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Today's Question: 

Vampire Weekend: 

 

It's the evening before your wedding. Everything is going as planned; you are spending the afternoon with a few old friends, chatting casually about old times. Suddenly, your spouse-to-be bursts into the room, totally hysterical. Your spouse-to-be insists that s/he has just seen a vampire. When you ask what this means, s/he says:

 

"I was looking out of the window of my hotel room, and I could see into the apartment building across the street. That's when I saw the vampire. I saw a man in a black cape bite a woman's neck and drink her blood. I know this must sound crazy, but I am that certain what I saw is real."

 

Your prospective (and sober) spouse is in a state of panic and pleads with you to believe his/her story. You can tell that this is really, really important to him/her.

 

Knowing the fragility of the situation and the intensity of the timing, do you tell your potential spouse that you do, in fact, completely believe that s/he saw a vampire across the street? All of your old friends are watching this conversation.

Lol ... um, I'd probably say "You didn't know there were vampires out there?" So, of course I'd believe him, and help him through his eyes being opened to how the world really is. And reassure him that it would be okay.

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To answer the question from before, I would believe my future wife that she did indeed see a vampire, and request to change rooms in the hotel to prevent both of us from seeing that again. Clearly we would not walk over to that apartment complex where the vampire lives. 

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Today's Question: 

System Reboot: 

You are 25 years old again, congratulations! By an unfortunate circumstance, you were in a car accident. As a result, the skills you've developed as a youngster and in your professional life has vanished. Here's some good news! You are able to learn and develop skills at a very quick pace. In fact, once you reach 26 years old, every skill you want to develop is achieved. Unfortunately, you can not develop the ability to throw a baseball 95 mph, or change your appearance in order to play pro basketball for example. 

What skills would you change during your reboot? Would you want to develop great sales/networking abilities instead of engineering? Would you want to be great at math to be an engineer instead of marketing? Would you want to learn how to juggle in order to impress people? The choice is yours... 
 

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Today's Question: 

System Reboot: 

You are 25 years old again, congratulations! By an unfortunate circumstance, you were in a car accident. As a result, the skills you've developed as a youngster and in your professional life has vanished. Here's some good news! You are able to learn and develop skills at a very quick pace. In fact, once you reach 26 years old, every skill you want to develop is achieved. Unfortunately, you can not develop the ability to throw a baseball 95 mph, or change your appearance in order to play pro basketball for example. 

What skills would you change during your reboot? Would you want to develop great sales/networking abilities instead of engineering? Would you want to be great at math to be an engineer instead of marketing? Would you want to learn how to juggle in order to impress people? The choice is yours... 
 

 

Is making other people really happy a skill? Because if it is, I want that one more than any other skill. 

 

If not, picking stocks would be handy, as would math/physics. If I could picture things in 3D and do high level math, I'd be a physicist right now.....

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Hmm ... I would greatly enhance my music skills, GREATLY, like, Yo Yo Ma greatly.

 

But I also like the stock market skills Mike mentioned, so yeah, give me those.

 

People skills, lots of them.

 

Okay ... I really don't know. Like Craig, I can't really remember 25. Oh, wait ... 25 was a bad year. BIG breakup. I'd like the skills to see that coming to minimize damage.

 

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You know, I want to be what's his name, the guy that hikes for a living, and has a tv show with celebs doing that for a living. Nothing is better than hiking in the mountains, to have the people and survival skills to that and make tons of money? Sign me up. Or physicist, you know, the exact opposite job skills.....

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You know, I want to be what's his name, the guy that hikes for a living, and has a tv show with celebs doing that for a living. Nothing is better than hiking in the mountains, to have the people and survival skills to that and make tons of money? Sign me up. Or physicist, you know, the exact opposite job skills.....

Better yet, you could be Lenny Pepperbottom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm3JodBR-vs

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You know, I want to be what's his name, the guy that hikes for a living, and has a tv show with celebs doing that for a living. Nothing is better than hiking in the mountains, to have the people and survival skills to that and make tons of money? Sign me up. Or physicist, you know, the exact opposite job skills.....

Split the difference and do field geophysics work. Beer-tasting skills are also applicable.

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Today's Question: 

System Reboot: 

You are 25 years old again, congratulations! By an unfortunate circumstance, you were in a car accident. As a result, the skills you've developed as a youngster and in your professional life has vanished. Here's some good news! You are able to learn and develop skills at a very quick pace. In fact, once you reach 26 years old, every skill you want to develop is achieved. Unfortunately, you can not develop the ability to throw a baseball 95 mph, or change your appearance in order to play pro basketball for example. 

What skills would you change during your reboot? Would you want to develop great sales/networking abilities instead of engineering? Would you want to be great at math to be an engineer instead of marketing? Would you want to learn how to juggle in order to impress people? The choice is yours... 
 

If I were 25 again (16 years ago). I would learn to control my emotions, they sometimes get the best of me.

 

After that, hopefully, I would be abducted by intergalactic beings who would bring me to another planet/solar system, that has a total Zen like peace. I would then conform to their ways and take in their culture and knowledge. Then I will die from the illnesses that are brought on by foreign bacteria that my immune system is not accustomed to. Bon Voyage.

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Here's today's question: Euphoria Forever: 

Imagine the following three sensations:

 

1. Chewing and swallowing the first mouthful of your favorite food after starving yourself for 48 straight hours. The food is prepared exactly to your liking. 

 

2. Lying down on an especially cozy bed after 12 hours of nonstop physical labor on a cold day.

 

3. The first moment of urinary release after having held a completely full bladder for more than 90 minutes.

 

For the rest of your life, you will feel one of these three ways, all the time. This is how you will always feel, 24 hours a day (you won't be doing the specific activity, but you'll always be experiencing the act's accompanying euphoria).

 

Which euphoric feeling are you going to select? 

Yes, I'm going backwards but I had something else to add and another reason to choose #2. No way can I make it 90 minutes with a full bladder. No way. Can't. Be. Done. Not by this chica.

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Catching up: I would give the perfect weather scenario a try, I would like to capture and experience forever the sensation of eating a perfect cherry pie after fasting for 48 hours, I would go along with the vampire story because hey I'll only be married to this wacko for the rest of my life, and I would develop exactly the same technical skills I already did (plus a few related ones like database expertise) because in your scenario I will be able to do it correctly by age 26 which was a lot better than I was able to accomplish in real life.

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Today's Question: 

Mo' Money, Mo' Problems: 

At the Winter Meltdown, you meet Max Kepler's dad, where you two really hit it off. Because you two hit it off so well, he decides to give you 1 million Euros, cash. He gave you a couple of rules to follow in order to keep the money....

 

1. You can not tell your family/spouse/significant other where it came from. You could be very vague and say "it's a secret" 

2. You can't put the money in a bank. The money needs to stay in your house, and you can only take no more than 100 Euros at a time to exchange currency when you want to use it. 

 

How long would you last before your marriage/relationship fell apart? 
 

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