
**Author:** [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Replies:** 119\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing-your-own-mental-decay/988436 "2024-11-22T00:46:49Z")
past 50 here… retaining names was never my strong suit … but I am slowly moving into “embarrasing” territory I was always really good in “ballpark mental math” (e.g. getting pretty close to the actual result of 72% of … --- ## [Classical music ID](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-id/1010580)
**Author:** [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-id/1010580 "2024-11-22T00:37:01Z")
I stream a couple of NPR stations’ classical feeds, but if a piece isn’t in their playlists I never know. Kitten Pudding’s music --- ## [How famous was John Wilkes Booth and what is the modern actor equivalent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-famous-was-john-wilkes-booth-and-what-is-the-modern-actor-equivalent/1010443)
**Author:** [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-famous-was-john-wilkes-booth-and-what-is-the-modern-actor-equivalent/1010443 "2024-11-22T00:34:26Z")
Was it as if Luke Wilson had shot the president? Or was it more like Randy Quaid? Meaning, did everyone already know JWBs Southern and rebel affiliations and thus had fallen out of favor? I’m not saying Randy is a one t… --- ## [Is language more relevant than color?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-language-more-relevant-than-color/1010571)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-language-more-relevant-than-color/1010571 "2024-11-22T00:10:00Z")
I have noticed that within a group if an Asian or Hispanic or Black person has the same accents as the group there doesn’t seem to be any other distinctions. Since the Obama era I have also noticed a vast I will call it … --- ## [Presidential hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-hypothetical/1010509)
**Author:** [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/presidential-hypothetical/1010509 "2024-11-22T00:06:39Z")
You are now the president. Not the current one or the next one. It’s you and somehow everyone wrote you in on the ballot. The inauguration is over and you are now in power. We will just assume as president you will do al… --- ## [Two questions about things seen on semi trailers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-questions-about-things-seen-on-semi-trailers/1010541)
**Author:** [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-questions-about-things-seen-on-semi-trailers/1010541 "2024-11-21T22:57:51Z")
While on a road trip on Monday, my friend and I noticed two features on some semi trailers, which neither of us were certain what they were for. I figured that the knowledgeable people here might know more. First, we s… --- ## [Lying by Omission: is this legal everywhere?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-by-omission-is-this-legal-everywhere/1010047)
**Author:** [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-by-omission-is-this-legal-everywhere/1010047 "2024-11-21T22:14:58Z")
A short thread on a similar topic from 2005, “Is this illegal? Lying by Omission” centered around Antiques Roadshow-type stories: finding a bargain at a yard sale and such. The consensus was that capitalism is about buyi… --- ## [Where are all the kids who went to school and got sex changed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-kids-who-went-to-school-and-got-sex-changed/1010355)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-all-the-kids-who-went-to-school-and-got-sex-changed/1010355 "2024-11-21T21:27:36Z")
The president-elect was indignant about all the kids who went to school and got their gender reassigned against their will, and without the consent of their parents. He even made it part of his routine, and acted out the… --- ## [How many people, total, died in the Roman Colosseum?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-total-died-in-the-roman-colosseum/197036)
**Author:** [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-people-total-died-in-the-roman-colosseum/197036 "2024-11-21T21:12:02Z")
…I think it’s pretty much “all there” in the thread title. I figure this knowledge would come in handy if I a) Ever manage to visit Rome myself, or b) Want to “make a scene” while watching a romantic movie set in the Et… --- ## [Google Moon Game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-moon-game/1010565)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-moon-game/1010565 "2024-11-21T20:02:18Z")
On the Google homepage there is a fun little moon game today - 11/21/2024. That is all. --- ## [HR 9495, does anyone know what this actually says?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hr-9495-does-anyone-know-what-this-actually-says/1010486)
**Author:** [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hr-9495-does-anyone-know-what-this-actually-says/1010486 "2024-11-21T17:55:06Z")
I would like to start sending emails to my representatives in regards to upcoming legislation. Currently, ACLU is worried about HR 9495, but they’re not saying what it actually says, just what affect they think it will… --- ## [Who would I talk to about potential elderly (kinda) scam? 3 states involved](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-talk-to-about-potential-elderly-kinda-scam-3-states-involved/1010562)
**Author:** [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-i-talk-to-about-potential-elderly-kinda-scam-3-states-involved/1010562 "2024-11-21T16:38:58Z")
I’m aware of a company in one state who has a business that might be taking advantage of a elderly person who lives in assisted care in a second state, about a property they own in a third state. I’m concerned this comp… --- ## [Are you and your SO from the same socioeconomic class? Did either of you “marry up”?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-and-your-so-from-the-same-socioeconomic-class-did-either-of-you-marry-up/1008509)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-and-your-so-from-the-same-socioeconomic-class-did-either-of-you-marry-up/1008509 "2024-11-21T16:36:04Z")
Mrs. H and I were both born and raised solidly Lower Middle Class. She in a dirt poor Ozarks mining town, I in a ghetto-adjacent poor neighborhood in Springfield, Illinois (population c. 130,000). Mrs. H’s father worked… --- ## [Listen up, motherfuckers!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-up-motherfuckers/817831)
**Author:** [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/listen-up-motherfuckers/817831 "2024-11-21T15:52:56Z")
In case you haven’t seen it, we’ve removed the restricted word list from the Pit. You are now officially free drop f-bombs at any target, in whatever configuration you desire. Keep in mind, this only applies to the “ba… --- ## [The Homesman -- Anyone else watch this movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homesman-anyone-else-watch-this-movie/1010531)
**Author:** [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homesman-anyone-else-watch-this-movie/1010531 "2024-11-21T14:46:05Z")
Apparently it’s based on a book. It stars Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank, with appearances by Jon Lithgow, Meryl Streep, and James Spader. It feels like they may have taken an interesting story from the book (Three w… --- ## [Awful yet predictable consequences of anti-abortion legislation omnibus thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awful-yet-predictable-consequences-of-anti-abortion-legislation-omnibus-thread/969787)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awful-yet-predictable-consequences-of-anti-abortion-legislation-omnibus-thread/969787 "2024-11-21T14:16:15Z")
@Buck\_Godot came up with this idea after I posted this thread. So here we go. And I put it in the Pit on purpose. Let the F words fly. --- ## [Unambitious home cookery - confess, you do it too](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unambitious-home-cookery-confess-you-do-it-too/1010035)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 93\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unambitious-home-cookery-confess-you-do-it-too/1010035 "2024-11-21T13:27:26Z")
All you folks with your inventive, delicious, creative cookery – what about the rest of us? The ones who haven’t progressed much beyond opening a can or popping something out of a package into the microwave? How about … --- ## [How to go on when fascists are in power, by a fellow sufferer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-go-on-when-fascists-are-in-power-by-a-fellow-sufferer/1009856)
**Author:** [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-go-on-when-fascists-are-in-power-by-a-fellow-sufferer/1009856 "2024-11-21T12:38:37Z")
This is a mix of my own thoughts and writings by Arturo Jauretche and (I think) Rodolfo Walsh, two Argentinian writers with experience in the whole “fascists in power” thing (Rodolfo Walsh was killed by the last dictator… --- ## [Agatha All Along](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agatha-all-along/1007461)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 138\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/agatha-all-along/1007461 "2024-11-21T11:46:39Z")
There are usually threads about Marvel shows, so I’m starting this one. Watched the first two episodes and don’t have a strong option of it yet. I didn’t immediately hate it like Secret Invasion but I wasn’t drawn into … --- ## [Extremely fast medical test results – how does this happen?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-fast-medical-test-results-how-does-this-happen/1010428)
**Author:** [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-fast-medical-test-results-how-does-this-happen/1010428 "2024-11-21T03:31:42Z")
I have a question for you medical folks out there. Today I went to get a mammogram. My appointment was at 1 pm. The whole thing takes maybe ten minutes in itself. The tech told me I’d get a note in my online chart withi… --- ## [Chief Justice of Canada and francophone rights group get in dispute about English-only SCC judgments; SCC Registrar gets sued; CJC orders all English-only judgments taken down; no-one is happy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chief-justice-of-canada-and-francophone-rights-group-get-in-dispute-about-english-only-scc-judgments-scc-registrar-gets-sued-cjc-orders-all-english-only-judgments-taken-down-no-one-is-happy/1010123)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chief-justice-of-canada-and-francophone-rights-group-get-in-dispute-about-english-only-scc-judgments-scc-registrar-gets-sued-cjc-orders-all-english-only-judgments-taken-down-no-one-is-happy/1010123 "2024-11-21T03:28:34Z")
This is a complicated only-in-Canada sort of story. (Okay, maybe it could arise in the EU). prior to 1968, Supreme Court of Canada decisions were mainly written in English. Some parts of decisions were in French, but E… --- ## [I don't get this Futility Closet post. Anyone care to explain?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-futility-closet-post-anyone-care-to-explain/1010532)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-futility-closet-post-anyone-care-to-explain/1010532 "2024-11-21T02:16:59Z")
What is the joke or double meaning? --- ## [Learning about computers from nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-computers-from-nothing/1010300)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-about-computers-from-nothing/1010300 "2024-11-21T00:47:10Z")
A current thread about computer architecture Why was the stored program concept developed? made me realize that although I’ve used personal computers for decades, I know next to nothing about how they work. Decades ago I… --- ## [Help me identify this show. Can the SDMB detectives help with the clues I remember? \[Resolved\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-show-can-the-sdmb-detectives-help-with-the-clues-i-remember-resolved/1010280)
**Author:** [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-show-can-the-sdmb-detectives-help-with-the-clues-i-remember-resolved/1010280 "2024-11-21T00:06:33Z")
Unfortunately I don’t know/remember much about it. I’ve only seen the first episode and that was awhile back (four or five years)… First and foremost, it was a DRAMEDY. It involved a couple, at the start… a man and wom… --- ## [Canadian Politics 2022-2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-politics-2022-2023/962633)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 390\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-politics-2022-2023/962633 "2024-11-20T23:31:19Z")
A new thread to unite some varied topics. What is your impression of the recent budget? Ontario election coming up in June. Inflation, legislation, expectations, machinations… --- ## [What movie is this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/1010526)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/1010526 "2024-11-20T22:42:26Z")
Somebody on Facebook is looking for this movie, and now I’m curious. “I’m looking for a movie I saw 10+ years ago. It was a sequel or #4/5/6 of a series of movies. It was a dark comedy where demons invade earth and ther… --- ## [Controversial Romanian-American gymnastic coach Bela Karolyi has died, aged 82](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-romanian-american-gymnastic-coach-bela-karolyi-has-died-aged-82/1010384)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-romanian-american-gymnastic-coach-bela-karolyi-has-died-aged-82/1010384 "2024-11-20T22:06:12Z")
He’s not getting a lot of love, to put it lightly. I did see some chatter during the Paris Olympics when he didn’t go to Paris or make any public appearances or statements, that I’m aware of, that he may not have been i… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=429) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=431)