Maxim 4: Close air support covers a multitude of sins.
I haven’t spent much time there, but i drove through when i was in the area and got a tour from a local friend. I didn’t see a poll option, either.
Ditto. Is definitely turn down the “air support”.
My mother-in-law doesn’t speak English. (My father-in-law passed away a few years ago.) Our relationship is cordial, but of course we never really talk.
Have some fun with it. I would drive around all over town pretending to be Henry Hill.
Drove through Gary a number of years ago and stopped at a rest area to get something to drink. It was an unstaffed location and all the vending machines were enclosed in bars. Never saw that before anywhere else.
I know essentially nothing about Gary Indiana, but I found this article which says
Back in 1994-1995, Gary was ranked as the most dangerous place in the United States. … Crime rates in Gary have improved since the 1990s, but the city is still considered dangerous.
And this statistics page says
With a crime rate of 36 per one thousand residents, Gary has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 28. Within Indiana, more than 97% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Gary.
So maybe air support is warranted.
Some of these polls are getting just too weird. And not good weird- Vance weird.
My husband (American) and his sisters always drink milk with cake, cookies, etc. I might have milk about 50% of the time when I eat baked goods.
I know two adult men, one from India and the other from Italy who each include a glass of milk with breakfast. Breakfast is just not breakfast.
I have a copy somewhere, but I no idea where. It was a Christmas present from my dad as I kept mentioning how many text. books I needed to have to make sure I had all the equations.
I own both a standard and a circular slide rule, but I‘ve never used them, so I didn’t include them.
I have also been known to use Excel for calculations. It’s often already open.
I got the impression that the poll was about what you have, not what you use.
I don’t get some of them so I move on by.
I did not vote in the Gary Indiana one because I have been there and stopped. Nothing in the poll fits that one.
Not understanding the Olympic one either. Could be because it’s morning and I am sans coffee.
I wasn’t aware that a lot of people stop drinking milk when they grow up. My SO and I go through two (sometimes three) gallons of whole milk per week. We are not regular cereal eaters, so almost all of it is drunk from a glass (or chugged from the jug if no one is looking).
There are two things that I know about Gary, Indiana: It’s the only place that can light up Professor Harold Hill’s face, and it wasn’t founded until 1906 
Yep. No rule stating you have to vote in every poll.
The Olympic one is about whether you think the overall count of lower medals is more important than winning one gold medal.
I heard one silver medal swimmer call himself the first loser. It depends on what your expectations are.
Oh that makes sense!
Thank you for explaining the Olympic one.
I don’t know how long it’s been there, but I’ve just noticed a cog in the polls that enables you to switch from percentage (which is flawed in Discourse as it always adds up to 100% using whole numbers, thus throwing the percentages off) to actual numbers, which is much better.
Generally, I look at overall medal count, and I dont care if it is USA, as long as the free nations get more medals than the dictatorships.
So did I.
I included an ancient mechanical desktop calculator that I picked up years ago at a yard sale – I’m not sure why – and that I’m pretty sure I never used, but that I’m fairly sure is somewhere in the attic. (It’s quite difficult to be sure that anything is not somewhere in the attic; other than possibly by finding it somewhere else.)
I guess it’s a matter of which counts more: the difference between a first-place finish and a second-place finish, or the difference between a third-place finish and a fourth-place finish.
Kayaking - as they were actually having shitloads of fun. Surfing, it is so lovely.
Pistol dueling (with wax bullets) was a real event.
Pankration- interesting but could result in injuries.
None of the totally fictional.
Those not voting for “global thermonuclear war” may not be familiar with the card game (which also had a computer game adaptation):
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