# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=692&state=muted [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 693 --- ## [‘American Horror Story: Delicate’ - Anyone watching? (No open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-horror-story-delicate-anyone-watching-no-open-spoilers/990542)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-horror-story-delicate-anyone-watching-no-open-spoilers/990542 "2023-11-20T15:16:59Z")
So it looks like the first ep of this season has dropped, but I have not seen it yet, nor do I know much about its theme this time. I googled, and apparently it’s about (not really a spoiler, but I’ll blur it just in cas… --- ## [Nantucket Pie!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket-pie/993135)
**Author:** [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket-pie/993135 "2023-11-20T15:10:16Z")
Has anyone made a Nantucket Pie? I saw someone make one on TikTok and decided that it looked so good and easy to make that I would try it. It’s very easy. Halved fresh cranberries, chopped walnuts and sugar are put on th… --- ## [Enforcing Leaving the State for an Abortion, Other Post-Roe Abortion Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enforcing-leaving-the-state-for-an-abortion-other-post-roe-abortion-questions/964068)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enforcing-leaving-the-state-for-an-abortion-other-post-roe-abortion-questions/964068 "2023-11-20T14:18:08Z")
So some states are planning to enact laws that make it a crime to leave the state for an abortion. I don’t see how they can enforce that: short of parking cops at the border and then being on the lookout for women of chi… --- ## [AS Byatt Appreciation Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-byatt-appreciation-thread/552042)
**Author:** [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-byatt-appreciation-thread/552042 "2023-11-20T12:39:30Z")
I just finished The Whistling Woman. I am consistently amazed by the hugeness of this woman’s imagination, the musical poetry she can create out of putting words together on a page, and her knowledge and originality of … --- ## [An Evening with the Late John Cleese tour](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-evening-with-the-late-john-cleese-tour/993249)
**Author:** [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-evening-with-the-late-john-cleese-tour/993249 "2023-11-20T10:59:57Z")
I didn’t see anything for this. We went to see John Cleese last night as he came to our town. It was awesome! His daughter, Camilla, opened for him, and then read him audience questions after the intermission. His sh… --- ## [(Old) Getting caught off-guard n the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-getting-caught-off-guard-n-the-mmp/993062)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 242\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-getting-caught-off-guard-n-the-mmp/993062 "2023-11-20T06:37:44Z")
I guess we all have those times when all of a sudden, you realize a deadline, an event, an appointment, something is bearing down and you lost track. My most recent example was this past weekend realizing that Thanksgivi… --- ## [Real life '"I didn't do it!" boys'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-i-didnt-do-it-boys/991950)
**Author:** [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-i-didnt-do-it-boys/991950 "2023-11-20T05:53:29Z")
In an episode of The Simpsons Bart accidentally becomes vey popular due to an accident. His “I didn’t do it!” leads to variations but all on the exact same joke. He rides a wave of popularity for a while but he has nothi… --- ## [Car tire pricing and size](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-tire-pricing-and-size/993362)
**Author:** [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/car-tire-pricing-and-size/993362 "2023-11-20T05:47:12Z")
We have 2 cars, a subcompact and a minivan. I was looking at snow tires for both, and to my surprise, the tires for the smaller car are all more expensive. The Michelin X-Ice for the minivan, 215/65R/16, are $159.99, whi… --- ## [Name something that you currently enjoy that you once thought was only for old folks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-something-that-you-currently-enjoy-that-you-once-thought-was-only-for-old-folks/991459)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 176\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-something-that-you-currently-enjoy-that-you-once-thought-was-only-for-old-folks/991459 "2023-11-20T05:26:08Z")
Mine is learning about history. Young’uns don’t give a rat’s buttocks about what caused the onset of WW I, how long the Roman Empire lasted, or who the sixth President of the U.S. was. Neither did I, back when I was forc… --- ## [I think Doctor Who was just elected president of Argentina](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-doctor-who-was-just-elected-president-of-argentina/988722 "2023-11-20T04:49:13Z")
If this guy isn’t a Time Lord, I don’t know who is. (No pun intended.) Google Image Search. --- ## [Short shorts for men](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-shorts-for-men/983074)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 80\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-shorts-for-men/983074 "2023-11-20T03:23:06Z")
I used to have a pair of OP corduroy shorts like these: In the '80s, basketball shorts were short. Nowadays, men’s shorts … --- ## [For twenty minutes in the sixties ... 63 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-twenty-minutes-in-the-sixties-63-years-ago/978700)
**Author:** [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-twenty-minutes-in-the-sixties-63-years-ago/978700 "2023-11-20T02:50:11Z")
Today (23 January) is a big day for SDMB memes. It’s the 63rd anniversary of when the bathyscaphe Trieste went to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. “The two men spent twenty minutes on the ocean floor.” Wikipedia link: T… --- ## ["Man tells job interviewer he won't clean because that's Women's Work" Modern Urban Legend?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-tells-job-interviewer-he-wont-clean-because-thats-womens-work-modern-urban-legend/993355)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-tells-job-interviewer-he-wont-clean-because-thats-womens-work-modern-urban-legend/993355 "2023-11-20T02:37:53Z")
This is one of those stories I hear all the time in “Worst Job Interview” stories on both Reddit and other websites, and every time it’s retold I always remember it’s prefaced by “Didn’t happen to me but to a friend/cowo… --- ## [Have you ever stumbled across something you completely forgot you owned?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211 "2023-11-20T02:37:13Z")
So I was just looking through my CD collection for inspiration for nominations for @Mean\_Mr.Mustard’s latest song poll\*. There, on the very bottom of a stack of CDs, I found a copy of David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall.… --- ## [Need help identifying a Naval Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-naval-gun/992860)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-identifying-a-naval-gun/992860 "2023-11-20T02:19:23Z")
I have been researching the US submarine S-49 and have written a book about it. It’s the only US submarine to be privately owned. It was purchased (with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy) from the scrapyard that … --- ## [Jimmy Carter on Hospice Care (at home) (2/18/2023)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carter-on-hospice-care-at-home-2-18-2023/980010)
**Author:** [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [November 20, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jimmy-carter-on-hospice-care-at-home-2-18-2023/980010 "2023-11-20T00:51:01Z")
If not the best post-Presidency, then awfully damned close: --- ## [Getting poinsettias to rebloom: How can this possibly replicate their natural environment?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-poinsettias-to-rebloom-how-can-this-possibly-replicate-their-natural-environment/993372)
**Author:** [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-poinsettias-to-rebloom-how-can-this-possibly-replicate-their-natural-environment/993372 "2023-11-19T23:39:47Z")
Instructions for getting your poinsettias to rebloom are typically arduous. How does this regimen possibly exist in the plant’s natural native environment? (I am not looking for information about how to do this, because… --- ## [Amazon has locked me out of my sales AND personal account](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-has-locked-me-out-of-my-sales-and-personal-account/984004)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-has-locked-me-out-of-my-sales-and-personal-account/984004 "2023-11-19T23:11:01Z")
They’re saying that I needed to provide certain forms of documentation, which I have been doing, starting on Wednesday when they locked me out. Driver’s license (both sides), bank statements, credit card statements - so… --- ## [Bad bad bad Touch-me-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-touch-me-not/992971)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-touch-me-not/992971 "2023-11-19T21:50:16Z")
Don’t touch my stuff I hate it. You’re trying show the grandkids a cute doggy picture on your phone. Why do they have to grab the phone to look at it, with their grimy, grubby, virus spreading, don’t know where they’ve … --- ## [What is the smallest animal that farts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-smallest-animal-that-farts/993287)
**Author:** [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-smallest-animal-that-farts/993287 "2023-11-19T21:47:23Z")
A year ago, this question was asked: I am asking this as something of a followup question. (For the purpose of discussion, we’ll define a fart as a burst of gas expelled from the far end of the digestive system, whet… --- ## [Gay pride nutcracker doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-pride-nutcracker-doll/993371)
**Author:** [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-pride-nutcracker-doll/993371 "2023-11-19T20:50:17Z")
Can be ordered from Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Kohl’s. There is a Wondershop brand and a Kurt S. Adler brand. Am I going to Hell for checking to see if the mouth works? (It does. The tall version of each doll has a… --- ## [This blog uses the age range of young adults wrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blog-uses-the-age-range-of-young-adults-wrong/993373)
**Author:** [@Amber13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amber13)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blog-uses-the-age-range-of-young-adults-wrong/993373 "2023-11-19T20:02:58Z")
While there’s no general consensus of what age range of a young adult and an adult should be, I stumbled upon this blog saying that young adults are between 12 and 30, that’s very wrong because a person at the age 12 is … --- ## [Where would you place this YouTuber’s accent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-place-this-youtuber-s-accent/993313)
**Author:** [@Saffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saffer)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-place-this-youtuber-s-accent/993313 "2023-11-19T18:48:33Z")
There is a face reveal around the 2 minute mark in case that might bias your opinion. I’ve been subscribed to this channel for a while now and I have often wondered about this. I am not American and to me … --- ## [Performers that Completely Change the Character they Played](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-that-completely-change-the-character-they-played/992944)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 66\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-that-completely-change-the-character-they-played/992944 "2023-11-19T18:02:54Z")
George Lucas has said he wrote C-3P0 as a sleazy used car salesman type (you can see this in the dialogue of A New Hope. It’s especially evident in the Droid Sale early in the movie) but Anthony Daniels’ prim and proper … --- ## [Boundary between conspiracy theories and paranoid schizophrenia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boundary-between-conspiracy-theories-and-paranoid-schizophrenia/992952)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boundary-between-conspiracy-theories-and-paranoid-schizophrenia/992952 "2023-11-19T15:50:15Z")
The occasion of this question is this news article The public defender for the man charged with attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband is claiming that the defendant’s sincere beliefs have to be taken into account when judgi… --- ## [Is there any difference at all between same medigap plans at different providers?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-difference-at-all-between-same-medigap-plans-at-different-providers/993245)
**Author:** [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-difference-at-all-between-same-medigap-plans-at-different-providers/993245 "2023-11-19T15:49:08Z")
I’m trying to decide if I should switch from AARP to Humana for my mother’s Medicare supplemental. I’ve heard that Humana’s customer service is terrible as well as their other plans, but she’d be saving $38 a month. Ar… --- ## [Apparently aluminum foil is the new toilet paper (not literally)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-aluminum-foil-is-the-new-toilet-paper-not-literally/993296)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-aluminum-foil-is-the-new-toilet-paper-not-literally/993296 "2023-11-19T15:12:36Z")
I was surprised to see this. It has been a while since the last time I bought a roll, but it was definitely in the $3 territory then. --- ## [What are "Followers" (in the context of Facebook)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-followers-in-the-context-of-facebook/993335)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-followers-in-the-context-of-facebook/993335 "2023-11-19T13:50:05Z")
I was browsing FB this morning, and I got irritated by this guy on my friends list. He’s always posting interesting-looking headlines of a political nature that I’d be interested in reading more about. Thing is, he’s alw… --- ## [Movies with Women playing Men (and Vice-Versa). NOT like Mrs., Doubtfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-playing-men-and-vice-versa-not-like-mrs-doubtfire/991457)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-women-playing-men-and-vice-versa-not-like-mrs-doubtfire/991457 "2023-11-19T13:39:40Z")
I’ve been noticing cases of films where women play men – not as a plot element, or in some weird transgender twist or the like. The director simply decided for some reason to cast a woman in a role that is undeniably mal… --- ## [Giving up on something you love](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-up-on-something-you-love/992548)
**Author:** [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-up-on-something-you-love/992548 "2023-11-19T13:24:30Z")
In two separate threads, the one about the Beatles’ new release, and the one about baseball’s new rules Baseball rules changes 2023 - #29 by BlankSlate, both being things that I have devoted thousands of hours of raptur… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=691&state=muted) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=693&state=muted)