# 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:** 6
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/101 "2016-09-24T05:40:34Z")
To clarify, the tweet would need to be read aloud. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/102 "2016-09-24T08:34:56Z")
No thanks, I’ll sing. I often do it anyway. Would you rather have a bad stutter or a pronounced lisp? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/103 "2016-09-24T09:17:06Z")
Lisp Would you rather beat Michael Jordan in chess or Gary Kasparov in basketball? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/104 "2016-09-24T12:33:52Z")
Kasparov in bball would make for a slightly better story. would you rather read a book about Norse mythology or eat a really good pastrami on rye? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/105 "2016-09-24T12:56:02Z")
Depends – will there be a quiz on the pastrami and rye? Would you rather be descended from ancestors from a boring place like England, or someplace exotic like Iceland or Lithuania or Macedonia? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/106 "2016-09-24T13:45:44Z")
I’ll take exotic. (And Lithuania is exotic?) Slash your wrists or take poison? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/107 "2016-09-24T14:16:37Z")
Poison. I hate pain and the sight of blood. And there’s a chance I’ll puke up the poison. Live totally inside for the rest of your with all your needs provided for, or live as a homeless person for one year and then receive ten million dollars? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/108 "2016-09-24T14:52:11Z")
I’ll be homeless for a year. Even though a million isn’t what it used to be . . . You’ve been given a million dollars, which you must spend in six weeks. Would you rather be forced to spend it on yourself, with the caveat that it can provide no long term value or benefits; or spend it on others, with the caveat that all of it must provide long-term value (except to you, no buying a house for your spouse. . .). ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/109 "2016-09-24T15:03:09Z")
Hookers & blow galore or build an orphanage…that’s a toughie. Give me a minute, I’m thinking here. Okay, I guess I’ll go the hoo…erm, build the orphanage. Would you rather have a large crater on the moon (visible to the naked eye) named after you or receive a non-stick frying pan that would last 12 years before needing to be replaced? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/110 "2016-09-24T15:08:34Z")
Large crater on the moon. The store I work at sells non-stick pans. Find a person with whom you could have mind-blowing sex, but nothing else, for six months, or a dull sexual partner you could have fun with for the rest of your life. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/111 "2016-09-24T17:05:42Z")
Either of those is better than what I’ve got goin’ on now, but I’d give the edge to fun for life. Would you rather live in a teeny tiny house that you can’t really afford that’s walking distance to work OR a larger house that you can afford but spend 2 hours every day in commuter traffic with the worst morons and assholes you can imagine? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/112 "2016-09-24T19:01:20Z")
Big house. There are ways to pass the time on commutes. Be required to shoot off 10 minutes of fireworks every night before bed or slam every door you walk through? ---
**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:** [September 24, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/113 "2016-09-24T19:08:22Z")
Slamming every door gets rid of frustration. Fireworks are illegal and dangerous. Be best friends forever with Hannibal Lecter or Jeffrey Dahmer? ---
**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:** [September 25, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/114 "2016-09-25T01:37:54Z")
Well, one doesn’t exist but is probably still alive in his fictional version of 2016, while the other is real but already dead. That aside, Dr. Lecter is a far more interesting person, so if he was in a very secure prison and I was in no personal danger, I guess I’d pick him. Go back in time to speak for one minute to Robert E. Lee or Ulysses S. Grant? ---
**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:** [September 25, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/115 "2016-09-25T02:11:16Z")
Lee. I’d love to hear him rationalize it all One million dollars for yourself or five million for your favorite charity? ---
**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:** [September 25, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/116 "2016-09-25T22:30:41Z")
I’m a terrible terrible person and would take $1M for myself. _hangs head in shame, but only for a minute, then heads to Amazon_ Hell or high water? ---
**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:** [September 26, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/117 "2016-09-26T04:30:52Z")
High water. I can swim. Hell is… well, hell. Cold water or iced tea? ---
**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:** [September 26, 2016, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/118 "2016-09-26T10:03:08Z")
Iced tea, usually. Iced tea or iced coffee? ---
**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:** [September 26, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/119 "2016-09-26T11:12:03Z")
Iced coffee. A perfect steak, but it’s 24oz and you have to eat every bite; or a.“breakfast bar” and that’s your whole lunch? ---
**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:** [September 26, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444/120 "2016-09-26T13:47:37Z")
Stuffed or starved? I probably have more experience with stuffed, so therefore need to starve a bit more. Have to watch five hours of opera or five hours of WWE rasslin’? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather/755444.md?page=7)