# I'm back after 7 years... what did I miss? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969 "2018-03-21T14:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/41 "2018-03-22T00:15:59Z")
Still no posts that come close to **Scylla** ’s blimp story, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/42 "2018-03-22T00:17:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Didn’t they stop requiring a goat at the initiations? I think **Tripler** pushed it off a bridge. :mad: He was supposed to get a new one. No one wanted to use what was left. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/43 "2018-03-22T00:19:10Z")
Unfortunately for you, I started posting after you left…so you missed a lot. Wait…no you didn’t. Wait…yes you did. You should probably have someone fill you in on Ummkay… ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/44 "2018-03-22T01:27:54Z")
What about the quarry, and throwing things into it? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/45 "2018-03-22T01:43:01Z")
This thread is making me twitch. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/46 "2018-03-22T01:54:55Z")
Why haven’t you been filling your cousin in on the goings-on of the SDMB? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/47 "2018-03-22T02:04:36Z")
What’s happened in the last seven years? Let’s see… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its report, which is dutifully being mostly ignored. The Drones took over (I am writing this under their benevolent tutelage.). Facebook has been demonstrated to simultaneously be a division of the CIA, the FSB, MI6, Mossad, CSIS _and_ Wal-Mart. (It is unclear whose idea this was.) US money has fine print in Chinese. Canadian money is made of plastic. Australian money is the most valuable in the world. Bitcoins are allowed to marry in 7 states. Self-driving cars don’t. And in a groundbreaking study performed by Stanford University and the Helsinki Institute of Soft Things to Touch, natural stupidity has been proved to be 54% more efficient than artificial intelligence, 14 times out of 12. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/48 "2018-03-22T02:15:03Z")
There are soft things to touch in Finland? I think you are being fed fawlty information. It never completely thaws anywhere, and in Lapland north of Oulu, summer lasts for about four hours around July first. Nothing ever has a chance to get soft. Except maybe Linux. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/49 "2018-03-22T02:16:55Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > There are soft things to touch in Finland? I think you are being fed fawlty information. It never completely thaws anywhere, and in Lapland north of Oulu, summer lasts for about four hours around July first. Nothing ever has a chance to get soft. Except maybe Linux. They told me all the soft things were inside. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/50 "2018-03-22T02:17:14Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > What about the quarry, and throwing things into it? Nice. Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/51 "2018-03-22T02:20:19Z")
We finally came to agreement on circumcision and declawing cats. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/52 "2018-03-22T02:28:21Z")
Socks, pants and the order thereof? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/53 "2018-03-22T02:29:11Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > We finally came to agreement on circumcision and declawing cats. Circumcising cats is right out. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/54 "2018-03-22T02:53:16Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Socks, pants and the order thereof? …& dog pants & the [orientation](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2015/12/Screen_Shot_2015_12_29_at_5.19.10_PM/lead_large.png) thereof. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/55 "2018-03-22T12:31:48Z")
> [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > I haven’t seen a good thread about planes on a treadmill, 1920’s style death-rays, tipping, or wearing shoes inside for a while though. I burning your dog! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/56 "2018-03-22T13:13:41Z")
We’ve had a few discussions, or, more properly, the same discussions a few more times. Welcome back. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969/57 "2018-03-23T21:44:59Z")
Did you bring pie? I don’t see any pie… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-back-after-7-years-what-did-i-miss/810969.md?page=2)