# 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:** 56
**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 27, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1103 "2017-12-27T14:51:55Z")
Stay home. Who cares? See the Beatles first performance at the Cavern Club or last performance at Candlestick Park? ---
**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 27, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1104 "2017-12-27T15:17:37Z")
I guess the last, presumably they had become more practiced showmen by that time Have a small uninhabited island in the Pacific named after you or a star named after you? ---
**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 27, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1105 "2017-12-27T16:47:43Z")
The Island. Would you rather have ten extra years now, no aging, or twenty extra years tagged on at the end of your life, normal aging. ---
**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 27, 2017, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1106 "2017-12-27T23:38:51Z")
Meh, not a big fan of crowds OR the wedding of strangers, so I’ll stay home. Go to the wedding of Prince Harry/Megan M., or go back in time to see an original Shakespeare play of your choice. (I’m going to get rid of these Shakespeare tickets, no matter what it takes!) ---
**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 28, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1107 "2017-12-28T16:05:26Z")
Cleanup. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > …Would you rather have ten extra years now, no aging, or twenty extra years tagged on at the end of your life, normal aging. Ten extra years. Wouldn’t want twenty in (possibly) poor health. Go to the wedding of Prince Harry/Megan M., or go back in time to see an original Shakespeare play of your choice. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1108 "2018-01-08T04:43:26Z")
Goddammit, fine, I will take the Shakespeare tickets. Also, I have no interest in the weddings of strangers. Eat nothing but an all-veggie salad for dinner every night for two weeks, or eat nothing but a different steamed vegetable for dinner every night for two weeks. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1109 "2018-01-08T13:59:36Z")
Neither sounds particularly appealing, but I guess the salad offers a bit more variety where dressings/toppings are concerned Get a kitten or a puppy? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1110 "2018-01-08T14:05:46Z")
Kitten. I’d like to be an crazy cat old lady. Live in a freezing cold/boiling hot place with your true love, or live alone in a temperature climate. ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1111 "2018-01-14T14:51:29Z")
Having survived 7 years in Alaska, I’ll take the cold please Choose endless cash flow or endless good health? ---
**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:** [January 14, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1112 "2018-01-14T22:24:33Z")
Interesting question. Only a few years ago I would have chosen the cash, but now, while I am an decent health myself, my friends are getting to the age where they have ailments, and when I hear about them I pronounce myself lucky not to have them! So I will choose endless health (until I am hit by one of the maniacs on the freeway…) Would you rather have a sore throat or head congestion? ---
**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:** [January 29, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1113 "2018-01-29T00:02:25Z")
Head congestion. Be given $5 million, or have the “other side” get 50 million fewer votes in every upcoming election from now on? ---
**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:** [January 30, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1114 "2018-01-30T20:48:24Z")
Option 2. I would give up considerable wealth to help save my country. Watch the State of the Union Address tonight, or watch three of Nixon’s? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1115 "2018-02-02T02:11:27Z")
Assuming I could fast forward through the 4-minute standing ovations (did they have those back in Nixon’s time?) I will watch Nixon. It might be interesting from a historical perspective and I would retch less. You could be an ocarina salesman, going from door to door OR Would you like to swing on a star and carry moonbeams home? OR Would you like to be a fish? ---
**Author:** ![Brooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Brooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brooky)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1116 "2018-02-03T11:50:09Z")
Last names Trout, so let’s be a fish Go without spices. Or. Condiments ? ---
**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:** [February 3, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1117 "2018-02-03T15:37:36Z")
Condiments. I like cinnamon way too much not to have it. See fire or rain? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1118 "2018-02-07T07:03:20Z")
Fire, it’s actually something that happens and moves and is active. Rather have your team win 20 championships but never be able to watch the video footage of any of it, or even know the score, or opponent, etc…or watch your team win 3 championships, in your lifetime, with you in person to see it, and follow it all as it happened? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1119 "2018-02-07T14:21:01Z")
20 championships. I love the bragging rights. Get really sick from a flu shot or moderately sick from the real flu? ---
**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:** [February 14, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1120 "2018-02-14T20:12:41Z")
Moderately sick always beats really sick. Have a cancerous brain tumor or a cancerous tumor in your lady/gentleman parts? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1121 "2018-02-14T22:25:22Z")
If the brain ain’t healthy, ain’t nothin’ healthy. I’ll have to deal with it down there. Eat the same dish every meal for a week\*: goulash or macaroni and cheese? . . - I’ll allow vitamin supplements ---
**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:** [February 15, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/1122 "2018-02-15T14:38:57Z")
I’m a vegetarian, so mac and cheese it is. Speak flawless Russian or flawless Yiddish? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=57)