It’s too cold here to leave the windows open, even for me, during at least half the year. So I dithered between ‘it depend’ and ‘open, unless it’s cold’ but went for the latter.
I have one air conditioner window unit, and it’s downstairs in the kitchen. Until a few years ago, I didn’t have that; I use what I call the old-fashioned air conditioning, in which you close all the windows in the morning if it’s going to be hot out, and open them all at night when it cools down. If the nights do cool down into at least the lower 60’s (F), and your house has at least some insulation, this works great as long as you don’t mind a somewhat chilly house first thing in the morning, which I don’t. But lately we’ve been getting too many nights that don’t cool down enough.
In any case, I prefer open windows to air conditioning, unless it’s way too hot outside as well as in.
I would think that the lease would be null and void the minute the roomie died.
I go back and forth on self checkouts. I like them because baggers use too many bags and it annoys me. But sometimes I’m tired, or I have way more stuff than can be handled easily at the self checkouts.
I equate open plans with cheap apartments that chintz on dining room space
For the rice utensil poll, I voted the less popular spoon option.
I personally think that for non-sticky rice, it’s the best tool BUT I’d never actually use it. I’d use a fork. Because I would, from long conditioning, feel that a fork is the proper tool to eat a savory, solid entree with. So best, but not most proper.
In my mind, baggers vs. self-bagging is a separate issue from self-checkout. The grocery stores I shopped at most often during the 1990’s and 2000s didn’t have baggers—you bagged your own groceries after the checker rang it up.
Agreed. Ordinarily, Gatorade, all flavors and all colors, tastes exactly like pig mucus (or what I imagine pig mucus tastes like). When I’ve been hiking and sweating in the mountains for three hours on a hot summer day, it magically starts to taste good.
I dislike open concept houses. For me it’s more about sound propagation than privacy. If one person in an open concept house is watching TV or listening to music or talking on the phone or swearing at the idiots on the Internet who can’t hear them, then everybody in the house has to hear it. No thanks.
As a scuba diver most of the time I jump into water I have a mask covering my nose so water can not go up it (I do hold my mask to make sure it doesn’t come off not sure if this should count as something else)
Once I am in the water and descending that is when I hold my nose (repeatedly for a second or so at a time) in order to equalise the pressure in my ears.
I call small items for decorative display “dustcatchers”, which is what my grandmother called them. Despite this scornful term, I have quite a few and so did she.
Similar: “dust collectors.” I think of bric-a-brac as a collective; “tschotschki” is the one I’d say from the list, though as you can see I have no idea how to spell it.
I am myself somewhat more likely to explain an ‘other’ option if the poll requests it. But I often do anyway. And I don’t usually notice how many others explain themselves and then go compare it to the number of “other” answers; so I suppose I don’t much care since I don’t usually even bother to notice, and answered that way.
I like balsamic in small quantities - tossing some good olive oil on a plate, a small quantity of balsamic, soak it up with good bread? Yum. I mildly dislike it in vinaigrette. If you cook with it and concentrate the flavor? Bleah.
