# 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:** 22
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/421 "2016-11-15T13:55:05Z")
Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue! A wealthy person in a Third World city or a middle-class person in a First World country? ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Smythe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jane\_Smythe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Smythe)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/422 "2016-11-15T14:06:35Z")
Middle class in first world…just what I am. Live in the mountains or by the sea? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/423 "2016-11-15T14:06:41Z")
Middle class person. More opportunity for growth and advancement in a first world country. Food replicator or transporter? ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/424 "2016-11-15T15:34:25Z")
Hey, a twofer! Mountains. Transporter (trusting it’s infallible.) I’ll be able to transport from my mountain home to my seaside vacation rental. Travel to Mars without landing and come home or get to the surface but never return? ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/425 "2016-11-15T17:28:19Z")
If I were single, the second. But I have a wife and kids, so I’ll go and come back, frustrating as it would be to go that far and not actually $%^&\*! land. You’re the President. Budget $1 billion for a crewed mission to Mars, or for global hunger relief? ---
**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:** [November 15, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/426 "2016-11-15T19:12:12Z")
If I’m President Lingel: Crewed space exploration is a waste of money. Feed the poor kids! If I’m President Trump: pocket the $1 billion, then I can screw NASA AND poor people! Whee! Eat a meal that is entirely kale, or a meal that is entirely brussels sprouts? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/427 "2016-11-15T20:22:07Z")
Brussel sprouts, as long as they’re roasted and spiced with garlic and cheese. Work a suicide hotline or be a sex crimes detective? ---
**Author:** ![Jane\_Smythe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Jane\_Smythe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jane_Smythe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/428 "2016-11-16T02:31:04Z")
Suicide hotline. I’d, hopefully, be helping people, and I wouldn’t want to deal with sick sex crime day in and day out. Bran muffins or blueberry? ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/429 "2016-11-16T03:01:23Z")
Blueberry ~~~~~ Would you rather loose a limb or one of your senses ? ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/430 "2016-11-16T04:27:10Z")
Wow, that’s a toughie. I guess a limb, if I could choose which one (my left arm, the least useful of the four). I value my senses too much otherwise. Visit 1970s Westworld or 2016’s Westworld? ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/431 "2016-11-16T12:03:42Z")
2016 even as it is coming undone~~~ ~would you rather have lightning speed typing skills or lightning speed shorthand? ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/432 "2016-11-16T14:05:43Z")
Typing. I never need shorthand. Sit on a long airplane flight next to a bratty little kid or a loudly-snoring fat man? ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/433 "2016-11-16T14:07:12Z")
Bratty little kid. I have a way of taming them. Live for 10 years on a annual income of $1,000,000, or live forever on an annual income of $25,000? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/434 "2016-11-16T14:18:16Z")
Immortality would get old after a while, particularly when inflation kicks in and you’re only making 25k. Might not buy you a Coke in a couple centuries. So, I’d have to suffer with making a seven figure income for a decade. eat a nice juicy worm or big crunchy beetle? (both alive of course) ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/435 "2016-11-16T14:20:09Z")
If I can have good health, I’d live forever. I’d make small, long-term investments and do pretty well in future years. If I can’t be guaranteed eternal good health, though, I’ll take the ten years as a millionaire. ETA: Uh… I’ll take the beetle. Rather crunch that between my teeth than feel a worm going down my gullet. Be a department chair at a pretty-good college, or a just-tenured professor at Harvard? ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/436 "2016-11-16T14:22:57Z")
Harvard, of course. I have Boston roots. Have a shitty job two blocks from your house, or a great job you have to walk 2 hours a day to get to and back. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/437 "2016-11-16T15:40:26Z")
Another toughie. I guess I’ll have to buy lots of new shoes. Beautiful mansion out in the Iowa boonies, or a small but decent apartment in NYC? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/438 "2016-11-16T15:46:40Z")
Keep Manhattan just gimme that countryside Have a calculator app permanently downloaded into your brain or a dictionary? ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/439 "2016-11-16T15:50:55Z")
Dictionary. No question. Have a very lifelike and skilled butler or lover? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/440 "2016-11-16T18:54:01Z")
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