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

I’m the only person/animal I insult in Yiddish. Yidbew, actually: “Oy, Susan, ezo schmuck at!” Working on good Spanish self-deprecations.

Nope; they’re like Hotel California (or a Roach Motel); you can check out any time you like but you can never leave

I use dreck and schmutz sometimes when describing objects. I sometimes use schmaltz when taking about cooking with chicken fat. The only one i use to describe people is klutz, and yes, mostly as a factual description.

I know about ⅔ of those words, but I’m not sure how one would use all of the ones i know.

24/7: nobody says twenty four sevenths? (Or three and three sevenths?)

“Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week”.

A Couple of my friends back in the day spoke Yiddish and I learned most of the common terms.,

Heh, I saw the movie when it was first released and haven’t seen it since (except for isolated scenes here and there). Guess all those blonde actresses are interchangeable in my brain. It’s funny, because I remember Melinda Dillon, but I don’t remember Teri Garr at all.

I don’t use many of the Yiddish words, but dang that was a fun list to read.

mmm

Yep, and I knew almost all.

Hasenpfeffer Incorporated.

I’m so used to that context that I wouldn’t assume three and three sevenths unless the context around it clearly called for that. Plus which, I’d expect that to be shown as 3 3/7, not as 24/7.

10000 days is less than 30 years, probably around 1/3 of an average lifetime, and yet only 8% of people would choose to stay in a situation where you stop aging and get any money or goodwill you spent in the last 24 hours returned to you for that long. Seems very strange, especially the average age of dopers, who wants to voluntarily keep aging and die when you can stop the aging and live a life of luxury forever?

A life with no relationships, no consequences, and exactly the same choices every day?

It won’t be the same choices every day, short of saying you start in the same position. There’s a virtually limitless amount of things you can do.

I’m surprised that “back” isn’t an option in MMM’s poll; that was my “other.” :slight_smile:

On the contrary, anything requiring meaningful air travel is either going to be off the table or a very minimal experience.

I can get a train or taxi. In just 3 hours I could be anywhere within half of England. Most US dopers could get to their choice of dozens of large cities in the same time period. OK I can’t go to Egypt and spend more time there than it took me to get there and that’s a shame, but I can still go there if it’s a thing I want to do. I’d still say the experiences that I can get within a 3 hour travel area are “virtually limitless” and if there’s something I really want to do, I can still travel further.

Likewise! I’d be willing to bet that in a group of ummm older folks like we have here, there are more back problems than any other kind.

For hurting body parts, I chose ‘other’ because ‘none’ wasn’t an option.

If we’re starting from now, I won’t have the money; and under that hypothetical I’d never have any chance of getting the money.

I’d never be able to see anybody who couldn’t conveniently visit with me on that day.

I’d never get any weather other than that day’s.

I’d never have anything ripe in my fields that wouldn’t be ripe on that specific day. I’d also never have a successful crop on anything that in that year was already doomed for that day. I’d never grow anything that I haven’t grown before.

I’d never see any of the children that I know get any older.

I’m undoubtedly leaving something out here.

My mouth consistently give me trouble, but not on the manner the poll assumes.