Would you rather...?

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A silly little game of no consequence. Post a poll asking a trifling little OR question. Then vote in the ones above.

No philosophy, ethics, or politics, please.

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Say you’ve gone to a restaurant and the server brings out a basket of bread and butter. Would you rather have

  • A warm roll with cold butter
  • A cold roll with warm butter

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I’m horrified someone picked the other option.

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Given the choice, would you rather have:

  • Four distinct seasons
  • Only one season, but it’s the second-worst one
  • Seven months of the best season, followed by five months of the worst
  • Random weather from day to day

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  • Have a dog that barks at all intruders including other dogs on the other side of the street.
  • Have dog that is silent but looks at you constantly with judging eyes.

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(Based on experience.)

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Would you rather have:

  • Great power and great responsibility
  • Average power and average responsibility
  • Minimal power and minimal responsibility
  • No power and no responsibility

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I am familiar with random weather from day to day. It is highly overrated.

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I’m sorry, but Wondracide is a thing. (That is, the murder of bread with a knife and cold butter.)

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That’s why you take a pat of butter, cut open the warm roll, put the butter inside, close it back up, and wait for it to melt until it’s spreadable.

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  1. Chop butter up into little pieces with your butter knife.

  2. Cut a slit in the warm roll.

  3. Close the slot so the butter chips are surrounded by warm bread.

  4. Wait a couple minutes, then enjoy.

Source: school trip to France featuring many underheated dining rooms.

So it will work for real bread. Not sure about Wonderbread.

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Ninjaed! Usually that’s me doing it to @teknocholer. Hm, the Canadians have really got into the bread thing.

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It’s 'cause we know all aboot the cold butter, eh?

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“It’s dairy, it has to stay in the fridge until you need it!”

“There is no way this dining room is over 12C!”

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I live in the Bay area; we already have ‘random weather everyday.’

Would you rather:

  • Stub your pinky toe on the coffee table
  • Bang your funny bone against the door jam

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Hmph. This is how much we hate hard, cold butter at our dining table:

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We keep sticks of butter in the fridge until this butter crock gets close to empty. Then we let a stick of butter soften on the countertop for, I dunno, an hour or so. Then we unwrap it and stuff it into the section of the crock shown on the left. The section on the right gets about 1/4" of cold, clean water in it, then the butter-filled section is inverted and placed over the water trap section. We used to fear it would let the butter go bad too quickly, but in fact, our butter stays delightfully cool and luxuriously soft in that dingus for several days with no sign of going bad.

But butter fresh from the fridge coupled with bread that’s more than a minute or two out of the oven just makes me sad. In my best world, I get warm rolls and soft butter at the same time.

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I would rather break my pinky toe on the coffee table than hit my funny bone ever again.

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But the funny bone is over in ten minutes, while the stubbed toe goes on for hours …

For me, anyway.

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Pretty much the opposite for me. After an accident a few years ago I don’t have funny “bones” so much as I have funny “eight inch surgical scars” along both forearms that are way more sensitive and infinitely more painful.

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Oooh, that does sound painful.

Stub my toe or bang my shin bone? Definitely the toe.

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Ouch.

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