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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
2306

Worst, most obnoxious and pestilential insects*:

  • Horse flies
  • Fire ants
  • Wasps/yellow jackets/hornets/murder hornets
  • Ticks
  • Crazy ants
  • Fleas
  • Stink bugs
  • Cockroaches
  • Kissing bugs
  • Mosquitoes
  • Chiggers
  • Houseflies
  • Bedbugs
  • Termites
  • No-see-ums
  • Locusts
  • Gnats
  • Earwigs
  • Some other creepy-crawlies
  • None; all insects are necessary in the grand scheme of things

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*for purposes of this poll, all small bug-like things with or without legs, wings and antennae shall be considered insects regardless of their formal classification. Many obnoxious insectoids including crop and garden pests had to be left out because of limitation on the number of poll options. All rights reserved. This poll is not claimed to prevent, treat or cure any disease.

2307

Everybody please choose all 6 options.

  • This one
  • This one too
  • And this one
  • Don’t forget this one
  • Or this one
  • And finally this one.

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2308

The instructions for the previous poll were 'way too complicated.

  • Hell, yes!
  • Naw

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2309

When I post a poll

  • I post in it immediately
  • I wait a while to avoid influencing other voters

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When I vote in a poll

  • Sometimes other votes influence my own
  • I can think for my self and damn well do

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2310

If you had to choose now for the whole country, which would you mandate:

  • Stay on Daylight Saving Time year-round
  • Stay on Standard Time year-round
  • Stay on Daylight Saving Time in the summer and Standard Time in the winter (as it is now in most of the U.S.)

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2311
Does Iggy Pop own a shirt?
  • Yes. I’ve seen it!
  • Own a shirt, yes. Wear it? Make him!
  • Probably. He has to, somewhere, doesn’t he?
  • All evidence on hand indicates “no”
  • Who’s Iggy Pop?

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2312

For years you and your best friend have casually remarked to each other that if one of you won the lottery, you’d split it 50-50. Lo and behold, you actually do win a billion dollars one day. Do you split?

  • yes, I must keep my word
  • no, it was only casual remarks

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Variation: Your spouse wins a billion dollars but had previously had such a ‘deal’ with his/her best friend(s). Do you agree with them splitting the jackpot?

  • yes
  • no

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2313

You promised the store clerk you bought your ticket from that you’d give him a million dollars of your $1.9-billion jackpot. Do you keep your word?

  • Yes
  • No

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2314

A billion’s easy. You’d still have way more left than you need to live on for the rest of your life. Let’s make it a million: even half’s still a great deal of money, but probably not enough to make you confident that you won’t wind up in need. Do you still keep your word to give away half of it?

  • Yes
  • No
  • I don’t know
  • Other

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2315

OK, I have been a Pepsi drinker for lo these many years and my New Years resolution for 2022 was to lose weight (which I have been doing). For 2023 I am considering changing to a no-calorie version of Pepsi to further reduce my waistline.

So the Question is: Which of the two choices below tastes the closest to the original Pepsi?

  • Diet Pepsi
  • Pepsi Zero Sugar

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2316
I believe that someday in the future…
  • Humans will set foot on another planet within our Solar System.
  • A human-made object will intentionally reach a different solar system than our own.
  • A human-made object will intentionally enter the atmosphere and/or touch the surface of a planet in a different solar system than our own.
  • Live humans will travel to a different solar system than our own.
  • Humans will set foot on a planet in a different solar system than our own.
  • A human-made object will intentionally reach a different galaxy than the Milky Way.

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2317

The closest you ever came to dying was due to

  • Drowning
  • Fire
  • Traffic accident
  • Falling
  • Gun violence
  • Other
  • Health problems

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2318

Do you find yourself avoiding the verb “trump” in the sense of “X trumped Y’s offer in the negotiations”?

  • Yes
  • No
  • Eh, don’t care

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2319

The death penalty

  • It’s wrong and should never be imposed
  • If the voters of my state want it, eh, I won’t object
  • I support it, but only for the most serious offenses
  • Hell, I think it should be even more widely imposed than it is now

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2320

How many times have you witnessed someone take their last breath?

  • Never
  • Once
  • Twice
  • 3-5 times
  • 6-10 times
  • 11-50 times
  • More than 50 times (estimating, of course)

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2321

Everybody choose one and only one of these options

  • This one
  • or maybe this one
  • Could be this one
  • This one is nice
  • This is a good choice
  • But so is this one

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This was not supposed to be a reply to DCnDC. That was a mistake,

2322

You are sitting in an airliner, pre-takeoff, when the flight attendants announce a wacky gimmick - any volunteer passenger who can stand up in the aisle and perform all the safety briefing acts flawlessly from memory, without the attendants demonstrating (how to use and inflate life vest, how to fasten the seat belt, the use of oxygen masks, where the exits are, brace position, etc.) will get a $500 voucher. (Assume that this is legal for the airline to do)

Could you pull it off?

  • yes
  • no

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2323

If you thought you could, would you?

  • No. Just leave me alone in my seat and tell me when we land. I’m not your circus monkey
  • Sure, it might be fun, and $500 to boot!
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2324

My first poll! Hope I’m doing this right.
c_carol should paint her fingernails:

  • Silver
  • Green
  • Purple + Sparkles
  • Pink + Rainbow Confetti

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2325

You’ve decided to buy that thing that’s 40% off, and the place you want to buy it from says if you order by midnight it’ll be delivered on Saturday.

This item turns out to be heavy (at least 70lbs) in a huge box (say a box no smaller than 3’x5’). And for Saturday they’re predicting with near certainty there will be terrible weather, either a tropical storm or a snowy/icy Nor’easter.

Does the weather forecast play into your decision of whether to order tonight, or wait a couple of days to order so it’s not delivered until Monday or Tuesday, post-storm?

  • No, because it wouldn’t occur to me to connect the dots between the weather and potential issues with this delivery
  • No, I have considered ways it could be problematic but I’m ultimately unconcerned
  • Yes, I don’t want to risk it to be delayed
  • Yes, I’d feel guilty for having the delivery person struggle with a huge box out in awful weather
  • Yes, I don’t want to struggle in awful weather to get a huge box in the front door from where it’s left when delivered

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