# 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:** 179
**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 25, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3562 "2024-09-25T16:21:31Z")
I haven’t seen either of the Inside Outs; but the list of emotions for both seems to me to be massively and unreasonably restricted. ETA: also heavily biased towards the negative. ---
**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 25, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3563 "2024-09-25T16:35:38Z")
IIRC the writers of _Inside Out_ were aware that the emotions featured in the film don’t really accurately portray the full range of emotions humans experience, but keeping keeping it limited to a small number of emotions just worked better for storytelling purposes. ---
**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:** [September 25, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3564 "2024-09-25T17:34:28Z")
My brain is operated by the lovechild of Anger and Sadness. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3565 "2024-09-25T17:40:11Z")
For me is a bi-polar bouncing between Anxiety and Ennui. This flippin’ world and life generates endless Anxiety, but once you’ve burned all your fight/flight it drifts to the Ennui of “We’re all screwed.” Then, when your fight/flight kicks back in, the cycle resumes. The problem is, IMHO, both are correct! ---
**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 25, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3566 "2024-09-25T20:08:43Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > IIRC the writers of _Inside Out_ were aware that the emotions featured in the film don’t really accurately portray the full range of emotions humans experience, but keeping keeping it limited to a small number of emotions just worked better for storytelling purposes I suppose that depends on what story you’re telling. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3567 "2024-09-25T20:40:21Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > My brain rarely rises to the level of Anger or Disgust. Annoyance is usually a better description. Yeah, I havent been really angry in a while. > [@colinfred](#): > > In case anyone doesn’t realise, the characters listed are those in control of Riley’s brain in _Inside Out 2_ why is there only one good emotion? ---
**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 25, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3568 "2024-09-25T21:48:19Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > also heavily biased towards the negative. In the first Inside Out movie, the big revelation towards the end is that Sadness actually isn’t negative; her purpose is alerting others when Riley is emotionally overwhelmed and needs help. And while I don’t think it’s explicitly stated in the movie, Fear’s job is basically to protect Riley from danger. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3569 "2024-09-25T21:52:29Z")
I liked _Herman’s Head_ better. ---
**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 25, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3570 "2024-09-25T22:49:13Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > In the first Inside Out movie, the big revelation towards the end is that And while I don’t think it’s explicitly stated in the movie, Fear’s job is basically to protect Riley from danger. All very well; and of course the negative/unpleasant emotions have uses. But where’s Curiosity? Where’s Compassion? Where’s Comfort? Where’s Relief? Where’s Happiness (which no, is not the same thing as Joy?) Where’s Confidence? Where’s Anticipation? Where, even, is Love? ---
**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 25, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3571 "2024-09-25T23:02:57Z")
Oh, i definitely walked across the line between East and West Germany. It was right after the wall was torn down, and before they’d really combined, but I’m not sure that counts. ---
**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 26, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3572 "2024-09-26T01:47:39Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I am hard pressed to think of a state line I walked across. > [@Allecher](#): > > My state crossing was when I walked across the Hoover dam from Nevada to Arizona. Ah, thank you! I’m in the state line club after all. mmm ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3573 "2024-09-26T03:03:18Z")
I’d say it counts. At the very least, it counts as an Other. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3574 "2024-09-26T03:09:32Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > But where’s Curiosity? Where’s Compassion? Where’s Comfort? Where’s Relief? Where’s Happiness (which no, is not the same thing as Joy?) Where’s Confidence? Where’s Anticipation? Where, even, is Love? Yep. Curiosity is a big kid emotion, also. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3575 "2024-09-26T03:47:48Z")
Hooked up with several coworkers. Not at the same time. Unfortunately I married one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3576 "2024-09-26T04:53:23Z")
I’m mostly geared towards Joy, and have been for a long time, but Anxiety has definitely been getting a workout in my mind in recent years. Prejudice towards both Jews and Muslims is unfortunately persistent, but I’d say Muslims have it a bit worse, due to the long shadow still cast by 9-11. Never had an affair with a coworker, although there’ve been some I thought very attractive, and also some from whom I got the impression that they’d have soon agreed to a fling, had I ever asked. I enjoyed both of the _Inside Out_ movies, but they definitely don’t include the full range of identifiable emotional options for your typical teenager. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3577 "2024-09-26T13:11:18Z")
I’d hooked up with a couple of folks in the theater scene, but the one that stands out most was a really cool prop mistress, whom I married twenty-three years ago. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3578 "2024-09-26T14:47:43Z")
I’ve crossed several municipal boundaries on foot. When I was still in school I had a part-time job at a company where the building was in the city of Annapolis, and most of the parking lot was not. Must have crossed over hundreds of times. My on-foot state line crossings also add more town line crossings: Delmar, MD & DE, Reliance, MD & DE, and Texarkana, TX & AR. I’ve had sex with multiple coworkers. I had a weekend job as a bartender. In the seventies. It was a gay bar. It would have been unusual if I hadn’t 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3579 "2024-09-26T14:59:53Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Hooked up with several coworkers. Not at the same time. Unfortunately I married one of them I got you beat. My first _two_ marriages started as “sex with a coworker.” ---
**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 26, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3580 "2024-09-26T15:06:13Z")
I answered the sex with a coworker poll question, but choose not to discuss my answer. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3581 "2024-09-26T16:22:58Z")
Where’s the option for “My partner/spouse fell in love with me at first sight and relentlessly pursued me”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=178) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=180)