# An Omnibus Discussion Thread In Which You Can Ask All The Questions/Topics Not Good Enough To Start OPs About **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2026, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554 "2026-06-01T22:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/61 "2026-06-04T15:39:14Z")
**So you’re supposed to put milk in your tea, right? Whole milk, 2% milk? Cold out of the fridge or do you let it get to room temperature first?** ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/62 "2026-06-04T15:49:37Z")
All of the above. Any moderately snooty coffee / tea place will offer 4 kinds of dairy milk and at least 4 other kinds of “milk”. Available hot, cold, or sorta in between. And 6 kinds of sweetener. The only real rule to being fussy about your tea or coffee is that whichever combo is your favorite, the place you drop into won’t have it. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/63 "2026-06-04T15:54:50Z")
**When you eat a course paired with a wine, do you start with the food or the wine?** ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/64 "2026-06-04T16:01:09Z")
I feel your pain. I’m also sick of the “So-and-so breaks silence…” and “The REAL reason why this happened” headlines. I tried the “disable this source” option many times, but like cockroaches, more come to take their place. Modern day journalism is all about the clickbait. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/65 "2026-06-04T16:13:08Z")
> [@Past\_Paper](#): > > **How many movies can you name that take place in Washington, D.C. despite not being about politics or the government?** _Damn Yankees_ ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/66 "2026-06-04T17:09:04Z")
> [@Past\_Paper](#): > > **What are some things that most people like but you don’t like, and conversely what are some things you like that most people don’t like?** I share your dislike of green peppers (and most peppers in general) and sports, and also dislike: mustard, raw tomato, and coffee. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/67 "2026-06-04T17:21:27Z")
> [@Past\_Paper](#): > > **What are some things that most people like but you don’t like, and conversely what are some things you like that most people don’t like?** Pepper. It’s so ubiquitously associated with salt that “salt & pepper” have basically become one word. “Add saltenpepper to this, add saltenpepper to that.” Similarly, I don’t like “heat” from my food. At all. I like the taste of chunky salsa, but I don’t like a “mild” jar of it setting my mouth on fire. And yet I see this chefs on YouTube just throwing chiles, or chile flakes, or chile oil, or chile whatever, into just about every dish they make. I mean, I get that I can just, you know, leave out the chile-related products. That’s fine and I do. But seriously (to the YouTube chefs), does everything you eat have to burn you have to death for you to enjoy it? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/68 "2026-06-04T17:22:50Z")
> [@Past\_Paper](#): > > I’d love to hear you expound on this- I’ve never considered this idea before or heard this argument But not in this thread, eh? > [@Past\_Paper](#): > > Where might I be able to try a slice / pie Medieval or 1600 style, does anywhere make or sell them? The Society of Creative Anachronism and other groups often have period cooking. You can get a recipe and cook it yourself. > [@HeyHomie](#): > > So you’re supposed to put milk in your tea, right? Only if you like it that way. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/69 "2026-06-04T17:23:39Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > > > > [@DrDeth](#): > > > > > > > [@Past\_Paper](#): > > > > > > > > **How many female novelists or writers have ever written a novel or screenplay that had a man as the main character?** > > > > > > Naomi Novak with her Temeraire series.(nine books) and more- > > > > Lots of them. Ursula Kroeber LeGuin, for instance. Ged. Shevek. Genly Ai. > > Donna Tartt - _The Secret History_ > > George Eliot (a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans) - _Daniel Deronda_, _Adam Bede_, _Silas Marner_, _Felix Holt_ > > and my personal favorite female-written screenplay: Nancy Dowd - _Slap Shot_ Patricia Highsmith (Tom Ripley) ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/70 "2026-06-04T17:24:15Z")
I second your distaste for spicy-hot foods. I’d prefer to taste something other than pain, TYVM! It’s getting really annoying when I stop at a convenience store for a snack during a long trip and the only chip options are “flaming hot”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/71 "2026-06-04T17:25:10Z")
> [@Past\_Paper](#): > > What are some things that most people like but you don’t like Bob Dylan Coffee Hot dogs Mangos Tomatoes I know what you’re thinking; “Nemo, you’d like Bob Dylan if he was cooked right.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/72 "2026-06-04T17:25:51Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I second your distaste for spicy-hot foods. I’d prefer to taste something other than pain, TYVM! Yep. Those people quest after the endorphin rush they get from spicy foods, and they need hotter and hotter to get it. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/73 "2026-06-04T17:34:15Z")
What gets me is the way they spice up (and by that I mean, add heat to) dishes that don’t call for it. [CHEF IS MAKING FETTUCINE ALFREDO] So now we’ll add our freshly-grated Parmesan, our cream, and five or six Trinidad Scorpion peppers for a little heat… ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/74 "2026-06-04T17:35:25Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Patricia Highsmith (Tom Ripley) Agatha Christie. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/75 "2026-06-04T17:39:44Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I second your distaste for spicy-hot foods. I’d prefer to taste something other than pain, TYVM! It’s getting really annoying when I stop at a convenience store for a snack during a long trip and the only chip options are “flaming hot”. Although, if you eat a lot of spicy food, you can discern flavors that someone who doesn’t like spicy doesn’t taste. It’s kind of like having a taste for whiskeys; some people just taste brown firewater, but others can discern different notes. I really like spicy food and I kind of divide spicy into hot and flavorful and tourist trade hot which is just hot for hot’s sake. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/76 "2026-06-04T17:40:09Z")
And in a similar vein .. Dorothy L Sayers Margery Allingham Ngaio Marsh P.D.James (there are a lot !) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/77 "2026-06-04T17:40:12Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > What gets me is the way they spice up (and by that I mean, add heat to) dishes that don’t call for it. Yeah, there was one of those kinda bogus taste tests I read- testing chili (no beans) for use on chili-dogs, etc. The spiciest one was picked by the sole judge. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/78 "2026-06-04T17:42:15Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yep. Those people quest after the endorphin rush they get from spicy foods, and they need hotter and hotter to get it. I feel that some people build up a similar “immunity” to salt. They put salt in their food because they like that taste. But after a while that amount of salt is not enough and the food tastes bland to them. So they start adding more salt. And then they become used to this amount of salt so they need a larger amount to taste it. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/79 "2026-06-04T17:46:12Z")
Yeah. For both salt and heat, what you’re used to makes a huge amount of difference to what tastes right and what tastes like too much. You can recondition your tastebuds; but it takes a while. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554/80 "2026-06-04T17:50:55Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Yeah. For both salt and heat, what you’re used to makes a huge amount of difference to what tastes right and what tastes like too much. I believe there’s a similar effect with caffeine as well. If you drink the same amount every day, your body builds up a tolerance to it and you no longer experience the same “wake up” effect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-omnibus-discussion-thread-in-which-you-can-ask-all-the-questions-topics-not-good-enough-to-start-ops-about/1030554.md?page=5)