Friday's Unscientific Poll: Most romantic

[nanila]

Last night I couldn't sleep because of this nasty throat infection, so I went downstairs to complain to the bloke about it.

He had hooked a Raspberry Pi up to the television and was staring moodily at several open terminal windows.

"Sorry honey," he said. "Want to help me debug my Python code? It'll take your mind off it."
"....Okay," I said.

An hour and a half and some successfully sorted code later, we retired jubilantly to bed.

Where we spent an additional half-hour catching Pokémon and comparing Pokédexes.*

We totally win at romance. But the question is, which of these things is MOST romantic?

Poll #17584 Most romantic

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It is most romantic to XXX in bed, where XXX ==

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debug Python code
27 (61.4%)

compare Pokédexes
17 (38.6%)

* Both of us have Pokéstops at our workplaces. Mine is the bust of Huxley (Thomas Henry, not Aldous) in the lobby of my building, and his is a plaque out on the quad. London and Birmingham campuses seem to produce favourable conditions for orthogonal sets of Pokémon, so we had much Pokédex envy to express.

Comments

[nadriel]

I don't do Pokemon, but I do do code, so clearly one answer works for me more :P

[vi]

+1, except the reverse - I don't do code! :D

[angrboda]

I chose Pokedexes because I know how to do that. :p I assume the other option is not something to do with removing parasites from a large secret snake. :p

[nanila]

Good to hear you are untroubled by the absence of ticky boxes! :D

[nanila]

No, but it'd probably be about as much fun to someone who didn't like writing code!

[major_clanger]

It was a difficult one because I think both are equally endearingly romantic! But I plumped for Pokemon-related cuteness as in theory there's a wider range of opportunities to indulge in it.

[redsixwing]

^
I went this way, too.

I also find Pokemon a much more enjoyable thing than debugging Python, although conquering a challenge together is also romantic. :D

[nanila]

Good point! I look forward to future indulgence. :D

[cxcvi]

I don't Python that much, but I'm pretty sure that Sophie and I were writing Asterisk scripts together in bed at one point.

[pbristow]

"Comparing Pokédexes" sounds a bit like "playing doctor", so I'm gonna go with that. =;o}

[quoththeravyn]

So an e-friend is the social media maven for a small chain of restaurants, one of which turned out to be a nexus in the poke-world (or whatever you call it). So she was texting her boss, trying to teach him the rudiments of the game.

Best line from that conversation:

"Should we advertise the aardvark?"

[nanila]

Awwww. :D

[nanila]

You can certainly use the phrase, "I'll show you mine if you show me yours", so there you go!

[nanila]

Fantastic. Our local church is a gym. I can understand it being a Pokéstop (which it also is), but somehow a gym seems like it could possibly be a step too far.