@squeegee in the Schengen countries visited poll, how are you defining visited? I was supposed to visit Prague on a long layover but just got stuck in the airport overnight; does that count as visited?
Is it like, “I [doctor] handle menstruation well, so you [patient] have no excuse to be weak like this?”
Same. I also included Iceland, which i haven’t really visited. I’ve just been to the airport. I did set foot outdoors, because we walked outside to board a plane. “Walked outdoors” is my usual criterion, but in this case, it feels like a cheat.
Yup. I don’t want to live in any of them, either, but at least there’s some variety of food at the cheesecake factory.
I once had a female gynecological nurse poke me really hard on the cervix, doing a rough pap smear. And when i said, “ouch”, she told me i don’t have any nerves there and couldn’t feel anything unless there was something seriously wrong with me.
It was a bizarre experience.
But I’ve had lots of female ob/gyn doctors since, and they’ve all been fine. They certainly all had a good bedside manner.
Definitely going with teleportation. Instantly most nukes are tossed into a distant star, and a small grain of sand is enough to cause someone’s head to explode ala Scanners if you get a few molecules to try to occupy the same space.
I have a little list…
I was looking for the invisibility option.
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I’d define it as actually leaving the airport. But you do you.
Who said that?
I couldn’t see it.
I picked Olive garden because I ate there once and know there’s a decent selection of OK food. The only others I was familiar with were Waffle House and Pizza Hut.
I’ve heard of them but had no idea it was a regular restaurant. The name made me think it’s a dessert place - maybe like a fancy ice-cream parlor.
If the sign said Fred’s - Now Ptomaine Free I would at least recognize it as a restaurant and might be inclined to check it out.
It’s like Panera Bread - for years i thought it was a bakery chain.
The “Is gnocchi pasta or dumplings?” poll appears to be missing a “yes” option.
I’m taking the AI moneybot. If I read that right, it’s basically an unlimited supply of cash; the bot maintains my account at one trillion no matter what I spend.
I can house every homeless person, feed the hungry, fund cancer research, build solar and wind farms, clean the oceans - the list goes on and on. Whatever will help the world, I’m paying for it. I’ll also be the guy buying dinner for the whole restaurant or groceries for the whole store, because why not?
And at the same time, I’m living my best life. I can have and do whatever I want, whenever I want, without regard to the price tag. I can be selfish and selfless, all at once.
I don’t see what you did there.
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I’ve been to all but Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania. And I woulda been to those on a tour, too, if it wasn’t for you meddling covids! shskes fist
Pretty much this but I picked Pita Pit because I’ve never been. I can always eat the contents and ditch the pita when I get tired of overly-dry bread.
I’m a huge Anglophile and, if I were British, would certainly be a monarchist. For all its faults, I think the monarchy is good for the UK, on balance, and I wish the new King well.
I already have perfect love (coming up on our 33rd anniversary!), so I chose mind control. Given the 40-mile range, I’d go to Washington, D.C. a couple of times a year, especially close to elections, and make the politicians I hate most hold press conferences and admit to the most terrible, but true, things. If that didn’t make them lose, I’d make them poop on the flag in public or something like that.
I’m appalled that The Big Lebowski is only fourth in the Coen Bros. poll right now. All right-thinking people know that’s their best movie, dammit!
I’ve had both male and female doctors over the years, and have never thought that the guys don’t listen as well.
I like to sing but I’m not especially good at it. I’ve never had anyone complain, though, and was even once told in church that I ought to join the choir.
On the continent, I’ve only ever been to France, for a long weekend visit with a friend who was studying at the Sorbonne. I saw Calais, Paris and the land along the rail line in-between. I’d like to go back someday (including to my family’s ancestral village near Rouen) and see much more.
Exactly. I wouldn’t want to live in any of them, but if I had to, that’d be the one.
Am I the only one who paid attention to the second word in the names of those restaurants? As in, would you rather live in a factory, garden, shack, hut, house, or pit?
I’m a little surprised that No Country for Old Men hasn’t gotten any votes at all, considering it’s the only one to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Admittedly I picked Fargo myself, but that’s because I have relatives in the Upper Midwest. Some of the characters in that movie kind of remind me of them.
Yes, that’s not uncommon. If you’re business as usual, it may not be as noticeable, but among my friends and I who have had to fight tooth and nail for our reproductive health problems to be taken seriously, it can be a real issue. I know multiple women who have had everything from endometriosis to cervical cancer who had doctors that just wouldn’t take their pain seriously until it threatened their lives. Now anecdotally I can’t lay the blame entirely at the feet of women doctors - I’ve only ever had women doctors, and I’ve had some good ones. I suspect it’s often a function of just cultural attitudes toward women exaggerating their suffering, and those attitudes can come from both women and men. But maybe the man doctors have a bit more sympathy because they’ve never experienced these issues themselves, whereas a woman can say, “Yeah, PMS sucks, what’s the problem?” In reality menstruation and hormonal symptoms can range from “minor nuisance” to “completely debilitating.” People just don’t take women at their word when their issues lie at the debilitating end. It sucks. I think the average length of time it takes for a diagnosis of endometriosis is 9 years.
OTOH, I’ve heard of one male doctor that didn’t take hot flashes until he experienced them (medicine side effect) Now he explains to other male doctors how bad it is.
I had one in the '90s, but I never used it.
Ditto
Never seen a Cheesecake Factory, though it seems there are two within an hour’s drive. Not enough variety at Pizza Hut, and the worst service I’ve ever had was at a Waffle House. I picked Olive Garden.
I think you might be. Have fun a the factory, everyone! 