# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=555&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 556 --- ## [What happens if you connect Windows XP to the Internet in 2024?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-connect-windows-xp-to-the-internet-in-2024/1002158)
**Author:** [@Jackson99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackson99)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-connect-windows-xp-to-the-internet-in-2024/1002158 "2024-05-28T18:07:07Z")
What happens if you connect Windows XP to the Internet in 2024? Wow I did not know you can get malware like viruses, spyware and adware and such not even opening up your browser and surfing the internet. --- ## [Sarsaparilla: A Question of Taste](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarsaparilla-a-question-of-taste/238377)
**Author:** [@pufnstuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pufnstuff)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarsaparilla-a-question-of-taste/238377 "2024-05-28T16:29:49Z")
In reference to Today’s article on the sarsaparilla soft drink, Cecil commented that the drink is still popular around Pittsburgh (yes, I know it was from 1977, thus possibly now erroneous) but i have lived in the are… --- ## [Help me gate my porch, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-gate-my-porch-please/1002183)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-gate-my-porch-please/1002183 "2024-05-28T15:55:10Z")
We had a porch remodel done and I’m happy with the gate we are using: It works just fine. However our other porch has always been problematic wrt gating. It is a 6 foot o… --- ## [What to shoot a cat with that won't hurt it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-shoot-a-cat-with-that-wont-hurt-it/1000672)
**Author:** [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-shoot-a-cat-with-that-wont-hurt-it/1000672 "2024-05-28T14:48:23Z")
My wife loves birds and we have a bunch of bird feeders in our back yard and even a couple out front. The other day she found the remains of a eaten bird, the head and a bunch of feathers, on our patio. She’s mad. She s… --- ## [Why does the outdoor temperature FALL as the sun is just rising?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-outdoor-temperature-fall-as-the-sun-is-just-rising/1002145)
**Author:** [@dgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dgy)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-outdoor-temperature-fall-as-the-sun-is-just-rising/1002145 "2024-05-28T14:05:43Z")
Or, is this related to local geography (we live at the base of a mountain range so it could be that colder air “falls” off the mountain as the sun comes up)? --- ## [Suspicious Credit Card Charge](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suspicious-credit-card-charge/1002144)
**Author:** [@mglambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mglambo)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suspicious-credit-card-charge/1002144 "2024-05-28T13:53:32Z")
I just was notified that my credit card was used for a fuel purchase of $1.87. (I receive notices whenever a fuel charge occurs.) It wasn’t me or my wife. I assume some thief is testing to see if they can use my card fo… --- ## [The Cold War Was Really Strange 2--A Railroad Run By Children. LINK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cold-war-was-really-strange-2-a-railroad-run-by-children-link/1002179)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cold-war-was-really-strange-2-a-railroad-run-by-children-link/1002179 "2024-05-28T13:35:45Z")
During the Cold War, Hungary had children run a railroad. A REAL railroad. Not the Xmas Tree type. {LINK} A link to my previous Cold War Nonsense post. Widdle Biddy Panzers. (LINK) --- ## [Recommend a good small UPS, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-small-ups-please/1001991)
**Author:** [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-small-ups-please/1001991 "2024-05-28T13:19:27Z")
A couple of recent bad-weather days have convinced me that I need a small Uninterruptible Power Supply for a couple of my electronic devices. Last Sunday we had two very brief power outages (less than 1-2 seconds each),… --- ## [Help me re: baking gloves](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-re-baking-gloves/1002102)
**Author:** [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-re-baking-gloves/1002102 "2024-05-28T12:08:40Z")
I recently bought some baking gloves (to wear when kneading) and loved them. Unfortunately, “one size fits all” did not include people with normal-sized hands, and they’re not really that usable. I tried to read up on th… --- ## [Wu-Tang Clan album to go on display in Australia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wu-tang-clan-album-to-go-on-display-in-australia/1002174)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wu-tang-clan-album-to-go-on-display-in-australia/1002174 "2024-05-28T10:51:56Z")
They should auction the chance to hear some of it and donate at least some of the proceeds to charity. After all, Wu-Tang is for the children. --- ## [Legalities in French film Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legalities-in-french-film-anatomy-of-a-fall-anatomie-dune-chute/995263)
**Author:** [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legalities-in-french-film-anatomy-of-a-fall-anatomie-dune-chute/995263 "2024-05-28T09:15:28Z")
I could have posted this in FQ, but I decided on Cafe Society because it’s about a movie, and the discussion could stray from the factual. I just finished watching the movie Anatomy of a Fall. It’s a French film about w… --- ## [Does anyone recognize this little tune?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-recognize-this-little-tune/1002103)
**Author:** [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-recognize-this-little-tune/1002103 "2024-05-28T05:03:10Z")
Hello people, does anyone recognize this little tune ? Thanks. --- ## [It was the best of cars, it was the worst of colours](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923 "2024-05-28T03:59:13Z")
You are offered a free car; a choice of two different free cars; in fact you may have: The car of your dreams, in the colour you hate most of all The car you hate most of all, in your favourite colour No free car Thos… --- ## [Breaking News in AI](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-in-ai/1001939 "2024-05-28T03:22:12Z")
Two stories involving AI deserve comment (outside of being mentioned and ignored in a pit thread). The first is OpenAI coming up with a voice allegedly remarkably similar to Scarlett Johansson after she was twice approa… --- ## [Let's talk about Food Network](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-food-network/1001281)
**Author:** [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-food-network/1001281 "2024-05-28T02:53:42Z")
As a food lover and an avid home cook, I watch a lot of shows on Food Network. Primarily the competition shows, but some other stuff as well. Guy Fieri is the current king of the channel, and I know he has a lot of detra… --- ## [Hey, was the Pink Panther gay?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-was-the-pink-panther-gay/690273 "2024-05-27T23:06:37Z")
One of my favorite cartoons while growing up in the 70s, he swagged his hips, he was so very suave and debonair, he’d sashay so cool as he walked… Then, there’s this picture: hdwallpaper4all.com (which brings a smile to… --- ## [So how bad really is the economy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-really-is-the-economy/1002159)
**Author:** [@Jackson99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackson99)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-bad-really-is-the-economy/1002159 "2024-05-27T22:25:57Z")
So how bad really is the economy? I hear sales are all way down from TV manufactures, smartphones, computers, tablets and entertainment systems are all down. How bad is the economy that sales are way down? --- ## [Help me come up with a pizza variety for my pizza & movie night](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-pizza-variety-for-my-pizza-movie-night/1001922)
**Author:** [@AshleyWilliams78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AshleyWilliams78)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-pizza-variety-for-my-pizza-movie-night/1001922 "2024-05-27T21:46:11Z")
My husband and I both like cooking and watching horror movies, so we’ve started having a “pizza and movie night” every Saturday. We take turns each week, where one of us will pick that night’s movie and come up with a pi… --- ## [What muscle in my arm is hurting?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-muscle-in-my-arm-is-hurting/1002156)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-muscle-in-my-arm-is-hurting/1002156 "2024-05-27T21:16:36Z")
Picture a brick on a table. You are sitting at the table, and the brick is in front of you, pointed away from you (i.e. the long way is pointed “forward” and “back” rather than side to side). You stick out your right ar… --- ## [EF-2 tornado](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ef-2-tornado/1000255)
**Author:** [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ef-2-tornado/1000255 "2024-05-27T20:33:34Z")
A EF-2 tornado passed about ¼ by my house Wednesday. It was very exciting. Tornados have always been something that happened to other people. I was standing in my kitchen looking out the window and suddenly everything we… --- ## [Hands Across America - May 25, 1986](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-across-america-may-25-1986/1002068)
**Author:** [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hands-across-america-may-25-1986/1002068 "2024-05-27T20:10:03Z")
Hands Across America - Wikipedia Did anyone else here participate? I was a volunteer and remember going to at least one planning meeting. I took posters to businesses on part of the route. I can’t remember now how pl… --- ## [Stardew Valley - new v1.6 update (may contain spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stardew-valley-new-v1-6-update-may-contain-spoilers/1002151)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stardew-valley-new-v1-6-update-may-contain-spoilers/1002151 "2024-05-27T18:54:48Z")
Rather than resurrect an old Stardew Valley thread I thought I’d start a new one for the latest update, 1.6, which was released a month or two ago. There are a few gameplay changes and some new content. Just a warning th… --- ## [So, about Covid origins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-covid-origins/1002140)
**Author:** [@survinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/survinga)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-about-covid-origins/1002140 "2024-05-27T18:42:52Z")
Has the origin ever been definitively decided? It seems that most scientists think it was zoonotic in nature, but there’s not full agreement or full clarity: https://gcrinstitute.org/covid-origin/ Some US government a… --- ## [What’s the point of the transporter room in \*Star Trek\*?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-point-of-the-transporter-room-in-star-trek/1000238)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 89\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-point-of-the-transporter-room-in-star-trek/1000238 "2024-05-27T18:21:24Z")
Not the transporter, but the transporter room. Plenty of episodes establish that you can transport people from a location other than the transporter room and to such a location. In fact, it seems that said room need not … --- ## [The cicadas are singing in E](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cicadas-are-singing-in-e/1002053)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cicadas-are-singing-in-e/1002053 "2024-05-27T18:11:24Z")
Around Chicago, we are currently experiencing a cicada emergence. We were playing outside the other day, and wondered what note they were singing. The predominant note was clearly E. I just KNEW you all were dying to kn… --- ## [It is so hard to search for songs with no words. This one is an oldie with a guy beatboxing](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-so-hard-to-search-for-songs-with-no-words-this-one-is-an-oldie-with-a-guy-beatboxing/1002061)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-so-hard-to-search-for-songs-with-no-words-this-one-is-an-oldie-with-a-guy-beatboxing/1002061 "2024-05-27T16:55:29Z")
When I say ‘oldie’ I’m thinking maybe perhaps the 70s. The guy does sing something that goes like, “Oonana oonana, oonana oona”. And then a lot of beatboxing punctuated with explosive PAAHs. Somebody on my FB feed mentio… --- ## [How do you play Colombian Sudoku?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-play-colombian-sudoku/1002089)
**Author:** [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-play-colombian-sudoku/1002089 "2024-05-27T16:29:41Z")
@puzzlegal, or anybody who knows, how the heck do you work a Colombian Sudoku? I don’t understand the instructions. The dots outside the board on the right indicate how many cells in the corresponding column or row o… --- ## [Memorial Day: we remember all who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorial-day-we-remember-all-who-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice-for-our-freedoms/1002142)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorial-day-we-remember-all-who-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice-for-our-freedoms/1002142 "2024-05-27T15:57:58Z")
{Hymn to The Fallen, from Saving Private Ryan (1998), by John Williams } --- ## [Helping to clean my moms 95 year old garage from afar in the UK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-to-clean-my-moms-95-year-old-garage-from-afar-in-the-uk/1002071)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-to-clean-my-moms-95-year-old-garage-from-afar-in-the-uk/1002071 "2024-05-27T15:22:41Z")
Born in Limerick, I hope she reaches 100 and doesn’t get a letter from the Queen (unlikely) or King (it’s a thing they have a secretary to for centenarians but not those born in Free Ireland). So I recently wrote to my … --- ## [Posts where the OP comes back (much) later to update](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-where-the-op-comes-back-much-later-to-update/1001987)
**Author:** [@AshleyWilliams78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AshleyWilliams78)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-where-the-op-comes-back-much-later-to-update/1001987 "2024-05-27T14:03:16Z")
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