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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
3769

For those who have young-ish kids, only. Young-ish is defined as currently no older than 16. At what age did you allow your kid to have their own cellphone? For multiple kids, answer for the youngest one.

  • 0 years old - 2 years old
  • 3 years old - 4 years old
  • 5 years old - 6 years old
  • 7 years old - 8 years old
  • 9 years old - 10 years old
  • 11 years old - 12 years old
  • 13 years old - 14 years old
  • 15 years old - 16 years old
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3770

The GOP debate is tonight. Which of them would make the best (or, if you prefer, least repulsive) president?

  • Doug Burgum
  • Chris Christie
  • Ron DeSantis
  • Nikki Haley
  • Asa Hutchinson
  • Mike Pence
  • Vivek Ramaswamy
  • Tim Scott
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3771

Darn it! That’s the second time this month I’ve fallen for…

  • …the old false neck trick
  • …the old three-way gun trick
  • …the old bug in the rug trick
  • …the old finger in the gun trick
  • …the old gun in the peg leg trick
  • …the old spy in the dog suit trick
  • …the old bomb in the snack truck trick
  • …the old dashboard in the drawer trick
  • …the old aeroplane in the haystack trick
  • …the old flatiron in the hot coals trick
  • …the old gas bomb in the horoscope trick
  • …the old hideout under the carwash trick
  • …the old gas mask in the false nose trick
  • …the old hacksaw in the belt buckle trick
  • …the old microphone in the squeegee trick
  • …the old inflatable head in the cloak trick
  • …the old secret panel in the book case trick
  • …the old poison needle in the phonograph trick
  • …the old chief in the brown beard and wig trick
  • …the old sleeping foot powder in the shoe trick
  • …the old tiny tape recorder in the trailer trick
  • …the old fake fingertips on the fire escape trick
  • …the old mortar in the rocks in the 14th hole trick
  • …the old bullet-proof cummerbund in the tuxedo trick
  • …the old secret supply room in the supply room trick
  • …the old communications equipment in the French bread trick
  • …the old remote-controlled self-propelled spinning doorknob trick
  • …the old double agent with the two faces and the twin locker trick
  • …the old check the baggage, take out the insurance, page him to the phones, spin the booth trick
  • …the old drug his prunes, fake the fight, ransack the apartment, and switch places with the admiral trick
  • …the old Professor Peter Peckinpah all-purpose anti-personnel Peckinpah pocket pistol under the toupee trick
  • …the old long-playing high-frequency ultrasonic stereophonic strike-the-match-against-the-sounding-board trick
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3772

Time-travel tourism is now a thing. You’ve won a one-week guided tour to a Warsaw Pact country of your choice in the mid-20th century.

Which country do you choose to visit?

  • People’s Socialist Republic of Albania
  • People’s Republic of Bulgaria
  • Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
  • German Democratic Republic
  • Hungarian People’s Republic
  • Polish People’s Republic
  • Socialist Republic of Romania
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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And which decade would you like to visit that country in?

  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
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3773

Who sported the best haircut?

  • Picard
  • Riker
  • Data
  • Troi
  • Crusher (Beverly)
  • Crusher (Wesley)
  • Yar
  • Worf
  • Geordi
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3774

Best facial hair in Trek?

  • Riker
  • Sisko
  • Worf
  • Neelix
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3775

What do you call those golden brown things? (not the butter or the syrup)
  • Flapjacks
  • Griddlecakes
  • Hotcakes
  • Pancakes
  • Something else
  • Depends on…
  • I don’t know what those are.
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3776

The best bald head in Star Trek:

  • Picard
  • Sisko
  • Quark
  • The Emergency Medical Hologram
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3777

How many over-the-counter vitamin, dietary or herbal supplement pills do you take every day?

Not including prescription drugs, or OTC pain relievers, cold remedies, laxatives or other OTC medications for specific conditions.

  • None
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10 or more
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3778

You just won a $2.05 billion jackpot. It is the largest lottery in history, barely beating out the previous record of $2.04 billion. You are the sole winner. You’ve hired lawyers, financial advisors, tax accountants and whatnot. Sadly, you cannot remain private; you are in one of the states that mandates that the winner’s identity be publicly disclosed.

  • Take the $1,002,490,200 lump sum right now
  • Take the $2,050,000,000 annuity, spread out over 30 years
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How much money do you give each of your kids now (ignoring inheritance last-will-and-testament when you die, that’s a separate thing)?

  • I give them each a big lump sum of money right now, like $10 million or more, but tell them to expect no more until I die
  • I put each of them on a continuous allowance plan of sorts for now, like $200,000 a year or something
  • I give them each a “modest” lump sum of less than $5 million, but tell them to expect no more until I die
  • I don’t give them anything right now.
  • Other answer
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How much money do you give each of your siblings and parents?

  • A lot
  • Some
  • Rather little
  • None
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How much do you give each of your relatives (cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, grandkids?)

  • A lot
  • Some
  • Rather little
  • None
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How much do you give your close friends outside the family?

  • A lot
  • Some
  • Rather little
  • None
  • I don’t have any friends
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Now that you’re a billionaire, what does your lifestyle look like?

  • Hectic and frenetic (in a good way)
  • Considerably more active and interesting than before, but not a lot so
  • Only a bit different than before
  • No different than before, or even in fact a super-sedate and tranquil lifestyle
  • Other answer
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When you die, how much of your wealth will you leave to your kids/spouse?

  • All
  • Most
  • Some
  • None
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3779
The last crystal clear blue sky you’ve experienced in your current home town was:
  • Today
  • Yesterday
  • Earlier this week
  • Last week
  • 2-3 weeks ago
  • 3-4 weeks ago
  • Last month
  • 2-3 months ago
  • 4-6 months ago
  • 7-11 months ago
  • 1 year ago
  • 2-3 years ago
  • 4-5 years ago
  • More than 5 years ago
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3780

Should “being a Karen,” the overly gendered term for someone loudly attacking innocent people in public for imagined misdeeds, be replaced with the term “being an Elon”?

  • Yes
  • No
  • Unsure, Elon is more of a cockwomble so it might not catch on
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3781

Which do you find more lacking in your life from others?

  • People expressing gratitude to me.
  • People apologizing to me.
  • I feel an adequate amount of both! I’m so appreciated!
  • I feel a lack of both equally.
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3782
What type of air conditioning do you have at home? (multiple choice active if you have more than one type)
  • Central
  • Ductless Mini-Split
  • Heat pump
  • Portable unit(s)
  • Swamp cooler
  • Window unit(s)
  • Something else
  • I don’t have anything that actively cools the house. My windows open and I own a fan. Maybe.
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3783

If you are a gun-supporter, would you agree with the statement: “Mass shootings are the unavoidable, unpleasant but acceptable side effect of having widespread gun rights/access?”

  • yes
  • no
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If you are a gun-opponent, would you consider the above statement to be a fair characterization of the pro-gun side?

  • yes
  • no
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3784

My cousin has taken to refering to some of the neighborhood children as “pre-verbals”

  • it is a beautiful thing
  • hey, they are kids, it is what they do
  • I do not remember my kids screaming like that all the freakin’ time
  • geez, I never screamed like that (AFAIK)
  • boston baked beans, chicken bones, candy cigarettes and bazooka
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3785

{quoting original post}

  • They think they’ll come back later to pick it up. (doing a back and forth on the trail). This does not work for the collective of identical poop bags.
  • They think that it’s the job of the park employee (or someone… the designated dog poop bag collector)
  • They think it’s a compostable dog poop bag, so it will naturally vanish into the ecosystem
  • It’s icky and they don’t want to touch it anymore (then why bag it?)
  • The poop fairy takes care of it
  • They just don’t care (then why bag it?)
  • They think the act of bagging it makes it disappear
  • They’re fucking stupid
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3786

What is the name of the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street?

(choose up to three that are most familiar to you)

  • the parkin
  • “the devil’s highway”
  • “the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street”
  • the median
  • the nuisance strip
  • the easement
  • the terrace
  • the berm
  • the tree lawn
  • the road verge
  • the verge
  • the parkway (strip)
  • the curb strip
  • the devil strip
  • the besidewalk
  • the boulevard (strip)
  • the common
  • the curb lawn
  • the drive strip (or drivestrip)
  • the extension lawn
  • the furniture zone
  • the landscape zone
  • the planter zone
  • the grass bay (or plot)
  • the gore
  • the hell strip
  • the island strip
  • the long acre
  • the mow strip
  • the nature strip
  • neutral ground
  • the park strip
  • the parking (strip)
  • the parkrow
  • the planting strip
  • the right-of-way
  • the roadside
  • the shoulder
  • the sidewalk lawn
  • the sidewalk plot
  • the sidewalk strip
  • the sidewalk taint
  • the street lawn
  • the swale
  • the setback
  • the tree belt (or tree box)
  • the tree lawn (treelawn)
  • the utility strip
  • I have no word for this
  • other
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3787

What is the name of the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street?

  1. choose up to three that are most familiar to you:
  • the parkin
  • “the devil’s highway”
  • “the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street”
  • the median
  • the nuisance strip
  • the easement
  • the terrace
  • the berm
  • the tree lawn (treelawn)
  • the road verge
  • the verge
  • the parkway (strip)
  • the curb strip
  • the devil strip
  • the besidewalk
  • the boulevard (strip)
  • the common
  • the curb lawn
  • the drive strip (or drivestrip)
  • the extension lawn
  • the furniture zone
  • the landscape zone
  • the planter zone
  • the grass bay (or plot)
  • the gore
  • the hell strip
  • the island strip
  • the long acre
  • the mow strip
  • the nature strip
  • neutral ground
  • the park strip
  • the parking (strip)
  • the parkrow
  • the planting strip
  • the right-of-way
  • the roadside
  • the shoulder
  • the sidewalk lawn
  • the sidewalk plot
  • the sidewalk strip
  • the sidewalk taint
  • the street lawn
  • the swale
  • the setback
  • the tree belt (or tree box)
  • the tree law
  • the utility strip
  • I have no word for this
  • other
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  1. choose up to three that you’d like to use:
  • the parkin
  • “the devil’s highway”
  • “the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street”
  • the median
  • the nuisance strip
  • the easement
  • the terrace
  • the berm
  • the tree lawn (treelawn)
  • the road verge
  • the verge
  • the parkway (strip)
  • the curb strip
  • the devil strip
  • the besidewalk
  • the boulevard (strip)
  • the common
  • the curb lawn
  • the drive strip (or drivestrip)
  • the extension lawn
  • the furniture zone
  • the landscape zone
  • the planter zone
  • the grass bay (or plot)
  • the gore
  • the hell strip
  • the island strip
  • the long acre
  • the mow strip
  • the nature strip
  • neutral ground
  • the park strip
  • the parking (strip)
  • the parkrow
  • the planting strip
  • the right-of-way
  • the roadside
  • the shoulder
  • the sidewalk lawn
  • the sidewalk plot
  • the sidewalk strip
  • the sidewalk taint
  • the street lawn
  • the swale
  • the setback
  • the tree belt (or tree box)
  • the utility strip
  • I don’t want a word for this
  • other
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3788

How much suffering have you experienced in life, compared to the average person? (however you choose to define “average”)

  • More
  • About the same
  • Less
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