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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Real ale or real coffee
which would it be?
Naturally, the person who answers sets up a new similar conundrum.
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Stetson
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If you're a coffee-drinker who dislikes alcohol, can you still answer? Because the "hates booze" thing kind of removes the element of dilemna for me.
Anyway, if it's okay, I'll answer Real Ale, obviously.
Sports or politics? (As things that you follow for enjoyment)
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Too easy. My life would be almost entirely unchanged were competitive sports to disappear from the universe tomorrow.
Cheese or Chocolate
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Lyda*Rose
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Surprisingly, cheese. I really enjoy chocolate but a lack of cheese would punch a big hole in my menu.
TV or internet (for recreation)?
ETA: rats! Pepper.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Telly. I can watch telly on tintertubes anyway so I wouldn't lose out.
Within telly,
Comedy or Drama
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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I could do without comedy, it's often too 'in your face'. I prefer the subtle humour which is in many dramas eg. Shakespeare, Alan Bennett plays. But, should I be only confined to serious drama, I'm able to find humour in many things myself without needing someone to do it for me. And you can get entirely caught up in the story with drama, taken out of yourself and everyday worries.
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Imaginary Friend
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Ummmm.... Chorister, would you like to set a new question? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Brian Clough
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Chorister
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Oh, whoopsie ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
Radio 4 or Radio 2
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Boogie
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Difficult choice ....
I listen to both pretty equally, but I will go for Radio 2.
jumper or cardigan?
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pjl
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I have loads of jumpers but no cardigans.
The only prob with jumpers is that they mess up my hair when removing said clothing.
sugar or sweeteners
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Leorning Cniht
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quote:
Originally posted by pjl:
sugar or sweeteners
No contest - artificial sweeteners are creatures of the sixth circle.
Mozart or Bach?
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Imaginary Friend
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I've never really been able to appreciate Bach, so I'm afraid I'd have to give him the push. Mozart, by contrast, is wonderful.
Christmas day or Easter day
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"We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass."
Brian Clough
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Adam.
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Easter day. Not the mystery of the resurrection, but the day itself: we've been up all night doing an awesome* Vigil, and then we have to get up and do a gazillion packed masses for people that only go to church twice year?
staples or paperclips?
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*In the proper sense of the word. (And the popular sense...)
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Welease Woderwick
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I could easily do without paperclips, or paper-thieves as my first ever boss called them.
hot drinks or cold drinks
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Lyda*Rose
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hot drinks
I have to cool my coffee down almost to ice coffee to gulp it down; I'm a champion tongue burner.
Holidays: abroad or domestic?
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Leorning Cniht
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Got to keep abroad - that's where all the family is.
Pillow or Duvet?
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Duvet - a pillow can't keep you warm.
Diary or smartphone?
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I can do without a smartphone - I don't have a mobile
Apples or pears?
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pjl
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Apples are to acidic for me so it has to be pears.
Anyway you can't beat a fine pear.
skimmed milk or full cream milk
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Heavenly Anarchist
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I've already ditched the full cream as I'm dieting.
Tomatoes or olives?
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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Olives are made of candle wax impregnated with salt, so are very very easy to give up. It's eating the revolting little bogeys that's difficult.
Purgatory or Hell?
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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Hell please, so long as you don't call me there!
Digital camera or film?
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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I think 99% of us are already doing without film. We need to be careful this doesn't just become a list of preferences or the hosts'll kick it into touch.
Crisps or peanuts?
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Boogie
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Peanuts pleas - they are full of protein.
Conundrum or preference?
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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# 76
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Ack, I'll manage without the conundrums because preferences are so much easier on the old brain.
(It's so hard not to get obscene on this game, isn't it....)
recorders or accordians?
("both" is not allowed)
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Pearl B4 Swine
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The recorders can go. Those high notes puncture my brain somehow. And zydeco cant do without accordians.
"Amazing Grace" or "Kumbayyah"
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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ken
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Do without accordians. Recorders are so much easier to play.
Rice or pasta?
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Cross-post question: Pearlie, or Ken
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Methinks P4BS got there first.
And since Kumbayyah or however you spell it is so God-awful it makes Amazing Grace seem like Bach's Mass in B Minor, this is an easy conundrum, and into the pit that wretched little childrhood ditty goes. It can have Away in a Sodding Manger for company.
Telephone or Email
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Spike
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Telephone without a doubt. Emails are easier to ignore!
Socks or underwear?
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"May you get to heaven before the devil knows you're dead" - Irish blessing
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Drifting Star
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Cats can go - they're just users, whereas dogs offer love.
Peanut butter or marmite?
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Heraclitus
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Ariston
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1. Isn't that really just asking "American" or "British?" We don't have Marmite, except in imports shops or the British foods sections of supermarkets, and peanut butter's pretty durn hard to find anywhere but the States (and possibly Canada).
2. But, to the point, have you ever tasted marmite? Second worst thing I've ever eaten—and number one was multi-legged, alive, and trying to bite my tongue before I bit it in half and unleashed the Yuk. You do weird things working at science museums.
Cake or pie?
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Drifting Star
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Believe me, there is no problem finding peanut butter anywhere in the UK. I hadn't realised marmite was in quite such a UK niche, but agree that it certainly ought to be segregated from anyone with working taste buds.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Heraclitus
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Chorister
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The pie can go - pastry is too filling, I'd rather have what's inside, on its own. But cake, especially ginger or lemon drizzle is D.I.VINE.
red wine or white wine?
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I'd do without frozen pizza. I would have to order in fresh more often, then.......
Books or Magazines
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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churchgeek
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I could do without magazines. Even if academic journals went with them (which would really be bad) - books are too important to toss!
mp3s/mp4s or jpegs
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My article on the Virgin of Vladimir
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Leorning Cniht
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quote:
Originally posted by churchgeek:
mp3s/mp4s or jpegs
The mpegs can go. A picture is worth a thousand words, but video takes too long.
While we're at it, we can consign people who think "podcasts" or videocasts are a useful way of transmitting information to oblivion. I don't find a five minute video of you reading a paragraph of text at all helpful.
Lunch or Dinner?
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Albertus
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Lunch. Much as I like it, I like dinner more, and there's usually more time to enjoy it.
Jagger or Lennon?
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Stetson
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I'll have to go with Lennon, if only because I'm a bigger Stones fan now than I am a Beatles fan. And I'm not all that enamoured of Lennon's solo work, which I find tends toward the didactic(yes, I'm looking at YOU, Imagine).
Andy Warhol or Jackson Pollock?
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Lymasa
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Tough one for me since I'm not mad about either of them. Of the two, I'd keep Pollock and bid Warhol adieu.
For takeaway food: Chinese or Indian?
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That cannot fall down stairs. . .
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Stick Monitor
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I'd order Chinese for the huge range of flavours and textures. It's also dairy-free so Stick Monitrix can eat it too.
Black Ink or Blue Ink?
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Ariston
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See, that's a toughie, since I use a very nice blue-black (Organics Studio Magnetite V, made locally (!), for all you other fountain pen nuts out there)—but, since I've such a soft spot for Visconti Blue (think Yves Klein blue), I'm going to go with black.
GIN, or Real Ale?
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Albertus
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Gin (makes me maudlin- and you wouldn't want me maudlin' all over your guests...).
France or Italy?
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Boogie
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Italy - far superior wines
mug or teacup?
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Desert Daughter
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teacup... for the simple reason that granny might come 'round any minute for a cuppa and she frowns upon mugs.
beach or mountains (for holidays) ?
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"Prayer is the rejection of concepts." (Evagrius Ponticus)
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Mountains. because I have them the rest of the time, so beaches are a treat!
hmm...
silk or cashmere?
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Smudgie
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I do love the mountains but as I'm getting older ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) and the knees are getting weaker, it'd need to be one with a cablecar and I'm a bit scared of heights. Besides which, mountain holidays generally mean Scotland or abroad, whereas you can get to the beach so much more easily. So I could do without mountains, but I really miss living by the beach.
Driving or walking
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