Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2)

My wife and I use different shampoos. Hers are all fruity. Mine smells like bourbon (though it doesn’t actually make my hair smell like bourbon, which is probably a good thing). :grinning:

My husband is embarrassed by my choice of shampoo, and hides it when guests come over. (Suave Ocean Breeze, if anyone cares.) I doubt if he’s ever touched it other than to remove it from sight. I sometimes use his if I’m out of mine.

I normally buy the 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioner, but I answered the poll for the odd situation where I do have separate bottles of shampoo and conditioner, like if I’m using those mini bottles from a hotel or something. And in that case I go through the shampoo way faster than the conditioner; I’ll go through at least three mini bottles of shampoo in the time it takes me to use up one mini bottle of conditioner. That’s because I found that if I’m using a separate conditioner just a tiny bit will do the job; any more and it becomes difficult to completely rinse out and makes my hair feel greasy.

Okay, now I’m confused by the 4 people who say they share these products with household members and use them in the same way with the zero who said they share. (That’s from when there were 15 answers. The numbers are different, but it’s still a weird relationship.)

My wife and I both use shampoo bars- but we have separate bathrooms. She shampoos often using conditioner- she has longish hair. I dont have a lot of hair- I shampoo about once a week, and only rarely use the conditioner. We saw how much longer the bars laster for less $$.

That sounds like a really bad - or really great - new business proposal.

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Mrs Magill and I share a shower, but do not share shampoos. She uses a bar, and I’m using up the last of the Suave 2-in-1 we found in the closet.

My sons share a shower and share shampoo. Next year, when there will only be one left, no one will share shampoos.

No clue. I’ve never used a Bain-marie, and basically have a steam oven because the architect suggested it, and my neighbors also recommended it. I probably don’t use it enough to justify the initial cost, but it’s good for storage. I used it a lot more when we were working from home 100%.

Which is actually what I grew up with, as my parents had two convential ovens in their kitchen and one of the ovens was normally used to storage cereal in boxes. I just store oven pans in my steam oven.

it’s irr-rack: irr like irrigate, and rack like dish rack. No e sound, no hard I.

You spelled it Iraq, I pronounce it eye-rack. If you want me to pronounce it any other way, then spell it right. Same to you, Er-doe-gan. “Air-doe-wahn” should have a “w” not a “g”.

Hooked on Phonics works for me!

I’m reminded of an old joke I heard in middle school: “Iran and I tripped over Iraq”, which you would pronounce like “I ran and I tripped over a rock.”

I missed it. Kenya do it again?

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And, of course, it’s pronounced ee-RON in some circles.

I cannot believe the presidents poll left out Dan Hedaya in Dick.

I can’t remember where I heard of it, but I read it within the last five years (probably closer to five years than one). I really enjoyed it (for certain definitions of enjoy), but I caught on to the twist fairly early on. There was one nagging question I had in my head about a particular incident. That question kept being confirmed by what I was reading. And then it turned out I was right. I don’t always keep books I’ve read, but I’ve kept that one.

Around the same time, I read Troubles by J. G. Farrell, also about and set in Ireland. I recommend it, as well.

A woman I worked with was trapped in an elevator after working hours (she was working late), and she was afraid to punch any of the buttons or use the phone. She was in the elevator until the next morning. She wasn’t stupid, but she must have some kind of weird deal with elevators.

Seriously! He was perfect.

I don’t use conditioner. My hair has always tended to be oily. I don’t need/want anything to glop it up.

I have always pronounced Iraq ih-rack and it seems pretty universal if the UK.

Never heard of "Iran and I tripped over Iraq” probably for the same reason though the the pronounciation is close enough for to be “stuck between Iraq and A Hard Place” to be funny.

This was my response, too.

This is also acceptable.

I was really confused by the choices in the poll.

A bain-marie is a double boiler, basically a pot on top of another pot. I use it to melt chocolate.

Here’s info on a steam oven: https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/packages/food-network-essentials/what-is-a-steam-oven

So, with a bain-marie, the water in the bottom pot is used to heat the top pot. A steam oven uses the water turned to steam to cook the food directly

TIL. I had no idea.