# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=608&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 609 --- ## [Do vaccines strengthen the immune system overall?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-vaccines-strengthen-the-immune-system-overall/998964)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-vaccines-strengthen-the-immune-system-overall/998964 "2024-03-18T23:28:12Z")
As I understand it, generally, if you get a vaccine, you are forcing your body into an immune response (by giving it an inert version of the illness - at whatever molecular level science is able to produce). This is why… --- ## [Guitar players - sight reading](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-sight-reading/997955)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-players-sight-reading/997955 "2024-03-18T23:04:38Z")
Maybe 50 or 55 years ago, in music class in public school, we learned to sight read, a skill that I completely lost a few years later. Now, as I’m learning guitar and doing a lot of improvising off of scales I’ve wonder… --- ## [Help me identify a text-based computer game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-text-based-computer-game/720746)
**Author:** [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-text-based-computer-game/720746 "2024-03-18T23:03:36Z")
I don’t know what made me think of this game, but now it’s bugging me. It would’ve been a mid 80’s Apple IIc game. This was a sci-fi game, set on some sort of space station. The space station had different colored cor… --- ## [Fundie Baby Voice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundie-baby-voice/998700)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundie-baby-voice/998700 "2024-03-18T23:02:05Z")
I’ve never heard of this before, but I don’t travel in Fundamentalist Christian Circles, so I guess that’s understandable. I’ve seen several websites this morning explaining the weird voice Katie Britt used for her SOTU… --- ## [How can Amazon do this (new credit card)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-amazon-do-this-new-credit-card/997066)
**Author:** [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-amazon-do-this-new-credit-card/997066 "2024-03-18T22:01:26Z")
This really is a factual question. My Master card had an expiration date of 03/24 so I was not astonished that on Thursday a new card arrived. Yesterday around 11:00, I used it with the pin at my drug store, thereby ac… --- ## [My son has dangerously high blood pressure. And will be admitted into the hospital tomorrow morning](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-has-dangerously-high-blood-pressure-and-will-be-admitted-into-the-hospital-tomorrow-morning/998195)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-has-dangerously-high-blood-pressure-and-will-be-admitted-into-the-hospital-tomorrow-morning/998195 "2024-03-18T20:21:27Z")
I’m a little freaked out right now. My son is 25. He is skinny. He doesn’t drink or smoke. His mom bought a blood pressure device the other day (for herself). She decided to take my son’s BP. And was shocked to discove… --- ## [Pacemakers (rabbits) in track](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacemakers-rabbits-in-track/998858)
**Author:** [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pacemakers-rabbits-in-track/998858 "2024-03-18T18:37:11Z")
The runup to the Paris Olympics has already begun; may as well tackle this now. In some recent track and field events on NBC, most recently the Indoor World Championships, I noticed that a number of non-sprint races (lo… --- ## [Autonomous robot people could be constructed right now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autonomous-robot-people-could-be-constructed-right-now/998540)
**Author:** [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Replies:** 204\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autonomous-robot-people-could-be-constructed-right-now/998540 "2024-03-18T18:16:04Z")
I think all of the parts necessary to build autonomous robotic intelligent people already exist, and although integrating the parts may present some technical challenges, the hardest parts have already been invented. I … --- ## [Super injunctions: How do those that are subject to it know about it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-injunctions-how-do-those-that-are-subject-to-it-know-about-it/998993)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-injunctions-how-do-those-that-are-subject-to-it-know-about-it/998993 "2024-03-18T17:57:35Z")
This is a spinoff from the IMHO thread What do the dopers think of the Kate Middleton brouhaha. A (controversial) thing in English law is the privacy-protecting “super injunction”: A court ruling that prohibits not only … --- ## [Happy Saint Patrick's Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saint-patricks-day/998945)
**Author:** [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-saint-patricks-day/998945 "2024-03-18T16:23:05Z")
A good day for a patronal feast, pint of Guinness and a parade. I marched with Limerick in NYC once and watched the much smaller one in Dublin when I lived there 2015-2016. I am sure it was a real public holiday (day of… --- ## [Resolved: The United States should significantly reduce the number and severity of laws against recreational drugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-united-states-should-significantly-reduce-the-number-and-severity-of-laws-against-recreational-drugs/920360)
**Author:** [@Reno\_Nevada\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada_Jr)\ **Replies:** 99\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-united-states-should-significantly-reduce-the-number-and-severity-of-laws-against-recreational-drugs/920360 "2024-03-18T13:58:35Z")
The Black Lives Matters movement has generated a call to action: Defund Police. This seems to me a bad slogan, because it does not really capture what the movement leaders want to happen, and it stiffens resistance in … --- ## [Forgotten movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 454\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-movies/995476 "2024-03-18T13:09:14Z")
Today we met a neighbour who has a cat named Ballantine (named after his late uncle). That reminded me of Bank Shot (1974) starring George C. Scott as Walter Ballantine. That reminded me of Undercovers Hero (1974) star… --- ## [Why is a 3G connection so bad nowadays?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-a-3g-connection-so-bad-nowadays/998829)
**Author:** [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-a-3g-connection-so-bad-nowadays/998829 "2024-03-18T12:24:17Z")
I remember when 3G mobile connectivity under the UMTS standard was rolled out on a large scale in the 2000s. It caused a massive hype, phone companies were paying billions for frequency allocations, and it made mobile da… --- ## [(Old) Missing an hour in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-missing-an-hour-in-the-mmp/998695)
**Author:** [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Replies:** 273\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-missing-an-hour-in-the-mmp/998695 "2024-03-18T06:55:12Z")
Morning, mumpers! It’s currently 6c/43c with a predicted high of 8c/47f, and cloudy. Weather app says “It’s fifty shades of fucking grey outside, but not in the fucking sexy-time way. It’s in the fucking depressing wa… --- ## [Parental nightmare YouTuber Andrew Tate busted - and you won't believe by whom!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 251\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317 "2024-03-18T05:14:21Z")
Andrew Tate is, or was, a YouTuber whose audience was mainly teenage boys and young men (or so I’ve heard) and gave palpitations to parents who wanted their sons to one day have healthy relationships with women. Anyway,… --- ## [Homebrewers! Share your best Honey Ale recipe!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewers-share-your-best-honey-ale-recipe/998968)
**Author:** [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homebrewers-share-your-best-honey-ale-recipe/998968 "2024-03-18T05:00:55Z")
I homebrew, but have largely got in a rut and do the same thing all the time. Kind of an Over-hopped Sierra Nevada clone. Knocks your socks off. But… I got a large surplus of honey that I want to use up. I used to make … --- ## [Perplexing computer problem (nothing happening...)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perplexing-computer-problem-nothing-happening/998855)
**Author:** [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perplexing-computer-problem-nothing-happening/998855 "2024-03-18T04:40:37Z")
I’m helping one of my daughter’s friends troubleshoot a computer. It is a fairly new build, Gigabyte Aorus B550M Elite AX mobo, AMD Ryzen 7 5700G processor. It… doesn’t work. Hooked everything up, press power, CPU fa… --- ## [To those who support murder and/or rape in prison: What's the rest of your plan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-those-who-support-murder-and-or-rape-in-prison-whats-the-rest-of-your-plan/968403)
**Author:** [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Replies:** 166\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-those-who-support-murder-and-or-rape-in-prison-whats-the-rest-of-your-plan/968403 "2024-03-18T04:15:05Z")
In the omnibus thread about miscarriage of justice, yet again, someone posted this nonsense: I say gen-pop for that motherfucker. This was brought up in regard to a cop who injured someone and said cop has a history … --- ## [Stuff Scientists Have Recently Learned About Covid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-scientists-have-recently-learned-about-covid/998811)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-scientists-have-recently-learned-about-covid/998811 "2024-03-18T03:55:48Z")
This NYT free link deserves a wider audience. --- ## [Atlantic's 136 Great American Novels](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantics-136-great-american-novels/998857)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantics-136-great-american-novels/998857 "2024-03-18T01:31:30Z")
The Atlantic has surveyed a bunch of people to get a list of the great American novels written from 1924 onward. In setting out to identify that new American canon, we decided to define American as having first been … --- ## [Questions regarding Africans from German-occupied Africa fighting alongside Germans on the Western Front in WWI?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-regarding-africans-from-german-occupied-africa-fighting-alongside-germans-on-the-western-front-in-wwi/998948)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-regarding-africans-from-german-occupied-africa-fighting-alongside-germans-on-the-western-front-in-wwi/998948 "2024-03-17T20:11:23Z")
Did Cameroonians/Tanzanians /Africans from German-occupied Africa fight alongside Germans on the Western Front in WWI? I know Africans fought for Germany in Africa in WWI but I haven’t been able to narrow down any evide… --- ## [Can cling-wrap (kitchen cling-wrap) lose effectiveness over time?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-cling-wrap-kitchen-cling-wrap-lose-effectiveness-over-time/998939)
**Author:** [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-cling-wrap-kitchen-cling-wrap-lose-effectiveness-over-time/998939 "2024-03-17T19:34:43Z")
I found a roll of cling-wrap (specifically, Saran-Wrap) in the back of a cabinet. At a guess, I think it has been there for 2-3 years. But it’s plastic…can’t go bad, right? But, when I used it, it really did not cling… --- ## [Kayaker Attacked On Amazon River By Myster Creature--article with video](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kayaker-attacked-on-amazon-river-by-myster-creature-article-with-video/998897)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kayaker-attacked-on-amazon-river-by-myster-creature-article-with-video/998897 "2024-03-17T18:53:47Z")
It is strange. EXCEEDINGLY STRANGE (LINK) Not a bigfoot/loch ness/Elvis-is-alive thing. --- ## [Now that those of us in the land of Daylight Savings Time have lost an hour . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692)
**Author:** [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Replies:** 71\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692 "2024-03-17T18:14:24Z")
. . . where do you think your hour went. I think mine got lost under the bed. --- ## [Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel frontman has died](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-harley-cockney-rebel-frontman-has-died/998940)
**Author:** [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-harley-cockney-rebel-frontman-has-died/998940 "2024-03-17T15:39:06Z")
Well damn. --- ## [Strange Home and Alternative Remedies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-home-and-alternative-remedies/998937)
**Author:** [@superwombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superwombat)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-home-and-alternative-remedies/998937 "2024-03-17T15:36:37Z")
A couple hours’ drive from my home, up on a hill on the side of the road there is a large sign proclaiming: Arthritis? Try ELK ANTLER So it turns out a supplement is available that contains deer antler velvet, and i… --- ## [After Homo Sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-homo-sapiens/998877)
**Author:** [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-homo-sapiens/998877 "2024-03-17T15:30:04Z")
How much evolutionary change would our descendants need to go through for them to conclude they weren’t Homo Sapiens anymore but in fact a new species? Assume our species as it is now no longer exists so inability to int… --- ## [What is the most effective way to register a complaint with Facebook over policy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-effective-way-to-register-a-complaint-with-facebook-over-policy/998896)
**Author:** [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-effective-way-to-register-a-complaint-with-facebook-over-policy/998896 "2024-03-17T15:17:37Z")
Hi, everyone. The question is pretty much as I’ve stated it in the header. I thought IMHO was the best place for this, but Mods, please move to whichever forum you feel is most appropriate. Meta, parent company of Fac… --- ## [Thoughts on Bathroom Tissue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-bathroom-tissue/997609)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 168\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-bathroom-tissue/997609 "2024-03-17T14:03:04Z")
There have been previous threads about the size of toilet paper rolls. Outside of dollar stores, even the cheapest rolls claim to be at least double sized, claiming 6 rolls = 12, or 12 rolls = 24 or 36 or 72. This se… --- ## [Help remembering a classic ska song](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-remembering-a-classic-ska-song/998943)
**Author:** [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 17, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-remembering-a-classic-ska-song/998943 "2024-03-17T13:56:49Z")
I’m trying to remember a ska song from the 60s. I think it was one of the big artists, Prince Buster, Dandy Livingstone, or one of those. The lyrics are sparse and he says something like: “I’m the \ W F A A”… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=607&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=609&state=muted)