# 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:** 468
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9343 "2025-11-25T13:07:32Z")
When i played with smart watches, i made sure to leave the one i returned to on a windowsill, and not in a drawer, so its battery wouldn’t die ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9344 "2025-11-25T13:31:24Z")
I’ve never liked wearing a watch, or any other kind of jewelry for that matter. For school in the 80s, one of the requirements was to have a watch with a second hand. For that reason, I bought a cheap one. It died, never to recover, on the very last day of school. mmm ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9345 "2025-11-25T14:48:35Z")
I have a Fitbit that links with my phone. It’s useful if my phone is on the table in another room and I get a call. I can answer, but not talk (I don’t think.), but I know whether it’s worth rushing to answer. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9346 "2025-11-25T15:21:39Z")
Except for one I only used for surfing, I didn’t wear a watch since time keeping was available on a cell phone. I got an Apple Watch about two years ago and love it mostly for exercise (it keeps track of swim laps) and podcast controls. The one thing I hate about wearing a watch now is that I look at the time for no reason at all. When I had to dig out the phone to tell the time it was because I actually needed to know what time it was. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9347 "2025-11-25T15:55:35Z")
Whereas i tried to just use my phone for a few weeks, and i HATED running to catch the train and having to fish into my pocket to see if i actually had to run or could walk. There’s a reason wrist watches replaced pocket watches when watches became small enough that wrist watches were practical. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9348 "2025-11-25T16:45:22Z")
I’ve worn a watch every day for as long as I can remember. There’s a picture of me at my 8th-grade graduation wearing a watch. Old-school from the early 80s until 2014, when I bought a Pebble. I went through a few iterations of their smartwatches, but after the company was sold (to Fitbit) I tried a couple other smartwatches without ever finding quite the right combo of form/function. I greatly prefer an analog face anyway, and switched back to “dumb” watches maybe 9 years ago. I used to be all Timex (I’d buy a new one vs replacing a battery), but in 2017 I bought a couple of Citizen eco-drive watches and they remain my staples. If I ever have $44,000 to burn on a Rolex I’ll get one, but until then I’m good with my Citizens. 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9349 "2025-11-25T18:48:38Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I bought a couple of Citizen eco-drive watches and they remain my staples. That’s my watch! Analog face, printed numbers, date of month, solar powered, water proof (I’ve swum in pools, lakes, and oceans in it). Quite reliable, low maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9350 "2025-11-25T21:49:47Z")
These are mine: [![](https://i.ibb.co/Xxn2JRmG/PXL-20251125-214649471.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/Xxn2JRmG/PXL-20251125-214649471.jpg) As you can tell, they aren’t synchronized. 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 25, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9351 "2025-11-25T23:08:18Z")
The one on the left is very similar to mine. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9352 "2025-11-26T00:43:12Z")
I assume since the restaurant poll mentioned eating “at a restaurant” I took it to mean actually _eating_ at the restaurant. I only do that a few times a year. But I get take out from a restaurant (which I eat at home) about once a week. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9353 "2025-11-26T00:49:27Z")
Prior to COVID, my wife and I probably ate dinner at a restaurant at least once a week, sometimes twice a week – typically nothing fancy, but still a sit-down dinner at a mom-and-pop place with table service. In the intervening five years, my wife has become less mobile, and just doesn’t like to go to restaurants anymore. I eat dinner at a restaurant – usually by myself – every couple of weeks, when I’m traveling, or en route to a role-playing game session at a friend’s house. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9354 "2025-11-26T01:51:34Z")
It occurred to me after listing a bunch of uses for my smart watch, I didn’t include “telling the time.” So yes, FWIW, I also use it to tell time. I probably use it less often to tell time than to remember things, though. When I need to get dressed up I switch to an analogue watch. I think it’s Fossil that makes relatively affordable fancy-looking stainless steel watches. I’m allergic to most metals so it has to be stainless steel. I have a gold one and a silver one. The sole purpose for me is to discretely cover the tattoo on my wrist at fancy events. The watch batteries have long died. It’s just that when I got the tattoo I intentionally put it in a place I could easily cover with a watch. It works! ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9355 "2025-11-26T02:20:00Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > The sole purpose for me is to discretely cover the tattoo on my wrist at fancy events. The watch batteries have long died. Does anybody ever notice that your watch has very much the wrong 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:** [November 26, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9356 "2025-11-26T02:51:16Z")
Not to my knowledge. What does happen frequently though, is that I look it at repeatedly trying to tell the time, before remembering it’s not working. Guess I’d better change the battery. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9357 "2025-11-26T06:17:47Z")
I have and regularly wear a Smartwatch. I got it for a number of reasons, but it was very nice in my prior two “dumb” cars where I could have it read (yes, this model had both speakers and a mic) messages off to me while driving, and take a response. Now that my car is smarter than I am, with native pairing to my phone, I don’t really need that feature. So mostly these days I use it to, you know, to tell time, though it is very useful if I’m playing music from my phone to BT headphones - I can skip and backtrack in my chosen music and adjust the volume without knocking the things out of my ears or getting my phone out of my pocket. And as I mentioned in another thread, I use it for heart rate, oxygen, and fitness app interaction during my morning exercise (it already has my age, height, sex, and weight programmed in). * * * Turkey, I voted both Yes. and Meh, because it depends a LOT on the quality of the turkey and the skill of the cook. A good turkey rates a Yes, but no exclamation or caps. Many of the turkeys I get are Meh, with some going much farther down. * * * Eating out, unless someone else is planning an event or something else, is roughly once a month. I don’t do takeout or delivery either. Just with restaurant prices being what they are, and having decent cooking skills of my own, it’s just cheaper/easier to make stuff at home. I’m not going to pay Saltgrass (using a chain as an example) $35 + taxes + drinks + tip for a single person even for a special occasion. But I’ll splurge occasionally on my favorite Thai place, favorite dumpling place, or a meal with a movie at a dine-in movie theater. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9358 "2025-11-26T18:54:13Z")
My most hated Christmas song is that one with dogs barking. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9359 "2025-11-26T19:02:33Z")
Public poll, so my “other” song is _Silent Night_. Just depressed-sounding glurge. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9360 "2025-11-26T19:12:52Z")
I voted other - all of the above. (I’ve decided that the only christmas song I like is Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses, mainly due to the gorgeous Tracy Wormworth’s amazing bass line.) ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9361 "2025-11-26T19:16:32Z")
I voted for (against!) - Last Christmas: this is _ **not** _ a Christmas song; it’s a “f\*\*\* you” song to the person who broke the singer’s heart - Wonderful Christmastime: trite, and utterly played to death - All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth: the “whistling” sound of the kid trying to talk with missing teeth makes my eyes water ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9362 "2025-11-26T19:20:34Z")
I truly hate “Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree.” I would also add the fourth through infinitieth jazzed-up cover of any traditional hymn, carol, or well-known Christmas song. Leave them alone! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=467) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=469)