# 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:** 479
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9563 "2025-12-17T00:09:29Z")
I’ve never waved at an automatic door, but the idea of pretending I’m using the Force kind of appeals to me. Maybe I’ll start doing it. > [@ParallelLines](#): > > (though that ONE song or Weird Al’s version is so earwormable that I should hold it against him!) Just in case it’s fading from your consciousness, here you go! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/do5vXn_Rap4/maxresdefault.jpg "[This Song's Just] Six Words Long") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5vXn_Rap4) ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9564 "2025-12-17T00:18:45Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > I don’t need the spice melange to know that anything he says is going to be terrible, false, or bad news for America, and almost certainly all three. I don’t need it live. Also, nothing he says is ever reliable, so I can’t even justify it by saying I’m keeping informed. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9565 "2025-12-17T00:19:26Z")
I’ve often heard “slop” used to describe bad AI, but never as a pejorative toward any person or group of people. I voted that that I don’t think such stupidity will have any measurable impact on society, and that there’s no point in trying to discourage it. Bigots gonna bigot, after all. Better they do so in their own little echo chamber where the rest of us don’t have to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9566 "2025-12-17T01:34:30Z")
We used to do the sound effect from Airplane 2 for automatic doors. (Kinda make the door noise from Star Trek, TOS). ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9567 "2025-12-17T03:00:46Z")
I didn’t know the CIC (Cheeto in charge) was speaking tomorrow night before the poll. I try to avoid _any_ political speech but doubly so for him - I’m a balloonist; I’m used to being around tens of thousands of cubic feet of hot air; don’t need any more if we’re not flying TYVM! ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9568 "2025-12-17T04:34:46Z")
What 4chan meme are we debating, now? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9569 "2025-12-17T13:26:01Z")
Also when stopped by police I imagine you do the whole “You don’t need to see my driver’s license” thing… ---
**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:** [December 17, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9570 "2025-12-17T16:27:31Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Also when stopped by police I imagine you do the whole “You don’t need to see my driver’s license” thing Has not yet worked. I keep trying. 😉 ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9571 "2025-12-18T00:16:21Z")
“They are pretending to use The Force to open the doors” and “They are weird” are the same answer 🙂 . ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9572 "2025-12-18T01:13:02Z")
As hashed out in this thread, button 2 is the only rational choice, button 1 is unforced suicide. > [@Red button or blue button dilemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-button-or-blue-button-dilemma/1024041): > > A content creator I listen to a lot popped up in my feed yesterday confused by the repeated outcome of a particular experiment. “The situation is this: You are presented with two buttons, one red, the other blue. Everyone in the country is expected to push a button. If a majority select the blue button, everybody lives. If a majority push the red button, they live, but anyone who pushed the blue button dies.” He thought it was a no-brainer, blue right? But apparently several polls show a bias t… ---
**Author:** ![RollOutTheBarrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rolloutthebarrel/32/1649_2.png) [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9573 "2025-12-18T02:49:04Z")
It will be interesting to compare the results of the two button poll to the similar one I asked over a year ago. > [@Polls only: No discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5450): > > Disclaimer: I am shamelessly copying a poll I saw on Reddit because I’m curious if the results will be different here. Everyone in the world must choose blue or red. If 80% or more choose blue, everyone survives. If less than 80% choose blue, everyone who chose blue dies and everyone who chose red lives. What do you choose? [poll](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5450) > [@Polls only: No discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6429): > > Two magical buttons appear in front of every adult capable of pressing buttons. A disembodied voice says you have to press one of them, either button 1: a button that will do nothing if greater than 50% of the people press it, or button 2: a button that will kill every person that pressed button 1 if less than 50% of all the people pressed it, i.e. if greater than 50% of people press button 2, everyone who will press button 1 dies. You are not given any opportunity to discuss this situa… ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9574 "2025-12-18T02:50:50Z")
You missed the third option: my working memory is too poor to figure this out. I’d be terrible at _Taskmaster_ for this reason. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9575 "2025-12-18T03:35:13Z")
If I press button 2, there is 0% chance that I will die. My fate is in my own hands; _everyone’s_ fate is in their own hands. Why shouldn’t we all choose to live? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9576 "2025-12-18T03:54:59Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > As hashed out in this thread, button 2 is the only rational choice, button 1 is unforced suicide. Which is “#1? Blue or red? I just dont push. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9577 "2025-12-18T06:22:02Z")
“Something else” which I dislike: people who feel that a thing is completely innocuous, but are so flabbergasted that someone else might have a problem with that thing that their only way to attempt to understand that reaction is to tell the other person that they must be deranged, broken, delusional, or just plain _wrong_. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9578 "2025-12-18T10:10:38Z")
I eat dinner in the dining room about 20% of the time, but I eat breakfast (and lunch, when I’m home) there about 80% of the time, so it depends on what is meant by “dine.” I went with “regularly,” because “occasionally” isn’t quite right. I very mildly dislike “have a blessed day” (I’ve heard it said to me maybe twice in my long life), but I don’t dislike the other options, hence “something else.” (And yes, I know this is designed to be a “gotcha.” Not gonna get into it – I think we get it.) ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9579 "2025-12-18T11:57:15Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I just dont push. The way it’s phrased in the poll this would be functionally identical to pressing button 2. You’re still counted as “one of the people” and refusing to press doesn’t increase the number of button 1 presses towards the 50% mark. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9580 "2025-12-18T16:11:05Z")
I voted special occasions but I also use the room for quite a lot of other stuff. Whether I dislike blessed day or Merry Christmas depends on the context and the tone of voice. Whether I dislike Christmas music depends on the particular music and the sound system and how often I’ve heard that piece over and over and over. I don’t dislike Christmas itself; but I dislike the fact that it’s become ubiquitous in the USA for now two or more months a year, and I dislike the fact that some people assume everyone celebrates it and that some people think everyone should celebrate it. Voted other. I’m not getting into the whole save yourself by risking everybody else debate again. I did that on these boards once already. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9581 "2025-12-18T16:29:34Z")
I like sacred Christmas music and earlier, non-pop seasonal music (e.g., The Holly and the Ivy, Lula Lulay, The Boar’s Head, etc.). I don’t have seating in the kitchen or a nook. If not the dining room, I’d be balancing a plate on my lap, which I don’t enjoy, so dining room it is. I’d rather read any speech by anyone, president or not, unless they’re known for excellent delivery. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9582 "2025-12-18T16:29:54Z")
I haven’t watched a presidential speech in at least 3 decades. I am not thrilled about “blessed day”, but I don’t hate it. There is a dinner table taking up space in the largest room in my house, but I am not sure “dining room” is the correct name for that room. I usually use it for other things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=478) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=480)