# Things you FINALLY figured out **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223 "2023-04-05T22:49:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/61 "2023-04-09T04:39:53Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Are women in fact impressed by a great car? It sounds like the sort of thing men _think_ women are impressed by, only they usually aren’t. If my ex-wife is to be believed, no they’re not. She was a quite attractive young lady, and we’d be walking down the street together, and some Pickup Truck Asshole (we were in southern Alberta, where “pickup truck” is a synonym of “daily driver,” if not “family car”), with a jacked-up pickup truck, dual exhausts pointing straight up behind the cab, and a resonator, would “vroom, vroom” as he drove by. “Ooooh,” she’d say, rolling her eyes, sarcastically. “Be my boyfriend,” rolling her eyes again. In short, cars, trucks, engine vrooms–she wasn’t impressed. I’d imagine many other women aren’t either. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/62 "2023-04-09T12:49:13Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I’d imagine many other women aren’t either. It doesn’t take many, only one. In a way, it’s the same model scammers use. Try enough people and someone will take the bait. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/63 "2023-04-09T19:40:04Z")
From what I’ve heard the newer Triumph motorcycles are a lot better. They sure have the “cool” factor. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/64 "2023-04-09T19:57:55Z")
It is hard to imagine that they could have gotten even more unreliable after all! They sure are purty, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/65 "2023-04-09T19:59:37Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Yes! What it feels like to me is that I’m perpetually sitting in a chair that someone just got out of and still has a lot of residual butt heat. Which isn’t a horrible experience for a few seconds, but not one that I want to last forever. It feels different when it’s five degrees outside (and inside your car). ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/66 "2023-04-09T20:15:12Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > Time flies like an arrow > Fruit flies like a banana. * * * You probably know this one. Insert punctuation to make the following clear and logical: _Time flies you cannot they pass too quickly_ (There are several different wordings for that puzzle, but the solutions are similar.) ---
**Author:** ![kwintenstraler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kwintenstraler/32/10698_2.png) [@kwintenstraler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kwintenstraler)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/67 "2023-04-09T20:20:14Z")
It took me also about 40 years before I discovered the second meaning ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/68 "2023-04-09T20:32:22Z")
Have to disagree. n-size of one…but after my divorce, I decided to try to date again. It wasn’t the easiest to find dates but the ones I had seemed to end after one. For an unrelated reason, I decided to give away my old car and bought an Infiniti G35 Coup with some bells and whistles. Soon dates seemed to be easier to get and most of them went beyond date one. YMMV. I have also known many women in my life. Most seem to judge a fella on his car. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/69 "2023-04-09T20:36:05Z")
I finally got a 300 year old joke. In Jonathan Swift’s _Gullivers’ Travel_ (full title: _Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships_) the title character visits a flying island named _Laputa_. Not speaking Spanish I did not realize how Swift came up with the name for island til this year despite seeing about a half dozen versions of the book. For those of who don’t know _La puta_ in Spanish translates as “The Whore” in English. Swift spoke Spanish himself so this has to be deliberate joke on his part. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/70 "2023-04-09T20:44:56Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > n-size of one…but after my divorce, I decided to try to date again. It wasn’t the easiest to find dates but the ones I had seemed to end after one. > > For an unrelated reason, I decided to give away my old car and bought an Infiniti G35 Coup with some bells and whistles. Soon dates seemed to be easier to get and most of them went beyond date one. > > YMMV. > > I have also known many women in my life. Most seem to judge a fella on his car. n-size of 2. I drive a Honda Civic at the moment. When I first got divorced I drove a 12 year old Accord. I had more successful dates than I even imagined possible. I’m in Santa Barbara so it might have been different in a big metro where there is generally more superficiality. ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/71 "2023-04-09T22:28:52Z")
Yeah, I was in a big metro area. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/72 "2023-04-10T01:19:36Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > > [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > > > Time flies like an arrow > > Fruit flies like a banana. > > * * * > > You probably know this one. > Insert punctuation to make the following clear and logical: > _Time flies you cannot they pass too quickly_ > > (There are several different wordings for that puzzle, but the solutions are similar.) I don’t know, but I’ll give it a shot. Time flies, you cannot. They pass, too. Quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/73 "2023-04-10T01:20:45Z")
I looked up the solution, but I still don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/74 "2023-04-10T01:59:16Z")
“Time flies; you cannot—they go too fast." The tricky thing is that _time_ isn’t a noun here. It’s a verb in the imperative (a command or directive). It’s not a subject and a verb. It’s a verb (with an implied subject “you”) and an object. IOW determine the speed of flies by timing them. You can’t-- they go too fast. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/75 "2023-04-10T02:03:47Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “Time flies; you cannot—they go too fast." I came up with the same thought, but I punctuated it thusly: “Time flies? You cannot–they go too fast.” But perhaps I stretched the rules by capitalizing the ‘Y’. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/76 "2023-04-10T03:15:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > IOW determine the speed of flies by timing them. You can’t-- they go too fast. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/77 "2023-04-10T07:51:43Z")
Yours is better. 👍🏽 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/78 "2023-04-10T11:52:42Z")
A grocery store near me sometimes has on their sign, “LOL American Cheese $3.15 /pound”. I always thought they were laughing at how inexpensive their cheese was. Then one day I saw the cheese on display and realized it was [Land O’ Lakes cheese](https://www.landolakes.com/products/cheese/deli-american/). ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/79 "2023-04-10T12:26:00Z")
> [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > I have also known many women in my life. Most seem to judge a fella on his car. I have met a few shallow and materialist women (on other fronts) who judged a man by his car and his other outward shows. Almost all the women I know would judge a middle aged man who drove a flashy car to be shallow and materialistic. I guess you run with a different set of people. Myself, I go for a guy with an American pickup who does something useful with it besides waste gas and overfill parking spots. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223/80 "2023-04-10T13:12:17Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > I have met a few shallow and materialist women (on other fronts) who judged a man by his car and his other outward shows. About 30 years ago I was hanging out with my (single and female) cousin at a bar. She was chatting with some guy, and I could tell she was sort of interested in him. The guy eventually said he had to go, and he left. About 20 seconds after he left, my cousin ran outside, and came back in after a minute or two. I asked her why she ran outside. She said, “I wanted to see what kind of car he had.” (Knowing her pretty well, I suspect she simply wanted to see if it was a expensive car, e.g. a new BMW or Mercedes. Social status meant a lot to her.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-figured-out/982223.md?page=5)