Would You??

[Lykren]

:hand::hand:
meh. Where would the ice cream go?

... :rolleyes:

[Ecurb]

I would (and often do) affect a political view I didn't really hold whether or not it led to a promotion. Also, I would dress up if I felt like it whether or not it would get me a promotion.

If a grizzly bear charged you, would you run away, stand your ground or play dead?

[Dark Muse]

Running would probably be the worse idea, you are not going to outrun a bear. I would stand my ground and try and make myself look as intimidating as possible.

Would you rather get bitten by a werewolf, vampire, or zombie?

[Pompey Bum]

Well, if we go by the old George Romero rule that all zombie bites are (at least temporarily) fatal, ignoring unrealistic pop fare like World War Z, I would have to go with werewolf. I'd hate to be a vampire. They seem like such a bunch of phonies. Plus, I look silly in a tux. But with a werewolf, it's only once a month. Maybe I could join the National Guard or something.

Would you agree to be struck by lightening if it meant that (if you survived) your IQ would significantly increase?

[Dark Muse]

If it was not a guarantee that I would live, than no

Would you take a pill that really would make you lose weight without having to alter your diet, if the side effects where potentially fetal and include serious medical conditions?

[North Star]

If it was not a guarantee that I would live, than no

Would you take a pill that really would make you lose weight without having to alter your diet, if the side effects where potentially fetal and include serious medical conditions?

'Fetal' would be a rather serious medical condition, especially for a man ;)
No.


What would you like to eat for your next meal?

[Pompey Bum]

Dragon meat in Heaven, though it will more likely be donkey in Dunhuang.

If you could make one mythological creature real, which would it be?

[Lykren]

Mermaids :ladysman:

If you had to render one living species extinct, what would it be?

[Pompey Bum]

Noseeums (a pest of the North Woods) unless viruses count.

Would you condemn every cute puppy on earth to a slow and hideous death if it led directly to a vaccine against all cancers?

[Dark Muse]

No I would not, I like puppies better than most people anyway.

If you witnessed a murder, and no one knew you saw anything would you report it to the police if you knew doing so would put your life and family in danger?

[Pendragon]

Sad to say, no. My family is more important then trying to get justice for the person killed.

If you could save a life by stepping between someone and death would you?

[tonywalt]

Yes, I always do the right thing. Especially on litnet forum, where I'm a virtual hero.

Would you want your life portrayed as a movie with the script heavily influenced by your closest family members and acquaintenances?

[Pendragon]

No to the infinite degree

Would you say you are related to people you don't relate to?

[stephofthenight]

Yes.
Would you change your Name if you could, and to what?

[Clopin]

My first name is James, which I'm pretty happy with, and which I feel suits me. If I had to pick a new name then I would think about it for awhile. I've always thought Alex was decent.

Would you throw away a Tupperware container containing possibly ancient mold if you were just too afraid to open it?

[stephofthenight]

That would be the story of my life- yes.
Would you own a dinosaur

[Dark Muse]

Yes, preferably a Velociraptor because that would be an awesome guard dog

If you where dating someone who had kids, and while thier parent was around they pretended to like you but when you where alone with them they intentionally tried to provoke you, what would do?

[tonywalt]

I would act like most guys in such a situation: not calibrating their dislike to begin with, and even if i did - not caring much. (Flicks through tv channels, sees girl on beach....,sips beer).

Would you be happy with your partner looking at porn while you are present? (or not present?)?

[Dark Muse]

I probably would not be thrilled about it either way, but well if he going to be looking at porn while I am present then we better be doing it as a group activity. And while I would hope he would be honest with me, I couldn't really know if he was looking at it while I was not present, so I cannot worry too much about it, there are worse things he could be doing.

If your partner wanted to have a threesome would you be willing to do it?

[EvoWarrior5]

Eeh, no I would not.

Would you be willing to enter into an experiment that injects you with a pretty bad disease which they then try to cure if you got a good amount of money for it?

(Kind of a true story actually. I saw flyers around my university offering willing participants nearly 2000 euros if they entered in the experiment where they injected you with malaria and then tried to cure it. I wasn't able to do it because they would need me to be in the Netherlands during November but I am leaving for England to study there for a semester in two weeks. So it's hard to say whether I would have done it.)

[Pendragon]

No. This type of thing has a history of going wrong. That said, I was part of such a test back in grade school. The US Government used students in Southwest Virgina and Uppereast Tennessee to test various things under the guise of "vaccines" They eventually released a formal apology long after the fact when it was disclosed through declassified documents under the Freedom of Information. I remember an injection and a weird little circle studded with fine needles they pressed into your wrist. That I know of, there were no serious reactions--that I know of!

Would you sell your blood for cash?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I find it sad that even in this hypothetical scenario, no one wants to buy my sperm. Yes, if only out of spite 'cause of the sperm thing. And for the cash.

Would you marry a stunning, nineteen-year-old Ukrainian goddess who you met through Slotsky's International Dating Service, knowing she'd transform into full-blown Eastern European she-devil a few years down the line, leaving you bankrupt and in debt to the mob, if, during the first few years, she'd be your fantasy made flesh and let you do that thing to her involving balloon animals?

[EvoWarrior5]

Pretty obvious no from me. I guess you could say yes, arguing that you can just break up with her when things go south. But if I'd know beforehand, I wouldn't commit anything to it.

Would you live in complete isolation for a year if it could advance science (but you're not sure how much of an impact it will make, if much at all).

(Again, kind of a true story. I read the title of an article which said that apparently a few people did this. Maybe I should look it up again.)

[Pendragon]

I almost do that now. People can be so nasty to people who have bipolar disorder complicated by clinical depression... Would my isolation help Science? Perhaps as a study on how mental illness affects one's life

Would you travel overseas to meet a friend you met here on litnet in person?

[EvoWarrior5]

If I like, somehow got into a long-distance relationship then yes. As a bit of a stretch, if I would travel to the US or Canada or something for a holiday anyways and people that I liked lived not too far away, I would want to see them. But then I would not be going oversees specifically for the purpose of seeing someone from here, so that probably does not count.

Would you take a long journey (being a few hours, say from 2 onwards) to visit someone during the night if they were feeling really down and they needed you?

[Dark Muse]

It would depend on who the person was, if they where a really good friend or a loved one then I probably would.

If you were to go to comic con who/what would you dress up as?

[stephofthenight]

Poison ivy perhaps...
If you could have a super sense but the cost was to completely loose another sense would you do it and what would be your choices?

[bounty]

I don't think id do it...even though we live in a fallen imperfect world, we're created and have the senses we do from a sense of wholeness and I think even if I had super-hearing, id hate for instance, to not be able to have a sense of smell.

would you?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Would I what? Think you left out the essential bit there, bounty, old chum. Unless you were going to say would I wear a codpiece to a bar mitzvah, in which case I'm appalled at the suggestion. I would never go to a bar mitzvah.

Would you participate in a pagan ritual that did not feature human sacrifice?

[Dark Muse]

Well they are not half as fun without the human sacrifice but nonetheless I love a good ol' dancing naked around the fire in the forest.

If you received a mysterious invitation to an exclusive new underground club of which you knew nothing about would you go?

[Pendragon]

Nay, as reclusive as I am, it would have to be a plot against me

If you found yourself in love with someone your family disapproved of would you chose to follow your heart, if your family then disowned you?

[tonywalt]

Yes.

Would you speak to a h.s. or college graduation? (what might you say)

[Pendragon]

Yes. A good long talk about how bad all this "I am offended by _________________!" is affecting life here in America.

Would you talk to High School students on the dangers of bullying?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Yes, but not to recite the approved litany of banal, infantile drek that the feckless half-wits who run our schools spew at the kids nowadays; but rather to tell them that bullying, alas, is a part of life, and that they will have to deal with it till their dying day, and as such need to develop coping strategies and a pair of big, hairy balls pronto--at which point someone in the audience would jump up and shout "I'm offended!"

Would you use cloning technology to resurrect some of the really big-chested glamour girls of the 1950s?

[bounty]

Would I what? Think you left out the essential bit there, bounty, old chum.

the intention was to pass along the question I replied to...

"I dont think id do it....would you?"

[bounty]

no on the cloning...but sometimes I think if I could have my dog of 19 1/2 yrs back...

would you do the one way trip to mars thing? (I think we've done this one before maybe)

[papayahed]

I think so. maybe.

Would you buy ice cream from a plant that had been previously shown to have listeria in 99% of their products? The plant had been shut down, cleaned, and is now reopened and ready for business.

[bounty]

I think yes, but id wanna do more homework about the processes involved after the cleaning to reassure no re-occurrences.

would you play survivor (the reality tv show on cbs) if you had the opportunity?

[Dark Muse]

No, I would not, I wouldn't make it through the first day because I would make like zero effort to form any alliances or make any friends. I would just be like you're stupid now leave me alone. And even if I didn't verbalize those words, my face would say it.

If if could be done successfully would you have your brain transplanted into another body that was younger healthier and or better looking than yours knowing that it would mean the death of the individual whose body you would be taking?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Wow, you've opened a can of non-arthropod invertebrates there. My first instinct was to say yes, because, if you've met as many spectacularly good-looking people, models and such, as I have, you know how many of them are living testaments to the fact that God does not give with both hands, i.e. they ain't got fourteen cents worth o' brains. Thus, they are both a waste of space and a waste of some beautiful genetics better enjoyed by a worthy soul like yours truly.

Then, however, I reconsidered, realized that, moron or no moron, those people have lives to which they are morally entitled, such that I wouldn't want to incur the bad karma of greasing them and stealing their corpses for myself. Also, it's possible their lives were given to them by a god who's bigger than me and can beat me up. So, in conclusion, no, I wouldn't 'ave me brain transplanted in said manner, Dark Muse.

Now, would you buy your favorite Victoria's Secret Angel a bottle of tequila, knowing she'd quickly drink it and become open to suggestion?

[bounty]

only if she would respect me and herself in the morning...smiles...

muse, at various times ive had friends tell me I should try out for survivor but I tell them I don't think id last long on the show either. id rather be one of the staff who creates the game conditions and the challenges.

if you were at a concert and the lead singer wanted to pull you up on stage to sing along, would you go?

[Dark Muse]

That is a tough one, because I really cannot sing at all, but I might go anyway because it would be cool.

Presuming you could afford it would you order a high advanced AI (looks human, acts human, talks) to stay in your house and do all of your household chores for you?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Where would I go? You said stay in my house, from which I inferred I'd be elsewhere. Now, if you add to that list go to work and earn money on your behalf, then the answer is a resounding Aye. Matter of fact, the AI would probably get promoted and generally be more successful than me. So, all it'd need to do is deposit the paychecks in my account, and I'd travel the world sampling local cheeses and lasses till the authorities caught up with me. Or until the AI realized it'd been had and came for me.

If you were head over heels in love with your best friend's wife and had the power to disguise yourself as your friend so perfectly, the wife wouldn't know even when you two were intimate, would you do so? This would be a situation where there was no other way to get close to her, ever, and you'd realized you'd die without ever having held her once.

[Dark Muse]

Where would I go? You said stay in my house, from which I inferred I'd be elsewhere. Now, if you add to that list go to work and earn money on your behalf, then the answer is a resounding Aye. Matter of fact, the AI would probably get promoted and generally be more successful than me. So, all it'd need to do is deposit the paychecks in my account, and I'd travel the world sampling local cheeses and lasses till the authorities caught up with me. Or until the AI realized it'd been had and came for me.

.

Sorry if that was unclear but the intention was that you would still be living in the house the AI would just be "living" there with you.

[papayahed]

No. I'm would be making the husband (I'm a chick so I'm reversing it) a cheater.

If given the oppotunity would you do that sky dive from the edge of space?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

F**k, YEAH!

<cough> Sorry.

Would you go down the stairs into a darkened basement armed with nothing but a flashlight when there's a monster on the loose, as every security guard in every horror movie ever made does?

[papayahed]

No. Well, do I need something from the basement?

Would you run a 5K for charity?

[Dark Muse]

If it was a charity of my choosing, and if walking was an option, so I guess technically no I would not actually run one.

If you had an identical twin who preformed better in job interviews than you and there was a job you really wanted would you have your twin go in your place if they were willing and you believed it would increase your chances at getting the job?

[bounty]

oh that's an interesting one. I think if I had an identical twin id want to do all sorts of fun "changing places" and faking people out things with him, but, although tempting, I don't think id do that one.

in an election that you didn't plan on voting in, would you indeed vote if someone who wasn't allowed to vote paid you to vote for a candidate for whom you otherwise wouldn't have voted?

[Dark Muse]

Can I take the 5th?

If I didn't really care who won anyway than maybe? But if I didn't agree with the politics of the person they wanted me to vote for than no.

If you knew you could get away with it would you cheat on an important exam you didn't think you would be able to pass even if you studied for it?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Yes. The keys to this being that you mentioned I would get away with it, and that it was an important exam. In that case, in the words of John Cleese in drag, intercourse the penguin.

In a zombie apocalypse, where you were isolated somewhere with an old or sick person who wasn't very mobile, and only enough food and water for one person, and a horde of zombies approaching so you had to leave quickly, would you try to help the person get away, or grab the food and water and run, knowing that you would escape but the other person would become a meal?

[Dark Muse]

Logically the old sick person is not going to survive long in such a world anyway and would just be a liability, so I would take the food and water and run. I would, if I could leave the old sick-person a weapon if I had one to spare. With that they could choose to either fight in a last stand, or take their own life.

Would you get in a relationship with someone whose previous spouse had a mysterious death?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Eff, no. Matter of fact, I wouldn't even get into a relationship. They're best avoided, and now that VR is almost here, I'd just as soon don an Oculus Rift and interact <cough> with a visually stunning AI named Beatrice.

If you could dive into a completely convincing (to your brain) virtual world, where everything was to your liking, your fantasy existence, because an AI read your brain and produced all the conditions, events and people that would give you utmost fulfillment, but doing so meant leaving the real world and all its inhabitants behind forever, would you? Remember: You can have anything that is in the real world in your virtual one.

[bounty]

muse, I wonder if it matters who the old person is? a loved one, or parent, as opposed to a stranger?

I recently tried to read "pride and prejudice and zombies"---initially it was interesting, but the novelty wore off very quickly, and I didn't finish it.

I wouldn't...real life has meaning and purpose, especially when things aren't to our liking.

if you somehow had the opportunity to know the day of your death, would you want to know it?

[papayahed]

Nope. I think I would start obsessing about it.

Would you move into one of those tiny houses if given the house?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Heck, no. I think those tiny house people are 'tards, and they prolly reek of patchouli to boot.

Would you have a harem if you could?

[bounty]

im pretty much a one woman type of fellow...but, well, maybe for a weekend?

if you had a chance to act in a play or movie, but the character you had to play was evil/mean/nasty/wicked/absolutely terrible---would you do it?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Heck, yes! I've often heard actors say that villains are the most fun to play, and I think I can understand why.

If you could transfer your consciousness into a new, young, beautiful body of your choice, would you do it?

[Pendragon]

Well, I'm 55, overweight, thinning hair, and impotent. Darn right I would!

Would you reveal a nasty secret to your best friend if it involved their spouse?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Depends what you mean by nasty. If it's "By the way, Mike, your wife has the clap from that basketball player she's been balling on the side," I'd probably tell him.

Would you ball another man's wife if you were a basketball player and could get away with that sort of thing 'cause your lawyers protected you and you had paternity insurance?

[bounty]

no...even under those circumstances, there is no getting away with it. but that misses the point of it being wrong to begin with, regardless of the consequences.

if you had to walk 15 miles (and then 15 miles back) to see your favorite artist perform in a setting that's very much in keeping with how you like, would you? (could you?)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Hell, yes. Recent deaths of beloved musical heroes of mine have reaffirmed the importance of availing oneself of the opportunity to see such luminaries perform live, and that goes double for the rare occasions on which they appear in tiny clubs where it's all up close and personal.

bounty, since you say nay to my previous proposition, let me couch it in a different manner:

If having sex with a giant cricket alien as portrayed in the movie District 9 was the only way of preventing said creatures from destroying earth, would you do it?

[papayahed]

I doubt a giant cricket alien would have the proper parts for such an act. But maybe. either way the answer is No. Someone else will have to win that war.


Would you ever... pee in a pool?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

What do you mean would I ever? I assume I did, more than once, during my tender years. Now that have that chemical that makes the water turn purple or something, thus branding you with a liquidy scarlet letter.

If you owned a company called Zoyk, would you lean into strangers' faces and aggressively hawk your wares?

[bounty]

there's a star trek next generation episode where a smaller version of your sex question occurs. commander riker is disguised as an alien in order to study the population, but he ends up being injured and hospitalized. he needs to escape, and one of the nurses offers to help him, but only if he'll have sex with her first. she was turned on by his being an alien. id say yes to the giant cricket, and hopefully at least its a female!

I recently read ender's game by the way...not quite to the point, but related.

am not sure if im missing a subtlety in the hawking my zoyk wares? but otherwise, no I wouldn't.

if you had the opportunity to buy lots of the old board games and other types of artifacts from your childhood, would you?

[papayahed]

No. I don't have the room.

If you dropped the meatloaf on the floor would you still serve it to your dinner guests?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Heck, yes. I think of those sometimes and miss them. Avalon Hill games, anyone? What about the early Steve Jackson games? Not to mention the action figures and the entire Planet of the Apes collection.

If you could be a whistleblower who, like Edward Snowden, was in a position to reveal to the general public a horrible act being perpetrated on them without their knowledge, something whose continued secrecy thus endangered the rights and well-being of all, but it meant your becoming a fugitive and having to live in exile, would you?

[papayahed]

Heck, yes. I think of those sometimes and miss them. Avalon Hill games, anyone? What about the early Steve Jackson games? Not to mention the action figures and the entire Planet of the Apes collection.


You miss dropped meatloaf?

[bounty]

that's a fun one to consider---I lean towards yes, but then, it also depends on the nature of the floor...

and that's a tough one tyrion...I lean towards nay. I think my first step would be to pursue legal channels and see what the outcome would be from that effort. after that....then maybe.

id like to have most of my toys and games and what not back.

would you play a competitive board game with a significant other? (by competitive, I mean where the winner is determined by purposeful and strategic interactions as opposed to chance)

[Dark Muse]

Sure I would ( I love chess) he would probably beat me, I think he is a better strategic thinker than I am but it would be fun to play.

As a woman if you knew you were better at some sport than the man you were dating would let him win when you played for fear of intimidating him or hurting his ego if you beat him?

Or if you are a man would you let a woman you are dating beat you at a sport she wasn't very good at in order to make her feel better?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

This is so easy for me, DM, because I don't play sports. ;-) The answer to the first version of your question depends upon whether, in a given case, the man's ego bruise or intimidation translated into an inability to, uh, er, that is to say, well, as it were. To the second version, my answer is, no, I'll tackle the ***** right into the mud; then, later, if she won't sleep with me as a result, I'll dump her, take back my record collection, and, just as I'm stepping through the front door, turn back and mention that yes, those pants do make her look fat.

If the opportunity arose, would you go to Mars? In this scenario, you might not be able to return, but if not, could live out the rest of your days in a colony there.

[tonywalt]

No.

Would you emmigrate to another country for 1.5X your current stream of revenue? - doing whatever you do or do not do. (whether it be retired, benefits, work, own business, all others).

[Tyrion Cheddar]

What an interesting and well-crafted question, because you cleverly picked just the right amount of financial increase to make it intriguing, but not so much as to make it a no brainer. OK. If you'd asked me ten or more years ago, the answer would almost certainly have been yes, and I'd most likely have chosen the UK. Nowadays, the answer is no, because I need to be close to my family and I now know, especially with the way the world has recently gone, that I'd rather been in 'Murica than anywhere else.

If you could go back in time and hang out with the Beatles, be in the studio with them when they recorded their world-changing works, et al, but it would mean you'd now be (depending on your current age) perhaps ten or twenty years older than you are, would you? If you wish, you can substitute a different band or artist.

[Pendragon]

No. I am 55 this month. I often think about going back and preventing my ever being born.

Would you listen and not judge when a friend is hurting?

[bounty]

judge is too vague a word I think---its almost impossible to not make some sort of internal judgment, but if you are talking about not criticizing my friend in the midst of the pain and vulnerability, yes.

in the movie "the day after tomorrow" the earth is hit by a sudden and giant new ice age. a handful of students are holed up in the new York public library, waiting out the initial storm. they have to burn books in order to survive. assuming you would do likewise, would you, also like them, selectively pick which books to burn? and which ones would they be?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

OUCH!!! Why did *I* have to get this question?! Cruel Fate! The mere suggestion of doing that to books makes me crazy. <long sigh> OK, let's see... I think it's a no-brainer we'd start with "Mein Kampf". In fact, let's cover it in bees wax and turn it into a candle, it'll give us more time to enjoy it. Next, everything ever written by Karl Marx. All religious texts, toast. Matter of fact, everything political of any kind, toss it on the flames, that should keep us toasty warm for a good many years, while I use the light to read Keats or Hermann Hesse.

There was a movie starring Tom Hardy, he of Bane fame, and Gerald Butler, who play best friends. Unbeknownst to Butler, Hardy is gay and is in love with him. Hardy is about to go to prison for five years, and on his last night of freedom, confesses his love to Butler, and begs him to, er, well, that is, um, as it were. Butler, I suppose out of guilt and friendship, agrees. Would you?

[Dark Muse]

LOL I was afraid my answer would get me in trouble so it is my fault you got stuck with that one

Would I have sex with Tom Hardy? Or would I have sex with my best friend (presumably of the same sex?)

Well I don't actually have any female friends, but hypothetically speaking if I did have a best girl friend who confessed their love to me I would not have sex with them just for five years in prison. Now if they were going away for life than I might consider it.

If you found out your spouse cheated on you, would you be more, or less upset if it was with someone of the same sex as they are?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I think I would be more upset, because it would feel as if she'd made a joke out of our marriage, not to mention me.

Good point there, Dark Muse, about five years in the slammer not being enough to go Brokeback over. Life or nothin' doin'.

If you'd once used your friend's car without his knowledge or consent and he'd never found out, but some time later you learned he'd stolen your bicycle and sold it, would you get angry at him?

[Dark Muse]

Well considering that I presume that said car was returned to said friend than yes I would be angry, shall we say discretely borrowing a car is not the same thing as stealing something. Maybe it is ethically questionable but since it was presumably returned to him no real harm was done. But I won't have my bicycle anymore.

If you were babysitting your best friends kid and you accidentally broke some valuable object of theirs would you confess to the truth or blame it on the kid if you thought you could get away with it?

[bounty]

even if I were assured of "getting away with it" I wouldn't want that on my conscience. so no, I like to think I would fess up. even if it were a stranger and I was never going to see the person again, I think id tell the truth.

there's a Seinfeld episode like this---would you go out on a secret date with a celebrity crush if you were engaged?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

If the celebrity were Emma Stone or a young(er) Scarlett Johansson or a young Rachel McAdams, f**k yeah!!

Let's take this to the next logical step. Would you have sex with said celebrity crush, while engaged to someone else, if you knew you would get away with it? Now answer the same question, but if you weren't sure you'd get away with it?

[Dark Muse]

No to both. Now if all parties involved were open to a threesome? Maybe?

If you were on a date with someone and things were going well and you were pretty sure at the end of they were going to sleep with you, but during the course of the date s/he makes a racist comment, would you let it slide so not to ruin your chances to score or would you call them out on it on the spot?

[bounty]

that's funny muse, that's a Seinfeld episode too!

I lean towards the discussion over the comment...although if you would have asked that question when I was in my 20s, my answer probably would have been different...

hoping to catch someone say yes on this one---would you be willing, without my saying what it is beforehand, to hunt up what might be my all time favorite episode of a tv show and give it a viewing?

(instead of waiting days for someone to say yes and maybe no one ever will, feel free to say no, i'll be okay...smiles...)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Then you won't take it too hard when I say no, and I promise it has nothing to do with your deodorant. :-0

And the answer to the former question has entirely to do with the girl's anatomy and whether she is known to do certain, er, um, things.

Now let's recast that question, but this time, instead of making a racist remark, the girl/guy in question, who is absolutely gorgeous, has halitosis like the stench on a fishing trawler three months out at sea.

[bounty]

I suppose in theory its possible to have sex without kissing or coming near enough to smell the sea stench, but im not sure any amount of gorgeousness would compensate for the kinda weirdness that might entail.

if you were in a student and saw a fellow student cheating on an exam, would you tell your teacher?

[Dark Muse]

Probably not I usually like to mind my own business. If I personally didn't like the other student than maybe for revenge.

Would you help a fellow student cheat if you believed you could get away with it and they offered you a 100$?

[Pendragon]

When i went back to school after becoming disabled, I was often enough the oldest student in the Community College. I was also one of the brightest. I never deliberately helped anyone cheat, but neither did I attempt to hide my work. One guy I'd known since he was a little kid got caught cheating off my math test. He was disciplined by getting a zero for the test. I got an A. My best friend during the time I was getting an Associate's Degree in Computer Information Technology was in most of my classes,and any team efforts meant she was on my team. She usually sat right beside me. She nearly failed a class, but she refused to cheat off my paper. I even suggested she do so, but she declined.

Would you do someone's homework for them?

[tonywalt]

No, only in the event that the person may fail the grade - so a kind of emergency bailout.

Would you major in the same subject if you had to do university again?

[bounty]

i would, but I also think in retrospect, a double major would have been great. in fact, when I finished grad school I actually applied for a masters degree in another subject. visited the school, met with the dept head, the whole shebang---but I didn't get accepted. they believed my lack of undergrad preparation in that particular subject matter was too big of an obstacle. if I was really smart, I would have applied to more than one place.

in the movie red, the bruce willis character reads a book because he is very interested in this girl he's been talking with on the phone, and who likes that book. would you do likewise---read a particular book that you presumably wouldn't read of your own accord, by way of insinuating yourself into the life of a love interest?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Now your question is interesting, bounty, because 'love', in this instance, can be interpreted either as love or sex. If it were a love interest, as in someone I thought I could love, then yes, provided it wasn't by Nicolas Sparks. :-0 For a sex interest, although I don't think I would still do so at my age, then yes, if the reading of said book would serve as a veritable shoehorn that would slide me into her pants like a, well, like a foot into a shoe.

Would you feign a love of anchovies or some other food to which you have a strong revulsion to impress a love and/or sex interest?

[bounty]

I did something very roughly similar. an old girlfriend id only been seeing for a short while took me home with her over some vacation to meet her parents. they were great cooks and at the evening meal, there was this one thing I loved and this other thing I had a verrrrrrrrrrry hard time stomaching. as is my wont, I ate the thing I disliked first. seeing this, the parents thought just the opposite, that I liked it, so they kept piling them on my plate. I think eventually I was holding my breath and just swallowing the stuff whole.

but i think that was less about impressing and more about not offending and just being a good guest.

in general, i don't think i would...honesty is important, as are some interpersonal differences.

if you took a date to a restaurant, and your date didn't finish the meal, would you finish it, doggy bag it or allow the waiters to throw the leftover food out?

[Dark Muse]

If they were not interested in taking the leftovers themselves than if I liked what they ordered depending on how hungry I still was, I would either eat it, or take it with me for lunch the next day. If I didn't like what they ordered and they didn't want the leftovers than the waiter could take it.

If the sister or brother (depending on your sexual preference) of your girlfriend/boyfriend came on to you would you tell your g/b friend?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I really can't answer this without knowing the details of the case, since my response would depend on those details. If the sibling was underage, or unbalanced or came on to me in some insane way, or threatened to claim to my SO that I'd come on to them, etc., then yes. If, on the other hand, the sib was not underage, let's say a sophomore in college, blue or green eyes, 5'9" with maybe a D or DD cup, then hell no. I'd let her have her way with me and damn the torpedoes. I ain't gettin' any younger.

If you knew or suspected that a relative of yours, a cousin perhaps, who you knew to be extreme in their politics, might have now gone so far as to become involved, perhaps only in a marginal way, with terrorism, would you go to the authorities?

[bounty]

if I "knew", yes; if I only "suspected" I might, but I think I'd approach my cousin first and I'd save the "yes" until after I saw the results of the confrontation.

would you personally house a Syrian refugee?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

A very well-crafted question and one requiring some thought. It really is several questions in one, though, so I need to break the aspects of it down into its component parts:

1) (And this is a crucial part of my ability to answer your question, bounty): Which Syrian are we talking about? There are apparently some engineers and such working now in Germany, who, at least from the news reports, appear to be well-educated professionals who are simply living and working in Germany. On the other hand there are people of every description contained in the waves of refugees.

2) I am Jewish, and would need to know absolutely the feelings of the individual towards Jews. For those who are not Jewish, this is a more complicated matter than it might appear, especially in this context.

3) I would need to know absolutely the politics of this person, for various and probably obvious reasons.

4) I would need to know absolutely what kind of Muslim the person was, if he was. If he's simply a normal person who happens to be Muslim, not an extremist and harbors no ill will towards the West, etc., that's one thing, but you'll forgive me if, as someone who lived through 9/11 and who learns occasionally that a bunch of office workers are murdered one day by a co-worker who previously had seemed a perfectly reasonable person of the Muslim faith, I am a little leery.

5) Does this person have any skills or education such that they can soon become gainfully employed, support themselves and get their own place?

I think, all things considered, I'm going to have to say no on this one. Note that in the foregoing I've tried to avoid offending anyone, but I have deep and strong feelings in this area.

[bounty]

I think that's a very thoughtful answer tyrion, and I appreciate it...

if you could spend 3-4 wks (or longer if you like) anywhere in the world doing anything you wanted, where (and when) would you go and what would you be doing?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

oh, baby... ;-) Thank you, bounty, thank you so much, for this question. I feel as I've been waiting for it for a lifetime... The answer, of course, is any of several choice locations in the world where the local female population is <cough> "of interest" to me, and thus the answer to the second part of your question should be bleedin' obvious. :-0

Would you be with a woman who was not physically attractive to you if you liked who she was quite a bit?

[The black sheep]

No, it would never work out for me; my first thought was "yes" if she had a large trust fund


Would you eat a raw snail with hot sauce on it for a dare

[Tyrion Cheddar]

No, but I'd date the girl with the trust fund, dare or no dare. And I am of like mind, black sheep. Contrary to how some people portray it (in an effort to impress other, equally dishonest persons), physical attraction is not an extraneous or unnecessary part of being with someone.

Would you give up all the foods you like to eat if it meant you could lose all the weight you would ideally like to lose?

[bounty]

im within a few lbs of my ideal weight for life's activities right now, so nothing so drastic as giving up all the foods I like would be required to take care of 'em....going to bed without dinner for a night or three would do the trick nicely.

philosophically/theoretically speaking though, its a fun question. what might I value more--the enjoyment of eating, or the health/fitness of my body and the enjoyment that comes with that.

would you continue to read if every book you read, the last chapter was missing?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

That is one of the most interesting and original questions we've had yet, not to mention thought provoking. The answer is yes. Without books I'd go mad. And, as I've mentioned elsewhere, I tend towards the poetic when it comes to prose, because for me the sound and feel of language is as important as the story it tells, thus never knowing the ending of a book would by no means defeat the purpose of reading. Then there is the stimulative and sedative effect on the brain. Yes, definitely keep reading, even if I never did learn it was Colonel Pepper in the drawing room with the candlestick.

Would you go on a date with your dream girl/guy if you knew in advance that at least once in the evening you'd break wind with alarming force and volume?

[bounty]

tough one---dignity is important and the chance for a second date might be riding on it...id say aye mayyyyyyyyybe if I could successfully forewarn the girl and turn the whole flatulent fiasco into a part of the evening.

tv and movies are replete with girls having to change clothes in the presence of their male counterparts on screen. the men initially turn around, but as often as not, seem to fail at completely staying that way. would you peek?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

What kind of a question is that? Of course I would. Especially considering the girls in movies and television are gorgeous. Matter of fact, I'd have a stealth HD camera hidden in my collar, and when I ostensibly turned around, secretly be watching the girl on my phone.

And for my previous question, the all-important one about farting, there's no opportunity to warn the girl ahead of time and sort of smooth things over first. If you were going to go out with her, it would mean facing the moment of truth like a man--looking her right in the eye as you blasted one out, so loudly the waiter turned around in the midst of placing mixed drinks on the table next to you.

Would you buy me a cold drink on a hot day, a hot drink on a cold day, and an alka seltzer after three alarm chili?

[bounty]

almost too many variables to decide...you can say yes and hope she's a good sport, but if not, and she leaves horrified or there's no second date, you can think, ah okay, there's always more fish (even dream girls) in the pond, but if she tells other people you may be tainted forever...it might even depend on the girl or what youre doing on the date. a fun luvin' girl at the carnival after lots of junk food, compared to a sort of dignified lady type in the middle of a fancy restaurant. am I successfully dodging answering yet? smiles...

I say yes, yes and probably "BYOAS" laughs...

if you could get rich pulling a lip synching ruse like milli vanilli, would you do it?

[papayahed]

No. Didn't the one dude kill himself?

Would you devote a weekend to a Walking Dead marathon?

[Dark Muse]

Yes I have done it before.

If there was a show that already had its final season and wasn't on anymore but people kept talking about how good it was, would you watch it via streaming or rental? Or just forget about it?

[papayahed]

hahahaha. I'm still trying to watch Breaking Bad.

If you could only take one trip this year whould you visit family (presuming you don't live near them) or take the opportunity to go on a great vacation?

[Pendragon]

Go see my grandkids in Nashville for two weeks.

If you could have one wish granted for certain, would you risk asking?

[bounty]

I say yes...but the way the you worded that question makes me think you suspect that the granted wish would have some sort of terrible unforeseen consequence?

if you had a chance to go back in your life to live an event over and do it another way, would you? (and boy itd be fun to hear about the event)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

No. Firstly, because I know I wouldn't be who I am now, living the life I am, if I changed anything. Second, because, as with the granting of wishes, there is no way of knowing in advance how things will turn out, so a do-over won't necessarily make things better. Of course, I did have this one girlfriend with a body whose every towering inch was like a trip to Guy Disneyland, and boy would I like to have another crack at her... See, that was a joke. Crack? I've got a million of 'em.

Would you rather have years of boring sex with a person you love, or years of incredible sex with a person you are emotionally neutral about? (Guys, please try no to be boring with this one.)

[papayahed]

If I had to choose I'd choose boring sex with a person I love. I suppose that's boring but I could always try to liven up the sex.

Would you create another screen name to keep tabs on somebody?

[Dark Muse]

There have been times when I was tempted to do something like that but I hadn't actually followed through. So it is in the realm of possibilty of something I might do depending on the circumstances.

Would you hire a private investigator to follow a spouse if you suspected they might be cheating but were not really sure?

[bounty]

apart from that im pretty fiscally, er, conservative....laughs....and wouldn't want to spend the dollars on such a thing, I think I am my own good private investigator. but my goodness, id sooner have the conversation smack dab out in the open. i see the "investigating" itself as de facto problematic.


keeping in the theme of infidelity, if we've not asked this one before (though its sounding familiar), if you were good friends with a married couple and learned that one was cheating on the other, would you intervene in some capacity?

[Dark Muse]

That is not a secret I would be willing to keep. I would tell the one who was cheeting that either they told their spouse or I would even if it ended the fiendship I wouldn't cover for them doing that especially if I was also friends with the spouse.

If you were dating soneone who wanted you to stop seeing a close friend of yours because they were jealous would you give up your friend or end the relationship?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Oh, **** me, end the relationship. If she requires me to dismiss a good friend, **** her, there are other spankable asses in the sea.

Would you secretly watch a series intended for teens, and teenage girls at that, even though you're a middle-aged man, 'cause you could watch it on Netflix in the privacy of your own home and no one'd ever know? Not that I'd ever do that.

[bounty]

well, a series, probably not, but this past year I become a pretty big fan of twilight...read the books and watched all the movies and thoroughly enjoyed them. id say the target audience is young adult and given the romance element, probably especially suited for girls. im not sure how many males got caught up in the team Edward vs team Jacob debate.

by the way, its totally team Edward. laughs...

if you lost all your books to some accident, would you work to replace your collection?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I got caught up in the Twilight movies and books when it all first came out, bounty, and I have to agree, it's team Edward. ;-)

Your question about the books is so frightening I'm afraid to repeat it, and also an interesting question. The only books I'd want to replace would be the rare, collectible ones, which very likely couldn't be replaced, anyway. My practice over the years with ordinary books has been to give them away when I'm done reading them, as I see no point in cluttering my home (more, that is) with books I've already read. I think my answer, then, is no. I'd mourn the loss of the precious volumes, and move on.

Would you subscribe to Spotify because you like their service, even though they're being sued by a number of musicians you respect and are a fan of, and as a musician yourself are concerned about musicians not being paid properly for their work, if, indeed, Spotify is guilty of that?

[Dark Muse]

No I would not sunscribe to Spotify I just listen to Pandora for free.

Would you deny liking or pretend not to like a band you really enjoy because most the people you know think they suck?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Definitely not, Muse. I've gone through essentially my whole life loving music few of my peers did, especially when I was young, and often really not liking the music they were into, which was generally considered much more fashionable. Music is one thing I'm not willing to compromise on. OK, music and anchovies. I won't eat anchovies.

If you were sick of dealing with hair and wanted to just buzz it all off for convenience's sake, would you avoid doing so owing to the reactions and looks you'd get from others?

[Dark Muse]

No I would not, when I was in high school I started getting the back of my neck shaved becsuse it made my hair more managable and comftrable, not the same as shaving your who,e head but when I did it thrn I got sone strange looks and reactions.

Would you date a woman who was bald or a guy who had waist length hair?

[bounty]

the file sharing/streaming music phenomena has certainly sparked some interesting ethical conversations.

I found the bald woman in star trek the motion picture (terrible movie!) very very attractive. so while women's hair can be great, the absence of its not a deal breaker by a long shot.

if you met who appears to be the love of your life, but in order to continue to be with that person you had to leave the country you are presently living in and go to another, would you go?

[papayahed]

Probably, if the logistics worked out. It's not just about love is it? I would have to be able to create a stable happy life work-wise as well as personal-wise. Can my love move to me?

If you got bad service somewhere would you write an online review?

[Dark Muse]

Probably not, I might post about it in my blog if it was really bad but I wouldn't do yelp or something like that I just wouldn't go there again.

If you were in a library or book store would you recomend a book you really liked to a stranger you saw browsing books?

[bounty]

laughs...I do that every chance I get muse! I love doing that. had a guy this summer buy three or four. i told the proprietor she should hire me!

I have even done the opposite, solicited advice from strangers about authors I don't know anything about. that was a fun question and brought back some good memories.

well then, in keeping with the question---would you actually buy the book and read it if someone did that with you?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

That's an interesting one, Muse. It's been so long since I've been in a bookstore (used to spend countless hours in that sacred place) that I'm trying to remember. I think I vaguely remember being in that situation a couple of times, when someone browsing in the same section was debating whether to buy a book I'd read and liked. My inclination is to say no, at least at this stage of my life, because I try to avoid contact and entanglements of any kind with other human beings.

bounty, the beautiful bald woman in Star Trek: The Motionless Picture was Persis Khambatta, a very beautiful Indian actress who sadly died of cancer at about the age of thirty.

Picking up on your question about relocating to be with the love of your life, is there a maximum distance from your parents/children, etc. you would move? i.e., if the prospective location was more than 500 miles away from them, let's say, would you still go?

[papayahed]

I currently live 1000 miles from my family. My initial reaction is to say I wouldn't worry about the distance but after thinking about it I currently only see them about twice a year if I moved to the other side of the world that would probably cut down a bit. But if it's a really good gig in a really good place I would go. no maximum distance.

If you really excited to go on vacation to a certain place and your significant other didn't really want to go would you talk them in to going, would you go without them, or would you not go?

[Dark Muse]

I would not go alone if I could not talk them into coming but if it was a family vacation or sonething planned with other people I would go without my significant other if they really didn't want to.

If your significant had a hobby or interest that you never really cared for would you try to get into it to participate in it with them or would you do your own thing while they were involved with it?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I might, yes, probably. My father grew up an avid sports fan and athlete, and came from a background where nothing to do with the arts or with the exploration of delicate or refined feelings existed. When he met my mother, out of love for her, he gradually learned about the ballet, which is her great passion. At first and for a long time, just getting him to sit there and watch it was a struggle, but he eventually came to love it just as she does. Now, if, on the other hand, I fell for a gal who was into NASCAR, we might have a problem.

If they ever legalize a "peaceful pill," a suicide pill which causes you to simply fall asleep, never to wake up, would you take it at some point?

[papayahed]

Yes. But I don't necessarily need a pill to be legalized. I could do the same thing with sleeping pills and a bottle of whiskey.

Would you go to the movies alone?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

If I still went to the movies, yes, I used to do it all the time. As it stands, I haven't been inside a movie theater in at least ten years. iTunes and Netflix, baby, that's the way to do it.

If, as I did today, you used the facilities and produced a stench sufficient to peel the paint off the walls--and I mean in a building three miles away--would you go so far as to clean the entire bathroom, including mopping the floor with bleach, as I did?

[Sancho]

Nope. I'd, as I did today, leave it floating around in there for others to enjoy, as I did. (Had a Leopold Bloom thing going on)

Would you give a sucker an even break in a friendly, low-stakes game of Texas Hold 'em?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

If I knew how to play Texas Hold 'em, or any other variety of poker, I still wouldn't.

If you'd built a fire in your wood stove and it was a real loser, just wouldn't burn despite a good deal of fiddling, would you stoically accept your defeat, utter an expletive, and toast yourself another bagel?

[Sancho]

Nope. I'd squirt at good deal of liquid accelerant on it, and then stand back and enjoy the fire (and a toasted bagel) while contemplating my new life without eyebrows.

(Safety's for sissies)

If a panhandler walked up to you on the street and delivered a really good spiel; I mean a story that is clearly BS but is nonetheless well performed, earnestly, would you fork over some spare change, or would you tell him to hit the bricks?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Because I am a New Yorker, I wouldn't stop at telling him to hit the bricks, I'd ask him to tell his mother that while she was good, I'd had better.

Having lost your eyebrows, Sancho, would you shave off the remaining hair on your person and go for that THX-1138, post-modern man look?

[Sancho]

No way, man. If I were to shave all the hairs offa my entire personage, how am I supposed to keep my socks from falling down?

If you could, would you chuck wood, like a woodchuck would?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Intercourse that. I'd kill the woodchuck, gather his remaining three pieces of chucked wood, and do a dance on Main Street declaring "It's three! That's how much sodding wood a woodchuck can chuck! Now bugger off, the lot of ya!"

Would you marry me, Sancho?

[Sancho]

BAH-hahaha

No. But it's not you, TC. It's me. I must be moving on now, 'cos I'm free, like a bird.
Hell yeah! Play some Scynyrd, man!

If there were a pill you could take that would smooth down all of your rough edges, would you take it? Oh, and this pill doesn't just smooth those edges down, it obliterates them. It will make you the smartest person in the room, also the richest, best-looking, most successful, most popular, etc etc. But here's the catch: you wouldn't really be all of those things, you'd just think you were, totally, for the rest of your life. You'd have a really good life - in your head. But to everybody else you'd just be some schlub driving a twenty year-old, broken-down Toyota Corolla and living in a double-wide.

So, would you take it?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

No, but considering how many people appear to have taken that pill, one assumes it already exists. And don't be dissin' the Corolla, that was my first car. And don't quote Freebird, neither, 'less you can play that whole guitar solo *and* live in a double wide.

If you were a national bird, what kind of bird would you be? And don't get cute.

[papayahed]

I would be a bluejay because I like the color and I'm a baseball team mascot.

If your rent payment decreased by $500 would you say something?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you asking, if my landlord lowered my rent by $500, would I say something? And say something to whom, the landlord? If this is what you mean, I would probably say something to the landlord just to make sure I didn't end up owing a ton of back rent or getting evicted. And if the landlord said no, the rent is just lower now, I'd take the money, go to Scandinavia and hunt for twin hotties named Inga and Ingrid.

If you discovered that eating huge salads made you fart in a way that could be used to extract confessions from suspected terrorists, would you continue eating large salads, whether or not you went to work for Homeland Security?

[Andrea Michelle]

Hahaha! Does that mean that the smaller the salad the smaller the confessions? No, I don't think I would. I don't want to know everyone's deep, dark secrets. Ignorance is bliss ;)

If a scientist told you he could give you a super power, but that power could only be the ability to read every other word in someone's mind, would you take the superpower or remain normal?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Remain normal. Firstly, leave well enough alone, be content with what you've got, unless the prospective change is really awesome--like the power to stop those little hairs from growing in your ears. Which leads to point two: What kind of lame super power is reading every other word in other people's minds? For one thing, most other people are 'tards, and even reading everything in their minds would be about as thrilling as sniffing mailboxes. Secondly, as you've said elsewhere, ignorance is bliss; I neither know nor care about other people's thoughts.

If a scientist could give you the ability to fly, but only on your back so you'd always be looking up at the sky when you flew, would you take it?

[tonywalt]

Yes.

Would you emigrate permanently to a country where you do not currently reside?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Traditionally and under normal circumcisions, I would say no. America is still the safest, most prosperous, most well-functioning country on earth, where despite recent abuses by gov't, you have more in the way of rights and protections than elsewhere. However, there are scenarios, ones I've been worried about lately, in which America could go down the crapper. That doesn't mean there's anywhere else to go that would be safer and offer more options, but if there were, like northern Canada or Australia, I might indeed. However, American citizenship is a precious thing indeed, so giving that up would be one heck of a decision.

Would you invest anywhere from a modest to a substantial amount of money preparing yourself to be fairly self-sustaining at home and also be able to defend yourself against looters, marauders, assorted violent douche bags?

[tonywalt]

Not at this point.

Would you be able to inject yourself with insulin?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

That's interesting. I've wondered that a number of times in the last couple of years, because I have high blood sugar and I know I could join the legion of Americans with diabetes. If I had to, yes, though I would hope some of the alternative means of maintaining insulin levels I read about, various high tech devices, would be available soon.

There is a phenomenon sometimes called bladder shyness, in which men have difficulty peeing in front of others, such as in a line of urinals in a men's room. If the assembled Victoria's Secret Angels were watching you, could you calmly take it out and pee, without trouble?

[tonywalt]

Yes. I can pee in front of anyone.

Would your family and/or friends be surprised of the contents of your autobiography? If so, what level of surprise or lack of surprise?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

HELL YES. ;-) If I were truly honest and forthcoming, my autobiography would shock six shades o' crap outta them.

That was a good one, btw, Tony. ;-)

How shocked would your family be at the contents of some of the video files that have been or currently are on your hard drive?

[tonywalt]

Not shocked. Mostly hours of documentaries, photography stuff, art stuff and uumm, well, zzzzzzzzzzz.

Would you ex-communicate a parent or a child because of a bad relationship? (and I eliminate murder, incest etc. just plain old, "can't stand them" reasons).

[papayahed]

Not excommunicate but set definite boundaries. I'm a sucker.

Would you ever toilet paper someone's house?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

TPing a house is not my style, but I won't rule it out; if someone has really gone the extra mile to be a turd, anything's fair game.

Can you think of a series of events, developments and headlines that would cause you to acquire some weapons, even if you don't own any, never have and weren't planning to?

[tonywalt]

No, I cannot.

Would you want your 18 year old self to know your own future? (I would imagine this question will be answered with a certain degree of self-care).

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Hell, no. When I was eighteen I still had hope. ;-)

If the zombies/rioters were coming for you and your family, huddled as you are in a bunker, and there was a total arsehole in there with you, and as you mentally prioritized you realized you needed every second and every resource to defend your family and yourself, would you throw the total arsehole out, knowing he'd be eaten/killed by the approaching horde? Please explain your reasoning.

[tonywalt]

I wouldn't throw him out, as zombies and rioters may cause him/her harm, which I would rather they did not.

Would you offer an idea as to why litnet seems to to decline in activity, over the last few years?

[Danik 2016]

People seem to be migrating to Facebook and Whatsup. In fact Litnet still has a lot of activity. One of the literature foruns I visited was ridden with adds of Nike and Addidas.
Would you change your country to live with a lover?

[tonywalt]

Yes, there is quite a bit of activity and one lots of non-member 'grazing' , anyway.

Yes, I would consider a move, with a lover.

Would you wave the flag of your country at a non-sporting event?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

A non-sporting event? You mean like an execution? If it were the execution of a terrorist and traitor, I bloody would. I'd even paint myself like one of those fat dorks at a football game who shakes his gut in the bleachers, waves little flags and wears a beer helmet.

Would you wear a beer helmet? At any sort of event.

[Boomerang]

yes, for certain, no brainer

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Well, technically, there'd have to be a brain involved, as you wear it on your head. :-0 Now, since you forgot to ask the next question, I'll insert one:

If it's a bright, sunny morning, would you rather get up on only half the amount of sleep you needed, or sleep in and get up late morning?

[tonywalt]

Sleep in.

Would you ever consider becoming inactive on this forum? (I was inactive for a year or so, no good reason).

[Tyrion Cheddar]

If it really dropped off to the point where nobody responded to anything I posted, and all interest in the games and discussions seemed to have died, I might, yes. That would be sad, though, as there really isn't another site like this, and everything else is social media, which is dildonic.

If you knew you'd become a pudgy middle-aged bugger whose body would never look the way you wanted, despite all effort in the gym, would you be able to finally just accept it and try and be happy as is? I may or may not be going through this now.

[Danik 2016]

:biggrin5:To be sure! As they say in my country: regard as already mended, what you can´t mend anymore. I would try to keep healthy though.
Would you accept a first class ticket to Mars?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Hell, Yes! I've been waiting for that ticket since I were a lad.

Would you have another mini bagel if you really wanted one, as I do now?

[tonywalt]

Yes

Would you be double the time you spend on litnet?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I think you meant would I double the amount of time I spend here, and the answer is yes, if more people participated regularly.

Would you feel envious of me if you knew I was about to receive a shiny new Galaxy S7? Oh, go on, say you would. UPS will bring it round any day now.

[North Star]

I would, since you insist.

Would you be delighted to notice that you received an extra copy of Aurelius' Meditations that you could give to a friend?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Hell, yes. That's one of the most valuable texts ever written, and I dare say every person on the planet could benefit from it. It is distilled wisdom, something sorely lacking in this world, needless to say.

Would you be delighted to discover you'd received an extra copy of Bondage Monthly you could give to a friend?

[tonywalt]

Yes.

Would you start your own business? (and if you have a business, would you do it again).

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Yes, if I were capable of such a thing.

Would you fart under the covers while sleeping with a beautiful woman?

[Lady WiFi]

No! Of course not!

[Pompey Bum]

WE HAD SOME GOOD YUCKS OVER THIS THREAD.

If you survived a plane crash in the Andes but ran out of food, would you eat the (already dead) men or women first?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

See, the problem with this one, PB, is that as soon as one indicates which sex he'd start with, there immediately follows the next question, that being which part of the body one eats first. And then we're on thin ice, what with you being such a lascivious person, with your constant appeals to the salacious. So let's do it this way. Before you and the other survivors of said Andes crash froze to death or starved, would you play one last game of Pokemon Go? You never know how many rare Pokemon might be hiding up in them mountains.

[papayahed]

No. I haven't caught the pokemon craze.

Would you live in one of those mini houses?

[Pompey Bum]

Hey Papayahed! Welcome back! :)


Would you live in one of those mini houses?

No, I tried, but Mickey got suspicious and, hey, we didn't want to hurt the guy.

Would you eat a deep-fried tarantula just to say you'd done it?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I don't know what kind of circles you move in, PB, but I've never felt that bragging I'd et a fried tarantula would boost my status. In other words, heck NO!

Meanwhile, your Minnie Mouse joke was staggeringly good/bad and would be perfect for our now revived joke thread. Do jump in there when you can and favor us with a pun or two.

If you could make love to whichever model or movie star you reckon is the hottest in the world, but only when they were a senior citizen, would you?

[Pompey Bum]

Mrs Bum, of course.

I actually did eat a deep-fried tarantula which I got off a woman crouched beside a big basket of them on a roadside in rural Cambodia. It made me so sick they almost didn't let me back into Taiwan. So to answer my own question, no from now on I'm just going to tell people I ate it.

If someone tried to rob you at gun point, and you thought there was about an 80% chance the gun was a fake, would you hand over your money? (You are carrying about $100).

[Clopin]

I probably hand over $100 to anyone trying to rob me, weapon or no weapon; it's not worth possibly dying over.

Would you play to win at a game (there's no prize on the line) as hard as you possibly could even if you knew that winning by a wide margin would embarrass/upset your opponent significantly?

[Pompey Bum]

Smart move.

If it was a kid or someone significantly older than me, I'd just take a dive. Otherwise I would respect my opponent enough to do my best.

Would it bother you to discover from a DNA test that your ethnic group was not what you thought it was?

[Clopin]

No haha, I think I'm almost entirely Scottish on both sides and it's one of my least favourite countries right now. And if I turned out to be Elizabeth Warren style Native American I could get all that nice affirmative action.

If you were single would you get into a relationship with a single mom?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Depends how big her...I mean...I'd have to think about it. Probably not. There's a world full of lovely young single lasses what ain't got no kids.

I didn't know Elizabeth Warren had claimed to be Native American, I just read about it. Let me take this opportunity to say HA HA HA HA HA!!! :rofl: Let's see, now she can own a gambling casino and qualify for BIA welfare. I always thought she was a [insert word that gets you immediately booted from Litnet] and now I have one more reason to.

You're married to a former celebrity, PB? Or a former model? You dog, you.

If you had information that could expose the (very real) crimes of a high ranking elected official, but doing so might compromise national security slightly for a short time, would you do it?

[Pompey Bum]

Clopin: It could be okay, but you'd have to be prepared to get serious about her and consider a lot more personal responsibility. A kid changes a lot.

TC: Big Chief Warren heap important ensure universal access to medicine man.

And what do you mean former? ;-)

Yes. I'd tell the truth in a second.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I'd tell the truth in a second, too. And if anyone has a problem with that they can go Warren themselves. :lol:

But you forgot to give us a new one, PB. It seems I shall have to do your work--again.

If you were a cheese addict--I mean someone who'd crawl over broken glass to get some--but the only cheese available was the stinkiest of stinky cheeses, would you eat it?

[Pompey Bum]

Oh sorry. Yes, the stinkier the better. If it's not at least as bad as your brother socks, it's not really cheese.

Would you rather have bad sex or a bad dream? You must choose one or the other.

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I could answer this one in my sleep. [NB: this was a little joke] I'll take a bad dream any time. I have them all the time. Me and nightmares go back a long way. Now bad sex, I've had a little too much o' that in my time. Matter of fact, really good sex--I mean the howl at the moon and set someone on fire kind--now that's been a wee bit too scarce of late.

Would you rather have sex with Elizabeth Warren or be the victim in one of the Saw movies? [Note: suicide is not an option.]

[Pompey Bum]

Big chief Warren no smokum peace pipe. I'll watch the movie. :-p

Would you renounce your citizenship if it meant you never had to pay taxes?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Well I never wanted to pay Texas in the first place, so yes.

Would you bash your head against an armadillo for an hour 'cause you were unafraid to show your feminine side?

[Clopin]

Probably not. Would you?

[Pompey Bum]

Absolutely not. Armadillos carry leprosy, and no one's feminine side is worth that.

Would you release a big fish if you caught one?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

I'm assuming 'big fish' isn't a metaphor here, PB. The answer therefore is yes, 'cause I don't fish and don't like to eat fish or any other seafood. My motto is: "If it lives in the sea, it should stay there." Now, if we're talking metaphorical big fish, like a six-foot Amazon babe of the variety who makes me week in the knees, then heck no, I'd keep her in a very large shoebox and take her out when I wanted to play with her.

Armadillos carry leprosy? This I never knew.

If you found yourself in the familiar situation of being on a first date and having to unleash gas--and I mean so bad you thought your colon might explode--and you couldn't excuse yourself to the men's room, would you beg your date's pardon and go ahead an let 'er rip, or hold it in and possibly blow like a pressure cooker?

[Sancho]

I'd complain of a recent infestation of Rocky Mountain Barking Spiders and let her rip.

If, after following my above solution to TC's stated problem, you realize suddenly that the sphincter is an ignorant muscle, incapable of differentiating between gas an liquid, and you find yourself sitting in a noxious puddle of goo, do you laugh it off? Do you pretend it's just business as usual? Or do you cut your losses and run for exit and move to a new town where nobody has ever heard of you?

[papayahed]

I'm pretty sure I'd laugh then run for the bathroom. I happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAwIKeIXjoM

If the above situation happened to your date, and everything else being pleasant would you ask them on a second date?

[Laura Clarke]

No way lol.

If you were on a sinking ship with your best friend and the ship would only be able to float with the weight of one of you, would you jump off to save your friend, push your friend off, or hold on so you would die together?

[tailor STATELY]

Jump off to save my friend.

Would you volunteer to be one of the pioneers of a Mars colony and leave your family behind (assuming you have family) ?

[tailor STATELY]

.....

[Lendo]

No. The idea doesn't enchant me, honestly.

Would you trust blindly in your best friend?

[tailor STATELY]

Absolutely.

Would you go without your electronics for a month ?

[Lendo]

No. No cellphone, no TV, no computer it means that i wouldn't talk to a lot of people, wouldn't know a lot of things, wouldn't to a lot of stuff. And all i would do it would be very more difficult to do.

Would you accept a job offer in the other side of the world?

[papayahed]

Absolutely.


If somebody you liked spent time cooking you a meal and they cooked something you didn't like would you eat it or tell them you didn't like that particular dish? For example, somebody cooked fish for me, I hate fish.

[Lendo]

I would make the effort of eating it, and latter i would say i don't like the meal, but that the one the person cooked was good. This way, i tell the person i don't like it, it's not to repeat cooking it, but i don't make the person feel bad because i say it tasted good.

Would you restart a relationship with an old boyfriend/girlfriend if you could?

[Danik 2016]

It depends.If there is a possibility of the relationship florishing again, why not?


Would you go to live in a country without speaking its language?

[papayahed]

Yes.

If a black cat crossed where you were about to walk would you change your route to avoid a "Black cat crossing your path"?

[Danik 2016]

Of course, not. A black cat is just a black cat.I loved my black cat and if anything she brought me luck.

Would you participate in anti prejudice campaings?

[Lendo]

If the campaign was reasonable and concerned a true and real problem, maybe. But most anti-prejudice campaigns are not reasonable.

Would you quit your job if another option showed up?

[Danik 2016]

If a better job turned up, certainly.

Would you fast for medical reasons?

[papayahed]

I have so yes.

Would you spend the day watching Harry Potter?

[Lendo]

Not the entire day... but a movie or two, i would.

Would you skip work to attend a sport event?

[papayahed]

I have, so yes.

Would you tell me if I had spinach in my teeth.

[Danik 2016]

Sure, if I had any opportunity to examine your teeth!:D

Would you travel round the world if you had the money and the leisure to do it?

[papayahed]

Heck yes. I travel every chance I get.

Would you shave your head?

[Danik 2016]

Exclusively for medical reasons.

Would you go on a diet, if necessary?

[papayahed]

If I had too.

Would you prepare a 7 course dinner for your sweetie?

[Hawkman]

Only if they were on a diet.

Would you rule wisely?

[papayahed]

I would make the attempt.

Would you drink Milk after it's expiration date?

[Hawkman]

I'll drink it until it's un-drinkable, which, generally, does not correlate with expiry dates on labels.

When exposed to a man-bun, would you reach for the safety catch on your pistol?

[papayahed]

I would not, however if someone was trying to man-bun my hair then I would have a problem.....that probably couldn't happen though...ok, if someone other than myself was trying to woman-bun me then I'd reach for the safety catch on my....wait. I don't own a pistol....Nevermind, the answer is no.

If you were walking in the forest and you came upon the most climbable tree you had ever witnessed would you climb it?

[Silas Thorne]

Of course. Although I would not be as able a climber as once I was.

If you could upload your memories and sense of self to a realistic computer simulation just before death, would you?

[Hawkman]

God no. When the lights go out, I just want to rest and enjoy the quiet. Oblivion... Something to look forward to. However, I might have my mortal remains left in a warm room for a week or two, and then arrange for them to be delivered to Conservative party HQ. Serve the bastards right!

There's just you and your other half, in a room, with one, fabulous, irresistible biscuit. It's her or the biscuit... Well, would you?