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Nothing. Once I was on a train and two seats behind me people were listening to an extremely slowed-down version of someone rapping the national anthem, not on headphones, but on the speakers of their laptop turned all the way up. It went on for about half an hour before the staff came and kindly explained that they were being gigantic pricks.
Would you drink chocolate stout with fondue?
Sure.
Would you drink red wine with fish?
Yes.
Would you ever see yourself adapting to another culture, and becoming part of that culture? (I can leave the Americans out of this question)
Only if they promised to leave some for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
Very funny. Adapting to other cultures: been there, done that. Becoming part of another culture: it takes a lifetime, and I don't have that to give anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
Would you, if it were hypothetically possible, eat by passively absorbing energy from light? It would make it possible to maintain a healthy and attractive body weight without effort, but it would mean never being able to eat food again. The process would be automatic, and there would be no sense taste or pleasure involved.
Yes, as long as I can have an optimal diet this way. In a heartbeat.
But staying healthy and thin is so easy, and food is the most concrete, reliable pleasure there is.
You forgot to ask a question.
No, I'm with Clopin. You'd never have to worry about starving to death or putting food on the table, you wouldn't have to live by destroying other life forms, and you could use the former grocery money to buy books. Plus you wouldn't have to poop. What's not to like?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
If the choice of president came down to Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump, who would you vote for (assuming you are American, even if you are not)? Choose one or the other: write-ins are not an option.
I'm voting for Sanders anyway... (And I would definitely go without food if possible. That sounds like best case scenario: to live but not at the cost of other life-forms.)
If you could press a button that recovered everything ever written before the last 100 years, but at the cost of everything written in the last 100 years, would you?
Haha, yeah, Pompey, asking someone like me that question is a no-brainer, since I also plan on voting for Sanders in any case and am quite happy with my choice :) I'm just your little neighborhood bleeding-heart communist ;)
No, I love Proust more than anything. I'd weep over Genji though.
Same question.
Huzzah for the Sanders love.
I'm happy enough with the amount of classics that have survived from before 1915, so no.
Would you press a button that brought all the greats back to life (they'd not live on average longer than the current life expectancy, though, so the really old ones would have 5-20 years at best) and killed all contemporary authors?
Only if they subsisted on the brains of the living.
Given the choice of Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx...Oh wait, no politics, right? ;-)
If you were rich enough not to have to work, would you do so anyway?
Given the choice of Sanders and Marx, I'd choose... hmm... Bakunin! Hahahaha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
No, really, I'd choose, er, Eugene V. Debs!
Just kidding. Of course it's Emma Goldman all the way.
Is writing poems and playing music considered work? If so, then yes.
Same question.
If photography can be considered work, sure.
Would you rather eat chocolate or ice cream?
Ice cream.
Would you have sex with Scarlett Johanssen?
Hell no, I'd read books all day. Why make money for someone else?Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
I'd vote for Jeb if he'd promise to stick closer to General Lee than he did at Gettysburg.
Would you affect a political view you don't truly have if you were fairly certain it would lead to a promotion at work?
Nope. That would be very uncomfortable.
Would you be motivated to buy a house because of its pool room?
If ice cream were involved, yes. (Who's Scarlett Johansen?)
Would you affect a political view you don't truly have if you were fairly certain it would lead to a promotion at work?
Oh these are going too fast.
No, there's no reason to pay for something you can get for free at any seedy bar. That works well as a general life principle, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Would you dress up if you were fairly certain it would get you a promotion?
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Originally Posted by Lykren
Meh. Where would the ice cream go?
:hand::hand:... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by pompey bum
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?
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?
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?
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 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
No.
What would you like to eat for your next meal?
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?
Mermaids :ladysman:
If you had to render one living species extinct, what would it be?
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?
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?
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?
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?
No to the infinite degree
Would you say you are related to people you don't relate to?
Yes.
Would you change your Name if you could, and to what?
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?
That would be the story of my life- yes.
Would you own a dinosaur
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?
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?)?
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?
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.)