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In my local seat the two parties who most stand a chance of winning there have:

• A rebellious incumbent MP who votes against his party (usually in the direction I'd want), but whose party I don't want in power.
• A local councillor for the party I'd like to see in, who doesn't really impress me with his literature, and website (and hasn't replied to an email from 5 days ago asking why I should vote for him).

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1) Hypothesis: You should chew your food thirty times before swallowing.
Experiment:
Split a bottle of sink de-clogger between 4 glasses, and cut a steak into bite sized chunks and split between 4 bags.
i) Empty 1 bag into a glass.
ii) Hit 1 bag with a tenderiser 10 times before emptying it into a glass.
iii) Hit 1 bag with a tenderiser 30 times before emptying it into a glass.
vi) Hit 1 bag with a tenderiser 50 times before emptying it into a glass.
After 4 hours sieve and weigh the remaining solids.
Expected Results:
i) Lots left.
ii) Some left.
iii) Little left.
iv) Not too different from iii)

2) Hypothesis: People can't divine for metal.
Experiment:
Stolen from Dawkins.
Experimenter 1 places a metal object under a small fraction of a number of buckets, records this, and leaves.
Experimenter 2, without meeting Experimenter 1 leads the diviner into the room, and lets them test each bucket with divining sticks, and records the result.
The experimenters results are compared.
Expected results:
The number of buckets whose contents are correctly identified is not significantly higher than would be expected if the selection was at random (this number to be determined before the experiment starts).

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[Poll #1471551]

( Reason for poll )

I went up to the roof at lunch time yesterday, and took some photos of London. I have a whole slew of photo accounts out there on the internet, but realised I didn't really want to upload the photos to any of them. That and thinking about how to deal with crossposting to scratch_uk lead to this poll:

[Poll #1468489]

{ETA: Oops you can't you edit polls for speeling.}

[Poll #1458768]

{ETA: Missed the obvious final ticky box: No medium is sacred, change away!}

[Poll #1454361]

Aside: I tend to give my polls male names concept (stolen from offensive_mango) with extremely tenuous connections to the subject matter. Bet you can't figure this one out.
In this case Poll about conversations, so needs someone who talks a lot, maybe a politician who filibusters. Ooh, that's good. Phil I Buster.

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[Poll #1360044]

Just wondering if there's generally a correlation.

I tend to keep my computer files tidier, as I have more storage space. I can always add another directory, but adding another bit of storage to your house is more complicated.

Tetris LARP:
The act of shuffling boxes around to make space while unpacking.

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[Poll #1269641]

No cheating and looking up the answers (Even though there is a really spiffing Venn diagram).

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[Poll #1269642]