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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
3569

Which Type of Poll do you prefer?

  • Mundane polls concerning minutia about yourself. Examples: What did you eat today at lunch? Do you use soap? What color was your shit today? What is your favorite sock brand? Do you floss?
  • Imaginative polls. Examples: Unicorns or Pegasi? What is your favorite color Unicorn? If you were a Pegasus, where would you fly to first? Which would you rather have: a marshmallow Unicorn or a chocolate Pegasus? What would you say first to an alien Unicorn from another dimension?
  • I like both types of polls.
  • I say I like both types of polls but in reality, I have a preference, which I am not sharing.
  • I don’t like either of those types of polls because I am a passive-aggressive contrarian.
  • I have a completely different answer because I am unique and special. :yawning_face:

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3570

Do you usually finish a book you have started?

  • I virtually always finish a book I’ve started, even if I loathe it
  • I usually finish a book I started although there have been times when I’ve abandoned one
  • I do not hesitate to stop reading a book if I feel it is not worth my time
  • I do not read books. Now where it the remote?
  • Other, it’s complicated, dear sir or madam will you read my book it took me years to write will you take a look?

0 voters

3571

What IS your favorite brand of socks?!?!?

  • Hmm, the author can’t think of any sock brands.
  • Nope, nuthin’
  • Other

0 voters

3572

You’ve returned after shopping at the local branch of a national chain store and while unloading at home discover there are two packages of $13.99 premium alkaline batteries in your bag. However, you only recall intending to purchase one of this item, and vaguely recall maybe only one being rung up at check out. The receipt confirms you only paid for one package. The store is located a 15 minute drive from your house. What course of action do you choose?

  • Keep 'em! The check-out clerk probably screwed up
  • Drive back to the store and return the batteries. Honesty is the best policy

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3573

You’ve returned after shopping. Checking your receipt, you realize you were overcharged by a couple dollars, e.g. you were charged full price for something that was supposed to be on sale. The store is located a 15 minute drive from your house. What course of action do you choose?

  • Let it slide. It’s not worth the effort to try to correct it.
  • Go back and ask for a partial refund. I want my two dollars!

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3574

Monetarily speaking, have you overall gained, or lost, from having health insurance?

(That is to say, has the amount of money that health insurance has saved you exceeded the amount of premiums that you paid into the system, or has it been the other way around for you?)

  • Gained: I’ve saved more $ from health insurance than the amount I paid in premiums
  • Lost: I paid more in premiums than the amount of $ that health insurance has saved me

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3575

If you were house hunting, which would you rather have? For each poll assume all the other factors are about equal.

  • A cheaper house that’s a bit of a fixer upper
  • A more expensive house that’s in perfect condition

0 voters

  • A less nice house in a good location (however you define “good location”)
  • A nicer house in a worse location

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3576

Person A steals a soda from a grocery store that part of a chain owned by a corporation. Person B steals an identical soda from a Mom and Pop convenience store. Legally speaking, their crimes are equal, but how would you consider them ethically?

  • Person A has done something worse, ethically.
  • Person B has done something worse, ethically.
  • Their actions are equal, ethically.
  • other

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3577

Re: those ice cream toppings

  • Only chocolate ones are jimmies! The rainbow colored ones are sprinkles!
  • New Englanders are complicated

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3578
Do you peel kiwi fruit?
  • Yes.
  • No.
  • Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.
  • Depends on what it’s being used for.
  • I don’t ever eat/buy/prepare kiwi fruit.

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3579

Kangaroos are to hotels as Byzantine art is to_____?

Which answer makes the best comparison?

  • butter knives
  • tungsten
  • rubber plantations
  • temerity
  • elevation

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3580

Did you know that there’s more than one type of kiwifruit, and that different types have different skin? (Pick up to 5.)

  • yes
  • no
  • well, I do now
  • yes, but I peel all of them
  • yes, but I don’t peel any of them
  • I never see the fuzzy ones around here
  • I never see the smooth-skinned ones around here
  • other

0 voters

3581

Do you own a set of “good China” that you only use on special occasions?

  • Yes
  • No
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3582
  • Hanes
  • Fruit of the Loom
  • Nike
  • Gold Toe
  • Adidas
  • Happy Socks
  • Thorlo
  • Dickies
  • REI
  • Bombas
  • Other
  • I honestly have no preference
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3583

What is your favorite US domestic airline? (I intentionally omitted Hawaiian Airlines because they’re a very niche airline that only flies to/from/within the Hawaiian Islands. Alaska Airlines was included because in spite of their name they have a fair number of flights within the Lower 48 states).

I’m not really interested in the opinions of people who don’t fly enough to care, or people think all airlines are the same, so I purposely didn’t include an “no preference/I don’t fly within the US” option. And no “other” option because I’m fairly certain this is an exhaustive list of major US airlines (we’re not counting regional and commuter airlines here).

  • American
  • Delta
  • United
  • Southwest
  • JetBlue
  • Alaska
  • Spirit
  • Frontier
  • Allegiant
  • Sun Country
  • Avelo
  • Breeze
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Do you have status in the loyalty program of the airline you picked?

  • Yes
  • No
0 voters
3584

Hey, anybody want some A.B.C. gum?

  • Sure, I’ll take some.
  • No thanks!
0 voters
3585

It’s 2025: You’ve been living under a rock a far as new movies are concerned for the last 2 years and know nothing about them. I offer to take you out to watch a film, for fun you will choose one of the current 10 movies showing at the local cinema based on only 2 pieces of information: What do you choose?

  • The film’s title
  • The 3 top billed cast members
  • The film’s director
  • The genre
  • IMDB score
  • Rotten Tomatoes critics score
  • Rotten Tomatoes audience score
  • The screenwriter
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3586
  • Skid Row
  • Skid Road
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3587

Did the nomenclature change at the end of a poll? Wasn’t it “vote” and “show vote” before? Now it’s “vote now” and “results”.

  • yes this is new
  • no it’s the same as it’s always been
  • I’m not sure but can’t check because if it did happen, it retroactively changed in all the previous polls
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3588

Question for Doper women (although Doper men are free to pretend to be women or share the experiences of their wives/mothers if they want):

When you gave birth, did you do anything that resembled “postpartum confinement” in the weeks that followed?

  • Yes, I followed a fairly rigid regimen for post-birth recovery
  • Yes, I followed a rather loose protocol of post-birth recovery
  • No, I didn’t do any such thing, I promptly returned to my normal ways post-birth
  • I have never given birth
  • Other answer
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Completely unrelated question: Has the “build poll” option become a much smaller, shrunk text box (when you are making the poll itself) than before?

  • Yes, it’s become strangely small for me
  • No, nothing’s changed
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