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

Just don’t let Biff get ahold of your Sports Almanac!

And overnight burger has surged ahead! Club sandwich, burger, BLT, and Reuben are all neck and neck! This is still anyone’s race, folks! California chicken’s still close behind the pack. Tri-tip remains behind, and patty melt still in last place.

I like tri-tip, but not in a sandwich.

Yeah, i might cook a tri-tip at home, but wouldn’t get the sandwich

I voted BLT, but tomorrow, I might vote burger. I was jonesing for a burger earlier today but skipped lunch. I had some horrible frozen mac and cheese stuff for dinner. I’m trying to empty my freezer and I promise to never buy that brand again.

If I could go back 10 years, I would have 5 more years with Bob. And we would have gotten our damn wills written

We need a poll on this ratio. I would have thought more like 5 to 1. I’d estimate I urinate 3 to 6 times per day.

I voted for that, 'cos it sounds like a magic password.

As a Deeply Depressed, Eternally Anxious, and Perpetually Pessimistic creature, a hypothetical “98% happy Nine” would be an unrecognizably different person. And I also can’t think of anything less desirable than being famous.

I have to clarify, here in New England rotary and roundabout are interchangeable as terms, though pretty much anything is called a rotary, and roundabout is highfalutin’.

I think. After 25 years here, it’s still not clear. :sweat_smile:

I haven’t been in enough roundabouts, if any, to have a clear opinion on them. From what I’ve read, at least some of them work well. Voted meh.

I’ve heard of Madeira. I could make some guesses about the place, but I don’t know anything about it with any confidence.

I would 14th Amendment the hell out of them; an option that wasn’t given. (I voted no on the options that were.) If it works, this whole problem goes away, possibly forever. If it doesn’t work, it’ll probably work temporarily while the courts argue about it; and giving in to demands on that basis will also only work temporarily, because the debt limit will come up again next year and if this set of demands gets granted this year there’ll be another set next year.

We have very few roundabouts here in suburban Chicago; there’s a “traffic circle” about four blocks from my house, but there’s a technical distinction between that and a roundabout.

However, I go up to my home state of Wisconsin frequently, and they went completely bonkers up there in installing roundabouts over the past 10-15 years. Conceptually, I don’t mind the idea of a roundabout, but there are a lot of drivers up there who still have no idea how to use them properly. And, in addition, there are stretches of road there (particularly at entrance/exit ramps for highways) that have two or three roundabouts in a row, which can get to be very confusing to navigate, and tend to completely flummox the navigation narration on Google Maps.

One of the things I love about St Martin is that there aren’t any lights or stop signs on the entire island. Everything is roundabouts.

I sing the Yes song Roundabout whenever I come to one. My gf then points out that this is unnecessary behavior (it’s a tradition).

Sometimes it is just easier to visit that spot over next to the shed rather than fret over seat/lid protocols.

Just tell her, “twenty-four before my love, you’ll see I’ll be there with you.” :wink:

DC is notoriously filled with circles, some not even intentional. There actually aren’t even that many, you can certainly navigate your way almost anywhere in the city without encountering one, but they tend to be on major thoroughfares so if you’re not comfortable taking side streets or driving through neighborhoods you’ll eventually find yourself in a circle. It’s really not that hard, but I get that they can be confusing if you’re not used to it. I don’t know about Google but Apple Maps is good enough in DC that it will tell you which lane you want to be in to get to a certain circle exit.

At the risk of nitpicking the 98% happiness thing, I have to know just how bad the 2% will be. Is it the normal unhappiness that everyone experiences, or is it unusually severe unhappiness, like the untimely death of one’s children?

My town just converted a few intersections to roundabouts. I am still getting used to them. I have heard it claimed that, in the long run, roundabouts are safer than intersections with traffic lights, so I am willing to give them a try.

I’ve seen this claim, as well as the claim that they improve traffic flow…but I also suspect that this is only the case once drivers become accustomed to them, and learn the proper “rules of the road” surrounding them.

I know of that song, but am not familiar with it, so my musical association is either the XTC song “English Roundabout” or the place where the pretty nurse is selling puppies from a train. Oops, sorry, misheard that—she’s selling poppies from a tray. Anyway, roundabouts are an English thing, and they have no business in America.

Yeah, most of the roundabouts I’ve encounted, especially the kind you mention, have been in Wisconsin, and I’ve found them needlessly confusing and annoying.