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

I was hit by a car when I was three and drug down the street.

I was hit by 3 other cars (not seriously) in my youth.

I have been in countless accidents.

The most recent was in 2010 when a drunk driver rammed into the back of my car while I was driving on a highway. Car was totaled.

I have continued to drive despite the obvious risks.

Somehow I keep thinking I have met my allotted quota of accidents.

But that’s not a funny answer.

Indeed, hotels in Europe often don’t have air conditioning, even fancy ones, but you can almost always open the window.

I love riding in a car. My husband calls me a golden retriever. No matter where he’s going I enjoy tagging along, just for the ride.

I live in California so I’ve been driving since I was a teenager. Nevertheless I really don’t like it. There’s something about being vigilant and bored at the same time that makes my brain hurt. So if anybody else offers to drive I’ll take them up on it.

I have. It’s uncommon, but a few years ago I stayed at a small mom & pop motel on the Northern California coast that didn’t have AC. It’s cool enough near the ocean that I really didn’t need it anyway.

And if you count the historic Glacier Park Lodge, from what I’ve read in reviews they don’t have AC. I’ll be staying there this August.

But the total number you can fit still depends on whether they’re allowed in the cockpit.

And the question isn’t phrased as “can you fit more or fewer than 100?” It’s phrased as “how many can you fit?”

My thought was that if they aren’t allowed in the cockpit, they probably won’t get on the plane. Otters have some weird quirks about flying.

I stayed in a few places in Hawaii that didn’t have AC. With the windows open, they were pleasant enough at night.

Otters are nasty, cruel creatures.

Damn right it isn’t ! This is deadly serious !

Be that as it may, the available options are

  • Depends if they’re allowed in the cockpit or not
  • 100 or more
  • Less than 100

.. and the answer is always 100 or more.

Nope. The answer to the question as stated is “depends on how much of the plane you can use.”

The answer to “can you fit more or less than 99” is “100 or more.” But that isn’t the question that was asked.

So .. if they’re not allowed in the cockpit, you can’t fit more than 100
otters in ? I find that hard to believe. (unless the otters are much
bigger in the USA !!)

I think it was about a year ago someone on the SDMB linked to this cartoon

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1156193134887179/posts/2033281477178336/

Technically, it’s an American take-out dish.

Multiple answers should have been an option. General Tso’s is most common but I’ve seen Tsao’s and Tzo’s as well.

No, I expect you can fit more than 100 in either way. But the maximum number you can fit in is going to be larger if they can also go in the cockpit than if they can’t.

Suppose, for the sake of the argument, that you can fit 1,219 otters in without allowing any of them in the cockpit. (I have no idea what the actual number is, except that it does seem likely to be more than 100 and probably less than a billion.) Then, if you can also put them in the cockpit, the number that would then fit would be 1,219 plus however many fit in the cockpit. Both those numbers will be over 100; but they won’t be the same number.

The poll question was which do you see most often. There can be only one answer (unless there’s literally an exact tie).

I’ve also seen that Chinese-American dish just called “General’s Chicken”. But “Tso’s” is the spelling I’ve most often seen.

I have never seen it spelled as anything other than General Tso’s Chicken. As for the otters, you can fit far more than 100 of them into the airplane, cockpit or not.