# I have arrived **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349 "2025-10-28T00:48:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/21 "2025-10-28T09:34:54Z")
Welcome Alli! I’ve been here for about 25 years, I think, which slightly horrifies me, but compared to the rest of the social cesspit, it’s like a safe haven of sanity and kindness. Largely. ---
**Author:** ![bodangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bodangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bodangus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/22 "2025-10-28T09:53:24Z")
1. mustard 2. over, unless you have pets that mess with the TP. 3. across 4. Raisins are better. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/23 "2025-10-28T12:17:25Z")
> [@Alli](#): > > Hopefully, I’ll fit in here. Since “Alli” is Spanish for ‘over there,’ I’d have to modify your statement in order to agree with it 😉 Which is arguing over nothing, which … is one of the many wonderful things that characterizes this place 🙂 Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/24 "2025-10-28T12:21:49Z")
> [@Alli](#): > > The forums I’ve been on for the last couple of years is in its way out, so I need a new home. Hopefully, I’ll fit in here. If you like intelligent, knowledgeable people, interesting topics, humor, and variety in discussion, you’ll love it here. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/25 "2025-10-28T13:45:00Z")
> [@bodangus](#): > > - across > - Raisins are better Raisins? On pizza??? BTW, from the thread title i thought it was going to be about your GPS telling you you were at your destination ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/26 "2025-10-28T13:58:42Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Since “Alli” is Spanish for ‘over there,’ I’d have to modify your statement in order to agree with it 😉 > > Which is arguing over nothing, which … is one of the many wonderful things that characterizes this place 🙂 > > Welcome! nitpick: allí (accent in “i”). having said that: welcome to the home of “_pointless nitpicks R’Us_”, the great SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/27 "2025-10-28T14:11:57Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > nitpick: allí (accent in “i”). Ninja’d. Welcome to the home of rightful, mutually ninjaing nitpickers! ---
**Author:** ![Alli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alli/32/20123_2.png) [@Alli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alli)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/28 "2025-10-28T14:13:34Z")
I’m too old to bother with that. I might be gone before I make it to the front of the line. ---
**Author:** ![Alli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alli/32/20123_2.png) [@Alli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alli)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/29 "2025-10-28T14:38:28Z")
Ketchup. I won’t even put mustard in potato salad. Over. Across. I’d rather pineapple than tomato sauce. ---
**Author:** ![bodangus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bodangus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bodangus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/30 "2025-10-28T14:40:59Z")
> [@bodangus](#): > > - mustard > - over, unless you have pets that mess with the TP. > - across > - Raisins are better. My first three opinions were serious. The last one, raisins, was not. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![Alli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alli/32/20123_2.png) [@Alli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alli)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/31 "2025-10-28T14:42:00Z")
I do! I’m missing a thumbs up though. ---
**Author:** ![Alli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alli/32/20123_2.png) [@Alli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alli)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/32 "2025-10-28T14:43:39Z")
Fortunately, I don’t speak Spanish. And Alli has no meaning in French, or any of these other languages I speak. 🤷🏽‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/33 "2025-10-28T14:52:08Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Okay, enuf with the pleasantries. Before we go any further, we gotta know: > > 1. Hot dogs: mustard or ketchup? > 2. Toilet paper: over or under? > 3. Corn-on-the-cob: across or around? > 4. Is pineapple an appropriate topping for pizza? > > Choose wisely. These are “gotcha” questions because all sensible people know the right answers! 1. Only a depraved lunatic would put ketchup on a hot dog. 2. Under, of course, for obvious reasons. 3. I don’t see how this is even a question. Of course you eat around, and then move on to the next section. 4. Pineapple might be an appropriate pizza topping on Neptune, as preferred by Neptunians, but never on this Earth. Welcome to the board, **Alli**. I hope you have the correct, sane views on the above critical issues! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/34 "2025-10-28T14:53:46Z")
> [@Alli](#): > > I do! I’m missing a thumbs up though. 👍💯 ---
**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:** [October 28, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/35 "2025-10-28T15:01:33Z")
Hi @Alli! and welcome. I came here after the snopes boards died. Some things took a bit of adjustment, but it was definitely worth it. Conversations about nearly anything, with people who don’t think “cite please” is an insult and most of whom will provide them, and who have interesting and mostly kind minds. Plus a reasonable level of silly. That’s what I needed, that’s what I found here. ETA: Put whatever you want on your hot dog. And the toilet paper should be on a vertical holder, which makes the whole over/under issue disappear. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/36 "2025-10-28T15:56:11Z")
you might have arrived … but how do you feel about airplanes taking off of treatmills? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/37 "2025-10-28T16:04:06Z")
> [@Alli](#): > > Hopefully, I’ll fit in here. It’s not that difficult. Basically, follow forum rules and obey the mantra of “Don’t be a jerk”. This board is pretty tightly moderated, so if you violate either of the above, a mod will let you know. ---
**Author:** ![Alli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alli/32/20123_2.png) [@Alli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alli)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/38 "2025-10-28T16:29:05Z")
Agree to disagree? ---
**Author:** ![Alli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alli/32/20123_2.png) [@Alli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alli)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/39 "2025-10-28T16:30:57Z")
👍🏼 Not quite the same, but it’ll do. ---
**Author:** ![Alli](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alli/32/20123_2.png) [@Alli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alli)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-arrived/1024349/40 "2025-10-28T16:34:23Z")
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