# 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:** 236
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4704 "2023-06-08T14:23:35Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 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. Same on both counts. I usually prefer bagging my own groceries. I swear, I don’t think the stores actually do bagging training anymore. When I don’t bag my own, I often get dry goods mixed in with refrigerated items or produce and cleaning supplies mixed in with food. ---
**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, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4705 "2023-06-08T14:29:56Z")
What’s aggravating about having someone else bag my groceries is I will make the effort to put things on the belt in exactly the order I want them bagged and they screw it all up anyways. Most checkers will get it and appreciate that I have done this. It saves them the step of having to re-organize your items themselves, or at least that’s how I felt about it when I was a supermarket checker. Others just don’t care and just dump everything into a bag at random. I prefer to go to the self-checkout because of those people. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4706 "2023-06-08T14:39:23Z")
Was “bloody merry” a typographical error, or an intentional joke? ---
**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 8, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4707 "2023-06-08T19:21:22Z")
      yes ---
**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 8, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4708 "2023-06-08T21:07:15Z")
I’ll help bag groceries etc. if needed, but am happy to let a bagger do it, if one is available. I tend to eat fast, although I do enjoy my food and don’t really have the sense that I’m bolting it down. Sometimes, if I find myself racing ahead of others at the table, I’ll purposefully slow down. I’ve never seen those particular horror movies (although I certainly know about them - how could I not, after all these years?), so I didn’t vote. _Bloody Merry_ sounds like a Christmas horror movie, come to think of it… ---
**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, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4709 "2023-06-08T22:37:44Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 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’m also a former supermarket bagger (1999-2000\*), but I had exactly the opposite attitude. I always hated it when customers tried to help bag their stuff. Because I had a system I used while I was bagging groceries, and customers would always mess up that system when they tried to help. \*Come to think of it, that’s where I was on New Years Eve 1999. The store was usually open 24/7, but closed on certain holidays. And I ended up scheduled to work until closing time Dec. 31 1999. ---
**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 8, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4710 "2023-06-08T22:48:50Z")
My preferred groc shop has two belts to feed the customer bagging end. I tell the checker to just pass me the scans ad I stick them back into my shopping cart, which ends up leaving a belt open for the next person and me free to handle my own groceries at my leisure (just shovel them into the back seat of my hoopty). ---
**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 9, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4711 "2023-06-09T00:39:31Z")
I could not answer the signature poll. I sign my name less than once a day, but I would not say that I rarely sign my name. mmm ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4712 "2023-06-09T00:40:59Z")
I only use my full signature a few times a month, but I initial stuff multiple times every day. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4713 "2023-06-09T00:50:18Z")
I might not sign my name on anything for days, and then might sign it multiple times in one day. I voted once a day on average; but I don’t know what the average actually is. ---
**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 9, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4714 "2023-06-09T00:57:08Z")
I sign checks, credit card receipts, and legal papers. Although actually signing briefs and letters has gone the way of the dodo bird. My assistant drops in a pdf of my signature or types “s/Procrustus” ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4715 "2023-06-09T02:00:02Z")
I’m the same. I answered rarely, but honestly it averaged out to about once a week - usually with my finger on one of those electronic pads that makes my signature look like gibberish. ---
**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 9, 2023, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4716 "2023-06-09T02:13:48Z")
I sign my name fairly often. Government work still involves quite a shocking amount of actual paper even today. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4717 "2023-06-09T03:35:58Z")
> [@TruePisces](#): > > usually with my finger on one of those electronic pads that makes my signature look like gibberish. Oh, yeah. You can’t go to the doctor without signing your name these days – probably several times – and it’s often on one of those. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2023, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4718 "2023-06-09T10:48:31Z")
I sign my name once a week on a worksheet > **Summary** > > (or whatever it’s called; where readings/times/notes of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber > session where i volunteer are recorded if you must know !) …and occasionally digital amazon delivery type things or official forms that need it so i chose seldom. Re: Bob fishing. I chose other - he may be like me, ie, he likes the sitting around drinking & thinking, but doesn’t want to catch anything. ---
**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 9, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4719 "2023-06-09T10:53:31Z")
If you’re going to be secretly stocking a new pond with fish, you should also be prepared to secretly stock it with trout feed on a regular basis, at least until it matures. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4720 "2023-06-09T14:03:47Z")
My “other” on the pond option is: find out what fish stocking programs are available in the area; then drop by and ask Bob whether he’s heard of a particular program or so, phrasing it so that it sounds like I’m just telling him about the specific program(s) and not about the entire concept. – also, the pond will probably eventually stock itself, if it’s suitable for fish. I’d thought this was because birds will fly in with fish eggs stuck to their legs, but it appears that while birds are probably the transporters the mechanism’s different: some of the eggs survive being eaten and shat back out. > **[Fish Eggs Survive Journey through a Duck](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fish-eggs-survive-journey-through-a-duck/)** > > New research suggests one way fish might spread to distant waters I would most certainly not secretly stock the pond; deliberately introducing a species without consulting strikes me as a particularly nasty form of trespass. And you might introduce something unsuitable; Bob very likely knows more about his pond conditions than you do. ---
**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 9, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4721 "2023-06-09T15:54:28Z")
@John_DiFool Did you mean to make those single-choice polls? ---
**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 9, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4722 "2023-06-09T16:00:02Z")
NOPE. %^\*&%^%^\*^%. YES THlS lS A %^\*^&%^% SENTENCE DlSCOURSE… ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4723 "2023-06-09T16:00:30Z")
There are now four posts in a row by John\_DiFool that all say Null! So I suppose the answer to that is “no”. – whoops ninjad. By a missing argument, apparently; though I suspect the argument is with Discourse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=235) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=237)