The Random-Poll thread

[Carol the Dabbler]

If all one's shirts were exactly the same, it wouldn't matter which was which. And if they were all noticeably different, it'd be easy to tell at a glance. The problem would be if they were all similar (e.g., all white) but not identical.

 

Regarding books, books printed in different countries have different conventions for which way the title is printed on the spine. European books drive me nuts, because if I shelve them so I can read the title when I'm skimming down a row of mostly-American books, the book itself will be upside-down!

[Arcadia]

I started to type "OMG, all my books face right too!" when I suddenly realized of course they do, (except for the occasional oddball), because that's how they're designed!
 
All my shoes are straight in. When they're not scattered all over the house, that is.
 
I try to keep all my pencils point down in my pencil holders, so I don't jab myself on them. But I try to keep my ink pens point up, because I was told the ink is less likely to clog if I do it that way.
 
Isn't this fascinating oh gawd will the hiatus never end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

My clothes that are hung face every which way because I have hangars that face both ways and can't have the direction change without some crazy hanging. Although my long stuff is on the right as that is the harder to reach part of the closet. I haven't noticed any of my books being oddballs in the direction of the text on the spine.

 

All of the pens in my pencil case face with the tips the same way in case of leaks. Since I have multiple types of pens they look like they are facing every which way like my closet.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I'm too sleepy to reply threads.

So.... my answer in italic. Yours?

This hiatus.. I try what I can. :p

 

Coffee or tea or others?

Tea. Plain. Green.

 

Sunrise or sunset?

Both

 

Early bird or night owl?

Both

 

Cats or Dogs or Others?

Dogs

 

Sleep. How many hours?

5-6 hours.

Very rarely but able to hibernate 12 hours once in a blue moon.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Coffee or tea or others?

Water or goat milk, occasionally juice or herb tea.

 

Sunrise or sunset?

Watching, you mean? Either/both, when I get the chance.

 

Early bird or night owl?

Feel best if neither, but left to my own devices, tend toward night owl.

 

Cats or Dogs or Others?

Cats! But dogs are nice too.

 

Sleep. How many hours?

Nine, when I get it regularly. Twelve if I'm catching up.

[Amber§]

Tea, coffee very rarely, only mixed with milk (cappuccino).

 

Sunrise and sunset are both very beautiful even if so different: sunrise is the start of a new day, it brings hope and peace, I think. Sunset is the end of the day and it always makes me a bit melanchonic.

 

Night owl. I love the night.

 

Cats, dogs are too...messy

 

At least 8 hours, if I sleep less than 8 hours I'm like a zombie (to be honest, if I sleep 3-4 hours, the day after I'm like.....wacky )

[Arcadia]

Coffee or tea or others?
Coffee (decaf) in the morning, tea (herbal) the rest of the time.

Sunrise or sunset?
Both

Early bird or night owl?
Neither.

Cats or Dogs or Others?
Cats, but I love all animals.

Sleep. How many hours?
4-9. Struggle with insomnia.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Drink: water, hot chocolate and occasionally juice

 

Sun: both however I'm more likely to see a sunset

 

Night Owl with the occasional early bird

 

Both cats & dogs

 

Sleep: 6-8 plus naps

[T.o.b.y]

Coffee or tea or others?

 

Sunrise or sunset?

 

Early bird or night owl?

 

Cats or Dogs or Others?

 

Sleep. How many hours?

 

Coffee and tea. Tea of every kind. I drink little else. Am trying to reduce my caffeine intake at the moment. It's... difficult.

 

Sunrise because I need to get up early to go to work, sunset because my balcony faces west. I like both.

 

Neither early bird nor night owl. On an ideal day, I would get up between 7 and 8 and go to bed around 11. On a typical day, I wake up at 5 and go to sleep around midnight.

 

Dogs! I love dogs. Dogs usually like me, too. Cats, not so much. (Our cat mostly hated me. She didn't want any nasty little children in her territory).

 

Ideally, I would sleep at least 7 hours a night. Usually, it's more around 5.

 

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

I like the variety of sleeping time we have. Still have not conclude how many hours we actually need to sleep, I guess it depends specifically for each person.

 

Sometimes I decided to go to bed earlier but can't sleep, sometimes I thought I still have 'waking' time left and drop unconscious while watching or reading something until the next morning. Sometimes I wake up between midnight and dawn feeling fresh and do something else instead of sleeping. I guess I could never tell my body what I want it to do.

 

Used to have insomnia when I was younger, but my uni demanded a lot of sleep time sacrifice that I lost it (and wish I had it then).

[T.o.b.y]

:lol: Yeah, insomnia never seems to strike when you need it to.

[Arcadia]

I only pulled one all-nighter in college. The next day, I survived my morning classes okay, but in the afternoon I had a lecture class. I sat there, attempting to look alert and dutifully taking notes. When the class was over I looked at my notes; they were complete gibberish. Real words, but in no particular order. I'd fallen asleep with my eyes open and kept writing, evidently! To this day I have no idea what subject we covered in that session. Something to do with typefaces. :D
 
That class was memorable for other reasons, though; first of all, the instructor was more than a little inappropriate with his female students, who he clearly thought had no business learning how to use a printing press. And second of all, within a few years, the advent of computers completely negated every single thing I managed to learn from the jerk anyway.

[Carol the Dabbler]

When you said "inappropriate," I first took it to mean overly friendly. But judging by the rest of the sentence -- more like openly hostile?

[Arcadia]

A little of both. I remember him remarking how he'd like to see my breasts jiggle when I shook a can of paint, for example. Another time he out and out said girls shouldn't operate machinery because they were too weak. Nothing hands on, but I was always uncomfortable around him. These days, I would probably say something to admin, but back then we just thought we had to take it.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I remember him remarking how he'd like to see my breasts jiggle when I shook a can of paint....

Eeeww!

 

Another time he out and out said girls shouldn't operate machinery because they were too weak.

Well, were you able to operate the machinery without hurting yourself? Seems like that should have settled the issue, one way or the other, rather than relying on someone's idea of how things "ought" to be.

[Arcadia]

He thought he was being funny. No, correct that ... he pretended he thought he was being funny. I'm pretty sure he knew we didn't appreciate it. And yes, we all handled the machines just fine, and without any help from the boys. In fact, I turned out to be a whiz on the letterpress. (Not so much the offset press, though; never did get all the adjustments set correctly at one time. :( Not because I was weak, but because I kept forgetting a step. No wonder computers took over.... )

[Carol the Dabbler]

He thought he was being funny. No, correct that ... he pretended he thought he was being funny. I'm pretty sure he knew we didn't appreciate it.

There's a very fine line between humor and ridicule.

 

One fellow I used to work with had a very dry sense of humor. One day I came into the office whistling a little tune. Tom looked up with a "can't fool me" expression, said "Girls can't whistle," then immediately went back to his work. This cracked me up, because I knew that he was intentionally contradicting what he was obviously hearing. But I can imagine someone else saying roughly the same thing, and it being a slam.

[Van Buren Supernova]

@sleep

Uni time, we always had these big things at the end of semester that took weeks and months to prepare. Closer to the end, those who didn't have facilities at home, would almost literally stay in the uni. In the morning you would see us walking around carrying toiletries. My hostel was walking distance away, at least I had proper shower and all, but spent nights with barely two hours sleep or no sleep especially days to deadline.

 

A friend brought his drum set, so when everyone started to pass out, someone would play something 'nice'. I brought my magic boiler, literally a plastic jug with two piece of metal, but it was a treasure, to make cereal, noodles, coffee or tea. I also bought sleeping bag, some others bought yoga mats, radio. It was homy. See, we have kitchen, bedroom and entertainment room.

Horrible times, but I love it and miss it actually. Studying is more fun than working. Hah..

 

@whistle

Same here. I am a whistler and get surprise reactions from men, but statistically proven, those who comment can't whistle. It's our fault, we are hurting their fragile prides.

[Van Buren Supernova]

@sexist teacher/similar

Sigh.. I've encountered great teachers and terrible ones.

 

There are three worst; one sexist the other two are creeps. (Should I say this in past tense? Not sure if they are dead yet. And facts are always present tense rite? English, sigh..)

 

The sexist one conduct bag search, found a maxi pad in my friend's bag, and tore it to pieces in front of everyone. We were around 12 I guess.

I can't make sense of why he did that, I guess he never knew human anatomy. That idiot taught history.

 

Another one taught moral, or I guess it's something about moral and patriotism or something. His favorite teaching style was to ask female students to read from the book. He would stand behind those students he picked, and peeked at cleavage while we were reading. We found out about that and spread the words. Every female students, especially his usual targets, would button up the top until the neck at his classes. (hey is that why John buttons up sometimes? :p)

 

Third one, I don't know how to say this. He is a 'Father', church term. Our high school teaches in Catholic style (don't know the term), we have a nice church that is part of the school. I stayed at the skirt of another town, so I had to arrive school very early or got stuck in traffic and late.

 

So some mornings I like to spend time sitting in the church and reading. It's nice, quiet, and sometimes I just wanted to escape those overly lazy classmates who liked to copy my assignments or noisy situation before the class started.

 

Every morning there was a mass conducted at far corner of the church with quite few attendees. The church was big enough, sometimes I followed the whole mass sitting just behind in the mass area but most times I sit far away doing my own things. After the mass, if this father was the one who lead it, he would then stand on the entrance and gave blessings. He was so called the highest rank father and most respected, I thought.

 

One day, I thought what the heck, I had a lot of things in mind about home and school I decided to ask for blessing too right after the others. People did that, so it must be good, yes? He gave me blessing, put a cross sign on my forehead and kissed me. On my forehead, which maybe seems like no big deal. But it's not a friggin norm there. And he didn't do it for everyone else. (Eventually I found him only did on selected few and it was always when there were no other people around)

Maybe it's a normal practice somewhere else? But not here! And he didn't have foreign blood or culture or upbringing. Anyway, he was a creepy shit. I pushed him but didn't know what to do or whether I overreacted. But when I compared stories, I heard other things about him, and everyone thinks he is a creep too. And that was, my effing first kiss.

[Arcadia]

I'd be surprised if there's a woman alive that doesn't have at least one story like that. It's depressing if you allow yourself to think too much about it.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Wonder if the guys don't have their own equivalent stories, though. (I've heard a few, and those are presumably just the tip of the iceberg, because I doubt that most men would share such matters with their female friends.) Not that it makes things any less creepy, but at least it's better in a misery-loves-company sort of way.

[Pseudonym]

Another one taught moral, or I guess it's something about moral and patriotism or something. His favorite teaching style was to ask female students to read from the book. He would stand behind those students he picked, and peeked at cleavage while we were reading. We found out about that and spread the words. Every female students, especially his usual targets, would button up the top until the neck at his classes. (hey is that why John buttons up sometimes? :P)

 

Yup, he's sick of Sherlock looking down his shirt and leering ;)

 

A bit late but still...

 

Coffee or tea or others?

Tea, black, no milk or sugar. 

 

Sunrise or sunset?

Sunset

 

Early bird or night owl?

Night owl, when I'm not working my natural bedtime is 7am.  

 

Cats or Dogs or Others?

Cats

 

Sleep. How many hours?

4 or 5 usually. Though sometimes I can barely sleep for days on end and end up passing out for a crazy amount of time. I think 15 hours is my record and it felt like I'd just blinked. 

 

And yup, pretty sure everyone has a pervy story, it's when you get someone being inappropriate on a bus or train is the worst because you're kind of trapped. 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Wonder if the guys don't have their own equivalent stories, though. (I've heard a few, and those are presumably just the tip of the iceberg, because I doubt that most men would share such matters with their female friends.)

You mean guys who are in the receiving end of pervy attitudes?

 

Actually I don't really share this stuffs in real life either, unless I feel the need to warn someone who are at risk or someone comes to me with similar story.

 

Mostly because I let it pass since they didn't damage me psychologically, except making me have trust issues but I am always like that anyway. Because as you guys said, creeps and pervs are everywhere, either by actions or verbal, except when they cross too many lines. They are cautionary tales and normally I keep watch on those people.

But of course, I challenge them now when anyone try to be funny.

[Van Buren Supernova]

@Pseud 4 to 5 hours, is it enough for you? Because I try to find justification for myself (I am always told that my 5-6 is inadequate but I am fine).

 

 

Some other random pool? I have just finished a work and gathering my mood to start others. It's urgent but meh..

 

- What nice thing people say about you that you are surprised/disagree/unsure with?

 

- What nice thing you think you have but people kind of don't appreciate/acknowledge/find that good?

 

- What not so good trait you have?

 

- Emergency situation. An accident is about to happen with at least 200 casualties but you can save them if you press a button. But by pressing this button, someone is going to die. Would you do it? You have to be the one to press it.

(I read this briefly somewhere, can't remember where and exact scenario but somewhere along this line)

 

There. Have fun with hiatus. :p

[Carol the Dabbler]

 

Wonder if the guys don't have their own equivalent stories, though. (I've heard a few, and those are presumably just the tip of the iceberg, because I doubt that most men would share such matters with their female friends.)

You mean guys who are in the receiving end of pervy attitudes?

Right. If the few guys who've confided in me are at all typical, it's not just us gals who have to watch out.