# 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:** 441
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8803 "2025-10-15T13:13:33Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > But i don’t really understand the benefit of delaying “turning on the heat” if it’s controlled by a thermostat. Because I have a low utility bill when it’s not on, & it’s one more sign of the reality that Fall is here. > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > zombies can be defeated faster than an invasion of…well anything not so slow and stupid. Watch it, bub; I had a slow run last night. 😠 > [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > and now live only 90 minutes from Monroeville Mall Did you see when I waved in your direction this weekend as I drove past? ---
**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 15, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8804 "2025-10-15T13:34:12Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > I think I saw somewhere that they are afraid of the vacuum cleaners so that can help too. Only if they’re made of silver. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8805 "2025-10-15T18:18:55Z")
I’m more uncomfortable being too warm than too cold, so I never turn the heat on. My sister has a room heater that she’ll sometimes turn on. If it’s in the room I’m in, I’ll turn it off long before she would. If I’m absolutely uncomfortably cold, I’ll wrap myself in a blanket or quilt. ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8806 "2025-10-15T18:24:39Z")
I take it you don’t live where the pipes freeze if you don’t turn on the heat. 😆 ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8807 "2025-10-15T18:25:39Z")
The what the what now? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8808 "2025-10-15T18:34:27Z")
Got takeout from a new (to us) Chinese restaurant. It came in a compartmentalized plastic container so one couldn’t easily mix the rice & entree together in one forkful. Normally I just eat it from the takeout container to save on cleanup but this really should have been plated. ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8809 "2025-10-15T18:39:20Z")
I always plate my leftovers. But sometimes i use a plate, and other times, a bowl, so i didn’t answer that question. ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8810 "2025-10-15T18:50:13Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > sometimes i use a plate, and other times, a bowl, so i didn’t answer that question. Ditto. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8811 "2025-10-15T19:07:22Z")
For me at least, a typical Chinese take-out portion is at least two servings. So I plate one serving, and put the remainder in the fridge in the take-out container. I might then eat the leftovers out of the container the next day. I answered for how I eat it on the day I actually ordered it, in other words the first serving. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8812 "2025-10-15T21:01:03Z")
I have a little joke-” Zombies? I am a Carpathian, if it was zombies, it would be “Arise my undead minions” and I’d never have to scoop a litter box again.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8813 "2025-10-16T01:20:06Z")
None of those bother me. They are all perfectly understandable. ---
**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 16, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8814 "2025-10-16T02:25:48Z")
All of them bother me equally. But Did the car loose a tire? is the funniest. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8815 "2025-10-16T02:57:11Z")
My sister @EllieNeo is allergic to _lettuce._ She’s only ever met one person who told her the same thing. They commiserated while Ellie served her at Taco Bell. ---
**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 16, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8816 "2025-10-16T05:57:36Z")
I answered “wheat” even though I can eat it without any immediate or drastic repercussions. I have Hashimoto’s disease which means gluten encourages autoimmune attacks on my thyroid. So I guess it depends on how strict your definition of allergy is. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8817 "2025-10-16T11:45:27Z")
They are all gratingly annoying but “could of” is the clear “winner” ---
**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:** [October 16, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8818 "2025-10-16T12:24:02Z")
As a retired grammarian (among other things), it’s the “should of” construction that makes me the most stabby. The others _could_ be at least partially forgiven, involving homonyms and simple misspellings and spurious apostrophes and such. As someone with mild dyslexia myself I can grok them, somewhat. The “of” ones tho would have to have the individual in question _completely_ ignore all the instances where they saw or will see the correct usage, forevermore, as in _never_ realizing that they have confused “of” for the " 've " in contractions and that semantically it makes zero sense. IOW unlike the others this requires a **two** -step series of errors. Have any of these people suddenly one day gone, after seeing the correct one somewhere, “Oh my god I’ve been doing that wrong for **years** now! What a moron I am!” Or even “Hey, people never say ‘Can I **of** a ham sandwich?’-duhh!” I have an online buddy who does this (great guy otherwise), and I know I’ve used the correct construction numerous times in missives to him-he just keeps on keeping on tho. * * * No Lowenbrau in the beer poll. [It’s been too long for me to make anything more than an educated guess, as in 25 years since his departure-note my father was an alcoholic while with him serving as a negative role model I’ve been a lifetime teetotaler.] ---
**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 16, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8819 "2025-10-16T12:49:23Z")
No Busch, either. It was cheap, so it was usually what my dad would get if the beer run was left to him. His friends seemed to favor Coors. Neat story about Busch beer: Gussy Busch wanted to name the Cardinals’ stadium Budweiser Stadium but the Commissioner of Baseball wouldn’t allow a stadium to be named after an alcoholic beverage. So Gussy named the stadium after himself and promptly created a new beer with the same name. ---
**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 16, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8820 "2025-10-16T13:32:23Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > As a retired grammarian (among other things), it’s the “should of” construction that makes me the most stabby. The others _could_ be at least partially forgiven, involving homonyms and simple misspellings and spurious apostrophes and such. As someone with mild dyslexia myself I can grok them, somewhat. You’ve convinced me. I changed my vote. That’s also the only one I’d never do. My phone’s “autocorrect” imposes many of those on me, and my initial selection was the error my phone makes that annoys me the most (by a small margin). But actually, using “of” instead of “'ve” is pretty annoying. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8821 "2025-10-16T15:36:25Z")
Since @thorny_locust and @Dr.Drake don’t seem to get it: all of them are annoying errors, and the implied question is which is most annoying, like markn’s a few posts up. ---
**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 16, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8822 "2025-10-16T15:43:07Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > and the implied question is which is most annoying, I wasn’t sure what the question was, so I didn’t vote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=440) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=442)