# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 235
**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:** [June 7, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4684 "2023-06-07T17:06:41Z")
I enjoy eating, to the point where I want to savor each bite. I’m not glacially slow, but I’m definitely a slow eater. When my daughter eats dessert, each bite is smaller than the previous bite, like she wants dessert to never end. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4685 "2023-06-07T17:10:45Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > like she wants dessert to never end. According to [Zeno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox), it won’t. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4686 "2023-06-07T17:11:54Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I enjoy eating, to the point where I want to savor each bite. I’m not glacially slow, but I’m definitely a slow eater. I’ve been working on this. Historically, I’m the fastest eater in any situation. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4687 "2023-06-07T17:16:23Z")
If I just eat, then I’m average. But there’s many times that I am talking so much that the others have already finished and I’ve only eaten ⅓ of my meal. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4688 "2023-06-07T17:28:35Z")
I thought Kobayashi was Pete Postlethwaite’s character in The Usual Suspects. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4689 "2023-06-07T17:35:27Z")
I thought it was a fictitious Indonesian manufacturer of porcelain! ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4690 "2023-06-07T18:00:47Z")
I thought it was a starship. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4691 "2023-06-07T19:57:10Z")
Introverted fast eater here, while my late mother the extrovert was utterly glacial, usually because she talked the entire time. So pretty much every dinner out somewhere had me finishing close to an hour before she did, when typically she would then call for the doggie bag. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4692 "2023-06-07T20:36:17Z")
Infinite movie series - I picked Friday the 13th / Jason, but only because Jaxon X (Jason in SPAAAAAAACE) is just so perfectly terrible I love to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4693 "2023-06-07T21:12:38Z")
Introverted slow eater here. I have some family members who are also quite slow. At one workplace for a few years I had a standing lunchroom date with 2 friends who were also slow eaters. According to the poll, with 38 respondents, “Slower than most” is 18%. I wonder if numbers will change with more respondents. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4694 "2023-06-07T22:30:17Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > I thought Kobayashi was Pete Postlethwaite’s character in The Usual Suspects. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I thought it was a fictitious Indonesian manufacturer of porcelain! > [@carrps](#): > > I thought it was a starship. You’re all right! It’s also a floor wax and a dessert topping. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4695 "2023-06-08T01:18:51Z")
Had some difficulty with the Ft13th vs Halloween poll. Michael Myers is the better villain but sooner or later he’s going to run out of relatives and the only place to go is reboot. Jason is basically just a generic killer at this point. Any real depth there was to the story was thoroughly resolved by at least the 3rd film. Now you can pretty much just plug him into any scenario and let him do his thing for forever. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4696 "2023-06-08T01:30:08Z")
Is the winner of that poll going to go up against _A Nightmare on Elm Street_? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4697 "2023-06-08T02:21:02Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > According to [Zeno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox), it won’t. One place where I worked had the rule that if you emptied the coffee pot, you were supposed to make a new pot. It was both amusing and annoying to watch people play Zeno’s coffee pot with the dregs, “If I take half of what’s left, the pot isn’t empty,” as they ca-a-a-a-refully pour an eighth inch of the quarter inch in the pot into their mug, then a sixteenth, a thirty-second, etc. Eventually it would get to just a trace in the bottom of the pot which would evaporate in ten minutes after being put onto the hot burner – shutting off the burner was acknowledging you knew the pot was really empty – making someone else tired of the burnt coffee smell shut the burner off. They couldn’t make coffee, of course, because the overheated glass would shatter if you tried to clean it out or even put hot coffee into it so the pot would sit for a while cooling off until someone got desperate enough to do the right thing. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4698 "2023-06-08T02:39:57Z")
At first I thought @elfkin477’s bagging poll was specifically asking about supermarket/grocery-type stores, but looking carefully, I see it doesn’t specify. At all the non-grocery stores I can remember shopping at, the cashier bags the merchandise. For groceries, in my experience it’s very store-dependent (and may also depend on whether you’re there at a busy time). ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4699 "2023-06-08T04:55:47Z")
The problem with going to work as a missionary of sorts in a red state is having to live there. If I were that public-service minded, I’d have already gone to work in a country that’s in desperate need of doctors. I eat way faster than anyone should. I got into the habit when I worked in restaurants, where you got one 30-minute break and I wanted to spend ten minutes of that having a smoke. My husband, on the other hand, eats so slowly that he’ll sometimes get up and microwave his plate in the middle of dinner. We’re a fun couple to go out to eat with. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4700 "2023-06-08T11:05:36Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m not glacially slow, but I’m definitely a slow eater. It’s interesting (to me) that my gf and I tend to finish meals simultaneously, here with standard cutlery while I use chopsticks for everything except soup. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4701 "2023-06-08T12:52:54Z")
Yeah forgot all about ol’ Freddie Krueger, but I figured he’d win in a landslide anyway. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4702 "2023-06-08T12:55:46Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > For groceries, in my experience it’s very store-dependent (and may also depend on whether you’re there at a busy time). This, exactly. Re horror movies, I don’t like them so I don’t vote. Except for the prime rib option. horseradish required. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4703 "2023-06-08T13:00:21Z")
As a former supermarket bagger (we’re talking the late 1970s), I always appreciated when customers stepped up to help bag their own groceries. I usually do the same these days. Side note: I recall paying attention to the amount of money spent in dollars-per-bag; back then, it was almost always right around ten bucks per bag. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=234) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=236)