# 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:** 156
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3102 "2024-08-25T01:15:31Z")
I answered for the bathroom ensuite my bedroom, since i use it the most. But i keep a couple of spare rolls within reach in the other bathrooms, except one that has a big closet a little out of reach, which is the storage for spare rolls. But mostly my daughter uses that bathroom, so mostly she takes care of changing the rolls. ---
**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 25, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3103 "2024-08-25T02:50:47Z")
If I have ever read The Third Policeman, I don’t remember it. The title is vaguely familiar. If I have read it before, then if I try reading it again I’ll probably remember it at some point in the process of re-reading; but whether I’ll remember the ending I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3104 "2024-08-25T07:30:52Z")
Something to declare Flying from Italy to Taiwan two weeks ago, the airline lost one of our bags. They said they could deliver it to the hotel. The airline filled out a form for unaccompanied baggage which had to be given to customs in the something to declare line. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3105 "2024-08-25T16:37:58Z")
I’m surprised that literally no one else has read _The Third Policeman_. I thought it was reasonably popular. It’s an interesting and very strange book. Fortunately someone had warned me not to read the introduction before reading the book, so I’ll just repeat that advice. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3106 "2024-08-25T16:41:26Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > I’m surprised that literally no one else has read _The Third Policeman_. I’d heard of the title, but know absolutely nothing about it. Looking it up on Wikipedia, I see that it’s an older book (originally published in 1967), but apparently got some more modern attention when it was mentioned on the TV series _Lost_…but even that was almost 20 years ago. ---
**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 25, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3107 "2024-08-25T17:11:02Z")
There are a lot of books that old or older that many people have read, though. Especially in a group of people many of whom are themselves significantly older than that; but even among younger people. So I doubt the issue’s entirely the age of the book. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3108 "2024-08-25T17:32:32Z")
I’d never heard of the book, but when I saw it was Flann O’Brien, I figure it had to be something unusual/interesting…_At Swim-Two-Birds_ is somewhat of a brain-stretcher. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3109 "2024-08-25T17:38:56Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > There are a lot of books that old or older that many people have read, though. That’s fair, and I more meant it as “it’s been around for a while,” rather than “it’s old, so no one reads it.” That said, I have friends who are voracious readers, and who enjoy interesting/challenging books, and I’ve never heard mention of it from any of them. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3110 "2024-08-25T21:27:11Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > …the TV series _Lost_…but even that was almost 20 years ago. _“Lost” was 20 years ago?!?_ I need to go lie down. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3111 "2024-08-26T00:22:09Z")
Spielberg has made a lot of very good films but IMO his last truly great film was Schindler’s List. Possibly his only **truly great** film though ET, Jurassic Park and Empire of the Sun are close. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3112 "2024-08-26T01:19:55Z")
_Lincoln_ was great- mostly due to Daniel Day Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3113 "2024-08-26T05:51:33Z")
Spielberg’s version of _West Side Story_ was phenomenal. I thought it was just as good as the original, if not better. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3114 "2024-08-26T12:13:06Z")
The coffee poll should have allowed multiple options. I checked “other”, but my other means sometimes black and sometimes with milk. ---
**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 26, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3115 "2024-08-26T12:25:00Z")
I drink my coffee black, but I only have a cup on Sundays now. I have a toilet paper routine. I buy two huge packages at Sam’s Club. They are stored in our sauna, which is in my bathroom. We’ve used the sauna as a sauna twice in the past 20 years, so it’s really more a huge cost than a small sauna. My gf and I both refill our bathrooms from the sauna store. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3116 "2024-08-26T12:54:04Z")
I discovered the joy of buying toilet paper by the case a year and a half before the pandemic. That served us really well during the pandemic, we had most of a case in the basement through the worst of it. But the basement stash is not convenient when you are using the toilets. So i keep an extra roll or two within reach of the toilets. ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3117 "2024-08-26T14:22:24Z")
I take my coffee with one or two drops of stevia and just a small splash of half-and-half. ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3118 "2024-08-26T14:24:35Z")
I’d _prefer_ my coffee with both cream (real cream) and sugar (real sugar, brown or unrefined.) However, these days I almost always drink it black. Didn’t vote. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3119 "2024-08-26T14:57:23Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > My TP holder is also my TP storage. Smell no evil… ---
**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 26, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3120 "2024-08-26T14:59:07Z")
Never been trapped in an elevator but I always have to warn new employees that the elevator in our building is “slightly possessed.” Every now and then, when the doors open, the whole thing suddenly moves up or down a few inches, then kind settles back into its proper stopping place. It doesn’t happen that often, but it does happen. Anyways, it doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence in the thing and I try not to use it when possible. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3121 "2024-08-26T15:10:14Z")
I have been in an elevator that suddenly was stuck, and we hit the help button, but it got going in like three or four minutes…so not quite trapped except in the literal sense, but either way I picked “something else”. Perhaps that’s because I had a fear while still working that I’d jump on an elevator while needing to use the restroom, and then get stuck for a long time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=155) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=157)