The current big push in Kremlin propaganda is that "both sides are just as bad, so why bother to care or vote?"
Please try to stomp that out whenever you see it.
I interpreted @eschereal’s “Vote!” poll as “Vote in the polls in this thread” rather than “Vote in US elections.”
Yeah, I read the asterisked comment after I voted Vote! But I felt that if you’re reading a poll thread, why would you not vote? So, I didn’t change my, er, vote. Occasionally, I do skip a poll … usually Velocity’s for some reason.
Ditto, to all of that.
Lately I’ve felt the Polls Only thread was getting less exciting and participation a slog. So I scrolled back to the beginning and revisited the first forty polls. I was wrong, they’ve always been like that.
I enjoy the polls thread, and the effort people put into it. I wasn’t in it from the beginning, though, back when it was the same as it is now. (required joke emoji)
Hah, well then color me fooled. oops.
Other: growing up in San Diego, I didn’t have a coat. Just a sweater for the cold days.
Discussions about baldness remind me of something my father said, concerning being shiny on top.
All men are given an equal number of hormones. If you choose to use yours growing hair, that’s your business.
I don’t recall ever wanting to keep my coat on after coming in. Or any one child wanting to. I remember fights about children not wanting to bundle up (“you’ll catch your death”) or wanting to play with water when it wasn’t hot enough out per adult standards (must be over 80). But not the reverse.
Yeah, pretty much this. I think I must have been told at some point “not to wear your coat/jacket while indoors because it would make you feel colder when you went outside,” but it didn’t occur to me to push back on this, and it’s not as though I wasn’t allowed to wear a coat inside.
I’m the neighbor who grumbles because I think your music is too loud.
I have to repeatedly tell my sons to either remove their polar fleece hoodies indoors or, at least, unzip the damned things. They just keep them on and stew in their sweat.
Yeah. If I was ever told not to wear my coat inside I don’t remember either the incident or the reason given; but I was generally hotter than the adults and I don’t think I would have wanted to keep it on. Didn’t vote.
I like music, but I don’t like it played extremely loud. And I live in the middle of 80 acres, so moderately loud music is unlikely to be noticed by the neighbors; but it certainly would be possible to crank it up loudly enough to bug them, because occasionally (not often enough to tackle them about it) a neighbor has cranked theirs up loud enough to annoy me. Didn’t vote.
And I voted that I won’t answer that “simple” poll because while I wouldn’t cut the person off entirely if they were the only one who would talk to me, I wouldn’t see/talk with them very often.
I pronounce the “e” in “coyote,” but the way I pronounce the word is more like “kye-OAT-ee.” I blame Warner Bros. cartoons.
“Caribbean”: depends. If it’s an adjective, e.g. Caribbean gulf, Caribbean cruise, Caribbean beach, it’s “ka-RIB-ee-an.” If it’s a noun, e.g. “I’m visiting the Caribbean,” it’s “care-ah-BEE-an.” Not really sure why.
Normally, KYE-oat.
If I am feeling pretentious, I might use the Spanish pronunciation, co-YO-te
When referring to the cartoon character, kye-OAT-ee
Like so many others, I never wanted to wear my coat indoors. The only things I remember my mom telling me about coats were to put it on before going out and to hang it up after I’d dropped it wherever when I came in.
“Caribbean” has the emphasis on the second syllable (just as “caramel” is a two-syllable word with the emphasis on the first). I refuse to let Disney tell me how to pronounce the word.
The pronunciation of “coyote” has an interesting sociological component. Dan Flores, author of “Coyote America,” says:
The conservative-liberal urban-rural divide is even reflected in how you pronounce the word.
Urban liberals tend to use coyot-ee, with the emphasis on the middle syllable.
Rural conservatives tend to use coyote, with the emphasis on the first syllable.
There’s a third pronunciation: “coy-oh-TE,” which is generally used by English-speakers in reference to a person who is smuggling people over the southern border.
Our neighborhood has vehicles that drive by apparently attempting to win a dB-drag competition. I am ok with a snippet your music wafting in my window, but if I feel it in my chest, that makes me stabby.
Did he say what rural liberals use?
I usually say “KYE-ote” but will occasionally say “kye-O-tee”.