# 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:** 54
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1062 "2024-04-19T00:44:51Z")
I would be terrified to be on that jury. I’d probably be fairly impartial, I’m good at that. But if be afraid I’d be hounded for the rest of my life, if not worse. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1063 "2024-04-19T01:41:46Z")
I would try to be impartial but I don’t think I could be unbiased. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1064 "2024-04-19T04:52:42Z")
My oh my. It used to be the average cop spent his entire career without getting into a gunfight. But in TV they are everyday events. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1065 "2024-04-19T05:04:55Z")
In addition to DrDeth’s point about the excessive gun play, from all we (the general public, as opposed to many minorities) learned in the last dozen years, the cops aren’t corrupt in ways that invite drama, executions by the mafia, and quiet soul searching, but in racist, endless banal evil of abuse of power and authority. It isn’t about a few bad cops, it’s about a whole lot of bad cops, a few good cops, and the rest who just keep their head down and say _nothing_. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1066 "2024-04-19T13:40:18Z")
In my limited experience with public men’s restrooms, most of them smell (like the women’s rooms) heavily enough of cleaning products to mask any other differences, and neither of them on average smells worse than the other, but in some individual cases there’s a difference either in degree or in type. Didn’t vote. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1067 "2024-04-19T19:06:21Z")
I’d definitely travel abroad to see another total solar eclipse - time, funds and personal safety permitting. It was an awesome experience to see this one. I’d ask the body-function genie to remove the need to poop. Messy, inconvenient, sometimes uncomfortable, and just too many ways it can go wrong in old age. Don’t quite get the question about stopping _others_’ selected bodily functions. I suppose it might have some legitimate healthcare applications. If someone changed lanes ahead of me at a light, got in my way and delayed my progress, I might be mildly annoyed, but no more, and not for long. I asked the question about major scarring and being “disabled” because I recently heard someone speaking about Disability Theology, and she said that Jesus is considered by some to be disabled because of his scars from the crucifixion. I just didn’t buy it. His appearance was changed, sure, but he rose from the dead, entered a locked room where the disciples were meeting and could even keep others from recognizing him. Even if it hadn’t been for those miracles, he didn’t seem disabled in the least. I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs exam twice, and was once scored ISTJ, and once ESTJ. But I was very close to the line each time as to being introverted or extroverted. For me, it’s all about the situation and the people around me, although I _am_ more extroverted than I used to be. My political involvement and volunteering in recent years have had a lot to do with that, I think. I don’t think the Myers-Briggs system is hokum, but I suspect it’s not as useful as Big Business might think. Definitely want hot toast on which to spread butter. Cold toast sucks. Over the years I’ve been in both men’s and women’s bathrooms - far more the former than the latter - and I’d say the women’s bathrooms looked cleaner and smelled better. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1068 "2024-04-19T19:34:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I’d definitely travel abroad to see another total solar eclipse - time, funds and personal safety permitting. Yeah. But I didn’t vote in that one because I almost certainly wouldn’t have the funds and I probably wouldn’t have the time. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1069 "2024-04-19T19:56:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I asked the question about major scarring and being “disabled” because I recently heard someone speaking about Disability Theology, and she said that Jesus is considered by some to be disabled because of his scars from the crucifixion. I just didn’t buy it. His appearance was changed, sure, but he rose from the dead, entered a locked room where the disciples were meeting and could even keep others from recognizing him. Even if it hadn’t been for those miracles, he didn’t seem disabled in the least. I think you could make a pretty good argument that incarnation itself was disabling: if God is more than fully human, being fully human means being less than God, and so therefore (from a divine perspective) disabled. But I suspect that all depends of your theology as to exactly how that human / divine mix goes. The crucifixion and death is certainly temporarily disabling, anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1070 "2024-04-19T19:58:39Z")
Fair points, but the speaker’s argument was that his scars were disabling. I disagree with that. Meant to say earlier, the Moviefone question reminded me of the _Seinfeld_ episode where Kramer starts getting calls meant for it, and [does his best to answer them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XagGEi_n_ok). ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1071 "2024-04-19T20:02:37Z")
They would be disabling in a normal human. But most depictions of Him don’t have him limping, or trying to breathe with a punctured lung, so I would assume that resurrection healed the worst of the damage. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1072 "2024-04-19T20:03:43Z")
I’d like to keep incarnating if that’s a possibility, but I don’t know that I’d want to keep doing that infinitely. I’d rather know that somewhere along the line I could if I wanted change my mind and either merge with the universe or just disappear. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1073 "2024-04-19T20:12:56Z")
I don’t want to reincarnate. I want the Elixir of Life in this incarnation. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1074 "2024-04-19T20:14:58Z")
Decades ago, I worked security and one of my jobs was the check out the restrooms to make sure the janitors were doing their jobs. Then, not so long ago, in the SCA, I fairly often volunteered to clean up messy public restrooms after or even during an event. So- mens restrooms smell worse- us guys often dont have great aim and miss the urinals enough so there is a stale urine smell. But otoh, the womens were nearly always messier, and too many women would try to flush non flushable stuff down the toilets. _Public restrooms that is_- at home, single women generally keep their own restrooms cleaner than single men. And of course- my personal opinion- I dont care which restroom you use, just so you wash your hands and dont flush non flushable stuff down the toilets. Please please please dont flush tampons. Those wipes arent so good either. New poll- it annoys me a tiny bit when that happens- (posters not reading the whole thread). But it is understandable. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1075 "2024-04-19T21:00:57Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I’d like to keep incarnating if that’s a possibility, but I don’t know that I’d want to keep doing that infinitely. I’d rather know that somewhere along the line I could if I wanted change my mind and either merge with the universe or just disappear. I’d be happy to reincarnate a few more times. But I’m finite, and i think eventually i ought to come to an end. So I voted for oblivion, as that’s closest. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1076 "2024-04-19T21:29:24Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > New poll- it annoys me a tiny bit when that happens- (posters not reading the whole thread). But it is understandable. Ditto. I voted Yes because it does annoy me, but the annoyance is (usually) very minor and short-lived. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1077 "2024-04-19T21:50:15Z")
It really annoys me if the one they’re repeating is within say 10 or fewer most recent posts, otherwise not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1078 "2024-04-19T21:52:43Z")
Yes, exactly. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1079 "2024-04-19T21:59:43Z")
I voted NOTA because it depends. If I said something 217 posts back and the poster clearly has read a reasonable chunk of the thread, that’s not even annoying. If I said something even 20 or 30 posts back and the thread is about trivialities, that’s not annoying either. If I said something 2 or 3 posts back, even if it’s about trivialities, that’s mildly annoying, but I wouldn’t say aggravating. If it’s a serious thread and the poster has either flat out ignored something I said fairly recently and/or clearly hasn’t read any significant amount of the thread, that’s annoying. If it’s a serious thread and a poster who clearly has no idea what anybody else has said in the thread pops in to say something that’s been dealt with exhaustively already in the thread, that’s kind of aggravating. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1080 "2024-04-19T22:20:25Z")
Although I’m one of the other two professions named I picked doctor. Anyone who has been in the hospital knows you see your doctor maybe once a day for ten minutes. On tv the doctor knows more about their patient than their own family. The doctor is drawing blood, using the ultrasound, running the MRI machine, basically doing every job in a hospital that doctors never do. Lawyers are generally seen doing lawyer stuff but more dramatic than tv. If you’ve never been in a courtroom you’ll be disappointed with how boring it is. The huge difference between reality and tv with court drama is the timeline. What happens in months or years is compressed into a couple of hours or days. I’m ok at suspending my disbelief unless the plot hinges on the unrealistic timeline. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/1081 "2024-04-19T23:45:46Z")
In the movie poll, I had a conundrum. Of the 14 movies listed I’ve seen 10, leaving only 4 to pick from, so I picked the one I most likely will see tomorrow. If I had seen none, I’d have picked the one with Jesse Buckley and Olivia Colman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=55)