# Who's missing that you really want to see on the Board? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010 "2020-07-02T01:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1143 "2025-09-05T10:24:29Z")
I recently realized that we haven’t seen @Hypnagogic_Jerk for a while. Always a good commentator on Canadian, and especially Quebec, affairs; but with a good grasp of pretty much everything. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1144 "2025-09-05T14:28:05Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > As I write this, I have 489 open. 🤯 I think we have a winner. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1145 "2025-09-05T14:35:17Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > I was flabbergasted to learn this, but it’s a pretty common approach on a computer / tablet. > > And I was equally flabbergasted to find that people _don’t_ do this. I don’t have 50 places I even go to. Ever. Three or four websites in a day perhaps. Banking, SDMB, mail. And some news site or the Mariners ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1146 "2025-09-05T14:44:03Z")
^Same here. I may go to ~10 tabs maybe if I’m researching something which links to other sites in a rabbit hole type of way, but I like to close them when I’m done or it looks untidy ! ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1147 "2025-09-05T14:44:19Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > He was/is a good man but made no secret of his plan to kill himself at the earliest sign of infirmity. > [@chela](#): > > That’s kinda harsh, I’m tempted to ask you for a cite. @kayaker has stated numerous times that if he needed more coronary procedures, he would hang it up rather than go through the onerous recovery he had before. Hopefully he changes his mind - some of the procedures he was staunchly against have become much less invasive in the last few years, with a _much_ easier recovery than what he had in the past. ---
**Author:** ![TheTyrant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thetyrant/32/19111_2.png) [@TheTyrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTyrant)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1148 "2025-09-05T14:44:20Z")
Hell, I did this back in 2015 during the Trump 1.0 runup. American discourse was going to poopy even then and people I otherwise respected starting expressing opinions I didn’t really care for, in ways I _definitely_ didn’t care for. I mostly became a ghost, I lurk a few forums/subreddits/etc related to my vocation but that’s about it. I don’t miss any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1149 "2025-09-05T15:29:28Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > As I write this, I have 489 open. Okay, how do you know you have exactly 489, rather than “about 500” ? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1150 "2025-09-05T16:09:03Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > > As I write this, I have 489 open. > > Okay, how do you know you have exactly 489, rather than “about 500” ? That is an oddly specific number. I usually have three or four open and close down to none or two when I am done for the day. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1151 "2025-09-05T18:12:34Z")
OneTab or similar extension? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1152 "2025-09-05T18:22:17Z")
> [@Coronary stents: recovery questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronary-stents-recovery-questions/834346/2): > > I had a single stent placed five years ago. Prior to the procedure I had episodes of unstable angina (chest pain) and a “small heart attack”. I went home the following day and have had zero chest pain since. I actually returned to work 2 days after the stent procedure (I was told to avoid stress and I was stressed about not working). Diet was never mentioned. No onerous recovery reported, in fact he wrote he was back to work 2 days after his procedure. > [@At what point would YOU want to pull the plug on YOURSELF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-would-you-want-to-pull-the-plug-on-yourself/984475/59): > > Seven years ago(?) I was having unstable angina attacks and actually had one or more small heart attacks. I had some diagnostics done and was about to have a catheterization procedure to (hopefully) place a stent. The cardiologist explained that if my coronary artery disease was severe, then a stent would not work and I’d need to go straight into bypass surgery. I had already decided that I wasn’t going to have any major invasive surgery, and I told him that. He explained that I could die as… Here he is considering that given his quantity of years left, he would prefer not to have major invasive surgery that would compromise his quality of life. Seems like a reasonable response, not a death wish. Really people, y’all are projecting way too much about his motivations for putting the sdmb on ignore. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1153 "2025-09-05T18:39:52Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Here he is considering that given his quantity of years left, he would prefer not to have major invasive surgery that would compromise his quality of life. Compromise his quality of life for a few weeks recovery time or death? Hmm… > [@chela](#): > > Seems like a reasonable response, not a death wish. Suure… ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1154 "2025-09-05T19:06:59Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > As I write this, I have 489 open. How would you _ever_ find what you are looking for? That’s way more difficult than simply opening a new tab when you want it. And what computer do you have that it can still run with 489 open webpages? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1155 "2025-09-05T19:33:38Z")
I see I have 18 windows open at the moment. Usually it’s not even that many. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1156 "2025-09-05T23:07:27Z")
I’m shoe shopping at Hoka and Altra so I currently have 3 tabs open. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1157 "2025-09-05T23:34:21Z")
I have two email accounts, this tab, and two other SDMB tabs open. The browser tab opens with 5 tabs I want to remember exist; I usually close them when I get started. If I’m writing, I have a translation page and a thesaurus page upen, plus whatever scholarly PDFs I’m using at that time. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1158 "2025-09-05T23:47:53Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Okay, how do you know you have exactly 489, rather than “about 500” ? It displays the number. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1159 "2025-09-06T02:09:17Z")
Give us a screenshot. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1160 "2025-09-06T02:34:56Z")
I keep getting the ‘can’t embed images in a post’ message; I know I’ve gotten around it before, and could probably get around it eventually here, but — why? What’s the use of a screenshot showing how many tabs are open if I’ve already mentioned how many tabs are open, since it’s not like I have anything to gain by saying I have more or fewer tabs open than happens to be the case? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1161 "2025-09-06T02:50:16Z")
Screen shot or image online/on device-\>Imagur or some other host-\>copy URL-\>post URL here. With Imagur, you have to copy the URL on a specific screen. See [How to embed pictures from imgur](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-embed-pictures-from-imgur/1021580) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/1162 "2025-09-06T02:51:03Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > It displays the number. What does? The browser? The operating system? > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > What’s the use of a screenshot showing how many tabs are open … ? Just mild curiosity. I’ve never seen my computer display how many tabs I’ve got open. I’m very slightly interested to see it. Not a big problem if you don’t want to, or can’t work out how to. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I keep getting the ‘can’t embed images in a post’ message; I know I’ve gotten around it before, and could probably get around it eventually here, This happens when the preview pane is visible. Hiding it will usually solve the problem. Do you see the **M ↓A** in the top left of the edit box? Click on that to hide the preview pane. If you still get the error message, add **#1** to the end of the URL. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010.md?page=59)