I don't think I would long term, besides they're going out of business with or without me anyway.
Would you trade your ability to speak, read and write English for equal mastery in some other language? Is yes, which language?
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I don't think I would long term, besides they're going out of business with or without me anyway.
Would you trade your ability to speak, read and write English for equal mastery in some other language? Is yes, which language?
No. English is my favorite language.
Would you trade your current citizenship for that of a country in which education at all levels is free (the country has a small population and such phenomenal mineral resources that taxes are not burdensome)?
Definitely not, and actually this is something that bothers me with Canadians in general. I have two coworkers, one from Spain and one from Brazil, I asked both of them where they would most want to live in the entire world if they had the option and they answered (spoiler), Spain and Brazil respectively. Ask any (young) Canadian the same question and you're going to get nothing but 'Sweden', 'Norway', 'Denmark'... mostly because of the "free" education.
Would you say that access to "free" healthcare is an inalienable human right?
Ask me when "free" healthcare actually exists. Until then, how can it be a right?
If there were another "Black Death," where would you go?
I'll wait it out in a small town.
Would you choose to extend your life by seven (healthy) years if it meant that when you do die the method of death is being eaten alive by rats?
No. It would tickle.
Would you want to live forever if it meant that your consciousness were downloaded onto software to be used by a researcher you didn't really know (and your physical body destroyed)?
No.
Would you want to live forever if you could be cloned over and over while retaining your memories?
Not really. There are worse things than dying, some of which may be upon us in a generation or two. I'm not that optimistic about this life.
If someone had told you a secret, an you had promised not to tell anyone, but on reflection you decided that the information would make someone else (suffering acute mental anguish) feel better, would you spill the beans?
It would depend on my relationship to the person who told the secret and what if any damage might be done to them by revealing it.
Would you date someone who had radically different political views than you?
Sure, or marry her. As long as she didn't try to prescribe her political beliefs for me (in other words if there was no PC involved), it wouldn't be a problem. We're going to have to learn to disagree about more important things than that.
Same question.
No, my political views are the only smart ones. Okay actually I would, but it would depend what the views were and how far she tended to stray from common sense.
Keep it going.
There are some key issues that I would prefer the person I am with be on the same page as me but outside of that I wouldn't be deterred if we had opposing opinions.
If you were driving across a bridge and saw someone who looked like they were going to jump would you stop your car and try to prevent them?
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Yes, I'd ask how they were doing and talk a little anyway. A Japanese lady did that for me on an enormous suspension footbridge over a gorge in Japan (I wasn't going to jump, I was just staring into the void) and I appreciated it. Her English was limited ("Excuse me, are you a mother in America? Does she wishing to see you soon? Are you happy here?"--that kind of thing. I gave her a big smile and told her I was fine. I'd do the same for someone else (although I would probably call 911 first).
Same question (and how exactly would you handle it)?
A friend once talked me out of suicide and I would gladly try to talk anyone else out of it. Most people want to be talked out of it. Of the people that survived jumping from The San Francisco Bay Bridge or Brooklyn Bridge, most say they regretted jumping the instant it was too late to go back.
Would you step in front of a friend who was being threatened with death?
I'd step in front of a bullet for my wife. Otherwise I'd be inclined to call 911 and see if I could help deescalate the situation. But if someone were actually attacking a friend, of course I'd help defend him.
If you lived in state with a stand-your-ground law, and you were carrying a concealed pistol, and somebody jumped you with brass knuckles, would you shoot him?
Definitely, not even a question. I have no idea if this assault will leave me dead, crippled or disfigured and his life isn't worth much if he's jumping random people with potentially deadly weapons.
Same question.
Yeah, you can kill a guy with brass knuckles, so I wouldn't debate it too long.
Would you spend the night with a really sexy woman who raised alligators in Florida, even though there were alligators all over the property, and she wanted to make love in the swamp?
Just how sexy are we tal... Wait, no, definitely no.
Would you try to stop a guy next to you on the bus from decapitating someone across the aisle or would you run out of the bus in a panic when you saw the attack?
Now that would be interesting to see. That is a tough one, I am usually not too keen on endangering myself for random strangers. But if I felt confidant I could stop it then I might, I don't think I would run off the bus.
If you saw a couple fighting and it seemed to be escalating to the point that it might become physically violent would you attempt to intervene?
Wise choice, Clopin. She was a goddess, but making love in a swamp is just gross.
I'd try to get the big guys to help me charge and pin him until the cops showed up. Some fairly frail looking Taipei folks did something similar once (with umbrellas, yet), so how hard could it be?
You are walking through the most dangerous neighborhood in town when you hear a woman's screams coming from what appears to be a rowdy strip club. Do you go in and see what's shakin'?
Oh sorry, DM. Yeah, just like the other, I'd call 911, then try to deescalate things. But I would seek to avoid a confrontation.
My question now. :)
If I had a gun, sure, otherwise I am physically not much use and getting myself killed or hurt for nothing is pretty pointless. I would call 911 though.
Would you take my word for it if I said David Foster Wallace isn't worth reading?
911 and no walking into dangerous joints with a gun.
Actually yes, but I'd find someway to confirm it if I were ever tempted to read him.
Would you get serious about a woman who asked her cat questions more than 10 times per hour?
I do talk to my cat and other pets and I do ask them questions but I am not that obsessive about it. More than 10 times an hour would probably drive me insane.
Would you get involved with a woman who had one bedroom dedicated to her doll collection?
No. Many collector's dolls absolutely creep me out!
Would you say you've ever had fear of clowns?
I was pretty open minded in the day, DM, and frankly I could have taken the dolls or the cats if there was no associated baby talk. Unfortunately there usually was.Quote:
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Not out loud, since they might hear me.
Would you pick up a penny (or whatever the cheapest coin is in your country) if saw one lying on the road? How about a 100 dollar bill of you saw one blow onto a busy highway?
No I wouldn't pick up a penny, if I thought I had an opening I might try and grab the 100 but I wouldn't run out in front of moving cars for it.
If you saw your friends girlfriend with another guy would you confront her, tell your friend about it, or stay completely out of it?
I would shout a bunch of slurs at her and then tell my friend.
Would you lie on your resume to get a job you really wanted?
I've been in a similar situation twice with married friends who walzed into early morning coffee shops with cuddly mistresses only to find me, reading and brooding. One guy grabbed his chippy and fled, and the other introduced her sheepishly (with a desperate "Guys understand these things, right?" look in his eyes). In both cases, I said nothing to the wives--not out of "boy solidarity," but because a marriage where that sort of thing is happening is in really bad shape and doesn't need my self-righteous judgment to push it over the edge. (Both marriages survived, btw). Boyfriend-girlfriendism is different, though. I'd be more inclined to tell someone if I thought he or she was being used--and I definitely would in the case of a close friend.
Don't lie on your resume. It will either catch up to you or put you under the power of scum at work who figure it out.
Same question.
I tell my friend if his wife (or her husband) is cheating on him, but I wouldn't tell my friend's wife that my friend was cheating on her.
O my God! I'd freak out! Do you mean I'd see one of my friends' girlfriends walking down the street with some "guy" who is NOT her boyfriend!? Isn't that sufficient cause to get her stoned to death, according to the Quran? Or what if I saw her eating in a restaurant with some guy other than her boyfriend? I'd immediately assume that not only is she "cheating", but she is going directly to hell, no stops in purgatory. I'd go confront her, rocks in hand.Quote:
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Would you ever allow yourself to be seen in public with a member of the opposite sex who was neither a family member nor your "significant other"?
Of course I wouldn't Ecurb, that would bloody well be Haram as all get out.
No, you want to keep that sort of thing indoors--or at least in the woods or something. (:))Quote:
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Let's move on to the resume question.
Well you answered that already.
WOULD YOU... ever consider a pet rat?
(oh and I would lie on my resume, but I've never had a serious or important job)
Only as food for a pet snake.
Would you marry a vegan?
Ugh... yes if I loved her.
Would you marry a new age spiritualist?
Sure. They're sweet (and fun). As long as I wasn't expected to go along with the mumbo-jumbo, why not?
Would you use use Rogaine if you started to go bald?
She's probably not my type, so no.
Would you approve of a government program to create native speakers of the fiendishly difficult and futuristic language Ithkuil?
The above is a link to an explanation of one aspect of the language, its phonology, which distinguishes between every phoneme (language sound) yet discovered, from African clicks, to allophonic variance (such as the difference between the t of 'top' and the t of 'stop'), to seven separate tones. As of yet there are no fluent speakers of Ithkuil.
Edit: I would not use Rogaine.
Nay. It is unnecessary since Esperanto has already established world peace.
If you needed to lose 20 lbs or so, and a surgeon friend offered to give you a free liposuction if you'd sign a liability waver, would you do it? Alternately, if you had saved the money, would you pay for one?