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[heidi]

A two-part poll inspired by a question from wendywoowho. A lot of us presume that people have experienced things we take for granted, whether it's food, modes of transportation, or tasks of day to day life. So I'm wondering, and I'm going to post the aggregated information sometime late next week. Please, feel free to pimp! The poll is in two parts, so the first part won't show y our answers to anyone but me, and the second part is 100% public - what you post will be accessable for everyone to see.
[Poll #605068]

[Poll #605069]

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Maybe at Lumos? Of course, quidditch on hot air balloons is probably impossible...

Comments

[go-back-chief.livejournal.com]

Heh, very interesting.

[todaydream.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I feel so stupid for misreading 'What haven't you done?' for 'What have you done?'... sorry for messing up your poll!

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

You can retake it...

[sandy-phoenix.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing!

[brandifer.livejournal.com]

OOOH, goody! I'm not the only one, yay! :)

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

Hee! I took your poll idea from your comment... it's that sort of day. The "use the poll feature" day.

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

I want to fly in a hot air balloon, really badly. :(

[longtimegone]

Clearly, our next fandom gathering needs to involve hot air balloon rides.

[smilie117.livejournal.com]

I agree - as around 93% of those who answered have not done so - now that would be interesting ;)

*hasn't done so*

[misscake]

Well, actually, what we should do is a hot air balloon ride around the world that takes at least a year and involes at least a short cruise during a Kwanzaa celebration.

[smilie117.livejournal.com]

Hhaha - that would take care of the hot air balloon, the cruise (though I've been on one! :D), see a Kwanza candle display in person and maybe for some, leave the country of your birth for more than a year

That'd be ambitious but fun though I don't think I have that much time off XD ;)

[sandy-phoenix.livejournal.com]

It would be great to do hot air balloons at Lumos, but I don't think you can. Too hot. The air in the balloon has to be hotter than the surrounding air and in Vegas in July, I'm thinking that won't be the case. Bummer.

You'd think that living in Arizona all my life, I'd have ridden in a balloon by now, but I haven't. Wow. I guess I know what I really ought to be doing this winter.

[nyourdrms.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea!! We should talk it up!!

Makes me feel old, I've done everything *g*

[wednesdayschild.livejournal.com]

Left the country of your birth for more than a year

This is sort of ambiguous--do you mean 'have you lived abroad for a year or more', or 'has it been more than a year since you last left your country of birth'?

[labellerose.livejournal.com]

Well. Not as boring as I think I am, evidently. I still would like that hot-air balloon ride, though. :)

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Ack, I've almost lived outside the country of my birth for a year. I missed it by just under three weeks. :)

[siyahsaclikiz.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't seen a Christmas tree in person because at home if we have trees they are not Christmas trees, they are New Year's trees - and I have seen those, but technically they're not Christmas trees.

[in-a-tizzy.livejournal.com]

Oops. I misread it as things you HAVE done. Sorry.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Hot-air-balloon Quidditch: only really possible if you're prepared for a game to take days, I reckon, simply because hot air balloons are so much better at travelling downwind than in other directions. There's always the possibility of moving the balloon once it gets onto the ground. The bludgers might be other hot air balloons; contact between balloons would indicate a bludger hit.

The Snitch would doubtless be a remote-controlled aeroplane. One imagines that the winning tactic for a seeker would be to parachute out of the balloon and grab the remote-controlled-aeroplane Snitch on the way back to the ground.

Of course, now you've got me thinking about powered parachute Quidditch. Instead of players having to buy their own brooms, they'd have to buy their own powered parachutes. 14+ powered parachutes, at least three days of practice per player plus hire of an airfield for a day: I think you could do the whole lot for about $500,000. If you're hiring the powered parachutes instead of buying new ones, perhaps half that.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I just want SEGWAY Quidditch. Very, very badly.
And now that one can rent SEGWAYS....

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

That's true! All summer there was a business renting them to tourists on Eakins Oval, opposite the Art Museum. You don't know how funny it is to see tourists SEGWAYing up to the Liberty Bell pavilion and park security checking them out...

[hedwig-snowy.livejournal.com]

And I thought my idea of having Roller-blading Quidditch was too dangerous!!! Think it might cost 1/2 a Mil in insurance alone! LOL

[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

Doesn't everyone sing in public?

[nyourdrms.livejournal.com]

I was surprised so many people haven't eaten popcorn with sugar on it. No kettle corn in your parts???

*cackles*

My thoughts exactly

[piperx.livejournal.com]

Or Cracker Jacks? Or Fiddle Faddle?

That makes me sad.

Re: My thoughts exactly

[nyourdrms.livejournal.com]

Maybe they were just thinking popcorn with straight up sugar on it . . . *shrugs*


yummmmmm fiddle faddle Homer moment

Re: My thoughts exactly

[piperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're probably right. Maybe Heidi can provide some clarification on this hotly contested and vitally important item. ;)

[siyahsaclikiz.livejournal.com]

At home, popcorn was just a movie-going food, and was always plain (i.e. no butter). Now it's changing in some parts, but for the majority of people it still is that way. The first time I saw sweet popcorn was when I came to the US, and my initial reaction was "Ewwww!" because I really had never thought such a thing would exist, let alone taste good - popcorn, by default, needed to be salty. Nowadays you can find that stuff at home too, but it is by no means what I'd call "common". I've got to say, I haven't been to a whole lot of places, but it seemed to me that it's more of an American thing to have sweet popcorn.

[story645.livejournal.com]

I live in NY, so I think I have an unfair disadvantage,

[ashesofautumn.livejournal.com]

Huh. I never really thought about it like that. Makes me feel like I've done a lot, since I checked only three. :)

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

Not appropos of this post, but it's good to hear about the Wyrd Sisters decision. You may want to edit your post a wee bit, though, to change "tennant" to "tenet."

[schnoogle.livejournal.com]

Since last filling it out I've eaten sushi, ordered something online (in fact, ordered LOTS of things online, including the Eee PC I'm typing this on), quit a job, been to see a classical music concert, and met a politician running for office (though only at local council level).

The main bit of my fill-in-the-blank is still true, but the parenthetical part isn't.

I can't figure out why I had the popcorn items checked, because I'd definitely done both last time I filled it out...