I was a forum moderator some years ago and it was a lot of work. Don’t think I would be able to handle that at my age and situation these days.
If I were put in a moderator position my performance would probably be adequate but not exemplary.
I was wondering about the absence of Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady but I checked and found out those were set in the Edwardian era not the late Victorian era as I had assumed.
The car maintenance poll didn’t include topping off wiper fluid. 
I have never heard that term. Where is it from?
I am a mod or an admin or owner of several Facebook pages, but only one- a D&D group with over 20000 members is any real work. We had to make it private after scammer/spammers came in.
In addition to the weight distribution, I sometimes pay attention to the pattern of colors – but only if I get a dozen eggs that aren’t all the same color. If I do get a mixed-color dozen, I arrange them so that mixed colors remain in the center, probably alternating, after the rest of them are gone; and, if there are more than two colors, so that all colors/shades continue to be represented as long as possible.
But usually I wind up with all brown eggs, in which case I’m just going for weight distribution.
I answered the egg question as if we still had egg cartons in the refrigerator. A short time ago my wife bought an egg rack and I make sure it’s arranged with the oldest up top
I have arthritis in my knees. I only use a ladder very carefully and infrequently. I’d want the bottom bunk. Serial killers be damned.
I wouldn’t say I try to leave behind an “interesting” pattern of eggs, although I picked that in the poll because it was the closest option. More like a neat and orderly pattern.
Growing up, my father drove a Karmann-Ghia. He owned a book called something like “How to take care of your Volkswagen, a guide for the complete idiot.” We did nearly all of the maintenance ourselves.
Volkswagen got a lot harder after they added radiators. My last VW, a 2003 Passat, I could only fill up with gas.
Yeah, a lot of the things I checked are things that have gotten a lot harder to do. Last time I tried to change a bulb it had gotten so complicated that I couldn’t figure it out – not helped by the fact that the vehicle didn’t seem to match the driver’s manual. You couldn’t just take the outer lens cover off and grab the thing, you were supposed to somehow get at it from inside the engine compartment, removing two or three other things in succession first.
Do not attempt to read this thread without first reading the “Polls Only” thread. You will have a lot of questions.
A headlight went out, and I thought to myself, “I know how to fix that.”
Silly me. Step one of replacing a lamp in a 2003 Passat was, “remove the intake manifold.”
Futurama catchprase, other: “To shreds you say…”
My friends and I use that every time someone asks without actual interest “whatever happened to [ xyz ]?”
I read and answered the poll first- the poll did not explain the term, nor had I ever heard it before.
After I’ve used six eggs out of a dozen, I saw the carton in half with a serrated knife so it takes up less room in the fridge.
“Kill all humans” should definitely have been an option in the Futurama catchphrase poll.
I’ve encountered the same issue. I can remember replacing headlight bulbs and even the headlight by myself in vehicles I owned early in my life. But a few years back, I had a headlight that needed replacing and it looked more complicated than I expected. So I asked my brother-in-law to do it.
My brother-in-law was a professional car mechanic with a full set of tools. Yet it took him over an hour to get access to the headlight housing so he could replace it. That made me realize that working on headlights was no longer within my capabilities.
Parental scores: I gave my father a 4, though I was grading on a bit of a curve. He was pretty good, at least a 3.5, but if I take into account what his mother was like, and how she hounded him once I was old enough to process it (8-12 say) he gets the round up to a full 4, despite his many flaws.
I gave my mother a 5, though she was the less practical of the two, but I had no complaints of her love, care and respect for my choices.
I did not rate my step-father (since you can’t vote for that in the poll) but he’d get a 2, maybe 2.5 based on how he acted to my half-brother, and possibly worse overall.
I did not rate my step-mother (again, not in the poll) but she’d get a 5 in a very different way from my mom. She’s much more practical, but treated my brother and I with plenty of legitimate (though less unconditional) love considering she didn’t come into our lives until I was in 5th grade. That’s damn commendable.
The new linked thread on estrangement indicated quite a few paternal 1’s so surprised the actual number of 1’s and 2’s in the poll were so low.
2.5 for me I’d say, rounded up: mine [deceased 2000] did most of the usual stereotypical father things with me: throw around a baseball, play golf, watch movies together, take us all on fancy vacations. He was a financial wizard when it came to the stock market, ensuring both my sister and I got healthy inheritances when my mother died 2 years ago.
But, while he was never outright abusive, he was a terrible role model, chasing women (imagine my shock going with him to a football game as a middle schooler to see some floozie virtually jump into his arms), drinking (as an inveterate alcoholic how he avoided a DUI conviction is utterly beyond me, since I saw his vintage Porsche in a ditch one morning near the golf club), gambling (tho he was good and never bet any “tough” money), overeating, and major anger management issues. As a physician his hours as a young doctor were typically very long and he was simply not there for much of my early childhood; I recall as a preschooler seeing him as this terrible but remote god (since work often resulted in him coming home in a bad mood but he never really took it out on us).
Personality-wise we were as far apart as humanly possible: in the MBTI he would be a hard-charging no-nonsense ESTJ while I was a shy philosophical dreamy INFP, and as such he had a very hard time understanding my motivations. His lifestyle ensured I wanted nothing to do with it when I grew up, tho I may take up golf again this spring. So as a negative role-model he succeeded as I remain as opposite of him as can be.
My mother was more nurturing (great cook) but put too much of her psyche into me, which is to say she tended towards the smothering side of things-the baby book I have is massively gushing (note I am adopted, @ 7 weeks), so I have her as a 3.75 rounded up.
I somehow doubt that any of the 43 people who have answered so far have seen more than a handful each.