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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
4029

The genie of limited competence is at it again. This time he offers to very modestly improve up to three of your existing abilities or characteristics. Which improvements do you choose?

  • 5% increase in strength
  • 5% increase in visual acuity
  • 5% increase in hearing
  • 5% increase in walking speed
  • 5% increase in memory
  • 5% increase in IQ
  • 5% increase in reading speed
  • 5% increase in writing or typing speed
  • 5% increase in physical attractiveness
  • 5% increase in resistance to disease
  • 5% increase in resistance to injury
  • 2% increase in height
0 voters
4030

What fruit did you most recently eat?

For purposes of this poll, it cannot be a fruit you consumed in liquid form. So no juice, wine, or lemon in your tea.

The fruit can be in the form of an ingredient but not just in the form of a flavoring or sweetener.

  • Apple
  • Apricot
  • Avocado
  • Banana
  • Blackberry
  • Blueberry
  • Cantaloupe
  • Cherry
  • Coconut
  • Fig
  • Grape/Raisin
  • Grapefruit
  • Guava
  • Honeydew
  • Kiwi
  • Lemon
  • Lime
  • Mango
  • Orange
  • Papaya
  • Peach
  • Pear
  • Pineapple
  • Plum/Prune
  • Pomegranate
  • Raspberry
  • Strawberry
  • Tangerine
  • Watermelon
  • Some other fruit not on this list
  • Some mixture of fruits I ate together
  • I don’t remember
0 voters
4031

Have you ever been…

  • Encouraged to leave an establishment?
  • Asked to leave an establishment?
  • Escorted out of an establishment?
  • Thrown out of an establishment?
  • Thrown out and subsequently gotten your ass kicked by the staff of an establishment?
  • No, of course not! Such a thing does not happen to Civilized Folks. (sniff!)
0 voters
4032

Things that have been in your refrigerator for one year or more. Not counting things in the freezer compartment.

  • Catsup
  • Mustard
  • Mayonnaise
  • Salad dressing
  • Vinegar
  • Hot sauce
  • Horseradish
  • Pickles
  • Relish
  • Sauerkraut
  • Kimchee
  • Olives
  • Barbecue sauce
  • Capers
  • Lemon juice
  • Lime Juice
  • Chocolate syrup
  • Maple syrup
  • Jam/jelly/preserves
  • Boullion/soup base
  • Soy sauce
  • Gochujang
  • Hoisin sauce
  • Fish/oyster sauce
  • Ponzu
  • Parmesan cheese
  • Other cheese
  • Eggs
  • Bacon
  • Salami
  • Butter
  • Red wine
  • White wine
0 voters
4033
  • the previous poll should have included that thing I have no idea what it used to be but I am not going to touch it because I have no idea what it is
  • there is nothing of the sort in my fridge
0 voters
4034
  • Ketchup
  • Catsup
0 voters
4035

If you won the lottery, would you post a thread here at the Straight Dope to tell us about it?

  • yes
  • no
0 voters
4036

Your hypothetical job has offices in all 50 U.S. states. You are going to be transferred to another state, but you are allowed to veto 10 of the states. Which 10 do you strike from the list of possibilities? Do not choose the state in which you currently reside (cuz you’re moving).

  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming
0 voters
4037

What meat did you most recently eat?

  • Chicken
  • Turkey
  • Duck
  • Other bird (Cornish game hen, pheasant, squab, etc.)
  • Beef
  • Pork
  • Lamb
  • Goat
  • Game meat (eg. venison, caribou, etc.)
  • Fish
  • Shrimp
  • Shellfish
  • Reindeer
  • Frog
  • Some reptile (turtle, alligator, etc.)
  • Escargot
  • Multiple meats blended together (such as a sausage or meatball)
  • I’m not sure what that mystery meat was…
  • Some other meat I didn’t think of
  • I don’t remember
  • I’ve been vegetarian/vegan my entire life; I’ve never eaten meat ever
0 voters

ETA:

  • Veal
  • Rabbit
0 voters
4038

What year were you born? Part I, 1918-1967 (votes are public)

Deleted, very bad idea for a public poll.

4039

What year were you born? Part II, 1968-2012 (votes are public)

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Deleted, very bad idea for a public poll.

4040

When were you born?

  • Not going to say on the internet, but it wasn’t yesterday.
0 voters
4041
  • Brush first, then floss
  • Floss first, then brush
  • Brush only or floss only, never both in the same session
  • Brush only, never floss
  • Floss only, never brush
  • I think my toothbrush or Water Jet thingy is the equivalent of flossing
0 voters
4042

What peppers would you eat?

The thread on the recent “hottest pepper in the world” candidate prompted this poll.

I chose the peppers and their Scoville score from the first result on a search on lists of hot peppers: THE BIG LIST OF HOT PEPPERS | Cayenne Diane. I tried to pick recognizable peppers (the list is a lot longer)

The number in parentheses in the poll is the approximate Scoville rating of the pepper.

  • No way! Game over man! Game Over! (<0)
  • Sweet Bell Pepper (0)
  • Italian Sweet Pepper (100)
  • Italian Pepperoncini (500)
  • Shishito Pepper (1,000)
  • Poblano Pepper (2,000)
  • Hatch Chile Pepper (5,000)
  • Jalapeño Pepper (10,000)
  • Serrano Pepper (25,000)
  • Cayenne Chile Pepper (50,000)
  • Thai Pepper (100,000)
  • Rocoto Pepper (250,000)
  • Habanero Orange Pepper (350,000)
  • Yucatan White Habanero (500,000)
  • Ghost Pepper (1,041,427)
  • Trinidad Scorpion (1,463,700)
  • Carolina Reaper (2,200,000)
  • Pepper X (3,180,000)
  • Keep em’ coming! I have no mouth, and I must scream. (>3,200,000)
0 voters
4043

If George Carlin were alive today (assume he turned 70 in 2016), he would be MAGA:

  • Yes
  • No
0 voters
4044

Your choices are:

  • Hoard it like a Squirrel.
  • Slurp it down like a Bear.
0 voters
4045

Your choices are:

  • Splurge! Buy all of it.
  • Buy some of it.
  • Save the money.
0 voters
4046

Your choices are:

  • Buy once, Cry once.
  • Cheap but good enough.
0 voters
4047

At weddings in fiction, the officiant will often ask if anyone objects to the marriage. Have you seen this in real life?

  • I have been at a wedding where the officiant asked this and someone objected.
  • I have been at a wedding where the officiant asked this but no one objected.
  • I have been at multiple weddings where the officiant asked this and at least wedding had an objector and at least one did not.
  • I have not been to a wedding where the officiant asked this or I do not remember it ever being asked.
  • other
0 voters
4048

MMM’s poll didn’t have a “screw you, I quit” option.

  • I would accept this relocation with the 10-state exclusion clause
  • I would quit the job
0 voters