So I bought a new kitchen timer...

In light of the my previous post, I am now awaiting the results with great interest. What do YOU think will happen?

Poll TimerEDIT: In the final option, "something unforeseen" was intended to "something which you (i.e. me) haven't foreseen and listed above, but which I will suggest in comments," hence all my wibbling ( Read more... )

Okay. Imagine that you've been told to wave a hankie above your head in a circular motion - i.e. a bit like the way you'd mime using a lasso, minus the need to throw it at the end. Have a go now, using your right hand. (The hankie can be imaginary.) Don't think about it, just do it however feels natural.

( Question under the cut )

( Rant about potentially unsafe modes of traffic calming )

Poll Doormats

Apparently it's Children's Book Week this week. I'd failed to register this fact. (Oops!) To celebrate it, Booktrust have produced a list of their 100 "best" children's books of the last 100 years, 25 per age group, and asking people to vote for their favourites. This has prompted quite a lot a thinking and debating at work ( Read more... )

We went to see The Hobbit last night. For context: I love all three Lord of the Rings movies, enough to watch them 3 or 4 times each in the cinema, and to watch pretty much every single extra on the extended edition DVDs. I do have niggles, but they're mostly aesthetic - green, sploshy Dead with their popcorn skulls, unfeasibly enormous elephants, ( Read more... )

Inspired by talk about pints and litres in my previous post, here is a rather enormous load of polls about weights and measures. I do have a vague feeling that someone on my Friends list once did something similar, but if they did, I can't remember who, so definitely can't track down the poll, so can't see what the answers were.

( Weight and measures: many polls )

I've been thinking about 3D films again. A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I'd gone to see The Three Musketeers in 2D, and found the picture quality rather bad. Since I wanted to make a comparison, I ended up going to see it in 3D a week later. This was only my second 3D film, the first being Toy Story 3. I really wasn't all that impressed. I think ( Read more... )

I need resolution to some terminal dithering. Which cider pun should I use for my next Booze Banner? The aim of the banners is to make people chuckle, but the slogans also need to be easily illustratable in felt. Simple stylised images in only one or two colours are easy; realistic-looking human figures are very hard indeed. (See examples here, out ( Read more... )

When you were a child, what was the main method you used to decide who was "it" in a game? Just curious...

(Will add mine when not typing laboriously on a phone.)