# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=929&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 930 --- ## [US diplomat's wife kills UK teenager, claims diplomatic immunity](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-diplomats-wife-kills-uk-teenager-claims-diplomatic-immunity/841400)
**Author:** [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Replies:** 731\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-diplomats-wife-kills-uk-teenager-claims-diplomatic-immunity/841400 "2023-01-04T15:15:15Z")
This getting any airplay in the US? Because it’s even knocked Brexit off the national news here. Chief Constable of Police demands suspect’s return to the UK (BBC Link) Reports say she was driving for some distance on … --- ## [It Is Once Again- Time To Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-once-again-time-to-panic/977311)
**Author:** [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-is-once-again-time-to-panic/977311 "2023-01-04T15:00:32Z")
I’m scheduled to fly to Florida tomorrow. A time line On December 8, my new therapist says there is a problem processing my insurance. She thinks I gave her the numbers incorrectly. I leave a voicemail with the numbers… --- ## [Rich/Famous Folks Licensing their Names](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-famous-folks-licensing-their-names/977589)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rich-famous-folks-licensing-their-names/977589 "2023-01-04T13:15:52Z")
I posted this in a different thread. Please excuse the grift comment as potential well-poisoning. I’m genuinely curious whether anybody has made quite so much money as the Trump family simply on licensing their names. … --- ## [Should aging men consider steroids?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aging-men-consider-steroids/977221)
**Author:** [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-aging-men-consider-steroids/977221 "2023-01-04T12:24:00Z")
There are legions of stories, always clouded in controversy, about athletes who reach superhuman levels of performance because they are using drugs. These drugs invariably include steroids - which is really just a catch… --- ## [Which tragic Shakespearean characters would not qualify as tragic figures by Aristotle's definition of a tragic figure?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tragic-shakespearean-characters-would-not-qualify-as-tragic-figures-by-aristotles-definition-of-a-tragic-figure/976315)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tragic-shakespearean-characters-would-not-qualify-as-tragic-figures-by-aristotles-definition-of-a-tragic-figure/976315 "2023-01-04T10:13:23Z")
Strictly speaking, which tragic Shakespearean characters, as we know them, would not qualify as ones by Aristotle’s definition of a tragic figure? --- ## [Trivial questions: Windows 10 "shut down" colors](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-questions-windows-10-shut-down-colors/977569)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-questions-windows-10-shut-down-colors/977569 "2023-01-04T04:46:07Z")
I’m posting here because I am convinced that this must have a factual answer. This has nagged at me ever since I got this (my first and only) Windows 10 computer. When I shut down my Windows 10 computer, there is always… --- ## [How should one put 2 online, cheap, unheard-of-school (but still accredited) master's degrees to use?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-one-put-2-online-cheap-unheard-of-school-but-still-accredited-masters-degrees-to-use/977416)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-one-put-2-online-cheap-unheard-of-school-but-still-accredited-masters-degrees-to-use/977416 "2023-01-04T03:58:20Z")
Over the past few years, my employer had paid free tuition for me to get 2 master’s degrees of my choosing (an employee benefit.) The degrees were from a cheap, online, for-profit university (still accredited, but a scho… --- ## [PA House chooses Independent Mark Rozzi as Speaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-house-chooses-independent-mark-rozzi-as-speaker/977614)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-house-chooses-independent-mark-rozzi-as-speaker/977614 "2023-01-04T03:22:49Z")
Article here. I just thought it was interesting, but I don’t know how much debate or discussion we’ll have about it. --- ## [Best #1 song of the year: 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-song-of-the-year-2022/977459)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-1-song-of-the-year-2022/977459 "2023-01-04T03:02:42Z")
It’s that time again! All of my old best of the year polls prior to the move to Discourse have been lost like tears in rain, and maybe this’ll be the year when I run a new retrospective of all of them so we can get the r… --- ## [What is this old black and white movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-old-black-and-white-movie/977544)
**Author:** [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-old-black-and-white-movie/977544 "2023-01-04T01:50:20Z")
I’m having a recollection of this old movie where one of the characters is working in a factory where she operates a sewing machine (I don’t remember what they make). She accidentally sewed her finger in the sewing mach… --- ## [In retrospect, how was your 2022?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-retrospect-how-was-your-2022/977466)
**Author:** [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-retrospect-how-was-your-2022/977466 "2023-01-04T01:44:37Z")
I don’t know how to do a poll on this new format, but I’m just wondering how you feel about the past trip around the sun. Fabulous? Pretty, pretty, pretty good? Not bad? Okay? Meh? Not so hot? Bad news? Crap? Dumpster fi… --- ## [How does "Nathan for You" work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-nathan-for-you-work/977599)
**Author:** [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-nathan-for-you-work/977599 "2023-01-04T01:14:10Z")
I’ve just started to watch Nathan For You on Amazon Prime and I’m confused exactly what’s real and what’s fake. I realise the “owners” in the show are in fact the real owners, however Nathan’s suggestions are all so outl… --- ## [My daughter's mother (has died.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-mother-has-died/975825)
**Author:** [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughters-mother-has-died/975825 "2023-01-04T01:08:51Z")
My (now long) ex-wife, the mother of my teenaged daughter, is on the verge of death. She has been sick from time to time the last few years including some long hospital stays, but she went in yesterday morning, and late… --- ## [When did you stop beating your wife? Challenging loaded questions in FQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife-challenging-loaded-questions-in-fq/977291)
**Author:** [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife-challenging-loaded-questions-in-fq/977291 "2023-01-04T00:51:41Z")
My concern here is that the moderators are failing to distinguish between a reasonable restriction of scope in a thread, and forcing acceptance of a dubious premise in the OP. Regarding this thread: Any evidence that t… --- ## [Rant-a Claus is coming to town! (December mini-rants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-a-claus-is-coming-to-town-december-mini-rants/975866)
**Author:** [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Replies:** 364\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-a-claus-is-coming-to-town-december-mini-rants/975866 "2023-01-03T23:55:45Z")
I don’t have anything to rant about (yet) but I noticed there wasn’t a December thread yet and I had an idea for a thread title, so there you go. --- ## [Arrests in German coup plot \[7-Dec 2022\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrests-in-german-coup-plot-7-dec-2022/976137)
**Author:** [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrests-in-german-coup-plot-7-dec-2022/976137 "2023-01-03T23:39:01Z")
A Wednesday statement from the federal public prosecutor said the members of the group, which was founded in November 2021, subscribed to a range of conspiracy theories including QAnon and the right-wing extremist R… --- ## [How strong is the vegetarian/vegan aversion to meat?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-strong-is-the-vegetarian-vegan-aversion-to-meat/976290)
**Author:** [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Replies:** 92\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-strong-is-the-vegetarian-vegan-aversion-to-meat/976290 "2023-01-03T23:25:33Z")
I’m as carnivorous as most people, but do want to genuinely understand how vegans/vegetarians feel about meat. Is it a mere dislike of meat - “I avoid it but will eat it if I have to,” or is even more potent, like “I’ll… --- ## [Putin pretends to be Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-pretends-to-be-sauron/977557)
**Author:** [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putin-pretends-to-be-sauron/977557 "2023-01-03T21:28:35Z")
The story of the rings is well known here, so this will need little further comment: Putin gives away eight rings as gifts to the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries at an informal summit he… --- ## [Good Guy VS Bad Guy Wars where the good guy wins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-guy-vs-bad-guy-wars-where-the-good-guy-wins/976356)
**Author:** [@Janus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janus)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-guy-vs-bad-guy-wars-where-the-good-guy-wins/976356 "2023-01-03T21:17:37Z")
The current Russian VS Ukraine seems to be an example. WW2 is a classic case. But what other wars were “Good” vs “Bad”. Many wars have been fought by one King vs another King. Emperor vs another Emperor. Dictator vs… --- ## [NFL 2022: Week Seventeen Seconds](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2022-week-seventeen-seconds/977243)
**Author:** [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Replies:** 95\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2022-week-seventeen-seconds/977243 "2023-01-03T19:42:09Z")
It’s week seventeen (seconds), a measure of life. And a strangely fitting song for many of the teams. Time slips away And the light begins to fade And everything is quiet now. Feeling is gone And the picture disapp… --- ## [Herschel Walker (need I say more?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 442\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861 "2023-01-03T19:16:00Z")
But I will. Earlier today, someone on CNN said “He’s not qualified for the Senate.” No, he’s not, and he’s not qualified to be a dogcatcher either, which is a statement I realize is insulting to dogcatchers. Anything … --- ## [Who would have been responsible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-have-been-responsible/977496)
**Author:** [@3AxisCtrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3AxisCtrl)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-have-been-responsible/977496 "2023-01-03T19:15:33Z")
Had a near miss 2 days ago: Was waiting in a left-turn lane with turn signal operating. Light turns green (there’s no left-turn arrow) and I wait for some oncoming traffic to pass. There’s a gap and then one final onco… --- ## [Blacks In The British Aristocracy, c. 1714-1830](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-in-the-british-aristocracy-c-1714-1830/977426)
**Author:** [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blacks-in-the-british-aristocracy-c-1714-1830/977426 "2023-01-03T19:10:17Z")
I’m watching a TV show that includes among its characters a Georgian-era noblewoman. The actress who portrays her is Black. I’m not asking from a place of complaint – bully for inclusive casting and all that – but is the… --- ## [Facebook recipe videos asking for your city?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-recipe-videos-asking-for-your-city/977354)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-recipe-videos-asking-for-your-city/977354 "2023-01-03T18:25:43Z")
Occasionally I’ll watch a recipe video on Facebook. (About half the time they’re pretty lame.) Every one of them asks, ‘Tell me the city you’re watching from, so I can send you special greetings.’ OK, I get that if yo… --- ## [Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2022 Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022)
**Author:** [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Replies:** 696\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022 "2023-01-03T18:24:57Z")
Here we go again. In case anyone wants to easily find the previous threads: Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News As I did last year… --- ## [1960s TODAY Show theme (Jazz xylophone)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-today-show-theme-jazz-xylophone/977593)
**Author:** [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1960s-today-show-theme-jazz-xylophone/977593 "2023-01-03T18:09:04Z")
Those of us over the age of 60 might remember the theme song from The Today Show during its 1960s Barbara Walters/Hugh Downs incarnation, circa 1965-69. Does anybody here happen to know the name of the tune, or the music… --- ## [Most underrated video game consoles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-video-game-consoles/977361)
**Author:** [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-underrated-video-game-consoles/977361 "2023-01-03T17:30:38Z")
Just browsing through Wikipedia and looking at the old consoles. Some I owned, some relatives or friends owned, some I’ve heard of, but never played, and some I’ve never heard of. So, most of us know the most successful… --- ## [Has there ever been a "connoisseur culture" about any drug other than alcohol?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-connoisseur-culture-about-any-drug-other-than-alcohol/977076)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 100\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-a-connoisseur-culture-about-any-drug-other-than-alcohol/977076 "2023-01-03T17:11:23Z")
So random musing picking up booze for Christmas… Has any other drug had a “connoisseur culture” approaching that of alcohol? By that I mean two different varieties of basically the same drug, in the same form, having, s… --- ## [The omnibus short story ID thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-short-story-id-thread/977497)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omnibus-short-story-id-thread/977497 "2023-01-03T15:45:03Z")
I’ll start this thread with this: A guy wakes up with what appears to be aphasia. Words just don’t mean what he thinks they mean. There’s something about ‘encyclopedia’ meaning ‘dog’. He has to learn vocabulary all o… --- ## [Help me with new light bulbs. sigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-new-light-bulbs-sigh/976035)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 59\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-new-light-bulbs-sigh/976035 "2023-01-03T15:33:51Z")
It used to be easy. 40 watt? 60 watt? 100 watt? tri-light? done. Now I spend 20 minutes at the light bulb aisle, trying to figure out what to buy, and in the end I’m not sure what I’ve got. I want to get a tri-lig… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=928&state=tracking) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=930&state=tracking)