You are traveling by plane. The flight attendant comes around and asks what you would like to drink. Which of these beverages are you likely to request? (multiple choice, public poll)
A mischievous genie magically replaces your usual automobile with its foreign-market version, where the steering wheel is on the opposite side. So if you had a left-hand drive vehicle, it’s now a right-hand drive vehicle, and vice versa. (If you didn’t have an automobile in the first place, well, now you do.)
Which three of these do you consider to be the biggest disadvantages to this new situation?
Using drive-through windows, ticket dispensers, and toll booths will be harder.
Sourcing spare parts for repairs will be harder or more expensive.
Front passengers must (dis)embark on the street side, which is less convenient and safe for them.
Overtaking is riskier, since you’re farther from the centreline and can’t see around vehicles ahead of you.
There may be poorer sight lines at intersections, where pillars or other obstructions have been placed with the assumption that the driver is on the usual side.
It will be hard to refamiliarize yourself with positions of the driver controls whenever you switch between driving your vehicle and others.
Insurance and/or registration could be more expensive or harder to obtain.
If you ever sell the car, it may have a lower resale value and a smaller buyer pool.
Other people who normally drive your car may now balk at driving it.
It will confuse pedestrians and other drivers, who will be expecting to make eye contact with you on the usual side.
Another language poll. English is changing. Without stating that either is right or wrong, which usage sounds more normal and natural to contemporary you?
the battleship sank
the battleship sunk
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While we’re here, which of the following paradigms have all three forms for you? (In other words, if you generally prefer “the ship sunk,” DO NOT vote “sink sank sunk.”) I’ve thrown in a couple of truly archaic ones, and voted for them, because I like them, but I don’t expect normal people to vote for them.
The tl;dr: scale goes from 1 to 11, and attempts to delineate how soft or hard a given piece of music is.
Please read the descriptions of each level, then choose where your average “hardness” lies:
What is the average level of hardness in the music that you regularly listen to?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
None of the above (don’t buy the scale, my stuff is so weird it is off either end, don’t listen to music, can’t come up with a workable answer, just wanted to vote, etc. etc. etc.)
The news had a segment on people from other countries visiting the United States for the World Cup and trying ranch dressing for the first time. They reported that 75% liked or loved it. Many visitors are taking bottles of ranch home with them in their luggage. This leads me to ask: Do you like ranch dressing?
I am from the United States and I like ranch.
I am from the United States and I don’t like ranch.
I am from the United States and I’ve never tried ranch.
I am not from the United States and I like ranch.
I am not from the United States and I don’t like ranch.
I am not from the United States and I’ve never tried ranch.
You are the driver of a car stopped at a red light. What are you doing? (Mark all that apply).
Playing on my phone
Personal grooming (shaving, putting on makeup, picking my nose, etc.)
Grooving /singing to the radio.
Watching birds, admiring the landscape, etc.
Conversing with other car occupants.
Lost in thought/zoning out
Napping
Certainly not worrying about whether the light has turned green; eventually the people behind me will alert me to this fact, and I’ll be able to make the green light, even if the people behind me don’t.
Watching traffic and the stoplight, so that I can go when the light turns green.
You meet a person who is generally the type of person you like to interact with. You start to get to know them, and you find them interesting, intelligent, and likable. Then you find out from a third party that they believe in something not currently supported by science (religion, spirituality, FTL travel, ghosts, mole men, whatever) but NOT what it is (or are) or to what extent. How does this affect your opinion of this person?
Best feature film in which Tom Hanks’s character survives a plane crash?
Cast Away
Sully
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Ah, but does the controlled emergency ditching of an airliner, as attempted in Sully, really count as a plane crash?
yes
no
only if it results in significant damage or casualties
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Best feature film in which Harrison Ford’s character survives a plane crash?
Six Days, Seven Nights
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Air Force One
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Ah, but does it really count as surviving a crash if, as in Temple of Doom and Air Force One, you escape from the plane shortly before it hits the ground?
You have won three separate 7-day all-expenses paid vacations to any of the cities listed below. You may travel any time within the next three years, one one-week trip each year. You may take one other person with you. You cannot double or triple-up on any city. You are free to travel outside of the city during your vacation, but you must return and stay every night within your chosen city. Select up to three cities (or fewer), or “none of the above”. Public poll.
You buy some used clothes from a reputable thrift store. They state that all of the clothing was thoroughly cleaned before being put out for sale. Do you wash the clothing anyway?
Option A: The world as we know it, pregnancy and infant and toddler stage
Option B: A world where there is no pregnancy, and instead you simply “spawn” kids at will, but with a 9-month notice period - you get to have your kids appear at whatever point of development you want. You can skip the baby stage and just have your kids be 4-year olds or 9-year olds at the very outset, capable of speaking or walking as they would normally.
You do not get to choose anything else about your kid, though (their gender, appearance, disability, personality, etc. is just as unpredictable as real life.)
The normal world as we know it
The world where you get to skip pregnancy, infancy, and bypass to whatever age you want your kids to be