Still not going to respond to public polls.
We are polar opposites. I’ve never seen the ones you listed.
By all means, do keep us posted.
And you still watch The Crown?
Yeah, I don’t watch (or read) much fiction with evil or amoral or bad-guy protagonists. It’s not a rule (mine or anybody else’s) or a deliberate avoidance; it’s just that that kind of thing just doesn’t appeal to me.
Why not?
A message board i used to use allowed people to have multiple IDs. There were theme IDs (someone made a lot of Homer Simpson IDs), special-purpose IDs (baby Jesus crying), all sorts of things. Any poll of any interest had to be public, so we could see that it hadn’t been homer-bombed, for example. (joke polls often WERE voted on several times by the same person. One person created voter1… voter10 just for that purpose.)
So i still think of public polls as the standard, and anonymous polls as slightly suspect.
Because though some are innocuous, some ask questions for which I don’t want my answers retained publicly for all time.
Regarding m vs. n dashes. I don’t care, I just wish Word would stop changing them sometimes and not others.
Questions like “Do you respond to public polls?” 
That makes a little bit of sense to me, but what makes more sense is, instead of having a policy that you never respond to public polls, just have a policy that you never post information (whether in the form of a post, a poll answer, or whatever) that you don’t want retained publicly for all time. And consider making an exception for private polls.
Yeah, I do respond to anonymous polls, and I don’t have a policy so much as an aversion to public polls.
Good question.
My kid watches a lot of kid shows: Henry Danger, The Inbestigators, Nicky Ricky Dicky & Dawn, etc.
My wife watches shows like The Great British Baking Show, Trevor Noah live on stage, Extraordinary Attorney Woo. She loved the Japanese shows Midnight Diner and Old Enough.
Between the two of them I rarely get to choose what to watch, and I don’t care that much anyway.
For the sick death trap question, I didn’t answer, because, well, it was too uncomfortable. By default though it would probably be ‘select none’.
Anyone who is going to kidnap 3 people, force a death choice, and then imprison the rest forever with no contact isn’t exactly trustworthy. It’s a ‘Saw’ scenario, and I seen no advantage to playing their games.
But given those choices, I am unwilling to even play the game by voting in that thread.
Sorry. I guess I have weird thoughts when making pasta sauce. 
I chose “select none” because I’d rather die than be forced to make that choice by someone with a sick, sick brain. Hey, I’ve got a sick brain too, but not like that.
He says he’ll never forgive me, but he will. And now we have the rest of our lives to plan our escape and revenge.
(I mean, as long as we’re talking implausible horror movie scenarios, let’s take it all the way!)
I didn’t vote, because ‘kill myself and let the other two live’ wasn’t a choice. I’d be very unpleasantly insane within a week if I were to be shut up forever with no windows, no matter who I was shut up with.
Great answer - but I replied “We all die.” I wouldn’t want someone else’s needless death on my conscience when our sicko captor is probably going to kill us all anyway.
As to TV, I’ve seen some of what I’m told are the best episodes of The Sopranos, but have no interest in watching the whole series. Never saw any of the other shows mentioned.
@Velocity: I can’t vote in the conservative Democrat/liberal Republican thread without the following additional information:
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Will the results of that election be likely to have a significant impact on the balance of power within the relevant electoral branch? (For instance, right now, are we talking about the Federal House or Senate? Or are we talking about the New York State Assembly?)
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Do you mean “conservative Democrat” as in “conservative for the current Democratic Party” or as in “conservative for the current USA overall”?; and does “liberal Republican” mean “liberal for the current Republican Party” or “liberal for the current USA overall”?
Of course, there’s also 3) “where can I currently find a liberal Republican who made it to the general election?”, but that would be rather arguing with the premise.