Aye or Nay?

[bounty]

I love doing that if there is a lost and found, but if not, sometimes the found item ends up finding another home either with me, a friend, or a thrift store.

throwing things when youre angry?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay. That's just what the things will be expecting me to do.

Apricots?

[Clopin]

Haha and nay, I only usually have them dried and don't care for them.

Figs?

[Pendragon]

Nay. I find them unpalatable.

Stuffed dates?

[bounty]

yes, I want to make sure she leaves the table satisfied with the meal.

(that one was too easy to pass up!)

oh and I love dried apricots! you can send me yours clopin.

adam sandler movies?

[tonywalt]

yay (a couple of the early ones, but he's a broken record now).

Greenpeace?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay. Long term solutions involve more than just passionate self-indulgence (aka showing off).

Writing down dreams/nightmares?

[Dark Muse]

Aye mostly though I don't always do it

Talking to yourself?

[Pompey Bum]

I have a journal of my nightmares that goes back to the 1980s.

Aye, mostly as add on comments to times when I laugh to myself, but it still counts as crazy.

Belief in UFOs (as alien visitation)?

[Dark Muse]

Nay, I believe in the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe but I don't believe they have visited earth.

Belief in Bigfoot

[Pompey Bum]

Aye, as I've said elsewhere on this site, Bigfoot is a strange creature who haunts the American wilderness wearing a gorilla suit.

Belief in devils/demons?

[Clopin]

Nay

Hark a Vagrant (web comic series about literature/history)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/84/7a/60/847a602486d651e40fc149e930f76df4.jpg

[Pendragon]

Nay to whatever this is!

Leaves of Grass?

[Lykren]

Aye but it's pretty inconsistent.

Pendragon, why no to Hark! A Vagrant?

Dinner with a large group of people?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay. The mob mentality forms with groups greater than three.

Flash mobbing?

[bounty]

aye for when musicians do the hallelujah chorus in the mall.

nay for when thugs ransack a 7-11.

les stroud (the survivorman fellow) has had an interesting series on bigfoot. if you like bigfoot, you can probably find the series online.


ice sports long after the snow has gone and summers on its way?

[Pompey Bum]

That question reminds me of an old Rodney Dangerfield joke: I don't get no respect, no respect at all. I remember when I was a kid, I asked my Dad if I could go skating. He said, "Wait till it gets warmer!"

Um, yes darn it!

"Gender non-conforming" (LGBT) summer camps for children?

[bounty]

i say nay (I go to another forum where I would get raked over the coals for such "troglodyte" thinking---and called all sorts of nasty names too).

the gratuitous female flesh shot with dr. marcus and captain kirk in star trek: into darkness?

[Clopin]

lgbt summer camps for kids? I think I really personally despise liberals. Also I think you missed a few letters, not that anyone can be expected to remember all of the stupid "non binary" gender options anymore.

Bounty I haven't seen the movie but uh... aye most likely.

The museum of tolerance?

[Clopin]

Ah, Bounty I watched the scene and read about the supposed "scandal" it produced. How absolutely stupid are these modern blogger feminists? I mean really, here's a scene from the superman (should it be superperson?) movie which came out recently.

http://newnownext.mtvnimages.com/2013/05/henry-cavill-superman-shirtless-2.jpg

Does he need to be running shirtless? Probably not, who gives a literal ****? Open up any stupid tabloid magazine and you will see male celebrities with ripped, muscular bodies photographed shirtless. I am so sick of people being this retarded.

[Dark Muse]

lgbt summer camps for kids? I think I really personally despise liberals. Also I think you missed a few letters, not that anyone can be expected to remember all of the stupid "non binary" gender options anymore.

Bounty I haven't seen the movie but uh... aye most likely.

The museum of tolerance?

Aye I suppose, I haven't been there so I cannot say as wheather or not I would personally enjoy the experience but I don't object to its existence.

Performance Art

[Clopin]

Nay

The Vagina Monologues?

[Pompey Bum]

I was going to say nay, but then I realized that, as an oppressor, I don't really have an opinion worth considering.

Putting American special forces troops on the ground in Iraq to facilitate anti-Isis airstrikes?

[Clopin]

No more anything in the mid east.

Taking boats full of illegal refugees when they float up to your country?

[Pompey Bum]

Unfortunately, only long enough to float them somewhere else.

Federal ban on states deporting illegal aliens?

[Clopin]

Of course not, is that a thing?

Margaret Thatcher?

[Pompey Bum]

Yes, but it received a significant set back in the courts yesterday.

Aye for what she did to British socialism. Can't really thank her enough.

Ronald Reagan?

[Clopin]

I only really know him through being the most caricatured (both positively and negatively) president. I think a bit of aye and a bit of nay for Reagan but I haven't researched him deeply even though I should.

Who is your favourite founding father? (that's right favoUrite, yank)

[Pompey Bum]

John Adam's, but just because he reminds me of my own naïveté. Democracy means everyone becomes an aristocrat, right? Right?

In your opinion, who (besides Dudley Doright) was the most significant Canadian?

[North Star]

In your opinion, who (besides Dudley Doright) was the most significant Canadian?
Yousuf Karsh.

Same question.

[Pendragon]

His horse. He got the girl, remember!

Sherlock Holmes?

[Dark Muse]

Aye, I am not a huge fan but some of his stories are intersting

Edgar Allan Poe

[Clopin]

Aye, but I've read pretty much nothing by him.

The taste of your own blood?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay. Salty water. Big deal.

Tan lines?

[Clopin]

On myself I don't care at all (possibly because i don't tan at all), on females they get the biggest aye possible.

Yoga pants (worn as real pants)?

[Pompey Bum]

On women? No, nothing special. On me, I wouldn't know.

"Power yoga"?

[Dark Muse]

Aye I never done power yoga before but it sounds like it could be intersting.

Going to the gym

[Pompey Bum]

Sure, have a great time.

Dachshunds?

[Dark Muse]

Aye, as pets I prefer larger dogs but in general I love all dogs really

Camping

[Calidore]

Nay. My one camping experience as a child was enough of a disaster to put me off it forever.

Summer camp

[tonywalt]

Nay, too structured (well, the one's i went to).

Independent films/movies?

[Dark Muse]

Aye, I love them

Foreign films

[bounty]

totally aye...went three times to two different camps as a kid, and worked athletic camps for 7 summers in the late 90s into the early 2000s. on the whole, they are good places that provide positive experiences.

internet file (music and movies) sharing?

[bounty]

oh man, I was slow again!

foreign films---id say aye, but I think the best ones are still in America.

internet file (music and movies) sharing?

[Pendragon]

Yeach, I like free music but I can see the artist's point...

Watch shows on your computer?

[Pompey Bum]

Okay. I saw Wolf Hall that way and it was great. Lawrence of Arabia wouldn't have worked. So I guess it depends.

p.s. My computer is an Ipad, so maybe that affects the answer.

Using terms like ie, e.g., sic, etc. ?

[bounty]

aye for when required by academia, nay for otherwise.

really really hot peppers?

[Pompey Bum]

Yes, but they really, really don't love me back.

Nescafé?

[Dark Muse]

Nay

Green tea

[bounty]

aye, especially ones with neat flavors like lemon jasmine.

V8 (the drink, not the engine)?

[Dark Muse]

Aye, I like the V8 fruit juices

Energy drinks

[Pompey Bum]

Nay.

Steamed clams?

[Pendragon]

Nay. Like mine fried.

Frog's legs?

[Pompey Bum]

Yes, although it's more polite to call them French. (:))

George Smiley?

[Clopin]

I'll leave that for someone else since I don't know who he is.

Excited about J.D Salinger's soon to be published books?

[Dark Muse]

Aye to J.D. Salinger

George Smiley is a tough one but I think I am going to have to go with Nay, I tried reading Tinker Tailor Solider Spy and couldn't get into it and I fell asleep during the movie.

Hipsters

[Clopin]

Pffft, nay, even though I'm often accused of being one... because everyone who likes reading and non radio music is a hipster to some people haha.

It's a Wonderful Life or A Christmas Carol?

[Dark Muse]

A Christmas Carol. It has ghosts and a Grim Reaper and it isn't like 5 hours long

Classical Music

[Pendragon]

Yea

Country Western?

[Dark Muse]

Nay

Renaissance Fair

[Pendragon]

Nay

Shakespeare?

[Pompey Bum]

Of course.

Thackeray?

[Clopin]

Fraid I haven't read him yet.

D.H Lawrence?

[Pompey Bum]

Thackeray's one of those writers who didn't really understand when his work was good (and not). I've been thinking of rereading Vanity Fair lately. I loved it the first time, but that was long ago.

I take Lawrence with an enormous grain of salt, since I have personally put a lot of his modernist guff behind me. But he is a brilliant (if self-tortured) writer, so aye.

Round hippy glasses on women?

[Clopin]

I just recently read Women in Love and really liked it. I'll probably get around to Vanity Fair as I'm on a novel kick right now and really I just love novels, though I'm trying to distance myself from them a little.

No to modernism eh? So how about...

Eliot?

Haha and nay to round hippy glasses most of the time.

[Pompey Bum]

Not modernism per se, but Lawrence's ideas about the physical/phallic over the ideal is no longer something that has much meaning for me. If did once, though.

And as far as hippy glasses go, nostalgia burns bright.

Eliot gets an aye-ish because his poetry is quaint--exactly what he didn't want it to be when he wrote it.

Henry Miller?

[Clopin]

Boo, I love Eliot.

I read half of Tropic of Cancer before losing it on a train, but I wasn't exactly in love with it. Also, and this isn't totally Henry Miller's fault, but I read a book of short stories a bit later by Anais Nin and found them to be pretty sucky.

Light nay, but I do plan to finish a Miller book so I'll get back to you (also my cousin's name is Henry Miller, true story).

C.S Lewis?

[Pompey Bum]

Oh sure. Sitting by a fire in my cardigan--after I'm done with Eliot. :p

The smell of wet wool?

[Clopin]

Haha

And nay to the smell of wet anything... unless it's grass or the ocean or a forest or something.

Swimming in very cold lakes, rivers or oceans?

[Pompey Bum]

Yes, off the Maine coast, if I get to be 16 again when I do it.

Watermelons?

[Clopin]

Nay, I find them pretty annoying to eat, they are too big and I can never be assed to finish an entire one.

Cooking an elaborate meal only for yourself?

[Pompey Bum]

Watermelon
Bare feet
Grass between your toes
Summer

Naw, too much work.

Cooking a meal together as a social activity?

[Clopin]

I usually do most of the cooking in social situations because everyone I know is incompetent and would just make something horrible. I don't dislike people being around while I cook though, so aye.

Eating a lot before bed?

[Dark Muse]

Nay I try to aviod esting late

Having cake (or other sweets) early in the morning

[Pompey Bum]

Aye, when I can get it.

Moon cake?

[bounty]

I grow watermelons in my garden in the summer, and love them.

ive never had moon cake, and looked it up to find out:

"Mooncake is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival is for lunar worship and moon watching, when mooncakes are regarded as an indispensable delicacy."

what is not to like! aye.

mustard on French fries?

[Clopin]

Nay.

Mayonnaise on french fries?

[tonywalt]

Yay. Better with Belgian mayonaise though.

hip hop?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay.

Jelly donuts?

[Dark Muse]

Nay

Cheesecake

[Pompey Bum]

Aye.

Getting your teeth cleaned by a dentist?

[tonywalt]

Nay.

Trying to speak another language when visiting a country other than your own?

[Pendragon]

I only know enough French and Spanish to make a complete fool of myself.

Speak with a different accent sometimes.?

[Pompey Bum]

Only when talking to myself. ;-)

Soy or almond "milk"?

[Dark Muse]

Nay, I never tried it before but it just doesn't sound appealing to me

Goat cheese

[Pompey Bum]

I don't like soy milk, but almond milk is delicious and stores much longer than cow milk, so you don't end up drinking it just so it doesn't go bad.

Goat cheese is great. The stinkier the better.

Joni Mitchell?

[tonywalt]

Yay. She's cool, i've got a strange attachment to the 70's mellow music, simon, mitchell, taylor (although she spans the 60's) - hell, i would have loved the 60's too.

James Taylor?

[Pompey Bum]

Aye, I love seeing the sex symbols against whom I was measured as a teenager become uglier than me as we age. Robert Redford, too!

Jane Fonda

[tonywalt]

i liked her in barbarella, pretty girl. (i'll stay away from the rest of her activities)

las vegas as a vacation?

[Pompey Bum]

No, not for me, but I like the rest of Nevada

More North American oil drilling?

[Dark Muse]

Nay

Movies made from comic books

[Pompey Bum]

Generally speaking, no. At least no more superhero movies for a few millennia.

Distribution of condoms to middle school children?

[Dark Muse]

I might say yes to high school but middle seems a bit young

Schools teaching sex ed?

[Pompey Bum]

Mostly harmless as long as it doesn't replace the role of parents (which it often does, so--naye?)

And if they are having sex in Middle School? Would distributing condoms be condoning the behavior, and even if it were, would it be worth preventing pregnancies among 14-year old girls?

[Dark Muse]

If they are having sex in middle school I think that is a serious parenting issue and I do think that providing condemns might seem like condoning it and really help the greater problem so nay

Legalizing drugs not just pot but other substances as well

[Pompey Bum]

What parents? The single mother staring slack jawed into a crack pipe?

No. Too many attendant social problems that make it more than just a personal choice.

Same question.

[tonywalt]

nay. just marijuana.

Non fiction/essays?

[Dark Muse]

Aye, I don't read then that often but they can sometimes be interesting

Literary critique

[Pompey Bum]

I sometimes read nothing but non-fiction for years at I time. (I've read a few novels this year, but mostly non-fiction). I don't find modern essays very interesting, but that's usually me and not the essayists.

If you mean literary criticism, DM, for me, it's worth considering in principle, although it is not as important as the individual's personal connection and interplay with the writer's mind. In addition, it is my opinion that post-modern literary criticism cannot be thrown to the weasels quickly enough.

Sea World/Killer Whale shows?

[Dark Muse]

Yes that is what I meant. I took an interesting class on literary criticism once though as a rule I don't typically read it.

Nay


Growing and/or raising your own food?

[Pompey Bum]

Well, I'm all for growing. Raising your own food is too much work though. :)

Sending out for (good) pizza or sending out for Chinese?

[Clopin]

I prefer pizza usually so aye to that.

Aye legalize all drugs
Nay to condoms for middle school kids

School dress codes, sexist?

[Pompey Bum]

What was that again, sexist? :)

Aye to school dress codes.

School uniforms?

[Clopin]

I'm neither for or against them particularly so I suppose aye.

Bill Watterson?

[Pompey Bum]

Aye. Calvin and Hobbes was a little after my time, but I liked his gentle and whimsical humor.

Gary Larsen?

[Clopin]

Aye but I like Calvin and Hobbes a lot more than The Far Side.

Alan Moore?

[Pompey Bum]

I know who he is, but I've never seen his work, so I'll let someone else answer.

[Dark Muse]

I see i got beat out but Aye, to Gary Larsen I used to be a huge Far Side fan

Alan Moore I only know from the movies made of his work so I cannot properly judge. I liked the movies but haven't read his stuff so I will let someone else answer.

[North Star]

Aye for Alan Moore on the basis of Watchmen

Richard Thompson's Cul de sac?

[Pendragon]

Aye

Zits cartoons?

[tonywalt]

aye

Jonathan Franzen?

[Clopin]

Haven't read him or Wallace actually, someone else answer.

[Dark Muse]

I only read one of his books, The Corrections, but I liked it so I will say Aye

Contemporary poetry

[Pompey Bum]

There's a rumor that Franzen was the model for the character Henry in Donna Tartt's The Secret History, and that Brett Easton Ellis was the model for Francis. They were apparently all in the same undergrad writing class (and more than close) when Tartt penned The Secret History. Franzen today sure doesn't seem like Henry, though.

Yes to contemporary anything, DM, if it is what comes after post-modern. :)

Donna Tartt?

[Clopin]

I thought contemporary is post modern? Aren't we still post modern?

Oops, and never read Donna Tartt, so deleting my question.

[Pompey Bum]

I can dream, can't I? Nay. PC is really, really scary. Not liberal PC, not conservative PC--but having your opinions prescribed for you is bad, m'kay?

Bruce Jenner as a woman?

[Clopin]

Nay, and I'm sick of hearing about everyone's special snowflake sexual orientation. I do not care if you are pansexual and want me to refer to you as 'xir', it will never happen.

People who identify as non binary gender?

[Pompey Bum]

I wonder if Pan was pansexual.

Nay. Fish or cut bait. (I may concede a neuter gender, though).

Al dente pasta?

[Clopin]

Aye, as long as that isn't code for "I have no idea how to cook so here's some raw pasta".

Taking time to decorate your plate/plating the food elaborately?

[Dark Muse]

Nay ( to both al dente pasta and decorating with my food. I was initially responding to Pompey and saw I got beat out but my answer worked wither way)

Sushi

[Pompey Bum]

Aye to sushi.

And DM, since I don't think the "compliment PAM" thread is exactly your style, I want to say that you are an intelligent woman and a really good sport to but up with the louts on these game threads. Enough said.

Wasabi?

[Clopin]

Aye, it's good.

Desserts?

[Pompey Bum]

Aye.

Calling vegetables "veggies"?

[Clopin]

Uhm, nay, but at the restaurant I work at everyone always says 'veg'.

People from Quebec?

[Pompey Bum]

Good. Where the hell did that second g in "veggies" come from. Plus, "veggies"-- you're about to eat them, can't you give them some dignity?

And I knew and loved some Québécois nuns in Africa: all sweet, all lesbians (and hence kept far away), and very generous with their chickens. So for the Sisters, a big aye.

"Free" community college?

[Clopin]

No. Subsidize medical school and anything else the country actually needs. No subsidies for art history majors, no subsidies for women's studies majors, no subsidies for literature majors, no subsidies for history majors, no subsidies for indulging eighteen year olds who want to go to adult daycare. The standards are also INCREDIBLY low at community college, so low to be almost unbelievable.

Also why is a humanities education so expensive? A few decades ago you could get a summer job and pay your tuition and now it costs twenty grand a year somehow? Most probably subsidies and massive student loans artificially jack up the price since everyone can and will pay whatever the universities charge (would people be as willing to take a useless degree if they spent a decade working for the eighty or so thousand dollars needed for their program and living expenses?). Why aren't cheap online degree programs the norm for humanities? If I hear one more ****ing argument centred on students getting the "college experience" I may strike someone.

Classical liberalism?

Also Quebec girls are cute but Quebec guys are uh... well you may meet some, someday.

[Pompey Bum]

Well, I've always had good luck with Canadians. Sweet, beautiful women (best kept secret in North America) and earnest, masculine men. I've personally known very few exceptions

I agree about free community college, by the way. Mona was just quoting Thatcher on another thread: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money." That sums up the whole project for me.

If by "Classical liberalism" you mean Mill, then aye.

Disney on Ice?

[Clopin]

Yeh Mill, Smith, those guys.

Nay to Disney on ice, even though I love Disney.

A life sentence without parole for Ross Ulbricht?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay, but it comes that way when you play the game with China. They never heard of Mill, right?

Whatever massive sentence Bradley Manning got?

[Dark Muse]

Aye to sushi.

And DM, since I don't think the "compliment PAM" thread is exactly your style, I want to say that you are an intelligent woman and a really good sport to but up with the louts on these game threads. Enough said.

Wasabi?

Thank you, it is all good fun,


I don't know enough about Ross Ulbricht to properly say so I will leave it for soneone else.

[Clopin]

Bradley/Chelsea Manning? No, of course not, that's disgusting.

Julian Assange?

[Dark Muse]

Aye

Anonymous (the group)

[Clopin]

Do they do anything... ever? Nay to anonymous and I've been posting on 4chan since late 2007 haha.

4chan?

[Pompey Bum]

Julian Assange: Okay, I mean the show's over there. Let him do a few years minimum security for stealing stuff, then farm him out to Umass.

Never been on 4chan, so I'll pass it on.

[Clopin]

http://boards.4chan.org/lit/

Never too late pal ;), try not to become a neo nazi, a neet or a seething sex pervert in the next five minutes.

[Pompey Bum]

Eugh! It's like the vestibule of hell, where the Futile go.

Using "sans" for "without"?

[Clopin]

Hahaha, that it is.

And in writing I don't mind it, in speech it tends to come off sort of weird.

Decaffeinated coffee?

[Dark Muse]

Nay, I don't drink coffee

Starbucks

[Pompey Bum]

Yes, on the road it's better than a Denny's. Beyond that, it's just coffee. Way too expensive, though.

Trader Joe's?

[Clopin]

I don't think we have them up here, I've heard good things though.

Very, very cheap wine ($2 a bottle cheap)?

[Dark Muse]

Aye to Trader Joes

Nay to wine

Shark Week

[Pompey Bum]

Aye.

Bug week?

[Dark Muse]

I didn't know there was a bug week but it sounds awesome.

All those random made up holidays like Talk Like A Pirate Day

[Pompey Bum]

YAAAR!

Poison dart frogs?

[Dark Muse]

Aye, I love those guys.


Various diffrent ribbons for various causes

[Pompey Bum]

I'm not really into it. To me, it's too much like pious religious works. How did it end up being about the worker? I prefer to give as much as I possibly can to the causes I personally choose (it's all about choice, right?), and then mostly keep it to myself. I somehow feel like I'm being hustled with all the hoopla. So no, not really.

Same question.

[Dark Muse]

Nay, it is like some sort if braging or martyrdom or trying to guilt trip others

The continuation of associating pink with girls and blue with boys in baby/kids clothes?

[Pompey Bum]

Well, pink is a great color for men, and women have always worn blue. As far as baby clothes go, I think it's kind of silly to insist on the traditional colors, but parents are welcome to do so if they want. Personally I think it's a bigger problem for older kids because it can (and will) cause bullying and humiliation in school. I didn't start to wear pink until I was a self-confident and slightly obnoxious adult.

Public/televised marriage proposals?

[North Star]

Nay for public/televised marriage proposals.

And, the traditional colour for boys' clothes is pink/red, and blue for girls.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Duccio_di_Buoninsegna_-_Madonna_and_Child_%28no._593%29_-_WGA06706.jpg

From http://qi.com/infocloud/gender :

The ‘pink for a girl, blue for a boy’ coding is actually the opposite of the system that prevailed until quite recently. Until the 20th century toddlers of either sex were normally dressed in white, but when colours were used, boys were dressed in pink. At the turn of the 20th century, Dressmaker Magazine wrote: 'The preferred colour to dress young boys in is pink. Blue is reserved for girls as it is considered paler, and the more dainty of the two colours, and pink is thought to be stronger (akin to red).' As late as 1927, Time magazine reported that Princess Astrid of Belgium had been caught out when she gave birth to a girl, because 'The cradle…had been optimistically outfitted in pink, the colour for boys.'

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay. He's just not convincing. I've been in his mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Also, by coincidence, I own a copy of that icon.

Christian icons as art?

[Dark Muse]

That is tough one, I often find such are uninteresting and redundant after a while but I love classical art and art history and there are some religious pieces that are quite interesting and masterfully done. I think I will say Aye as an art lover.


Grimm's Fairy Tales

[Pompey Bum]

Big aye-- the gorier the better.

Gilbert and Sullivan?

[bounty]

one of the funnier lines in star trek is in the movie insurrection (great movie!), when worf has been away, but comes back to the enterprise and he and picard are in the process of trying to capture data, whose programming has malfunctioned. picard gets the idea they can distract data by singing a piece they had actually been rehearsing together earlier, and picard asks worf if he knows gilbert and Sullivan, and worf says sorry, he hasn't had the opportunity to meet all the crew yet!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyyjCn1ML3k

aye to gilbert and Sullivan.

violins, or flutes, or other non "traditional" instruments in rock music?

[Pendragon]

Aye Loved the violin in Kansas' band

Same Question

[Dark Muse]

Aye, I enjoy that fusion. I really like Irish Rock music that fuses traditional Irish instruments with modern rock.

Irish drinking songs?

[Pompey Bum]

Damn right! :)

As a child in the cradle, me nurse with her ladle
Was fillin' me mouth with an ocean of pap
When a drop from her bottle fell into me throttle
I capered and scrambled clean out of her lap
On the floor I lay crawlin' and screamin' and bawlin'
Till me father and mother were called to the fore
All sobbin' and sighin', they feared I was dyin'
But soon found I only was beggin' for more!

Ethnic pride?

[Clopin]

Aye, a reasonable degree of pride in your ethnicity, nationality, forbearers and culture is a positive thing.

Ethnic price parades?

[Pompey Bum]

Well, I hate parades, so it's an easy nay for me.

Legally protected LGBT participation in religiously affiliated St. Patrick's Day Parades (even if the organizers say no)?

[Clopin]

Nope, no legal protection for anyone or anything to attend private functions, they can feel free to protest though (the function, not my point of view).

Universal childcare subsidies?

[Pompey Bum]

The trouble is the city helps pay, and it provides the cops. This is the sort of thing we throw rocks over in Boston. :rolleyes5:

And sorry, but I'm really conflicted about socialized childcare. Answer it yourself, if you like, or someone else can.

Should Christians (continue to) exclude non-Baptized individuals from taking Communion?

[Clopin]

Ah, well if the city is directly involved like that then everyone has to be accepted, LGBT men and women pay taxes.

Socialized childcare is crappy and inefficient, but hey, if you're going to socialize something anyway then it's a good pick.

And I don't know haha, is that an important issue? I'll leave it with the daycare question for someone else.

[Pompey Bum]

I don't know that it's such a good pick. Why wouldn't girls who don't want to work just get knocked up and collect a check for getting high to Judge Judy all day? Then you've got a cycle that's going to produce a lot more social problems and probably lead (eventually) to violence. I don't know what else to do about it, though. It's not the kids' fault.

For the other, it seems to me that if a church has universal pretensions, that it's Salvation needs to be available to all--not just to those who bought the tee shirt. But I suppose it depends on the importance one gives to Communion as a means to Salvation.

Driverless cars?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Oh, noooo....Lads, I beg thee. This is the one and only site filled with cheery folk replete with education and wit wot I ever did find on the internet. It is an oasis, a reprieve from the pedestrian effluvia found elsewhere, mercifully free of such spiritually impoverished and intellectually barren topics as politics. I plead, I implore, I offer trips to my backdoor--don't, I say, do not tarry in that woeful land.

[Pendragon]

"Catholics" do not comprise all of Christianity. Different policies are given by varied churches. No one should feel they have all the answers, however close they stick to what they believe. Has it ever occurred to any of us that we could be the ones in the wrong?

Aye on the cars.

Should we stay off religious topics on this thread?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay. We should all take it easy and continue to speak freely on this thread. :)

West Coast/Pacific Jazz?

[Pendragon]

Aye, and agreed on free, friendly discourse on any topic!

The era of Swing?

[Pompey Bum]

Aye, but not as much as my Dad.

Art Pepper and/or Chet Baker?

[Clopin]

I like the politics talk most of all, and as it's banned everywhere else these forum games can serve as a sort of Mos Eisley.

I don't listen to much jazz so someone else had better field that one.

Bleeding gums Murphey?

[Pompey Bum]

I think that s because we don't fight and fuss when we disagree. Or maybe no one else reads these. :)

Art Pepper is amazing, Clopin.

Aye for Bleeding Gums Murphy.

First year Family Guy?

[Clopin]

We, meaning Bounty, Pendragon, you, Dark Muse and I seem to all hold pretty similar views though, but sure I don't think it would get nasty if someone else joined in with a wildly different perception of the issues. Also i know Bounty mentioned something like this, and I think it's worth repeating, but unless you're already posting on a hardcore right wing forum like Stormfront, a lot of people are going to be heavily critical of you for not being very in favour of things like uh... LGBT day camps for kids, etc. So it's nice to chit chat without fear of being socially ostracized (my Facebook news feed is not such an oasis of discourse).

And okay Family Guy, well it's hard for me to give the show an aye when I personally strongly dislike it and feel that it has set a really bad precedent for humor and (American at least) adult animation in general, and since it has been so successful it has subsumed much better shows (King of the Hill for one) and influenced much worse. That all said I do sometimes find Family Guy to be funny and when the first season was being played on TV I was young enough for it to be my favourite show.

Ultimately it gets a nay from me, no matter what season.

King of the Hill?

[Pompey Bum]

Nah. The South was funnier than that when I lived there.

Beavis and Butthead?

[Clopin]

Haha nay.

Would you publicly disown support from groups considered unsavoury (911 truthers for one) in the public eye if you were running for president?

[Pompey Bum]

If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve. So no, I'll take all the friends I can get.

If you were a libertarian presidential candidate, would you court the Evangelicals by pretending to believe in a God that most of your base refuses to accept?

[Clopin]

libertarian presidential candidate

Might as well stick to my principles and beliefs because i'm not getting elected no matter what I do or say. Nay.

Pomegranate?

[Pendragon]

Aye

Desire to run for public office?

[Pompey Bum]

Nay.

If you lived in California, and had a lawn, would you water it?

[Clockwise]

Nay.

South African red wine and Stilton cheese for a first date?

[Pompey Bum]

It couldn't hurt.

Peanut butter flavored Oreo cookies?

[Clockwise]

Nay. I avoid cookies, unless baked by family.

Nostalgia?

[Pompey Bum]

Not what it once was.

Cocoanut scented sunscreen?

[Clockwise]

Hate that stuff.

Cocktails with coconut milk?

[Pompey Bum]

If you're driving.

Any entrée that is on fire when they bring it to you?

[Pendragon]

Nay

Entree prepared right at your table?

[Clockwise]

Aye.

Entree where you have to pick the live animal (usually fish or chicken) before it's killed and prepared for you?

[Pendragon]

Aye but only a lobster; I'll take their word on the chicken and unless it's sushi, no need to see the fish either

Fast food chains?

[bounty]

isn't it "not fast food, but good food fast?" smiles...

I say aye. while I like local and variety and ambience, there is also something to be said about taco bells all over the place.

really hot sauce on your bean burrito?

[Pompey Bum]

Sure.

Bubble tea?

[Clockwise]

Very popular in Hong Kong, said to be a Taiwanese thing. I have tried it a few times but not a big fan, I say nay if I can have a good coffee instead.

Spend one week of your life to study the ins and outs of rain deer herding somewhere in Northern Scandinavia?

[North Star]

Reindeer herding, eh? I can't say I want to know more about it than I do at present, so nay.

Italian Neoralism?

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Spend one week of your life to study the ins and outs of rain deer herding somewhere in Northern Scandinavia?

I actually did spend a week studying in and outs in Scandinavia, but reindeer had nothing to do with it.
Oh come ON! It was a hanging curveball!

[Pompey Bum]

Aye. Why not?

Eating the fat from a piece of meat?

[Clopin]

Usually aye but if it's a particularly egregious piece of fat I'll cut it off. I haven't had a steak or whatever where I felt the need to cut any fat for a few years at least anyway.

Asparagus?

[Pompey Bum]

Aye! Good stuff.

Bluefish?

[Pendragon]

Aye, if that's Blue Tuna

Panfish?

[Pompey Bum]

"Blues" are toothy saltwater monsters that feed in frenzies (you have to chum the water for them) and have to be clubbed to death on the deck because they are desperately trying to bite you. Their flesh is kind of oily, so they are only really good in chowders or in blackened and spicy Cajun style. So not tunas, no. They are much smaller.

Are panfish the same thing as bluegills, the freshwater fish that surrender and turn themselves in before they even see your bait? If so, yes for eating (nice and sweet), but no for sport (the only fish that swims toward you once you hook it). It's the opposite of a bluefish, in a way, which fights like hell but doesn't really taste that great.

Black crappies?

[Clopin]

Never tried, but it looks tasty and I have never eaten a fish I didn't like so aye.

Lingcod?

[Pompey Bum]

Despite the unfortunate name, black crappie's are great eating and a sunfish that actually takes exception to being hooked (so they're reasonably good sport for ultralight tackle).

I never ate or caught a lingcod, so I don't know. Did you?

Girls with really, really pale blue eyes?

[Clopin]

Yeh I've caught them before, delicious.

Sure, aye, but I don't particularly have a preference for pale blue.

Girls with freckles?

[Pompey Bum]

Personally I find women with really pale eyes scary.

And of course freckles! What kind of monster doesn't like girls with freckles?

[Clopin]

My mom and sister have freckles so I have an aversion to them, as well as an aversion to redheads (my mom has red hair, my sister and I were born with red hair but turned blonde later on).

Pickles?

[Dark Muse]

Nay

Bow ties

[Clopin]

Nay for me, I like regular ties though.

Freckles on men?

And hey pomp I see what you mean about the pale blue eyes...

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/829393-007-young-woman-with-white-hair-and-pale-blue-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=mY9wM%2B4o6lcJD%2FHTTxvS32kyaf%2Bk19svDbjurkEHsb zTHGHzRSKfMQ9RKupS%2FivS

[Pendragon]

Aye if you got up, flaunt 'em. Face it, what choice do you have?

Heavy eye makeup?

[Pompey Bum]

And hey pomp I see what you mean about the pale blue eyes...

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/829393-007-young-woman-with-white-hair-and-pale-blue-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=mY9wM%2B4o6lcJD%2FHTTxvS32kyaf%2Bk19svDbjurkEHsb zTHGHzRSKfMQ9RKupS%2FivS

Yeah, some can be extremely beautiful, but they are still kind of scary. It must be one of those Uncanny valley things.

Nay to excessive eye make up.

Barbershop quartets?

[Clopin]

Nay, seems kitsch to me.

Outsider art?

[Pompey Bum]

It's sort of hit and miss. Manson was a lousy singer. So were the Shaggs, but at least they were funny.

Joan Baez?

[Dark Muse]

Aye I don't really listen to her but I don't mind sime of her stuff I have heard.

The Beetles

[Pompey Bum]

Aye and nay. They were my favorite 35-40 years ago, but I am honestly pretty sick of their songs at this point.

Yoko?

[Pendragon]

Nay, she doesn't sound all that great

Mick Jagger?

[Pompey Bum]

Aye. He's got an interesting voice.

Dylan?

[Lykren]

100%.

Leonard Cohen?

[Pompey Bum]

10%?

Lou Reed?

[Clopin]

Leonard Cohen is great, nay to Lou Reed.

Joni Mitchell?

[Pompey Bum]

Clopin, you're patriotic! How cute! :)

Leonard Cohen is WAY too much of an affected hipster for me. I love Lou Reed's voice and most of his music, although some of it is irritating. Joni Mitchell gets a huge aye from me, especially Blue, but her later stuff, too. Is she still in the coma?

Keith Richards?

[Clopin]

Haha of course I am.

Aye to Keith.

RUSH?

[Pompey Bum]

I've never actually heard RUSH (:blush5:), so I'll let someone who knows what he's talking about answer that. I saw Tom Rush in a little folk club one time. He's Canadian, isn't he? You folks are always rushing. (Must be the cold).

In the meantime, what's your opinion of Joni Mitchell?

EDIT: Oh well, I guess Tom Rush is American. He sure seemed Canadian, though. :-P

[Clopin]

I love Joni Mitchell of course.

RUSH are bad, my patriotism can only be stretched so far.

Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy?

[Pompey Bum]

You're over my head with him, too. I see that he is an "Appalachian post-punk solipsist," though, so he sounds like an interesting fusion of Pendragon, Dark Muse, and YesNo's tastes. :) I wonder, though, why someone who advocates blunt honesty doesn't use his real name. Anyway, I have to pass. Anyone else?

Fairport Convention/Sandy Denny?

[Clopin]

Well I don't know about post punk solipsism, but he may be too hip for you even without that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nhqAfSzFDgs

Aye to Sandy Denny.

Frank Zappa?

[Lykren]

Verboten in my (future) household.

Fleetwood Mac?

[Clopin]

I hate Zappa too, and I haven't listened to Fleetwood Mac so someone else must answer.

[Dark Muse]

Aye to Fleetwood Mac

Weddings


Unrelated question, this game reminded me of the Like, dislike,love, hate game which I realized I cannot find listed anymore. Has it it been removed for some reason? Does anyone know?

[Lykren]

No to weddings. Awkward and demoralizing.

Tapatio?

[Pompey Bum]

No to weddings. Awkward and demoralizing.

Aw, that's just the wedding night.

Aye to Tapatio.

Tapioca?

[Pompey Bum]

Unrelated question, this game reminded me of the Like, dislike,love, hate game which I realized I cannot find listed anymore. Has it it been removed for some reason? Does anyone know?

Another good point, DM. Maybe we should start a new version of it. Was it axed for a reason? (Like the woman said, anyone know?) Are we not supposed to talk about hate or something? Does the crowd cry for more?

[Dark Muse]

Nay to tapioca

Tofu


I always liked the game, it seemed good natured enough.

[Lykren]

Tapioca pudding? So-so.

PJ Harvey?

Edit: So-so to tofu as well.

[Pompey Bum]

Tofu

Aye. Sauté it in a little curry paste. So good!


I always liked the game, it seemed good natured enough.

That's how I feel about premarital sex.

[Clopin]

Make it, it probably just timed out.

Aye to P.J Harvey

Pâté?

[Pompey Bum]

Aye to pate. Kind of cruel to geese, but, "elder friendly" (since you don't have to chew it much). Unfortunately it makes me a little queasy. But it tastes great.

Deep-fried clams balls?

[Clopin]

Uhmm, well, deep fried clams are good so ya, okay.

Nutella?

[Pompey Bum]

I haven't actually tried it, but I like hazelnut. Aye?

Rice crispy squares?

[Clopin]

Aye, with chocolate on top or without.

Nanaimo bars?

[Pompey Bum]

Never tried them, but they look to be worth emigrating to Canada for.

How about Anne Rice?

[Dark Muse]

Aye, I admit to being a fan of hers


Ayn Rand

[Clopin]

Haven't read her but I'll err on nay for Rand (I do plan on reading her).

Anne Carson?

[Pompey Bum]

I met her a few times in New Orleans, DM. I read the vampire books in those days. Okay, she's not Faulkner, but (like John Kennedy Toole), Rice slips by my filters as pre-Katrina zeitgeist.

And Clopin, I give you preemptive absolution for throwing Atlas Shrugged in the trash after the 20th page, too. You'll like the message but, my God, the style!

And Ann Carson looks amazing. I'll have to read her.

Louisiana?

[Clopin]

And Clopin, I give you preemptive absolution for throwing Atlas Shrugged in the trash after the 20th page, too. You'll like the message but, my God, the style!

Louisiana?

Haha I like that you can live vicariously through encouraging other people to start books and not finish them! I was going to read The Fountainhead or Anthem instead of Atlas Shrugged anyway.

I've never been to Louisiana but it seems like a neat place, aye from me.

A Confederacy of Dunces?

[Dark Muse]

Haha I like that you can live vicariously through encouraging other people to start books and not finish them! I was going to read The Fountainhead or Anthem instead of Atlas Shrugged anyway.

I've never been to Louisiana but it seems like a neat place, aye from me.

A Confederacy of Dunces?

I loved The Fountainhead and really enjoyed Atlas Shrugged

Aye the Confederacy of Dunces

Southern Gothic literature

[Clopin]

Haha ya DM I think I recall you being the lone assenting voice in an Ayn Rand thread from awhile back.

I'll leave your question on Southern Gothic for someone more qualified than 'not at all' to answer.

[Pompey Bum]

That wasn't meant as a put down, DM. Obviously one reads what one loves and disregards antiquated snarks like me.

Aye to Southern Gothic. If you like it, check out a somewhat forgotten writer called William Gay. Good, weird, disturbing Southern Gothic. Early Cormac McCarthy, too. And of course Faulkner.

Post-Apocalyptic novels?

[Dark Muse]

That wasn't meant as a put down, DM. Obviously one reads what one loves and disregards antiquated snarks like me.

Aye to Southern Gothic. If you like it, check out a somewhat forgotten writer called William Gay. Good, weird, disturbing Southern Gothic. Early Cormac McCarthy, too. And of course Faulkner.


Post-Apocalyptic novels?

Haha oh I know and I am aware of the fact that I am in a small minority who doesn't find Rand unbearable to read.


Aye to Post-Apocalyptic

Chuck Palahniuk

[bounty]

ive enjoyed ayn rand's anthem, and the fountainhead. ive not tackled atlas shrugged yet.

if divergent, and hunger games can be considered post apocalyptic, i would say aye to those...

don't know chuck palaniuk so i'll have to pass that one along to the next person...

[Lykren]

Nay to Palahniuk.

Humans of New York?

[Dark Muse]

Nay to humans in general, which would include those in New York


Florida

[Lykren]

Haha, I was referring to the blog.

Nay to Florida.

Strip clubs?

[Dark Muse]

Haha, oh I don't follow the blogs much so I hadn't heard of that one.

[Lykren]

http://www.humansofnewyork.com

[bounty]

oh I was hoping someone else would answer the "strip clubs" query!

im a guy so aye! but im supposedly a moral guy, so nay! but im a guy so aye! ack! what to do what to do!

lemme keep with the same theme maybe:

breast enlargements?

[Dark Muse]

Nay, I prefer natural

Breast feeding in public