When was the last time you cried? - Page 3 - Straight Dope
2024年11月3日 · My mother died several years back, and my father just a year ago, and I’ve made several trips back East to sort through their possessions and try to empty out the house. The increasingly bare house seemed so forlorn that it brought the extent of the loss home to me: my parents gone, all the uncles and aunts gone, the cousins I used to be ...
The internet isn’t dead in 2024—but it is one big churn (exploring ...
2024年12月19日 · reddit is the worst when it comes to bot content; whole subs are chock full of the most repetitive and boring anecdotes imaginable, where it is a few jokesters trying to impress everyone else for upvotes with their inane and unconvincing tales and an increasing number of pure bot posts (either copied over from ChatGPT et al. by said jokesters or posted via automated means with no human ...
What are some legal ways to work for a for-profit business without ...
2024年12月2日 · Similar to how people can volunteer for a non-profit, is there a way for people to volunteer at for a for-profit company? Some examples of this could be a retired person wanting spend time feeling productive, a friend wanting to help a business owner during a busy time, someone wanting to ensure a struggling store can stay in business, etc. From what I understand, businesses are not allowed to ...
How Tall was Napoleon? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope
2025年1月4日 · Okay, he was cartooned by the British as being very short, and his nickname was “the Little Corporal” . So, for a century or more it was assumed he was fairly short. But recently I have seen many debunking articles that say he was actually a little taller than average- say 5’6"- when average was iirc 5’5 or 4. Napoleon > Did You Know?. The new info was based upon his autopsy, which ...
Buying a house on an Indian reservation? - Straight Dope
2003年1月30日 · Or is a house “for sale” really a long-term lease? (i.e., the proverbial “99-year lease”?) If you buy a house on Indian land, are you bound by tribal law, state and federal law, or all of the above? (MPSIMS: The house is tiny – my one-bedroom apartment is not much smaller than this two-bedroom house – but it’s on half an acre.
Can you build a house on a natural spring? - Straight Dope
2003年3月15日 · I’m going to look at a house tomorrow out in the country on a few acres of land. The agent told me today that the house is built on or around a spring, or that there is a spring in the basement. I assume it’s a small spring, and the house is made party from stone, but still…would that be safe? Is it unusual? Anyone else seen a house with a spring in its cellar?
What is the most commonly used phrase in English that came …
2024年12月2日 · We’ve got a thread going on about movie lines people use in everyday conversation. What would be THE most commonly used movie line in English? My rules: It has to be essentially original to a movie script. No fair using a Shakepearian or Biblical phrase. They’ve all been said in movies, and one of those would win easily. It has to be a line, not just one word. I’m looking for phrases ...
Info about a 1973 film "Ground Zero" - Straight Dope
2024年12月9日 · I was watching a little potboiler called “Ground Zero” (1973) on Roku this morning. The final scenes had a bad guy with an atomic bomb at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge (pretty crappy movie, but damn good location shots for the interior of the bridge), and a couple of good guys trying to stop him before the bomb goes off. While one good guy chases after the bad guy, the other good guy ...
Can self-raising flour kill mices? - Straight Dope
2012年10月21日 · I know that baking soda can kill mices. Since self-raising flour contains what is called bicarb, can this kind of flour itself kill mices?
SDMB Monthly Photo Competition - rolling discussion thread
2024年10月17日 · Click Reply, in the upper left corner of the reply window is the reply type button, looks like a curving arrow point to the right. Choose Reply as linked topic and it starts a new thread. As an example, you can choose GD, IMHO or The Pit for it. Once you get the hang of it, this interface is really easy.