Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1)

Ha ha, entirely personal perception.

Your nuttage may vary.

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bow chicka bow wow?

If I’m home, my keys ought to be in a specific drawer. They may, however, actually be in a different drawer, or in a pocket, or on a table, or in a bowl on the table, or on the kitchen counter, or in a shopping bag, or occasionally (I live on a dead end road) out in the vehicle. Or, at least once, on the floor behind something, where they’d probably fallen out of the pocket of a jacket hung up above that spot.

Didn’t vote.

Whether slippers are shoes depends on the context.

And which nuts I prefer still depends on what mood I’m in and how I’m going to use them.

I seem to be doing a lot of not voting.

Seems like you should have voted “Dammit, where are my keys?” since you’re not entirely sure. :wink:

SInce we don’t use keys to enter our house (we generally come in through the garage) we don’t always put them on the hook by the door (where they belong). They could be in a coat pocket, or wherever I took them out of my jeans pocket. It generally not a problem. My wife, however, seems to have more of a problem finding her keys when needed. Most often when she’s running late.

Usually they’re actually in the right drawer.

ETA: And if they aren’t, I can usually still find them within five minutes.

Usually.

Yes, people growing up and working around the Bristol harbor spoke (it’s disappearing) a very poetic, difficult to understand, version of English. If you ever hear someone call you “luvver” as if you were their lover, you might be shocked, but to these folks, it’s just how you address a friend. When my ex would relax his language with me, I couldn’t understand him, or his brothers or mother. He even gave me a book, but the accent proved to thick for me to understand it because I didn’t live in it enough to learn it. Working in theater, his whole family could identify all regional accents and speak many of them. I was too thick.

Interesting. That’s one I’d never heard of.

This is a good example but it’s not nearly as strong as true Bristle

“Lover” appears quite often in T.E. Edwards’s Lady Hardcastle mysteries.

I wear slippers around the house about a third of the time and am barefoot the rest of the time. Then again, I’m usually wearing pajamas within five minutes of returning home from work.

My car has the electric charger on the driver’s side and the gas cap on the passenger side, so I didn’t vote (but rushed right over here to brag about my plug-in hybrid, which I love).

I almost never wear shoes in the house. We have a special mat by the door where the shoes live, as a matter of fact. I do wear slippers in the house during the winter, and although they’re extremely sturdy ankle-high felt slippers with suede soles, if I can’t wear them to the store without someone giving me side-eye, they aren’t shoes. Also, one of the main reasons we don’t wear shoes in the house is so we don’t track dirt in, and wearing slippers outside would defeat the purpose. (The other main reason is so we’re less likely to hurt the cat who likes to lurk underfoot when we invariably step on her tail.)

To delete a poll while writing your post, delete everything between [poll…] and [/poll] in your post. Then make a new poll.

To delete a poll after you post, edit your post and do the same. Just like every post. Then make a new poll. You lose all the votes if you edit or delete your poll, but I can live with that.

Whatchoo talking about, @Hatchie ?

Nuh-uh. You can edit your poll options, but if you forgot to specify how many the responder can choose, you can’t fix it. It won’t let you.

You just tried to change the max= value, right? What do you mean “it won’t let you”? You got an error message when you tried to save it?

No one is checking your work. You’re allow to vote for what fits best even if it’s not exact. It’s fun try it.

Don’ wanna.

You can. I have. Look at your post as text and edit max responders manually. You will lose anyone who voted before that, but you can edit the poll.

For 5 minutes for a poll IIRC. Which is less than the edit time of a post. That caught me once.

When I come home, I put my car in the garage and leave my keys in the ignition so they’re there when I next need them. We have no keys to the house.

On entering the house from the garage, I take my shoes off. Barefoot or slippers depending on the season.