i think some answers are being taken to in detail.. shouldn’t just keep surface logically, because i still think Einstein would be chosen. What if your magician cannot regenerate this “magic” or what if after a certain time or quantity he’s magic finishes. Now here’s is what i notice we are making “what if” answers to think we don’t completely know. that is what i notice 🙂
@...nyokki: I have no issues with hunters, however I do not understand hunters who hunt purely for huntings sake either. I do not see the challenge in hunting an animal that lacks the kind of intelligence that humans have.
So I do find the idea of killing a defenseless horse, bound or not, distasteful, and I would also resent being placed in that position.
However hunting (or killing) for the survival or well being of oneself or others, I do understand.
I guess how I personally see it is that even though I love animals, it is a necessary evil that some be killed in order for others to survive.
@...MonkeyHitman:
Yes, this is the problem with these kinds of questions, they often do not provide enough hard information in order to really make good educated decisions.
And even when there are, there is still enough gray area for there to be valid opposing arguments to any given course of action.
I suppose that’s what makes them good conversation questions.
I look at the question as a jumping off point. It shows how each of us thinks and where we tend to go in any given discussion. It’s kind of interesting. There were points made here that I just wouldn’t have considered w/out everyone’s input.
3. Let us assume there are two boxes on a table. In one box, there is a relatively normal turtle; in the other, Adolf Hitler’s skull. You have to select one of these items for your home. If you select the turtle, you can’t give it away and you have to keep it alive for two years; if either of these parameters are not met, you will be fined $999 by the state. If you select Hitler’s skull, you are required to display it in a semi-prominent location in your living room for the same amount of time, although you will be paid a stipend of $120 per month for doing so. Display of the skull must be apolitical.
@...MonkeyHitman: LOL I dunno about every one else, but I think I type a little too much… I’m surprised people aren’t dozing off when they get to my posts… ROFL…
Well, wait. Do we have to place the skull on display for others, or are we just to display it about our living room like some other sort of knick nack?
If its a knick knack, I choose the skull. Because it would be pretty neat. Having company over: and, if you look over here on my coffee table, next to the candy dish, there is indeed Adolf Hitler’s skull. Oh, sorry, it IS the candy dish. 😀
And if my house becomes a museum if I pick the skull, then I choose the turtle, of course. Because I can pay the stupid $999, and it would be well worth my privacy. And the turtle would make a fine soup. Because I suck at pets, and it would die anyways.
@dieAntagonista: Why thank you. 😀 Yeah, with me, they always get eaten (by my dog, also now deceased), or run away, or just flat out disappear, and turn up in a silverware drawer. :p
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
Hmm. The only way to properly display (IMO)a skull is to turn it into a drinking vessel. But since I didn’t harvest this skull, I would not feel right in doing so. So pass I’ll take my chances with the turtle.
@...SumoSnipe: “since I didn’t harvest this skull” – Haha that made my day.
Jumping to the more interesting questions.
9. A novel titled Interior Mirror is released to mammoth commercial success (despite middling reviews). However, a curious social trend emerges: Though no one can prove a direct scientific link, it appears that almost 30 percent of the people who read this book immediately become homosexual. Many of these newfound homosexuals credit the book for helping them reach this conclusion about their orientation, despite the fact that Interior Mirror is ostensibly a crime novel with no homoerotic content (and was written by a straight man).
Would this phenomenon increase (or decrease) the likelihood of you reading this book?
First of all, if I bought into to the whole: label-your-sexuality thing, then I’d technically be bi. Thus, I’d end up skipping over any of the negative repercussions resulting from the book and be able to read it. And still go home and sex my chick.
Hooray for me!
That would definitely increase the likelihood of my reading the book. In fact, it would pretty much guarantee it. I find those kinds of behavioral anomalies interesting…
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
My problem is that I don’t pay attention to what’s trendy or what the “critics” have to say. I’m a bad consumer. It’s a crime novel? I kind of lost interest in that genre after John D McDonald passed on, so I don’t think I’d end up reading it.
As for the social trend? Meh I’m fossilized in my ways and not worried about a book inadvertently guiding peoples orientation affecting me
for the book question: i’d say increase because i would like to understand how this is happening. Just my nature, I love to discover. The only “logical” explanation i can come up with the homosexual & the novel is the Title. “Interior Mirror”
6. At long last, someone invents “the dream VCR.” This machine allows you to tape an entire evening’s worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device of you agree to a strange caveat: When you watch your dreams, you must do so with your family and your closest friends in the same room. They get to watch your dreams along with you. And if you don’t agree to this, you can’t use the dream VCR.
I”VE GOT IT!
I’d say yes, and here’s why:
I’m an only child, who (sadly) doesn’t plan on having kids, and thus could wait until all my family and friends died off before watching the dreams. Thus, I would spend my last days either asleep and dreaming, or watching the dreams from earlier on in my life. It would be a good way to go out.
No way on the VDR. If they are locking up kids nowadays for what they put out in creative writing classes, The Powers that Be gonna want to bury my ass as deep as possible.
natedog for great leader 2016!
Those are some unexpected answers.I’m impressed I must say, some exceptional people around here.
I despise crime novels, but I would have to try it out just to see what happens. Technically I’d be bi too, simply because I don’t think love has anything to do with somebody’s gender. But I’ve never fallen in love with a woman so I consider myself to be straight.
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crime novels arnt my fancy. i just find myself skipping to the last 6 chapters. meh. i can love people. but i dont think i can FALL in love with dudes. so i, too, consider myself straight.
@...greg_t: i counter your hitler skull with a FDR skull. whatnow? *oh shit not a vile of polio! FDR’s only weakness!)
@dieAntagonista: Is not cheating! It says specifically that you can view them at your own leisure. 😀 MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
And agreed. natedog for great leader in 2012. All hail.
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
Hot damn did not see that loophole….good show Dr. Devine.
So natedogs cabinet:
Minister of Health: Dr. Devine.
Minister of Education: dieAntagonista
Minister of Information: tiki god
Minister of Defense and Peace: nyokki
hmmm will have to think on other people and positions…..What do you think?
Aw, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, knowing that somebody thinks I deserve to be the Minister of Education because of a fictional idea involving Hitler’s skull which doesn’t exist (not much of it anyway) and natedog pretending to be a megalomaniac.
This thread is the bestest ever. I actually have a koran (I own them all, new and old testament, torah etc.) and I’m considering to pour some water on it and see if it gets moldy. Then take a picture, post it on here and see if this ‘phenomenon’ repeats itself.
17. You are sitting in an empty bar (in a town you’ve never before visited), drinking Bacardi with a soft-spoken acquaintance you barely know. After an hour, a third individual walks into the tavern and sits by himself, and you ask your acquaintance who the new man is. “Be careful of that guy,†you are told. “He is a man with a past.†A few minutes later, a fourth person enters the bar; he also sits alone. You ask your acquaintance who this new individual is. “Be careful of that guy, too,†he says. “He is a man with no past.â€Â
Which of these two people do you trust less?
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
No, just an amusing mental exercise. The ruler of the world only paid $120 a month. After all, look at the messes the professional people in charge with seven figure salaries have made.
I know these posts don’t tell exactly who we are and what we are capable of, but from the general feel I get from all of a persons posts at this site led me to those picks. As for natedog, well, he had the gumption to state that he wants to take over the world.
I’m going to make the assumption that the man with no past either has amnesia, or has a past that has been carefully erased, either by himself or someone else.
In real life a person can tell you things about themselves without ever saying a word. In the absence of any other concrete information, I would look for those cues more than anything my acquaintance would ever say.
However If I were in the position where I was forced to make a snap, life and death decision between relying on one or the other for something, without ever having seen, or even knowing anything more about either of them than the words of my acquaintance, I would prefer to approach the man who has a past.
Primarily because a person who has a past will have a history that I can eventually use to understand them, even if it is not available to me at the moment.
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
None of them. The only one I would trust in that bar would be the bartender,as he(or she) would be the only one whose motivations for being there were clear.
Ok the why on my picks:
Dr. Devine: well, he’s Devine.
nyokki: From posts on violence, she is no hawk. But she is not a “pay the Danegeld or give ’em Poland” peace at all cost either.The kind of balance I would like to see.
dieAntagonista: You still ask questions and think about the answers(at least, those above kindergarten and name calling)with a mind that does not appear to be a closed box.And multilingual is a bonus.
But I could be waaaayyyy off base. This is teh interwebz, after all.
as for this question.
hmmm i think i would go with the the man with no past everyone has a past i could sit and observe him 5 mins and i know 5 mins of his past. and other reasons are is because he’s either a liar, incredibly secretive or a vistor from the future.
I wouldn’t have the dream box any other way.
if it creeps them out, tough.
More likely, it’d melt their faces, Lost Ark style.
Here’s a slightly more sadistic question:
You MUST pick one:
The ability to fly- superman-style, but you lose all sense of sight, and it cannot be compensated for,
or
You gain X-Ray vision, but lose your ability to communicate AND masturbate.
Unless my *other* senses can be artificially augmented, in which case I’d go for cybernetic flying Daredevil sonar…
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
What, no buddy on the ground with a radio to tell you “LEFT!!!!rightrightright down downstopstop WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE” MMMkay I see the problem there. The other choice sucks worse, so I go for 1 high and as fast as possible flight, and leave an interesting mess for someone to clean up on landing.
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
By the way, has anyone identified the fungus in the pic? Just curious if they were edible or poisonous.
Ok, back from TGD NYC sojourn and I have some catching up to do.
I’d take Hitler’s skull. Who wants a turtle (that doesn’t already have one)? I’d put his skull in a very prominent place and invite any and all to come and defile it.
Dreams are all f’d up. Even if I saw them, I’d only drive myself crazy trying to figure out what, if any, meaning they may have. So, no on the VCR dreams.
I’m w/ Sumo on the strangers. I have no reason to trust anyone I don’t know (and even some that I do know). If I had to make a choice, I would trust the history stranger less. The man w/ a past may or may not tell me true, The man w/ no past will lie…every time.
I’d choose fly and blind, even considering that the blindness would prolly preclude me from flying, though it would certainly help w/ my vertigo. The inability to communicate would be truly horrible for me, not to mention no masturbation.
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11. You are watching a movie in a crowded theater. Though the plot is mediocre, you find yourself dazzled by the special effects. But with twenty minutes left in the film, you are struck with an undeniable feeling of doom: You are suddenly certain your mother has just died. There is no logical reason for this to be true, but you are certain of it. You are overtaken with the irrational metaphysical sense that–somewhere–your mom has just perished. But this is only an intuitive, amorphous feeling; there is no evidence for this, and your mother has not been ill.
Would you immediately exit the theater, or would you finish watching the movie?
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fuck that, it’s my mother without doubt I’d find out what’s up + i can watch the movie on blueray or something
@...Phyreblade: but what happen you check in her and she is okay safe and sound and later you found out that your mother got stabbed 60x and had a phone in her hand (happened right after you called) i was going to say the same thing but i choose to go see her … nothing or anybody can replace my mother.. not worth loosing.
That’s a tough one for me. My mom lives 300 miles away. So going to see her immediately is not possible. I would most certainly step out and call her, and hope she answers the phone (no cell phone for her). If she answers, fine I go back to watch the movie. If she doesn’t answer after several tries, I’d guess I’d start calling around, depending on how strong that feeling is and what my mood is, sometimes I’m willing to believe and others…not.
@...MonkeyHitman:
My mother lives too far away for me to go and visit her at will, (no matter how much she would like that), so a phone call would have to do…
@...nyokki: Exactly my thoughts. Not to mention my mother lives a whole lot farther away than 300 miles…
Most people I asked trust the man with a past less, which is curious to me. I’d trust the man with no past less.
I’d pick definitely superman abilities + loss of sight. Even though becoming is blind is one of my greatest fears.
Haha, ok well as someone whose mother actually died while I was in a theatre, this is pretty ironic to me.
I’d continue to watch the movie, because if she really died, then she’s already dead, me rushing out isn’t going to save her.
Laughing=good. Babies crying, kids kicking seats, people yelling on cells, smoking, throwing stuff(other than at the Rocky)=bad. They did a good job bolting down the seats, can’t just rip ’em out and start beating deserving idiots over the head with them. So I just avoid the stress, cost and bail money and wait for the dvd.
@...dieAntagonista:
No offense to you, but my only reaction to that feeling would be a kind of elation- like a weight being lifted off of my shoulders. Let it be known- my Mother is the Devil.
I bet the less than good movie would even look better afterward.
I wouldn’t even check on it, in case the lovely feeling was wrong and my bubble would be burst.
@...elzarcothepale:
Haha what a horrible thing to say. Well I have to admit, my mother was the most intimidating woman you could imagine, but hey. She was the only one I had.
I’d want to be a cherry tree.
13. Every person you have ever slept with is invited to a banquet where you are the guest of honor. No one will be in attendance except you, the collection of your former lovers, and the catering service. After the meal, you are asked to give a fifteen-minute speech to the assembly.
i always knew i was the anti christ, 666th post= slinging wang.
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
@...elzarcothepale: well hells bells , I was holding off thinking that “slinging wang” would have been the perfect end to this thread. but nooo…so ONWARD!
Banyan tree. them tentacles will come in handy for all that cousin action…. @...dieAntagonista: Last one in the hottub gets cleanup duty.
Haha you people are lovely. Unfortunately I’m terrible at public speaking, but no one would come anyway.
19. Your best friend is taking a nap on the floor of your living room. Suddenly, you are faced with a bizarre existential problem: This friend is going to die unless you kick them (as hard as you can) in the rib cage. If you don’t kick them while they slumber, they will never wake up. However, you can never explain this to your friend; if you later inform them that you did this to save their life, they will also die from that. So you have to kick a sleeping friend in the ribs, and you can’t tell them why.
Since you cannot tell your friend the truth, what excuse will you fabricate to explain this (seemingly inexplicable) attack?
i’ll just say it was a gift- and now they get to kick me in the ass three times without warning
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
That would be a love tap around here. Fiends and family are pretty rough and tumble, people napping/passed out on floor,couch, beanbag are all targets of a dogpile and flying elbow drops.
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
Sorry “friends”…no wait, they can be fiends at times….
We’re talking about best friends here.
I think I would continue to kick with hands and feet in the air, with closed yes, making gargling noises for a while even after I woke him up. Then I’d stop after 2 minutes or so, looking totally perplexed, and I’d say, what the fuck was that? Maybe I should go see a doctor etc.
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15. You have a brain tumor. Though there is no discomfort at the moment, this tumor would unquestionably kill you in six months. However, your life can (and will) be saved by an operation; the only downside is that there will be a brutal incision to your frontal lobe. After the surgery, you will be significantly less intelligent. You will still be a fully functioning adult, but you will be less logical, you will have a terrible memory, and you will have little ability to understand complex concepts or difficult ideas. The surgery is in two weeks.
That one is gonna take some thinking about. I’d be out of a job/career, so I’d have to make arrangements. What will I be able to do at a Gumpian level of intelligence? what kind of preparations should I make? Or do I just not bother and have as good an intellectual time as I can in the next 2 weeks?
i would rather die … to me it’s like this saying “Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees” I’d rather be remembered as a genius rather than living a life of retardation
“I would continue to kick with hands and feet in the air,” are you some flying mechanism ? how will you kick him if your in the air flyin …. do all Romanian people fly ? that would the shit… xD
@...MonkeyHitman: According to the rules (heheh), you will be saved by the operation. You’re answering a question that wasn’t asked.
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
I’m with MonkeyHitman on this one. Six months running hard and burning out brightly, or spending untold years of being riverdaledragon. “Better to burn out than to fade away!”
wow you guys have no life you just go on talking about completly random shit like this one time i was watching this porno and my mom came in and asked me what i was doing and i said just watching cartoons. she sat next to me and said “can i watch with you me sweet,hot big lar
@MonkeyHitman:lolz
And I’d spend what remains of my intelligent life writing my memoirs. And then I’d shoot myself in my study. Because I would not allow myself to live with any sort of handicap, and any drastic change to myself would be unfair to the people I love. Thus, I’d rather deprive them of me than make them deal with an altered self. And, I’m also incredibly vain. Couldn’t live with the IQ dip.
TITS ?? i will not certainly leave this earth without fucking atleast MINIMUM 50 girls within those 2 weeks… i’m gonna make hugh hefner look like barney.
TITS OR GTFO ^_^ srry ladies but i just had to be said. atleast for teh sake of Dr.Devine
This is definitely starting to feel like a fate worse than death. I keep thinking: Oh, I’d do this or maybe that! Then I realize, I’d still be alive and have to deal w/ consequences of starting a heroin habit, or take up drinking as a full time job. Man, this one sux!
And that would pretty much sum it up for me. First I cancel my operation. No longer able to think logically? Unable to understand complex thoughts? I don’t think so.
Then I’d live those last 6 months as if I owned the place.
what if after you die … which ever applies to your religion .. there is no sex… man THAT is a topic …and I’m not going to take the risk so i enjoy myself NOW.. but of course I’m going to be careful not to catch any disease lol
SumoSnipe (#4452)
16 years ago
No worries about sex in the afterlife here. It’s in there with the fighting and feasting.
601! Damn, I thought we were going to max out at 575…
Ok, maybe not 9000 but for Ironys’ sake we cannot stop for another 64 comments at least.
well, of course…. that would indeed make this thread the most epic to have ever graced MCS… not that it isn’t already….
@...SumoSnipe: Absolutely. What kind of moldy bible can’t garner 666 posts?
i think some answers are being taken to in detail.. shouldn’t just keep surface logically, because i still think Einstein would be chosen. What if your magician cannot regenerate this “magic” or what if after a certain time or quantity he’s magic finishes. Now here’s is what i notice we are making “what if” answers to think we don’t completely know. that is what i notice 🙂
@...nyokki: I have no issues with hunters, however I do not understand hunters who hunt purely for huntings sake either. I do not see the challenge in hunting an animal that lacks the kind of intelligence that humans have.
So I do find the idea of killing a defenseless horse, bound or not, distasteful, and I would also resent being placed in that position.
However hunting (or killing) for the survival or well being of oneself or others, I do understand.
I guess how I personally see it is that even though I love animals, it is a necessary evil that some be killed in order for others to survive.
@...MonkeyHitman:
Yes, this is the problem with these kinds of questions, they often do not provide enough hard information in order to really make good educated decisions.
And even when there are, there is still enough gray area for there to be valid opposing arguments to any given course of action.
I suppose that’s what makes them good conversation questions.
P.S.
@...MonkeyHitman: Not sure from your post, are you suggesting we provide only superficial answers? What would be the fun in that? 😀
I look at the question as a jumping off point. It shows how each of us thinks and where we tend to go in any given discussion. It’s kind of interesting. There were points made here that I just wouldn’t have considered w/out everyone’s input.
I’m outta here for the day. Enjoy the holiday e1.
@...Phyreblade: kinda yea … pretty much my tactic to juice you guys out to type more ^^
anyway let’s continue
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3. Let us assume there are two boxes on a table. In one box, there is a relatively normal turtle; in the other, Adolf Hitler’s skull. You have to select one of these items for your home. If you select the turtle, you can’t give it away and you have to keep it alive for two years; if either of these parameters are not met, you will be fined $999 by the state. If you select Hitler’s skull, you are required to display it in a semi-prominent location in your living room for the same amount of time, although you will be paid a stipend of $120 per month for doing so. Display of the skull must be apolitical.
Which option do you select?
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@...MonkeyHitman: LOL I dunno about every one else, but I think I type a little too much… I’m surprised people aren’t dozing off when they get to my posts… ROFL…
Anyway, to answer #3:
I’d move to another state.
Have a happy thanksgiving all… 😀
Well, wait. Do we have to place the skull on display for others, or are we just to display it about our living room like some other sort of knick nack?
If its a knick knack, I choose the skull. Because it would be pretty neat. Having company over: and, if you look over here on my coffee table, next to the candy dish, there is indeed Adolf Hitler’s skull. Oh, sorry, it IS the candy dish. 😀
And if my house becomes a museum if I pick the skull, then I choose the turtle, of course. Because I can pay the stupid $999, and it would be well worth my privacy. And the turtle would make a fine soup. Because I suck at pets, and it would die anyways.
I’d pick Hitler’s skull. It would be of amazing historical significance. And also, yeah I too can’t keep pets alive that are smaller than a cat…
@...Dr.Devine: Man I love your answer and I agree.
@dieAntagonista: Why thank you. 😀 Yeah, with me, they always get eaten (by my dog, also now deceased), or run away, or just flat out disappear, and turn up in a silverware drawer. :p
Hmm. The only way to properly display (IMO)a skull is to turn it into a drinking vessel. But since I didn’t harvest this skull, I would not feel right in doing so. So pass I’ll take my chances with the turtle.
@...SumoSnipe: “since I didn’t harvest this skull” – Haha that made my day.
Jumping to the more interesting questions.
9. A novel titled Interior Mirror is released to mammoth commercial success (despite middling reviews). However, a curious social trend emerges: Though no one can prove a direct scientific link, it appears that almost 30 percent of the people who read this book immediately become homosexual. Many of these newfound homosexuals credit the book for helping them reach this conclusion about their orientation, despite the fact that Interior Mirror is ostensibly a crime novel with no homoerotic content (and was written by a straight man).
Would this phenomenon increase (or decrease) the likelihood of you reading this book?
First of all, if I bought into to the whole: label-your-sexuality thing, then I’d technically be bi. Thus, I’d end up skipping over any of the negative repercussions resulting from the book and be able to read it. And still go home and sex my chick.
Hooray for me!
That would definitely increase the likelihood of my reading the book. In fact, it would pretty much guarantee it. I find those kinds of behavioral anomalies interesting…
My problem is that I don’t pay attention to what’s trendy or what the “critics” have to say. I’m a bad consumer. It’s a crime novel? I kind of lost interest in that genre after John D McDonald passed on, so I don’t think I’d end up reading it.
As for the social trend? Meh I’m fossilized in my ways and not worried about a book inadvertently guiding peoples orientation affecting me
for the book question: i’d say increase because i would like to understand how this is happening. Just my nature, I love to discover. The only “logical” explanation i can come up with the homosexual & the novel is the Title. “Interior Mirror”
Interior = within, Inside
Mirror = reflection, Self Image
source of homosexuality? … see what the connection i noticed.
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6. At long last, someone invents “the dream VCR.” This machine allows you to tape an entire evening’s worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device of you agree to a strange caveat: When you watch your dreams, you must do so with your family and your closest friends in the same room. They get to watch your dreams along with you. And if you don’t agree to this, you can’t use the dream VCR.
Would you still do this?
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Hell’s no lol because the dream we men have … hahaha well let’s just say if people knew what we all dreamt about we wouldn’t watch another like now
I”VE GOT IT!
I’d say yes, and here’s why:
I’m an only child, who (sadly) doesn’t plan on having kids, and thus could wait until all my family and friends died off before watching the dreams. Thus, I would spend my last days either asleep and dreaming, or watching the dreams from earlier on in my life. It would be a good way to go out.
@...Dr.Devine: wow…win … i must say
It took me a couple minutes… and thank you. *commence unnecessary smiley face*
😀
oh, i’d totally take hitler’s skull
i’d use it to take over the world on $120 a month
No way on the VDR. If they are locking up kids nowadays for what they put out in creative writing classes, The Powers that Be gonna want to bury my ass as deep as possible.
natedog for great leader 2016!
No dream machine for me. What I can remember, when I do remember, just ain’t right…
Again, epic thread.
From the pointless it arose…
Mindless it has become…
And inconsequential it shall remain…
Unto eternity.
Just as God in Heaven.
lol
🙂
Those are some unexpected answers.I’m impressed I must say, some exceptional people around here.
I despise crime novels, but I would have to try it out just to see what happens. Technically I’d be bi too, simply because I don’t think love has anything to do with somebody’s gender. But I’ve never fallen in love with a woman so I consider myself to be straight.
@...Dr.Devine: That’s cheating :p
I’m an only child as well, but I still couldn’t do it. I’d be disowned.
@...greg_t: Word.
Also, all hail natedog.
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crime novels arnt my fancy. i just find myself skipping to the last 6 chapters. meh. i can love people. but i dont think i can FALL in love with dudes. so i, too, consider myself straight.
@...greg_t: i counter your hitler skull with a FDR skull. whatnow? *oh shit not a vile of polio! FDR’s only weakness!)
@dieAntagonista: Is not cheating! It says specifically that you can view them at your own leisure. 😀 MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
And agreed. natedog for great leader in 2012. All hail.
Hot damn did not see that loophole….good show Dr. Devine.
So natedogs cabinet:
Minister of Health: Dr. Devine.
Minister of Education: dieAntagonista
Minister of Information: tiki god
Minister of Defense and Peace: nyokki
hmmm will have to think on other people and positions…..What do you think?
why? just cause of hitlers skull?
Epic thread seems to be developing a hierarchy….. hmmmm.
Interesting, interesting.
Aw, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, knowing that somebody thinks I deserve to be the Minister of Education because of a fictional idea involving Hitler’s skull which doesn’t exist (not much of it anyway) and natedog pretending to be a megalomaniac.
This thread is the bestest ever. I actually have a koran (I own them all, new and old testament, torah etc.) and I’m considering to pour some water on it and see if it gets moldy. Then take a picture, post it on here and see if this ‘phenomenon’ repeats itself.
17. You are sitting in an empty bar (in a town you’ve never before visited), drinking Bacardi with a soft-spoken acquaintance you barely know. After an hour, a third individual walks into the tavern and sits by himself, and you ask your acquaintance who the new man is. “Be careful of that guy,†you are told. “He is a man with a past.†A few minutes later, a fourth person enters the bar; he also sits alone. You ask your acquaintance who this new individual is. “Be careful of that guy, too,†he says. “He is a man with no past.â€Â
Which of these two people do you trust less?
No, just an amusing mental exercise. The ruler of the world only paid $120 a month. After all, look at the messes the professional people in charge with seven figure salaries have made.
I know these posts don’t tell exactly who we are and what we are capable of, but from the general feel I get from all of a persons posts at this site led me to those picks. As for natedog, well, he had the gumption to state that he wants to take over the world.
Haha I know. That’s why I thought it was sweet. I’m still just a wikipedia fraud remember.
The man with the past, he is at least predictable.
Ok… A truly ambiguous question.
I’m going to make the assumption that the man with no past either has amnesia, or has a past that has been carefully erased, either by himself or someone else.
In real life a person can tell you things about themselves without ever saying a word. In the absence of any other concrete information, I would look for those cues more than anything my acquaintance would ever say.
However If I were in the position where I was forced to make a snap, life and death decision between relying on one or the other for something, without ever having seen, or even knowing anything more about either of them than the words of my acquaintance, I would prefer to approach the man who has a past.
Primarily because a person who has a past will have a history that I can eventually use to understand them, even if it is not available to me at the moment.
None of them. The only one I would trust in that bar would be the bartender,as he(or she) would be the only one whose motivations for being there were clear.
Ok the why on my picks:
Dr. Devine: well, he’s Devine.
nyokki: From posts on violence, she is no hawk. But she is not a “pay the Danegeld or give ’em Poland” peace at all cost either.The kind of balance I would like to see.
dieAntagonista: You still ask questions and think about the answers(at least, those above kindergarten and name calling)with a mind that does not appear to be a closed box.And multilingual is a bonus.
But I could be waaaayyyy off base. This is teh interwebz, after all.
@...dieAntagonista: your not the only wiki user 😉
as for this question.
hmmm i think i would go with the the man with no past everyone has a past i could sit and observe him 5 mins and i know 5 mins of his past. and other reasons are is because he’s either a liar, incredibly secretive or a vistor from the future.
I approve of my rank.
I wouldn’t have the dream box any other way.
if it creeps them out, tough.
More likely, it’d melt their faces, Lost Ark style.
Here’s a slightly more sadistic question:
You MUST pick one:
The ability to fly- superman-style, but you lose all sense of sight, and it cannot be compensated for,
or
You gain X-Ray vision, but lose your ability to communicate AND masturbate.
wait- the sight lose can’t be ARTIFICIALLY compensated for. if you can daredevil it up somehow, with your meager human ears and nose, then go nuts
I’d probably go for the X-Ray vision…
Unless my *other* senses can be artificially augmented, in which case I’d go for cybernetic flying Daredevil sonar…
What, no buddy on the ground with a radio to tell you “LEFT!!!!rightrightright down downstopstop WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE” MMMkay I see the problem there. The other choice sucks worse, so I go for 1 high and as fast as possible flight, and leave an interesting mess for someone to clean up on landing.
By the way, has anyone identified the fungus in the pic? Just curious if they were edible or poisonous.
Ok, back from TGD NYC sojourn and I have some catching up to do.
I’d take Hitler’s skull. Who wants a turtle (that doesn’t already have one)? I’d put his skull in a very prominent place and invite any and all to come and defile it.
Dreams are all f’d up. Even if I saw them, I’d only drive myself crazy trying to figure out what, if any, meaning they may have. So, no on the VCR dreams.
I’m w/ Sumo on the strangers. I have no reason to trust anyone I don’t know (and even some that I do know). If I had to make a choice, I would trust the history stranger less. The man w/ a past may or may not tell me true, The man w/ no past will lie…every time.
I’d choose fly and blind, even considering that the blindness would prolly preclude me from flying, though it would certainly help w/ my vertigo. The inability to communicate would be truly horrible for me, not to mention no masturbation.
Minister of Defense and Peace? I’m down w/ dat.
Geeeeeeez we’re still posting in this? Divide and conquer, people.
okay let’s continue
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11. You are watching a movie in a crowded theater. Though the plot is mediocre, you find yourself dazzled by the special effects. But with twenty minutes left in the film, you are struck with an undeniable feeling of doom: You are suddenly certain your mother has just died. There is no logical reason for this to be true, but you are certain of it. You are overtaken with the irrational metaphysical sense that–somewhere–your mom has just perished. But this is only an intuitive, amorphous feeling; there is no evidence for this, and your mother has not been ill.
Would you immediately exit the theater, or would you finish watching the movie?
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fuck that, it’s my mother without doubt I’d find out what’s up + i can watch the movie on blueray or something
ARH forgot to mention 650th post ^^
Step out, call my mother, Say “Hi, Buh Byeeee” step back in…
Hmmm… LOL ok, That didn’t sound the way it was intended… 🙂
I’d just check on her real quick. Cell phones are really good for that kind of thing. Then go back to the movie…
@...Phyreblade: but what happen you check in her and she is okay safe and sound and later you found out that your mother got stabbed 60x and had a phone in her hand (happened right after you called) i was going to say the same thing but i choose to go see her … nothing or anybody can replace my mother.. not worth loosing.
That’s a tough one for me. My mom lives 300 miles away. So going to see her immediately is not possible. I would most certainly step out and call her, and hope she answers the phone (no cell phone for her). If she answers, fine I go back to watch the movie. If she doesn’t answer after several tries, I’d guess I’d start calling around, depending on how strong that feeling is and what my mood is, sometimes I’m willing to believe and others…not.
@...MonkeyHitman:
My mother lives too far away for me to go and visit her at will, (no matter how much she would like that), so a phone call would have to do…
@...nyokki: Exactly my thoughts. Not to mention my mother lives a whole lot farther away than 300 miles…
Most people I asked trust the man with a past less, which is curious to me. I’d trust the man with no past less.
I’d pick definitely superman abilities + loss of sight. Even though becoming is blind is one of my greatest fears.
Haha, ok well as someone whose mother actually died while I was in a theatre, this is pretty ironic to me.
I’d continue to watch the movie, because if she really died, then she’s already dead, me rushing out isn’t going to save her.
But I’m not allowed in theaters any more…
Why?! I shouldn’t be allowed in theatres either, I always laugh too loud and way too long. Laughing in theatres always turn into rofl-spasms for me.
turns*
Laughing=good. Babies crying, kids kicking seats, people yelling on cells, smoking, throwing stuff(other than at the Rocky)=bad. They did a good job bolting down the seats, can’t just rip ’em out and start beating deserving idiots over the head with them. So I just avoid the stress, cost and bail money and wait for the dvd.
“can’t just rip ‘em out and start beating deserving idiots” Bahaha. Priceless. I agree. And we’re almost at 666.
@...dieAntagonista:
No offense to you, but my only reaction to that feeling would be a kind of elation- like a weight being lifted off of my shoulders. Let it be known- my Mother is the Devil.
I bet the less than good movie would even look better afterward.
I wouldn’t even check on it, in case the lovely feeling was wrong and my bubble would be burst.
So. . . Next question?
If you could be any kind of tree, what kind of tree would you want to be if you’d been accused of raping your cousin?
@...elzarcothepale:
Haha what a horrible thing to say. Well I have to admit, my mother was the most intimidating woman you could imagine, but hey. She was the only one I had.
I’d want to be a cherry tree.
13. Every person you have ever slept with is invited to a banquet where you are the guest of honor. No one will be in attendance except you, the collection of your former lovers, and the catering service. After the meal, you are asked to give a fifteen-minute speech to the assembly.
What do you talk about?
slinging wang
@...elzarcothepale: banana tree ???
@...dieAntagonista:
the speech:soooo.. i’m “pretty sure” you all know me… sooooo *looking around* Orgy anyone???
i always knew i was the anti christ, 666th post= slinging wang.
@...elzarcothepale: well hells bells , I was holding off thinking that “slinging wang” would have been the perfect end to this thread. but nooo…so ONWARD!
Banyan tree. them tentacles will come in handy for all that cousin action….
@...dieAntagonista: Last one in the hottub gets cleanup duty.
The Tree: I’d be a Redwood. Or a Baobab.
The speech: MH captured my thoughts quite nicely… 😀
I’d want to be a weeping willow, guaranteed a beautiful view and people near me.
Speech would have to start w/ something like: I’ve lived a long and apparently promiscuous life…wait, who are you in seat 57?
I would talk about sex anecdotes. For each and everyone of them. So everyone could enjoy the awkwardness. And bask in it.
Haha you people are lovely. Unfortunately I’m terrible at public speaking, but no one would come anyway.
19. Your best friend is taking a nap on the floor of your living room. Suddenly, you are faced with a bizarre existential problem: This friend is going to die unless you kick them (as hard as you can) in the rib cage. If you don’t kick them while they slumber, they will never wake up. However, you can never explain this to your friend; if you later inform them that you did this to save their life, they will also die from that. So you have to kick a sleeping friend in the ribs, and you can’t tell them why.
Since you cannot tell your friend the truth, what excuse will you fabricate to explain this (seemingly inexplicable) attack?
None, I just roll that way.
i would put a mask that looks like Dr.Devine and not only kick but everything i can do ^^ so i have 2 joy’s saving his life and breaking his rib cage.
*yells at him THAT’S FOR DATING MY SISTER*
real life: i have no sister this is all “what if”
i’ll just say it was a gift- and now they get to kick me in the ass three times without warning
That would be a love tap around here. Fiends and family are pretty rough and tumble, people napping/passed out on floor,couch, beanbag are all targets of a dogpile and flying elbow drops.
Sorry “friends”…no wait, they can be fiends at times….
@...nyokki: LOL… I bet you be keepin’ peeps on their toes… 🙂
Me, I have no imagination, so I’d just say “Oops! My bad! I tried to jump over you and tripped… 😀 “
We’re talking about best friends here.
I think I would continue to kick with hands and feet in the air, with closed yes, making gargling noises for a while even after I woke him up. Then I’d stop after 2 minutes or so, looking totally perplexed, and I’d say, what the fuck was that? Maybe I should go see a doctor etc.
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15. You have a brain tumor. Though there is no discomfort at the moment, this tumor would unquestionably kill you in six months. However, your life can (and will) be saved by an operation; the only downside is that there will be a brutal incision to your frontal lobe. After the surgery, you will be significantly less intelligent. You will still be a fully functioning adult, but you will be less logical, you will have a terrible memory, and you will have little ability to understand complex concepts or difficult ideas. The surgery is in two weeks.
How do you spend the next fourteen days?
That one is gonna take some thinking about. I’d be out of a job/career, so I’d have to make arrangements. What will I be able to do at a Gumpian level of intelligence? what kind of preparations should I make? Or do I just not bother and have as good an intellectual time as I can in the next 2 weeks?
i would rather die … to me it’s like this saying “Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees” I’d rather be remembered as a genius rather than living a life of retardation
@...dieAntagonista:
“I would continue to kick with hands and feet in the air,” are you some flying mechanism ? how will you kick him if your in the air flyin …. do all Romanian people fly ? that would the shit… xD
@...MonkeyHitman: According to the rules (heheh), you will be saved by the operation. You’re answering a question that wasn’t asked.
I’m with MonkeyHitman on this one. Six months running hard and burning out brightly, or spending untold years of being riverdaledragon. “Better to burn out than to fade away!”
If we’re being given that choice, then yeah, I’ll go 6 months hard.
jesus fucking christ guys this is from like two weeks ago and we are still commenting on it?
@...thelotuseater725: welcome back my friend to the show that never ends. We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside!
@...SumoSnipe: hahhahahaha “spending untold years of being riverdaledragon” +respect
@...nyokki: am really sorry but it’s 4:34 AM haven’t slept and riverdaledragon mode is on … i really don’t understand one thing you said lol
10 more comments mtf’s!!
wow you guys have no life you just go on talking about completly random shit like this one time i was watching this porno and my mom came in and asked me what i was doing and i said just watching cartoons. she sat next to me and said “can i watch with you me sweet,hot big lar
@MonkeyHitman:lolz
And I’d spend what remains of my intelligent life writing my memoirs. And then I’d shoot myself in my study. Because I would not allow myself to live with any sort of handicap, and any drastic change to myself would be unfair to the people I love. Thus, I’d rather deprive them of me than make them deal with an altered self. And, I’m also incredibly vain. Couldn’t live with the IQ dip.
Actually… I wouldn’t shoot myself. I’d comitt hari kari. Waaaay more ballsy. More my style.
And, my suicide would also make my memoirs sell like the metaphorical and literal hot cakes they’d be. 😀
dude dude dude dude …you forgot one “devine” missing piece …
TITS ?? i will not certainly leave this earth without fucking atleast MINIMUM 50 girls within those 2 weeks… i’m gonna make hugh hefner look like barney.
TITS OR GTFO ^_^ srry ladies but i just had to be said. atleast for teh sake of Dr.Devine
This is definitely starting to feel like a fate worse than death. I keep thinking: Oh, I’d do this or maybe that! Then I realize, I’d still be alive and have to deal w/ consequences of starting a heroin habit, or take up drinking as a full time job. Man, this one sux!
I think MonkeyHitman is onto something… 😀
And that would pretty much sum it up for me. First I cancel my operation. No longer able to think logically? Unable to understand complex thoughts? I don’t think so.
Then I’d live those last 6 months as if I owned the place.
what if after you die … which ever applies to your religion .. there is no sex… man THAT is a topic …and I’m not going to take the risk so i enjoy myself NOW.. but of course I’m going to be careful not to catch any disease lol
No worries about sex in the afterlife here. It’s in there with the fighting and feasting.
Fuck Yeah
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