Would You??

[tonywalt]

yes, i'd switch - small issue.

Would you have dinner on your own where you live (not business or travel, just out to solo dinner and home)?

[Lykren]

It's a five hour flight, and she wanted to sit with her kid, who seems about six. I was one of the people who offered to switch, but yeah, taking money for such a little thing would have made me uncomfortable.

Probably Scotland, a bit easier to understand what people are saying, plus it's not quite so cold as Quebec, right?

Late again. Tony: I would and do.

Would you rather watch My Little Pony or eat an undercooked snail?

[North Star]

It's a five hour flight, and she wanted to sit with her kid, who seems about six. I was one of the people who offered to switch, but yeah, taking money for such a little thing would have made me uncomfortable.

I don't see why you should be bothered about someone offering money for you for the trouble. The mother and child will get to sit together, and you get a few bucks for making them happy. I might understand it if she had offered a very large amount of money (and in that case I would have jumped on the opportunity even more eagerly ) or that she will starve in consequence.

I will definitely want to visit Scotland some day. Quebec or Canada aren't that high on the list - plenty to see closer to home.

No dining out on my own.

I haven't eaten an undercooked snail but it sounds like a treat compared to wasting a considerable part of an hour of my life.


Would you rather listen to Bach's Goldberg Variations played on a harpsichord or a piano?

[Lykren]

I am a decent human being and listen to it on piano, with the caveat that I only listen to Gould's in which he tried very hard to make a piano sound like a harpsichord.

What would you like to listen to on an airplane? Anything in particular?

[North Star]

I am a decent human being and listen to it on piano, with the caveat that I only listen to Gould's in which he tried very hard to make a piano sound like a harpsichord.

What would you like to listen to on an airplane? Anything in particular?

Very Whitmanian of you to say that you are a decent human being and listen to Bach's harpsichord works played on the piano.

Hm, Bach's Goldberg Variations comes to my mind. Bach in general would probably be a good choice. Art of the Fugue might come in handy if there's an emergency

E: What would you do if the person sitting next to you listened to some unpleasant music on open headphones and it disturbed you and you couldn't change your own place or otherwise escape the noise?

[Lykren]

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?

[North Star]

Sure.

Would you drink red wine with fish?

[tonywalt]

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)

[Pompey Bum]

Would you drink red wine with fish?

Only if they promised to leave some for me.

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)

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.

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.

[Clopin]

Yes, as long as I can have an optimal diet this way. In a heartbeat.

[Lykren]

But staying healthy and thin is so easy, and food is the most concrete, reliable pleasure there is.

You forgot to ask a question.

[Pompey Bum]

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?

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.

[Eupalinos]

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?

[Lykren]

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.

[North Star]

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?