# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=887 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 888 --- ## [The Menu movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-menu-movie/977220)
**Author:** [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-menu-movie/977220 "2023-02-27T21:46:21Z")
I didn’t see a thread for The Menu and I really don’t think a movie like this should be put on the back burner. This was a really alluring movie with some tasty, intense scenes as well as a handful of laug… --- ## [Rumi quote real or hoax?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumi-quote-real-or-hoax/675659)
**Author:** [@Childof\_Quanyin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Childof_Quanyin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rumi-quote-real-or-hoax/675659 "2023-02-27T21:05:58Z")
“Your task is not to seek love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” Did Rumi really write this or is it from a course in miracles? If Rumi did write it who did the… --- ## [(How) has the war in Ukraine affected you personally?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-war-in-ukraine-affected-you-personally/980380)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-war-in-ukraine-affected-you-personally/980380 "2023-02-27T18:59:08Z")
It’s been a year since the beginning of the latest and most open phase of the war in Ukraine. How has your life changed, if at all, by the war? Most people here don’t live in Ukraine or Russia, and so won’t have firsth… --- ## [Have you seen Mammals, with James Corden?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-mammals-with-james-corden/980444)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-seen-mammals-with-james-corden/980444 "2023-02-27T17:52:16Z")
This is a fantastic series. Well acted and quite suspenseful. The resolution was unexpected and superbly written. I was familiar with Corden through Carpool Karaoke, but had never seen him act. I was fairly impressed. A… --- ## [Notification loss weirdness](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notification-loss-weirdness/980441)
**Author:** [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notification-loss-weirdness/980441 "2023-02-27T16:42:03Z")
My notifications are acting weird. If I get a notification for a certain Topic (i.e. thread), and go check it out, and then get another notification in that same Topic, the other one disappears. In the past, notificatio… --- ## [Blackboard Paint](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackboard-paint/979592)
**Author:** [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackboard-paint/979592 "2023-02-27T16:25:30Z")
I have a 2 1/2-year-old granddaughter living here, and as a Veteran mom/daycare giver I try to choose my battles wisely. My wee rosebud is at the Ima write on all the walls stage. So my thought is to paint part of a wal… --- ## [2023 95th Academy Awards Nominees are Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 91\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739 "2023-02-27T15:31:24Z")
The nominations are now out, full list at: https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023 Best picture “All Quiet on the Western Front” “Avatar: The Way of Water” “The Banshees of Inisherin” “Elvis” “Everything Eve… --- ## [Photo Phun](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-phun/979835)
**Author:** [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photo-phun/979835 "2023-02-27T15:05:44Z")
This game is inspired by all the picture challenges on the Book of Faces where it says post a picture with no explanation. Except the object of this game is to provide one. It’s very simple. Poster A posts a picture, an… --- ## [Can a public cell phone charger raid your phone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-public-cell-phone-charger-raid-your-phone/980224)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-public-cell-phone-charger-raid-your-phone/980224 "2023-02-27T14:32:24Z")
A bar near me had small kiosks on the bar top. Each had a small screen that showed local advertising. They had USB plugs for charging cell phones. But if an unscrupulous person designed them it seems like it leaves your … --- ## [Caffeine addicted MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-addicted-mmp/980066)
**Author:** [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Replies:** 331\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-addicted-mmp/980066 "2023-02-27T14:06:25Z")
This morning I flipped the on switch on the espresso machine and it didn’t react. Hubby did some investigation and figured out the magnetic float in the tank wasn’t behaving. After some manual manipulation, there was th… --- ## [Women like pockets, but fashionable dresses, etc, don't have them, why?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-like-pockets-but-fashionable-dresses-etc-dont-have-them-why/968277)
**Author:** [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Replies:** 123\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-like-pockets-but-fashionable-dresses-etc-dont-have-them-why/968277 "2023-02-27T13:57:05Z")
Down around post 826 or so (of this very well moderated thread) we get into the fascinating topic of why women’s dresses, etc don’t have pockets. My wife has made the same complaint, and so she loves those Disneyland… --- ## [Flipping Hillside Land by Installing Foundations?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flipping-hillside-land-by-installing-foundations/980373)
**Author:** [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flipping-hillside-land-by-installing-foundations/980373 "2023-02-27T13:47:41Z")
There’s a set of 1/3rd acre parcels for sale, dirt-cheap, on a nearby, steep canyon wall (I’m going to guess somewhere between 50-60 degrees). The slope is a sharp drop-off from the road, from right behind the guide rail… --- ## [He tabled a resolution in the form of a "\*\*black draft\*\*,"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-tabled-a-resolution-in-the-form-of-a-black-draft/980431)
**Author:** [@cannonkuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cannonkuo)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-tabled-a-resolution-in-the-form-of-a-black-draft/980431 "2023-02-27T12:44:38Z")
In New York, news of the invasion galvanized UN ambassador Parsons into action. At a hastily-convened Security Council meeting, he tabled a resolution in the form of a “black draft,” which entitled its presenter to a vot… --- ## [RIP Madam Speaker Betty Boothroyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-madam-speaker-betty-boothroyd/980437)
**Author:** [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-madam-speaker-betty-boothroyd/980437 "2023-02-27T12:41:48Z")
Gone to bring order to another place. --- ## [The Automat (2021)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-automat-2021/980379)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-automat-2021/980379 "2023-02-27T05:57:42Z")
We watched The Automat (2021) last night. I’m a SoCal native. I’ve never been to New York or Philadelphia. I’ve never been to a Horn & Hardardt Automat. I have a vague memory as a child, getting dishes of food out of… --- ## [There's too much amazing Sci-Fi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-too-much-amazing-sci-fi/980170)
**Author:** [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-too-much-amazing-sci-fi/980170 "2023-02-27T05:51:05Z")
Yeah, I know, but I grew up BEFORE Star Wars, but after Star Trek and I LOVED Sci-Fi…this kid living way down at the end of a dirt road with not a lot of friends in the 70’s and I devoured anything SciFi I possibly could… --- ## [My goofy cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-goofy-cat/980381)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-goofy-cat/980381 "2023-02-27T03:40:55Z")
When Moki wants me to throw something, she’ll have it in her mouth, and in one motion jump up and set it next to me. Lately she occasionally forgets the “have something” step. She’ll jump down and sit just out of sight w… --- ## [Budget Crisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-crisis/980420)
**Author:** [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budget-crisis/980420 "2023-02-27T03:02:57Z")
Soon, Food Stamps will lose funding. Is there any sign Congress will resolve the issue & pass a budget? --- ## [Jack Smith, AP photographer of Mt. Saint Helens, has died last month at 80](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-smith-ap-photographer-of-mt-saint-helens-has-died-last-month-at-80/980410)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-smith-ap-photographer-of-mt-saint-helens-has-died-last-month-at-80/980410 "2023-02-27T01:56:38Z")
Smith passed away on Jan. 4 at his home in La Mesa, California. He had cancer and had been in hospice care, said his wife, Judy Smith. In addition to capturing the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens, he shot photos of the… --- ## [Windows Explorer Goes AWOL, and Takes the Desktop With It](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-goes-awol-and-takes-the-desktop-with-it/980374)
**Author:** [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-explorer-goes-awol-and-takes-the-desktop-with-it/980374 "2023-02-27T01:45:18Z")
Computer is an HP 15-gw0000 laptop running Windows 11 :woozy\_face:. For the past week or so, whenever I do a cold start or restart the desktop and taskbar appear briefly, then either disappear completely or flash; either… --- ## [(Mis)identify someone else's SDMB avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129)
**Author:** [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [February 27, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mis-identify-someone-elses-sdmb-avatar/980129 "2023-02-27T00:25:36Z")
Select one or two fellow Dopers who use an avatar on this site—the more obscure the image, the better. (No picking yourself!) Then show off your smarts by identifying the subject of the image. Or alternatively, come u… --- ## [Wait.... Jesus was white?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-jesus-was-white/979199)
**Author:** [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-jesus-was-white/979199 "2023-02-26T21:18:23Z")
I don’t know if this is up for debate or not. But does the Bible mention Jesus being a white guy? I was always under the impression that he had been ‘whitewashed’. I would mention it every time I got into a debate with s… --- ## [US Military Personnel should not be allowed to work for tyrants](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-military-personnel-should-not-be-allowed-to-work-for-tyrants/973457)
**Author:** [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-military-personnel-should-not-be-allowed-to-work-for-tyrants/973457 "2023-02-26T20:51:55Z")
Gift link to WaPo article This is appalling. And there’s a lot more to the article–check it out. Simply put, my tax dollars are being used to train military personnel who are then profiting off the training by using t… --- ## [Really? A digital license plate? WHY?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-a-digital-license-plate-why/980340)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-a-digital-license-plate-why/980340 "2023-02-26T19:38:26Z")
Only $20/month! What possible use is this? --- ## [Roku TV question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roku-tv-question/980261)
**Author:** [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roku-tv-question/980261 "2023-02-26T19:15:32Z")
I have a Sanyo 40" Roku TV, and recently Roku has been failing to connect, or disconnecting shortly after, the internet. Is it possible to hook up an external Roku device to my Roku TV, or will complications ensue? --- ## [LaTeX support broken?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latex-support-broken/978857)
**Author:** [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latex-support-broken/978857 "2023-02-26T18:42:19Z")
I was looking at a post of mine, and noticed that the LaTeX bits are all now on their own line instead of inline: Let me try this again. \\pi, and \\frac{1}{\\pi}, and e^\\pi are all supposed to be inline with the text he… --- ## [Is Anybody Getting these kind of Scam Calls?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anybody-getting-these-kind-of-scam-calls/973389)
**Author:** [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anybody-getting-these-kind-of-scam-calls/973389 "2023-02-26T18:24:44Z")
This has happened a couple of times. Someone or someTHING calls me and says that a pre-approved order was taken in my name. It doesn’t mention a company or anything. It just wants me to press a button to speak with an… --- ## [This is Moki](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-moki/980382)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-moki/980382 "2023-02-26T18:24:01Z")
--- ## [Marty Robbin's "Big Iron"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marty-robbins-big-iron/980369)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marty-robbins-big-iron/980369 "2023-02-26T18:20:20Z")
I don’t remember now how I stumbled upon this, but somehow YouTube’s algorithms ending up offering me this animated clip which I think is perfect. 2:24 in particular is a masterpiece of conveying body language with minim… --- ## [Load Parent Post issue](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/load-parent-post-issue/980387)
**Author:** [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/load-parent-post-issue/980387 "2023-02-26T17:47:57Z")
An issue that’s popped up very recently: When a post is a reply to another, and the “Load parent post” curly arrow is present, clicking on it loads the referenced post in a box that extends too far to the right. This hap… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=886) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=888)