Would you rather...

[Mutley]

This is how the game works: answer the "would you rather" question above you by giving the answer and why you chose that answer, then ask a new one yourself. Simple, right?

Okay, would you rather lose an arm or a leg?

[TroglodyteScholar]

1. I would rather lose a leg

Because prosthetic legs have gotten so advanced and snazzy.

Would you rather eat a cockroach or a scorpion?

[Mutley]

2. A cockroach.

At least it wont sting the hell out of me.

Would you rather give up the television or the internet?

[Phillycat]

3. Television, no question.

I basically have already.

Would you rather be blind or deaf?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. Deaf

deaf-initely. I hear so much Crap at work. I love to come home to complete silence.

Would you rather live in the country or the city?

[Phillycat]

6. The city.

Mainly just because it's what I'm used to.

Would you rather be happily married to someone broke, or only sort of happily married to someone rich?

[Chan790]

20. Broke and Happy.

Would you rather:

Be confined to a small space for a lifetime.
or
Be free to go wherever you want but never have any personal space.

?

[Phillycat]

21. Yikes. I suppose the freedom with no personal space.

Horrible choices! Good one! I think I would go fucking insane not having any alone time, but it's still better than being cooped up...OR IS IT? I hate people. Heh. Very difficult choice!

Would you rather lose your father or your mother?

[Chan790]

26. That's an easy one.

My father is arguably one of the most evil human beings alive...a diagnosed sociopath with a violent arrest record longer than my arm and a fugitive from justice. I wish I knew were he was just so I could get the $50K and put him back in his cage for the rest of his life.

Colorblindness or loss of sense of taste?

[Phillycat]

30. Color blind, easily. It's arguably dangerous to have no sense of taste...

you wouldn't know when something was spoiled. However, I suppose it would be easy to stay skinny, since you could just eat healthy food.

Would you rather lie and get what you want or tell the truth and not get what you want?

[Chan790]

41. Lie.

My answer might be different depending on who would get hurt by my dishonesty and how badly.

Achieve something major but not receive credit/recognition/fame or receive worldwide fame for someone else's achievements?

[Phillycat]

42. Hmm. I have a big ego LOL! But I think the achievement would keep me

warmer at night, so I say the achievement.

Be in a car accident where you look the same but lose 50% of your intelligence, or are horribly disfigured but your mental faculties are unchanged?

[Chan790]

45. 50% as smart...

I sometimes feel alienated by my intelligence as is. I'd rather be average to slightly-above. I'm vain...I've just discovered men's high-fashion.

Would you rather have coffee or tea with breakfast?

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

61. On a related note, my grandma lost most of her sense of taste,

she still occasionally drinks sour milk on accident, but to prevent it she throws out almost everything perishable after something like 4 days.

[DS1]

7. Deaf

Would you rather be allergic to cheese or green veggies?

[Phillycat]

8. Cheese, although that would break my heart.

It would be difficult to get all the nutrients one needs in his diet without green vegetables. Cheese isn't very good for you.

EDIT: Would you rather be successful in your field or happily married?

[DS1]

27. Happily Married

Would you rather be have your vag groped by Larry King or take Chuggo to a swingers party?

[Phillycat]

29. Are you kidding? I'd LOVE to take Chuggo to a swingers party!

Would you rather be tied down and forced to watch 100 hours of Milli Vanilli videos or 100 hours of Celine Dion videos?

[DS1]

31. Vanilli

Death by woodchipper or eaten by hyenas

[Phillycat]

32. Ah, fuck. Jesus. How fast does the woodchipper...erm, chip?

Basically whichever way I'd be dead soonest.

Life in prison without the possibility of exoneration or parole, or death penalty?

[DS1]

33. Death

Bus ride decapitation or death by tidal sewage wave http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7542547.stm

[Phillycat]

34. I'm sensing a pattern here...

I think decapitation because again, I think it would be quicker.

Fuck Angelina Jolie or Selma Hayek?

[DS1]

35. Selma

A solitary year in Antartica or a full year of your life on permanent webcam

[Phillycat]

36. Like, pooping and everything?

[DS1]

37. yep

or you don't communicate with anyone or anything for a year

[Phillycat]

38. Ah hell, I'd take the webcam. I'm basically a social creature.

I'd have to learn to deal with pooping on camera, I guess. :D

Work as a mortician or a garbage man? Same salary.

[Mutley]

9. Green veggies.

I have to make myself eat those, but cheese is so damn good.

Would you rather work a crappy job you hate for lots of money, or a job you love for very little money?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

47. a job I love with very little money

If you had to choose a pet, would it be a dog spliced with a giraffe's neck, or a cat spliced with the back legs of a kangaroo?

[Mutley]

67. I'd have to take the cat spliced with the kangaroo.

I don't have a high enough roof for any giraffe necks. :D

If money were no factor, would you rather build a home at the bottom of the sea, or on the moon?

[Pierre.Suave]

4. D'uh...

Television...

Would you rather Listen to NPR or read a book?

[Mutley]

10. Read a book.

I'd almost always rather read a book.

Would you rather kiss McCain or Bush? :evilgrin:

[Pierre.Suave]

11. Cindy McCain

yes...

:evilgrin:

Would you rather jump off the high dive board, or bunjee jump off a bridge...

[Mutley]

12. High dive board

At least I've already done something similar when I jumped off the rocks into the quarry as a kid.

If you could only have one constant, non-human companion for the rest of your life, would you rather it be a dog or a cat?

[Pierre.Suave]

13. Dog

for sure.

Skydiving or Swim with sharks?

[Shell Beau]

14. Swim with sharks.

Poisonous snake bite or poisonous spider bite?

[Pierre.Suave]

17. Spider...

Attacked by an Alligator or Piranhas?

[Shell Beau]

19. If it meant surviving, piranhas. If it meant dying, the alligator.

Freezing to death or heat stroke?

[Mutley]

15. Swim with sharks.

I'm just not a fan of heights. :P

Would you rather wear sneakers or sandals on your day off?

[Pierre.Suave]

16. Sandals...

Cheap wine or cheap beer?

[Chan790]

22. Cheap wine.

Wine prices rarely reflect quality, beer price always do.

Personal theme music you can hear at all times or an omniscient personal narrator (who seems to take a mild glee in your failures.)

Assume that you (and anybody present) can hear whichever you chose and you can't turn it off.

?

[Pierre.Suave]

23. Theme music

Baroque or Classical...

:P

[Chan790]

40. Baroque...

If it ain't baroque, why fix it? (I couldn't help myself.)


Would you rather have your ideals or bliss. To put it another way, would you compromise your values for happiness?

[Pierre.Suave]

54. You mean would I become a republican?

NO, I would pick ideals and keep my character.

Hot English Prof or hot German Prof?

[Chan790]

57. Off-topic: Why the f&ck are all the GOPers I know so miserable then? n/m

[Pierre.Suave]

65. Because they thought that selling out for happiness would make them happy

and it did not.

[Chan790]

58. English professor.

There is nothing hot about German. "Ich Lieben dich!" sounds like something that would be growled menacingly at a death-metal concert.

Okay...this is a strange one, but I actually know a RN who is agonizing over this. Would you rather be so good at a medical specialty that did not otherwise interest you that you felt compelled to pursue it or just good enough to get into one that you loved?

[Pierre.Suave]

66. I have actually had a smoking hot german prof

I would not have minded one bit "getting it on" with her...She was also Russian...

I would pick the one I was good at.

Legs or Ass?

LOL...

[Chan790]

69. Pbbt.

You mean the human body doesn't end at the waist? :P I'm a sucker for a cute face.

I'd go with a nice rear, but neither is that important to me.

Unbearably warm or unbearably cold?

[Pierre.Suave]

71. Warm

I can at least drink water to replace what I would lose in sweat... there is not much you can do about the cold, unless I can pick it cold outside and a nice fireplace inside and someone cute to snuggle with...:P

[lost-in-nj]

18. Sandals

every day


would you rather have white or rye?


lost

[MsTryska]

24. Depends on the stuff in the middle.....

and the kind of rye. pumpernickle rye yes - regular old rye with the seeds - no.

Would you rather be with someone gorgeous, consistent and kinda dumb? Or someone not so gorgeous, flaky to the point of unavailable, but intelligent?

[Chan790]

25. The second one...

that is so totally my type.

Would you rather know everything and be incapable of communication or be universally-fluent but unintelligent?

[MsTryska]

28. gah! tough choice....

i'll go with universally fluent and unintelligent. I'm a social animal.

Superman or Batman?

[Chan790]

39. Batman.

Superman is too goody-goody. Conflict and toeing the lines between sanity/madness, justice/vigilantism make Batman more interesting. It's arguable that Batman really is the prototypical anti-hero.

[MsTryska]

43. huh..i thought that was dexter.

*lol* i agree batman is broodier.

You didn't ask a question, but here's one based on your sig line.

For a partner: Freak on a leash who may be too advanced for your tastes? Or a vanilla convertible?

[Chan790]

44. Awww...

Tough choice. I'm going with vanilla...mostly because that's sweet. Exploration (even if you're not the explorer) is fun, it's hard to be novel with the "been there, done that" crowd.

Would you prefer a structured, routine (but plannable) daily existence or a chaotic, but exciting one where it's impossible to predict what will happen next?

[MsTryska]

46. Hmm....

having lived both - I would go with structured, routine and plannable. Chaos is great, but structure allows you to manage all your priorities.

Which brings me to my next question...

Time with the ones you love or Time on the causes you believe in?

[Chan790]

48. Currently neither...

I need to take time for me. I spent most of the past 5 years taking care of loved ones and spending my every free moment volunteering and ended up in a dead-end low-pay job slinging coffee and an untenable living arrangement. For the time being I'm all about me until I get my self together. I guess that's the first one.

Sit through a long boring lecture or teach a classroom full of rowdy kindergartners?

[MsTryska]

49. Definitely Rowdy kindergarteners

those are my peeps!

Based on how my day is going at work:

rage and go for the jugular, or swallow it and break out in tears?

(i was forced to swallow and break out in tears)

[Chan790]

50. Rage.

I have no fear of consequences at work. I'd tell my boss she was an idiot if I ever saw her anymore.

Would you rather have a job you hate for an employer you respect or a job you love for an employer you hate?

[MsTryska]

51. Definitely Job i love....

And actually it was sucking it up in the name of customer service - My supervisors have my back, so that I'm not concerned about.

but I have walked on a job i hate for an organization i liked. regretted it at first, but didn't miss hating waking up in the morning with a long dreary day ahead of me.

if you have a demanding lifestyle - would you rather eat for performance, because it gives you energy and stable moods to make it through the day - or eat what is tasty and convenient - consequences be damned?

[Chan790]

52. Tasty...

all the way. I work with food, the enjoyment of it is often the high-point of my day.

read a book or watch network TV?

[MsTryska]

53. read a book without a doubt.

altho swingtown is rather compelling.

fiction or non-fiction?

[Chan790]

56. Write non-fic (for the most part), read fiction.

Day off: Relaxing or being active?

[MsTryska]

59. I'm trying to decide that right now actually...

If i had just 1 day off, i would definitely opt for relaxing, but I get 3 off in a row, so i do active/relaxing/active - with disco naps.

jump ship while you can or stay til the bitter bloody end?

[Chan790]

70. I'd jump ship...

there's no point to going down with the boat.

Work retail or work in a cubicle?

[MsTryska]

72. Work in a cubicle

At least from there I can surf the web.

2nd chances or cut 'em off?

[Chan790]

73. 2nd Chances?

I've got friends who are going on 10th chances. Yeah, I'm a sucker. At least I know it. They're good peeps, just lousy at running their lives.

Would you rather deal receive something practical or something fun for your birthday?

[MsTryska]

74. Something fun!

I can always buy something practical.

give a gift to say your sorry or make amends to correct the mistake?

[Chan790]

75. Amends.

Always better. It addresses the problem and it's not bribery.

Would you rather learn a new skill or do something you know that you enjoy?

[MsTryska]

76. learn a new skill

I like broadening my horizons.

Day shift or night shift?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

55. Leg, definitely.

Would you rather have beer or wine?

[Dr. Strange]

60. Wine.

Beer tastes like horse urine.

Would you rather post in a GD-circumcision thread or one of the 9/11 Forum threads?

[racaulk]

62. Circumcision thread.

It would be a lot more painful (no pun intended) and lively, and would be on the front page (unlike the 9/11 forum threads).

I love this game!

Would you rather put a cup of lives bees into your mouth, or into your underwear?

[Dr. Strange]

63. My underwear...

while it's still in the dresser drawer. (Is that an option?)



Go to a Rick Astley concert without any clothes on or go to a Chuggo concert where Chuggo is naked?

[racaulk]

64. Rick Astley concert.

Seriously, who wants to see Chuggo nude? :scared:

Would you rather be a woman with three breasts or a man with three testicles? (Like I don't already know which you would pick...LOL!)

[Dr. Strange]

68. I'll go with three breasts.

I'm thinking I could make some serious money with them.

Would you rather do a conference call on DU or have Midlo call you "adorable."