# 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:** 53
**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 27, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1043 "2017-11-27T19:17:53Z")
Chocolate malt because, well, it’s chocolate. Do the wrong thing for the right reasons or the right thing for the wrong reasons? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1044 "2017-11-27T19:23:58Z")
Right thing for the wrong reasons-at least the right thing will be done. Eat too much cantaloupe or too much watermelon? ---
**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 27, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1045 "2017-11-27T22:49:22Z")
Watermelon! Raise taxes or molest children? ---
**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 28, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1046 "2017-11-28T14:31:04Z")
Raise taxes. NOTHING justifies molesting children. Have a good income but be unable to work, or have a good job that pays poorly. ---
**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 28, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1047 "2017-11-28T15:27:13Z")
Option A, in a heartbeat. If I can’t work but have a good income, I presume I can always spend time with my family, read, write, watch movies, listen to music, waste time on the Dope, etc. Go to the beach or the mountains? ---
**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 28, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1048 "2017-11-28T15:40:59Z")
I can go to the beach any day, but seeing real mountains would be special and involve something of a trek. Live in a house painted completely fuchsia or lavender? ---
**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 28, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1049 "2017-11-28T16:11:37Z")
Both would be pretty overwhelming, but between the two, I’ll take… lavender. Work for Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems or Weyland-Yutani? ---
**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 28, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1050 "2017-11-28T18:05:10Z")
Yoyodyne for sure. Get bitten by a mosquito once, and have it fly free to potentially bite you again, or get bitten thrice by three mosquitoes, but successfully kill them all? ---
**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 30, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1051 "2017-11-30T02:52:40Z")
The first. I’ll smack it the second time it lands. > [@Velocity](#): > > Yoyodyne for sure… There are monkey-boys in the complex. Binge on _Lost_ or _Rome_? ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1052 "2017-11-30T13:32:58Z")
Rome Binge on banana splits or chocolate brownie sundae’s ---
**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 30, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1053 "2017-11-30T14:22:28Z")
chocolate brownie sundae (don’t like bananas) watch the movie ‘Groundhog Day’ or get a free 3 lb bag of baby carrots delivered to your home? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1054 "2017-11-30T16:31:07Z")
Baby carrots. Stuck in a elevator on the ninetieth floor for six hours, or stuck in a two-man sub on the ocean floor for six hours? ---
**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 1, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1055 "2017-12-01T02:18:38Z")
I’ll take the sub. Better view, and a more interesting story (assuming we don’t run out of air and/or freeze to death). Eat a chocolate kiss or a peppermint drop? ---
**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 1, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1056 "2017-12-01T13:19:13Z")
peppermint drops are a bit less common so I’ll go with that Live next door to Allison Janney or Rand Paul? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1057 "2017-12-01T15:47:42Z")
Definitely Allison Janney. Live the first fifteen years of your life over(knowing what you know now), or the second fifteen(ditto)? ---
**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 1, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1058 "2017-12-01T16:11:37Z")
Setting aside the whole “if I’d lived differently it would have been someone else’s life instead” thing, I would opt for a redo on the second 15 where much more significant life changing events occurred. Acquire complete and instantaneous fluency in the [!Kung language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/!Kung_language) or be able to achieve complete fluency in Italian with 90% of the time/effort normally required ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1059 "2017-12-01T16:48:28Z")
Learn !Kung so I can understand what they’re clicking about in _The Gods Must Be Crazy_. Jump from a plane wearing only a parachute and nothing else, or walk down a long, busy NYC street wearing only a ribbon tied to your genitalia? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1060 "2017-12-01T16:56:13Z")
Make that ribbon blue(I’ve done worse). Have the very next stranger you see kiss you on the lips, or have your mother-in-law kiss you on the lips? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1061 "2017-12-01T21:42:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Have the very next stranger you see kiss you on the lips, or have your mother-in-law kiss you on the lips? Hmmm… I adored my mother-in-law who died years ago. So the question is, do I want my mother-in-law back as she was? Or would I be kissed by a zombie? I’ll chance it. I’ll take a kiss from my mother-in-law, and hope she doesn’t bite my face off and eat my brain. Sing the National Anthem before 75,000 people at the Super Bowl, or bat against Clayton Kershaw in the World Series. ---
**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 1, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1062 "2017-12-01T21:51:51Z")
I’ll bat against Kershaw. No shame in a strikeout there, but I suspect folks’ expectations for ‘just singing a song’ (albeit a deceptively difficult one) is somewhat higher. Find the cure for cancer or that disease called militant nationalism? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=54)