Answer: Get a tissue! I can only take so much sniffling...
Snowboard in the mountains or surf in the tropics?
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Answer: Get a tissue! I can only take so much sniffling...
Snowboard in the mountains or surf in the tropics?
Why can't I snowboard in the tropics? Where there's a will, there's a way. And technically I can't do either. Very technically, as in I'd stand on either and immediately fall over. But ideally I think I'd like to surf.
Learn Welsh or learn Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Welsh.
Would you rather work in Academia or the corporate world?
Is that even a question? Especially here. Academia, baby. The corporate world can gobble my kosher hot dog.
Kosher beef hot dogs or turkey hot dogs?
Turkey hot dogs.
Holiday/Vacation in Italy or the UK?
Dang, son, that's a tough one for me. I have been an Anglophile most of my life. I've been to the UK heaps of times, and love it, so my natural inclination is to go there. On the other hand, a relaxed vacation in Italy with some curvy Italian girls sounds just the ticket right now, so I'm going to opt for that one.
Garroting yourself with the low E string of an electric bass, or making passionate love to a curvy Italian girl?
the Italian girl.
cross country by train or car?
Oh, train, definitely. In fact, I've been considering a luxury train trip through Alberta and the Canadian Rockies this summer. Sounds lovely, just depends on whether I can afford it and on how many moose I'll have to share a cabin with.
Bigamy or polygamy?
Bigamy - I would love to shoot large wildlife in the Serengeti with a fully automatic DSLR.
Stamps: Newfangled already sticky or licky stamps
Already sticky. I wrestled with them old-fashioned ones for years and I say sod 'em.
Now, tailor, as a man of esteemed age who watches no reality TV shows and shields himself from almost all pop culture, you're going to have to help me out a bit. What was the connection between bigamy and Serengeti wildlife photography? Was that a pop culture reference, or do men in the Serengeti get to have two wives?
Have two fat wives or one skinny one?
One skinny.
Sweets or Starch?
Starch, because I love potatoes, in whatever form, while sweets, however tasty, ultimately make me feel sick and I don't want diabetes.
Pottery or paintings, to decorate your home?
Paintings.
Modern furniture or more traditional?
Oh, gods, traditional. Don't even go there. Classy and classical, understated, none of this modern trendy rubbish.
Steak fries or regular ones? This is a big one, 'specially if you're American, so think carefully, lads. And lasses.
^Traditional, I suppose, although some understated Modernist stuff from the earlier parts of the 20th century is what I'd go for.
Steak fries? Do they have meat in them? I'll have my potatoes with their skin intact.
Ancient Greeks or Ancient Romans?
Well, let's see. Greeks invented philosophy and democracy and thought man-boy love was the bees knees. Romans had baths and liked to puke between courses, also had a senate and gladiatorial combat. Also built really good roads and bridges and sewage systems and under their pax romana policy spread such infrastructure hither and yon--forcibly though it may be. I think I'll have to forego the philosophy and bum boys and go Roman. As it were.
Steak fries do not have meat in them. They're a sort of broader, flatter french fry often served with beef at diners in America. I prefer the other kind of fry, myself.
Peace and quiet, alone at home, or excitement and bright lights in town?
Peace and quiet wins every time.
Hey, you forgot that the Greeks invented theatre, and what would later become science, from geometry and physics to medicine and zoology. And the Olympic games. But yes, the Romans were really great at engineering, and pillaging the inventions of other cultures.
That's pretty much what I expected steak fries to be. If they're both mushy inside, I'd certainly prefer the skinny ones, otherwise I don't know if I'd prefer one over the other.
Renaissance or Baroque?
Renaissance.
Beatles or Stones? (or other)
No brainer (for me): Beatles.
Good points about the Greeks, North Star, although the sodding Olympics, today's version that is, can gargle with drain cleaner for all I care. Nothing against the athletes, just the politics and corrupt money involved.
Tavern wench or courtesan?
Courtesan?
The Byzantine Empire or the Kingdom of Kongo?
Byzantine Empire. That place was a crucial influence on the development of so many cultures, particularly all of Europe (and where the Europeans ended up, too). That said, I don't know much of the Kingdom of Kongo.
Yes, it would be better on many levels if there were no professional athletes, and if the art competitions (epic, lyric, dramatic poetry, town planning, architecture, orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music, oil paints & water colours, engravings and etchings, applied statues, reliefs, medals) still were a part of the Olympics. Then again, I wouldn't mind if the people in those categories were professionals...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
Ditto for me on The Beatles.
Ancient (that is, from before they were intimately in contact with Western culture) Japan or China?
Somebody better educated on this should probably answer, the only thing I know is that before Edo, Japan was a blood bath. Seven hundred years of non-stop butchery, I believe. Some damn pretty girls, though, but that's true of Chinese girls, too. I don't any more, so I'll leave it there.
That would be nice, wouldn't it, North Star, if the great arts were part of the Olympics, although today the artists and performers would scarcely be judged for their talent or accomplishment, as the judges would be too busy examining the race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation of the contestants to ever get to their actual abilities.
Meat or vegetables?
Oh, there was a lot of warfare, and tyranny too, in both China and Japan, that's sure.
Sure, that's how the style points are awarded in ski jumping. But the one who jumps the longest usually wins, nonetheless.
Meat or vegetables - I really wouldn't like to choose, but no matter how much I love eating some good meat like a true carnivore, I do believe I'd rather choose vegetables (and fruit and berries etc), and not just for the obvious health benefits, but I think I would end up being fed up with only eating meat faster.
Rice or pasta?
Pasta, I'd have to say. I love me some rice, but life without pasta is not a thing I want to contemplate.
If you have to do one or the other on a first date, audibly so the girl can hear, belching or farting?
Both, simultaneously for extra points. Just getting to know you, sweetheart.
shlemiel or schlemazel
Between one that sells his soul to the devil and another that spills good wine on a new suit, I prefer schlemmer.;)
wine or beer?
I no longer imbibe, but when I did 12-years/2-months/9+ days ago I was still drinking wine and had resorted to non-alcoholic beer which wasn't too flavourful...
So I'll go with wine.
Manual or Automatic transmission driven vehicles ?
I donīt drive a car so public transport.
PC or tablet?
Prefer my laptop but just now my Kindle is just great.
Windows or Mac or Linux operating system ?
I prefer the open source Linux but am addicted to Windows. So Windows.
Android or IOS?
IOS!
Fruit or vegetable?
Fruit
salt food or sweets?
Sweets!!
Hesse or Huxley?
Hesse.
Jane Austen or Margareth Atwood?
Margaret Atwood.
Character driven or Plot driven?
Character driven.
Poetry or prose?
Poetry mais certainement !
Bradbury or Clarke ?
Malcolm Bradbury
Walt Whitmann or Elisabeth Bishop?
Glad to meet you Sir Malcolm !
Elisabeth Bishop
Tolstoy or Tolkien ?
Certainly Tolstoy
Jane Austen or Louisa May Allcott