# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=773&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 774 --- ## [What is this musical instrument? (Some kind of percussion instrument, sounds metallic, very 70s sounding)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-musical-instrument-some-kind-of-percussion-instrument-sounds-metallic-very-70s-sounding/987087)
**Author:** [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-musical-instrument-some-kind-of-percussion-instrument-sounds-metallic-very-70s-sounding/987087 "2023-07-31T22:44:01Z")
Okay, I’ve got a puzzler that I’m flying blind with. Can anyone tell me what instrument is being played in the first 17 seconds of this video? The source is 1977’s “The Mouse and his Child,” a very 70s-ish movie, and I… --- ## [ISC2 bylaws and board controversy, 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isc2-bylaws-and-board-controversy-2022/974176)
**Author:** [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isc2-bylaws-and-board-controversy-2022/974176 "2023-07-31T22:30:58Z")
If you’re a member of ISC2, such as by having an ISC2 certification like CC, SSCP, CCSP, CAP, CSSLP, and HCISPP, please look at the proposed bylaw changes for this year. Since this is IMHO, I’ll say that I think the prop… --- ## [Indicator lights. Bad bad bad indication of what? So so much](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicator-lights-bad-bad-bad-indication-of-what-so-so-much/987747)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indicator-lights-bad-bad-bad-indication-of-what-so-so-much/987747 "2023-07-31T21:43:53Z")
I was up very early. I wasn’t sleeping well, anyways. Things on my mind. I walked around the the house. There are so many indicator lights. Little tiny pindots in the dark: Indicating the dishwasher is done. The TVs a… --- ## [Sears Repair Direct? I'd rather take the next OceanGate ride](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sears-repair-direct-id-rather-take-the-next-oceangate-ride/987372)
**Author:** [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sears-repair-direct-id-rather-take-the-next-oceangate-ride/987372 "2023-07-31T21:12:29Z")
At least that would be quick. We had our over repaired under warranty - or at least tried to. The technician missed the service call and came the next week. He couldn’t finish the repair because of supply shortage. N… --- ## [Have economic sanctions ever had a significant political effect?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-economic-sanctions-ever-had-a-significant-political-effect/983761)
**Author:** [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-economic-sanctions-ever-had-a-significant-political-effect/983761 "2023-07-31T20:31:48Z")
It has been a response for decades in many cases now: e.g. Rhodesia, North Korea, and now Russia. But has there ever been a case where it really made a difference? I can’t recall any. One suspects that it is a face-sa… --- ## [Miramax still a going concern](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miramax-still-a-going-concern/987829)
**Author:** [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miramax-still-a-going-concern/987829 "2023-07-31T20:03:29Z")
I was a bit taken aback watching a trailer in a theater for a new Alexander Payne film, The Holdovers, when I spotted the logo for Miramax Films at the end. Wait, the company founded by disgraced, convicted sex predator … --- ## ["Last visit" indicator in a forum](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-visit-indicator-in-a-forum/963899)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-visit-indicator-in-a-forum/963899 "2023-07-31T20:00:18Z")
In each forum there’s a thin red line followed by “last visit”. This useful feature seems like a really simple thing to ascertain by Discourse. But apparently it’s not, as it can be wrong by several hours. Recently I was… --- ## [Speed camera question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-camera-question/987501)
**Author:** [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-camera-question/987501 "2023-07-31T19:59:59Z")
I got a summons in the mail for an on camera speeding violation in Virginia. If the tech is to believed, I was doing 55 in a 35 work zone. I guess I probably was speeding but in the pictures there is not another car, per… --- ## [Intriguing family photo from the 1930s - attention Bekdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-family-photo-from-the-1930s-attention-bekdawrek/987878)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intriguing-family-photo-from-the-1930s-attention-bekdawrek/987878 "2023-07-31T18:22:15Z")
One enjoyable task for my family history was going through an envelope of negatives from my aunt Betsey. A couple of them feature cars so I believe they are from around 1930. Places and faces unknown but likely somewhere… --- ## [Great Poll Questions?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-poll-questions/987881)
**Author:** [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-poll-questions/987881 "2023-07-31T18:21:18Z")
For a general audience. Looking to take the best ones and conduct surveys. It would be great to compare them with another audience, too, but for now, a great question would do. Thanks! --- ## [Question for Spanish-speaking folks in NYC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-spanish-speaking-folks-in-nyc/987814)
**Author:** [@Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dodgy_Dude)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-spanish-speaking-folks-in-nyc/987814 "2023-07-31T17:01:31Z")
I frequently hear a sound while walking around NYC. I think it’s coming from Spanish radio stations. It sounds like someone saying, “Ah E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E” a drawn-out long “E” sound with a little bit of vibrato in it. C… --- ## [Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - August 2023 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-august-2023-edition/987877)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-august-2023-edition/987877 "2023-07-31T15:32:47Z")
I’m starting this a day early because I don’t want to add to the thread, only to have it ignored in a day. Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood – the latest authorized Bond novel actually has very little James Bond in it. … --- ## [A tiny tiny tiny happenstance (film on microwave control panel)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tiny-tiny-tiny-happenstance-film-on-microwave-control-panel/987410)
**Author:** [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-tiny-tiny-tiny-happenstance-film-on-microwave-control-panel/987410 "2023-07-31T15:24:31Z")
Set up: Last year mid-dau sorta blew up the microwave. It was a nice one. Though, several years old. Stains inside that would never budge. So I was ok about it. Chapter 2: I sent Son-of-a-wrek with my debit card. Admo… --- ## [Cute Anime Girls and World War Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-anime-girls-and-world-war-two/987837)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-anime-girls-and-world-war-two/987837 "2023-07-31T15:21:13Z")
Tthere is a WW2 historical Youtube site that has brief clips of what appears to be an Anime series, which portrays WW2 Warships as anime girls the version of USS Enterprse, seen in a few frames here, is fetching … --- ## [Would you beg for your life if you were held at gunpoint?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-beg-for-your-life-if-you-were-held-at-gunpoint/944088)
**Author:** [@Flamedame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamedame)\ **Replies:** 35\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-beg-for-your-life-if-you-were-held-at-gunpoint/944088 "2023-07-31T13:32:15Z")
Scenario: It’s late at night . You are accosted by a random thug that kidnaps you and takes you to his basement/dungeon/whatever . There he holds a gun/knife to your head/throat. Would you beg for him to spare your lif… --- ## [(Old) Whatcha want on your MMP...izza?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-whatcha-want-on-your-mmp-izza/987446)
**Author:** [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Replies:** 379\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-whatcha-want-on-your-mmp-izza/987446 "2023-07-31T13:10:49Z")
Do you add veggies, or go all meats? How do you feel about anchovies? And of course, the biggie, the kahuna question … where do you fall on the Great Pineapple Debate? Me? I make weird pizzas for my personal snacks an… --- ## [Ruin a period piece](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-period-piece/978521)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ruin-a-period-piece/978521 "2023-07-31T12:08:26Z")
There have been plenty of complaints lately about various films and series having technological and cultural anachronisms, glaringly color and gender-blind casting, and in general enough inconsistencies and logical falla… --- ## [Have you stayed in Downtown Las Vegas recently? What’s your opinion?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-stayed-in-downtown-las-vegas-recently-what-s-your-opinion/987842)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-stayed-in-downtown-las-vegas-recently-what-s-your-opinion/987842 "2023-07-31T11:46:41Z")
I went to Las Vegas recently over the 4th of July and do want to come back. However, I think I need a break from the Strip where I was mostly on that trip. I spent one of my days Downtown and quite liked it. I’m conside… --- ## [Blowing a whistle at Scammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-a-whistle-at-scammers/987637)
**Author:** [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-a-whistle-at-scammers/987637 "2023-07-31T11:02:41Z")
I was just listening to a radio discussion about dealing with scam phone calls. A lady phoned in and said that she blows a loud whistle when she gets one and the presenter got her to demonstrate. What we heard was a loud… --- ## [Renewing Passport Questions.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewing-passport-questions/855906)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 56\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewing-passport-questions/855906 "2023-07-31T10:19:26Z")
My US passport will expire January 2021. There is a possibility I’ll need it then, so I would like to renew it. I’ve renewed it before, but never during troubled times, so I’m being extra cautious. What happens if I d… --- ## [Share Your Favorite Geek-related Songs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-geek-related-songs/987388)
**Author:** [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Replies:** 72\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-geek-related-songs/987388 "2023-07-31T08:08:40Z")
I was posting in the Quick, what’s your current earworm thread and started wondering who else had a love of geek-related songs. I listen to a lot of nerd-core rappers - The Stupendium, Dan Bull, HalaCG, and FrivolousSha… --- ## [Retro Remedies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retro-remedies/987277)
**Author:** [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retro-remedies/987277 "2023-07-31T03:05:04Z")
A discussion of headache powders in the Tylenol thread lead me to think of old fashioned remedies which I think are more effective for me than modern counterparts: BC Powder, Alka Seltzer for stomach problems, Alka Selt… --- ## ["Writing" with the Bing AI chatbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-with-the-bing-ai-chatbot/986164)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writing-with-the-bing-ai-chatbot/986164 "2023-07-31T02:37:51Z")
“Write me a love story between Data and Tasha Yar.” Data and Tasha Yar met on board the USS Enterprise-D, where they served as the second officer and the chief of security, respectively. They were both dedicated to the… --- ## [WNBA Power Couple](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnba-power-couple/987841)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnba-power-couple/987841 "2023-07-30T23:40:45Z")
Nearly two weeks ago, DeWanna Bonner and Alyssa Thomas of the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun announced their engagement. Today, they became the second pair of WNBA teammates ever with a 30-pt game and a triple-double in the sam… --- ## [With friends like these... (Liberal corporations, their support of LGBT, and "cancel culture")](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-friends-like-these-liberal-corporations-their-support-of-lgbt-and-cancel-culture/987362)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-friends-like-these-liberal-corporations-their-support-of-lgbt-and-cancel-culture/987362 "2023-07-30T22:57:24Z")
I didn’t realize this until I read it just now, but you know how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Disney are having it out over the Don’t Say Gay Bill? Disney didn’t object to it until after the bill had passed. Bud L… --- ## [Have you ever reported a Facebook page for fraud?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-reported-a-facebook-page-for-fraud/987799 "2023-07-30T21:59:22Z")
…And had them agree with you and pull the page? If Facebook has any standards other than “As long as we get our cut, it’s all good!”, I have yet to see them. --- ## [How do female sex workers handle all that penetration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-female-sex-workers-handle-all-that-penetration/684922)
**Author:** [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-female-sex-workers-handle-all-that-penetration/684922 "2023-07-30T21:58:43Z")
In reading about prostitutes unless you are some world class beauty it seems that a woman making a living as a hooker has to entertain a fair number of men to earn decent money. Not be overly blunt about it, but wouldn’t… --- ## [Want to downsize my electronics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-downsize-my-electronics/987763)
**Author:** [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-downsize-my-electronics/987763 "2023-07-30T21:21:59Z")
I currently have an Macbook Pro, iPad and a Chromebook. I Macbook is my main computer, the Chromebook is for traveling because if it gets lost or stolen, it’s not a huge deal and my iPad has been for reading, videos, gam… --- ## [When do you fuel up?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-fuel-up/987577)
**Author:** [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Replies:** 77\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-fuel-up/987577 "2023-07-30T20:07:26Z")
That’s all - when do you fill your vehicle? poll --- ## [What Scam Is This? (involves PayPal, but probably a fake PayPal)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-scam-is-this-involves-paypal-but-probably-a-fake-paypal/987834)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-scam-is-this-involves-paypal-but-probably-a-fake-paypal/987834 "2023-07-30T19:02:11Z")
I’m sure this is a scam, so I’ve never called the number, because that seems to be what they want me to do, and so I don’t know what the exchange is like, but I assume it’s phishing for personal information, especially b… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=772&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=774&state=tracking)