# 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:** 323
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6442 "2025-04-18T18:55:45Z")
Toothbrushes move thru the line - Primary toothbrush - Backup toothbrush (for when primary is in travel/toiletries bag) - Shower (to clean the grout) - Bike (to clean the cassette/tough to reach places) - Trash > [@snowthx](#): > > Instead of “Finished a marathon bicycle race” it could be “Completed a ‘century’ bike ride (100 miles)” - I have never been in a bicycle race but I have ridden 100 miles in a day a few times. I’ve raced bikes & I’ve done charity _rides_, both Centuries (100 miles) & metric centuries (62mi / 100km) but I’m not sure what a marathon bike race is, unless it’s possibly a multi-day stage race?? ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6443 "2025-04-18T19:07:04Z")
I have a travel toothbrush that lives in my overnight kit. Every so often, i trade it out for a new toothbrush. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6444 "2025-04-18T19:10:10Z")
I also use old toothbrushes to clean sneakers and sometimes stubborn garment stains. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6445 "2025-04-18T20:08:47Z")
Regarding running a marathon, does it count if you didn’t actually _run_ the entire distance? Just after mile 18 I had to pee. (really) mmm ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6446 "2025-04-18T21:01:10Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Here in the Chicago area, we have them on the ramps to many of our expressways. They cycle between red and green every few seconds during rush hours, and during non-rush periods, they’re usually a steady green. Ditto in my area, thus my stopping even if the filthy cheater went ahead. It’s to help prevent backups from merging traffic. I’m sadly not going to any of the 4/19 protests. I did go 4/5, but this time, the weather is not only going to be around freezing (it was then) but it’s actively snowing this weekend. Just a bit much. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6447 "2025-04-18T21:29:21Z")
I swam with stingrays on my anniversary two years ago. I have a picture but I can’t figure out how to post it. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6448 "2025-04-19T00:36:07Z")
I had to look up metering lights; I don’t think I’ve ever had to deal with them. Voted that I’m not familiar enough with them to answer. Will add that I was taught, many years ago, to _not_ stop on an onramp; the idea being that having cars enter an expressway from a dead stop, instead of already partway up to speed and accelerating, caused a traffic hazard. Do expressways that use metering lights have extra long on ramps, with the light at the beginning? ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6449 "2025-04-19T00:57:18Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > I’ve raced bikes & I’ve done charity _rides_, both Centuries (100 miles) & metric centuries (62mi / 100km) but I’m not sure what a marathon bike race is, unless it’s possibly a multi-day stage race?? Again I am _not_ nitpicky, and today’s examples would indeed qualify. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6450 "2025-04-19T01:00:23Z")
Several potential others: Bury them, with a ceremony about burying your original love for them. Compost them. Use the compost to grow something. Sell them – but then donate the money to an organization or individual to be spent on proper medical care for trans people. Drop Rowling a note or email to tell her that you did so. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6451 "2025-04-19T01:15:00Z")
I will most likely never purchase an EV. My home has no appropriate place to install a charging system and there are no convenient local options. I don’t have many years left to drive so my final new car will be an ICE vehicle. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6452 "2025-04-19T01:15:10Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Do expressways that use metering lights have extra long on ramps, with the light at the beginning? Around here, not really. 😛 ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6453 "2025-04-19T01:24:04Z")
Normally metering lights are turned on only when traffic is fairly heavy and congested. So a car entering the freeway from the metering light usually doesn’t need to accelerate up to 70 mph. It just needs to merge into the slow traffic. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6454 "2025-04-19T07:31:19Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Sell them – but then donate the money to an organization or individual to be spent on proper medical care for trans people. Drop Rowling a note or email to tell her that you did so. This is pretty much the same as I would have suggested, so kudos to thorny\_locust. For EVs, it’s missing the category of PHEVs, since it just mentions EV and “hybrid”. My wife bought our PHEV now just over 6 months ago. She loves it - but we do have the advantage of having our own home, and since the all electric range is 42 miles (more in practice though), she can still easily charge her daily use even over level 1 charging. We won’t deny that having the luxury of another 500+ miles of gas-based range doesn’t soothe emergency/range anxieties, but she’s also a lot more comfortable with the next vehicle being all electric (once we pay for the electric work to upgrade our panel to allow a level 2 charger, which may have to wait until we replace our AC!), but we’ll still have the PHEV for those rarer long-distance trips. I voted “electric lettuce” and the technology is cool. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t ALSO have issues, especially if your EV is manufactured by a hideous evil man-child, but I don’t have a problem with the choices made for the Toyota Rav4 Prime we bought. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6455 "2025-04-19T12:29:46Z")
I don’t own any of the HP books or the movies, but in my fantasy I’d box them up and mail them to her, along with a note condemning her for her bigotry. Make her deal with the disposal! Maybe if 1000 people did that she’d finally get a hint? (Doubtful.) ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6456 "2025-04-19T13:21:55Z")
She’s a billionaire. Do you really think she’s opening all her own mail? ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6457 "2025-04-19T15:33:20Z")
Cold ham, unless it’s smoky. Then no ham. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6458 "2025-04-19T17:10:22Z")
That’s why I said it was a fantasy, lol. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6459 "2025-04-19T18:07:44Z")
I couldn’t answer any of @eschereal 's poll questions. Electric lettuce? No. I’m not really considering getting a new car of any type. I’ve had fleeting thoughts of buying an EV, but I can’t say they rose to the level of considering a purchase. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6460 "2025-04-19T20:23:53Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Bury them, with a ceremony about burying your original love for them. > > Compost them. Use the compost to grow something. Destroying books is a worse sin that being a “TERF”. As for EVs- if/when we get solar we’d consider a plug in EV. Ham? On Easter or whatever day, we have hot ham, then cold hame in sandwiches, unless I make a grilled ham & cheese sandwich- lightly fry the ham, then take out of pan, add butter, then two large slices of bread- cheese on one, ham on the other. Cover- when cheese gets a little melted, put one slice atop the other, turn off heat, replace cover- wait for a couple minutes. Serve. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/6461 "2025-04-19T20:29:14Z")
I don’t plan on buying any new car particularly soon, but when I do it will most likely be an EV. I counted that as “seriously considering” one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=322) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=324)