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

Because I have a low utility bill when it’s not on, & it’s one more sign of the reality that Fall is here.

Watch it, bub; I had a slow run last night. :angry:

Did you see when I waved in your direction this weekend as I drove past?

Only if they’re made of silver.

I’m more uncomfortable being too warm than too cold, so I never turn the heat on. My sister has a room heater that she’ll sometimes turn on. If it’s in the room I’m in, I’ll turn it off long before she would.

If I’m absolutely uncomfortably cold, I’ll wrap myself in a blanket or quilt.

I take it you don’t live where the pipes freeze if you don’t turn on the heat. :laughing:

The what the what now?

Got takeout from a new (to us) Chinese restaurant. It came in a compartmentalized plastic container so one couldn’t easily mix the rice & entree together in one forkful. Normally I just eat it from the takeout container to save on cleanup but this really should have been plated.

I always plate my leftovers. But sometimes i use a plate, and other times, a bowl, so i didn’t answer that question.

Ditto.

For me at least, a typical Chinese take-out portion is at least two servings. So I plate one serving, and put the remainder in the fridge in the take-out container. I might then eat the leftovers out of the container the next day.

I answered for how I eat it on the day I actually ordered it, in other words the first serving.

I have a little joke-” Zombies? I am a Carpathian, if it was zombies, it would be “Arise my undead minions” and I’d never have to scoop a litter box again.”

None of those bother me. They are all perfectly understandable.

All of them bother me equally. But Did the car loose a tire? is the funniest.

My sister @EllieNeo is allergic to lettuce. She’s only ever met one person who told her the same thing. They commiserated while Ellie served her at Taco Bell.

I answered “wheat” even though I can eat it without any immediate or drastic repercussions. I have Hashimoto’s disease which means gluten encourages autoimmune attacks on my thyroid. So I guess it depends on how strict your definition of allergy is.

They are all gratingly annoying but “could of” is the clear “winner”

As a retired grammarian (among other things), it’s the “should of” construction that makes me the most stabby. The others could be at least partially forgiven, involving homonyms and simple misspellings and spurious apostrophes and such. As someone with mild dyslexia myself I can grok them, somewhat.

The “of” ones tho would have to have the individual in question completely ignore all the instances where they saw or will see the correct usage, forevermore, as in never realizing that they have confused “of” for the " 've " in contractions and that semantically it makes zero sense. IOW unlike the others this requires a two-step series of errors. Have any of these people suddenly one day gone, after seeing the correct one somewhere, “Oh my god I’ve been doing that wrong for years now! What a moron I am!” Or even “Hey, people never say ‘Can I of a ham sandwich?’-duhh!”

I have an online buddy who does this (great guy otherwise), and I know I’ve used the correct construction numerous times in missives to him-he just keeps on keeping on tho.


No Lowenbrau in the beer poll. [It’s been too long for me to make anything more than an educated guess, as in 25 years since his departure-note my father was an alcoholic while with him serving as a negative role model I’ve been a lifetime teetotaler.]

No Busch, either. It was cheap, so it was usually what my dad would get if the beer run was left to him. His friends seemed to favor Coors.

Neat story about Busch beer: Gussy Busch wanted to name the Cardinals’ stadium Budweiser Stadium but the Commissioner of Baseball wouldn’t allow a stadium to be named after an alcoholic beverage. So Gussy named the stadium after himself and promptly created a new beer with the same name.

You’ve convinced me. I changed my vote.

That’s also the only one I’d never do. My phone’s “autocorrect” imposes many of those on me, and my initial selection was the error my phone makes that annoys me the most (by a small margin). But actually, using “of” instead of “'ve” is pretty annoying.

Since @thorny_locust and @Dr.Drake don’t seem to get it: all of them are annoying errors, and the implied question is which is most annoying, like markn’s a few posts up.

I wasn’t sure what the question was, so I didn’t vote.