Poll: clean?
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OK. So I get home. Want to 'compute'. Actually, 'want' to do sysadmin stuff to keep the laptop up and running so homework can be done and grades checked.
"Family, where is the laptop?"
"...under the chair..."
"Family, where is the mouse?"
"...dunno..."
"Family, it has little power, where is the charger?"
"...in the toybox, right there."
"..and the 3-prong converter doohicky?"
"...??... the kitchen outlets are grounded."Thanks.
So. How neat and clean are your homes, houses, flats or caves?
- I was the set designer for THX1138
- TLAgency and I have a deal - they can poke around but they have to vacuum and dust
- Laundry? That's what overstock.com is for, right?
- No problem, Mom keeps the place really tidy.
- Place is perfect - Fred Sanford[1] was my grandfather.
- No problem, I move or am evicted every few months.
- Those NBA dudes with dogs... who just replace the carpets every few weeks,... because they can.
- FILE_NOT_FOUND: no really, where is the dang file?
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I don't understand the poll options.
I'm pretty close to the "clean freak" end of the spectrum. My apartment is well-organized and generally clean, and somehow this surprises everyone in my family.
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Gotta admit. I was stumped for clean-ish options.
Figured THX-1138 and "Intel comes to my house to make IC's" were pretty close to each other.
But, srsly, why would you take the 3-prong converter off of the cable? Why.
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Gotta admit. I was stumped for clean-ish options.
"I don't own dishes because I can safely eat off the floor" would have been clearer than the THX1138 reference. But that's just me.
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Nice.
But, oh, look, can't edit the options. (But I knew that).
Maybe we'll get clean.v2.Obviously, mostly, I wanted to vent.
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The poll needs a Standard Bachelor option (tidy but not clean).
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Is there such thing as a Standard Bachelor? I have bachelor friends whose houses are such that there are tiny walkways to the important areas with chest-deep junk piles on either side.
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Is there such thing as a Standard Bachelor? I have bachelor friends whose houses are such that there are tiny walkways to the important areas with chest-deep junk piles on either side.
Good point. So we actually need two options:
- Divorced Bachelor: tidy but not clean
- Never-married Bachelor: enter at your own risk
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Personally I think bachelor status is a non-sequitur.
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[x] - Next time, make sure to "clean up" those poll options, hehehe.
Seriously, I'm a slob. It's not that I like it that way, I just don't hate it enough to invest the effort.
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My husband the grad student cleans while I'm at work :)
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i'm not sure which way to read this, but i like both ways i thought of.
Your husband, a grad student, cleans while @Yamikuronue is at work.
or
Your husband is cleaned by a grad student while @Yamikuronue is at work.
i like both options!
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Nonsense. One of those options is clearly a sentence fragment :)
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edited so that there is no more sentence fragment (in the options)
better?
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I think there's a legit grammar that would get us to:
"your husband cleans the grad student?"
French, or Italian, maybe.
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"My husband, who is a grad student, cleans the house while I'm at work"
vs
"My husband, who is cleaned by the grad student while I'm at work, OH GOD THERE'S NO ENDING TO THIS SENTENCE! FIRE AND MAYHEM!"
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OH GOD THERE'S NO ENDING TO THIS SENTENCE! FIRE AND MAYHEM!"
which is a perfectly good end to a sentence in my book.
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The real wtf are these poll options.
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The real wtf are these poll options.
Admittedly.
Still want the mouse back.
Also, if you've got options, let's hear them.
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Good point. So we actually need two options:
Divorced Bachelor: tidy but not clean
Never-married Bachelor: enter at your own riskOr if you have are married with a toddler: Clean, but nowhere near tidy. Our house is clean, but there are fucking toys everywhere at almost all times. For rare occasions our house might be clean and tidy from 9PM (after the boy goes to bed) until 8AM (when he gets up).
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@Intercourse said:
Or if you have are married with a toddler:
Now his training begins. < /Darth Vader>Honestly. Now.
Now is too late. Train him to pick up.
If he doesn't, you will end up writing inscrutable polls on whatever passes for the internet in 2030.
If well he learns, he may find himself cleaning grad students instead.
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He "helps", but toddlers can only do so much, and only so quickly.
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Wise, then, you are. Continue.
Subtle protip: he is "doing" - you are "helping". (And defining what to do.)
(This helps him and you.)
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grammer is not my speciality.
that's why i'm a progrommer!
Also for the record all those spelling errors in this post were intentional, i actually had to edit them to be misspelled.
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pogrommer.
only in my spare time, and i haven't got any of that in years. (incentive to keep me employed!)
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I tried to select "THX1138" (as in, highlight the text with my mouse), so I could google it. Discourse interpreted that as an intention to vote so, and I'm too lazy to change it.
As for my place - I'd say mostly tidy and mostly clean. Roombas turn out to be very incompatible with random piles of stuff on the floor, and having a mostly clean floor but a not clean everything-else causes some sort of aesthetic imbalance, so there's an incentive to keep up with the Roomba and clean the rest.
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Divorced Bachelor: tidy but not clean
Never-married Bachelor: enter at your own riskDivorced Bachelor: enter at your own risk
My house gets (semi-)cleaned once a year when my kids come to visit, with an occasional panic-tidy if my landlord comes by.
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I have difficulty keeping my place clean, mainly because the kids mess it up behind me as I go around cleaning.
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Mostly clean. We have two dogs, so never-ending hair. My wife doesn't clean much, and considers the floor a perfectly valid spot to store anything.
We've had arguments about this.
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who won the arguments?
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no one
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no one
I other words: your wife. If no one wins, the status quo continues. Thus, the one who gets to continue their behavior is the de facto winner.
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Ehhh, I work to modify her behavior. She's a college teacher, so she always has piles of papers on the floor. We don't have enough room at our current place to have a full-sized desk, so I'm going to just get a bunch of those stackable letter trays.
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For convenient desktop organization
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considers the floor a perfectly valid spot to store anything.
Floor == biggest shelf in your apartment. Thus this seems to be a reasonable place to store things to me.
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When it's everywhere in the living room and the dining area, it's not acceptable.
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Ehhh, I work to modify her behavior
What you described is weak. If you want to actually succeed, pick up the piles of paper and put them on her side of the bed.
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I suggest getting a Roomba or equivalent. I can attest to it not leaving papers on the floor unmolested. For bonus points, get a model that comes with the timer, so it can be set up to automatically molest papers daily, when nobody is at home.
(Not sure if it will prevent further arguments, though. Probably not.)
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(Not sure if it will prevent further arguments, though. Probably not.)
LOL. No, it will simply change the form of the argument, after the first mangling.
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What you described is weak. If you want to actually succeed, pick up the piles of paper and put them on her side of the bed.
That failed. Her behavior remained unchanged.
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I suggest getting a Roomba or equivalent. I can attest to it not leaving papers on the floor unmolested. For bonus points, get a model that comes with the timer, so it can be set up to automatically molest papers daily, when nobody is at home.
(Not sure if it will prevent further arguments, though. Probably not.)
Yeah, that would end very, very poorly.
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We have two dogs, so never-ending hair.
This. So. Much. This!
considers the floor a perfectly valid spot to store anything.
Any flat surface is a perfectly valid spot to store anything. Even non-flat surfaces are valid storage locations if the slope does not exceed the angle of repose.
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Yeah, that would end very, very poorly.
ROFL. You'd win the argument, though.
Oh, you might not get her to stop leaving stuff on the floor, but you'd have the satisfaction of knowing you won!
As you slept on the couch or whatever.
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Even non-flat surfaces are valid storage locations if the slope does not exceed the angle of repose.
And if it does, you can try rearranging the stuff that's already there, or add shims.
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