Polls only: No discussion

[WildaBeast]

Men, how do you usually take off a pullover type shirt?

• Grab the shirt at the bottom and pull it over your head. The shirt ends up inside out.
• Grab the shirt by the neck hole and pull it over your head. The shirt stays right side out.
• I do both about equally.
• I do something that doesn’t fit either description.

Women, how do you usually take off a pullover type shirt?

• Grab the shirt at the bottom and pull it over your head. The shirt ends up inside out.
• Grab the shirt by the neck hole and pull it over your head. The shirt stays right side out.
• I do both about equally.
• I do something that doesn’t fit either description.

[DCnDC]

Ever seen “Phantom of the Opera”? (check all that apply)

• Yes. I saw the big-budget Broadway production.
• Yes. I saw it in a traveling production not on Broadway.
• Yes. I saw one or more of the film adaptations.
• Yes. I saw an adaptation on TV.
• Yes. I saw it in a local production. (municipal theater, private theater, high school, etc.)
• I’ve read the novel and seen the show.
• I’ve read the novel but never seen the show.
• I know things about the show like the general plot and some of the music but I’ve never actually seen it.
• I’ve never seen, heard, or read it in any format and I know little to nothing about it.

[elfkin477]

Which of the following two unlikely things would change the US the most if they actually were 100% successful in their aim?

Assume one or the other of these things will happen as of January, 2025.

1. If we implemented an iron-clad mandatory retirement age of 67 for all elected officials from lower court judges to the president of the United States. It would not be permissible to be elected to any office you’d hold beyond your 67th birthday if you served the full term of it, so you cannot bend the rules by running for senator at 66 years and 250 days without triggering a new election set for immediately before your birthday. The only exception would be that people elected prior to 2025 can finish their current term if older than 65 currently.

2. If we eliminated all paid lobbyists in a way strict enough to also make the change impossible to circumvent. At minimum it would be punishable by 2-3 year’s jail time for each person who is connected to an attempt to pay an allegedly unpaid activist in cash, services, or goods in order to get them to be your/your company’s mouthpiece. Repeat offenders and their co-conspirators would be sentenced to incrementally longer prison sentences.

Consider the degree of change as how much it would impact the lives of the people who live in this country. Not just the wealthy, not just the poor, not just the middle class, not just the business and finance classes, not just the working stiffs. But the degree of change that everyone as a whole would experience.

The bigger change would be:

• a strict age limit of 67, and the change would be for the better
• a strict age limit of 67, and the change would be for the worse
• elimination of all lobbyists, and the change would be for the better
• elimination of all lobbyists, and the change would be for the worse

[eschereal]

• I usually visit the polls thread before going over to the discussion thread
• I usually seem to find myself looking at the discussion thread first and getting all confused
• I tend to go to whatever is listed above the other
• where is my damn milkshake, pick up the pace here
• bacon will do

[SpoilerVirgin]

• Polls only: No discussion, dammit! I would never open the discussion thread!

[squeegee]

• Discussion only. No voting… oh hell, I just did

[Velocity]

Do you think there’s anything “spiritual” that exists?

• Yes, there’s more to life, or the universe, than meets the eye.
• No, this is a universe purely of atoms, chemical things, there’s nothing metaphysical or non-physical.

[John_DiFool]

• Laurel and Hardy
• Abbott and Costello

[John_DiFool]

• Marx Brothers
• Three Stooges

[Derleth]

How many middle names do you have?

• None
• One
• Two
• Three
• More Than Three

[De_La_Rue]

• Gallagher and Shean
• The Ritz Brothers
• Wheeler and Woolsey
• Keaton and Arbuckle
• Lewis and Clark
• Key and Peele

[Velocity]

Are you a white, liberal, straight, American man over the age of 40?

• yes
• no

[Wheelz]

How many guns do you own?

• 0
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6-10
• More than 10

If you own any guns, what do you use them for?

• Hunting
• Target shooting
• Home security
• Personal protection in public
• Committing crimes
• I have gun(s) for historical or aesthetic purposes and don’t actually use them
• Something bacony or atheistic

[Walken_After_Midnight]

Is Ronan Farrow the son of Frank Sinatra?

• Yes, definitely.
• Leaning yes.
• Don’t know.
• Leaning no.
• Certainly not!
• Who’s Frank Sinatra?

[DCnDC]

Favorite bar games

• Air Hockey
• Arcade cabinets (Pac-Man, Street Fighter, etc.)
• Bocce
• Cornhole
• Darts
• Foosball
• Pinball
• Ping-Pong
• Pool
• Shuffleboard
• Skee-Ball
• Trivia
• Something else

[DCnDC]

How do you feel about pachinko?

• LOVE. IT. You know where there’s a machine let’s go let’s go I’mreadyrightnow!
• I’ve played, seen, or at least know what it is. It’s okay. I get it.
• I’ve played, seen, or at least know what it is. I don’t get it.
• It’s a scourge and should be outlawed.
• What the hell are you on about?

[Velocity]

The human body is:

• More fragile than we realize
• More robust than we give it credit for

[blue_infinity]

The fairest

• Hera
• Athena
• Aphrodite

[Walken_After_Midnight]

Can you recite the entire NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie etc) from memory?

• Yes
• No

[Velocity]

Your work office cafeteria has decided to go gourmet. What do you want on the menu for the first lunch?

(as you can see, there’s not much particular theme)

• lobster tagliatelle, scallops, tiramisu, Mediterranean salad, watermelon-mint agua fresca
• ginger-chicken soup, iced-peach tea, abalone, lionfish ceviche, crawfish etouffee