Lawyers, dirty as they may be, are not really known for filing soot.
No. I meant that in “tree roots” and “root beer” I pronounce “root” in the same way – maybe because I know that the root in root beer is a tree root. Sorry to be unclear. “Boot” and “put” have different vowel sounds for me. “Boot” and “food” have the same vowel sound but “fruit” is fractionally different though it’s close – “fruit” rhymes with “suit”. “Put” does have the same vowel as “foot”; “good” and “hood” are the same as each other but slightly different from “put”.
Sole food.
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ah, so you are the person who chose filet of sole in that one poll
If you live with cats, you will have improbability, strangeness, uncertainty, and chaos. You might or might not have custard, frozen or otherwise, because the cats may have eaten it all.
– come to think of it, all of that is also true if you live with humans.
– huh? my vote in that poll seems to have disappeared; at any rate, the poll looks as if I haven’t voted. So I voted again. Maybe I’ve now done so twice, but there’s probably no way to tell – uncertainty! strangeness! chaos! but maybe not improbability, because apparently Discourse does this sort of thing.
I just noticed, I voted wrong in the one poll, because the option for me was missing. “CARE-mell” is the closest, but the people I know (and me) pronounce it “CAR-m’l”. As in “karma lapple”.
I was surprised by all the “care” options. Hmm, pretend * is a schwa, since i don’t have one. I usually say something like car * ml. But i recognize car-m’l as a common variant, and probably say it sometimes.
I didn’t vote in the caramel poll because I also pronounce it “CAR-m’l”. What’s more, I never heard any pronunciation that included “CARE” before they started saying it that way in commercials maybe forty years ago.
What I’m reading in the poll is that we have a substantial number of Dopers who reside in a blue enclave of a red state. I’m guessing places like Indianapolis, Dallas, Pocatello, Atlanta, etc.
As for the parents - my father was outstanding; I hope to be like him - except for the part about him being a pushover for my mom.
My mother was a fright. Her punishments would be draconian, such as grounding my sister for 11 months because she talked back once, or demanding that she practice three hours of violin every day at age 4 (my mother’s reasoning was that because she (Mom) didn’t get to learn violin in her youth when she wanted to, my sister now owed it to her to excel at violin to compensate for what she’d missed out on.) I had nightmares even in college or years afterwards, dreaming that she was again going into shouting-rage mode on me.
Her temper has mellowed with age, but her thinking is just as warped if not even more so; she’s taken a definite Trumpish turn towards the right with QAnon-type theories, addicted to Fox News, going on spending sprees (she once blew around $200,000 in a few months,) etc. A lot of it is Christianity that has become embedded with her own…narcissism(?) It’s like she thinks her thoughts are God’s will, and that if you contradict her, you’re contradicting God.
For route I agree. If it’s a specific highway designation, like route 9, route 101 etc, that’s a root. If it’s plan for getting somewhere/something accomplished, that route rhymes with trout.
As for parents, mine were both on the lower range of average. I think my 6-years-younger brother turned out well given they pushed a great deal of the responsibility of caring for him off onto me.
I say “caramel” rarely, and don’t think I always say it the same way. I think it’s usually “care-ah-mell” but am not sure. Didn’t vote.
My parents were pretty good though not perfect for me; pretty bad for one of my sisters; and I think the other sister would say one was pretty good and the other was moderately bad, but am not sure. We’re three very different people and a parenting technique that was fine for one of us wasn’t necessarily so for one of the others. Voted other/it’s complex.
My views on using the company’s printer to print personal stuff would depend in significant part on the company’s policy on the matter (some don’t mind), and to a lesser extent on the company’s behavior in general (are they always expecting people to stay beyond their usual hours, making it hard for them to get things printed elsewhere? are they expecting extra hours but unwilling to pay for them? etcetera.) And I’ve never worked for a company where I had access to a printer, unless you count my own farm, on which I give myself full permission to use the one printer for both personal and business use. – didn’t vote in any of those.
I have now read so many goddamn caramel polls and tried so many variations in my head that I will never say the word again without questioning it.
Company printer for personal documents. If you ask first, and the boss says “yes”, it ceases to be unethical.
I walk to the store the vast majority of times I go shopping, but that wasn’t an option in the poll.
In the rare instance I do drive, I park in the first open space I come to.
I can imagine that some employers care. We don’t. I see it as a minor perk of employment. I suppose if someone wanted 200 copies of something, I’d prefer they ask first. But even then, we’d say yes.
Every place I’ve worked has had something in the employee handbook that specifically stated that “reasonable personal use” of company equipment was allowed. I guess it’s up to the boss to define exactly what is “reasonable”, but I would take that to mean printing a personal document that’s a few pages is fine, but maybe 200 pages isn’t.
I try to walk as many steps as possible, so proximity to the store or a cart return is not important to me. Ease of parking for the win.
My state (barely) voted Blue in the 2020 election. We have a Republican governor, but the guy before him was a Democrat. So I’d have to say “neither.” And I haven’t really been here long enough to get a handle on my particular town’s politics. Las Vegas itself surely skews liberal, but this being a suburb, I don’t really know. I haven’t met any outspoken Trumpsters in my neighborhood, for which I’m thankful.
Most of my bosses would be fine with it, as long as you asked first.
If they felt you were going behind their back, they would get draconian.
(This is in the “using company stuff for personal use” conversation.)
I think I act about the same; but I don’t know anybody in real life who also reads the boards I’m on who I could check the accuracy of that with. – well, aside from the two people I just met at the meetup; but we’re not usually commenting in the same threads, and they’ve only had one IRL interaction with me, so I don’t think that would count.
ETA: Modern vehicles aren’t made for short people to see behind them well, and I don’t have a backup camera. I’m taking a pull-through space any time I can find one.
I’m more or less the same in person. I wouldn’t post anything online, here or elsewhere, that I wouldn’t say to your face. I do try to not be a jerk across the board, no pun intended, with the possible exception for trolling the comments section of the FOX News website, because the vast majority of those people have absolutely earned zero respect.