I voted as you did even though I don’t find them terribly annoying. At least Flo is human. The gecko hasn’t aged so well.
I don’t drink coffee and never have (though I like the scent) I use a French press for brewing cacao, and I have a fine mesh strainer for when I’m doing posh tea instead of bagged stuff. And I agree with @pjd that the French press is a bugger to clean.
Anything is better than those incessant Liberty Mutual seagull ads on YouTube.
As for the poll options, I’m done with Flo.
Go ahead and add me to the drive-more-carefully-than-ever rental car driver list…
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Disappointed that Mark Watney wasn’t an option for the Martian poll.
I find your attitude puzzling. My use of the words “filthy”, “yucky” and my copious use of exclamation marks seemed like an obvious attempt at keeping things light. I didn’t think anyone would have a close enough kinship to potatoes to be offended on their behalf. Feel free to replace flithy with whatever word you feel would be inoffensive.
OK, did that. Though I’m not sure the vote registered.
Are the YipYips definitively from Mars?
I love those things.
I wasn’t offended on the behalf of the potatoes; I was offended on the behalf of the topsoil.
I’m not, however, offended at you in particular, so much as at the English language and the culture as a whole. And probably more saddened than offended.
May all of your polls be fertile. (Except maybe if you put one up about getting cats and dogs neutered.)
I don’t find any of the insurance pitch-beings all that annoying. Of the three, Mayhem is the funniest, I’d say.
Ooo, good one!
For the sleep poll:
I clicked ‘with job, different at least one day a week’. But the difference is usually within an hour to an hour and a half window. I’m generally an early riser and wake without an alarm clock somewhere between 5 and 6. I’m also pretty well done for the day by 10 pm and need to crawl in bed. So, I get in bed at about 10, but I always read a bit or watch Youtube things for a while. I generally start to fall asleep over the iPad, and finally conk out for good at 11. There’s a good 45 minute window either way though between being actually in bed and then turning out the light and going to sleep.
I was looking for the Great Gazoo.
@elfkin477: I have a job, but not the kind of job that I think you mean: I’m self-employed, and while some days the job imposes a time schedule, most days it doesn’t – or rather, the schedule’s got to do with the weather, not with the clock. So I didn’t vote, because I thought my vote would be misleading.
Back before I retired, I got up at one time on the weekdays, and a different time on the weekends. Now I just go to bed and wake up whatever the hell I feel like it, except that day, we play bridge at the senior center.
Heh. My scariest experience with popo occured when I was speeding through town. It was 2 am and I thought the police were all asleep.
Two cops, one on my side, the other on the passenger side. I told the guy on my side my paperwork was in the glovebox and he ok’d me to get it.
I opened the glovebox and the cop on that side pulled his gun and screamed WEAPON. I froze. The other cop asked me what was in the glovebox. It was a Leatherman Multitool. The other cop thought it was a butterfly knife.
The older cop apologized and let me go with a warning (for going 60 in a 35). I’d nearly shit myself.
I don’t have set times go sleep or to wake Some days I have to get up early, some days I don’t. Some days I’m in bed by 9:00 p.m., some days it’s after 11:00. Yet, I don’t have any trouble sleeping.
I don’t have a dishwasher; but I do have two of the other appliances, so I voted under the presumption that I’d do the same thing with the dishwasher if I did (which was not leave it running.)
I go to bed/sleep at various times (between 22:00 and 01:00) depending on stuff.
But i always get up at 08:42 for reasons i can’t remember.
I am also fond of Ray Bradbury’s Martians and Robert Heinlein’s Martians.
Yes. And C. S. Lewis’s hrossa, sorns, and pfifltriggi.