# 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:** 452
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9023 "2025-10-30T15:53:45Z")
I’ve never been arrested. However, I _have_ been “voluntarily detained” a number of times. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9024 "2025-10-30T16:00:21Z")
I have never voluntarily gotten a tattoo. I was once given one involuntarily. During a colonoscopy, the doctor found a tumor in my colon. He put a mark on it to serve as an aid to the surgeon who removed it. I have been cancer-free, and tattoo-free, for 6 years. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9025 "2025-10-30T16:23:51Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I’ve never been arrested. However, I _have_ been “voluntarily detained” a number of times. I was involuntarily detained by campus police, but they eventually decided not to turn us over to the police. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9026 "2025-10-30T16:40:24Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > “Weird Al” Yankovic is our top vote-getter, and The B-52s and Devo are also in the top seven. I felt so dumb voting for Weird Al who doesn’t even really parody rock that often, but man, someone’s gotta give that man an award. (ETA: Just looked it up and holy shit, he’s got five grammys. Cool. Still think he would be a good inductee.) ---
**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 30, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9027 "2025-10-30T17:50:08Z")
By the time I finished making my selections for the R&R Hall of Fame poll, I decided I don’t even care anymore. It’s just a way to get a bunch of top name artists to perform for free for an HBO special. ---
**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 30, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9028 "2025-10-30T18:07:08Z")
Not quite sure what counts as sexually assaulted. I voted no. I have been groped. I’ve been threatened with consequences if I refused sex with somebody. (He didn’t follow through, and might not have been able to.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9029 "2025-10-30T19:35:28Z")
I used to love Corn Nuts, but they break teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9030 "2025-10-30T19:50:43Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Not quite sure what counts as sexually assaulted. I voted no. I have been groped. That’s on the spectrum of sexual assault, IMO (and I think legally, at least in my state.) I was sexually abused by two different paternal figures in childhood and when I was 17 a 29-year-old guy made me put my hand on his dick, which is probably some kind of crime. But I just got mad and left, so it didn’t register as particularly traumatic. It was all a long time ago. I was also in a DV relationship at 17, but after he strangled me (or tried, I guess) I knew it for what it was and got the hell out immediately. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9031 "2025-10-30T21:17:14Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I felt so dumb voting for Weird Al who doesn’t even really parody rock that often, but man, someone’s gotta give that man an award. I completely agree. It’s part of why I included him in the poll. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9032 "2025-10-30T21:24:24Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I was also in a DV relationship at 17, but after he strangled me (or tried, I guess) I knew it for what it was and got the hell out immediately. When my ex-wife threw a can at my head, that should have been a red flag. Alas, I went on and got married to her, and was miserable for three years. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9033 "2025-10-31T10:51:26Z")
“A ‘formal school’? What is it?” “It’s a huge building with classrooms—but that’s not important right now.” ---
**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 31, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9034 "2025-10-31T12:09:57Z")
I think that’s meant in contrast to being home schooled, or unschooled. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9035 "2025-10-31T13:46:08Z")
Or schooled in a small building (such as the proverbial “one-room schoolhouse”: rural school where several (or all) grades are taught in the same space, and often at the same time). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9036 "2025-10-31T14:37:06Z")
I’m amused that more people have had a threesome than have been to Africa. ---
**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 31, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9037 "2025-10-31T14:50:06Z")
Much cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9038 "2025-10-31T14:54:17Z")
I once dated a woman named Africa (for real). No threesome, though. ---
**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 31, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9039 "2025-10-31T15:57:17Z")
I was surprised that (currently) 90% of us have no tattoos. I’d estimate at least 70% of the people I encounter have them, and that doesn’t count the ones that can’t be seen in public. (I don’t have any) ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9040 "2025-10-31T16:12:09Z")
There’s a huge correlation between tattoos and age. They are _far_ more common among younger people. And we are mostly old fogies. ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9041 "2025-10-31T16:15:17Z")
I’m interested in the pasta sauce poll. I’m very picky (well, specifically, i won’t eat any pasta sauce that has peppers in it: red, green, sweet, hot) so i make my own. Or my husband or daughter makes it. But if there’s a popular sauce i can eat, that would be way more convenient. So i voted “mine”, but mostly to see the results. ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9042 "2025-10-31T16:37:57Z")
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