I’ve worked in theater. If someone is willing to pay you, then take the job.
Same. The bathroom off our bedroom has a door that i almost never close, but if I’m using the “family bathroom” that my daughter walks past, i close the door.
I always close the door unless I know I’m alone in the house.
Heard of Teams, never heard of Slack, never used either.
I would rather have a critically-acclaimed movie that bombs. You can almost certainly get financing for a second or even third movie, albeit perhaps with a smaller budget, if you’re snagging Oscar nominations, and you also don’t have to apologize to friends and loved ones for inflicting Jaws VII on the world.
Never been to a baby shower, although my wife has been to many, some of which (and I like the idea) have been baby book- or kidlit-only.
There are a number of countries I might prefer over my own, but only if I got to be born into the upper class.
Yet another poll I’m not voting in –
I was born in the USA. I have no intention at all of moving out of the USA; it is very much my country. But I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d been born somewhere else; and, even given limited knowledge, I can think of other countries I’d probably have been fine with, or even better with, if I’d started off there.
If it’s just my wife and me home, and it’s just urine, I’ll “sort of” close the door. It won’t be completely closed or locked, but maybe 2/3 closed. (or maybe all the way closed some times. I don’t think I’m consistent. With anyone else anywhere in the house, it’s closed all the way.
Hmm, didn’t we do that symbol before. I think i usually call it the pound sign, but when i saw it i thought “hash”. So maybe my default is changing?
Yeah, I thought so too.
Also, what I call # is obviously going to depend on the context, so I assumed the question was “What do you call this symbol when you see it without any context that tells you how it is being used?”
Yeah, I didn’t vote in that one either. I was born in the US and am generally fine with that, but I lived for years in Canada and I know that would have been fine too.
I might call it either pound or hash or maybe number sign depending on context; and without context I don’t know whether I’d say pound or hash, so picked other.
I looked up the difference between sherbet and sorbet before voting in the first of those polls; so I knew the difference before I got to the second one, but hadn’t been at all sure of it five minutes sooner. Neither that nor other was an option, so I didn’t vote in the did-you-know poll.
That’s one of the countries I was thinking of. My father and his parents originally came into Canada, because the USA wasn’t accepting Jews straight from Europe at the time but would let them in if they’d been in Canada for a while first. I’ve often wondered what my life would have been like if they’d just stayed in Canada; although of course it wouldn’t have been my life but somebody else’s. The chances that my parents would ever have met would have become quite low, let alone the chances that the exact sperm and egg cells would have met. (My mother’s side got into the USA before that requirement, and also before anybody checked whether you’d been a seditionist in the place you were running away from.)
ETA: And I don’t think art and commerce are opposites. Didn’t vote in that one either.
We used it back in the day, but the reason I remember it is because Ollie North got in trouble by thinking if he deleted his PROFS messages from his computer, they were gone forever. Ha ha ha ha.
Sherbet, sherbert, I don’t care. I am not Herbert.
We reach.
I’m proud to be an American, and would not wish to be otherwise, but would not have too upset in some alternate universe to be a native of some other democracy: the UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, France, etc.
I’m guessing shave ice is more of a west coast thing. I see that it orginates in Hawaii. Around here the discussion is more if It’s Italian Ice or Water Ice. Water Ice is a Philly thing so it’s inherently incorrect. Off to make a poll.
Shave Ice seems to be very similar to snow cones. I always found snow cones to be unsatisfying. Munching on ice with a little bit of sugar water. Italian Ice was always much more flavorful. Also brainfreezingly dangerous.
I have no idea of the relationship between water ice and italian ice, and no clear idea what either of them is; at least, if water ice isn’t just frozen water, as opposed to some other molecular substance in a frozen state. Didn’t vote.
But I guess I’ll vote ‘other’ in the following poll, because I didn’t vote in that one but not for the reason given, which I didn’t even notice –
They are the same thing. In Philadelphia and surroundings is called water ice (wahdur ice).
So what is it? Presumably not just ice cubes?
This. Being American, other countries sound so exotic (even the ones I’ve been to). Though an Italian acquaintance thought the USA must be the best place in the word. She’s probably changed her mind since we last worked together though. It’s been over 10 years.
I thought it was pretty widespread. There are Rita’s Italian Ice stores all over and it’s in the grocery store.
It’s basically a form of the Italian (Sicilian) dessert granita. Think sherbet without dairy.