# 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:** 256
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5102 "2024-12-31T16:25:28Z")
At any rate, I’ll toss it away properly most of the time. Not every time. Depends on various factors. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5103 "2024-12-31T19:59:44Z")
On the first, started to say that I would (pick it up and) toss it. Then I thought about whether it would be dirty, whether I would want to bend over, and, if I would even see it. Although that’s implied by the question, I do have hubby-vision when it comes to the trash [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3nllrCss2CU/maxresdefault.jpg "If Women Had "Hubby-Vision"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nllrCss2CU) ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5104 "2024-12-31T20:13:02Z")
Due to my germophobia, I tend not to pick up trash in public unless I have gloves on, or I know I’ll be able to wash my hands soon afterwards. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5105 "2024-12-31T20:23:41Z")
I’m not a germophobe, but I’m not about to make a habit of picking up other people’s random trash off the ground. Even if it looks clean and dry, I know there’s a good change of getting something gross on my hands. No thanks. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5106 "2024-12-31T22:39:46Z")
I voted “pretty good.” However, I’m reminded of the old joke: Doctor: How have you been feeling lately? Patient: Pretty good. – However, if I’d felt like this when I was 25, I’d have thought I was awful sick! ---
**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:** [December 31, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5107 "2024-12-31T23:31:03Z")
If the ‘rubbish’ was outside on the beach or in a park, then I would probably pick it up and put it in a trash can (or more likely my truck). But the mention of the _floor_ and 50 meters away(164’!) implies a large building like a mall or a Walmart or a stadium, etc. I’m not picking it up in those places. ---
**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:** [January 1, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5108 "2025-01-01T00:36:22Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > 50 meters away(164’!) That’s half a football field! When Disney was designing his theme park, he made sure that no trash can was more than 50 steps away ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5109 "2025-01-02T19:11:35Z")
I’ve attended somewhere around 100 gaming-related fan conventions, including Gen Con (about 30 times), Origins (about 20 times), and bunches of small to midsized gaming cons. I’ve also attended a few science-fiction fan conventions, though less than a dozen of those in total. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5110 "2025-01-02T19:21:16Z")
Back of the envelope, maybe 15 board game conventions. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5111 "2025-01-02T20:14:34Z")
I’ve lost count over the years, but there are at least 10 Comic-Con lanyards hanging from the bulletin board in the office. Plus Worldcon54, LACON IV, and a bunch of smaller cons devoted to everything from Star Trek to BtVS. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5112 "2025-01-02T20:19:15Z")
I’ve been to Awesome Con a few times (Washington DC’s version of Comic Con), and this past summer I went to my first LEGO convention. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5113 "2025-01-02T21:00:31Z")
I wasn’t sure how to answer that question. I’ve been to a couple of events that were unambiguously fan conventions, most recently a furry convention. But I’ve been to dozens of square dance events, some of which are called conventions, some of which have other names. And i regularly go to a puzzle events which aren’t called conventions, but are pretty similar. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5114 "2025-01-02T21:35:53Z")
I have been toi Loscons, Westercons, Dundragcons, World SF con, and many other FRPG game cons. Due to age and covid i no longer go. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5115 "2025-01-02T22:41:20Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > But I’ve been to dozens of square dance events, some of which are called conventions, some of which have other names. And i regularly go to a puzzle events which aren’t called conventions, but are pretty similar. I’d say that as long as they weren’t competitions, they were conventions. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5116 "2025-01-02T23:01:58Z")
They were not competitions. One is called, “the new England square and round dance convention”. Another is usually just called “convention” (as in, “and i hope I’ll see you at convention”) and is run by the international association of gay square dance clubs. I used to go to [AACE](https://www.ceder.net/aace/), which billed itself as “The Academy for Advanced and Challenge Enthusiasts (AACE) is the premier Square Dance Convention for the Advanced and Challenge levels.” I also got to similar, but smaller events, like the East and West Coast gay challenge weekends. (They have fancy names, but those wouldn’t mean anything here.) And even smaller events that are usually referred to by their venue. I’m not sure at what point it stops being a convention and becomes just a dance weekend. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5117 "2025-01-02T23:03:35Z")
Yeah, those all sound like conventions. It’s funny, when I was a kid, the word “conventioneer” elicited an image of a drunk guy in a straw hat whooping it up. Or something like that. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5118 "2025-01-02T23:06:36Z")
Political conventions used to look like that. ---
**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:** [January 2, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5119 "2025-01-02T23:12:49Z")
Makes sense. I used to watch those as a kid. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5120 "2025-01-03T00:04:57Z")
In high school I went to a comic book convention in New York City. I have no idea what it was called. It was a couple of decades before Comic-Con. It’s the only time I went to something like that. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/5121 "2025-01-03T01:15:09Z")
I nearly said I hadn’t, but then I remembered going to one with a boyfriend a looooong tine ago. Belly dancers have conventions, but I don’t know if you would call that a fandom [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=255) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=257)