# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157 "2026-01-29T18:21:35Z")\
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I’m _fine_ with public polls, but they’re not a big preference. I vote in them if the poll interests me, and otherwise don’t vote, same as always. Very rarely, there’s a public poll that I’m **not** comfortable answering, that I **may** have answered if it was private. But again, very rarely.

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Saturn, Jupiter, and Neptune, in that order, but they’re all very close for me, and by the percentages for the majority of the board.

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Yes, my unread tab is missing, but not a big deal for me. There’s an [ongoing discussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-has-the-unread-shortcut-gone/1032015) in #Site Feedback if you didn’t know.

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Star Trek remote learning and guesting - Romulans for both. While it’s a _gross_ generalization, Romulans are Lawful Neutral to Lawful Evil, and that sort of predictability would make me more confortable (I’m Lawful Neutral myself). In terms of _visiting_ their culture, the food culture would be a big deal. Klingon food seems very challenging, Borg food is probably nutrient paste at best, Cardassians are probably fine, but I don’t know much of them (I didn’t watch much DS9), and I don’t trust Ferengi at all (not to mention, I dislike much of the depiction of the species as embracing certain… tropes… I’m not comfortable with).

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As for slow drinking terminology, I’ve always heard of it as nursing, but to quote Emo Phillips:

_“I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.”_

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