One skinny.
Sweets or Starch?
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?
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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.
Obsessed with facial symmetry.
^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?
Obsessed with facial symmetry.
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?
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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...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?
Obsessed with facial symmetry.
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?
Obsessed with facial symmetry.
Both, simultaneously for extra points. Just getting to know you, sweetheart.
shlemiel or schlemazel
Uhhhh...
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