I am on your team. I don’t know why it is so difficult - or umbrage-worthy - to simply skip a poll if it doesn’t pertain to you.
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Well, there are two kinds of polls that posters skip. There are the ones that they have no interest in. (Which of these fictional characters/movies/foods you’ve never eaten so you like best?) And then there are polls that posters are interested in, and have an answer to, but it’s not listed. (Who is your favorite character in x? You’ve read x, you liked x, you even have a favorite character, and the pollster leaves that one off.) (What do you do in this real life situation? You are in that situation all the time, but what your actually do isn’t listed.)
There’s no doubt that the latter are the more annoying polls than the ones a poster just doesn’t care about.
This, exactly.
I skip polls I have no opinion in all the time, no problem. It’s the ones in which I do have an opinion, but that opinion doesn’t fit in the choices, that I find frustrating.
He didn’t start the fire.
It was always not-burning.
My experience is similar, but almost reversed. Never been to New England, but growing up in Maryland we had millions of lightning bugs. Now, in coastal Texas there are only a few. I don’t think I saw any when I briefly lived in the DFW area.
I have called them lightning bugs and fireflies equally. There did seem to be significantly more when I was young but I have no scientific basis for that.
I don’t recall seeing many firelightningbugflies at all in my youth. I see a lot more these days.
I seem to be the only one.
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That’s why I didn’t know most of them; haven’t seen most of those movies & those that I did, not nearly often enough or recently enough to remember much detail, like multiple character’s names.
There are over 2000 species of Firefly/Lightning bugs. Obviously, you won’t have all of the species where you live but if you do live in a place with multiple species they may have different behaviors; time of night they come out, height they fly at, etc. These things matter when you’re trying to do long exposure photography of them.
Three - when the poster makes it public, just because. I don’t vote in his.
“Eight weeks old”… my god, what an autocomplete to not notice until it’s too late. sob
Did take me a minute to work out what it was meant to mean (though the options did make it obvious).
Of course “Someone you deeply care about has just found out that they are eight weeks old”, could mean you have an incredibly intelligent baby who at just 8 weeks old intelligent enough to know their age!
We kids had our own phone number, listed in the phone book as “Children’s Phone” under my father’s name.
None of the options in the high school question were generally true for me, though some of it might be due to differences in time and location. Not his could affect the results as I and anyone else in my situation does not vote and therefore the percentages might be overestimated.
- "I am viewing “High school” as my secondard school which I attended from age 11 to 18.
- There were not “credits for graduation” I took exams in each of my subjects and received a grade for each one. There was also physical education classes which dd not have exams but they were compulsorary.
- There was no official designated smoking area but all the kids who smoked in the school did it in the bike shed
- I do not know of any residential address that had more than one (land) phone line, you could have more than one phone but if you picked one up while another was being used you would just hear that conversation. I did not have a phone extension exclusive to me and there were no cell phones when I was at school.
There was definitely a designated smoking area. You would find teachers there too. You couldn’t leave for lunch. There was no place close enough to go to if you could. I don’t know if it was possible to hit your requirements for graduation early or not. I just know it wasn’t presented to me as an option.
I assumed it was a Pirates of Penzance kind of thing.
This was exactly my situation (mid 1980s).
We were allowed to leave for lunch. There wasn’t a designated smoking area, but it wasn’t against the rules to smoke outdoors, so that’s where kids went to smoke. In various clusters but social group, not all in one place.
The kids didn’t have “their own phone” in my household, but my parents got a second phone line when we were in high school, which my father later told me was so they could use the phone when we were talking on the phone. Does that count?
School situation - by the late 80s and early 90s (my high school years) there was a designated smoking area for teachers but none for students that was pretty well enforced, so I voted “no”. We were allowed to leave campus for lunch, but I did so maybe 4-5 times a year for my two most senior years. So just barely.
For my High school, if you had the credits you needed, you generally just didn’t take anything and had one or more open periods. Senior year, I had two morning periods open, and spent them at the local university taking a class.
However there’s a “but…” on that. My senior year I owed a semester of PE, and I cut that a lot - I’d show up for roll call and any “health/Anatomy” exams, and otherwise cut about half the time. Then I’d leave campus with my fellow nerds and work on AP Physics or some other thing. It was strongly winked at, and I got a B+ for the class.
No phones for me, which pissed me off, because I was often noodling around on my 2400 Baud Modem at the time, so I’d put a sign on the one phone in the house saying “In Use”.
We had a smoking area next to the shop side of the building. We couldn’t leave for lunch, but we often played frisbee on the lawn. I had my own phone.
I don’t recall a senior class trip, but we did have Grad Night at Disneyland the evening of graduation day. The park was closed to the public, and graduates from many schools had free run.
Our school had two separate buildings. The smoking area was between the buildings. I wasn’t cool enough to smoke in high school.
For the abortion question I voted I wouldn’t under any circumstance. You could probably what if some set of circumstances where I would encourage it but the closest answer is that it’s a personal choice that I have no business getting involved in. Once they make their decision I can support them to the best of my ability. Pushing them one way or another may come back and bite you in the ass.