# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 149
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2962 "2024-08-14T12:20:21Z")
I haven’t had facial hair for about twenty-five years, but for several years in the 1980s i kept a full beard and mustache. Once, just for the experience, I had a barber do the full shave-and-a-haircut (shaved the neck, trimmed the beard) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2963 "2024-08-14T14:28:12Z")
I’ve had barbers offer to “touch up” my beard when I was in the chair and taken them up on it, but I think that counts. While on the subject, what’s up with what I call “civil war” beards. Beards that a grown with (apparently) no trimming whatsoever. Just patches, lumps, and stringers depending on what that portion of the beard decides to do. Only a few individuals are gifted with beard growth that is uniform. The rest of us really need to at least do occasional shaping, don’t we? In chess, take the mate you see. Don’t get fancy and don’t keep looking for one in fewer moves once you find it. If you know you can mate by stripping away protection and going to an endgame where you have a simple mate, don’t worry about finding some exotic combination that might or might not work in the near term. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2964 "2024-08-14T14:31:40Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Only a few individuals are gifted with beard growth that is uniform. The rest of us really need to at least do occasional shaping, don’t we? Any attempt at “trimming” has always ended up with me shaving and starting over, so no, I do not trim. Twice a year (?) I go for a haircut and beard trim. When I’m done there’s an impressive amount of hair on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2965 "2024-08-14T14:43:55Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > What if the dog has no registered name? Many of them, including most of the ones I’ve known, don’t. I would reckon for the magic to work, you would need the dog’s “true name.” What does the dog call itself? It _might_ call itself what its humans call it, but it’s more likely some combination of remembered scents that would be impossible for a human to recall, much less write down. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2966 "2024-08-14T14:56:39Z")
Maybe that’s why magic doesn’t work: we don’t know any beings’ true names, and are incapable of doing the equivalent of pronouncing them even if we did know them. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2967 "2024-08-14T15:31:08Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Only a few individuals are gifted with beard growth that is uniform. Do you mean “uniform” in terms of how much of the face / neck is covered with hair, or in how fast the hair grows so that the bear gets lumpy? Or both? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2968 "2024-08-14T15:36:32Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > how fast the hair grows so that the bear gets lumpy? I just…it… nope, walking away from that one… ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2969 "2024-08-14T15:45:52Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Bush Sr. was the only good Republican president on that list. He deserved a second term. He gave us Clarence f’ing Thomas. So, no, he did not. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2970 "2024-08-14T15:49:00Z")
I chose Delaware, not because I have anything against it, but because I’ll likely have no reason to ever go there again, and it seems like the easiest state to avoid having to pass through on the way to somewhere else. And yes, Bob’s a jerk. One should not go to a restaurant if one can’t afford the meal _with_ tip. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2971 "2024-08-14T15:57:13Z")
I had to pick Oklahoma, as it’s the only US state I’ve never set foot in. Someday… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2972 "2024-08-14T16:13:25Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > And yes, Bob’s a jerk. One should not go to a restaurant if one can’t afford the meal _with_ tip. Yep! … ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2973 "2024-08-14T16:18:52Z")
Most of those countries sound like places I would like to visit, so it was tough to choose. So I went with Zambia just because of Victoria Falls. I would like to think that if this is such a renowned restaurant that Bob is willing to blow all his savings just for the experience of eating there, they would comp his meal, like in the “Forks” episode of _The Bear_. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2974 "2024-08-14T17:54:49Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2974))_ ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2975 "2024-08-14T18:31:46Z")
Noooooo! I don’t even joke about waitstaff doing evil things to food. When I was young I was talking to a friend who was working in a restaurant prepping food. He had a huge thing of shredded cabbage and dumped a huge thing of slaw dressing into it. While chatting with me he used his hand/arm to mix it all together. Then he realized he wasn’t wearing the glove/sleeve he ordinarily donned for this. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2976 "2024-08-14T22:16:42Z")
“God damn” is an imperative, describing a wish for the Deity to damn something. “Goddamn” is an adjective (a contraction of “God-damned”), describing something the Deity has already damned. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2977 "2024-08-14T22:45:34Z")
God damn these goddamn orthographic conventions! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2978 "2024-08-14T23:40:20Z")
I’ve been to Ohio. So I picked Ohio. Lived in Alabama for a short time. It was ok. Some very nice areas. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2979 "2024-08-15T00:35:19Z")
I like to experiment with cooking. Nothing is ever so good it couldn’t be better. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2980 "2024-08-15T01:11:53Z")
And being honest about being a jerk does not negate the being of a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/2981 "2024-08-15T01:43:54Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I’ve been to Ohio. So I picked Ohio. If you don’t lift your pen up when writing the “i” Ohio becomes Oh No! Unfortunately , it’s convenient to go thru to get to the rest of the country [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=148) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=150)