Poll Ideas

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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Please post your poll ideas here.

Thanks,

Jeff
jeff@oriented.org
http://taiwanstuff.tripod.com

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  1. Best Lasagna in Taipei.
  2. Worst Chain School in Taiwan.
  3. Best way to impress the Chinese mother in law.
  4. The way I discipline my students.
  5. Taiwan beer or tap water.
  6. The way I react to the toilet door knock.
  7. How many years before I wear my jacket backwards on the scooter.
  8. If Mainland China were on the way over, what would it take for you to travel with China Airlines?

Jeff, there’s a few, btw we’ll get around to that drink one of these day’s.

Cheers Amos.

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quote:
Originally posted by amos: 1) Best Lasagna in Taipei. 2) Worst Chain School in Taiwan. 3) Best way to impress the Chinese mother in law. 4) The way I discipline my students. 5) Taiwan beer or tap water. 6) The way I react to the toilet door knock. 7) How many years before I wear my jacket backwards on the scooter.

/ plastic flip flops outside in the rain

3yrs

/ plastic flip flops in the rain even when riding geared motorbike

3.5yrs

  1. Thinking Taiwan Beer tastes great

2yrs

  1. Chewing binglang

2 mths

  1. Forming an opinion on whether double-centred binglangs are really worth the extra

3yrs

  1. Learning to successfully ask for double-centred binglangs at the binglang tanzi without resorting to sign language

never

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Dreams:

First dream of students standing at the foot of your bed.

First dream in Mandarin or Taiwanese or any other “foreign” language.

First dream/nightmare of standing at the whiteboard with nothing to say.

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quote:
Originally posted by wwwright: Dreams:

First dream of students standing at the foot of your bed.

First dream in Mandarin or Taiwanese or any other “foreign” language.

First dream/nightmare of standing at the whiteboard with nothing to say.

Am I on Tealit?

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How about a poll on polls?
(This was inspired by our GMs demand on a meeting recently to hold a meeting to discuss how to hold meetings…)

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These polls are a good idea if people respond to them. I have asked that they be put on the Monday e-mail bulletin so that 2,000+ people would have a chance to be polled, but I assume that this is beyond the technical abilities of the admin people or is due to limitations of the Oriented site itself.
Having a poll with only a dozen responses is meaningless.

“I am staying in Taiwan because…”

a] I am studing Chinese
b] I am studinging Chinese women/men
c] I have a nice ex-pat package and a maid
d] I am pretending to teach English
e] I have a non-teaching, non-ex pat job
f] I am married to a local and what can I say?
g] I am addicted to eating lotus
h] Prison life isn’t so bad

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LOL!!!

Wolf, the polls have limitations in the set up, so you’re right, they seem a bit silly, really, don’t they?

I like yours, although none of the answers apply to me personally. But maybe that’s why polls (or questionnaires in general) are so crap in the first place. Like Cosmopolitan magazine quizzes…but without the scoring.

I guess none of the moderators have taken the liberty to create zany polls like yours, but then we’re not expected to be provocative, are we? God forbid we abuse our poll creating rights…

Tsk tsk, the dang things are tempting, for some odd reason.
If the poll function were available to all members, then it might just become a forum of dumb polls.

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Here is a poll from the Taipei City Government

On-line Vote
Do you like Taiwan?

No
Yes
very much
I don’t know

Bet they hired some big thinkers to come up with that one…

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  1. Why are you in Taiwan?
  • to learn Mandarin
  • Job and exposure
  • for the money
  • to experience a different culture
  • Married here
  • Others
  1. Should scooters be banned?
  • Yes
  • Dunno
  • No
  1. Should scooters be banned from parking on the sidewalk?
  • Absolutely, because they obstruct pedestrians
  • Yes, but alternative parking must be provided
  • No, where else should they park?

More later …

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poll ideas

  1. how many times per day do you catch yourself saying “I can’t belive that (driver/pedestrian/kid/teacher/politician) just did that”?
  2. how many times per day “Man! That is sooo dangerous”?
    3)how many times per day “F*cking scooter freak”?
  3. how many times per day do you tell a taiwanese “You can speak Chinese to me ya know”?

wait, are polls designed to be negative? never mind…