# The most valuable thing I ever read on a SD posting was... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 22, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387 "2010-03-22T21:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/41 "2010-03-24T01:02:50Z")
The very first thing I paid attention to was a link from the main SD page in Threadspotting - something to do with some very deep place in the ocean and men being there for some brief period of time way back when. I decided then and there to hang out some more in this place. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/42 "2010-03-24T01:04:52Z")
Another vote for the neti pot and for the Diva Cup. (There’s a curious symmetry in that pairing.) But the other thing I found extremely valuable is that the weird, disturbed sleep I’ve experienced for years is hypnagogic hallucinations. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/43 "2010-03-24T05:21:11Z")
I was amazed that some women believe they pee out of their vagina. How do they think they pee when they’re having their period, and something is stuffed up there? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/44 "2010-03-24T05:30:30Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I was amazed that some women believe they pee out of their vagina. How do they think they pee when they’re having their period, and something is stuffed up there? It’s one of the lesser known functions of the Diva Cup, clearly. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/45 "2010-03-24T05:32:33Z")
Another vote for the DivaCup. That thing has changed my life! ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/46 "2010-03-24T07:48:37Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > A lot of information about lenses and focal lengths on P&S digital cameras when I was ignorant about them, which has since spurned a pretty passionate hobby in DSLR photography. So after you learned about all this, P&S ensued? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/47 "2010-03-25T03:07:57Z")
I can’t point to one specific thing I’ve learned from one posting here, but the Teeming Millions here have taught me to become a better critical thinker. So thanks, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/48 "2010-03-25T16:43:13Z")
The terror of blimps. ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/49 "2010-03-25T17:23:23Z")
I learned how dangerous it had been that I had been taking large doses of Tylenol for an extended period of time… didn’t really think it was a problem until I asked a question here one day and a helpful doper informed me on the danger to my liver… I might be dead now if I hadn’t participated in that thread. ---
**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 25, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/50 "2010-03-25T20:58:21Z")
This one is sort of embarrassing and extremely recent…but I have never been told and it never occurred to me that if my car is accelerating out of my control, I should flip it in to neutral. The way everyone talks about it makes me think that’s something any idiot should know, but I honestly had no idea. Of course, I don’t drive Toyotas 😉 but still I feel safer knowing it. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/51 "2010-03-25T22:03:57Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > The terror of blimps. How to kill [evil Nazi Groundhogs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=15906&highlight=nazi+groundhogs) (or how not to). ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/52 "2010-03-26T01:39:12Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > This one is sort of embarrassing and extremely recent…but I have never been told and it never occurred to me that if my car is accelerating out of my control, I should flip it in to neutral. > > The way everyone talks about it makes me think that’s something any idiot should know, but I honestly had no idea. Of course, I don’t drive Toyotas 😉 but still I feel safer knowing it. I drive a Prius and this is what I was going to say. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/53 "2010-03-26T02:25:06Z")
I come here to renew my belief that humans are good. We think. We care. We give and receive from one another. We are capable of coming together as a community to help, advise, comfort, challenge, and commensurate. Here can be found our common bond that many of us use to add to our daily lives. We can be heroic when needed, we can be compassionate, we can be beautiful and mundane. I am astounded that this electronic medium has allowed us to be all that humans have always been…without meeting in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/54 "2010-03-26T04:08:34Z")
That my internal organs [can spontaneously fall out of my body](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=392572). ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/55 "2010-03-26T12:13:29Z")
> [@Risha](#): > > That my internal organs [can spontaneously fall out of my body](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=392572). Holy crap! I didn’t know that one! Add this to the things I learned on the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/56 "2010-03-26T12:25:55Z")
Last summer, right after I moved out on my own for the first time, there was a thread on ridiculously simple recipes. I was testing out the recipes for months afterwards! (For the record, the winner was haluski. Apparently, egg noodles, cottage cheese, cabbage, and onions taste really good together.) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/57 "2010-03-26T15:52:08Z")
I’ve learned to be more skeptical about the quackier side of alternative medicines and therapies (homeopathy, qigong, etc). I’d had quite a bit of trouble separating my “I want to believe” side of my brain from my “You’re full of shit” side. I was in a years-long reading slump, and was turned on to many wonderful authors and books that reignited my love. Now if George RR Martin would just finish that damn next book… Pleated pants simply look bad, no matter how many middle-managers are wear ing them. Middle-managers do not have a secret direct line into appropriate fashion sense for the workplace. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387/58 "2010-03-27T21:43:27Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > Last summer, right after I moved out on my own for the first time, there was a thread on ridiculously simple recipes. I was testing out the recipes for months afterwards! (For the record, the winner was haluski. Apparently, egg noodles, cottage cheese, cabbage, and onions taste really good together.) I can’t find this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-valuable-thing-i-ever-read-on-a-sd-posting-was/533387.md?page=2)