# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=546&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 547 --- ## [(Old) Waiting for an Update in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-waiting-for-an-update-in-the-mmp/1002429)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 376\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2024, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-waiting-for-an-update-in-the-mmp/1002429 "2024-06-10T06:52:50Z")
Morning, mumpers! Its currently 15c/58f with a predicted high of 18c/64f and cloudy. Weather app says “It’s the perfect weather to fucking clean your house. If you have a llama, it’s also a good day to brush your fuck… --- ## [If you knew then, what you know now- would you vote for Hillary in 2016?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-knew-then-what-you-know-now-would-you-vote-for-hillary-in-2016/1002419)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-knew-then-what-you-know-now-would-you-vote-for-hillary-in-2016/1002419 "2024-06-10T02:58:48Z")
Hillary Clinton got a bum deal- but part of it was of her own making. Yes, I voted for her. So If you knew then, what you know now- would you vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016? Or stay home, vote 3rd party or vote trum… --- ## [Trivial question about a steering wheel cover](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-question-about-a-steering-wheel-cover/1002687)
**Author:** [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2024, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-question-about-a-steering-wheel-cover/1002687 "2024-06-10T01:57:23Z")
The fake leather cover on the steering wheel of my 2018 Prius has torn, which is annoying. I’ve purchased this steering wheel cover to cover up the torn area. Notice that the cover has a smooth part towards the rear (awa… --- ## [Where would humanity be if horses were never a thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-humanity-be-if-horses-were-never-a-thing/1002525)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 118\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-humanity-be-if-horses-were-never-a-thing/1002525 "2024-06-09T23:22:44Z")
So imagine a world where horses were never a thing. How would humanity have evolved? I have trouble imagining we would have made it very much past the hunter gatherer stage. --- ## [“My 600 -700-800-900 pound life” suggestion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-600-700-800-900-pound-life-suggestion/1002533)
**Author:** [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-600-700-800-900-pound-life-suggestion/1002533 "2024-06-09T22:38:48Z")
First, let me say that I am obese and I have fought weight my entire life. I used to have a pretty substantial compulsive eating problem. But the most I ever weighed, at my absolute worst, was about 330. (5’8” F) I have… --- ## [Creepiest examples of internet tracking?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-examples-of-internet-tracking/1001969)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 90\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-examples-of-internet-tracking/1001969 "2024-06-09T21:02:52Z")
We all have plenty of these types of examples-- we’ve just been talking about some subject, and suddenly we start getting internet ads about that very thing. Are our phones and Alexa devices listening to us? According to… --- ## [Recently I am constantly getting logged off from iOS Safari](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recently-i-am-constantly-getting-logged-off-from-ios-safari/1001635)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recently-i-am-constantly-getting-logged-off-from-ios-safari/1001635 "2024-06-09T21:01:06Z")
I access the Dope from 3 sources usually-- my work PC (usually Firefox) when I am working, and my iPad and iPhone (Safari) when I’m not. Recently I started noticing that I’m always getting spontaneously logged off when … --- ## [How do you get stereo from a pancake speaker?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-stereo-from-a-pancake-speaker/1002677)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-stereo-from-a-pancake-speaker/1002677 "2024-06-09T18:32:30Z")
This bluetooth JBL is on sale for $50. I had thought about buy it last year. Too expensive at $80. The newer model, Clip 5 was released June 1. Sounds great. I’m very impressed with the bass. I can change the sound prof… --- ## [I'm so darn tired](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-darn-tired/1002535)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-darn-tired/1002535 "2024-06-09T16:08:06Z")
I’ve just had the second oral surgery on me in the last 18 days. Today, an extraction. This time, no sedative, just locals, because there is nobody to drive me there & back. I’m so tired. So damn tired. And no decen… --- ## [Criticism of the Board software](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criticism-of-the-board-software/998669)
**Author:** [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criticism-of-the-board-software/998669 "2024-06-09T14:00:30Z")
I got my first ever Mod Note here: Why are we not allowed to criticize Mr. Attwood, or his software? It’s not as if any software is bug free, and Mr. Attwood is ultimately responsible for that software. I mean, a whi… --- ## [Word For Male Mistress?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-for-male-mistress/1000882)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 132\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-for-male-mistress/1000882 "2024-06-09T12:44:30Z")
Comedian Ali Wong was on radio, claiming that paternalistic American society “did not have a word for a male mistress”. Is she right? In genetics class in medical school, they claimed a surprising percentage of births … --- ## [Charcoal Grills](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charcoal-grills/1000877)
**Author:** [@Deanna\_D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deanna_D)\ **Replies:** 106\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charcoal-grills/1000877 "2024-06-09T12:40:11Z")
I’ve decided that a new grill would be a great gift for the wonderful man in my life, and I did my due diligence, and found out that he prefers a charcoal grill. (Which I guess explains why he doesn’t use the old gas gri… --- ## [Any speculation on what would cause a wind turbine to catch on fire?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-speculation-on-what-would-cause-a-wind-turbine-to-catch-on-fire/1001930)
**Author:** [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-speculation-on-what-would-cause-a-wind-turbine-to-catch-on-fire/1001930 "2024-06-09T12:30:44Z")
Wind turbine burns in Iowa after being destroyed by tornado I can only think of two things: Oversped in the high wind (which they’re not supposed to do). Something shorted out in the feed to the grid after it fell dow… --- ## [Butterscotch smell in the woods?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterscotch-smell-in-the-woods/1002589)
**Author:** [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butterscotch-smell-in-the-woods/1002589 "2024-06-09T12:20:42Z")
Hiking regularly, I often smell butterscotch in the woods. My companions do too. What is it??? Ponderosa pine is famous for this, but it’s a Western US tree. Jeffrey pine also. I’m hiking in the area between Baltimore M… --- ## [Can you explain this witticism to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-explain-this-witticism-to-me/1002486)
**Author:** [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-explain-this-witticism-to-me/1002486 "2024-06-09T10:13:08Z")
I just read somewhere the following: The Queen Mother on an occasion at the palace was being escorted by her friend Noel Coward . As they passed the house guards in ceremonial uniforms, she noticed his wandering eye an… --- ## [Cancer and Asparagus](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-and-asparagus/1002616)
**Author:** [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cancer-and-asparagus/1002616 "2024-06-09T07:46:11Z")
Recently in passing I heard that cancer patients should never eat asparagus because… well, I didn’t hear that part exactly. Some kind of enzyme? Whatever. I have many, many doubts. When attempting to search on this i… --- ## [Prehistoric Postures](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prehistoric-postures/1002600)
**Author:** [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prehistoric-postures/1002600 "2024-06-09T06:44:21Z")
Did ancient humans have good posture or were they a bunch of slouchers? Artists’ renderings seem to base the depiction of prehistoric man on whether they wanted to show him as advanced or primitive. “Cave men” are show… --- ## [Help me identify a John Wayne movie. Please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-john-wayne-movie-please/1002057)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-john-wayne-movie-please/1002057 "2024-06-09T05:26:48Z")
I vividly remember a movie with John Wayne. He’s a businessman or maybe just wealthy? There’s an accident and he’s in the hospital. Unable to walk. I thought it was a war movie. A nurse inspires him to relearn to walk.… --- ## [When did you take your first commercial flight?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-take-your-first-commercial-flight/1002517)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-take-your-first-commercial-flight/1002517 "2024-06-09T04:27:25Z")
I was 17 and working for my dad in the summer of 1971 - his company did foreign freight forwarding, and customs documentation was an important part. In this particular instance, some papers needed to be signed right away… --- ## [Ambassador Bridge etc](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ambassador-bridge-etc/1002615)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ambassador-bridge-etc/1002615 "2024-06-09T04:22:05Z")
The Ambassador Bridge is a privately-owned toll bridge linking Detroit MI with Windsor ON. Google Maps shows no route numbers assigned to the US side, but highway 3 to the Canadian side. Are there any other privately-ow… --- ## [Were spectacles and eye-glasses once different things?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-spectacles-and-eye-glasses-once-different-things/1002604)
**Author:** [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-spectacles-and-eye-glasses-once-different-things/1002604 "2024-06-09T04:02:43Z")
In The Golden Pince-Nez, one of the last Sherlock Holmes stories, I noticed: Even the news brought back by Hopkins that he had found the children and that they had undoubtedly seen a woman exactly corresponding with Ho… --- ## [And the Emmy goes to ..,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-emmy-goes-to/1000546)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-the-emmy-goes-to/1000546 "2024-06-09T03:55:22Z")
Will it be Dick Van Dyke? --- ## [What was the first article of clothing that used word(s) as a decoration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-article-of-clothing-that-used-word-s-as-a-decoration/1002573)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-article-of-clothing-that-used-word-s-as-a-decoration/1002573 "2024-06-09T00:37:08Z")
These days a large percentage of clothing has words (often advertising) on it. But, what was the first time this was used? --- ## [flashing headlights when passing...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashing-headlights-when-passing/50699)
**Author:** [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flashing-headlights-when-passing/50699 "2024-06-08T21:04:54Z")
Another driving question: I’ve heard that, if you’re signaling that you wish to make a lane change (a rarity in itself here in California) on the freeway, when someone behind you in the adjacent lane flashes their headl… --- ## [No sound on YouTube on my laptop?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-sound-on-youtube-on-my-laptop/1002636)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-sound-on-youtube-on-my-laptop/1002636 "2024-06-08T21:01:30Z")
I have sound on Netflix and other streaming apps on my HP, but nothing on YouTube. Tried the troubleshooter, sound is turned on, etc. Nothing. Any clues? --- ## [Work slacks keep wearing out between legs - how to prevent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-slacks-keep-wearing-out-between-legs-how-to-prevent/977769)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-slacks-keep-wearing-out-between-legs-how-to-prevent/977769 "2024-06-08T15:09:03Z")
I wear black dress slacks as part of my work uniform, and for years now I’ve been buying fairly standard Dickies slacks. In the last year or so, however, I’ve started encountering a problem that I never had before. Withi… --- ## [The People You Meet On Vacation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-meet-on-vacation/1002602)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-people-you-meet-on-vacation/1002602 "2024-06-08T14:05:13Z")
A moderately amusing encyclopedia classifying the people you meet on vacation. Which are you? What are they missing? --- ## [Ever have something work out unexpectedly and well?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-something-work-out-unexpectedly-and-well/1001895)
**Author:** [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-have-something-work-out-unexpectedly-and-well/1001895 "2024-06-08T12:50:29Z")
Ok, that was maybe a bit too brief a title. Have you ever done something that ended up working out really well, maybe even better than you hoped or thought it would, but in a way that you didn’t expect? Maybe you didn’… --- ## [Have you ever refused to accept "free money"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-refused-to-accept-free-money/1001752)
**Author:** [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-refused-to-accept-free-money/1001752 "2024-06-08T12:22:23Z")
About ten years ago I met my father at a diner. He felt guilty about not supporting me during college and gave me a check for $10,000. I took it home. Thought about it for a while. And sent it back to him, and told him … --- ## [Any good shows on Peacock? I just signed up for the whole year for $19.99](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-shows-on-peacock-i-just-signed-up-for-the-whole-year-for-19-99/973275)
**Author:** [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-shows-on-peacock-i-just-signed-up-for-the-whole-year-for-19-99/973275 "2024-06-08T08:39:09Z")
So Alien Resident of course, but I’m hoping there might be some other good shows. I like non cringe humor sitcoms. Smart sitcoms generally. Shows like Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Below Decks, but not Discovery or … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=545&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=547&state=tracking)