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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
6270
  • I am paranoid and despondent because I assume the second poster has me “blocked” :cry:
0 voters
6271

You work for a wacky semiconductor foundry company. One day, to celebrate the fact that they have become the world’s first chipmaker to make 450mm chip wafers that are highly reliable and cost-effective, they announce the company kitchen will bake a 450mm product to distribute to all employees. Which would you prefer?

  • 450mm pizza
  • 450mm chocolate chip cookie
  • 450mm brittle biscuit wafer
  • 450mm donut
  • other baking product
0 voters
6272

Inspired by “The last ___ I’ll ever buy” thread. Do you use a styptic pencil?

  • Sure, all the time
  • Sometimes, not often
  • Rarely
  • Never have
  • A what now?
0 voters
6273

Regarding the Straight Dope monthly photo competition…

  • I view it regularly
  • I view it occasionally
  • I have viewed it once or twice
  • I never view it
  • I enter regularly
  • I enter occasionally
  • I have entered once or twice
  • I never enter
  • Other
  • The what now?
0 voters
6274

Bob and Alice live together. Bob’s workplace is an hour away from home, and he always travels directly between home and work. One day, when Alice is at home and Bob is at work, Alice calls Bob and asks, “When are you coming home today?” Bob answers, “At five o’clock.” How do you interpret Bob’s answer?

  • Bob will leave work at four o’clock and arrive home at five o’clock.
  • Bob will leave work at five o’clock and arrive home at six o’clock.
  • Either interpretation might be correct because Alice’s question was ambiguous. (She could have more precisely asked, for example, “When are you leaving work today?” or “When are you arriving home today?”)
0 voters
6275
  • Bob’s answer was ambiguous and he could have more precisely answered, “I’m leaving at 5pm” or “I should get home by 5pm”
0 voters
6276
  • Maybe the two of them have long since worked out whether they mean “ leave work” or “get home” and understand each other.
  • Something else.
0 voters
6277
  • Alice lives with a literalist and should know better than to ask a question like that.
0 voters
6278

We should all stop struggling with this ambiguous “English” crap and speak in Lojban.

  • Go’i.
  • Na go’i.
0 voters
6279
  • lo drata
0 voters
6280

Are you attending a “No Kings” march on October 18th?

  • Yes.
  • No.
  • Probably.
  • Probably not.
  • I would like attend to but I fear what might happen.
  • I would like to but I have personal reasons why I cannot.
0 voters
6281
Artists who have excellent technique but lack “artistry”. Do you tend to prefer studio-recorded music, or live shows?
  • Studio
  • Live
  • Neither
  • Both equally
  • NOTA
0 voters
6282

I voted for Studio because I find the applause distracting. Especially in quieter records. Yes, Keith Jarrett, I’m looking at you.

6283
What punishment does @Jaycat.again merit for his transgression?
  • 50 lashes with a wet noodle
  • 15 minutes in the Comfy Chair
  • Force fed 500 donuts
  • Have to read 75 technical manuals
  • Live with 999 tribbles for a week
  • Something else even more painful and mortifying
0 voters
6284

When you see the acronym PTO without any other context, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?

  • Paid Time Off
  • Power Take Off
  • Parent Teacher Organization
  • Something else
  • Nothing
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When you see the symbol :male_sign: with no other context, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?

  • Male
  • Iron
  • Volvo
  • Something else
  • Nothing
0 voters
6285

Do you drink the water from the faucet in the bathroom of your home?

  • I sometimes drink the water from the faucet in my bathroom
  • I sometimes rinse my mouth after brushing with water from the faucet in my bathroom, but I don’t drink it
  • Water from the faucet in my bathroom never passes my lips
0 voters
6286

Where is it acceptable to pee?

  • In the ocean
  • In a lake
  • In a river
  • In a pool
  • In your wetsuit
  • On the graves of your enemies
  • Nowhere but a duly assigned porcelain receptacle
0 voters
6287

At your house, have you switched your temperature-control to Heating mode yet?

  • Yes, a while ago
  • Yes, fairly recently
  • No, but getting close
  • No, not for a while yet
  • My temperature-control is ALWAYS in Heating mode
0 voters
6288
  • If You Had to Choose Monsters to Attack Your Community it would be…
  • Vampires
  • Werewolves
  • Zombies
0 voters
6289

Chinese takeout -

  • Eat it from the container
  • Plate it
0 voters

If you plate it

  • Plate
  • Bowl
0 voters