Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1)

“Which would you prefer?” needs more context. I read @DCnDC’s zombie question thinking that I was being offered my own personal army of zombies, that I could control or at least deploy. I’m still not sure that wasn’t the intent, but the third choice sort of argues against it.

By “decoration”, I meant something that iis optional. A registration sticker, license plate tab, parking sticker or vehicle emblem are not really optional decorations (though you could yank the manufacturer’s emblem things off). Striping is kind of maybe, but is if it is after-msrket.

Vehicle decorations: On the Miata I’ve got a Sierra Club window decal (which of course is only visible when the top is up) and a “zoom zoom” license plate frame. I’d kind of like a Manual Gearbox Preservation Society decal, but I don’t have one yet.

Reality shows: I kind of liked Pawn Stars and American Pickers for a while, but haven’t watched them in like forever, but I still picked them.

No bumper stickers or decals, but I do have custom license plate frames. The back is Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” while the front is a Firefly frame that proclaims “You are beginning to damage my calm.”

We have this week’s winner for Best Sequential Posts.

Definitely :laughing:

I thought scallions and spring onions were two different things, with the spring onions having a larger bulb. And Bon Appetit agrees with me.

Spring onions, on the other hand, are a different thing. The bulb of a spring onion is much larger , compared to the small, not-so-bulbous scallion. The bulb of a spring onion actually looks like a mini onion, spherical and bright white.

Now, if the poll had been scallion vs. green onion, I would have chosen green onion, but that was not an option.

The US location poll I’ve been to 7. Despite living relatively close to NYC and being there many times in my life I have never been to Grand Central Terminal

I remember reading a Poirot story as a kid that mentioned he wanted to grow marrows when he retired. It kinda grossed me out, because the only marrow I knew at the time was bone marrow.

I’d love to win the Powerball myself, because whenever I thought about winning a lottery, my main daydreams were about how I could help my friends and favorite charities. But I voted for a charitable organization (that I approved of) winning it.

I only watch Project Runway and Top Chef. I used to watch Great British Baking before it left its original home. I have zero interest in any of those unstructured so-called reality shows. Boring and stupid. Oh, I did watch as a dirty, filthy habit – Toddlers and Tiaras.

In the US. In Canada and the UK and other countries, it’s “spring onion.”

My car has no bumper stickers, but in the “optional adornment” category, I do have decorative license plate frames, both related to the Green Bay Packers, so I counted those.

I don’t have a favorite sports team, and had no idea that sports teams each have both dark and light uniforms. Presuming that it’s true, why do they?

At home games they wear one version (my Nebraska :football: Cornhuskers wear red [dark] jerseys at home games) and away games are in the opposite jersey (white or light).

Answer A: To easily tell the teams apart on the field.

Answer B: Merchandising. Every team in every sport now has multiple uniform iterations beyond simply light and dark, and every jersey the team wears on the field is another jersey you can sell to the fans.

In Baseball, I generally prefer traditional home whites and road grays over any alternate jerseys. The Cubbies in their classic white with blue pinstripes is their best look.

But in other sports, especially Hockey, I almost always prefer the dark jersey look.

Ah. I thought they did that with different colors.

Maybe these days there aren’t enough easily distinguishable colors to go around?

Or maybe it’s that. Like telling people that they have to dress the boy babies in blue and the girl babies in pink, so that people with one of each will have to buy a whole new set instead of just handing most things down.

If you look at the “official colors” of most professional American sports teams you’re going to find a heck of a lot of reds, navy blues, and whites, to no one’s shock. Navy blue is more popular than a “bluer” blue because teams like to use it in logos instead of black, although black is a popular “alternates” color as well. Yellow is popular as a contrasting color.

Though usually there is one team in white (-ish) and one in a darker color for a clear contrast, there are sometimes exceptions. A few years ago there was the infamous red-and-green NFL game, which was a nightmare for color-blind folks like me.

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I suspect the origin dates back to black and white TV days. (although the home/visitor thing obviously predates TV of any kind)

Whoops, apologies! I forgot about the color-blind people!

There certainly are a lot of teams with very similar colors in the NHL. So it’s definitely helpful when watching a game to know that the team wearing the dark uniform is always the home team, and the lights are the away team.