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[Karen_Lingel]

April 4, 2022

Polls only: No discussion

Someone comments “You’d be really beautiful, if you were a woman” (if you are a man) or “You’d be really handsome, if you were a man” (if you are a woman). How do you feel? poll

Feb 20, 2023

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Your reaction to being told, “You’d be handsome, if you were a man” (if you’re a woman) - or, “You’d be beautiful, if you were a woman” (if you’re a man): poll

Seems like @Velocity gets told this a lot (or approximately once a year). Let’s help Velocity with some great comebacks.

• “So would you.” (especially if the person is the same gender as the “if you were a (gender)”.))
• “So would you.” (but only if the person is the same gender as the “if you were a (gender)”.))
• “And you’d be very good-looking if you were a giraffe.”
• “Ya know, you’d make one ugly giraffe.”
• “You hurt my feelings” --followed by crying.
• Other idea(s) – I shall make my own poll

[WildaBeast]

You took the…

• High road
• Low road

That road got you to Scotland…

• Before ye
• After ye
• What?

[Procrustus]

Before this week, had you ever heard of a messenger platform for businesses called “Slack?”

• Yes, but I’ve never used it
• Yes, and I’ve used it.
• No, never heard of it
• Other

[De_La_Rue]

You have made a movie. Would you rather it was a box office bomb but a critical success, or did well at the box office but had negative reviews (and public opinion, like it’s the Mike Myers Cat in the Hat or something)?

• Box office bomb but critical darling
• Box office smash but people hate it

[DCnDC]

Do you know what these people were originally famous for? (answers below poll)

• Joyce Brothers
• Lisa Edelstein
• Paris Hilton
• Kim Kardashian
• Sienna Miller
• Charles Nelson Reilly
• Nicole Ritchie
• I don’t even know who any of these people are

Joyce Brothers was a contestant on The $64,000 Question game show in 1955.
Lisa Edelstein was a New York “Club Kid.”
Paris Hilton is the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels.
Kim Kardashian was the stylist for her childhood friend Paris Hilton and appeared in several episodes of The Simple Life. “The sex tape” is also a valid answer.
Sienna Miller dated (and was cheated on by) Jude Law.
Charles Nelson Reilly was a stage actor who became a frequent guest on talk and game shows.
Nicole Ritchie is the adopted daughter of Lionel Ritchie.

[De_La_Rue]

Art versus commerce, round two:
You’re a successful actor, and can pick your projects.

• I only do indie films and prestige dramas and stuff like that, because I am all about the art
• I will appear in anything, regardless of how bad it is, if you pay me. Zero integrity.
• Aside from doing artsy stuff, I will take a high-paying role in something possibly devoid of artistic merit every so often.
• I’ll usually take whatever role comes my way, but there are projects so bad I’ll turn them down

[markn_1]

You’ve logged in to a financial web site (your bank, credit card company, etc) on your own computer or phone. When you’re finished with it, what do you normally do?

• Click the “logout” button
• Close the browser window without logging out
• Do nothing - leave the browser window open
• Something else
• I don’t do any financial activity online

[squeegee]

• I’m a man and when I pee I leave the door open if there’s only family about
• I’m a woman and when I pee I leave the door open if there’s only family about
• Close the damned door!

[Velocity]

Given the choice (let’s ignore naturalization and say your current citizenship was the result of being born where you were):

• I am American but would prefer to have been born in some non-USA nation of my choice.
• I am American and would still prefer to have been born in the USA.
• I am non-American but would prefer to have been born in some other nation of my choice.
• I am non-American and still would prefer to have been born in the nation I was born in.

[markn_1]

What do you call this symbol? #

• Number sign
• Pound sign
• Hash / hash sign / hash mark
• Hashtag
• Sharp
• Octothorp
• Something else

[Karen_Lingel]

When was the last time you ate ice cream?

• Today
• During the last week
• I dunno, maybe some fancy dessert during the holidays?
• Sometime during the fall/winter.
• Not since August, maybe September.
• It’s been a while.
• Years and years
• Never.

[DCnDC]

Favorite kinds of frozen dessert (pick up to 3):

• Frozen custard
• Frozen yogurt
• Gelato
• Ice cream
• Italian ice
• Shaved ice
• Sherbet
• Slushy/“Slurpee”
• Sorbet
• Something else

[DCnDC]

I know the difference between sherbet and sorbet

• True
• False
• I’m like 90% sure I do

[De_La_Rue]

Art versus commerce, round three:

• Art
• Commerce

[Mean_Mr.Mustard]

Do you cringe, inwardly or outwardly, when you hear someone pronounce sherbet sherbert?

• Yes
• No
• Sometimes
• I pronounce it that way myself

[markn_1]

Which term is correct?

• Shaved ice
• Shave ice
• Either one is fine
• Depends on the geographical location
• I’ve never heard of either one

[Loach]

Not to be confused with Shave Ice, which one is correct:

• Italian Ice
• Water Ice
• Either are correct
• Some other name
• Depends on your location

[Maserschmidt]

Did you hesitate to answer the prior poll because of the phrase “either are”?

• I did indeed!
• No - begone, pedant!
• Other

[WildaBeast]

You say…

• Potato
• Potahto

• Tomato
• Tomahto

• Pajamas
• Pajahmas

• Let’s call the whole thing off
• Let’s keep the whole thing going

[elfkin477]

For a long time I wondered how people could injury themselves with a Q-tip: if you insert it too deeply into your ear you begin to have a coughing fit, so why would you continue to push it in further and hurt yourself?

Well, as I learned just a handful of years ago, this cough is a reflex that only 2-3% of healthy people and 25% of people with chronic cough disorders including cough variant asthma have. So, there’s the Q-tip mystery solved.

Have you discovered as an adult that something about your body that you thought was normal/typical/standard issue, but turns out to be pretty uncommon in other people?

• Yes, as an adult I previously learned that this reflex I have too is unusual
• Yes, just right now because I have that cough reflex too!
• Yes, as an adult I discovered a different physical thing about me is unusual
• Not as an adult, I figured out all of my physical idiosyncrasies as a child or teen
• Not so far