# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=532&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 533 --- ## [Painting \[automotive\] plastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-automotive-plastic/998291)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-automotive-plastic/998291 "2024-06-30T02:23:38Z")
It’s going to be a couple of months before it’s warm enough to paint, so I’m just gathering information while I think about the prep work. I’m sure everybody knows that my 1994 Yamaha XJ600 Seca II was stolen and was re… --- ## [Suicide Squad Isekai](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-squad-isekai/1003519)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-squad-isekai/1003519 "2024-06-30T02:12:57Z")
A new Isekai anime series. Amanda Waller opens a portal into a alternate world and drafts a team of supervillains to explore it. The team consists of . I’ve watched the first three episodes. It is “okay”, not great. Not… --- ## [Just getting started in your Forties](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-getting-started-in-your-forties/1003478)
**Author:** [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-getting-started-in-your-forties/1003478 "2024-06-30T01:27:22Z")
Anyone here just getting started at life in their forties? That seems to be the path facing me. Whatever the causes of your delayed life, is their anyone here that has surmounted that sizeable mountain? I’m poor and have… --- ## [Fleas?! WTH](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleas-wth/1003405)
**Author:** [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fleas-wth/1003405 "2024-06-30T01:14:18Z")
In the last two weeks I’ve found little bugs on my arms or legs about six times. I saw two today so far. I think they are fleas? They are tiny and black with long, narrow bodies. Although they have been assorted sizes. … --- ## [The meaning of the lyrics of "Lump" by the Presidents of the United States of America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meaning-of-the-lyrics-of-lump-by-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america/464371)
**Author:** [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meaning-of-the-lyrics-of-lump-by-the-presidents-of-the-united-states-of-america/464371 "2024-06-30T00:35:51Z")
I was listening to this song today and I realized…this is one weird-ass fucking song. What on earth is it supposed to be about? If you listen to the lyrics carefully, it describes a somewhat disturbing situation: OK, s… --- ## [Trump reference to "Brandon" at debate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-reference-to-brandon-at-debate/1003494)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-reference-to-brandon-at-debate/1003494 "2024-06-29T23:03:36Z")
I have not closely followed the history of the MAGA “Let’s go Brandon” insult (?) but I know I heard him refer to Brandon early on in the debate. As I recall he just slipped it in without any context. Did I imagine that?… --- ## [Trump's reported increases in minority-voter support are - at best - heavily exaggerated](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-reported-increases-in-minority-voter-support-are-at-best-heavily-exaggerated/1003157)
**Author:** [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-reported-increases-in-minority-voter-support-are-at-best-heavily-exaggerated/1003157 "2024-06-29T22:44:08Z")
From this past Monday’s Status Kuo, commentator Jay Kuo’s Substack: Trump has been courting the “Black” vote, and the mainstream media is rather mindlessly playing along. Trump went to Michigan over the weekend, and t… --- ## [Validity of some YouTube channels](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/validity-of-some-youtube-channels/1003205)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/validity-of-some-youtube-channels/1003205 "2024-06-29T22:07:52Z")
Obviously there is a range of quality and validity to whatever one reads and watches online and I don’t know of any objective assessment of them. There are a few YouTube channels I currently watch and a few that I am cu… --- ## [Is the bee gees old people music?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092)
**Author:** [@santypanty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/santypanty)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092 "2024-06-29T21:54:22Z")
is it --- ## [Reservation Dogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reservation-dogs/948461)
**Author:** [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reservation-dogs/948461 "2024-06-29T21:51:13Z")
Has anyone seen this? Made by Sterlin Harjo (who I am not familiar with) and Taika Waititi (who I know from What We Do In the Shadows and Thor Ragnarok), it features the lives of some kids living on a reservation in Okl… --- ## [Should foreign nationals be allowed to donate to campaigns?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-foreign-nationals-be-allowed-to-donate-to-campaigns/1003486)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-foreign-nationals-be-allowed-to-donate-to-campaigns/1003486 "2024-06-29T21:11:14Z")
The reasons why not seem obvious at first glance, especially nowadays. Are there reasons it should be allowed? This thread was sparked by an Ohio law that banned them from contributing which was then challenged by a laws… --- ## [I have hyperkalimia. Any advice?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-hyperkalimia-any-advice/1002890)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-hyperkalimia-any-advice/1002890 "2024-06-29T19:58:47Z")
That is high potassium. On whatever scale they use, it is 5.4 while the normal range tops at 4.6. So not way above. Now I do try to follow a low salt diet, but I do not use a salt substitute (which basically subs K fo… --- ## [Physics and Dimensions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physics-and-dimensions/1003498)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/physics-and-dimensions/1003498 "2024-06-29T19:25:54Z")
I things were scaled up or down to a point that they were unperceivable to one another but still operated almost identically in most ways would they be considered different dimensions. --- ## [Is there any way for the public to find information on specific past traffic collisions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-for-the-public-to-find-information-on-specific-past-traffic-collisions/1003480)
**Author:** [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-for-the-public-to-find-information-on-specific-past-traffic-collisions/1003480 "2024-06-29T18:41:43Z")
Friends of mine were in a horrific crash in 2022, in Cocoa, Florida. Thankfully, they are now doing amazingly well given the severity of their injuries. I recently visited them and heard some of the details of the collis… --- ## [Stuff I want but can't find- the omnibus thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-but-cant-find-the-omnibus-thread/1003495)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-i-want-but-cant-find-the-omnibus-thread/1003495 "2024-06-29T18:38:47Z")
If this works out, this can be the thread of asking if anyone knows where one can purchase or order stuff that they haven’t been able to locate. What I want but can’t find is small packets of medicine like those that co… --- ## [Julian Assange (remember him?) update](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-assange-remember-him-update/745210)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 507\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-assange-remember-him-update/745210 "2024-06-29T14:15:04Z")
When we last visited our friend Julian Assange, he was in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, with bobbies out front, waiting to arrest him on a Swedish extradition warrant if he stepped out the door and back into British … --- ## [One last blow can bring down a bridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-blow-can-bring-down-a-bridge/1003475)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-last-blow-can-bring-down-a-bridge/1003475 "2024-06-29T13:43:40Z")
This must have been a real pucker. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/1dqzhkn/doesnt\_seem\_safe/ --- ## ["Driven Mad" as a Trope](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driven-mad-as-a-trope/1003376)
**Author:** [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/driven-mad-as-a-trope/1003376 "2024-06-29T10:18:38Z")
This post in another thread cites a Snopes article debunking a fictional account of some poor innocent woman driven mad by a college prank gone bad. Which got me to thinking, a dangerous thing indeed. Has anyone els… --- ## [Advice -- Traveling to Chicago in a couple of weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-traveling-to-chicago-in-a-couple-of-weeks/1003474)
**Author:** [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-traveling-to-chicago-in-a-couple-of-weeks/1003474 "2024-06-29T06:51:55Z")
I’m reading another recent thread on this, but I have some specific questions, and I thought I shouldn’t revive that one? I’m going to be in Chicago for work Sunday evening through Friday. I’ll have Sunday evening and … --- ## [Can the Democratic party nominate someone other than the incumbent President at their convention?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democratic-party-nominate-someone-other-than-the-incumbent-president-at-their-convention/1003428)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 105\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-the-democratic-party-nominate-someone-other-than-the-incumbent-president-at-their-convention/1003428 "2024-06-29T06:22:39Z")
Serious question regarding party rules etc. I believe that is the only hope we have to not see a reelection of Trump. --- ## [Does it matter if my credit score is higher than 700?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-matter-if-my-credit-score-is-higher-than-700/1003453)
**Author:** [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-it-matter-if-my-credit-score-is-higher-than-700/1003453 "2024-06-29T05:48:59Z")
They say you can have a credit score as high as 850. Supposedly a credit score of over 700 is good enough. So my question is does it even matter? --- ## [Fuck pretty people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-pretty-people/1003460)
**Author:** [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-pretty-people/1003460 "2024-06-29T04:23:19Z")
We date, marry people who are attractive as we are, new analysis finds Shit like that makes me fantasize about disfiguring attractive people. See who wants to fuck them then. If you are hot do us all a favor and rub you… --- ## [Why did John Hammond say this to Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-john-hammond-say-this-to-dennis-nedry-in-jurassic-park/1003365)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-john-hammond-say-this-to-dennis-nedry-in-jurassic-park/1003365 "2024-06-29T01:47:51Z")
“I don’t blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.” I like the quote, because I’m kind of a determinist, but what the hell was he referring to? They were talking about Nedry’s pay. Did he mak… --- ## [Hawaii 5-0 question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-5-0-question/1003418)
**Author:** [@TheZenPaperboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheZenPaperboy)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-5-0-question/1003418 "2024-06-29T01:16:39Z")
I was watching an old Hawaii 5-0 episode and the killer was walking around police headquarters when he passed a large info board. This mentioned online information about police records. Since they filed the series on l… --- ## [How do you setup a Used Android phone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-setup-a-used-android-phone/1003404)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-setup-a-used-android-phone/1003404 "2024-06-29T01:08:21Z")
I want to give my old phone to a relative. It used to be simple. Factory Reset, Change the SIMM and the new person put in their SIMM and signed in Now, I’ve been told a Factory reset requires logging back into the orig… --- ## [Bill Cobbs, another 'Oh, THAT guy' actor passes at 90](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cobbs-another-oh-that-guy-actor-passes-at-90/1003461)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-cobbs-another-oh-that-guy-actor-passes-at-90/1003461 "2024-06-28T23:53:34Z")
RIP my man. I think he may have worked all the way until the very end. --- ## [6/28/2024 - How was your sleep last night?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-28-2024-how-was-your-sleep-last-night/1003449)
**Author:** [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-28-2024-how-was-your-sleep-last-night/1003449 "2024-06-28T22:48:38Z")
I’ve heard directly and indirectly that a lot of people didn’t sleep well last night and feel tired and burned out today. How you guys feelin’ today? --- ## [Philadelphia & SEPTA. Need answers fast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-septa-need-answers-fast/1003421)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-septa-need-answers-fast/1003421 "2024-06-28T22:48:29Z")
I will be flying into Philadelphia next week and I just found out that there is a train system that could put me out less than half a mile from my hotel near City Hall for $2.50. Flying on United (Terminal D I think). … --- ## [I feel the DNC considers 2020 to have been a resounding victory when it was anything but](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-dnc-considers-2020-to-have-been-a-resounding-victory-when-it-was-anything-but/1003240)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-the-dnc-considers-2020-to-have-been-a-resounding-victory-when-it-was-anything-but/1003240 "2024-06-28T22:40:27Z")
IMHO, there are 2 narratives that are guiding Democratic strategy this year: First narrative: Incumbency is a massive advantage. I would question this assumption when presidential incumbents have lost nearly half of a… --- ## [What's this old comic strip reference?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-old-comic-strip-reference/1003457)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-old-comic-strip-reference/1003457 "2024-06-28T22:27:23Z")
It’s Thimble Theater (Popeye), 1936. In response to a mysterious noise, Poopdeck sez, “Well, if ye don’t hear it maybe it’s jus’ in me head. Maybe I be gettin’ pixilated…” Popeye sez, “Pixilated??? Oh, I see, ya means pi… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=531&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=533&state=tracking)