Every place is the center of the universe.
I’m not going to be bothered reading the music categorizing article, so I didn’t vote.
Every place is the center of the universe.
I’m not going to be bothered reading the music categorizing article, so I didn’t vote.
But not every place is the birthplace of Diego Armando Maradona.
Ranch dressing: Like others, it’s not really my first choice for salads, but I like it fine as a dipping sauce for veggies.
I can’t access TV Tropes at work, so I couldn’t vote in the music hardness poll. I guess I can when I get home, but I probably won’t.
What the heck is a tainfin?
An inside joke for fans of The Simpsons.
A typo of “tailfin”.
Gotcha, thanks ![]()
Musicwise I’m all over the place except at the extremely hard end as I can’t stand screamy vocals. I often like the instrumentals but I don’t want to listen to your nodes forming, thank you very much.
Fireworks. I voted “other.” Of the other answers, I guess “take them or leave them” comes closest. I’ve seen enough in my life that I don’t feel the need to see more. But the whole deal with traffic to and from the site, parking, the crowd, etc. are all things I’d rather not deal with, and that tips the scale over toward “Eh, I’d rather not.”
I like the pretty lights. I dislike the noise.
Sometimes I’ll go watch them from a spot with a good view, but far enough away that there’s little or no sound.
That also removes most of the crowd issue; there are often others in such spots doing the same thing, but nothing like the crowd at the main site.
We did fireworks for a long time with the kids, and now I’m done with them. Don’t like or dislike them, though when the dog wasn’t so deaf I did dislike them.
Do I enjoy watching a professionally-staged fireworks show? Sure, though it’s more “like” than “love.”
Do I enjoy the asshats in my neighborhood who drive across the border to Indiana every summer to stock up on fireworks, and then set them off for hours every evening at the end of June and early July? No, I don’t.
I love the boom.
In fact, i usually have other stuff I’m doing, and don’t watch fireworks. So i guess they aren’t a high priority. But when it’s convenient and i go, especially if it’s a smaller show that i can be really close to, i enjoy it a lot.
I enjoy fireworks, but not nearly as much as when I was a kid. I lived across the water from the Queen Mary in Long Beach (CA) for a couple of years ca. 1985, and back then, they would shoot fireworks off the stern of the Queen Mary every evening for 15 minutes, with a much longer show on Independence Day. We would walk down to the beach and either spread out a blanket or sit on the steps of a lifeguard station to watch the show, then walk back home. There was very little public parking where we were, so we usually only had to share the beach with a few dozen people at most. It was fun, but sort of like eating steak every day - after a while, the bloom is off the rose.
I live near tsunami zones, I want the warnings, they’re not tests, and they don’t freak me out.
I don’t use a weather app. My phone doesn’t download apps it didn’t come with, and I don’t see any need for an app at home when I can just go to a website.
My phone does get weather alerts, but I’ve never gotten one for a tsunami. I don’t live anywhere near a coast. For a tornado, yes. We didn’t use to get tornadoes around here, but these days sometimes we do.
My weather app may have a tsunami warning, but if it were to go off, a lot of people will be having a much worse time than me.
I don’t live close enough to an ocean to get tsunami warnings. I have no idea if my weather app would give them to me if they were relevant. Voted “no”.
I lived in the Shoreline Village marina in '85. I might have even memorized the fireworks sequence.
I don’t understand several points about the tsunami question.