Surely no one's so protectionist or anti-growth that they think trade is bad!
Smart sanctions, I guess...
Charm or sincerity?
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Surely no one's so protectionist or anti-growth that they think trade is bad!
Smart sanctions, I guess...
Charm or sincerity?
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I guess not much choice there, is thereOriginally Posted by AndrewJ
Sincerity.Charm or sincerity?
Truth, or untruth?
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"Untruth" sounds eerily like "undead", therefore I choose "truth" (which I restrict to statements that can be analytically deconstructed or empirically falsified).
Sleep or consciousness?
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Right now, sleep
Dreams, or nightmares?
I wish I knew all those years ago that simply joining this board and proclaiming myself to be rational would magically transform my uninformed opinions into science; it would have saved me a lot of time and effort.
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dreams
awareness or oblivion?
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awareness
self-awareness, or group-awareness?
I wish I knew all those years ago that simply joining this board and proclaiming myself to be rational would magically transform my uninformed opinions into science; it would have saved me a lot of time and effort.
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self-awareness, my ego knows its place.
Psychoanalysis or psychotherapy.
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psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis isn't only a religion, but a scary religion.
Psychoanalysis or tarot cards?
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Er...do I have to choose?
Tarot cards. Only because the words trigger Jane Seymour.
Keira Knightly or Kate Beckinsale?
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Kate Beckinsale, almost as beautiful as her father.
Frank or Nancy Sinatra?
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Nancy. I guess.
River or ocean?
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River, a metaphor of fate.
Fate or luck?
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luck
Frequentist or Bayesian?
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The Bayesians (in all probability).
Innocence or catharsis?
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catharsis
Responsibility or guilt?
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guilt
Watching a documentary about a very fat Mexican on The Learning Channel or a South Park repeat?
(Obviously, I am too cool and busy for this choice to apply to me, it's just my, err, girlfriend needs help choosing.)
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South Park. Cartman may be grossly fat, but at least he's animated.
Knowledge or happiness?
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Knowledge. I can't take happiness seriously since that bit in Kenneth Williams' diary where he's at a dinner party and someone asks the French Minister's wife what she most wants from life and she replies "a penis" ("happiness" with the h dropped and each syllable pronounced with equal stress as is the French way).
Googolplex or infinity?
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Googolplex. Infinity requires further definition.
Countable, or uncountable?
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countable (it is an untruth that the undead are uncountable).
suburban ennui or a cold flat in Chinatown?
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Cold flat in Chinatown. Better food and exotic bookstores.
Natalie Wood or Norwegian Wood?
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Natalie Wood, provided it is after the child star era, and before she died.
The wind or the water?
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The water (where Ratty and Mole had their adventures).
Wilfred Owen or Dylan Thomas?
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Dylan Thomas, if only for that poem.
Poetry or prose?
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Prose. That is what most modern poetry sounds like, anyway.
Regular hexahedron or perfect cube?
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Heh. Almost fell for that.
Analytic geometry or Construction?
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Not sure if those aren't the same thing either. This is after a year of Euclid.
Radio GaGa or Video Killed the Radio Star?
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Video Killed the Radio Star. Easily.
Take My hand or Everybody Wants to Rule the World?
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Everybody Wants to Rule the World. My favourite Tears For Fears song.
OT: Whatever happened to Dido anyway?
Mad World (Tears For Fears version) or Mad World (Donnie Darko version)
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Donnie Darko Mad World.
Greatest symphonist of the twentieth-century: Shostakovich or Sibelius?
After Amy Winehouse burst on to the scene Dido looked a bit dull.
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