# 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:** 174
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3462 "2024-09-18T19:20:54Z")
Let’s see. I suppose it could be gathering information on who takes showers, though it’s not very useful for that, as some people may be answering for what they do when they take a bath and there’s no option for “I don’t take showers”. There also isn’t an option for “I don’t have ears”, so it wouldn’t be a good way to find out whether anybody posting here doesn’t. (Or what they think of rocks falling on Mars or trees falling in forests.) I suppose it could be gathering information on who takes polls here and possibly when, but so could any other polling post. I suppose somebody could be keeping track of who from what locations posts on the Dope, but that could be done from any posts here at all. So I voted “Huh? Like what?” ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3463 "2024-09-18T21:02:57Z")
I always wash my face before I shower, and I wash my ears (fairly well) when I wash my face. So, no, I don’t wash my ears at all **when** I shower. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3464 "2024-09-18T21:43:29Z")
I’m not sure i have ever explicitly washed my ears. They kinda get rinsed off when i wash my hair. Honestly, i mostly try to keep my ears dry, as water gets stuck in them easily, and it’s unpleasant and can make them itch. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3465 "2024-09-18T21:48:09Z")
Oh, I hate water in my ears! And it’s a lot easier to do in the shower. I’m really careful when I’m washing my hair to avoid that problem ---
**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:** [September 18, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3466 "2024-09-18T22:20:36Z")
I wash my ears thoroughly, but only sometimes, like every fourth or fifth time. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3467 "2024-09-19T03:10:24Z")
I use a silicone rubber bulb to squirt warm water into my ears when I’m in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3468 "2024-09-19T10:17:09Z")
I was a psychology major, ond one of my favorite classes was sensory psychology, which delves into how we sense things. I say that the answer is that both are true. When the tree falls, it creates sound waves. Those sound waves are a subject of physics. When the sound wave reaches an animal that has the ability to hear, it gets transmitted to the brain. I can only speak to human hearing, although I doubt it is much different for other animals Y’all probably know this part - the wave is transmitted from the ear drum, through the middle ear and into the cochlea. In the cochlea are hairs which are moved by the wave which sends signals to the brain. Which then processes those signals into the sensation of noise. Thus, the sound has two separate existences - the sound wave, which is in the purview of physics; and the parsing of the sound stimuli into the sensation of hearing, which is studied by psychology ---
**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:** [September 19, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3469 "2024-09-19T12:33:50Z")
I feel safe walking around at night. A few times an opossum and I have startled each other, but there aren’t any humans walking around. Full moon last night was perfect for walking Loki at 3. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3470 "2024-09-19T12:49:50Z")
I feel safe walking around at night. It’s a quiet suburban neighborhood. The only murder in the last 50 years was a guy who killed his wife (who was apparently so unpleasant that the kids sided with him) and while there are some house robberies and other property crimes, there’s very little crime against persons. Besides, at night, i KNOW there are people home who would hear me scream. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3471 "2024-09-19T15:21:17Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I feel safe walking around at night. It’s a quiet suburban neighborhood. The only murder in the last 50 years was a guy who killed his wife (who was apparently so unpleasant that the kids sided with him) and while there are some house robberies and other property crimes, there’s very little crime against persons. This, except that it’s a rural neighborhood; and we did have one unsolved murder in the 35+ years I’ve lived here. It was however inside the victim’s home and in the middle of the morning, so not going for walks at night wouldn’t have helped. Plus which, it’s now about twenty years ago. Occasionally somebody beats up somebody, but it’s generally somebody they know; and I’m not worried about any of my neighbors. Though I would be a little worried about what might happen to somebody who attacked me when the neighbors came running to help! ---
**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:** [September 19, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3472 "2024-09-19T19:42:18Z")
I don’t wear glasses for vision correction, but I answered for my sunglasses. For shape they don’t really fit into any of the options given in the poll, but based on the chart in [this article](https://www.buyvshades.com/blog/classic-sunglass-styles-for-men) they look like sort of a cross between the “wayfarer” and “wraparound” styles. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3473 "2024-09-19T19:46:18Z")
I didn’t know what shape to pick for the glasses. They’re kind of a bulgy trapezoid with rounded corners: square? Oval? ---
**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:** [September 19, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3474 "2024-09-19T20:13:37Z")
Squoval. mmm ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3475 "2024-09-19T23:37:58Z")
I got two pairs of prescription sunglasses (because I couldn’t decide between styles). One is hornrimmed Ray Bans whose lenses are essentially round. The other pair (and my non-tinted pair) are more rounded rectangular. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3476 "2024-09-19T23:43:06Z")
My glasses are progressives; but, in addition to attempting to correct for both nearsightedness and farsightedness, they also correct for astigmatism. I don’t put eggshells back in the carton because doing that makes the carton too gummed up with bits of egg white to re-use, and I know several people and several stores that will take the cartons and re-use them. I have seen people do that; they throw their egg cartons out. ETA: > [@Dr.Drake](#): > > I didn’t know what shape to pick for the glasses. They’re kind of a bulgy trapezoid with rounded corners: square? Oval? I suppose mine are too, but they’re mostly rectangular, so I picked that. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3477 "2024-09-19T23:43:53Z")
I wear two types of glasses: readers and sunglasses. My readers (I own a bunch of pairs) are all the same basic retro “hornrim” style (think Buddy Holly’s black hornrims), so I chose “oval” for those. The sunglasses are a wraparound style, so I chose “other” for those. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3478 "2024-09-19T23:45:04Z")
Oh, I forgot my readers. They’re Randy Rainbow pink cat’s eyes with rhinestones. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3479 "2024-09-19T23:50:24Z")
If the egg carton is now empty I put the cracked shells back in it and throw the whole thing out. If there are any eggs left in the carton I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3480 "2024-09-19T23:51:03Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I don’t put eggshells back in the carton because doing that makes the carton too gummed up with bits of egg white to re-use, Ww recycle them, altho yeah, we have one or two saved, just in case. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3481 "2024-09-20T02:07:47Z")
I wear Ray-Ban Clubmasters. Ray-Ban calls them square, so that’s what I chose. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=173) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=175)