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**Author:** [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-practice-tai-chi-and-so-should-you-especially-you/993081 "2023-11-19T06:10:18Z")
I’ve been practicing tai chi for about 6 years now, which is sort of unusual as I was only 38 when I started and typically such practice is targeted towards people in their 60s and up. I had already gotten a black belt… --- ## [Do you think landspeeder like in Star Wars may one day be possible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-landspeeder-like-in-star-wars-may-one-day-be-possible/993041)
**Author:** [@Jackson99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackson99)\ **Replies:** 65\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-landspeeder-like-in-star-wars-may-one-day-be-possible/993041 "2023-11-19T03:31:19Z")
Do you think landspeeder like in Star Wars may one day be possible? Is there any one working on vehicles like landspeeder like in Star Wars? I guess under the vehicle of the landspeeder will be propeller or jet engine o… --- ## [Amazon products - What happend to "answered questions"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-products-what-happend-to-answered-questions/993265)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-products-what-happend-to-answered-questions/993265 "2023-11-19T01:14:42Z")
When I shop on Amazon, I’ve always seen, and used, the links that say, for example, 3,778 ratings | 172 answered questions. Lately, though, only the ratings link works - it takes me to the reviews of the products. The … --- ## [From a chemists's perspective what actually kills the victim of a snake bite?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-a-chemistss-perspective-what-actually-kills-the-victim-of-a-snake-bite/975101)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 19, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-a-chemistss-perspective-what-actually-kills-the-victim-of-a-snake-bite/975101 "2023-11-19T00:38:48Z")
From a chemists’s/pathologists’s perspective what actually kills the victim of a snake bite? Is it the venom only or is there also a concomitant bacterial infection element that also leads to death? --- ## [DYMO label machines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dymo-label-machines/993032)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dymo-label-machines/993032 "2023-11-18T23:11:15Z")
The DYMO came out in 1958. It must have sold well as I recall them being used everywhere by the time I was in high school (1960-64). What an awesome idea it was! My favorite use for them is in the Bond film where he flie… --- ## [My cat has bitten and scratched me too many times](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-has-bitten-and-scratched-me-too-many-times/987101)
**Author:** [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-has-bitten-and-scratched-me-too-many-times/987101 "2023-11-18T22:44:50Z")
We’re thinking that we have to rehome our cat, and I’m really upset. He’s the handsome ginger tabby in my avatar, adopted as a 3-week-old kitten from the animal shelter in 2016. At that point we had fostered over a dozen… --- ## [USA Dopers: How Often Do You Encounter Amish People?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-dopers-how-often-do-you-encounter-amish-people/989589)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-dopers-how-often-do-you-encounter-amish-people/989589 "2023-11-18T21:32:49Z")
I grew up in Central Illinois, about 30 miles from an Amish community that was and is, for lack of a better way of describing it, tourist-facing. The community had a variety of shops and such selling Amish wares, there w… --- ## [Bad, bad, bad beck--a plucky girl!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-a-plucky-girl/993329)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-beck-a-plucky-girl/993329 "2023-11-18T21:15:24Z")
I decided in a fit of boredom, disgust and the fact that I accidentally found the pluckers to pluck my eyebrows. I was beginning to look neanderthal. Haven’t done this in, I don’t know, 10 years or something. The Lil’wr… --- ## [Whipping Cream sulfur smell -- normal??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whipping-cream-sulfur-smell-normal/121036)
**Author:** [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whipping-cream-sulfur-smell-normal/121036 "2023-11-18T20:16:07Z")
At the coffee store I work at, we make our own whipped cream by pouring whipping cream (aka heavy cream) into a special bottle and charging it with compressed gas. Lately, my store has been throwing out a lot of cartons … --- ## [I want to offset my carbon use. Is there ANY organization I can give money to that ACTUALLY does it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-offset-my-carbon-use-is-there-any-organization-i-can-give-money-to-that-actually-does-it/993332)
**Author:** [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-offset-my-carbon-use-is-there-any-organization-i-can-give-money-to-that-actually-does-it/993332 "2023-11-18T19:22:15Z")
Quite a few years ago, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), a California power company, let you sign up for a carbon offset program. They would add an extra fee to your bill equivalent to the amount of carbon used, and give t… --- ## [Going to auto racing school in Monterey; what else to see and do while I'm there](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-auto-racing-school-in-monterey-what-else-to-see-and-do-while-im-there/992326)
**Author:** [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Replies:** 107\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-to-auto-racing-school-in-monterey-what-else-to-see-and-do-while-im-there/992326 "2023-11-18T18:44:18Z")
For years (decades, really), I’ve thought it would be fun to take a high-performance driving school. Well, next week is the time. I’m going to a three-day racing school at Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. So I tho… --- ## [Guitar accessory/equipment - does this exist and what's it called?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-accessory-equipment-does-this-exist-and-whats-it-called/992874)
**Author:** [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-accessory-equipment-does-this-exist-and-whats-it-called/992874 "2023-11-18T18:03:55Z")
I have an electric guitar, an electric-acoustic six-string, and an electric-acoustic bass. I would like to be able to connect all three to my amp simultaneously with some sort of switch that would allow me to change from… --- ## [Prominent atheist, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, converts to Christianity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-atheist-ayaan-hirsi-ali-converts-to-christianity/993260)
**Author:** [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prominent-atheist-ayaan-hirsi-ali-converts-to-christianity/993260 "2023-11-18T17:09:57Z")
For anyone unfamiliar with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she was born into a Muslim family in Somalia. She moved to the Netherlands and became a MP, and lived in the Netherlands until the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, a filmmaker w… --- ## [My fridge is haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fridge-is-haunted/993327)
**Author:** [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fridge-is-haunted/993327 "2023-11-18T16:51:59Z")
My fridge every so often stars making a rattling sound. Funnily, whilst it’s going on if I enter the kitchen and get within 2 metres of the fridge it stops, then starts as soon as I walk away., and will stop if I appro… --- ## [If it ain't footballers it's Leprechauns. LINK](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-it-aint-footballers-its-leprechauns-link/993330)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-it-aint-footballers-its-leprechauns-link/993330 "2023-11-18T15:41:59Z")
Apparently, Liverpool gets Leprechauns. This story is mostly from the 1960s. Liverpool’s Kensington district is a huge contrast to its London namesake. In 1967 it was a densely populated working-class area, with few op… --- ## [The role of electronic brains](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-role-of-electronic-brains/990708)
**Author:** [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-role-of-electronic-brains/990708 "2023-11-18T15:35:40Z")
Happened upon this editorial (article comprised largely of opinion), and I find the neoliberal theme disturbing. The rant wants AI to do amazing stuff so that we can experience economic growth constantly exceeding our… --- ## [It's time for the 18th no-longer-annual Shot Glass Exchange!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-18th-no-longer-annual-shot-glass-exchange/990556)
**Author:** [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Replies:** 109\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-for-the-18th-no-longer-annual-shot-glass-exchange/990556 "2023-11-18T14:43:35Z")
The kinda-annual-but-not-really shot glass exchange is here! \[you all know the rules so I’ll refrain from my usual pontificating and lecturing\] If you want to participate, make a note in the thread here and then email … --- ## [And now the Libs lose it, too...?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-the-libs-lose-it-too/993298)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-now-the-libs-lose-it-too/993298 "2023-11-18T14:14:52Z")
Two episodes, now, of left-wing protesters going overboard in just the last few days: https://thehill.com/policy/international/4315151-pro-palestinian-protesters-enter-fox-news-building/ https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-… --- ## [Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga Sweet Sound of Heaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-and-lady-gaga-sweet-sound-of-heaven/993207)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-and-lady-gaga-sweet-sound-of-heaven/993207 "2023-11-18T12:54:49Z")
I’ve been listening to the Stones newest single. Sweet Sounds of Heaven They brought in Stevie Wonder on piano & Rhodes organ and Lady Gaga. What do you think? Is it good, or even some of their best work? poll … --- ## [Doing the dishes by hand in a Covid household](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-the-dishes-by-hand-in-a-covid-household/993173)
**Author:** [@Caribbean\_cruiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caribbean_cruiser)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-the-dishes-by-hand-in-a-covid-household/993173 "2023-11-18T06:04:42Z")
My wife and I returned from a cruise with first-time Covid, first her, then me. Last night, while she was resting, I did the dishes by hand for the two of us. Please tell me if this sounds sufficient. I picked up her di… --- ## [A Raiders of the Lost Ark question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/992991 "2023-11-18T05:00:23Z")
Jones is fighting the Nazis in their trucks. He’s thrown through the windshield and hooks his whip to the front bumper and slides the length of the truck. He then prevails. The question is: for the rest of the flick was … --- ## [Do Toy Rockets Behave Differently When Launched From Higher Altitudes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-toy-rockets-behave-differently-when-launched-from-higher-altitudes/993297)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-toy-rockets-behave-differently-when-launched-from-higher-altitudes/993297 "2023-11-18T03:18:11Z")
In this video, they discuss why we don’t launch rockets from the tops of mountains. I’m fuzzy on the science, but it seems that there is some benefit to launching from a high altitude, although the bad outweighs the good… --- ## [Head MRI tomorrow. Is it scary?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-mri-tomorrow-is-it-scary/992267)
**Author:** [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Replies:** 97\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/head-mri-tomorrow-is-it-scary/992267 "2023-11-18T02:12:46Z")
Because I continue to have unexplained odd head pains, and pulsatile tinnitus, I have to go in early tomorrow morning for an MRI of my head. They asked if I was claustrophobic and I had to answer “I don’t know”. Smalli… --- ## [Song lyrics — the good, the bad, and the ugly](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/993148)
**Author:** [@FeRDNYC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeRDNYC)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/993148 "2023-11-18T00:59:49Z")
Most song lyrics are, let’s face it, not the greatest writing ever. Understandably so: there are a lot more constraints on writers of lyrics than on prose authors, and many of them can work at cross purposes. That clever… --- ## [Help me mount a power strip](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-mount-a-power-strip/992615)
**Author:** [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 18, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-mount-a-power-strip/992615 "2023-11-18T00:22:00Z")
I have a fairly heavy duty power strip that I use in our family room. We recently finished a renovation, so this was low priority, but I’m now tasked with getting the cord off the floor and hidden. 3 weeks ago I put 4 Dc… --- ## [In the song “The night the lights went out in Georgia” what does that phrase mean?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-song-the-night-the-lights-went-out-in-georgia-what-does-that-phrase-mean/986513)
**Author:** [@Rexturtle1120](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rexturtle1120)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-song-the-night-the-lights-went-out-in-georgia-what-does-that-phrase-mean/986513 "2023-11-17T23:58:22Z")
I’ve been listening to the song “That’s the night the lights went out in Georgia” and I’ve been trying to figure out what that line means. If you know the song, I figured the lights went out because they electrocuted the… --- ## [Anyone here ever buy through Treasury Direct?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-ever-buy-through-treasury-direct/993076)
**Author:** [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-ever-buy-through-treasury-direct/993076 "2023-11-17T23:47:53Z")
I just registered on the site to bid on a Treasury Note, but at the last second hesitated. It seems really straightforward, but is there anything I should be wary of? Thanks. --- ## [Thoughts on my made up crockpot recipe please](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-my-made-up-crockpot-recipe-please/993209)
**Author:** [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-my-made-up-crockpot-recipe-please/993209 "2023-11-17T23:44:28Z")
Ok in a crockpot: Smoked sausage Potatoes Onions Can of cream of chicken soup Chicken broth? Or Half and half? Would like to add a cheese element to it but I don’t know if I should put it in with the crockpot or ju… --- ## [Chess - Carlsen-Niemann controversy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-carlsen-niemann-controversy/971683)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 230\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2023, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-carlsen-niemann-controversy/971683 "2023-11-17T23:43:06Z")
I don’t know chess well enough to analyze the moves. The players are searched. This article says Magnus started with a bad opening. He wasn’t playing well. I’m bothered that an unspoken and unproven allegation by Magn… --- ## [Lines in a song that anchor it or cause it to turn a corner for you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-a-song-that-anchor-it-or-cause-it-to-turn-a-corner-for-you/993205)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lines-in-a-song-that-anchor-it-or-cause-it-to-turn-a-corner-for-you/993205 "2023-11-17T22:57:05Z")
As an example, Rod Stewart’s You Wear It Well. Like a million other songs, it seems like the ‘speaker’ is just nebulously pouring out his feelings. Then somewhere near the end there’s the line: "Anyway, my coffee’s cold… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=692&state=watching) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=694&state=watching)