# Bad bad bad ideas! On the other hand

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**Created:** [September 4, 2021, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ideas-on-the-other-hand/950091 "2021-09-04T09:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ideas-on-the-other-hand/950091/1 "2021-09-04T09:11:11Z")

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One or the other.

I choose a path. But, on the other hand:

Maybe I’m really a set painter… Finishing beautiful sets.

Nope. I’m too lazy.

Yours?

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ideas-on-the-other-hand/950091/2 "2021-09-04T09:22:44Z")

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_Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,_  
_And sorry I could not travel both_  
_And be one traveler, long I stood_  
_And looked down one as far as I could_  
_To where it bent in the undergrowth…_

Food for thought, **Beck**.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ideas-on-the-other-hand/950091/3 "2021-09-04T10:21:10Z")

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"When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,

When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars."

I chose to go outside.

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**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-bad-bad-ideas-on-the-other-hand/950091/4 "2021-09-04T23:29:37Z")

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Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn’t.