# What do you wonder about? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062 "2026-06-20T22:20:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/101 "2026-06-23T16:18:04Z")
You’re asking a _musician_ to be timely, reliable, etc.? With no disrespect to you or your musicianship, IME musicians, and other sorts of artists, seem almost congenitally incapable of such behavior. “Whatever; whenever; probably or maybe not; we’ll see” seems to be their life motto. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/102 "2026-06-23T16:31:48Z")
The most unreliable person, as far a personal commitments was a police officer. He was awarded a couple metals and praised for being a great policeman. Could not keep an appointment or show up for anything. If he showed up he was always late. Musicians? pfft. I think people get so overwhelmed with careers, families, hobbies. Something has to give. It’s always the soft things like family and friends that suffer. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/103 "2026-06-23T16:56:46Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > He’s sound asleep, lying on his side and humping away! With a dog that size, the whole couch moves!😆 How nature tells us to stay away. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/104 "2026-06-23T17:11:31Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > I wonder why I am surrounded by truly flaky people in my personal life. I am surrounded by truly flaky people in my professional life, so I feel your pain. And I’m the one with executive function problems! Still, I manage to coordinate everyone on a tight deadline and be ultra-clear about what I need from people and by what date. And they are entirely unreliable at getting me those things on time! It is maddening. ---
**Author:** ![sunacres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/105 "2026-06-23T19:49:32Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > How can life come from non-life? It just doesn’t make sense. Not at “first glance,” (or even after lengthy consideration). But there are some illuminating experiments that reveal how readily complexity can arise from simplicity, including self-replication. A wonderful mathematical model that is fun and astonishing is John Conway’s Game of Life. Four simple rules that determine the binary state of cells in a grid provide an environment that can be configured to make a fully functional computer. My students found it very helpful in getting a handle on how much potential lies in every physical system. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/106 "2026-06-23T20:52:33Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Why isn’t the Dad in most of the photos? Dad is the one _taking_ the photos. I’m in one picture with my kid, and no video. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/107 "2026-06-23T21:42:07Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > You’re asking a _musician_ to be timely, reliable, etc.? That’s a reputation well earned by the top-tier celeb-intitled musicians of a half-century ago, but I don 't think it is still true, and probably never true of small venue musicians. I see 50 or more performances a year by touring musicians at small venues and I’m astounded at how reliably those bands are on stage on time despite being up late the night before and traveling hundreds of miles in a cramped van. Most are manning the merch table as soon as the doors open. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/108 "2026-06-23T22:06:14Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Dad is the one _taking_ the photos. That did cross my mind. My husband is the family photographer and takes it very seriously. I got him a fancy tripod for Christmas so he can be in photos too. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/109 "2026-06-23T23:13:32Z")
Thank you, it’s been a lot and I know you’ve had so much on your plate, too. I hope all is well. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/110 "2026-06-24T00:12:06Z")
@Patx2 , I am distressed for you. I hope as Dopers we can give you _adult_ conversation and a giggle occasionally. Thinking of you. Good luck with your _“Wonders”_ to come. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/111 "2026-06-24T01:35:19Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > You’re asking a _musician_ to be timely, reliable, etc.? With no disrespect to you or your musicianship, IME musicians, and other sorts of artists, seem almost congenitally incapable of such behavior. > > “Whatever; whenever; probably or maybe not; we’ll see” seems to be their life motto. I can finally _breathe_ now. Contact has been re-established, and a scratch copy of the piano track for a song we are performing for a video recording session on Sunday has finally appeared (promised for a week and a half). In theory I’ll get the polished version in the morning. I’ll take tomorrow off so I can focus on recording my bass lines the way I want and get that off to our drummer (yes, we’re doing things backwards) who will then come to my home studio and record his drum tracks on a five mic setup. Then I’ll put it all together in REAPER and we can do the “Ed Sullivan Show” trick on Sunday for the video session, playing our instruments intensely while listening to the perfect recording in the background without a care in the world of our mistakes because we will replace that audio with our perfect version. But the thing is, the pianist was on the critical path, holding up ALL of the remaining steps, and she was not communicating. Argh! ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/112 "2026-06-24T01:39:54Z")
Thanks, Beck means a lot! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/113 "2026-06-25T14:26:51Z")
What would @SuntanLotion’s Avatar be on here if his name wasn’t suntanlotion? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/114 "2026-06-25T15:05:23Z")
I used to have the orange cat swimming from a flood as my avatar.( no fucks left) But why not represent acurately, she asks.👩 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/115 "2026-06-26T14:27:51Z")
I wonder what it’s like to marry into a family that has a “thing,” or to be born into a family that has a “thing,” and you have no interest in that thing. Like let’s say I fall in love with a woman from a family that does a touring Bluegrass act, and I can’t carry a tune in a bucket. Do they treat you as an outsider? What if we have a child and she can’t play music, either? What happens to kids in situations like that? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/116 "2026-06-26T14:50:30Z")
I wonder what the lesser European countries were doing in the late 19th century while the Great Powers were engaging in diplomatic warfare. I wonder about actions not taken with some women in my younger days. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/117 "2026-06-26T14:56:55Z")
I’ve seen that movie: > **[Encanto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encanto)** > > Encanto is a 2021 American animated musical fantasy comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, and written by Charise Castro Smith and Bush, with original songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a score composed by Germaine Franco. The film stars the voices of Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo \[es\], Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Carolina Gaitán, Diane Guerrero, and Wilmer Valderrama. The fil... ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/118 "2026-06-26T15:49:26Z")
I’m late to this thread. I wonder about a lot of things, but here’s one that comes up now and then: Some while ago, @Chefguy shared a story about [a guy and his brother who went spelunking with friends in caves near Utah Lake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave). I’m familiar with the area, having scuba-certified in Utah Lake and also hiked a few times around Timpanogos Caves. But I wasn’t aware the area was also a popular destination for casual spelunkers, and I had never heard of the Nutty Putty Caves. A spelunker I will never be. So the guy who went spelunking there over Thanksgiving weekend in 2009 liked to crawl through tight spaces, for which this particular cave network offered opportunities. One thing I wonder what makes people want to do this. In me, it instantly evokes clammy hands and a deep fear response. This fellow died after spending 27 hours facing downward in a tight tunnel, totally stuck. Couldn’t go forward and couldn’t back out. He knew there was a high likelihood of his dying there. I wonder what his thoughts were about his choices. His death was a complete tragedy. So young. So pointless. And I still wonder about it. * * * @Patx2, I am sad for your situation. I hope your husband makes a full recovery and that it doesn’t take too long. Hugs to you at a very difficult time. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/119 "2026-06-26T15:55:53Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > One thing I wonder what makes people want to do this. In me, it instantly evokes clammy hands and a deep fear response. There are many things that people do that I can never imagine myself doing, and that one is at the top of the list. Not far below it is free solo climbing. Both of those pursuits just seem to be asking to die. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2026, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-wonder-about/1031062/120 "2026-06-26T16:06:26Z")
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