# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=542 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 543 --- ## [How to deal with haters protesting your event](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-deal-with-haters-protesting-your-event/1002675)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-deal-with-haters-protesting-your-event/1002675 "2024-06-15T03:34:32Z")
Yesterday I went to a small-town Pride event in Potosi, MO. There were a couple of haters, standing with poorly-spelled signs calling the LGBTQ community “groomers” and whatnot. They weren’t yelling or acting the fool, j… --- ## [Judgmental Vegans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judgmental-vegans/1002902)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judgmental-vegans/1002902 "2024-06-15T02:20:08Z")
I suppose I’m just wondering what the arguments are for and against Vegans that judge others for their meat eating habits. I would like a more informed. Thanks ahead of time. --- ## [What sea-faring tall ships movie was this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sea-faring-tall-ships-movie-was-this/1002896)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sea-faring-tall-ships-movie-was-this/1002896 "2024-06-15T02:12:34Z")
Probably from the 30s or 40s. Life aboard an English war ship. One of the sub plots involved a cabin boy who happened to be the Admiral’s son. The Admiral was hated for his zealous use of flogging, so when his son was ca… --- ## [Marx on peasant revolts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marx-on-peasant-revolts/1002891)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marx-on-peasant-revolts/1002891 "2024-06-15T01:39:27Z")
Did Marx ever address the failure of preindustrial peasant or slave revolts to overturn feudalism/ servitude and establish a “workers” (farmers) utopia? In particular, did Marx purport to explain why industrialism made a… --- ## [Can a long-time Jeep owner learn to bond with a Bronco?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-long-time-jeep-owner-learn-to-bond-with-a-bronco/1002415)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-long-time-jeep-owner-learn-to-bond-with-a-bronco/1002415 "2024-06-15T01:07:16Z")
poll I’ve been a Jeep owner for almost a quarter century now- first a 1999 Cherokee Sport, and then a 2012 Grand Cherokee that I still drive. As any Jeep owner knows, it’s a love / hate relationship. I loved my Sport, an… --- ## [ACROSS THE PACIFIC: Fascinating documentary series on PBS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/across-the-pacific-fascinating-documentary-series-on-pbs/1002861)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/across-the-pacific-fascinating-documentary-series-on-pbs/1002861 "2024-06-15T00:35:01Z")
Has anyone seen this? I’m watching it now. It’s about the development of international air travel in the 1920s and '30s, with lots of reenactments featuring the likes of Hap Arnold, Igor Sikorsky, and Charles Lindbergh… --- ## [Electric Heaters & Savings on Heating Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-heaters-savings-on-heating-bill/1002787)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-heaters-savings-on-heating-bill/1002787 "2024-06-15T00:16:51Z")
My co-workers seem to like the A/C at a much lower temp than I do, so I have a small electric heater in my office for when I get too chilly. I also run it most days in the early spring, fall and winter. The one I had cra… --- ## [What should I do with a Top Secret document?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-a-top-secret-document/985751)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2024, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-with-a-top-secret-document/985751 "2024-06-15T00:02:10Z")
This is an entirely hypothetical question, of course. Assume you’re going through the papers of a deceased relative and among them are documents that seem to be marked Top Secret or titles of that kind, and after some… --- ## [2023 SDMB Celebrity Death Pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 2263\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-sdmb-celebrity-death-pool/975831 "2024-06-14T23:17:52Z")
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! This past year has been a strange one, in many different ways, and 2023 hopefully will be better. Okay, as usual, let’s get the rules out of the way and get to playing. The… --- ## [The May 2024 Reader's Digest will be its last issue in the U.K](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-may-2024-readers-digest-will-be-its-last-issue-in-the-u-k/1002257)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-may-2024-readers-digest-will-be-its-last-issue-in-the-u-k/1002257 "2024-06-14T22:42:33Z")
After 86 years, they’re closing up shop. I just now found that out. At first glance, it looked like they were shuttering for good, but they aren’t, at least not for the American edition. --- ## [Parenting. Yours, mine and ours](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parenting-yours-mine-and-ours/1002659)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parenting-yours-mine-and-ours/1002659 "2024-06-14T22:14:12Z")
Parenting worries me. For many reasons. I was parented gentle and possibly over-pampered. My sibs have a different view of our upbringing. They had loads more freedom and responsibility. For obvious reasons I’ve had to … --- ## ["Choose your own adventure if Trump wins"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-own-adventure-if-trump-wins/1002868)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-your-own-adventure-if-trump-wins/1002868 "2024-06-14T22:04:57Z")
This choose your own adventure tool might be of interest and possible use as the election grows closer. It works for other political scenarios, too, as a way to think more about options and actions.Home - What if Trump (… --- ## [Possibly the first RV. {LINK}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-first-rv-link/1002889)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-first-rv-link/1002889 "2024-06-14T21:44:10Z")
If we define a RV/ Recreational Vehicle as a motorized vehicle that is designed to provide lodging or camping quarters, they first appeared in the US, in 1904. LINK WITH PHOTO. --- ## [Do you aspirate your aitches? Is it pretentious to?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-aspirate-your-aitches-is-it-pretentious-to/1002021)
**Author:** [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-aspirate-your-aitches-is-it-pretentious-to/1002021 "2024-06-14T20:11:28Z")
Do you pronounce “where” identically with “wear”? One of my favorite jokes is the one about the American who overhears two hefty women talking and asks them “Do you ladies come from England?” and they answer “Wales” so h… --- ## [Useless trivia about IATA airport codes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-trivia-about-iata-airport-codes/1002489)
**Author:** [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Replies:** 142\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/useless-trivia-about-iata-airport-codes/1002489 "2024-06-14T20:06:42Z")
Continuing the discussion from Trolls R Us Resurrections: I was going to post this in the above-mentioned Pit thread where there was some discussion of three-letter IATA airport codes, but it seemed like an excessive hi… --- ## [Is there such a thing as a United League of Major Cities? (either national or global)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-united-league-of-major-cities-either-national-or-global/1002843)
**Author:** [@TJEckleburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJEckleburg)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-united-league-of-major-cities-either-national-or-global/1002843 "2024-06-14T19:59:52Z")
Recently I realized that another way of seeing the United States and also the world is to see it as a collection of major, significant, powerful cities, rather than as a collection of countries, states, continents, regio… --- ## [Gov. DeSantis signs bill that strikes climate change from Florida Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gov-desantis-signs-bill-that-strikes-climate-change-from-florida-law/1001649)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gov-desantis-signs-bill-that-strikes-climate-change-from-florida-law/1001649 "2024-06-14T18:33:25Z")
Fuck this asshole already. He shouldn’t be in office, he should be in prison. Florida, probably the US State at greatest risk from Climate Change and he is trying hard to ignore for ? reasons? What the Hell? He’s loweri… --- ## [Any Dopers in the Baltimore area?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-in-the-baltimore-area/1002884)
**Author:** [@TJEckleburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJEckleburg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-dopers-in-the-baltimore-area/1002884 "2024-06-14T18:13:36Z")
I live in Baltimore, Maryland, and I’m looking for people to hang with. Anyone in Baltimore right now? Also: for those familiar with Baltimore, are there any really cool and smart things to do/ places to go that I won’t… --- ## [How to get therapy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-therapy/1002847)
**Author:** [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-therapy/1002847 "2024-06-14T18:06:41Z")
I’m doing this by voice typing. It hurts my hand to try and type with my right hand. However, my left hand is useless to type because it’s shaky. I went to therapy for a while, but all the guy did was tell me all the st… --- ## [Watchmen - Two-Part Animated Movie Coming August 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watchmen-two-part-animated-movie-coming-august-2024/1002856)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watchmen-two-part-animated-movie-coming-august-2024/1002856 "2024-06-14T13:54:02Z")
Teaser just dropped today. I didn’t even know this was in the works! Apparently the first installment will be releasing August 13th (not sure if it’s a theatrical release or if it’s direct to streaming) with Part 2 next … --- ## [Someone should create a wiki or something that allows users to collectively rank all 2,945 XKCD comic strips from all-time greatest to all-time least-great](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-should-create-a-wiki-or-something-that-allows-users-to-collectively-rank-all-2-945-xkcd-comic-strips-from-all-time-greatest-to-all-time-least-great/1002869)
**Author:** [@TJEckleburg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJEckleburg)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-should-create-a-wiki-or-something-that-allows-users-to-collectively-rank-all-2-945-xkcd-comic-strips-from-all-time-greatest-to-all-time-least-great/1002869 "2024-06-14T13:01:04Z")
The title pretty much says it all. XKCD, the webcomic, has 2,945 strips as of today. I want a wiki that allows users to collectively vote and rank all the XKCD strips the same way IMDB has a TOP 300 Movies by User Votes. … --- ## [Jerry West, Rest in Peace. 1938-2024. The Logo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-west-rest-in-peace-1938-2024-the-logo/1002791)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-west-rest-in-peace-1938-2024-the-logo/1002791 "2024-06-14T08:54:59Z")
--- ## [Ignorant naive newbie beginner questions about video games, sports, and other games](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorant-naive-newbie-beginner-questions-about-video-games-sports-and-other-games/1002045)
**Author:** [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ignorant-naive-newbie-beginner-questions-about-video-games-sports-and-other-games/1002045 "2024-06-14T08:24:31Z")
This is a thread for uninformed questions by uninformed questioners. I’ll start. Video games Why would anybody buy a video game at a brick and mortor location like Gamestop? (Motivation: Gamestop just raised $900 milli… --- ## [Historical Fiction Recommendations: WW I, WW II and Intervening Period](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-fiction-recommendations-ww-i-ww-ii-and-intervening-period/994359)
**Author:** [@Bashorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bashorian)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-fiction-recommendations-ww-i-ww-ii-and-intervening-period/994359 "2024-06-14T06:05:12Z")
I’d like to get some recommendations for historical fiction set in Germany or France during World War I, World War II and/or the period between, from any point of view. English language, preferably. --- ## [What is the current status of America's Naval Shipyards?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-current-status-of-americas-naval-shipyards/1002855)
**Author:** [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-current-status-of-americas-naval-shipyards/1002855 "2024-06-14T04:11:24Z")
I’ve read horror stories of late about the problems plaguing the Navies shipyards. Is there any truth to it? How bad off are they? --- ## [RIP Françoise Hardy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-francoise-hardy/1002782)
**Author:** [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-francoise-hardy/1002782 "2024-06-14T02:47:10Z")
For anyone learning French in the 1960s (and particularly impressionable teenage boys), the ultimate Parisian style icon: --- ## [I worry about becoming a meaner person as my chronic pain gets worse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-worry-about-becoming-a-meaner-person-as-my-chronic-pain-gets-worse/1002803)
**Author:** [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-worry-about-becoming-a-meaner-person-as-my-chronic-pain-gets-worse/1002803 "2024-06-14T01:54:09Z")
I’m middle-aged now (how time flies…stupid time, someone ought to break its wings, show it what’s what) and because of some unfortunate back issues, I have been warned by a few physicians over the years that I am likely … --- ## [Trump press conference, June 13, 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-press-conference-june-13-2024/1002842)
**Author:** [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-press-conference-june-13-2024/1002842 "2024-06-14T01:22:04Z")
It’s 2:44 pm, EDT. Trump is holding a press conference in Washington DC. So far, plenty of “Nobody’s ever seens.” People coming in from all over the world, from mental institutions. --- ## [Question on cashing out a Roth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-cashing-out-a-roth/1002797)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-cashing-out-a-roth/1002797 "2024-06-14T01:20:04Z")
I have a $6000 capital loss for this year via a regular stock investment. I was thinking of cashing out my Roth IRA because someone promised I could double my money with FOREX in 20 minutes (no, not really). The Roth (… --- ## [What would have happened if Adam didn't bite the apple?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-have-happened-if-adam-didnt-bite-the-apple/984837)
**Author:** [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-have-happened-if-adam-didnt-bite-the-apple/984837 "2024-06-14T01:08:36Z")
according to the Bible, sin entered the world when ADAM ate the apple. If Adam didn’t bite the apple, would sin still have entered since it was only Eve who bit? How would that work, since Eve knew good from evil, but A… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=541) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=543)