# 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:** 438
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8743 "2025-10-09T16:19:28Z")
Carol & Daryl for when Daryl wants to be ambiguous about how long it will take him to circumvent a zombie hoard on his motorcycle. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8744 "2025-10-09T18:25:50Z")
There’s that long-running soap opera about Alice and Bob and Eve, mostly documented in books and papers about cryptography. > **[Alice and Bob](https://xkcd.com/177/)** ---
**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 11, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8745 "2025-10-11T18:45:53Z")
For the “No Kings” poll, which always serve as a reminder when they’re coming up, I voted probably but really wished it was a multiple answer option. Probably, because I want to do so, but not certainly because of a number of IRL reasons - weather being a minor one, a slightly more serious one being I’m travelling around the 28th, and being in a big, largely unmasked crowd 10 days before travel isn’t a _great_ idea, and the one I wanted the multiple answer for: “I would like attend to but I fear what might happen.” Still a _probably_ though. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8746 "2025-10-11T18:55:19Z")
I’m not attending the No Kings marches, not just because of the Covid risk as **ParallelLines** mentioned above, but also because I really think such protests are a useless way to oppose the Trump administration. Granted, I’m not sure what _would_ be a good way to oppose Trump. But protests are almost always just preaching to the choir, and exert no leverage. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8747 "2025-10-11T20:34:50Z")
The ones that work are the massive non-violent civil disobediance protests that block the government from imposing their authoritarian plans. Jam the gears of the machine, provoke them to commit violence. First they ignore us, then they laugh at us, then they hurt us, then we win. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8748 "2025-10-11T21:49:45Z")
There is some hope this will be the largest protest yet. There is certainly a lot to be standing against. We shall see. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8749 "2025-10-11T23:01:19Z")
“No Kings” reminds me too strongly of the Hyenas talking to Scar in the Lion King. “No king no king,…” ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8750 "2025-10-12T01:58:28Z")
Re: Studio vs. live music: I found it difficult to answer because, while nothing beats the energy of actually attending a live show, most _recordings_ of live music are vastly inferior to their studio counterparts. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8751 "2025-10-12T06:04:12Z")
I put up with studio recordings because I don’t have the money, or the energy, to follow bands around and go to shows 3-4x every week. Some of the studio recordings are too overproduced. On stage is just the performers. No backing tracks, no vocal stacking, etc. So if that means I have to put up with audience noise to get a live recording, I’ll take it. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8752 "2025-10-12T06:27:38Z")
♂ was surely the symbol for Mars before anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8753 "2025-10-12T06:30:37Z")
As noted above, there are really three kinds of experiences. Attending a live performance, listening to an engineered studio recording, and listening to a recorded live performance. My preference is generally in that order. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8754 "2025-10-12T08:41:37Z")
Re: PTO I voted Something Else because for me it stands for Please Turn Over, as found on many, many exam papers of my school and uni days. ---
**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 12, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8755 "2025-10-12T10:12:07Z")
^That. Also, live vs studio - it depends. Some live albums are better than some studio, and vice versa. ---
**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 12, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8756 "2025-10-12T12:15:37Z")
Do i drink the water from my bathroom tap? Why is the most positive answer “sometimes”. I drink from that tap several times a day. The only tap i drink more water from is the kitchen tap. I take pills using that water morning and evening. I usually have a small drink after brushing my teeth. If i wake up to pee, I’m usually thirsty, and drink some water from that tap. And also, why wouldn’t i? It’s the same water source as the rest of the house. It’s one of the taps i tested for lead when i bought the house. (Although it’s since had all its pipes replaced with a bathroom renovation.) ---
**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 12, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8757 "2025-10-12T12:19:31Z")
That little circle with the arrow always entertains me. I know it is an accepted symbol indicating male. My current interpretation is this: _“You must leave the roundabout as quickly as possible. Get off this unending circle of hell.”_ ---
**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:** [October 12, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8758 "2025-10-12T12:40:36Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Do i drink the water from my bathroom tap? Why is the most positive answer “sometimes”. I drink from that tap several times a day. The only tap i drink more water from is the kitchen tap. I take pills using that water morning and evening. I usually have a small drink after brushing my teeth. If i wake up to pee, I’m usually thirsty, and drink some water from that tap. Same here ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8759 "2025-10-12T14:23:30Z")
me too ---
**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 12, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8760 "2025-10-12T14:49:13Z")
Me three, except that I take my pills downstairs in the kitchen, so that water’s from the kitchen sink. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8761 "2025-10-12T15:12:14Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > ♂ was surely the symbol for Mars before anything else. ditto ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8762 "2025-10-12T15:14:53Z")
My first encounter with the symbol was on the chest of the robot character Gold in Metal Men comics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=437) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=439)