For those prone to overthinking, the polls boil down to: name 10 slang terms you hate the most and another 10 that you like/tolerate the most.
It’s not complicated.
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What? Overthinking? On the Dope? Say it ain’t so!
I’m hoping you’re joking but there was no “other $9000” in mmm’s original thread as was explained many times. In my poll the concept has been turned into a game show, so nobody is paying to participate.
I wouldn’t necessarily want you to go away because you ordered chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla.
There are terms that are just plain stupid, even if it’s one you occasionally use.
Indeed. I don’t want any slang to go away, so I didn’t vote in the first poll. I would have voted for every option in the second poll, but it was limited to 10, so I didn’t vote in that one, either.
What? No.
I have only seen bars on windows in higher crime neighborhoods. I do not live in a high crime area & prefer not to live in one of those neighborhoods in the future so I don’t have or want them.
Also, as stated, what keeps people out, can also keep people in; especially in an emergency like a fire. Given I am likely to enter a house on fire I don’t want anyone to have them where I live/run.
When I lived in an apartment we didn’t have bars in our windows, being on the sixth floor (7th in American terms).
But we did put bars in the windows when my son was a toddler, until he was old enough that we no longer were scared of him falling out.
It would’ve required determination because he was too small to climb on the window (which was about a meter above the floor of the apartment) but we opted for safe rather than sorry.
He did use to drop his toys from the window and then look at us innocently and say “tó”, trying to say “se cayó” (it fell).
To this day when something falls to the ground or something (or someone) falls from a high place in a movie we look at each other and say “tó”.
I used to rent a room in a house that had bars on exactly one window and that happened to be in the room I rented. I was always curious why it was that window and only that window, but the owner of the house said it was like that when she bought the place so I never found out why.
I go by my legal name, a nickname based on it and also by a nickname not based on it that happens to be… “Frodo” 
My family and old old friends call me by my legal name (rarely because the nickname is shorter) and my legal-name-based nickname.
Old friends call me “Frodo” because that was my nick in the BBS were we made contact and started playing table top RPGs, or because they joined the group later and never even learned my real name because everybody called me “Frodo”.
Whether I would want bars on the windows would depend on the neighborhood and whether anyone who lived in the house was in particular danger of falling. (A good sturdy metal screen is enough to keep cats in.)
But I would only want bars over the windows if I had some way to unlock and rapidly remove them in an emergency. Make a frame, hinge one side, lock on the other, store the key in the same room out of reach of the toddler.
Falls from windows is far too common and almost always very tragic. Some kind of window guard is absolutely a good thing for higher windows (preventing opening more than 4 inches, for example). There are many ways to do it, that can be bypassed in the event of an emergency like a fire. I think of bars as more of a burglary prevention idea, and I’ve never felt the need for that, based on where I have lived.
Meh. I was considering a few to go, a couple are kinda bad, but yeah, in general, I have no real issue with most slang. But I do not care for public polls.
Dad put a screw hole in the first floor upper windows about 4" up so the windows could be left open a bit when no one was home but an opportunistic burglar couldn’t slide the bottom further up & crawl in. The screw / nail was smaller than the hole so that we could easily take it out & open the windows wider when we were home with just our fingers, no tools necessary.
Well, damn, now I have to go undo my votes.
Genuinely interested in the difference between typing:
“I like tacos” under your username
And answering “I like tacos” in a public poll which displays your avatar/user name?
There’s not one. Particularly for something so mundane, but there are some public polls I’d prefer not to answer, just as there are some things I wouldn’t type under my username in a post. I simply have to get better at identifying public polls before I vote in them, because as it stands I don’t think it’s obvious enough that it’s public, so when I do notice they are public, I avoid them, and when I notice after the fact, I undo them.
I thought the slang polls were fun and useful.
My bias, both “pro” and “con,” was clearly generational – and I suspect this is true for most of us. I like about 70% of the slang from when I was young (c. 1978-1998), and only about 30% of the slang popularized among youth from the last decade or so.
ETA: @Thumper668 made a similar point. (Pretty obvious, really.)
I did vote, but i would have been happier voting for most of them to stay. None of those annoy me enough to want them gone.
When i lived in NYC, we were much to high up to with about anyone breaking into the apartment. But when we had a child, the landlord was legally required to put bars on the windows, except for the one window that opened to the fire escape. (Which also had bars, but bars an adult could easily open.)
This seems like a very reasonable option.