Based on my Sinatra v. Ellison thread. Putting it here so nobody needs to be coy.
Would you rather spend an evening with a celebrity you dislike or with a randomly chosen Doper?
The celebrity can’t be someone you’ve actually met. You’re celebrity has to be somebody you strongly dislike based on what you know from the media.
The Doper will be randomly chosen from the membership. You could get anybody who isn’t banned.
I’ll go with the random Doper. I don’t like everybody here, but an evening with a putz like Czarcasm or Colibri would still be better than an evening with Chris Christie.
I could happily spend a whole evening at a nice restaurant sitting across from someone like Trump, repeatedly calling him a cunt and taking the piss out of everyone of their flaws and weaknesses. Hell, I’d pay for the opportunity.
I’m not sufficiently sadistic or lawless enough to be able to properly use my opportunity to have a hated celebrity unable to escape me for an evening, so I’ll take random doper.
If they’re expecting me to entertain them, I fully expect them to be disappointed by the evening. I mean, my TV is nice, but I never assume I have anything in my DVD collection that they’d like. I suppose if they remember their Netflix password we could use that…
Do we define a doper as anyone who has ever registered here, or, a poster who’s had a relatively substantial amount of posts (however the heck that would be defined.)
If the former, I’m not sure if I’d wanna risk the honour of having a beer across from herefortheluluz or alphacuckdestroyer666. Probably just quaff one with Udo Kier or Vincent Gallo instead.
A celebrity that earns a reputation as an asshole is probably going to be an asshole full time.
I have a feeling that many of the more colorful posters may acted differently in person. I know I’m much more personable in real life. And stunningly handsome.
I met one long term colorful poster who was eventuality banned IRL. He was charming and pleasant. On the board he could be a prickly bastard.
It would depend on the celebrity. I don’t really follow celebs so most I don’t know enough about to really develop an opinion on. My most hated Celebrity is Donald J. Trump and I would love to spend an evening with him in the hopes of possibly influencing future policy.
But if it was between Kayne West and a doper, I’d choose the doper.
Even after I adjusted to the auto-correct changing it from adverb to abstract noun, I still misread that as him being banned in real life.
If I got saddled with Machineaforce or JohnClay, would I be able to pick again? :o
There aren’t many celebrities I strongly dislike. But… I’d rather have dinner with a random person than a person I strongly dislike. So I opt for the doper.
For those choosing dopers, here’s your pick. Go to the number in the corner of your post and put your cursor over it. Look at the last 2 digits of the post number. For my post it’s 89:
Now check out this list of random dopers. I used this set of random character strings from random.org, to find posters whose username started with various 3 character strings.
I started with the first letters and kept entering and re-entering them until I got some names in the user name box under advanced search. Here is the numbered list:
[spoiler] My methodology tended to pick out spammy names. I suspect many of them have been banned, which conflicts with the OP. Oh well. Here’s the list. I’ve heard of only a couple of them.
By “celebrity I don’t like” I assume you mean Roseanne Barr, right? Man, that would be rank. She’d be constantly stuffing canapés in her mouth, while simultaneously attempting to monopolize the conversation, spraying bits of canapé and spittle all over me. And her farts would be devastating.
Pretty much what I was thinking. The GIFT effect tells me that pretty much even the worst Dopers are decent enough in person. And the vast majority I’ve had at least some pleasant interactions with.
The only reason I could see picking the celebrity would be bragging rights, really. Telling them they’re an asshole seems like a bad idea since they probably have money and thus power.
