# 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:** 54
**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 2, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1063 "2017-12-02T01:14:07Z")
A cure for the first is likely to come sooner than the second otherwise, so I’ll go with the second. A glass of champagne or a cup of coffee right now? ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1064 "2017-12-02T02:47:13Z")
ACK, hate coffee! So I take the champagne. Cheers! Which do you root for in the Pac-12 Football Championship: Stanfurd, U$c, or meteors? ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1065 "2017-12-02T07:24:21Z")
Moot point, right? Meteors. Would you rather have domicile on a meteor, a comet, or high in the arctic circle? ---
**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 2, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1066 "2017-12-02T14:30:39Z")
Comet, because I could tour the universe and not have to worry about colliding with planets. Would you rather be submerged in a cage in a diver’s suit with raw meat in shark-infested waters for one hour, or be suspended in a cage over the Grand Canyon for one hour? ---
**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 2, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1067 "2017-12-02T15:21:19Z")
Grand Canyon. I am not messing with sharks. Have super-hearing but bad eyesight or vice versa? ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1068 "2017-12-02T19:34:26Z")
Good eyesight, poor hearing. Live in dystopia where people consider good to be evil and evil to be good, or a dystopia that says, “There’s no right and wrong, everyone do anything you want?” ---
**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 2, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1069 "2017-12-02T23:21:12Z")
The latter-Generally I have faith in people as a whole. WYR live in the current DC comic universe, or the current Marvel comic universe? ---
**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 3, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1070 "2017-12-03T21:34:24Z")
Marvel. More interesting and fun. Tag along for a patrol with Superman or Batman? ---
**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 4, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1071 "2017-12-04T13:52:20Z")
The chances I get to hear some baddie ordering me to ‘kneel before Zod’ are much higher if I’m accompanying the Man of Steel. Own lakefront property overlooking a large lake or mountainside property overlooking a valley? ---
**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 4, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1072 "2017-12-04T17:16:25Z")
Gotta go with the lake. Something about open water pulls at my soul. Play Monopoly or chess with a different person every day for a month? ---
**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 4, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1073 "2017-12-04T17:40:46Z")
Monopoly-Less chance of me being beaten in 10 moves or less. 😃 Eat the all of your meals at a Denny’s, or at a Sherri’s? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1074 "2017-12-04T18:34:18Z")
Denny’s, because it has variety and I’ve never heard of Sherri’s. Give up sweets forever or give up salty foods forever? ---
**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 4, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1075 "2017-12-04T18:42:06Z")
I’m a saltaholic, and can easily forego sweets Own a pet bird or lizard? ---
**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:** [December 4, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1076 "2017-12-04T19:40:49Z")
Reptiles creep me out, so I want a talking bird. I will teach it to say “Go Bears!”. Gingerbread cookies or sugar cookies? ---
**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:** [December 5, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1077 "2017-12-05T17:04:44Z")
Gingerbread. Sugar cookies have no flavor. Cure AIDS and cancer worldwide, but have the Republicans be in total political power for 50 years to come, or…leave things the way they currently are? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1078 "2017-12-05T17:20:21Z")
I’m a Republican, so the first option has no downside for me! Have your favorite team win the championship this year, but never again in your lifetime… or have them start a long dynasty 20 years from now? ---
**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 6, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1079 "2017-12-06T18:26:33Z")
Barring a freak accident or a small Apocalypse, I’ll be around for more than 20 years, so option B (which I note does not preclude them from winning the odd championship here or there in the interim) live in the alternate universe where you wrote the song ‘Putting on the Ritz’ or the alternate universe where you are credited with having popularized the handkerchief? ---
**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:** [December 9, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1080 "2017-12-09T01:39:57Z")
LOL, interesting choices. I pick “Putting on the Ritz” because that’s a cool song, and there may be royalties associated with it, that merely ‘popularizing’ the handkerchief does not come with. Spend 2 hours in Friday traffic to get home, or stay 2 hours longer at the office and then only 30 minutes on the freeway to get home? ---
**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 9, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1081 "2017-12-09T14:40:47Z")
Barring the fact that I work in store that closes two hours before sundown for Shabbos and cannot stay open longer on Friday, I would gladly stay later to avoid two more hours on the bus. ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1082 "2017-12-09T15:08:48Z")
New one: Have to listen to an endless tape of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or have to watch the Star Wars Christmas Special for 24 hours straight? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=53) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=55)