What’s been annoying you lately?
- AI
- Auto insurance
- Commercials/advertising
- Crowds
- Customer service
- Family
- Grocery prices
- Healthcare providers
- HOAs
- Incorrect language/spelling/grammar
- Kids, others’
- Kids, yours
- Litter
- Losing things
- Loudness – people/devices/environmental
- Medical insurance
- Neighbors
- Parking
- Pet behavior, others
- Pet behavior, yours
- Politicians
- Reality TV
- Religion
- Rudeness from strangers
- Screen addiction
- Self-checkouts
- Shrinkflation
- Significant other
- Social media trends
- Someone else’s driving
- Something on the SDMB
- Spam (not the food product)
- Spam (the food product)
- Tardiness
- Tech billionaires
- Technology glitchiness
- Texting language/abbreviations
- Ticket prices for concerts and events
- Tipping culture
- Traffic
- Travel
- The Weather
- Your mental health
- Your physical health
- Something that Mustard overlooked (hey, nobody’s perfect)
Which of these Star Trek technologies would you most like to see in the real world? ( There may or may not be a genie involved.)
- Teleporters
- Replicators
- Tricorders
- Warp drives
- Holodecks
- Wait, is there a genie involved or not? It changes my answer.
- I have no opinion.
- None of these
- Something else
You (solo) need to travel to a city that is located 300 miles (or ~500 km) away. Timeliness is not a factor in your travel. Which mode of transportation would you prefer to use?
- Automobile
- Train
- Airplane
- Bus
- Bicycle
How do you clean your glasses?
- Hand soap and water
- Dish soap and water
- Water only
- Cloth only (or Cloth + huffing)
- Special glasses-cleaning solution/wipes
- Huffing and my shirt
- Spit and my shirt (or spit and a cloth)
- Licking?
- I don’t know because someone else cleans my glasses for me
- I don’t clean my glasses
- I don’t have glasses
Do you like Spam? (the canned stuff, not the email annoyance)
- Love it!
- Like it well enough
- Meh
- Dislike it
- Hate it
- I’ve never had it
- It is much more complicated than can be answered with a simple poll
How much longer do you think Fox will continue airing new episodes of The Simpsons?
- Another 5 years or less
- Another 6-10 years
- Another 11-15 years
- Another 16-20 years
- Longer than that, but they’ll end it at some point while all the actors are still alive and in good health.
- They’ll only cancel The Simpsons when one of the main voice actors dies or is in too poor health to keep going.
- Even if one of the main voice actors dies, they’ll just find someone else who can do the voices and keep going forever.
You get to rewind back to _____ years ago (any time of your choosing) with all foreknowledge of personal and world events up to the year 2024. Do you instantly have an action plan ready to go?
- Yes, I know right away what I would and wouldn’t do in life
- No, I’d need a while to think it over
- Other
Have you ever played E.T. for the Atari 2600? Consoles and emulators both count.
- Yes and I liked it
- Yes and I didn’t like it
- Yes and I have some other opinion about it
- No
- Pie!
If you wear prescription glasses all or most of the time (not just reading or sunglasses), do you wear them when having sex?
You have done a stellar job at work for the year. It’s the end-of-year performance review and you are now offered one perk for next year. (No exact amounts specified but keep it within reason, no “$70,000 raise” or “90 days of PTO”)
- Less workload
- Salary raise
- More PTO
- More work-from-home
- Promotion/change in job title
- More insurance/benefits/free tuition
- other perk
At a crosswalk with a pedestrian cross sign
- I usually or always push the cross button and wait for the sign to give the okay to cross.
- I push the cross button, but if I can cross safely before the sign changes, I do it.
- I seldom or never push the cross button, and cross when it’s clearly safe.
- I always or usually push the cross button, and wait for the sign to change even though I could easily cross safely because I worry that the sign will change after I’ve crossed and it would be rude to any cars that are stuck waiting when there’s nobody crossing.
- I always push the cross button and wait, because you’re supposed to do that and crossing otherwise is possibly illegal.
Which of the following famous phone numbers do you recognize?
- 1-800-273-8255
- 1-800-876-5353
- 202-456-1414
- 234–5789
- 489-4608
- 634-5789
- 733-9969
- 736-5000
- 777-9311
- 867-5309
- 944 1212
- None of the above
Compared to other cats, my (favourite) cat is/was exceptionally…
- cuddly
- aloof
- lazy
- energetic
- obedient
- clean
- messy
- destructive
- talkative
- gluttonous
- ugly
- cute
- shy
- sociable
- crazy
- adventuresome
- vicious
- gentle
- agile
- clumsy
- unremarkable
- I have never had a cat
Because I’m in the mood for a mundane and pointless poll, what’s your favorite brand of tonic water?
- Canada Dry
- Schweppes
- Fever Tree
- Store brand
- Some other brand
- I drink tonic water or cocktails that include tonic, but I really have no preference
- I don’t drink tonic water and this poll is not relevant to me, but I insist on clicking something.
If you had to marry someone with the following traits (assuming the traits are unchangeable - outside = physical attraction and appearance, inside = character, morals, values, IQ):
- You like who they are on the outside, but not on the inside
- You like who they are on the inside, but not on the outside
Are you on a first-name basis with your pastor ( /mullah/priest/rabbi/guru … )?
- well, no, of course not
- certainly, they are just another person navigating this difficult existence
- my what, now?
- this is an utterly alien concept to me
- table water crackers, brie and a nice pinot noir/grigot