# Things You Shouldn't Need To Tell People **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674 "2021-07-04T19:29:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/465 "2021-11-12T19:23:07Z")
Say you’re a prime minister, and one of your members (of parliament) has been found guilty of corruption by an independent committee, you shouldn’t need to be told that rushing through a vote to scrap the committee and retrospectively exonerate said member, and threaten to reduce government funding to the constituencies of any members who vote against the government is going to look corrupt & sleazy. wanker ---
**Author:** ![cytop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f17d59/32.png) [@cytop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cytop)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/466 "2021-11-13T11:53:53Z")
^^ Isn’t that just about par these days…? It’s just the underlying sleaze, which has always existed in that branch of politics, coming to the fore in the interests of ‘transparency’ ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/467 "2021-11-13T17:08:00Z")
You shouldn’t need to point out to anyone that those in high office are prone to sleaze and corruption. Lord Acton said it clearly some 150 years ago… > “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…” ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/468 "2021-11-13T17:53:33Z")
Dont eat yellow snow. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/469 "2021-11-13T18:51:53Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Sounds like the “Are there turkeys in India?” conversation we had at work one time. I spent the larger part of a year working in Rizhao, China, and when Thanksgiving approached I asked one of the locals if there were any turkeys in China. I was told that they had some, but in the zoo and not for culinary purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/470 "2021-11-13T20:31:52Z")
Well, just how do you propose to know where the huskies go? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/471 "2021-11-13T21:08:49Z")
How about, when you’re sitting at an intersection, and there’s a left turn arrow light, when that light turns green, you’re allowed to actually turn left. The people across the street will have a red light as well, so no need to worry excessively that they’ll T-Bone you as you turn. And yet, it seems this week, everyone else in this city have forgotten this. Several times I got stuck behind not just one, but several cars that took forever to figure out they were allowed to turn. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/472 "2021-11-14T00:51:37Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Several times I got stuck behind not just one, but several cars that took forever to figure out they were allowed to turn. You sure they didn’t have their noses in their cell phones? Chances are that was the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674/473 "2021-11-14T13:33:19Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > You sure they didn’t have their noses in their cell phones? Chances are that was the problem. I was too far back in the line to see what was going on. But in my experience, cell phone usage while driving isn’t all that common here, the local police actually take that pretty seriously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-shouldnt-need-to-tell-people/945674.md?page=23)