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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
2906

Why do you come to this website?

  • I’m curious about things
  • I like politics and/or other things one can debate
  • I enjoy discussions of culture
  • I have mundane pointless stuff I must share
  • I hate message boards and am a masochist
  • I like polls
  • Stewart sandwiches
  • Those threads in which one poster is obviously wrong about something, but keeps insisting he is right and everyone else is wrong

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2907

I come to this site for more than one of those reasons in the poll above, and/or for reason(s) not listed in the poll:

  • yes
  • no
  • other

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2908

Do you have a sofa that pulls out to make a bed?

  • Yes, and sometimes people sleep in that sofa bed.
  • Yes, but no one ever sleeps in that sofa bed
  • No

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2909

Have you owned a vehicle from the following decades as your daily driver? (ETA: Or had use of as your daily driver even if you didn’t officially own it; I counted the car I drove in high school and part of college even though the title was in my parents’ name. It was still “my” car in the sense that I was the one who mainly drove it)

Note that “daily driver” doesn’t mean you drive it literally every day, it just means it is/was your main vehicle used for normal everyday driving, eg. commuting, shopping trips, taking the kids to school, etc. Or to put it another way, do NOT count classic/collector cars that only get driven to car shows or or for fun on the weekend or similar.

If you’re not sure about a particular car, give it your best guess.

  • Before the 1950s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s

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2910

We might have already done this one, but when you get a new article of clothing, do you wash it before you wear it for the first time?

  • Yes, always
  • Sometimes, if it smells funny, or some other factor that makes me think it needs washing.
  • No, never

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2911

When was the last time you drank the kool-aid, (or flavor aid or any other sweet beverage made from instant powder)?

  • In the last day
  • In the last week
  • In the last month
  • In the last year
  • In the last decade
  • It’s been more than a decade
  • Never touched the stuff

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It was colored

  • Red
  • Orange
  • Green
  • Purple
  • yellowish white
  • Some other color
  • Don’t recall

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When you last drank it was it

  • At an event with lots of kids
  • At a gathering with few if any kids in attendence
  • With my family
  • On my own (yes I may have a problem)

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2912

How do you feel about self-checkouts?

  • I prefer them, and will almost always use them if it’s an option
  • I don’t have strong feelings either way.
  • I can’t stand them and almost always go to a human cashier.

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2913

Pre-Columbian archeological sites I’ve been to:

  • Cahokia
  • Chavín de Huántar
  • Chichen Itza
  • Caracol
  • Cusco
  • Kuelap
  • Machu Picchu
  • Mazca
  • Mesa Verde
  • Teotihuacan
  • Tikal
  • Tulum
  • Yaxchilan

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2914

What is your view of the “Tomahawk Chop” performed at Chiefs, Washington (formerly Redskins), Braves, and Seminoles games?

  • It’s racist
  • It’s okay
  • other

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2915

All other considerations being equal, would you prefer to watch a movie in a theater or a drive-in?

  • See a movie in a theater
  • See a movie at a drive-in theater

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2916

How many siblings do you have? Count those no longer with us, do not count step-siblings.

  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • more than 10

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2917

Do you like the song YMCA by the Village People?

  • Yeah, it’s great
  • It’s okay
  • I don’t really like it, but whatever
  • I hate it with a passion
  • Not sure what song you’re referring to

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2918

Have you ever had to ask someone to get something off the top shelf for you while you were shopping?

  • Yes
  • No
  • other

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Has anyone ever asked you to get something off the top shelf for them while you were in a store (either as a shopper or an employee)?

  • Yes
  • No
  • other

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2919

Have you ever had a BIg Mac?

  • Yes, I have consumed at least one Big Mac in my life
  • No, I have never tasted a Big Mac
  • Other

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2920

How would you pronounce Blacow Road?

  • Black-cow
  • Blay-cow
  • Black-oh
  • Blay-coh
  • Other

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2921

12 million more Boomers than GenXers (1965-1980) were born in the US. While it’s no doubt a combination of reasons, which of the following things do you think most contributed to why GenX is so small?

Bear in mind that the generation immediately after GenX is 7 million people larger so it’s not just that developed societies have few kids.

The biggest reason GenX is so small is:

  • Reasonably new availability of birth control for unmarried women
  • Abortions
  • A new and large increase in working mothers without an increase in affordable childcare or widely available maternity leave (that was adapted to by the early 80s)
  • The deaths of drafted young men removed too many potential dads from the gene pool
  • Out of control inflation in the 70s and very early 80s made people have fewer kids than they really wanted
  • Increased societal acceptance of couples wanting fewer or no children
  • divorces became more socially acceptable so there were fewer babies had with inescapable spouses

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2922

If you were a fiction author or movie director, how much political messaging would be in your novels/movies?

  • There’d be lots of political messaging
  • There’d be little, or some, of it
  • There’d be none
  • other

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2923
There is a Milan Road in my mom’s town. I keep on saying it the Italian way, thanks mainly to my auto racing hobby (as in the Monza Circuit in the Italian city). She and the locals all say it the “American” way. This drives her crazy (heh) and leads to periodic fights between us…
  • MY-lan
  • Mill-LON.
  • Something Else

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2924

Who is the better politician to advocate on behalf of feminist or minority-race issues?

  • Someone who is a minority and/or woman, because they’d know the experience firsthand
  • A white man, because he would be perceived as not having personal bias (“you’re supporting Hispanics because you’re Hispanic”)

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2925

Single choice - You can only have one type of wine for the rest of your life. Choose wisely.

  • Red wine
  • White wine
  • Sparkling wine
  • Rose wine
  • Fortified wine
  • Communion wine
  • I don’t drink…wine
  • Other

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