Because the Straight Dope tells me so - things learned from the Dope.

Area Mom Discovers the Secret of Simple Gender Reassignment Surgery
Turn your cock into a gash with this one weird old trick

The CTRL+F function for finding a specific word or phrase on any computer page. I am amazed at how many people have not heard of it.

I think I may hate her more. I picked out a bunch of stuff and they don’t ship to Canada. :mad:

In gods’ name, how have you not bled to death?

I’ve learned many, many things, none of which manage to remain in my brane very long.

I’m not a Mac guy, so I don’t know how often people are in Spotlight - but I’m constantly in my browser, and I just use Google for everything. Calculator, money converter, unit conversion, pretty much anything.

Really? Did you guys know about Zappos? I’m assuming everyone knows about Groupon too…

I finally jumped on the Netflix bandwagon after reading so many Netflix threads about Instant Watch. The DVD thing just was not working for me. According to feedflix, we spend like a quarter per dvd but several dollars per physical disc.

ETA: Oh yeah, if you’re a netflix user, use this to get your money’s worth. And to see what’s expiring from Instant when.

Those bastards! That’s running neck and neck for annoying me with companies that want ridiculous amounts of money to ship to Canada - put it in the mail, fools. USPS can actually hand off things to Canada Post. Sheesh, it’s like they don’t know we have a country full of online-savvy consumers up here (and it is only marginally more difficult to ship here than to mainland US). :slight_smile:

The reason some companies want extra money to ship to Canada is Customs. I work for a courier company here in Canada, and we have half a dozen people in our depot whose only job is ensuring the Customs paperwork is correct. As one example, any kind of fabric bigger than an inch square has to have a Customs Commercial Invoice, with fines if you try to slip something through and it gets caught. One of our truckers told me once that any truck going across the border has a stack of paperwork to show customs, and if any part of the paperwork is incorrect it’s a $1200 fine to the trucker personally.

Government bureaucracy, gotta love it (or they’ll fine you.)

Psst It’s “ignoramuses”.

To NOT declaw a cat. I read about it here way before I actually ended up getting a cat, but I’m glad I learned what that cruel process really is.

I guess they probably have something similar preventing them from shipping those cute Stuart Weitzman heels to Tokyo. Bastairds.

I learned the benefits and ease of using a Neti Pot. Now I use one every day!

The deadlift is one of the best exercises for developing full body strength.

I was about to add this.

Ah, the wonderful relief of getting rid of all that mucus.

Many things, I guess. But since I just read the thread about the full face and hands transplant, an example :
That a chimpanzee is vastly stronger than a human (and generally of nasty temper if adult). There’s no way I’d help a friend catch a chimpanzee on the loose as a result (in fact, I wouldn’t come close to any chimpanzee, period).

What? Maybe he and the chicken were just trying to conserve water?

You know, it’s very Un-Dope-ish to judge fellow Dopers for their alternate lifestyles. :wink:

Lessee… I learned that twin-engine airliners can make transoceanic flights, and that the certification for this is called ETOPS (short for something that I can’t remember, although I also learned the alternate acronym here: Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim)

Oh, and I learned that blimps in the night can be quite terrifying. :smiley:

I’m still reading and learning the odd fact here and there, and realize no, I do NOT know everything, lol.

I’ve enjoyed the ‘name your favorite songs of the ___’ and have written down several long lists of, well, songs I’d like to hear again, or names of new ones. iTunes, here I come.

Fun fact: what we call pine cones used to be called pineapples. When English explorers first encountered Ananas comosus, they thought they looked like pineapples, so they called them pineapples. Only later were the original pineapples renamed pine cones.

That English is pretty much the only language using the Latin alphabet that doesn’t call pineapples ananas.

Oh, that if Europeans want to talk with an “American accent”, they talk louder and slower. I remember that coming up a few times.