# 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:** 29
**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:** [December 14, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/561 "2016-12-14T04:09:09Z")
Alone. I like helping the less fortunate, but I don’t want to spend a major holiday with them. Bach or Handel? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/562 "2016-12-14T11:21:15Z")
Bach. Maui or Big Island? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/563 "2016-12-14T14:00:32Z")
Maui. Ireland or Scotland? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/564 "2016-12-14T15:45:57Z")
I’d like to go to both someday, but for now, I’ll say Ireland, as both my wife and I have some family roots there. Get slapped across the face or have someone step hard on your big toe? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/565 "2016-12-14T16:35:11Z")
big toe kicked in the groin or stabbed in a non-arterial portion of the arm with a 3" blade? (males only can respond) ---
**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:** [December 14, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/566 "2016-12-14T16:44:27Z")
Stabbed. Gotta protect the 'nads. Spend a day with a cop in a bad part of town, or with a heart surgeon as she does a transplant? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/567 "2016-12-14T17:59:08Z")
Cop. Surgery icks me out. Carrot cake or cheesecake? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/568 "2016-12-14T18:03:42Z")
After a brief but violent struggle cheesecake wins out. Spend the next two years living in Khartoum or Phnom Penh? ---
**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:** [December 14, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/569 "2016-12-14T22:29:13Z")
Neither is a garden spot, I’ve heard. Um… Phnom Penh, but only if I can be fabulously rich. A million dollars in an electronic bank account, or as gold in the bank’s vault? ---
**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:** [December 15, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/570 "2016-12-15T14:07:39Z")
Tangible and material wins every time. Live in Boring, OR or Hell, MI? ---
**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:** [December 15, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/571 "2016-12-15T14:15:16Z")
Hell, MI. Live on Main St, Anytown USA or on Redneck Ave in Little Ferry, NJ (which is an actual street name)? ---
**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:** [December 15, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/572 "2016-12-15T15:00:35Z")
I’ll go with the specific over the general. I could always move. As a Christmas guest: Charlie Brown or Linus Van Pelt? ---
**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:** [December 15, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/573 "2016-12-15T15:42:43Z")
Charlie Brown would be too much of a downer. Plus Linus has to be the best informed grade schooler ever. We’re talking weekend news magazine-worthy. Come home to discover your bedroom now has a water bed, wall to wall shag carpet, black light/posters and a groovy lava lamp, or come home to discover a new aga in your kitchen? ---
**Author:** ![Taco\_the\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@Taco\_the\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taco_the_cat)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/574 "2016-12-15T17:39:02Z")
water bed and etc. Wear a clown wig whenever you leave the house or be completely bald all the time for the rest of your life. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/575 "2016-12-15T17:44:18Z")
I’ll take the aga, since I already had the other in the '60s (no waterbed, but black walls and ceiling, plus my own op art). For one entire year, nothing but Christmas music or Britney Spears? ---
**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:** [December 16, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/576 "2016-12-16T13:45:01Z")
Being bald is perfectly acceptable Britney Spears (Christmas has too many fond associations for me to ruin it like that) Be able to make a dollar bill magically appear every time you clap your hands twice or win two million in the lottery? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/577 "2016-12-18T01:22:00Z")
I won’t want to clap that much, so I’ll go with the $2 million. Visit Kenya or Colombia on a luxury trip? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2016, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/578 "2016-12-18T08:58:20Z")
Definitely Kenya. Leave your family for years to help establish a colony on Mars, or bring them along in spite of the danger? ---
**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:** [December 19, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/579 "2016-12-19T17:31:28Z")
If they wanna come, by all means, bring 'em along. Sing five Christmas carols or drink some eggnog? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/580 "2016-12-19T19:01:16Z")
Drink eggnog, natch. Do all your Christmas shopping on Black Friday or at 5p on Christmas Eve? (Brick and mortar only, no online shopping.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=30)