# Would you rather? **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444 "2016-05-23T07:06:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/221 "2016-10-17T18:48:52Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Taking a swing at Hillary would just fire up his base. “I had sex with Ivanka” would end his campaign (but also fire up some of his base)… I think you really should work the F-bomb in there. In play: Can’t convert or deposit that many pennies? Sheesh. Guess I’ll take convenience over wealth - gimme the hundred grand, please. ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/222 "2016-10-17T21:58:47Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I think you really should work the F-bomb in there. I was actually thinking the N-word. Even more inflammatory and closer to reality than any of his supporters would be willing to admit. In play: Can’t convert or deposit that many pennies? Sheesh. Guess I’ll take convenience over wealth - gimme the hundred grand, please. ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/223 "2016-10-17T22:13:28Z")
Catch a poisonous snake with your bare hands or wrestle a bull elk to the ground? ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/224 "2016-10-17T22:15:41Z")
catch a snake ~better odds Would you live a life with unlimited $ but die at age 35 or live in poverty to age 90 ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/225 "2016-10-18T01:28:39Z")
Have money until age 35. I already had 30 years of poverty. That’s enough. 60 more years of poverty, plus being old. ::shudder:: too awful to think about. Would you rather be an asshole or a chump? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/226 "2016-10-18T03:37:23Z")
A chump. I’m more comfortable with that already. Unfixably bad breath or unfixably ugly teeth? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/227 "2016-10-18T13:20:20Z")
Bad breath. I can take a lifetime of breath sprays. Be ugly but 36-24336, or be beautiful but 36-36-36. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/228 "2016-10-18T13:33:12Z")
Don’t know about that first number, but I guess Option B. People tend to focus on one’s face rather than one’s body in most situations. Visit Honolulu or San Francisco? ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/229 "2016-10-18T18:12:49Z")
Honolulu. It’s lovely every time of year. Immortality or mortality? ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/230 "2016-10-18T18:26:16Z")
mortality, I’ve packed several lives into this trip ~~ would you rather shave your head or dye your hair permanent hot pink? ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/231 "2016-10-18T19:03:35Z")
Assuming it’ll grow back, hand me the razor. Assuming it won’t, hand me the razor. Phil Hartman’s Trump or Alec Baldwin’s Trump? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/232 "2016-10-18T21:00:53Z")
I am really loving Alec’s Trump, but I miss Phil Hartman so much, so I am going with Phil. Spend a crowded, hour-long subway ride next to someone reeking of cigarette smoke or reeking of weed? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/233 "2016-10-18T21:11:02Z")
Weed. I don’t even know what weed smells like, so I’m curious. Retire as a Supreme Court justice in ailing health for medical treatment, but have a president whose political views are the opposite of yours to appoint your SCOTUS replacement, or…Stay on as Supreme Court justice for 8 more years, in miserable health, but the new president elected after those 8 years will appoint a SCOTUS replacement for you whose political views line up exactly with yours? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/234 "2016-10-19T00:05:19Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I don’t even know what weed smells like, so I’m curious. Welcome to Earth, when did you arrive? You should take a ride on BART. That smell? It’s weed. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/235 "2016-10-19T01:40:57Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > …Retire as a Supreme Court justice in ailing health for medical treatment, but have a president whose political views are the opposite of yours to appoint your SCOTUS replacement, or…Stay on as Supreme Court justice for 8 more years, in miserable health, but the new president elected after those 8 years will appoint a SCOTUS replacement for you whose political views line up exactly with yours? I’m both a partisan and a creature of duty, so Option B. Have either a tame Komodo dragon or a tame cheetah as a pet? ---
**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/236 "2016-10-19T06:23:07Z")
Cheetah. If I’m going to have a pet big enough to eat me, I want one that can form an emotional bond. Would you rather die a spectacularly heroic death, saving innumerable innocents and be celebrated and honoured for the next thousand years, OR would you like to have a piece of delicious cake? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/237 "2016-10-19T13:13:40Z")
Celebrated death. I’ve eaten enough cake in my lifetime. Have a life full of heroic adventures with every day being different and dying at 40, or living a very mundane, monotonous life and dying at 90? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/238 "2016-10-19T14:38:23Z")
Die younger but more exciting for me, please. Have a five-minute chat with Queen Elizabeth I or Elizabeth II? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/239 "2016-10-19T19:51:57Z")
Elizabeth the First. I want the history details. Eat in an expensive restaurant or cook a five course meal from scratch (both are sublime, delicious, will be talked about for ages and your enemies will weep at your skills.) ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/240 "2016-10-19T20:34:43Z")
Culinary skill is admirable, but so is paying someone else who has it. Check please. Go a day wearing very uncomfortable shoes or extremely tight underwear? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=13)