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Yes, but none will let me in.
Would you go to the rodeo?
Been there, done that. (Used to go to the one at the prison in Angola, LA-- bloodiest rodeo in the South).
Would you allow the contents of your mind to be downloaded onto a microchip for use in a (presumably immortal) cyborg body, if it meant that your old flesh-and-blood would have to be destroyed?
Yes, if I was 95.
Would you drive 3 hours to attend a concert of your favorite artist?
Probably not. Although the shared experience with the audience and the sense of "being there" has some merit, if I'm really honest, I prefer to hear the music well balanced and performed to perfection in the studio. Live sound is always disappointing. Besides, I like to be comfortable and most of my favourite artists are now, quite frankly, past it! About the only singer still as good as he was when he was young is Tom Jones. Poor old McCartney can't hold a tune to save his life and even Cliff is getting a bit wobbly.
Would you clean your boss's car for brownie points?
Sure, if he asked me to. I'd actually do the same for anyone. (It's partly safe to say that because no one's asked me to!) :wink5:
Would you bake your boss brownies for brownie points? (If she or he asked you to)
I don't bake.
Would you play tennis, naked, in the arctic?
Heck no, I'd freeze my ba...why do you always reduce me to vulgarity? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hawkman
Would you learn to bake if it gave you prospects of a happier marriage or relationship?
well, seeing as I don't bake and I'm not currently in a relationship pehaps it's not a bad idea.
Would you lend a coworker money?
Anyone who would ork a cow gets nothing from me.
If a supermarket cashier neglected to charge you for an item, and you didn't notice until you checked the receipt at home, would you go back and pay?
Yup. and I have done it before
Would you rather listen to a dictator shouting or a baby screaming?
What's the difference? :) (Okay, okay, the baby).
If you could only choose one, would you rather be dishonest with an honest reputation or honest with a dishonest reputation?
erm, honest with a dishonest reputation.
Would you go to Antarctica on vacation?
Nah, since global warming no one goes there anymore.
Would you be willing and able to clean fish?
No.
Would you be able cook a perfect soufflé?
Probably, but why would I want to?
To impress the ladies.
Would you rather spend the day at the beach or explore ancient ruins?
Explore the ancient ruins, every time!
Which apocalyptic horseman would you choose to be?
I would have to say Death
Would you eat a human if you were starving and that was the only food source?
If he/she were already dead, you bet.
Would you kill and eat an endangered animal (less than 50 left) if you were starving and that was the only food source?
That is a tough one, but nature is all about surivial, so I think I would do it if the only other option was my own death.
What realitly TV show would you most likely be on if you had to pick one.
Survivor, but I wouldn't go on one at all.
Would you extinguish one random human life, from somewhere in the world, old or young, if you instantly received $1000000 for doing so? The one stipulation being that your money must be spent selfishly, as in, you can't keep 300k and spend 700k saving multiple lives in Africa to justify it. You can also cause this to happen as many times as you like, would you keep going?
If there was a guarantee that it wouldn't be someone who I personally knew (or at least liked) then I might be tempted to do it at least once. I wouldn't keep doing it, but hey I could use the money at least one time around and I am a misanthrope so I don't like the majority of other people in the world anyway.
If you found a device that allowed you to control the minds of others how would you use it? Or would you?
Of course I would, I would use it to make myself a billionaire through donations from other billionaires. After that I think I could resist the... seedier, applications of such a device. I might however run rampant with politicians, etc... Really though I would use it all the time, no question, you could do anything.
Would you alter the course of any historical conflicts (everything about you will remain the same regardless), if yes, which ones and why? Oh and you can't alter them so that they never happen.
Yes
All Heathens everywhere will have prevented the Christians from gaining a stronghold and it will not have become a global super power of a religion. Why? Because I think the world would be a better place and a lot of other conflicts never would have happened.
The Celts will have defeated the Romans. This is for my own Celtic pride.
If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow what would your last actions on Earth be?
Eh probably just walk around a bit, talk to my family some, but I wouldn't tell them. I don't think I would be too fussed honestly.
Would you rather bring back to life (at the height of their creative powers) Emily Dickinson, Chaucer, Milton, Tolstoy or Gogol? Whoever you choose is now your roommate as well.
Wow, the questions got really good overnight! Sorry for the retroactive hogging in, but I couldn't resist:
I absolutely would not take a random life for any amount of money. Financial security isn't really that hard to achieve if you're smart about it, having more money than you'll need in a lifetime is not important, and the goal of life is to die broke. (Take care of your money when you're young, though).
I do, however, like the idea of controlling billionaires' minds so that they give me all their money. But that's probably just because I find most of them so irritating.
The one event in history I would change would be to stop Zachary Taylor from drinking the bad milk that killed him so he could crush the southern rebellion before the Confederacy got organized, in a small war rather than the years of slaughter that came later.
If the world were about to end, I would get into bed with my wife and hold her to the last, as some did at Pompeii.
And I was going to say Tolstoy for resurrection until I saw the roommate part. If we had to live together it would probably be Chaucer. We'd have a lot of laughs together.
Would you rather get drunk with Jesus or Hemmingway?
Hands down, Hemmingway
Would you rather play chess with Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar?
I would rather play chess with Alexander the Great, because he was a cool guy, more so than Caesar.
Would you dare to jump off the tenth floor of a building for 1 million dollars if on the surface there was a bed on which you would (hopefully) fall?
No way.
Would you gamble more money than you have (at triple risk/triple return) if you thought you had at least a 75% chance of winning?
Mhm I would if it weren't triple risk. Haha though maybe I'll throw down a million I don't have and declare bankruptcy if I lose. Of course if I'm going to owe money to people who will kill me for it then no.
Would you murder the next stranger you see if doing so would make all of your dreams, wants, desires, aspirations, etc, whatever they are, come true? You must accept or decline this proposition before you see the stranger. Choosing yes and then refusing to kill your stranger after seeing that it's a tree year old girl or something will cause both of your heads to explode.
Edit: Your dreams also must be entirely selfish. You can't 'dream of inhabiting a world without violence and hunger'. Nobody's life can be saved, except your own, through wishing here.
Nope. I've already got enough of my dreams (plus it would be wrong).
You have a beautiful 3-year-old child who is everything to you and your spouse. Your child develops a terminal liver disease and will certainly die if a transplant can't be found. Your family is put on a waiting list, but the doctors tell you that there probably won't be enough time. At the last minute, however, you are told that a child's liver has been found. But a few days before the procedure is scheduled, a charity worker confides to you that the organ was purchased by an anonymous benefactor from a criminal group that kidnaps children, then harvests and sells their organs on the black market. Worse yet, the vivisection has not yet happened. The kidnapped child is still alive.
Do you keep your mouth shut and proceed with the planned operation as if nothing had changed?
Yes.
After running into a burning building you are confronted with a wailing infant in one room and 52 manuscripts of previously unknown, unreleased shakespeare plays, each more majestic than the last. Given only enough time to save the plays or the baby what do you do?
You bastard :)
The kid. (But I would have done the same as you with the liver transplant).
Same question, but this time the kid has Down's Syndrome.
lol the kid every time and I think downs syndrome children are really sweet and cute :(
Would you commit or attempt suicide if your dream of becoming a banker went unfulfilled?
Hell no. That sh*t's not important. But I would if my wife and father were already gone and I found out I had cancer again (I had cancer once). Or if I had dementia. Or if I just felt like I was done.
Would you assist in the suicide of a spouse or family member in brutal pain, even if you were likely to go to prison for it?
Definitely, though I might off myself as well instead of go to prison.
Would you cause one decent person (can not be yourself and they can not volunteer, you must force this on them) to exist in a state of permanent, unbelievable agony if it meant that nobody else would ever suffer again?
Ah they'd give you minimum security and let you out as soon as the media went away. You might have to clean toilets, but you'll do the same thing when you're a husband. And you won't have as much time to read then. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Nah. Not my job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Would you waterboard escaped/recaptured felons if it was near certain to retrieve the stolen Rembrandt: "Christ Calming a Storm on the Sea of Galilee"?
Well in that case I'll take the prison sentence.
Would I personally waterboard the felons? Yes; who I waterboard is my business. Would I support authorizing the government to do so? No.
Would you rather be a successful author of a childrens series or a frustrated and unhappy writer of literary fiction who will be lauded and admired only after his death.
Yes, I meant you personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
It would be a matter of indifference to me. The former sounds nice, and the latter would not render me unhappy or frustrated. Work is an important part of life, but it's not where your happiness comes from (or not mine in any case). And carrying what people think about you is a sucker's game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
So after the thugs told you where the painting was, would you turn 'em in and tell the cops about it; or kill them (they're Sado-Masochistic child killers, by the way--and they're already planning on having you whacked for torturing them), get the painting for yourself, and discreetly sell it to a Russian art collector willing to pay in gold bars?
I would kill them without receiving any reward if I could get away with it, so yes, absolutely. I also don't care about Rembrandt enough to value the diffusion of his painting into the world of art over millions of dollars in gold for myself. This one is an easy sell.
Would you rather hang with Lord Byron and Percy Byssche Shelley in Italy for a weekend or spend a week at Yasnaya Polyana with Tolstoy, Turgenev and Dostoyevsky (you can speak Russian for just this week)?