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

Man, that is a dark poll question, I ain’t answering that.

I am shocked that 23% of responders consider an airport layover as having been to a city.

mmm

A lot of people speak Klingon.

I’m also shocked that jalapenos and bacon were not listed separately. And am I the only one who likes raw mushrooms?

That’s why I wavered between it and Old English.

Bacon was a total brain fart on my part. I’ll cop to that. My personal list of hamburger toppings stops at the Big Three (Pickles, onions, and tomatoes) plus sautéed onions. I had to pull up a Five Guys’ menu to round out the list. Thinking about it, I should have added chili and slaw (I love a “Carolina Style” every once in a while). I may redo that part of the pole, if I could get more suggestions.

2% milk for cereal and cookies and chocolate cake (drinking). Unsweetened almond milk for smoothies.

I don’t drink cow milk, but we usually have either soy, almond, or similar in the refrigerator. My gf drinks skim milk which is really disgusting looking liquid.

For languages, I picked Somali. My reasoning is that there are many displaced Somalis in my local community, enough that the government puts their instructions for forms and suchlike in Somali as well as a couple of other languages. I would be able to comprehend that stuff.

I’m picking Sumerian. I’d be the only living speaker of an important language that’s not currently well understood, and therefore of lots of scientific interest. I’m sure I could get translation services in exchange for cooperating.

I would prefer whole cow’s milk, but I have stomach issues every time I drink it, so I choose oat milk.

As I said, I distinguish “having been” to a city from “having visited” a city. For an airport layover, I’ve been to that city but I haven’t visited it.

It really makes no difference, absolutely nothing in my life would change no matter how I counted it. It’s just for my personal amusement.

Airport layovers I don’t count. If I did then I can count Iceland and Romania as places I’ve visited. I don’t.

Beef eating gatekeepers will yell at you if you eat anything well done. A nice steak I have no problem with being cooked but on the rare side. A burger I don’t want leaking fluid all over me. I like them medium well.

This is similar to why I picked Nepali. There are enough people from Nepal in southern NH who also speak English that I could likely find one to hire as a translator.

On depictions of Christian mythology as real in TV and movies, I selected

“I’m fine if it’s thought-provoking and supports an entertaining story, as long as it’s not preachy, but I prefer if it’s critical of the faith.”

While my feels predate the specific media, The Preacher (comics) was a good representative take of what I liked. If things exist the way they do, with so much suffering, and so much concealment, why? Spoilers follow: The Christian God of the series is a needy individual, wanting to be loved, but not wanting to make it easy, so that the love is even more special and devoted. And when even that wasn’t enough, they manipulated events to create a new being that could be an equal in search of
ever more special sources of love for God.

I would have also accepted the vote without the “prefer it’s critical,” if the point of the show is that it’s important to do your best to help your fellow man, even if they don’t share your faiths, but I know what my actual preference is. :black_heart:

What about those who want to picket studios? hehe!

I like the occasional show where the Christian is actually a good guy. If you’ve ever watched British mysteries, almost inevitably, if there’s a priest/pastor, he’s a really, really bad man.

Father Brown?

I wanted a Navajo option for a language.

Good point, I was thinking more where they weren’t the main character.

Watched Midsomer Murders tonight, and five minutes in my wife said “watch the murderer be that old retired pastor,” and ding! She was right.

I wouldn’t mind Christian mythology as long as it’s shown accurately. So, for instance, if they’re going to show Noah’s Ark, then show it with millions of insects and spiders. Not just giraffes, tigers, etc. - you know, the socially acceptable animals. I want every frightening multi-legged creature that makes audiences shriek.