How far do you have to travel from your home for the dominant accent to be different than where you live? If you are from Boston but live in California it’s not your accent that is being asked about, it’s the common accent of those that live around you. It’s not how far you have to got to find one person with a different accent. It’s how far before the common accent is recognizably different.
Less than an hour drive.
Between 1-2 hour drive
Between 2-3 hour drive
Between 3-5 hour drive
I would have to use some other form of transportation to go far enough to hear a difference.
I don’t recognize the concept of an accent but I have to vote.
I don’t recognize the concept of measuring distance by travel time but I had to vote.
Did you go into the same (or similar) career as either of your parents?
1-I inherited the family business, can’t get any closer than that
2-I went into pretty much the exact same career as one of them (but independently unlike #1)
3-I went into a closely related career of at least one
4-I went into a pretty different career than both
5-You could say I went into a diametrically opposed career of at least one
6-NOTA/something else/YKTD/etc.
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Examples:
1: My parents run (or ran) a daycare franchise, which I took over when they retired
2: My father was a courtroom lawyer, I became a patent attorney
3: My mother was a pediatrician, I became a schoolteacher
4: My father was an engineer, while my mother was a cop; I became a banker
5: My mother was a nuclear physicist, I became an artist
6: I have been on unemployment disability for most if not all of my adult life
You’re at the grocery store with a large order in your cart. As you’re transferring your items to the conveyor belt for checkout, you run out of room and the belt has stopped. What do you do?
Relax. The belt will move again, and when it does, I’ll continue unloading my cart (i.e. there is a single layer of items on the belt)
Slow down, and maybe place some items on top of other items if they’re stable (i.e. items can be stacked up to two, maybe three, high)
Keep unloading at the same pace; I’ll stack to the ceiling if I have to! (i.e. the sky’s the limit!)
Do you follow the “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down” rule? (In other words, don’t flush if all you did was go #1). Just consider what you do in your own home, not other people’s homes or public restrooms.
You’re accused of a serious crime. You know you’re innocent and you can prove it. However the proof requires somebody following a long chain of various logical strands that when added together will confirm your innocence. Somebody without the discipline or inclination to follow such intricate logic would think you’re guilty as the other evidence seems overwhelming otherwise. Before jury selection you’re given a plea bargain sentence that is about 20% as bad as you’d get if you went to trial and lost.
Timeline:
Week 0: You get an eye exam and order glasses.
Week 3: You get a call from the eye doctor that the glasses arrived but are scratched; they will remake.
Week 6: You get a call from the eye doctor that the glasses arrived, but with the wrong prescription. They will remake.
Week 10: You get a call from the eye doctor saying that the glasses arrived, but AGAIN with the wrong prescription, but you can try them and see if they work. You go in with your laptop computer and the glasses are fine for computer work so you take them.
Week 12: You get a call from the eye doctor saying to return the glasses, so they can put in the correct prescription, because otherwise there is some kind of insurance issue…
What do you do? Mark all that apply.
Take the glasses back in and wait for those calls every 3-4 weeks until the prescription is finally correct.
Call the insurance company to convince them to let you keep the glasses you have
Keep the glasses you have (which already took 10 weeks!) and let the eye doctor, optics company, and insurance company duke it out.
Call the insurance company to help with the duking-it-out.
You are the richest person in the world, slightly more so than Elon Musk and his $208 billion. You’ve got just a few days left to live. How many beneficiaries will be in your last will and testament? (Anyone or anything that receives anything, even just a dollar, is a beneficiary.)
Just a few, maybe only immediate family.
A few dozen - family, relatives, maybe some friends or causes.
More than a hundred - quite a list of people and causes or entities.
Imagine you’ve got 208+ billion right now. Are you going to give it away as fast as you can reasonably work out who to, or are you going to keep it? (Setting up one or more foundations counts as giving it away, so long as they’re set up so you can’t just take the money back.)
How much of it are you going to keep?
None of it; I don’t need any more money than I’ve already got.
Less than a million.
One to ten million.
Ten million to one billion.
More than a billion, but significantly less than half.
I’ll keep half and give away half.
I’ll keep more than half, but give away a significant amount.
I’ll give away a little, but I’m keeping most of it.
You are attending a live play performed by a professional theatrical company. Throughout the play, you feel that the acting is mediocre to poor. At the end of the play, everyone in the audience around you rises in a standing ovation. What do you do?
Remain seated, to show what I really think
Remain seated, because I have difficulty standing
Stand with the others, so I don’t look like a jerk
Stand with the others, because I always give a standing ovation regardless of what I think of the performance
I would have walked out before the end of the play
