People Share Their Most Compelling "Would You Rather" Questions
"Would you rather" gets out of hand quickly, like in that movie of the same name. Would you rather be the last person standing in a horror movie with deaths on your hands, or die saving lives, but as a forgotten hero?
IceManLeroy asked, What's your best "would you rather"?
Submissions have been edited for clarity, context, and profanity.
You mean like... The Magic School Bus? That. That wins.
Would you rather have a magic van that can teleport you anywhere you want and time travel anywhere you want, or a magic ring that when it touches a book you absorb all the knowledge inside?
Definitely love - good thing I have a magic teleporting van.
Would you rather have an obsessive insane person love you or hate you?
My magic van can take me anywhere, down to the abyss I go. I'll pick up trash as a bonus.
Would you rather:
- Climb the tallest mountain
- Travel to the bottom of the sea?
Horizontal, for the exercise and less obstructed views of shankings.
If you had to live in a cage for the rest of your life, would you rather the bars be horizontal, or vertical?
I'd rather speak all the human languages, and I'd demand to be called 3PO.
Would you rather be able to converse with (non-human) animals, or have lifelong fluency in every (human) language?
IDK, bionic limbs seem pretty amazing.
A friend of mine got a question that read, "would you rather have an extra arm or an extra leg." My friend is missing an arm so the choice was pretty clear.
I'd take the one hour of sleep. There's a whole world out there.
So how about this, would you rather be able to eat anything you want and have it be perfect nutrition or have to only sleep 1 hour a day and be fully rested?
The second one. Sometimes you have to nope tf out.
Fly effortlessly, but only at 1/4 walking speed
or
Teleport anywhere, but only twice per month?
Jurassic Park, of course - think of the scientific benefits.
Having Jurassic Park or Ghostbusters be real?
This is a tough one. Scientific master or master musician? Science and math could yield perfect music (EDM obviously).
Would you rather have mastery (and the ability to apply such mastery) over any-and-all scientific or mathematical concepts
OR
Be able to create artistic masterpieces using any medium?
"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die." - The Sandlot
Would you rather do something great for all of humanity but be remembered as one of the worst people who ever lived, or do nothing with any lasting impact in your life and be remembered as a hero to all people?
Lose the height, keep the abs.
Would you rather gain 100 lbs / 45 kg of fat, or lose 15 inches / 38 cm of height? Either condition would be permanent
Who needs knees when there are scooters? Elephants seem to do fine sans-knees.
Would you rather your food always be too hot (as in, you'd never be used to it, it's always too hot) or have no knees?
Ice cream, no contest.
Would you rather eat 10 gallons of cookie dough or 10 gallons of ice cream? You're only allowed to eat your choice and drink water until your choice is gone.
Lights on, spiders aren't so bad. They eat mosquitoes.
For this question, you'll be locked in a room full of spiders for some amount of time. Would you rather have the lights on or off?
Well I've lived the first part, and I don't want to be ugly, so...
Would you rather be very beautiful and have diarrhea forever or very ugly and safe from diarrhea for the rest of your life?
Can't go wrong either way on this one, cuz I'm an All Star.
Would you rather A) Every time you have an orgasm, the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth plays, or B) every time the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth plays, you have an orgasm?
And yes, if you choose A, it will be audible to anyone in the same room as you. It will play as though from a small, but decently powerful, Bluetooth speaker.
If you think you'd choose B, I encourage you to take note of every time you hear this song in the next few months. I've found it comes on kind of a lot.
Definitely the little rhino!
Would you rather own a rhino the size of a hamster, or a hamster the size of a rhino?
Space. No Trump.
Would you rather live in the South Pole or in space?
With my magic van, I can do both.
Would you rather spend an hour going back in time to observe the dinosaurs/prehistoric animals (you get to pick the time period), or would you want to spend an hour on another planet or moon?
Ok, who is watching the clock? Those seconds aren't going to count themselves. The only way to understand time is to be its witness. Although that can get depressing. Let's focus on the light and cool.
History...
Calculate Figure It Out GIF by OriginalsGiphy"If you are an 80-year-old American, you have lived through approximately 1/3 of our nation's entire history."
Those Days...
"The 80s were 40 years ago."
"This is what messes me up because I was born in 82 and graduated high school in 2000 so for some reason my brain is stuck on the 80's being twenty years ago. The 70's thirty years ago etc etc. I have to stop and realize sometimes that my concept of how long ago things happened is way off."
Time goes by...
"We observe that light travels at 186,000 miles a second, but given the vast size of the observable universe, that's a snail's pace. But from the point of view of a particle of light, time doesn't even exist."
"Time slows down as you approach the speed of light, and theoretically stops completely when you reach the speed of light."
Years Gone By...
"MLK Jr. and Anne Frank were born in the same year."
"Betty White was born in 1922. Automatically pre-sliced packaged bread loaves became commercially available in 1928. Betty White is six years older than sliced bread."
Long Live the Queen!
queen elizabeth images GIFGiphy"The queen and Marilyn Monroe would've been the same age."
"And Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith were born on the same day!"
- osme1
I swear Liz is going to outlive dirt. Wait, I believe she already has. Well she won't be alone, she'll have Betty White. At least she better have Betty. Time is nothing without Queen Betty.
TV Time
Season 2 Omg GIF by Paramount+Giphy"Happy Days was a TV show made in the 1970s-80s about teenagers in the 1950s. Similarly, That 70s Show was made in the 90s-00s about teenagers in the 70s. If a similar show were to be made today, it would be about teenagers in the 2000s."
- VVillyD
A Croc
"If a T-Rex imagined a creature as ancient as the T-Rex is to us, it would be a Stegosaurus. If that Stegosaurus imagined a creature as ancient as the Stegosaurus is to us, it would be a Crocodile. If that Crocodile imagined a creature as ancient as that Crocodile is to us, it would be a Shark."
On the Clock
"On a twenty four hour clock the amount of time that humans have been on the earth would total around five seconds."
"How about this one: If Homo Habilus first appeared at midnight, 24 hours ago, that means the first Homo Sapiens appeared at 9:25 PM, or about 2 and a half hours ago. The first human civilization, in lower Mesopotamia, appeared at 11:57 PM, or about 3 minutes ago."
"The Western Roman Empire fell at 11:59 PM, or 1 minute ago. Everything that has happened since - the Crusades, the Plague, the discovery of the New World, the world wars, all of it - has happened in the last minute of human existence."
And that's just OUR Sun...
"The span of our lives are so insignificantly small that our Sun will last another 5 billion years. That's 9 zeros people. Our eldest live to around 100 in the best places. That's 50,000,000 (50 million) times longer than any person can reasonably expect to live. And that's just OUR Sun. The universe as a whole has probably existed for magnitudes longer than that already and will continue to exist until the end of time as we know it."
Tell Me a Story
william shakespeare GIF by will herringGiphy"We know what a good storyteller Shakespeare was but there were Greek playwrights who wrote shows nearly 2,000 years earlier that are pretty good, too."
I hate time. Only because I'm petty and irritated of the amount I squandered. That's neither here nor there though. Time marches on and continues to amaze. I'll keep watching.
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