I have books all over the place. I’m not going to count them, but I’d guess a couple of thousand. Some of them are behind other books, does that count as visible? I have read most but not all of them, and some of them multiple times. The problem with sorting out some to get rid of is that I’d get about three books in and come across something I needed to read to decide about, and that would be the end of the sorting. Has been, rather; this has happened several times, though I’ve occasionally made it a couple of shelves.
Some of them are cookbooks, so the answer isn’t zero; so I put 5%, but I think it’s actually more like 2%.
I can’t vote in the get-up-and-pee poll because it depends on at least two things: how badly do I need to pee? and how close am I to having had enough sleep? If I think I can hold it I’ll roll over and go back to sleep. If I’ve had enough or almost enough sleep I’ll get up and stay up. If I’m really short on sleep but also really need to pee, I’ll get up and pee and then try to get the remaining half hour of sleep; though I may not be very successful at it.
Nearly forgot: I would taste the artificial chicken. Whether I’d eat more of it would depend on whether I liked it – and texture is a major thing for me. It would also depend on whether I thought it was actually an ecological benefit over properly raising chicken, which doesn’t seem entirely clear to me (though it may well be an improvement over improperly raising chicken, as well as certainly easier on the chickens.)
For the most part, I try to be careful who I get my chicken from and how it’s been raised. I find both the flavor and texture of grocery store chicken to be severely lacking, so if the artificial stuff is only matching that I’m unlikely to be impressed.
I always get up and pee even though my physical therapist told me not to. She said wait 15 minutes and then see if you can fall asleep because you have to train your bladder not to be so sensitive. But I have one of those minds that, once it latches onto something, it can’t let go. So, shamefully, I pee.
That’s how my mind works. Once I notice I need to pee, even if I don’t have to go that badly, I won’t be able to focus on anything else until I go. Which is why I will usually get up and pee, and then go back to bed, even if I probably could roll over and hold it for the remaining half hour.
All the bathrooms in my dreams – if I need to pee IRL – are disGUSTing. Or there are no toilets in the stalls. Or I can’t find one. Usually the urge wakes me up, and I’ll always get up after those dreams. I’m getting old enough that I don’t want to take any chances.
Neither. I’m in an area of the state that lacks sidewalks. The places I’ve worked, and previously lived with sidewalks just don’t have a grassy strip.
As for the book question, there are a lot more books in the living room that anyone can see because of an art project I did inspired by my dislike of open cubbies.
My answer to the books question was “it’s complicated” because all the books I sell in my store are in the living room. I’m aiming to close my shop soon, and all those books will go away.
I have 3 bookcases in my bedroom and one in the back hall. They will probably get to the living room eventually.
Re judging people by if they have books…
I’ve been to a lot of estate sales. One I remember had a really nice library. Most of the books were along the lines of "How to become a millionaire selling real estate ", etc.
We have floor to ceiling bookcases along one wall of the den, and they’re packed full, so that’s at least 200, and there’s a bookcase next to the TV in the living room that was supposed to be for DVDs but is about a third books, so there’s another 40 or 50, plus three bookcases in the upstairs hall (on the way to the upstairs bathroom if someone’s using downstairs). There are also two in the three bedrooms that are in regular use, and one in the guest room. I realized I had a problem a long time ago, but I’ve never been motivated to do anything about it.
The first poll I can recall where I managed to agree in some way with all of the options. This one’s tough.
As long as they have permission from the family and/or estate I don’t care.
Depends on the application. Bringing back John Wayne for a dignified movie role is one thing; bringing him back to hawk impotence pills is entirely another.
I don’t really care that much one way or another.
I’m against this in all forms. The dead should stay that way.
If Orville ignored the ticket and kept going, no problem. Someone else put it there. The moment he picks it up it becomes his responsibility, and throwing it back on the ground is clearly littering.
We have 30-plus cookbooks, plus another dozen recipe binders in the kitchen. We may have 3-5 books in the living room, depending on what we’re reading or looking at. Same for the other rooms, except the Billy room.
The Billy room, which is also the guest room, has Ikea Billy shelves along one wall and they are filled. Somewhere around 750 books, but I haven’t counted. As it is the guest room, any overnight guest will see the books, but we rarely have overnight guests.
We also have around a dozen books in the basement, mainly for sentimental value, not for reading. We don’t even see them most of the time, as they are stored in boxes.
And I don’t like any of the choices in the dead actors poll. Generally I’m against it, but there may be some exceptions – especially if the person gave permission for the specific use while still alive. But ‘we think this is a respectful way to present the actor’ doesn’t count.
The way you used the phrase “an art,” I was wondering if you were a fan of McMansion Hell?
Oh, and I have three big bookcases along one wall in my bedroom. They mostly hold art and decor books. I’m a big fan of houses and decorating. If I can’t sleep, these are the kinds of books that will still my brain instead of actually reading which often stimulates my brain.
I grew up in a household with a mother from Omaha, a father who had effectively learned his English from grammar books in New York City, and a grandfather with a strong Yiddish accent; they had friends from various places in Europe. I went to high school in Maine and in Massachusetts, and to college in Rochester, New York. Anywhere whatsoever that I was, as soon as I opened my mouth, people knew immediately that I was from Somewhere Else. They just couldn’t figure out where else.
I’ve now been in the Finger Lakes for roughly 50 years. Not sure whether I now sound like I’m from here or not.
(And which NY accent? The Bronx doesn’t even sound like Manhattan, let alone like Rochester or the Adirondacks.)
Midwestern American accent here. According to the site to which @WildaBeast linked to in the poll, I originally had the “North Central American” accent, having grown up in northern Wisconsin, but decades spent in Chicago and Madison have smoothed most of the more noticeable bits of Wisconsin (“ya hey”) off of my accent.
That’s what I was getting at when I said some of them could be further broken down into more specific accents, but pick the closest one. In other words for purposes of the poll both of those would be considered a New York accent.
I speak American Midwest, although I’ve been told I have some holdovers from New England, mostly in pacing and emphasis. I was nearly six when my folks moved from western MASS to the Southwest, and I dropped almost all if it quickly given the age, but retain parts were based on my father’s style and remain.
