# 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:** 24
**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 18, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/461 "2016-11-18T13:55:02Z")
Fond of my lungs so I gotta go with gay Paris Have ‘Rumplestiltskin’ as your middle name or ‘Slartibartfast’ (and no, you can’t have your name changed legally) ---
**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 18, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/462 "2016-11-18T18:57:35Z")
Rumplestiltskin, because I can say it three times fast. This hypothetical is inspired by [Candorville](http://www.gocomics.com/candorville/2016/11/16) President Trump or President Kardashian? (You get to pick which Kardashian.) ---
**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 19, 2016, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/463 "2016-11-19T05:12:21Z")
Dear God. Well, I know just enough about the Kardashians to know that there has to be at least one who’s less odious than The Donald, so I’ll go with them. Serve in the Trump Cabinet or get kicked in the 'nads? ---
**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 19, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/464 "2016-11-19T15:27:42Z")
Getting kicked in the crotch will hurt for 15 minutes. Serving in the Trump cabinet will hurt for four years. Abort a pregnancy by rape or give the child to a nice male gay couple? ---
**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 19, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/465 "2016-11-19T15:44:47Z")
Oh Lord. That’s a tough one. I think if I were raped, I’d have an abortion. Give up your American citizenship and move overseas or stick it out here and keep your American citizenship? ---
**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 19, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/466 "2016-11-19T18:39:11Z")
Stick it out here and keep my American citizenship. I will never leave this country. Free tickets to Hamilton! Go with Donald Trump or Mike Pence? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/467 "2016-11-19T19:34:09Z")
Trump. Pence has already seen it. 😃 You’ve been hired by your dream company. You’re given the option of making $100,000/year with two weeks vacation for the first four years, or $75,000/year with four weeks vacation for the first four years (after either one you become a partner with a corner office and an espresso machine for your exclusive personal use.) Which do you choose? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/468 "2016-11-19T19:49:25Z")
Take the $100,000 per year. Because I’d be essentially surrendering $25,000 for two weeks’ extra vacation if I took the latter option. That equates to nearly a thousand dollars per day of lost income for each vacation day. That’s a steep financial loss. If the company had offered me, say, $75,000 a year but I get \*\*\*ten \*\*\*weeks of vacation, then I probably would take that, but for only four weeks, no. Be given $100 billion to distribute around the world to various causes/charities/countries/people as you see fit, or 1 million extra votes to be applied secretly to any elections in the future as you see fit (i.e., 10,000 in Detroit, 5,000 in Milwaukee, etc.)? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/469 "2016-11-20T00:29:31Z")
Distribute the money to charity. I’m not messing with how we elect Presidents. Have a rich uncle pay for college or buy you your first house? ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/470 "2016-11-20T14:31:54Z")
I’m a high school senior with good grades who is right now sighing over a bunch of fancy colleges I no way in hell can afford, so I’ll go with private college. I’m sure house is a much more rational choice long term, but hey - they tell me my frontal cortex isn’t done developing. 😉 Would you rather have the ability to replay last night’s dreams after you wake up, like a movie (even the ones you don’t remember), or immediately become an expert in one instrument of your choice? (Haven’t read all of the thread, so avoiding repeating one by going really weird). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/471 "2016-11-20T17:57:02Z")
I’ll be an expert piano player. Would you rather have a portrait painted of you or a song composed about you? ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/472 "2016-11-20T18:05:00Z")
I would enjoy having a song about me ~~ Would you rather be the one having the affair… or…the one whom has to tell their best friend, their spouse is having an affair? ---
**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 21, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/473 "2016-11-21T02:16:09Z")
Purely as a hypothetical, I’ll have the affair. But only if she’s a knockout. Visit the Vatican or the Imperial Palace in Tokyo? ---
**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:** [November 21, 2016, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/474 "2016-11-21T05:38:08Z")
I’m not even sure what they have at the Imperial Palace; I’ll stick with the Vatican. Would you rather spend a year on the International Space Station, or on Captain Nemo’s Nautilus? ---
**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 21, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/475 "2016-11-21T15:15:58Z")
Captain Nemo’s Nautilus. I image both would be boring, but it’s easier to get on and off the Nautilus. Have a lot of money but be world renown, recognized every where you go, and always having people to give them money “because you have it and I don’t” or have much less money, just enough to live on, but live in obscurity. ---
**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 21, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/476 "2016-11-21T15:32:18Z")
Be rich and famous or be me? Hmmm. I’ve done the whole ‘being me’ thing, for a goodly portion of my life (nearly all of it one could argue) and it has kinda sucked. I’d be willing to try the jetset existence for the remainder - just to mix things up a little. Have diarrhea for two weeks or a classic migraine for two days? ---
**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 21, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/477 "2016-11-21T16:31:50Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Be rich and famous or be me? Hmmm. I’ve done the whole ‘being me’ thing, for a goodly portion of my life (nearly all of it one could argue) and it has kinda sucked. I’d be willing to try the jetset existence for the remainder - just to mix things up a little. > > Have diarrhea for two weeks or a classic migraine for two days? As a former migraine sufferer, the very worst kind, I’d take a month of diarrhea. (Frankly, anybody who’d choose the migraine has never really had one.) Have to watch every episode of every “Real Housewives” series before you can watch any other television show or movie, or have to read every page of the last two years of National Enquirer before you can read anything else? ---
**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 21, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/478 "2016-11-21T17:04:30Z")
I could skim the _Enquirer_ better than I could _Real Housewives_ (although both are equally odious) to minimize my suffering. So my choice is clear. Beer or wine? ---
**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 21, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/479 "2016-11-21T17:59:50Z")
Beer! (see, not all choices in life need be difficult dilemmas) Visit a zoo without any smells, or a political rally without any sound? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/480 "2016-11-21T18:04:51Z")
Zoo! I can still see the critters! Kayaking down a quiet river, rich with wildlife but no people OR Tube down the same river with a large group of your friends (responsible drinking allowed.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=25)