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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?)
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?
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?
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?
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?
No. I don't have the room.
If you dropped the meatloaf on the floor would you still serve it to your dinner guests?
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?
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You miss dropped meatloaf?
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)
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?
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.
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).
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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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...)
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.
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?
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$?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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?
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?
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
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?
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?