# 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:** 196
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3902 "2024-10-20T19:31:26Z")
Whatever you ranked 1,2, or 3 in the ranked poll, you should checkmark in the second poll. If you only ranked 1 or 1,2, only checkmark those in the second poll. I don’t think the ranked poll will allow you to submit your vote if two choices have the same rank. I haven’t tried, say, ranking only 5th and 8th choice, to see if you can submit that. Hmmm, back to the test thread for experiments. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3903 "2024-10-20T20:55:01Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I don’t think the ranked poll will allow you to submit your vote if two choices have the same rank. I checked - you can’t. > [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I haven’t tried, say, ranking only 5th and 8th choice, I checked - you can ! I still don’t understand how those bloody ranked polls work! ---
**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:** [October 20, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3904 "2024-10-20T21:37:30Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I don’t think the ranked poll will allow you to submit your vote if two choices have the same rank. Which is why I hate ranked polls and rarely take them; and didn’t take that one. (I’d make an exception for ranked poll voting in elections, because I think the advantages of that would be greater than the disadvantages of my potentially trying to rank candidates in precise order with no ties.) ---
**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:** [October 20, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3905 "2024-10-20T22:32:37Z")
We have some decorations but they are more fall than scary. Mums and pumpkins mostly. It’s not easy to predict how many trick or treaters there will be. Some years we have had very few other years a lot. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3906 "2024-10-21T08:25:17Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/P-_X2lqMk-w/maxresdefault.jpg "Beetlejuice 1988 - Fly and Zagnut") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-_X2lqMk-w) ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3907 "2024-10-21T15:06:29Z")
Whoops, I left out ‘didn’t know whether it existed and didn’t care/did not become curious’, didn’t I? At least I put in “other”. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3908 "2024-10-21T18:58:11Z")
Yup, i voted “other” because i didn’t know and still don’t care, particularly. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3909 "2024-10-21T19:29:09Z")
@chela, however, has included neither an option for “other” nor one for “don’t know, never tried one of those” nor one for “don’t care as long as it fits in the cupholder, is cleanable, and is easy to drink from onehanded.” ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3910 "2024-10-21T19:31:10Z")
I don’t have a personal hydration product. I voted Yeti because that’s what my wife uses. I don’t drink a lot of water. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3911 "2024-10-21T19:31:14Z")
Yup. I didn’t vote in that poll. There are a lot of things i care about in a portable drink holder, but the brand name isn’t on the list. Today I’m reusing a bottle that originally held Fiji brand water. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3912 "2024-10-21T19:33:00Z")
ah other, okay its my first poll- still getting the hang of it. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3913 "2024-10-21T19:35:53Z")
I just picked Yeti because I have a handle-less Yeti I like for coffee, but I really don’t know anything about Stanley. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3914 "2024-10-21T19:42:02Z")
What I bring out to the fields is generally a miscellaneous used plastic food-grade bottle, washed out and refilled with water until it starts to look too grungy and goes into the recycle. In the car I want something I don’t need to remove the top from in order to drink from it; and, much of the year, something that won’t break if it freezes. I used a couple of Equal Exchange cups that came with a coffee order years ago for quite a while; then I lost the top to one and shortly after broke the top to the other. Now I’m using one I picked up at a used goods store and one somebody left behind at farmers’ market and never came back for (I brought it back the next week, in case; but market’s over for the season now and I figure it’s mine.) I don’t know the brand of either one, offhand. If I’m heading into a long meeting I’ll take the one from the car. Otherwise I don’t generally carry one around with me. Much of my life was in the days when the only time people carried water around with them was when they were going on a hike, and then it was a canteen and we didn’t call it a “personal hydration device”, we called it a canteen. Grumble, grumph, get off my lawn (but while you’re going, could you send somebody to bring water fountains back?) > [@chela](#): > > ah other, okay its my first poll- still getting the hang of it. We had a long debate earlier in this thread and/or its predecessor about whether polls should always include an “other” option. I was, and am, on the side of those who say yes – though quite a few people rename it something other than “other”. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3915 "2024-10-21T19:43:57Z")
What I was contemplating adding as a third choice was sippy cup, lol. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3916 "2024-10-21T19:46:58Z")
I have one of the Stanley, and a whole bunch of the generic copies, and honestly, there is little difference. Well, the Yeti is like ten times the price, so I guess that is a difference. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3917 "2024-10-21T19:58:55Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > We had a long debate earlier in this thread and/or its predecessor about whether polls should always include an “other” option. I was, and am, on the side of those who say yes @Velocity, on the other hand, is clearly among those who say no. And it is most definitely not their first poll. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3918 "2024-10-21T20:15:30Z")
I really have no interest in baseball anymore, after decades of having been a fan, but watching a Dave Roberts team beat the Yankees (again) would be delightful. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3919 "2024-10-21T20:56:26Z")
But for the World Series there are only two options, it’s been decided. Oops did I spoil It for you? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3920 "2024-10-21T20:57:50Z")
I don’t use a travel mug. I use a bottle of pepsi/coke or a bottle of water as needed. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3921 "2024-10-21T21:22:58Z")
I didn’t vote for the travel mug, because I buy whatever is cheaper, with decent reviews, and has the features I want. Specifically, for longer trips, I want something with a replaceable, re-usable straw, because I hate having 2/3 of my view of the road blocked by upending a huge travel mug to get the last half of the drink out. Sure, the straw is geeky, and user beware with hotter drinks, but again, eyes on the road. For office use, no, doesn’t matter. Did not vote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=195) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=197)