I was reading tons of old threads in the archives on these boards, and someone (around 2013 possibly) had started a thread called “A Reverse “Ask The ___” Thread” in which she says ‘This is the place to ask all those questions you didn’t ask because they’re not good enough for their own OPs’ (I can’t find this thread now- the only topic she brought up that I can remember involved the question of ‘If a woman on her period dies, does she continue having her period, and what do morgues do to stop the bleeding?’- if anyone can find this thread, let me know, it’s not important though).
So- ask any question or bring up any comment or topic that you wanted to post but felt was too unimportant to start its own OP about.
Here’s some from me:
Some magazines (especially special one-off issues) have a ‘Display Until’ date printed on the cover. a) why does it matter that much and b) what happens if a store continues displaying it for sale long past that date? (I was in a drug store that had several mags with Display Until dates that were long past)
Has there ever been an intelligent, sane, and educated person (in the last 100 years or so) who actually believed in the existence of vampires?
Have you ever intentionally fed rats or mice? Does anyone here not hate them? Does anyone here like them? I live in NYC, and I enjoy giving foods to rats/rat populations on purpose, I find rats and mice to be very cute and, in a modern world, not nearly as much of a “plague-carrying” kinda risk as they used to be.
Here’s some more I’ve been kicking around in my head for a while, but these are less FQ than two of the three ones I already posted:
How many people (in terms of a number) do you wish you could be close acquaintances with? How many people (in the dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions, etc) do you wish you could hang with at least once, have conversation/s with, get to know significantly well, etc.? For me: millions, really
If you could visit either the 1930s, 1940s, or 1950s (AD/CE of course ), but only one of those, which would you choose? Note: you’ll be there a few weeks or months or so, unless you wanna leave early. Also: this visit is for time-vacation enjoyment only, NOT for changing history, meeting any past relatives or such, profiting from it in any money or power way, or investigating historical mysteries/questions, etc. Just an enjoyment visit, nothing else. My answer: 1940s.
And also a Cafe Society-type one:
Are there any anecdotes about Kurt Cobain that you think a Kurt-buff like me (I know a good deal, that’s all, not an expert) may not have heard already? And: are there any anecdotes about Kurt that many think may just be urban legends but you actually think are true?
If the moon got farther away from the earth, what would happen?
How much faster would the earth have to rotate for it to be noticable?
Why are medicine lids so hard to open?
was made of cheese, would you- well, you know the rest.
You already know what child-proof packaging is, meds are dangerous. Please don’t just use this thread to make fun of “Famous bad questions people have asked on message boards many times” such as “the third word in English ending in -gry” or “If evolution is true why are monkeys not still turning into people right now?”
Do you think the Fast and the Furious franchise is ever going to do a time-travel story? I mean they’ve done everything else in ridiculous ways, why not this? I’d love a good 1940s Vin Diesel drag race.
I had a pet rat as a kid, and one of my high school classrooms had a mascot rat who frequently got taken out of confinement by students (including me) wanting to pet or play with the rat.
I already knew someone would mention the whole “rats/mice as pets” idea, and if and when they did I would then clarify and say that intentionally taking care of (mostly by feeding) rats and mice that live on the streets/drainage grates/trash areas/et al is a different thing to do, like I do.
Another trivial but burning question: Here in Manhattan/NYC I notice that when people bag their dog’s feces in those little dark plastic bags, they always leave it on the rim of the trash can rather than in the hole/body of the trash can wherein you’re supposed to throw trash away; is it some city ordinance saying ‘leave the dog poop on the side of the rim so it can be disposed of in some special way’ thing? Also: people always stick those white 'Open To Enjoy’ stickers on the trash can rim rather than throwing them away (I guess it’s easier than sticking it to some piece of trash?)
I’ve been looking at an ocean of old threads on these boards, and one topic was a guy asking ‘What is this structure on stilts that I see every time I commute on this country backroad’ (he provided a google Street view image and the posters knew that it was a barn built on stilts to keep out rats/mice). They then discussed how some farmhouses have chairs in the kitchen with special cup-shaped blockers facing downward on the legs (to stop mice/rats from climbing up chair legs to get to the tabletops) but that you’ll still find plenty of rodents get past those things.
Back in early January of this year the local NYC radio station (or maybe NPR but I’m pretty positive it was local talk radio type show) did a special one-hour program on rats, and many of the interviewed actually said rats are cute/cool just like I feel they are, but some parts included a story of a group of guys who sat in a semi-circle with shotguns and cracked some beers and made an afternoon of blowing away thousands of rats that had taken over a crop field, so sometimes you do have to protect your crops
But still, calling rats/mice vermin isn’t so accurate- rodents don’t breed by the thousands or millions like 99% of insects/bacteria do, they’re cute, and actually cool animals if you study up on them or take time to ‘get to know some of them’
You mean the same farm kids who tell me I have a purdy mouth and then start playing the banjo? Forget those guys
Its best that he died at 27. He seemed like a jealous, insecure asshole; and had he lived a long life he probably would’ve spent his entire life trashing Dave Grohl for becoming more successful than he was. He probably would’ve also bitched endlessly when his band ended up forgotten after their 4th album or so. Had he lived long enough for people to see his personality, he would’ve gone down as a sad and bitter man, rather than the grunge hero he is considered to be.
None, they all suck.
1930s - global depression
1940s - world war 2
1950s - mass conformity
I’m from the South (barely, and I don’t really have any accent), so I’m not anti-South anti-rural at all (I love me a good isolated camping retreat or tearing up a lone highway now and again), I was just making a joke but also pointing out that rural Americans aren’t usually the most liberal or sensitive about things like animal rights or the like, and I don’t lose sleep over farmers having to protect their crops by taking out rodents who jeopardize their livelihood, that’s justified.
Nothing, except maybe some people wont buy it. They magazine companies put those dates on, then ship the new 'zines- sometimes the shipments are late.
Supernatural? Well Doctor Sir Conan Doyle believed in a lot of supernatural crap. I do believe in Emotional Vampires- sadly they CAN see themselves in a morror- in fact they look a lot in them.
Yes, I had pet rats. They are very nice pets, except they die too soon. I used to feed them in school also.
Randall Munroe, of XKCD explains things like that-
I don’t think ‘late shipment’ is the cause of most of these mags being left up past their Display Until date, but anyways: does an already-past Display Until date ever cause the UPC not to ring up or anything? Also, why do publishers even put a Display Until date on a magazine at all?
No, they will ring up just fine. Sometimes the clerk putting out the magazines will put out the new ones and forget to pull the old ones- which are supposed to be sent back (parts) for credit.
@DrDeth’s cite doesn’t really address your questions. But that collection of videos is still fun in a (very) science nerd way.
See here for more: Moon → System Evolution - Wikipedia. Bottom line: The Moon gets farther away and the Earth rotates more slowly every single day. Always has and always will.
The change is readily noticeable to modern instruments every day.
But it also amounts to very little over a single human lifetime. Over a good long life the Moon ends up very roughly 3 feet farther away, and Earth’s day becomes a 10th of a second longer. As such its not perceptible to a layman at a glance and would take a couple million years to get to a change you’d notice if you magically spent a few days in that far future environment.
Very poor taste, since it was indirectly directed at me, a person who was raised on a farm. And I have extremely progressive views, for your information.
What is the point of paying north of a million for a car that can go 300kmph when you’ll never be able to drive it at that speed (unless you live near the AutoBahn)? I figure it comes down to either a) prestige, or b) people who can afford these cars can afford to rent out race tracks, or c) people who can afford these cars don’t give a fuck about speed limits.
), but only one of those, which would you choose? Note: you’ll be there a few weeks or months or so, unless you wanna leave early. Also: this visit is for time-vacation enjoyment only, NOT for changing history, meeting any past relatives or such, profiting from it in any money or power way, or investigating historical mysteries/questions, etc. Just an enjoyment visit, nothing else. My answer: 1940s.
