Thank Ghu it wasn’t just me that didn’t want to jinx it!
Whether or not we believe in ghosts or ouija boards (see other thread), we sure do seem to believe in jinxes.
I’m not voting in it either.
It seems the majority didn’t get my Best Picture Oscar poll, so here’s the explanation.
At the first Academy Award ceremony in 1929, there was no category for Best Picture. Wings won the award for “Outstanding Picture”. Sunrise won the award for “Best Unique and Artistic Picture”.
At the 1945 ceremony, the award was changed to “Best Motion Picture”. Going My Way won that year.
At the 1963 ceremony, the award was changed to “Best Picture”. Lawrence of Arabia won that year.
In addition, the name Oscar was not officially adopted by the Academy until the 1939 ceremony. You Can’t Take It With You won the award that year.
Around here, I generally see restaurants differentiate “whole wings” and “wings” as separate menu items, and “wings” is expected to mean segments by default. Just “wings” by itself almost always means just segments unless otherwise specified.
If I order 8 chicken wings, I expect to get 8 complete wings. If the place lists it as “8 pieces”, then I expect 4 flats and 4 drums. IME the places selling complete wings are serving a superior product.
There used to be a bar I went to that served WINGS (that’s how they were listed). They were expensive, but they were huge. They were turkey wings.
The only place i order wings is the Chinese place, and they sell wings with the tips removed, so that’s what i voted.
The only mayo salad i ever make (or eat, really) is tuna. So my answer was for tuna except i forgot that i add some lemon juice, so I should go fix my answer.
I voted NOTA in the daylight savings poll, because it didn’t include my actual experience, which is relief in the spring that I’m no longer waking up way too early (after going to bed late) and enjoyment in the fall of my extra hour of sleep. Yes, I’m the outlier who really LIKES the time change, in both directions, every year.
For the time change, there was no option for “the utter stupidity of this mass delusion makes me grumpy.”
(For the record, I think people like puzzlegal should encouraged to shift their schedule twice a year if it’s helpful. Change working hours from 9–5 to 8–4 in March (or whatever) if you like. But please stop doing this to me.)
DST is mostly a non-event for me. While I’m not convinced it does anybody any good, I don’t get all the histrionics over it either.
I honestly think there’s a kind of reverse placebo effect involved; people become so convinced that a one-hour time shift will thoroughly devastate their circadian rhythms, of course that’s what ends up happening. I’ve never found it that big a deal.
My “routine” varies by more than an hour each day anyway. So, I sort of notice the change, but it doesn’t affect me.
That doesn’t really help me. I’m waking up earlier in the summer anyway. What i love is that all my friends start doing it, too, and they end work earlier, and i can hang out with them in the evening earlier and still get some sleep before it’s time to wake up.
There’s actually an enormous benefit to us all being on the same clock.
Meanwhile, I don’t get all the people claiming DST is a non event for them. Waking up at 6am for work is hard enough for me. Having to shift to waking up at what feels like 5am even though the clock says 6 is just hell.
Yeah, having to go out and feed the horses when it isn’t even light out yet is horrible. For my gf.
How would that work if you have a job where you are required to work 9 to 5? Just to pick one of many examples where your schedule is dictated by the clock and not your preference.
For a few days I just got up around 7:00 instead of 6:00, and went to work a little later. But I know not everyone has that flexibility.
Your employer gives you the flexibility to work 8–4 or 9–5, recognizing that 7 hours of overlap is sufficient for scheduling.
It wouldn’t work for all jobs (I teach, and everyone has to be there at the same time), but it would for lots of them.
As always, the people who like this mystify me, and since they are in charge, my railing at the clouds does nothing.
One point that has come up in at least one of the many lengthy threads we’ve had about DST is that people in more northern latitudes, where the number of hours of daylight varies more, are the ones most likely to find the time change helpful. People who live in the south (assuming northern hemisphere) may have a harder time seeing the point.
It is helpful in the Seattle area, but really just in the spring and fall. In mid winter it’s dark all the time no matter how you set the clocks, and in summer, it’s light all the time. We don’t need an extra hour of daylight in the evening in July, it just makes it harder to get to sleep. But, as I said earlier, I don’t really care.
For me, both DST and no DST require some adjustment, it’s just that one of the adjustments (no DST) is way easier than the other. Among other things, I would rather have my equilibrium disturbed gradually than in a punctuated manner.
I’m in Canada, north of the 49th parallel, so I’m in theory more affected than everyone in the US outside of Alaska, but I think Procrustus has hit on it: it’s useful for a couple of months around the equinox, but otherwise pointless.
I didn’t vote in the sandwich filling poll because my answer depends on the protein. Egg salad is made with mayo, black pepper, and usually dill relish. Tuna salad is made with mayo, black pepper, and usually celery. I don’t make anything you’d call a chicken salad sandwich. Leftover chicken sometimes goes into a barbecue chicken sandwich, but that’s a different animal.