# There's two kinds of people in the world... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482 "2000-11-09T17:14:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/1 "2000-11-09T17:14:54Z")
…video game people and pinball people. I’m a pinball person. Just thought you’d like to know. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/2 "2000-11-09T17:17:36Z")
I think I’m a video game person with no skills and in denial. 'Bout covers it actually. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/3 "2000-11-09T17:20:45Z")
I must be out of this world - I favor neither. Give me Full-Contact Scrabble any day! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/4 "2000-11-09T17:22:20Z")
Excuse me, Chief. Not as tho there’s any real debate here. Now if you wanna debate the relative merits of 3-ball Power Play vs 8-ball, I’m your man. They got pinball on the IKE? I’ve been toying with getting an old machine for my basement. They’re pretty cheap. But I get intimidated everytime I look under the top. So many leetle mechanical thingies to be maintained and adjusted… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/5 "2000-11-09T17:23:39Z")
“Video games?” “Pinball?” When MY friends come over, we generally go for a rousing game of Dumb Crambo, or whist. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/6 "2000-11-09T17:24:06Z")
(Cursing being to quick on the submit) Actually, there are two kinds of people, those who eat “the best bite” first, and those who save it til last. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/7 "2000-11-09T17:24:23Z")
I’m a pin-ball babe, myself. 'Course I don’t mind playing it as a video game, as long as I get all the bells and lights and stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/8 "2000-11-09T17:27:01Z")
Video games are okay too but it takes me much longer to master them. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/9 "2000-11-09T17:32:08Z")
That’s right, Chief. There _are_ two kinds of people in the world. Those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don’t. But, pinball and video games? Feh. I prefer cards, meself. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/10 "2000-11-09T17:32:22Z")
Pinballites: Does anything beat the orgasmic pleasure of rolling over your favorite machine? ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/11 "2000-11-09T17:32:22Z")
ding! ba-ding-ding! dinga-dinga-dinga! …if I had a quarter for every game of pinball that I’ve played in my life…well, I’d have all my quarters back. Also, has anyone ever played that big, domed hockey game that you see on the beer commercials? That game rocked!!! ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/12 "2000-11-09T17:36:06Z")
No, there are _three_ kinds of people in the world – those who can count and those who can’t. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/13 "2000-11-09T17:38:28Z")
I like video pinball, so I guess I’m both kinds of people. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/14 "2000-11-09T17:38:41Z")
Definitely a pinball person, if I go somewhere and they have a machine on display I have to drop a quarter in it. Some of my favorite computer games are pinball games, but they aren’t even close to simulating the real things. My question to all the pinball fanatics is if someone is playing your favorite machine do you put your mone on it to signify you get it next? Keith ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/15 "2000-11-09T17:45:36Z")
Hey, **Chief,** speaking of cards, do sailors still play cribbage? Almost everyone I know who’s done a stint in the U.S. Navy (and more than a few ex-Army men, but THAT’S neither here nor there) is a crack cribbage player. Most players I know, as a matter of fact, picked it up from their husband/uncle/grandfather who was in the Navy. It that still going on, or are you all too busy playing pinball? ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/16 "2000-11-09T17:52:38Z")
Those who use smileys, and those who don’t. 😛 🙂 😉 😃 ::D&R:: ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/17 "2000-11-09T18:10:15Z")
Uke: Yup. Cribbage is big. A lot of people play. But I’d have to say the biggest card game aboard is Spades. I prefer my Saturday night Poker game (while underway) with a couple of well chosen (rubes) fellow chiefs. Oh, and no. No pinball machines aboard IKE for the same reason there’s no pool tables or bowling alleys: the pitch and roll of the ship. Finally, **Montford** sucks dead dog weenies. ---
**Author:** ![Peta\_Tzunami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b487fb/32.png) [@Peta\_Tzunami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peta_Tzunami)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/18 "2000-11-09T18:13:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChiefScott \* > \*\*I’m a pinball person. > \*\* Sorry–I can’t resist a straight line line that… You’ve got that HALF right, _Chief_! ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/19 "2000-11-09T18:16:22Z")
Couple of other very popular games for whiling away the long watches on board ship. Nomination whist and chase the pisser(also known as hunt the cunt) or hearts to everyone else. Chiefy, do you lot play Uckers in the USN ? ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482/20 "2000-11-09T20:20:35Z")
There are two types of people in the world: those who have to classify people into one of two types and those who don’t. There are three types of people in the world: those who are bad at math and those who aren’t. FTR, as far as cards go, I dig Ucker(s), Spades, and Tungk, but I’d much rather go for a night of poker and beer. (seems that the more beer, the worse the poker ☹ ) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world/40482.md?page=2)