Well, no school today and nothing to grade and way too early to start holiday shopping so I am just perusing these boards. I saw the two other games and figured I would inject another light-hearted game into the board. I am sure you have all seen or played it before (and if this has been done before...sorry, new person mistake.) But, alas, here it is.

Would you Rather?

I will present two rather tough choices, these can both be good or bad situations. The next poster will answer my question with the choice he/she would make. They then present their own two choices. So my first question will be:

Would you Rather

Get complete control over who gets into Heaven and Hell?

Or

Get to choose who gets to star in every movie produced in Hollywood?

(that came straight out of book, but I like it anyway) So whoever posts next would answer with which of those two choices they would rather have and then present their next question.

I would rather get to choose who gets to star in every movie produced in Hollywood.

Because I'd choose ME in all the roles that I liked!



Would you rather have Bush be re-elected President next year , or ONLY be able to listen to Vanilla Ice's song, "Ice Ice Baby" for the next four years?

Though I just started this thread, I will answer this one, because I like the question.

I would rather only listen to Ice, Ice, Baby for the next four years, knowing each time I turned on the radio the sacrifice I made for humanity!!

Would you rather

Have the reflection of Saddam Hussein (i.e. when you look in mirrors and etc.)?

or

Everytime you get intimate with your partner their appearnce changes to that of Chariman Mao?

I don't care what my reflection looks like, my partner had better not look like Mao when we're getting it on!!

Would you rather

be forced to end every sentence with the phrase "in my pants"

or

have a gap made between your front teeth so that you whistle when you pronounce the letter "s"

I would rather take the first option in my pants. It was a good question though in my pants.

Would you rather have your normal sexual orientation reversed (gays become straight, straight become gays, etc.), or never have any kind of sexual relationship with anyone ever again

This is pretty easy. Once I change my sexual orientation, I will still have pleasure, but with different people. Surely this is preferable to not enjoying sexual pleasure at all.

Would you rather have to eat your favorite dish at every meal for a week, or have to go without your favorite dish for a year?

I think I could live with potato chips and ice cream
(my favorite dish ) for a week straight!


Would you rather be the President for the next four years,
and be able to make any changes you see fit.


OR

Superman for one day out of each of the next four years
(so, Superman for a cumulative total of 4 days)

I would prefer to be President for 4 years because i would like to make the nation better do things to improve it such as improve the environment and create a global nuclear disarmament program to start the road to world peace

Would you rather be at a RAP concert?

OR

would you rather be at a BALLET?

I'd rather go to a ballet, as at least I would be able to get some sleep there. (Philistine, I know.)

[b]Would you rather become vegetarian, or have to slaughter and butcher you own meat?[b] (Probably better if a meat-eater answers that one )

I would rather slaughter and butcher my own meat. Infact, I have before. Deer, chicken and fish. At least I know it's fresh!

Would you rather be an American citizen with all of our rights and freedoms, along with all the violence and problems, such as no universal health care, discrimination, inequality...

or...

Live in a fictitious nation that had drastically limited rights and freedoms, yet none of the violence and problems in a free world?

Are you saying America's not perfect? I'll take America in that situation, thank you very much!

Would you Rather

Dance the Lambada with Karl Rove

or

Watch your mother make out with Tony Blair?

I would rather dance the lambada with Karl Rove. He's somewhat of a shadowy figure, and you can learn a lot about a person by doing a sexy dance with them...

Would you rather:

Give away all your possessions and become a Buddhist monk,

or

have your IQ lowered by 40 points but be fabulously wealthy?

I'd rather give away all my posessions and become a Buddhist monk.
(I've contemplated that, anyway) Material wealth is no kind of wealth,
compared to spiritual enlightenment.



Would you rather

Work (for one year) as a stripper at a nightclub,
where one night a week your dad is forced to watch
you do your dirty dancing (this goes for you men too,
only let's say it's your mom watching you).

OR

Scrub toilets at a rest stop, 8 hours a day, for a year.

Though, if the pay is equal, I would scrub the toilets, I got used to it in the army anyway LOL

Though I guess the pay would be equal, since as a 38 year old male even in near resonable shape is not going make much money!

Serve one month nursing injured Palestenians in a refugee camp or

Spend 2 years in the American Military as a grunt in Iraq?

I would choose to help the Palestinians even though I'd miss out on my natural urge of blowing stuff up.

A. Having no arms
B. Having no legs

No legs. I could still function fairly independently.

a. blind
b. deaf

Blind. I could not function independantly and therefore not have to do anything.

A. Be a cat
B. Be a dog

not even a choice there, i'd go cat all the way. dogs can't climb on fences and rooftops plus cats have retractable claws. need i say more?

a. have your eyelids held open while you watch the first survivor series in its entirety

b. have every other movie you watch be suburban commando (with hulk hogan) for a year

I'll go with Suburban Commando. I can always daydream while
I'm pretending to watch it....




Would you rather:


Give birth to quintuplets(FIVE babies)


OR

give birth to twins, three times in a row (total of 6 babies)

I'd go with twins, 3 times in a row. I might actually be able to take care of two babies at a time, but 5? Sheesh.

Would you rather die young in an auto accident or live to a ripe old age and die from a chronic illness?

Would you rather die young in an auto accident or live to a ripe old age and die from a chronic illness?[/QUOTE]
I'll choose "ripe old age" and die of a chronic illness. Arthritis
or something......
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would you rather


Get high on heroin once (by shooting it in your veins)


or


Smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day, for 5 years

Yikes! What a horrible choice! I have to go with the heroin. After one experience, I could go on with my life as normal. Five years of cigarettes would do a lot of damage to my health, and mess up my life for the entire time.

To lighten things up a bit:

Would you rather

Be selected to be the first human being on Mars

Or

Be selected to be the first human being to greet a visitor from another planet?

Would you rather

Be selected to be the first human being on Mars

Or

Be selected to be the first human being to greet a visitor from another planet?[/QUOTE]
I would like to be the first human being on Mars.
It sounds like a "happenin" planet!



Would you rather:



Enter the Winter Olympics Ice Skating competition (with the skill you
personally have) and do a performance in front of millions of viewers.

OR


Go to a shopping mall, 5 days before Christmas and run from one
end to the other, naked.

I'd have to pick the ice skating -- I'm still too neurotic and self conscious to run around naked (even though I've had lots of practice in my nightmares).

Would you rather:

A. Live off grid in the wilderness and provide everything for yourself and family (grow your own food, dig your own well, build your own dwelling, etc) for 2 years

or

B. Live under house arrest and have everything provided for you, but not able to leave your house for two years.

Oh, I couldn't make it out in the wilderness! I'd stay home under house arrest. I have a fire place, 2 dogs, a nice BIG tv, computer with highspeed internet and free digital cable with ALL THE CHANNELS. I'd be perfectly fine if food and stuff were brought to me. Gee, I actually like this the more I think about it.

Would you rather be stranded in:

the Sahara Desert

or

the South Pole?

The Sahara Desert, no doubt. THough I have lived through New England winters my whole life, I still hate the cold and hate winter.

Would you Rather

Be the Vice-President to a President that disagreed with you on every single political and governmental issue

OR

Be the head of a political party that was representative of every single one of your views but considered by the general public to be "unelectable"

*first post*


Vice president, at least i might be able to make an influential speech?



would you rather.....

have to start life all over from age one with your current intelligence and memories

or.....

Be forced to attend college until you have a PhD in the most boring (but complicated) dead end, subject in the world

I would most definitly jump at the chance to restart my life with my current memories and intelligence. that would be incredible, and i would probably make a lot less stupid mistakes.




Would you rather...

Kill an innocent youve never met to save an adult you know

or

Kill an adult you know to save an innocent life youve never met

Kill an adult I know... though generally that would suck all the way around, I could at least use the excuse that I was saving an innocent and thats why I had to off my old physics professor It really had nothing to do with my natural disagreement with physics in general

Assuming you celebrate Christmas by exchanging gifts with family:
Would you rather not get any gifts for Christmas but have all the money for gifts you would have gotten go to help a mom (of lets say two kids) on welfare who refuses to work (but is capable)

or

would you rather be unable to work (for mental/physical reasons) and be forced to publicly accept charity from strangers in order to give your child a christmas gift?

No Question, not accept any christmas gifts. I cannot bear the thought of disability.

Would you rather:

Work your entire life at a good job with benefits, however have little time to enjoy it for 40 years, planning a great retirement, and risk that a health problem or other might thwart your eventual plans

Or,

Live life as it comes, sometimes not employed, sometimes very exciting, traveling ,doing it now, taking the good and the bad together over the time period with those risks.

I greatly admire people with the courage to take the second choice. I do not have that courage. Meanwhile, when I am not at work, I try to have a comfortable home life.

Would you rather forget how to understand written English, or spoken English?

Hard choice, but I would rather forget the written word than the spoken word. I find it more important to interact and understand others than typeface.

Would you rather have an very intelligent child who blows off his/her education, or a borderline retarded child who works his/her butt off to learn?

Have an intellectually challenged child that works their butt off. Much more rewarding and less frustrating.


Would you rather live comfortably under a government of your own people and religious beliefs, that basically leaves you alone as long as you obey the commonly accepted rules of your society.

Or

Live under an occupational army of people who cannot relate to your sense of religion or moral integrity, but you may have a possibility of economic advancement, which could ostrasize you amongst your people.

I would rather live comfortably under a government of my own people and religious beliefs - but I think I would be slightly afraid of a government staffed solely by people who thought just like me - and I'm never very good at conforming to all the rules - so I would probably honestly feel more at home in place where the gov't didn't believe like me... but I know I would never go for economic advancement because I am terrible at money! So, final answer - government of my own people, but hopefully with people slightly less wierd than me

To be a little more silly:

If you were starving

would you rather eat a cat

or eat a dog of equal size?

I'd rather eat a dog, since I've already inadvertently eaten it (in Korea).

A. Live in Europe as a peasant during the Dark Ages
B. Live in ancient Rome as a Gladiator

B for sure. The chance for glory is too tempting to pass on. From now on, I shall be known as Maximus.

A Get a chance to star in a sitcom but have to star opposite Charles in Charge star Scott Baio?
BWrite what would be unquestionably the greatest book of all time (surpassing even the Bible) but only 3 people could ever read it?

Give me B right now! I have no interest in acting at all, but I would truly be full of joy if I could write something of great worth. I think I admire the ability to create literature above all other human achievements.

Would you rather:

Earn the Nobel Prize for Medicine with a cure for many common cancer

or

Earn the Nobel Prize for Peace by truly ending the mid-East conflict?

I would rather Earn the Nobel Prize for Peace by truly ending the mid-East conflict because that would be a remarkable feat. I am one who doesn't see a peaceful end to that conflict, but wishes that there one. I think the end is gonna come at the cost of many more lives in very broad conflict.

Would you rather

A. Know the truth about everything that has gone on behind the scenes of the Bush presidency (the current)

or

B. Know the truth about the Kennedy assasination. (if you don't believe the single bullet theory, otherwise I guess this isn't a hard choice.)

Even though I believe that Kennedy was assassinated by more than one conspirator (and I don't pretend to know who), I would rather know the truth about everything that has gone on behind the scenes of the current Bush presidency.

While the Kennedy assassination was crucial to our history, the present is even more crucial. Knowledge about the Bush administration would either confirm my suspicions or cause me to be very sheepish and chastened in this forum!

I would definitely want to disseminate this information, good or bad, so that other people could make a better informed choice in next year's election.

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Imagine that you have unearthed a dusty journal from the wall of the tunnels under London where Winston Churchill directed the British in the second World War. Churchill is widely acclaimed as the great hero for the Allies.

But in this journal are two letters, one from the German SS leader to Churchill, and one from Adolf Hitler himself, each dated some time in 1942, thanking Churchill for his letter and discussing the post-war carving up of Europe and Africa after an armistice has been reached. The letters appear to be authentic.

Do you go to the press, knowing that this would sully the memory of (arguably) Britain's greatest Prime Minister, or do you keep the information to yourself?

Fascinating question! There is no doubt in my mind that I would make this information public. This is vital, crucial historical information, and needs to be given to scholars around the world. (Let me say that the proposed example seems as unlikely as any historical "what if" I've ever heard -- but that's what makes it so important!)

Would you rather:

Have to go a random number of years into the past

or

Have to go a random number of years into the future?


(One way trip only!)

I would go into the past because think about this: what's the first thing you have to do right after you get out of the time machine? Take a breath of air. You could easily be catapulted past nuclear winter. I don't want to step out and breathe in a nice lung full of fallout. At least I know in the past the air was clean and breatheable.

Would you rather:

be a world famous athlete

or

be a world famous scientist

Be a world famous athlete, I love sports,the money would allow you to fo great things and life afterwards well paid by endorsements and the like. Although I think a scientist has more to offer, spending a lifetime writing long disertations would bore me.

Would you rather be really ugly but really smart

or

incredibly beautiful/handsome, a knock out but incredibly stupid

I'm going to choose brains over beauty.
If I was really smart I could accomplish
a lot of beneficial things for humanity.
Beauty is only skin-deep anyway!




Would you rather:

Have two sons

or

Have two daughters

Two daughters, two boys seem like a handful to me.

Would you rather:

Be a successful doctor, lawyer, corporate executive

or

Be a successful painter, sculptor, entertainer?

I would definitely rather be a painter, sculptor, or entertainer. Not to sound like a ninny , but I'm relatively sensitive, and I don't like the cutthroat nature of business. It makes me grumpy.

Would you rather:

Live in a world without sun

or

Live in a world without love

Well, at the risk of being unromantic, I need to point out that a world without the Sun would be a dead world in a matter of seconds. But let's pretend that the world would go on just about the same as it is now, just without sunlight; night all over the world forever. I think I would actually prefer this -- certainly better than a world without night. (See the classic story "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov.)

On something of the same note:

Would you rather never see the Moon again

or

Would you rather never see the stars again?

I gotta say bye to the moon, and keep the stars.
What would the sky be, without the Big Dipper??


Would you rather?


Win a million dollars in the lottery


or


Be guaranteed you'll live to the age of 90

I rather win the lotto and dye happy spending it. I think a good life should be judged by happiness more then longevity.

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Would you rather live in a desert with the hot weather, no plant, dust, and other nasty things or
Live on a tropical island with tidal waves, hurricanes, jellyfish and other things that would make the island inhospitable.

I'd go with #2, hands down; the island sounds tropical and it'd be pretty hard to convince me there was anything bad about living on a tropical island. Plus, the dry climate would be horrible for my hair

(although I do note the semantic predicament created by trying to live in an "inhospitable" place )

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Would you rather:

Change one fact about your past?

OR

Learn one fact about your future?

That's an easy decision! Poof! I never met my ex-wife!

Would you rather design the floor plan of your next house, or the interior decorating for your next house?