# 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:** 481
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9603 "2025-12-18T21:28:39Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > But in his defense, in the song, Mary is digging it. Good for Mary, but if I got stuck with hearing someone listlessly beating a drum as my gift at the office Secret Santa exchange, I’d be pissed. mmm ---
**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, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9604 "2025-12-18T21:34:19Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Fuck them. It’s meaningless. If some god-like entity is making everyone play games, then why believe for a second it’s going to abide by it’s rules. Don’t play the game. Give the unspeakable entity the finger and treat the choice with the disrespect it deserve Exactly. ---
**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 18, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9605 "2025-12-18T21:52:34Z")
There is no honorable “none of the above” option in a Pepsi vs Coke poll, you MUST choose one of the two or be forever known as a wishy-washy neutral. [![](https://media.tenor.com/BJZHOmTIJDMAAAAM/futurama-neutral.gif) ](https://media.tenor.com/BJZHOmTIJDMAAAAM/futurama-neutral.gif) [![](https://media1.tenor.com/m/GahaP6VECH8AAAAd/futurama-neutrals.gif) ](https://media1.tenor.com/m/GahaP6VECH8AAAAd/futurama-neutrals.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9606 "2025-12-18T22:14:41Z")
Colas just taste like malted battery acid to me ---
**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, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9607 "2025-12-18T22:20:41Z")
Yum-o. ---
**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 19, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9608 "2025-12-19T00:15:05Z")
I don’t drink either cola often enough to know whether I’ve got a preference, other than to drink something other than colas. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9609 "2025-12-19T00:38:34Z")
I like Diet Coke, but Diet Pepsi, the regular ones, and the Zero / Max versions do nothing for me. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9610 "2025-12-19T00:41:54Z")
If you pour me diet coke and diet Pepsi from cans, over a little ice, I can tell the two apart, due to Pepsis slight citrus notes. But coming out of a fountain, the variations due to syrups % and water used and all that- I can drink either just fine. I prefer either in a glass, with lots of ice and a slice of lime or lemon. Once you add the slice, the taste difference is gone. ---
**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 19, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9611 "2025-12-19T00:52:13Z")
I’d just like to point out that, for the cola button poll, you don’t have to drink the beverage that appears. 😀 ---
**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 19, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9612 "2025-12-19T00:56:52Z")
I think I like the taste of Pepsi better but for some reason it isn’t as satisfying as Coke. Soda does something weird to my brain (instant stress relief) so it’s kind of a problem I have. I’ve been trying to cut down. ---
**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 19, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9613 "2025-12-19T01:20:31Z")
This, you may not like cola\*, but you _have_ to take a position, are you an stalwart coke defender or a slimy pepsi apologist? it’s a moral obligation!. \*. (My inner 12 year old laughs because “cola” means tail in Spanish, or colloquially “ass” ) ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9614 "2025-12-19T01:22:28Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > If I saw somebody wave at a door, I wouldn’t know what they were doing; I said “other” because it seems really unlikely that I’d notice someone else waving at a door. > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > My reaction to The Drummer Boy would be mild annoyance: which isn’t on the list. Mine would vary. If i haven’t heard it in a while, is would be mild pleasure. If this is the third time through the loop, it would be moderate annoyance. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Colas just taste like malted battery acid to me Naw, pepsi lacks the battery acid tang of coke. That’s why i prefer coke. > [@RollOutTheBarrel](#): > > I’d just like to point out that, for the cola button poll, you don’t have to drink the beverage that appears. Yes, that was why i voted. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9615 "2025-12-19T01:43:24Z")
I’m just relieved that picking a Coke doesn’t automatically kill everyone who picked Pepsi. Colas should kill people the old fashioned way: Diabetes. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9616 "2025-12-19T02:22:32Z")
Dude I was friends with in high school was given an RX-7 as a Christmas gift. I don’t think they put a bow on it, though. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9617 "2025-12-19T02:34:12Z")
When it comes to sticking out an foot/limb, I quote myself from upthread where we talked about tucked in sheets: > [@ParallelLines](#): > > I don’t tuck in sheets to the foot of the bed because I tend to overheat during the night, and I must be able to easily get my foot out as a heat snorkel to radiate the heat away from me! ---
**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 19, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9618 "2025-12-19T03:33:12Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I’m just relieved that picking a Coke doesn’t automatically kill everyone who picked Pepsi. Ha!!! ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9619 "2025-12-19T04:43:01Z")
My parents gave me a car as a gift, but it was officially a college graduation present. But I did graduate in December. It was just a cheap secondhand Saturn, nothing especially exciting. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9620 "2025-12-19T11:58:15Z")
Several answers to several polls: For the obsolete skills – I write checks to my farrier every 6 weeks for shoeing my horse, and I drive a stickshift car every day. I detest Little Drummer Boy, but then again I detest most Xmas music I also detest the two buttons/horrible choice/no option ‘thought games’ I do stick my foot out from the covers. I’m a mid-60s woman who sleeps covered in cats and I occasionally swelter under just a sheet. I got a car for Christmas when I was 18, I think. It was a used Toyota Corolla wagon, mustard yellow. Kind of a toaster on wheels, but it got me through college! ---
**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:** [December 19, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9621 "2025-12-19T13:00:51Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Toyota Corolla wagon, mustard yellow… Sounds beautiful. mmm ---
**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 19, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9622 "2025-12-19T13:05:09Z")
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