# Polls only: No discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642 "2021-11-01T18:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 300
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5990 "2025-06-10T16:24:52Z")
You read a novel and come to conclusion X about a semi-major plot point. Over time it becomes clear some people came to conclusion Y but you still think conclusion X is the only sensible one. After a while the author wades in that conclusion Y is is correct, but makes no further in canon works that force the issue. In your mind if you think of it do you think _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5990))_ As above but a few years later the author does make a sequel, with at least one scene supporting conclusion Y. This was not planned when book 1 was released, book 1 was a stand-alone _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5990))_ As above except book 2 was in fact already planned as part of a series when book 1 came out, and had already been written when book 1 was published. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5990))_ ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5991 "2025-06-10T22:59:30Z")
How often do you eat the same thing for breakfast? Use whatever definition of “same thing” that makes sense to you. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5991))_ ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5992 "2025-06-11T18:59:47Z")
You have a doctor’s appointment for a routine check-up. You arrive on time, check in, and are soon taken into a room where someone takes your weight, vitals, asks the standard questions, and then leaves you alone in the room. How long are you willing to sit there alone without acknowledgement before you become somewhat annoyed? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5992))_ ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5993 "2025-06-12T04:07:38Z")
As we get older, slips and falls become much more dangerous. Do you wear gripper socks/slippers at home? (For the purposes of this poll, kitchen and bath floors are _not_ included .) _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5993))_ ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5994 "2025-06-12T17:37:09Z")
Tell us about your footwear at home: _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5994))_ ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5995 "2025-06-14T15:44:41Z")
Rewind back to your age 25. You don’t own a house. A million dollars suddenly magically appears in your bank account. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5995))_ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5996 "2025-06-14T18:47:28Z")
Spoiler alert, I guess. At the end of **Close Encounters of the Third Kind** , Richard Dreyfuss joins the Alien Spaceship Force and goes into the spaceship, leaving his wife and kids behind. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5996))_ ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5997 "2025-06-16T01:04:43Z")
You have been given the option of reliving the previous day ala “Groundhog Day”, with the following conditions. 1. You if you say “I’m done” at midnight, the loop ends. 2. If you quit the loop you will never get another loop. 3. if you die in the loop it automatically restarts 4. While in the loop you don’t age but you retain any of the memories and skills of the previous loops. 5. If you restart the loop your actions that day will have no consequences to anyone else (there aren’t a parallel worlds that go on after you loop) 6. After you leave the loop the world will continue as if the final day was what happened. **How many loops do you think you’d run before you decide to quit?** _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5997))_ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5998 "2025-06-16T01:25:10Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5998))_ ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5999 "2025-06-16T03:37:13Z")
I have a big bag of individually-wrapped hard candies. The package says “fruit-flavored” but gives no specific information about what fruits. Which one do you want? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/5999))_ ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6000 "2025-06-17T05:27:57Z")
“Customer support is available 24/7”. How would you pronounce that last part: _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6000))_ ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6001 "2025-06-17T19:45:14Z")
On a 1-5 scale, how certain were you, pre-marriage, that marrying your partner was the right decision? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6001))_ ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6002 "2025-06-17T21:22:32Z")
On a 1-5 scale, how certain were you, **post** -marriage, that marrying your partner was the right decision? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6002))_ ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6003 "2025-06-19T03:52:00Z")
If you buy fast food through a drive through window, and discover they made a mistake after you’ve already pulled away from the window, what do you do? Examples of mistakes may include, but not limited to: They omitted something you specifically ordered. They included something you specifically requested them to omit. They gave you someone else’s order. If you have experienced more than one type of mistake, and your answer is different depending on the mistake, choose the one that happens most frequently, and vote based on that mistake. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6003))_ ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6004 "2025-06-20T02:22:59Z")
“Hello, sir/ma’am, I’m calling to tell you your car warranty expired.” _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6004))_ ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6005 "2025-06-20T13:26:55Z")
Which of these terms of derision, originating in Yiddish, are part of your _active_ vocabulary? That is, which of them do you yourself use when writing or speaking, at least occasionally? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6005))_ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6006 "2025-06-22T11:46:29Z")
What body parts are giving you trouble this week? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6006))_ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6007 "2025-06-22T14:35:25Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6007))_ ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6008 "2025-06-22T19:22:45Z")
Do you own pie weights? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6008))_ ---
**Author:** ![RollOutTheBarrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rolloutthebarrel/32/1649_2.png) [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6009 "2025-06-22T20:17:15Z")
Do you have any magnets on your refrigerator? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642/6009))_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642.md?page=299) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polls-only-no-discussion/953642.md?page=301)