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2 hours ago, the_thrashing said:

I'd have to say Axl then. I wanted to be a singer because of Axl when I was a kid but ever since the dreadlocks/corn rows whatever that was he stopped being one of my idols.

That was a tough question though because I do love Brian Johnson, the Razors Edge album was sweet tits. He is almost deaf and can't be in a band anymore too.

 

I'd take shitty metal bands or metal cover bands over anything else. The only thing that could possibly tempt me that's not metal is if they were like 80s hardcore punk bands but that wont happen.

 

Robocop or terminator?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you've sort of made another mistake, 'The Thrashing'. 

While your answers are interesting and cool, you've actually answered a question from @FatherAlabaster that I've already answered. It's a good question, no doubt, but it's been answered. 

This thread is about answering the very last question that is asked in it. If you stick with that idea you can't go wrong. You have to focus though. 

So I asked, would you rather give up dairy or wheat? Pretty lame and useless question, I'll admit, but that was technically the last question asked, and in accordance with the rules, you should make an attempt to answer it, if it is at all within your power to do so. 

And I'd rather be Robocop. 

 

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4 hours ago, Requiem said:

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you've sort of made another mistake, 'The Thrashing'. 

While your answers are interesting and cool, you've actually answered a question from @FatherAlabaster that I've already answered. It's a good question, no doubt, but it's been answered. 

This thread is about answering the very last question that is asked in it. If you stick with that idea you can't go wrong. You have to focus though. 

So I asked, would you rather give up dairy or wheat? Pretty lame and useless question, I'll admit, but that was technically the last question asked, and in accordance with the rules, you should make an attempt to answer it, if it is at all within your power to do so. 

And I'd rather be Robocop. 

 

Wheat. I have health problems and already have to limit my protein to less than 100 grams a day. I have to really limit, meat and cheese etc and I would stab somebody to be able to eat a big huge double chili-cheeseburger right now. I could give up bread no problem if I was given cheese instead.

At one time I was going to become a meatatarian and eat nothing but meat and cheese. I guess my plan was foiled by God because shortly after I found out I have holes in my kidneys completely ruining my new lifestyle plan. I would rather have been struck by lightning.

Jimi Hendrix or Eddie Van Halen?

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15 hours ago, Requiem said:

That sounds tough, man. Although you might have dodged a bullet by not living a purely meat and cheese life...

I’ll go Eddie VH. I like the music a lot more and the 80s rock era would have been so fun. 

A gold medal gymnast or gold medal ice skater?

Oh man, you are a very tortured soul to think up that one being that I assume it's almost all guys on here.

Gymnast. I see ice skating as far more of a threat to my testicles. I imagine you meant figure skater.

 

Would you rather rollerskate all night at a retro rollerdisco while someone films it OR shave off your pubes and go to a hipster café and sit through a transvestite poetry reading?

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7 hours ago, the_thrashing said:

Oh man, you are a very tortured soul to think up that one being that I assume it's almost all guys on here.

Gymnast. I see ice skating as far more of a threat to my testicles. I imagine you meant figure skater.

 

Would you rather rollerskate all night at a retro rollerdisco while someone films it OR shave off your pubes and go to a hipster café and sit through a transvestite poetry reading?

I've felt fascist all morning so I'll take the latter. A few hours at the (red) social sounds like a (laugh) riot that even a university professor would envy. I'll have to drink my Starbucks coffee black because I know they'll only have soy milk (no dairy), but that's ok because I'll still get double the Marx for not whitening my coffee with cream and sugar.

On a related note, would you rather shave the Gillette way or man up and take the razor burn?

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15 hours ago, the_thrashing said:

Oh man, you are a very tortured soul to think up that one being that I assume it's almost all guys on here.

Gymnast. I see ice skating as far more of a threat to my testicles. I imagine you meant figure skater.

 

Would you rather rollerskate all night at a retro rollerdisco while someone films it OR shave off your pubes and go to a hipster café and sit through a transvestite poetry reading?

I was at one of my daughter’s gymnastics competition when I thought that little gem up. 

 

9 hours ago, Vampyrique said:

I've felt fascist all morning so I'll take the latter. A few hours at the (red) social sounds like a (laugh) riot that even a university professor would envy. I'll have to drink my Starbucks coffee black because I know they'll only have soy milk (no dairy), but that's ok because I'll still get double the Marx for not whitening my coffee with cream and sugar.

On a related note, would you rather shave the Gillette way or man up and take the razor burn?

I’ve missed that wordplay. 

I’ll take any burn over Gillette any day. Never again Gillette. 

Would you rather listen to nothing but thrash or nothing but death metal?

 

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8 hours ago, Requiem said:

I was at one of my daughter’s gymnastics competition when I thought that little gem up. 

 

I’ve missed that wordplay. 

I’ll take any burn over Gillette any day. Never again Gillette. 

Would you rather listen to nothing but thrash or nothing but death metal?

 

Oh, I'm not sure if they have them in Australia, but those wealthy white liberal hipsters who will happily tell you about what it's like to be a minority, think Che Guevara was cool because he looks like he was, hate their own culture that they cling to and also contribute to, prattle on about socialism whilst paying top dollar to Starbucks and Apple and Amazon, maintain an ironic and individualistic fashion sense that always conforms to the same stereotype, etc.

Gillette is a shave too close for comfort. 

I'd take nothing but death metal over thrash any day. 

 

 

Now, if you had to choose between albums from even numbered years or albums from odd numbered years?

 

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16 hours ago, Vampyrique said:

 

Now, if you had to choose between albums from even numbered years or albums from odd numbered years?

 

Great question. As much as I would hate to give up the works of genius in 2001 and 2015, I think I have to go even due to 1994 and 1996. 

 

8 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

 

WYR be Morgan Freeman or Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L for sure. 

Would you rather be a dog or a cat? 

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1 hour ago, Requiem said:

Great question. As much as I would hate to give up the works of genius in 2001 and 2015, I think I have to go even due to 1994 and 1996.

I'll even things up with even albums so you're not the odd man out. In truth, I'd have to pick even albums by necessity even though many even albums have their worthy odd album counterparts, oddly enough.

 

48 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Dog because fuck cats (sorry all you cat people but your feline friends hate me and I despise them just as much)

 

WYR be a cockroach or a housefly?

Loyal lapdog, you'll never understand what it means to be independent.

 

Housefly. They're privy to a better selection of food.

 

Karl Sanders or Colonel Sanders? You'd either possess the magic formulae to harness the power of ancient Egypt in every riff or possess the Colonel's secret recipe sacrificing chickens to the tune of millions of dollars forevermore.

 

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I dined on the Colonel’s secrets just today, and a couple of days ago I deigned to kontemplate Karl’s inkantations to inkorporal kings of the old kingdom. 

I choose KFC, and so does Karl judging from his robust figure...

Would you rather sleep in a tent or in a boat?

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49 minutes ago, Requiem said:

I dined on the Colonel’s secrets just today, and a couple of days ago I deigned to kontemplate Karl’s inkantations to inkorporal kings of the old kingdom. 

I choose KFC, and so does Karl judging from his robust figure...

Would you rather sleep in a tent or in a boat?

Indeed. I am pyramidally inclined to agree about Karl. It's no secret what the song Opening of the Mouth was all about, and it's no secret either what type of drumsticks were used when he did his solo work. 

 

47 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Probably a tent, but I guess it would depend on the boat.

You're a guitarist/frontman, but you can't keep doing both. Do you find another vocalist and focus on your playing, or find someone to play your guitar parts so you can stay out front?

Frontmen get all the glory, and it's probably easier to find a new guitarist anyhow.

 

You're presently taking a polygraph test and not passing means jail time. Who would you rather be: Kanwulf (Nargaroth) or Josh (Velvet Cacoon)?

 

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13 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Probably a tent, but I guess it would depend on the boat.

You're a guitarist/frontman, but you can't keep doing both. Do you find another vocalist and focus on your playing, or find someone to play your guitar parts so you can stay out front?

This happened to me and I stuck with vocals. I guess it depends on how good the replacement vocalist is likely to be, and how large one's ego is. Naturally I went with me on vocals...

 

12 hours ago, Vampyrique said:

 

You're presently taking a polygraph test and not passing means jail time. Who would you rather be: Kanwulf (Nargaroth) or Josh (Velvet Cacoon)?

 

I don't know the back story behind Josh from Velvet Cacoon, but I presume he's a liar of some sort. 

I'll go with Kanwulf because everything he's ever stated has been true and kvlt. 

Would you rather join a really successful band with very little voting rights, or start your own band and lead the way? 

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1 hour ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Start my own, in the process of doing exactly that.

 

WYR live by the beach or in the mountains?

Ha, we've had this one before, but it's always a good one. 

And a hard one. There is nothing like a great view of the ocean (which, unfortunately we don't have from this 'beach' house), but the mountains are just so amazing too. 

I'll go with mountains because beach could mean a number of things, and not all good. Plus I'm at the beach now and I'd rather be at the mountains of might. 

WYR be morbidly obese or profoundly autistic? 

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2 hours ago, Requiem said:

Ha, we've had this one before, but it's always a good one. 

And a hard one. There is nothing like a great view of the ocean (which, unfortunately we don't have from this 'beach' house), but the mountains are just so amazing too. 

I'll go with mountains because beach could mean a number of things, and not all good. Plus I'm at the beach now and I'd rather be at the mountains of might. 

WYR be morbidly obese or profoundly autistic? 

Req my kid brother is autistic so it's a touchy subject so far as I'm concerned. I'd politely ask you consider altering the question, sorry.

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16 hours ago, Requiem said:

This happened to me and I stuck with vocals. I guess it depends on how good the replacement vocalist is likely to be, and how large one's ego is. Naturally I went with me on vocals...

 

I don't know the back story behind Josh from Velvet Cacoon, but I presume he's a liar of some sort. 

I'll go with Kanwulf because everything he's ever stated has been true and kvlt. 

Would you rather join a really successful band with very little voting rights, or start your own band and lead the way? 

Some fifteen years ago said original hipsters were exposed for making all sorts of wild claims. Of course, they had black metal circles enthralled.  I thought the whole thing as funny as the band did. Something about making music with a "diesel harp", a band member apparently falling down a mountain to his death, and they even took credit for music that they didn't even create. I'm sure there was more. 

But you're right in picking Kanwulf because a polygraph cannot detect the difference between someone telling the truth and someone telling the trvth.

 

6 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Req my kid brother is autistic so it's a touchy subject so far as I'm concerned. I'd politely ask you consider altering the question, sorry.

The problem with humour is that is tickles the humours of the body and thus affects the emotions. Now, is there someone here to represent the obese?

On a positive note, I refrained from a versus question regarding a favourite band of mine (and Requiem's) because, although relevant and funny, I felt it was one too brutal for any metal forum.

 

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21 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Req my kid brother is autistic so it's a touchy subject so far as I'm concerned. I'd politely ask you consider altering the question, sorry.

Surely you're not suggesting we ban the word autistic because you happen to know someone who is? My question simply asked users to make a choice between these two debilitating conditions. 

Aren't you the guy who posted jokes about pedophelia in the jokes thread?

Would you rather give up electricity for a month or your bed for a month? 

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1 hour ago, Requiem said:

Surely you're not suggesting we ban the word autistic because you happen to know someone who is? My question simply asked users to make a choice between these two debilitating conditions. 

Aren't you the guy who posted jokes about pedophelia in the jokes thread?

Would you rather give up electricity for a month or your bed for a month? 

Requiem, this modern world is no longer fit for Victorian gentlemen. Things have changed since the 19th century and cancel culture is in full swing. Shamelessly, you fired off words without trigger warnings, and your unconscious bias against the two groups manifested in negative connotations that lacked relevant and culturally sensitive euphemisms.

Oh, but there's always one in the crowd to turn fun into funeral. For the record, I'd probably rather be morbidly obese than profoundly autistic. Pedofeelya, now that's a touchy subject!

I'd rather give up my bed for a month. If I didn't need electricity for the stove/fridge, to pay bills online, or to charge my ipod, I'd probably instead give that up for a month and would possibly even enjoy it.

Would you rather be in a band that has great studio albums and poor live performances, or great live performance and poor studio albums.

 

 

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