Aye or Nay?

Well, if I went back to me family's Celtic roots, maybe. Personally I think one has to be Scottish or of Scottish Decent to own the right to wear the kilt.

Feathers in your hair or hat?

Hat, if i had to do.

Beets?

Yea, they're not too bad

Turnips?

Since our man Baldrick was mad for beets, I'll have to say yes.

Garth Brooks. Dead with a flaming arrow through his thorax.

I have very little, maybe none, experience with turnips, so id have to say "aye" just to try them.

major aye to garth brooks, who played a large part in merging the pop sound into country music and turning it into a genre that I absolutely love and so major nay to the whole thorax and flaming arrow thing.

reality talent shows like x-factor, America's got talent, the voice?

nay, boxed music, cliche hell

Punk rock ie sex pistols, the clash(earlier stuff)?

I must give a hearty Aye to punk rock, although listening to it is not my cup of tea, because of the spirit of it, the "throw a brick through a window" spirit, the way it restored rock 'n' roll to its barebones, raw, honest roots. Furthermore it inspired countless great artists who came later. I'm a huge Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters fan, for example, and punk and hardcore were a massive influence on him. Probably less so on One Direction.

One Direction, dead with several flaming arrows through their several thoraxes.

Can I shoot one of the arrows? I always thoght it wpuld be cool to shoot a flamming arrow.

Death Metal?

Nay. Listening to death metal is like pressing your temple against the business end of a jackhammer. Mind you, some people like that, so I'm told.

Freckles.

I love freckles, so aye!

continuing to read and finishing a book you are not enjoying?

Nay. If it cannot keep my attention, it's gone. I review books for several places (hey, the books are free, anyway!) and at times I have had to tell them I couldn't finish the book.

Giving a negative review on amazon?

Aye. I've come to rely on those reviews pretty heavily in deciding whether to buy something or not. Opening lines like "I wouldn't give this piece o' **** to Heinrich Himmler on the occasion of his descent to the Ninth Ring," more than a few times negative ratings have saved me from purchasing a real turd of a product.

Certain Disney pop hits. And be honest, 'cause I've got thermal night vision goggles and can see you dancing behind those drawn curtains.

well, I had to look up some songs that qualify under those conditions and found this:

http://top40.about.com/od/top10lists...-Pop-Songs.htm

I say aye, but not my favorite genre. I like most music with just a few exceptions.

the popularity of young adult literature turning into movies---harry potter, twilight, hunger games, divergent, etc.?

Aye.

All but twilight on my radar.

Going to see "The Martian" ? (contemporary). I listened to the Audible offering and am chomping at the bit to see the cinema version.

heck tailor, I had forgotten what I had written here and notice that I just put a variant of my question above on "this or that."

im reading the last twilight book right now.

if I had someone to go with to see "the martian", id say "aye" but, alas...

new authors keeping story lines alive after the original authors have died?

Aye, provided they do NOT try to revamp the character for new readers. If the new readers have to have the character redone to understand, write them a new character.

Movie Remakes?

Aye.............. I've enjoyed many. What with CGI and other tech advances many movies really "pop" where the effects were more flop in past incarnations. (Saw "The Martian" today; give it an 8 out of 10... only paid $5 USD to see. Not too much left on the cutting room floor from the Audible offering)

Sneaking snacks into the theater ? (not that I did).

Aye. I was sneaking RC Cola into my local movie thee-YAY-ter when I was thirteen and my friends and I dun snuck in to see Sasquatch and Capricorn One.

The willingness to use an aluminum baseball bat to crack open the skull of a home invader?

Aye. Though I abjure violence (I prefer chrysanthemums).

But just enough of a crack to get the intruder skittlin'. To protect the family a crack on the noggin 'tis better than a bullet to the bu-tocks 'praps.

Quiet nights without the telly ?

Heavens, yes. Aye. Playing forum games, perchance. Or listening to an audiobook while beating back the unredeemed hordes of aliens invading one's encampment in Starcraft. Or, if one is entirely lucky, getting Biblical with some undoubted member of one's preferred sex.

Ostrich jerky. Yes, it's real, and I've et it.

i think id be more inclined for a baseball bat to the knees, ribs or whatever hand might be holding a weapon, but i wouldn't be totally averse to the head if needed.

im a vegetarian, but when i was younger, i liked jerky, so i would have tried it, and probably liked it.

warm soda pop?

Yo. Recently a generic ginger ale. The other is chillin' to perfection as I type.

Nikes ?

F-word Nay. Cheesy commercial drek. One should instead aspire to Reebok, Adidas or the strangely affordable yet stylish Asics.

Printed T-shirts, though you have three drawers full of them already, for the sake of supporting a worthy cause.

tailor i'll be staying awake wondering if your "yo" is a "no", "aye" or "nay"? I cant tell from the context of the sentence afterwards either! laughs...

hmmm---I can say aye to the t-shirts. ive got a bunch from somewhere (worthy) I volunteered and I like to think the advertising is good for them.

lana del ray music?

Nay. If I want that sort of pretension and affectation I'll go back in time to some of the writing classes I took in college.

Karl Pilkington.

tyrion, that im aware of, im not familiar with him so I was hoping someone else might have jumped in, but, from what I can tell from the little reading ive done, id say "aye" on principle. he seems accomplished and well rounded.

"dance" remixes/versions of songs?

Nay, I really don't like remixes

Self-driving cars

Aye, self-driving cars! My main man Elon Musk came out with another first this very day, being that Tesla self-driving cars can now change lanes on their own. How do you like them apples? If'n my vehicle drives itself, I'm free to don my Oculus Rift and drift off into a VR game in which I'm a guy riding in a self-driving car while wearing an Oculus Rift and playing a game in which I'm a guy riding in a self-driving car while wearing an Oculus Rift and playing a game in which I'm...

Recursion:

P.S. I realize my narrative example may actually been of regression, rather than recursion. Not sure, I got lost somewhere in the third iteration. Take your pick, and feel free to allude to M.C. Escher.

tyrion I think you were so excited about self driving cars that you missed leaving an "aye or nay?"

okay bump...

hot chocolate on a cold winter day or cold lemonade on a hot summer one?

I guess nay to hot chocolate and aye to lemonade

Steampunk

Aye, and a hearty heck, yeah! Discovering William Gibson in the late 80s changed my ever-lovin' life, and I subsequently got way into cyberpunk. I didn't go as far as to wear fragments of circuit boards as earrings, as some in the subculture did, but I walked the walked, oh yeah, man, I walked the walked.

Men wearing earrings.

heck muse I had the wrong game!

99 44/100% nay, but sometimes a rare guy can pull it off, but even then, ehhhh...are you part of the .56% tyrion?

presidential candidates hamming it up on late night tv?

Nay, hang um! Hang um all!

New spins on old music, such as a Gregorian Chant version of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters?

That actually sounds awesome. I would play that for Halloween.

Thrift Stores

bounty: I was an earring wearer in my youth--and boy did I have style. :-0 Also, never mind presidential candidates attempting to appear hip and zany on late night TV, now they're intruding on our virtual reality and Periscope. In the words of Pendragon, Hang 'em! Hang 'em all!

Thrift stores can open wide for the pork sausage, as they both appear and are cheap. Can't go letting the wrong element in, now can we.

Disposable razors.

Disposable razors: Aye, they augment my rotary razor use.

Perusing yard / boot sales ?

so tyrion, you are no longer an earring wearer?

I like yard sales, so aye, mostly for books, though I typically get much more and better finds from library sales. every once in a while though you can get some other worthwhile goodie at one...

books on tape?

On tape? Not since the digital revolution, though I used to have books on cassette. Now I'm a happy Audible customer.

bounty, yes, my earring days are long over. Alas, my bald days are not.

ah, so I should have said "books on cd"---see, I am so far out of that loop!

the recent popularity of zombies?