# 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:** 286
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5704 "2023-07-20T23:35:06Z")
I liked Moffat’s writing right up until Peter Capaldi, and in particular, _Kill the Moon._ ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5705 "2023-07-21T00:06:20Z")
I wanted to answer Too Many. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5706 "2023-07-21T01:31:41Z")
I’m poly. From my marriage on, I’m already at 6. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5707 "2023-07-21T01:43:16Z")
I particularly liked the whole River Song arc – Alex Kingston was freakin’ awesome. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5708 "2023-07-21T03:02:04Z")
I’d once been described as a serial monogamist. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5709 "2023-07-21T04:38:36Z")
fewer than ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5710 "2023-07-21T06:58:11Z")
I recently realized, though I have dated many women, had six significant relationships and been married three times, I’ve never had a relationship with a woman in her 30’s. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5711 "2023-07-21T15:55:23Z")
I had five relatively short-term relationships before I met the smart, kind, funny, beautiful young woman who would become my wife (we’re now coming up on a third of a century together), but none of them were especially significant or deep relationships. There were two others with whom I would like to have been, but one was already dating another guy and the other just wanted to keep me in the friendzone, alas. I’m not crazy about tattoos generally, but what the hell, it’s a free country. You do you. I will say that I’ve never seen anyone whose appearance I thought was improved by a tattoo. We told our three sons that they were free to get any tattoo they wanted before they turned 18, with the understanding that they would then pay for its immediate removal. One of my nicest clients when I worked for Legal Aid was covered in Nazi tattoos, as it happens; I was careful not to get into politics with him. We have some very nice Lenox Hamilton wedding china (pale cream with blue-and-gold rims) which we rarely use; we’ve also lent it to friends for their fancy parties. We have some Christmas-themed china (white with green holly and red ribbons) which we use around the holidays. We use Fiesta for daily use, and like it very much - nice colors (white dinner plates, cobalt blue bowls, teal butter plates), cool designs and very durable. Heinlein’s _Stranger in A Strange Land_ is just meh to me. If I never read it again, that’d be OK. My favorites of his are _Starship Troopers, Glory Road, Time for the Stars, Space Cadet, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Puppet Masters, The Rolling Stones_ and _Have Spacesuit - Will Travel_. I prefer to be called “Uncle Myfirstname” by nieces and nephews, but don’t insist on it. My home is by no means of a sound design to be turned into a fortress and then resist invading hordes - too many windows, for one - and I’m afraid my braiiiiiiiiins would be munched in the very early days of a zombie apocalypse. I’ve never told someone taking my restaurant reservation that it was for my or anyone else’s birthday. My wife would be mortified if I did so for her birthday dinner out; she doesn’t want people making a fuss or, other than family, singing to her. I don’t mind polls with just names provided, like in the _Doctor Who_ poll. Those who know will know; those who don’t may skip it or Google it. No worries. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5712 "2023-07-21T16:27:03Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I will say that I’ve never seen anyone whose appearance I thought was improved by a tattoo There is a field of tattooing involving scar camouflage. If you saw someone with tattoo work to hide a scar/burn/vitiligo lesion/etc you might not even notice it is a tattoo, yet looking at before&after pictures I’d bet you would see an after improvement. I have vitiligo. My knees were repeatedly burned when kayaking. I had them tattooed flesh tone. Knee skin is thick and difficult to tattoo. The area had to be gone over repeatedly. My knees were my most painful tattoos, yet they look just like normal knees and no longer burn. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5713 "2023-07-21T17:36:49Z")
I’ve only been to Whitefish, MT of those on the list. All I really remember about it was that it was at the top of a big valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5714 "2023-07-21T17:47:13Z")
I think I’ve been to Saranac Lake but am no longer sure. It was a long time ago, if so, and probably wouldn’t have been the end point of the trip but instead a place that got passed through, and maybe hung out in briefly, en route. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5715 "2023-07-21T18:41:52Z")
I’ve been to four of the small towns… largely, because I lived in Texas, and moved to Massachusetts. I can’t recall if this is the same thread where I recently described having two little cupids come to our dinner table and sing a Valentines song to us, but that was Eureka Springs. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5716 "2023-07-21T18:55:09Z")
I spend two summers in Taos around the age of 12. It was a lovely town, and the outdoors events were absolutely wonderful. But in an age where cable TV wasn’t readily available, VCRs were only for the quite wealthy, and with few bookstores (and minimal money) and access to libraries, it was a bit on the boring side for me. And even then, it was pretty cynically commercial between the art and resort scene. Not as bad as it’s reported to be these days, in that there were plenty of honest to god artists living in the area, of wealth and otherwise, but the ‘in-town’ galleries were snob-fests and often quite commonly what we would now consider socially expropriating. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5717 "2023-07-21T19:32:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Heinlein’s _Stranger in A Strange Land_ is just meh to me. If I never read it again, that’d be OK. My favorites of his are _Starship Troopers, Glory Road, Time for the Stars, Space Cadet, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Puppet Masters, The Rolling Stones_ and _Have Spacesuit - Will Travel_. Post 5588 gives my opinion of _Stranger_ (and _Job_). My favourites are _Tunnel in the Sky_, _Starship Troopers_, _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_, _Citizen of the Galaxy_, and _The Door Into Summer_. I haven’t really visited New Bern – just drove through it twice (on the way to an SCA meeting, and then again on the way home) – but it’s the only one of those I’ve even been close to so I checked it anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5718 "2023-07-21T20:08:22Z")
I have been to none of those towns. I haven’t even been close to any of them. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5719 "2023-07-21T22:52:02Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > The thing about the Smith years was it was written by Steve Moffat, who is a genuine talent. If you have not, you should watch his sitcom _Coupling_. I loved _Coupling_! Whenever one of us says the word “apparently” we always say it in a Susan voice. Of course I’ve been to Volcano! Volcanos are the reason I went to Hawaii! ---
**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:** [July 21, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5720 "2023-07-21T23:16:02Z")
Oh, man, I love Taos. The basin reminds me of the town of my birth, only spread out more. If I could afford to retire there (so’s I could walk the Paseo instead of having to deal with that damn traffic), I would. New Mexico feels like home. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5721 "2023-07-22T01:29:06Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > serial monogamist. I guess that would be a good description for me as well. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2023, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5722 "2023-07-22T05:31:37Z")
I’m pretty well-traveled in the U.S., so when I saw the small-town poll, I thought I’d be checking lots of boxes. But Marfa, TX was the only one. Didn’t even spend a night there; just stopped for lunch between El Paso and Alpine. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2023, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/5723 "2023-07-22T11:03:05Z")
I want them to produce all three types of movies. I think all of those techniques are most effective when somebody’s also using the others. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=285) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380.md?page=287)