Yeah, I feel massively ignorant reading these polls; I get a name here and there, and also find some of them familiar but can’t place where I’ve seen them and therefore don’t know whether to include them and don’t vote. But I often remember the books, and/or have heard the music – I just don’t remember names well.
There are so many composers starting with B. And S, for that matter.
Well, sure, but these are my choices for an alphabet game.
Had I seen that poll yesterday morning, I would not have heard of Florence Price. But by coincidence they played one of her symphonies on the radio in the afternoon.
I was in the National Organization of Legal Services Workers when I was with Legal Aid in rural Ohio. It’s a UAW affiliate, so we’d get all these newsletters showing big guys slamming parts together to make trucks, and there we were, tapping away at our keyboards. I was secretary for our local one year. Glad to have been part of a union, and have always strongly supported them without pretending that they’re perfect.
Took the Myers-Briggs test in college and was right on the line between being an extrovert and being an introvert. Since then, and especially since I’ve become more politically active, I’m much more extroverted. But I don’t mind having alone time now and then, either.
I’d leap at the chance to become Biden’s VP. The chance to serve my country, shape public policy, to help people, to be involved in high-level discussions at the White House, to appear in the history books, and to possibly become President myself (to put it bluntly, Biden’s not getting any younger) would be freakin’ irresistible to a patriot, political junkie and policy wonk like me.
On the other hand, I wouldn’t touch the Vice Presidency under Trump with a 20-foot pole. Not a chance. Even if he said he’d listen to me (which I wouldn’t believe for a nanosecond), I would have to spend 'way too much time with him and then have my reputation and self-respect dragged down to his level, while being associated with a man and policies I absolutely despise. No, thanks a billion.
Never ghosted anyone, although I once realized afterwards that someone ghosted me before, for reasons I still don’t quite understand. She apparently thought better of it and then re-befriended me. Very odd.
Used to give blood regular as clockwork (and was once warned by my doctor to give a bit less often, as I actually had become slightly anemic) before the Red Cross banned donations by anyone who’d been in the UK in the Eighties for more than a cumulative six months, due to concerns about Mad Cow Disease. Fortunately, the FDA and Red Cross changed their policy recently, and I’ve now given again, and look forward to getting back on a regular donation cycle! It makes me feel good to give blood and help people that way.
I always throw away the heels of bread other than occasionally putting them in cookie tins to make stale cookies soft(er) again.
Happy to say I knew most of the fictional characters and the composers (including Vivaldi’s maybe-sister).
That’s why it’s on the questionnaire. Makes sense now.
Yep, union wages paid most of my way through college and I was working only part time. I quit in my senior year so I could take an internship and suffered a big pay drop. Ultimately, it was worthwhile but the adjustment was tough and I had to take out my first and only student loan. But while I say part-time, that meant I could work a maximum of 24 hours a week plus Sundays so I worked 32 hours a week throughout most of my 4.25 years of college. My store was happy to work me at maximum hours as I was one of the most efficient ringers, as well as a willing stock-clerk, too. Not much college life and my grades weren’t tops, but graduating with only a relatively small amount of debt sure was worth it.
Used to give blood, but had to stop after spending three years in Scotland. That’s no longer a problem, but now I’m on warfarin – anybody know if that makes my blood unacceptable? (I assume it does.)
Worked for a small supermarket chain in the late '70s. The owner paid good wages and gave good benefits, for the express purpose of keeping the unions out. (The one I’ve always missed was the five sick days a year – not in itself unusual, but the week before Xmas we were paid for any unused sick days; I was never sick, so I got 53 weekly paycheques each year.) Worked at Sears for fifteen years after retiring from the Navy; no unions there, either.
Daisy Buchanan, Nora Charles, Holly Golightly, Humbert Humbert and Tom Joad, though I haven’t read a single one of those books. (I actually know Nora and Holly from the movies, but I’ve never seen those either.) I note that those are the five most-recognised names on that poll.
For the short form movies thread, really needs an ‘other’ or ‘depends’ answer. Because, especially at the short end of the option (30 minutes) I don’t want to buy online (so I don’t miss seats) or get there early same reason, after blocking out the time, spending 15ish minutes driving there, and the whole hassle that is in-theatre movies, especially if I’m paying current full prices.
If it were an evening of shorts as it were, full price and 2-3 shorts each in the range, it would work fine for me.
But outside of tremendous audio / visual blockbusters that I want to have the experience of, or events I go with friends, I almost always wait for a streaming / RedBox option for anyway. Or I go to a Dine-In Theatre so it’s dinner and a movie all in one, so the short time frame is already at a disadvantage for me outside the scenario above.
I, too, might enjoy and excellent 30 minute movie on a big screen, but i wouldn’t want to drive, park, etc. For just 39 minutes. Give me a few of those in a sitting and I’m in.
I stopped going to movie theaters before COVID in part because of my hearing loss. I enjoy watching movies on my iPad, wearing headphones and having captions on.
You would be correct Warfarin is on the list of prohibited medications.
As far as the short movies, it would depend on the movie. And if only one was being shown at a time, it would depend on whether I was already close to the movie theater for other reasons (and also whether I’d started going to movie theaters again.)
I very rarely read the NYT online, because I can’t subscribe to everything and they’re mostly paywalled. I absolutely hate blinking ads on anybody’s web page, and will either adjust the page so I can’t see them or close it and go find the information somewhere else if I really want to see it; so I voted “highly irritating” on the grounds that I do once in a long while find myself on a NYT page.
I don’t watch a supposedly-dead actor to see if they move; but if I do happen to notice one inadvertently moving, it probably won’t ruin my suspension of disbelief. A number of other things will, but I’ll most likely just ignore that one. There doesn’t seem to be an option for “I don’t, and if I notice one anyway I can probably ignore it”, so I voted “something else”.
I can’t remember if I’ve ever had whitewall tires, let alone thin-striped ones. I’ve never paid to have them on purpose, but I’ve always driven used cars, and don’t remember whether any of them came with whitewalls or striped ones to start with.
The thin-striped whitewalls were ubiquitous in the '70s, and I owned a few sets. The reason I remember is that when buying new tires I would have to specify that they be mounted “whitewalls in”. So I owned, but never displayed them, because they looked stupid (to me) on a pickup.
A couple of times more recently I have bought tires with white raised letters, and they also got mounted “white in”, mostly because it’s impossible to keep them clean.
The rain washes my truck just fine, except for white on tires 
I had a white car in the late 70s early 80s. (AMC Hornet) I remember well the thin white stripe and the white letters. I liked them at the time. Fashions change.
Yes, at least under American Red Cross rules. See under “Bleeding Condition” here: Blood Donor Eligibility Criteria | Red Cross Blood Services
Hmm, baths or showers. Baths are so much nicer. But i almost always take a shower. It’s quicker and cleans better.
I waffled on the temp preference. I like it warm when i enter the shower. But if i take a long shower i sometimes crank up the temperature. (Yes, i know that’s a bad habit and I’m killing the planet. But it feels so good in the moment.) I max out at “hot”, though, and never want “very hot”.
Bath or shower? I’m 100% a shower guy. I’d only sit in a bathtub if there was a medical need like a strained muscle kinda thing, and I’d shower before and after the bath part.
My shower is hot and 5 minutes or less. Get wet, lather up head to toe and rinse.
My wife is in the “very hot” camp. I’m more normal “hot.”
We have a two showerhead shower, so it works if we want to shower together. (which I think I prefer more than she does)
I can’t decide between my own office with a door and a window, or the 40-hours-and-we-don’t-care-which. I’d have to know whether there’s a window within easy sight of my alternative situation – I do extremely poorly in places with no windows, so if not I’d have to take the office that has one. But if the alternative is a shared space but there is at least one window, I’d take any-40-hours, no question.
I prefer a bath if I’m not in a hurry and/or if I have aching muscles. I prefer a shower if I’m in a hurry and nothing hurts all that much.
If I’m not dirty, I usually don’t bathe. (Yes, I include being stinky in ‘dirty’.) When I am dirty, I usually prefer to take a bath in the evening. Not an original saying, but: there are jobs in which you shower in the morning, and there are jobs in which you shower at night. I have one where you shower (or bathe) at night.
I usually prefer the water to be very hot; but not if the weather is very hot. If the weather’s really hot I prefer lukewarm. (Or, if swimming, fairly cold.)
I’ve never seen the movie, so I don’t know what I think of the ruling.
thorny – objecting to the parameters given for as long as she can remember – locust