# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/742 "2024-03-28T16:48:54Z")
> (If any selection puts you in a different country, assume you’re granted the right to live and work there.) Does it also compensate for the difference in taxes and language? North: Germany. Higher taxes, but the language is close enough West: Sill in Switzerland. But they speak French. No thank you. South: Italy. Higher taxes and they speak Italian. East: Lichtenstein or Austria. No idea about the taxes, but the language is close. If I had to move. I would go north. At least I would be closer to some large cities. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/743 "2024-03-28T16:57:22Z")
Never having thought about it, my mind went “eye-andeeeeeeeeee” (eye, and, then a really long ee). I apparently ignore the second i. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/744 "2024-03-28T17:06:52Z")
I always read it as eeeee andyeeeeee And my first guess at 100km was pretty close, according to that tool. I’d go north ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/745 "2024-03-28T18:22:52Z")
iiandyiiii has always puzzled me. After several years I realized that it might be incorporating roman numerals (so “2 andy 4”) but that’s just a guess. I probably still parse it as “2 andy 4” mentally. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/746 "2024-03-28T18:24:45Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > Does it also compensate for the difference in taxes and language? Nope. Let’s say your initial moving expenses are covered, but apart from that you’re on your own as far as learning the language and finding a new job (or commuting back to your old one). ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/747 "2024-03-28T18:34:14Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > If I were a caveman, I would almost certainly be dead. I doubt many cave people made it to 60. Some probably did; but most likely not the ones with severe nearsightedness and klutziness to start with, and if I’d survived that I think my heart would have gotten me by now without treatments only recently available. However, I picked ‘gathering’. I don’t feel like working out what’s exactly 62 miles from me in each direction. Hmm-- people have conveniently provided ways to make it easy. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t. Maybe I won’t in any case pinpoint my exact location on a public message board; though I could as many have reply in generalities. EyeAndyEeeey. To the extent that I hear it at all; which isn’t really hearing it, but I do find it a hair easier to read names I can pronounce (or think I can pronounce) so there is some connection in my head to pronunciation. > [@psychonaut](#): > > Nope. Let’s say your initial moving expenses are covered, but apart from that you’re on your own as far as learning the language and finding a new job (or commuting back to your old one). Do I also get a farm whereever I’m going, at least if I choose a location in farm country? If so, then probably not south, as the soils are even poorer, I think. Though maybe by the time you get that far south they get better again. (If not, I really don’ wanna move. Not that I do anyway. I know this place, and I’ve got money in it, and I’ve got good neighbors.) ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/748 "2024-03-28T19:36:13Z")
I just recently moved to a new city. Looking at @Maserschmidt’s mapping tool, I see that 100 km east puts me in the middle of some sort of marsh, 100 km west puts me in isolated farmland, 100 km south puts me exactly on the US border, and 100 km north puts me in the lake resort area of New Iceland. So north was an easy choice, helped also by the fact that I spent several years learning Icelandic. Up until December I lived in Vienna. 100 km west would have put me nearly at Amstetten, whose main claim to fame these days is probably Josef Fritzl, so no thanks. 100 km north would have put me nearly in Brno, but I don’t speak Czech and would rather not learn it. 100 km east is in rural Slovakia, also a no-go for language reasons. 100 km south is pretty close to Szombathely in Hungary, which I suppose would be OK. (Better would be 100 km southwest, near Győr, which at least has a fast connection to Budapest.) ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/749 "2024-03-28T21:03:29Z")
The caveman/cavewoman poll asked what you would be doing _right now_. At the time I responded to the poll, I was watching TV. I figured sitting around the fire, listening was the caveman version of watching TV, so I picked that option. Using that mapping tool, I realize my estimates were kind of far off in some cases. North puts me quite a bit farther north of Nevada City than I thought, and in fact puts in the middle of Tahoe National Forest. East does put me in Eldorado National Forest, so I was right there. South puts me a little south of Stockton, actually closer to Manteca, but I wasn’t that far off (still no thanks). West actually puts me a little short of wine country, and actually puts me pretty much right on the western shore of Lake Berryessa, near some campgrounds and what looks like vacation homes. I think I’m changing my choice to west. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/750 "2024-03-28T23:05:30Z")
For those who aren’t Laugh-In aficionados: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E2IF8HejE1w/hqdefault.jpg "100th Episode Tyrone F. Horneigh 2 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | George Schlatter") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2IF8HejE1w) ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/751 "2024-03-29T02:08:34Z")
An “open winter” means a winter with little or no snow on the ground. It’s “open” because you can get around easily. A winter too warm to snow will indeed be an open winter; but an open winter could also be very cold, as long as there isn’t much snow. ETA: Some of Laugh-In really hasn’t aged well, has it? ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/752 "2024-03-29T02:27:02Z")
My favorite non-savory pie is Aunt Polly’s chocolate meringue pie. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/753 "2024-03-29T02:29:08Z")
Blueberry cream pie and chocolate cream pie for me. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/754 "2024-03-29T02:41:24Z")
Buttermilk and peach pies are what they serve in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/755 "2024-03-29T03:49:04Z")
Saskatoon pie is missing from the pie poll. Sacrilege! ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/756 "2024-03-29T05:09:43Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > An “open winter” means a winter with little or no snow on the ground. It’s “open” because you can get around easily. > > A winter too warm to snow will indeed be an open winter; but an open winter could also be very cold, as long as there isn’t much snow. This is my understanding, as well. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/757 "2024-03-29T07:22:30Z")
I like apple pie and… nope just apple. Never heard the term open winter in my life. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/758 "2024-03-29T11:38:27Z")
No love for banana cream pie? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/759 "2024-03-29T12:59:29Z")
Is the poll about pies for eating, or pies for throwing at people’s faces? 😀 ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/760 "2024-03-29T14:01:10Z")
Never heard of “open winter” either. Even when I lived up where it occasionally snows. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/761 "2024-03-29T14:10:17Z")
For pies, I like strawberry, and I like strawberry/rhubarb, but my favorite wasn’t mentioned which is rhubarb pie. No strawberry, very little sugar. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=39)