And even more often if I remember to take my diuretic.
There were roundabouts in Iowa and Virginia. I never found them the least bit confusing, but they were all on streets with little traffic.
I think of the wine first when I hear “Madeira”, but I’ve been aware of the islands since I was a kid.
Both of these apply for me.
Me as well. Pee on the cat sleeping next to the toilet just once and you never hear the end of it.
I’m doing a bladder study right now (I love medical studies) and I’m urinating FAR more often than I thought I had. In the last 20 hours, I’ve had to fill out the bladder survey 6 times. I feel like I’m always entering crap into that app!
I both love and hate roundabouts, for much of the reason that puzzlegal had mentioned. If the traffic is moderate to heavy, things go fairly smoothly as people merge into the flow of traffic. When traffic is heavier, it just stresses me out, making sure I’m not cutting someone off trying to get into the flow and praying that I don’t cause an accident trying to get back out. We’ve got two roundabouts here that I deal with semi-regularly, both about 8 blocks from one another. One of them doesn’t see terribly heavy traffic. It’s not on a main thoroughfare/downtown. When I hit that one, I usually am able to get in and out fairly easily. The one closer to downtown is ALWAYS busy and is a construction zone at the moment. I take any other way to get away from having to deal with it, if I can.
For the Movie title question, I have a problem with one of the titles not rhyming (thanks to growing up where I did.) There is a small town in upstate New York near where I grew up named Delhi. But it isn’t pronounced “del-ee” but “del-hi”. My brain ALWAYS goes there first. Every single time. So “Mrs Shelly from Del-hi” has a very different cadence than “Mrs Shelly from Del-ee”. 
I first think of musician Phil Madeira.
Heh. I had the same thought about “steaming.”
Paxton’s character annoyed me in Edge of Tomorrow. When he denied being an American soldier but said he was a Kentuckian (or was it Tennesseean?) instead, I wanted to ask, “Huh, really? What’s that flag doing on your uniform sleeve, then?” Stupid redneck.
I probably gave something up for lent when I was a kid but I don’t remember it. I marked it as never abstain
But battle is the great redeemer!
I don’t know how many times I urinate each day. I’d guess somewhere between 8 and 12, but I’m not willing to pick a specific single number, even as an average.
And the average overnight is probably about 1/3. I usually sleep through, but not always.
Didn’t vote in either of those.
It’s always fun to see the polls that reflect the average age on the Dope! My answers are my best guess, but it feels like I never don’t have to pee.
And now my internal smart-ass asks, do you sleep through the night, or the unination.
Inspired by Gov. Polis suggesting a “Meat out Day” I have tried to do so about once a month on average. It’s not a scheduled thing, and I love me some meat, but I do occasionally make it a point. Not that it’s hard since my wife is a non-meat eater, and I normally don’t eat breakfast, so it’s normally just one or two meals tops I’m adjusting.
I often fast for Yom Kippur, more so I can say I did so to my more observant father than out of any actual faith, but do find it’s a good way to focus on remembrance and self-examination, which is worthwhile even for someone almost entirely secular. But if the date slips past me, or other issues come up, it doesn’t weigh upon me if I do eat.
I only abstain when forced to, like from January until November when there’s no eggnog or fruitcake in the stores.
Last time I managed to sleep through the urination I was 12. And very embarrassed.
Huh. I love meat, but it seems odd to me to designate a special day for no meat. I have a lot of days with no meat. I almost never have meat for breakfast, only have it for lunch if we happen to have meat-leftovers around, and while we usually have meat with dinner, we’ll have lentils or pea soup or chick peas instead of meat a day or two each week.
I abstain from cannabis for two weeks each winter as a tolerance break. It is a very interesting two weeks. Intense dreaming occurs, compared to no remembered dreams while smoking.
Re: Potato chips.
For me, they must be thin, crispy, well cooked, and generously salted. Wise is the best I’ve found that hits all these criteria. Utz is good too, but really needs to cook for another 15 - 30 seconds. Lays - they’re all right, I guess, but I’ll pass over them usually.
Yet another reason that Kroger sucks and must pay for their myriad sins is that they do not carry Wise and Utz. Actually, that might be a good thing, otherwise I might weigh two hundred pounds.
There’s a convenience store chain called Stewart’s in north-eastern NY that sells eggnog all year round.
My suspicion on the 7 deadly sins poll is many folks will select the ‘sin’ they feel is most egregious that they’re aware of doing, as opposed to the ones they engage in with the most frequency and don’t consider particularly bad behavior on their part.
See, and I was super aware that my primary sin isn’t on the list - it got folded into “sloth” and then eliminated altogether. Tristitia, melancholy, which got merged with acēdia, apathy/listlessness.