I think Italy, but I haven't been to either.
Italy, Spanish or French (as a language)?
Printable View
I think Italy, but I haven't been to either.
Italy, Spanish or French (as a language)?
My other niece--only 17--is speaks fluent Italian (she's currently translating for her parents as they tour Sicily), and it sure sounds cool when it rolls off her tongue. But all Romance languages are beautiful.
Okay wine or good beer?
Eh, I can take or leave either to be honest. Lets go with the wine though, I like the look of it more than beer.
Would you rather be fluent in all Germanic or all Romance languages?
Romance languages, as long as my native tongue was still my beloved English.
Would you rather know French or Russian well enough to read literature?
Russian, especially because my French is okay (comprehension wise, I can't speak or write it) and I know Russian is much much harder to learn. That said I had to stop reading my Fleurs Du Mal because I kept reading the French side (which I can't understand, sophisticated poetry is well beyond my comprehension) and noticing how much better it sounded. Seeing the two side by side has pretty much killed any enthusiasm I had for translated poetry.
Would you prefer to introduce me, Lykren or North Star to your niece (sorry, you have to pick one)?
For a non PB specific question... Playstation1 or Nintendo64 (PB you can answer this too)
I'd be happy about any of you, but I know her well enough to predict her response, which would be: "Tell 'em to get in line." :)
No opinion about the computer games, so I'll let someone else take it
Lykren was probably the correct answer, he's a big sweetie.
Would you rather have a genuinely great personality and everyone really respects and likes you but you never get laid, or a really infantile, unpleasant personality but you have lots of sex?
The former by far, as long as never getting laid means getting laid now and then. And after marriage it's less of an issue.
Would you prefer it if Homo sapiens turns out to have or not to have some Neanderthal DNA?
Yeh I should have phrased that so it was a harder choice.
And I don't know what it really entails, but I was under the impression that, Europeans at least, have Neanderthal DNA, or is that just theorized? I think I read that on /pol/ though, which is sort of a white supremacist board on its good days so I am really not sure.
I would prefer we have it I suppose.
Would you rather be an incurable neo nazi or an incurable ultra left wing, politically correct, bullying, male feminist with Maoist leanings?
Get rid of Mao, and I'd rather be left than Nazi. With Mao (or Stalin) it's six of one, half a dozen of the other.
The supposedly irrefutable proof on that keeps going back and forth. Despite the popular media proclamations from time to time, our relationship to the big dummies is an open question.
Living in ancient Sparta or living in Medieval Scandinavia?
I think you had more freedom to do your own thang in Scandinavia so I'll take that.
Nearly dying of thirst or nearly dying of blood loss?
Nearly dying of thirst, since nearly dying of blood loss is going to make you pathologically thirsty in any case.
Drowning or falling off a skyscraper?
Skyscraper, no question.
Placed immediately (so no time to explain anything to your family or friends) in a very distressing and painful situation with a slight (around 5%) chance of coming out of it alive, or being given a guarantee that you will peacefully in your sleep in one months time.
Not much of a choice. 5% is about what lung cancer gives you, so I'll figure both are death sentences and take the easier death.
Same question.
I'll die in my sleep, I fear pain over death anyway.
Asparagus or Zucchini?
Zucchini
Usung an online dating site or letting a friend set you up?
Asparagus, which is good in itself. Zucchini merely sucks up the goodness of its neighbors.
Carrot cake or banana bread?
I've had nothing but good results through being set up and I've never bothered with online dating but I think I would really like it.
And that's a tough one pomp, I love both. I'll go with carrot cake though since I don't get to eat it nearly as much.
Croissants, chocolate covered or full of cheese and ham?
Cheese and ham. Chocolate breakfast pastries just confuse me.
Figure skating or that racing around in big circles kind of skating?
Speed skating otherwise known as race around in a big circle.
Surfing or paddle board
I went to the world short track speed skating championships one year---great time, and I love long track, have actually considered trying it. but I love figure skating (watching it that is) too.
ive never had the opportunity to surf, but I live around all sorts of rivers and lakes, so paddle boarding it would be.
dark muse's "Using an online dating site or letting a friend set you up?"
I answered already! Well someone else should answer that too.
Fairytales by the Brothers Grimm or by Hans Christian Andersen?
Hans Christian Anderson
Snow White or Red Riding Hood?
I agree, Andersen is better.
Snow White.
Disney or Pixar?
I prefer Grimm, but I see the marchen more as folktales. Andersen has his own charm, though, so it depends on my mood.
The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible or the New Testament/Christian Bible?
Eh, taken as a whole I would much rather read the New Testament cover to cover and I think Jesus is the high point of the whole thing, so I'll give it to the New Testament by quite a wide margin, though obviously the Old Testament has a lot of the most compelling stories in the Western tradition (that I know of at least) and can't be dismissed.
Dostoyevsky category A
Notes From Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Gambler
Demons
or Category B
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
White Nights
The House of the Dead
Category B, although I like The Possessed/Demons.
Sylvester or Tweetybird?
Sylvester, I hate all the prey animals in Loony Tunes and want all the predators to just finish them off. Tweetybird, Roadrunner, Bugs... kill them all.
Betty or Veronica?
Ah but the immortal question with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd is, Who exactly is the prey?
Betty, for her luscious black hair.
Same question.
Betty is the blonde!
I'll take Betty, she's pretty and entirely devoted to me to the point that she's even a doormat.
Would you rather be Archie or Reggie?
Oh sorry. Other way around.
Neither one, and I don't want to be Jughead, either.
Who had it worse, Dracula or the Incredible Hulk?
I think Dracula because of his lack of freedom, and while the hulk is not entirely free, at least he has some control over his condition. also, he can be a force for good.
however, if you watch Dracula untold, the "force for good" message comes across there too, and makes him a much more sympathetic character. theres a Sherlock holmes story with Dracula, and if I remember rightly, holmes more or less lets Dracula off the hook so to speak because the only people Dracula was preying on were murderers.
twilight is interesting this regard also---the cullens (the vampire family in question) have eschewed human blood and only hunt animals. the family patriarch is a doctor and Edward (the main character) is aware he is a sort of monster and doesn't have a life to be envied.
the story line concept behind star trek: deep space nine, or the one behind star trek: voyager?
oh heck I was thinking that was going to be a fun one that everyone would jump all over!
STV by a gnat's hair. I binge-watched STDS9 and STV back to back to keep me awake in the wee hours a year ago on Netflix. I especially liked the temporal stories on STV.
Martian Man Hunter or The Green Lantern ?
Martian Man Hunter. As for Green Lantern:
Hal Jordon, Kyle Raynor, Guy Gardner, or John Stewart?
I read green lantern comics when I was a kid, and liked the movie from a few years ago (though I guess many green lantern fans didn't), but too esoteric of a question for me.
I had to go looking and even found this: http://www.comicvine.com/forums/batt...john-s-611509/
my meager green lantern experiences (or at least my memory) are restricted to hal Jordan, but I think that would be missing the spirit of the question.
maybe someone else can answer?
Well, since I asked the question, it would be anyone besides Guy Gardner. He stunk as Green Lantern.
Anyone else?
Guess not.
Dostoyevsky or Turgenev?
Dosto by a mile, not to say I don't like Turgenev though.
Tolstoy or Chekhov?
I think the push on Turgenev in 21st century academia had to do with his downplaying religion. He was/is seen as a more socially acceptable Dostoyevsky. But I'm with you, accept no substitutes.
I used to love Chekov, but I haven't read him in maybe 35 years. :( So I'll have to say Tolstoy, but it's really a toss up. And I can't decide between Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, either, so don't ask. Okay, maybe Dostoyevsky is a photo finish, but not really.
How about you? Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?