# Latest **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md?page=952&state=tracking [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 953 --- ## [Would you use this ? bud light door at gas station requires id to open-and-get-beer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-use-this-bud-light-door-at-gas-station-requires-id-to-open-and-get-beer/976041)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-use-this-bud-light-door-at-gas-station-requires-id-to-open-and-get-beer/976041 "2022-12-07T14:10:29Z")
seen this today and wondered what the downsides would be. would you be offended to have to do this? --- ## [Post a video of an arcane musical instrument](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-video-of-an-arcane-musical-instrument/839011)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-a-video-of-an-arcane-musical-instrument/839011 "2022-12-07T13:26:51Z")
You are hereby invited to post a link to a video demonstrating a performance on an uncommon, but not one-of-a-kind, musical instrument. By “uncommon” I mean an instrument that most folks would not be able to name when… --- ## [Cheese and pickle sandwich (British)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-pickle-sandwich-british/967016)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 274\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheese-and-pickle-sandwich-british/967016 "2022-12-07T12:45:22Z")
Okay, I’m reading a murder mystery (The Silkworm) set in England, mostly London, written under a pseud by J.K. Rowling. I swear, it seems like every other day the hero/detective is eating a ‘packet’ of cheese and pickle… --- ## [Increase in inactivity as we age](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increase-in-inactivity-as-we-age/976101)
**Author:** [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/increase-in-inactivity-as-we-age/976101 "2022-12-07T12:12:41Z")
I am 74 years old and just coming off of a 3 year period of almost no physical activity. Sitting at my computer smoking cigarettes, just taking out the trash would have me slightly huffing. For at least 5 years before my… --- ## [Write your own opinion in the Speluncean Explorers case](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-your-own-opinion-in-the-speluncean-explorers-case/303736)
**Author:** [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-your-own-opinion-in-the-speluncean-explorers-case/303736 "2022-12-07T07:51:56Z")
This hypothetical case has been discussed and argued since Fuller published it in 1949.See, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/cse.htm#otheropinions. How would you decide the case? On what authority? How would you d… --- ## [Men's experiences with facial waxing (As opposed to shaving)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-experiences-with-facial-waxing-as-opposed-to-shaving/377673)
**Author:** [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-experiences-with-facial-waxing-as-opposed-to-shaving/377673 "2022-12-07T02:36:57Z")
I have a problem: I’m lazy. I don’t like taking the time to shave daily, and when I can get away with it, leave the razor and shaving cream down. I’m seriously considering waxing as an alternative to shaving. The way I s… --- ## [Skyrim Special Edition first playthough](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyrim-special-edition-first-playthough/974396)
**Author:** [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/skyrim-special-edition-first-playthough/974396 "2022-12-07T00:52:00Z")
Should my very first playthrough (in 2022!) be with Survival Mode or without? I’ve been reading through the original 1800-post Skyrim thread from 2011, and kind of wanted to play the game people were playing back then. I… --- ## [Exploiting Anthony Bourdain?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploiting-anthony-bourdain/962639)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exploiting-anthony-bourdain/962639 "2022-12-06T21:41:55Z")
I loved Kitchen Confidential and when I first read it I sought out most of Bourdain’s other writing. I liked his travel TV. I was saddened when he died. I’m watching Roadrunner on CNN. Lots of people loved the guy. … --- ## [If the Soviets had eventually landed on the moon after the US, would anything have really changed?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-soviets-had-eventually-landed-on-the-moon-after-the-us-would-anything-have-really-changed/976007)
**Author:** [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-soviets-had-eventually-landed-on-the-moon-after-the-us-would-anything-have-really-changed/976007 "2022-12-06T20:34:14Z")
Let’s pretend that somehow the Soviets are able to power through their problems with the N1 lunar rocket and manages to get a crew together for expected launch in 1971 (the earliest I believe they could have done it with… --- ## [Why is FIFA Tolerated?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-fifa-tolerated/976043)
**Author:** [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-fifa-tolerated/976043 "2022-12-06T20:15:16Z")
While I’m not a soccer fan, it’s hard for me to miss the excitement of the World Cup every few years. I don’t follow the sport, or the governing bodies, but it’s hard to miss FIFA. EA Sports keeps making those FIFA vid… --- ## [Experience with a Daily Money Manager?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-with-a-daily-money-manager/976063)
**Author:** [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-with-a-daily-money-manager/976063 "2022-12-06T19:51:09Z")
Hi Dopers, Does anyone here have experience working with a Daily Money Manager? This is not a financial planner or secretary, but somewhere in between. According to the American Association of Daily Money Managers (AADM… --- ## [Ouch! I just bit into a chunk of ... bone? Tooth?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064 "2022-12-06T17:43:21Z")
So I’m eating leftover chicken vindaloo for lunch and I bite down on something hard. Take it out, and it looks like…a tooth? Or a piece of a tooth? It was rounded and smooth and toothy-looking on one side, and broken-off… --- ## [Fatal attack at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado springs, 20 Nov 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-attack-at-lgbtq-nightclub-in-colorado-springs-20-nov-2022/975260)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 113\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fatal-attack-at-lgbtq-nightclub-in-colorado-springs-20-nov-2022/975260 "2022-12-06T17:16:51Z")
At least 5 killed in shooting at LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs --- ## [Weird question about carbon dating](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-question-about-carbon-dating/975946)
**Author:** [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-question-about-carbon-dating/975946 "2022-12-06T17:03:16Z")
I don’t know how or why this question popped into my head (and I apologize, in advance, if I get the physics wrong) but… Things age slower when traveling a substantial portion of the speed of light, right? Britannica: … --- ## [NHL: October 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-october-2022/973077)
**Author:** [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-october-2022/973077 "2022-12-06T15:45:58Z")
Season starts today! Ok, yes, there were the Prague games, but today starts the epic trek towards Stanley. I have to work quite early tomorrow, I think I’ll just record Kings vs Golden Knights and just watch when I wake… --- ## [Rudy has a new legal problem, potential jail time for contempt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudy-has-a-new-legal-problem-potential-jail-time-for-contempt/972151)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudy-has-a-new-legal-problem-potential-jail-time-for-contempt/972151 "2022-12-06T15:37:33Z")
Nothing to do with elections; just a humdrum case of failing to pay support to his ex-wife, in the amount of $235,000; blew off the court by not appearing; ex-wife got a consent judgment against him. NY Judge says tha… --- ## [Warnock and Walker: I'm prepared to be very disappointed in myself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnock-and-walker-im-prepared-to-be-very-disappointed-in-myself/976060)
**Author:** [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warnock-and-walker-im-prepared-to-be-very-disappointed-in-myself/976060 "2022-12-06T15:31:06Z")
For a month now, I’ve been thinking that I need to get up off my ass and write a check to Warnock’s campaign, but every day I’ve read about how many Dems are turning out to vote for Warnock, how the issue of Senate contr… --- ## ['Snow joke out there. Dopers in areas that get a lot of snow, how do you deal with it?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-joke-out-there-dopers-in-areas-that-get-a-lot-of-snow-how-do-you-deal-with-it/975139)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 102\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snow-joke-out-there-dopers-in-areas-that-get-a-lot-of-snow-how-do-you-deal-with-it/975139 "2022-12-06T14:52:41Z")
I was watching the local news yesterday and the sports guy was saying that the Bills game was being moved to Ford Field in Detroit because Buffalo was expected to get 4 to 6 feet of snow. 4 to 6 FEET? I thought, since he… --- ## [Is typing a rare skill in the military?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-typing-a-rare-skill-in-the-military/975861)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-typing-a-rare-skill-in-the-military/975861 "2022-12-06T14:13:13Z")
There’s a scene early in the movie Black Hawk Down where an incoming Ranger is being checked in to the base and at some point in their interaction, this exchange occurs: Ranger 1: “I have a rare and mysterious skill tha… --- ## [So Facebook and Twitter decide to be Publishers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006)
**Author:** [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-facebook-and-twitter-decide-to-be-publishers/923006 "2022-12-06T14:00:02Z")
New York Post report about Hunter Biden’s emails about Berisma and VP Biden. Twitter and FB took down any mention of the emails. They have become publishers not a town square. --- ## [Are eclipses of planets by the moon a thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-eclipses-of-planets-by-the-moon-a-thing/974767)
**Author:** [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-eclipses-of-planets-by-the-moon-a-thing/974767 "2022-12-06T13:56:54Z")
I notice that the moon must have passed very close to Mars a few hours ago, and it was the same last week with Jupiter. So it occurs to me, do planets ever get obscured by the moon? I would expect that if you knew that, … --- ## [Artists who parodied their own work](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-parodied-their-own-work/957323)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 103\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-who-parodied-their-own-work/957323 "2022-12-06T13:55:04Z")
I’ll bet most people on the Board won’t recognize Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, which was a made-for-TV cartoon series from 1960. They live in the Cat Cave, travel in the Catmobile and the Catplane, and can be called… --- ## [Dating A Bible](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-a-bible/523571)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dating-a-bible/523571 "2022-12-06T08:45:58Z")
My SIL asked me to ask y’all if you’d help us “date” a very old Bible we found that has no printing information. Here’s what we have (and all of this is on the title page) Self-Pronouncing Edition The Holy Bible Con… --- ## [Why is Prometheus according to some sources not considered a Titan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-prometheus-according-to-some-sources-not-considered-a-titan/976023)
**Author:** [@Octagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octagon)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-prometheus-according-to-some-sources-not-considered-a-titan/976023 "2022-12-06T07:02:46Z")
Why is Prometheus according to some soources not considered a Titan? Is the below information correct? “Forethought.” Is sometimes called a Titan though in reality he did not belong to the Titans, but was only a son o… --- ## [OK, my daffy landlord is starting to scare me now](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 67\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-my-daffy-landlord-is-starting-to-scare-me-now/956506 "2022-12-06T06:17:40Z")
He was talking about how he’s worried they’re going to take more and more freedoms away from unvaccinated people, including the freedom to vote, and he actually said, paraphrasing here, that if he was told he wasn’t allo… --- ## [Who knows about holding an estate sale?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-about-holding-an-estate-sale/976021)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-knows-about-holding-an-estate-sale/976021 "2022-12-06T04:54:25Z")
We had a death in the family recently. They lived alone and owned the usual household items plus a good amount of stuff that nobody in the family particularly wants (tools, collectibles, knicks and knacks). It seems an e… --- ## [Did you watch Elon's Neuralink webcast?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-watch-elons-neuralink-webcast/919280)
**Author:** [@SlackWithHonor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackWithHonor)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-watch-elons-neuralink-webcast/919280 "2022-12-06T04:16:37Z")
I’m actually still watching but it’s almost over. If you didn’t see it, big reveal was a computer that beeped when a pig touched things with its snout. However, I believe that it’s going to be able to do what it says, a… --- ## [Oxygen Not Included: The Kerbal Space Program of base building & what Fallout Shelter should've been](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oxygen-not-included-the-kerbal-space-program-of-base-building-what-fallout-shelter-shouldve-been/816582)
**Author:** [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Replies:** 829\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oxygen-not-included-the-kerbal-space-program-of-base-building-what-fallout-shelter-shouldve-been/816582 "2022-12-06T04:02:02Z")
From the makers of the critically and commercially successful Don’t Starve, Oxygen Not Included is arguably the best base management game. I’ve never been into base building and management games but this one is great. F… --- ## [Is this a plot hole in this mystery I just finished?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-plot-hole-in-this-mystery-i-just-finished/976034)
**Author:** [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-plot-hole-in-this-mystery-i-just-finished/976034 "2022-12-06T03:36:03Z")
The story was pretty good, but at the very end there seemed to be this plot hole. Place, UK and Cyprus. Time, 1971. In order to convince the authorities that person A, a Turkish Cypriot (who is actually dead) has fled … --- ## [Kirstie Alley, 71 passes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirstie-alley-71-passes/976072)
**Author:** [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2022, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kirstie-alley-71-passes/976072 "2022-12-06T03:33:10Z")
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