Two tough questions!

TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS:

Question 1
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If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already,
three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded,
and she had syphilis would you recommend that she have an
abortion?

Read the next question before scrolling down to the answer
of this one.

Question 2
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Say it is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote
counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:

Candidate A associates with crooked politicians, and consults
with anthologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain
smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon,
used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every even-
ing.

Candidate C is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't
smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital
affairs.

Which of these candidates would be your choice?
Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.
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Candidate A ==> is Franklin D. Roosevelt
Candidate B ==> is Winston Churchill
Candidate C ==> is Adolph Hitler

And by the way: If you said yes to answer the abortion
question, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it. Makes a person think before
judging someone. Remember amateurs built the ark...
professionals built the Titanic!

Originally posted by Dr`Era

Pretty interesting isn't it.

Well, no, not really

where'd you find this monster??

[Blastoderm]

Nice one

Originally posted by Dr`Era
TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS:

Question 1
**********
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already,
three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded,
and she had syphilis would you recommend that she have an
abortion?

Read the next question before scrolling down to the answer
of this one.

Question 2
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Say it is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote
counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:

Candidate A associates with crooked politicians, and consults
with anthologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain
smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon,
used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every even-
ing.

Candidate C is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't
smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital
affairs.

Which of these candidates would be your choice?
Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.
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Candidate A ==> is Franklin D. Roosevelt
Candidate B ==> is Winston Churchill
Candidate C ==> is Adolph Hitler

And by the way: If you said yes to answer the abortion
question, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it. Makes a person think before
judging someone. Remember amateurs built the ark...
professionals built the Titanic!

the law of averages comes into play here

as im not a humanitarian, i say kill the kid and invoke the vegetarian.

Originally posted by Idi
the law of averages comes into play here

as im not a humanitarian, i say kill the kid and invoke the vegetarian.

Invoking Hitler is dangerous, y'all

Originally posted by Ðiscorporation
Well, no, not really

where'd you find this monster??

Thank you for reminding me why i never used to post on GD

[Apothos]

Originally posted by Dr`Era
Thank you for reminding me why i never used to post on GD

You told me it was because you were scared of long words!

[pablissimo]

Originally posted by Idi
the law of averages comes into play here

as im not a humanitarian, i say kill the kid and invoke the vegetarian.

I'm tempted to end every post I make from now on with Invoke the Vegetarian.

I'd suggest you do the same.

Though I'll not do it.

Thus you won't.

Originally posted by Idi
as im not a humanitarian, i say kill the kid and invoke the vegetarian.

Sod killing the kid, kill the woman! She's done enough damage already!

[Christian]

I didn't recommend the abortion, my vote was for Candidate A (Franklin D. Roosevelt).
On my way home tho, I judged several people on how they looked and how they dressed, Im leaving my house again in a few minuts, and I'll continue to judge people with my ever expanding award winning arsenal of prejudices. You and your tough questions can't stop me.

[acropolis]

I wouldn't have called for the abortion.

I would have taken churchill.

I would never trust a vegetarian.

Where is Verm. I've heard that the image of a 'pure' Hitler was just Nazi propaganda.

Anyway, since when was Hitler a 'decorated war hero?' I thought he was a scrawny loser that couldn't even get into art school.

Lastly, I can't wait until they add

D: The draft-dodging corrupt pothead that had more mistresses than Wilt Chamberlain

and

E: The AWOL coke-head that spent most of his 20s in rehab for drugs and alcohol and was in the bottom 10th of his college class and couldn't pronounce any three-syllable English word

[JammyJim]

Originally posted by Christian
I didn't recommend the abortion, my vote was for Candidate A (Franklin D. Roosevelt).
On my way home tho, I judged several people on how they looked and how they dressed, Im leaving my house again in a few minuts, and I'll continue to judge people with my different arsenal of prejuices. You and your tough questions can't stop me.

'arsenal of prejuidices'


made me laugh heh

[Benjitrons]

Hitler won several medals for his expertise in sheep dog trials.

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally posted by acropolis
Anyway, since when was Hitler a 'decorated war hero?' I thought he was a scrawny loser that couldn't even get into art school.

Since the First World War, wiggles.

ps.

Beethoven was deaf.

pps.

The ark is unproven speculation.

ppps.

The titanic was perfectly well made (apart from a). It sank because

a. Too much sulpher in the steel.

b. The Captain was an idiot.

pppps.

You have to pick a leader of your country.

option A: A man.
option B: A woman.

If you chose A, then you chose Harold Shipman! If you chose B, you chose Mother Theresa!

or

If you chose A, you chose Jesus! If you chose B, you chose Mae West!

Lack of information m'boyo.

Makes you stop thinking, doesn't it.

[ELeeming]

Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri
Since the First World War, wiggles.

ps.

Beethoven was deaf.

pps.

The ark is unproven speculation.

ppps.

The titanic was perfectly well made (apart from a). It sank because

a. Too much sulpher in the steel.

b. The Captain was an idiot.

pppps.

You have to pick a leader of your country.

option A: A man.
option B: A woman.

If you chose A, then you chose Harold Shipman! If you chose B, you chose Mother Theresa!

or

If you chose A, you chose Jesus! If you chose B, you chose Mae West!

Lack of information m'boyo.

Makes you stop thinking, doesn't it.

as in Mae West with the big (.)(.) ?

[Sub]

Originally posted by acropolis
Anyway, since when was Hitler a 'decorated war hero?'.

He had a medal, but was hardly a war hero.

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Dr`Era
TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS:

Question 1
**********
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already,
three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded,
and she had syphilis would you recommend that she have an
abortion?

Read the next question before scrolling down to the answer
of this one.

I'd recommend amniocentesis of course

Question 2
**********
Say it is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote
counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:

Candidate A associates with crooked politicians, and consults
with anthologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain
smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon,
used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every even-
ing.

Candidate C is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't
smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital
affairs.

Which of these candidates would be your choice?

C is obviously a sanctimonious git who thinks he's better than everyone else, A is obviously crooked, but B enjoys life without hurting anyone else. Where's the problem?

[Sub]

Originally posted by Dr`Era
And by the way: If you said yes to answer the abortion
question, you just killed Beethoven.

So?

[queball]

Kick the woman in the stomach and vote Hitler. Techno > *.

[Kegluneq]

Originally posted by Dr`Era
...and consults with anthropologists...

What the hell could be wrong with that? It convinced me to go with Candidate A anyway.

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Kegluneq
What the hell could be wrong with that? It convinced me to go with Candidate A anyway.

I assumed he meant astrologists, anthologists being quite respectable people

[Kegluneq]

Originally posted by Gayle29uk
I assumed he meant astrologists, anthologists being quite respectable people

Anthropologists is more likely (you got me before I edited). The Brains Trust were largely invaluable in setting up the New Deal - you can be the judge of how successful that was.

[acropolis]

Originally posted by Sub
He had a medal, but was hardly a war hero.

Yeah.

That was what I thought. They decorate everyone in the army, and they give them extra decorations if they ever serve during a war. That doesn't really make him a 'hero' unless you are either trying to spread nazi propaganda or are one of those peeps who calls everyone a hero, like everyone who serves overseas is a hero, everyone who died on 911 (except the cowardly terrorizers!) is a hero, etc.

"The ark is unproven speculation."

Like as in Noah's, or as in 'Raiders of the Lost..."?

[KaneED]

I chose Churchill and killed Beethoven, ****ing rock on!

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally posted by acropolis
Like as in Noah's, or as in 'Raiders of the Lost..."?

Both?

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by acropolis
Yeah.

That was what I thought. They decorate everyone in the army, and they give them extra decorations if they ever serve during a war. That doesn't really make him a 'hero' unless you are either trying to spread nazi propaganda or are one of those peeps who calls everyone a hero, like everyone who serves overseas is a hero, everyone who died on 911 (except the cowardly terrorizers!) is a hero, etc.

The Iron Cross 1st class wasn't exactly given out for nothing.

[FatboySliM]

well that was kinda interesting.. blatantly obvious C was hitler though, had no idea about first two

[HobbieRogue4]

I must be the only one who kept thinking of both Clinton and Bush before reading the answers to Question 2...

[Texan]

Originally posted by acropolis
Yeah.

That was what I thought. They decorate everyone in the army, and they give them extra decorations if they ever serve during a war. That doesn't really make him a 'hero' unless you are either trying to spread nazi propaganda or are one of those peeps who calls everyone a hero, like everyone who serves overseas is a hero, everyone who died on 911 (except the cowardly terrorizers!) is a hero, etc.

"The ark is unproven speculation."

Like as in Noah's, or as in 'Raiders of the Lost..."?

The ark of the covenant almost certainly existed. All the semitic tribes had their gods that they carried around with them as they traveled.

I find Noah's Ark as presented in Bible stories to be unvelievable. There might have been a guy named Noah who built a big boat, loaded his family and livestock on it and weathered a flood in Mesopotamia while all of his neighbors died, but I don't believe the two of every animal bit or the flooding of the whole world.

I tell the woman that it is her choice not mine to make. I chose Churchill, because he had already been elected twice. I did not have enough information to make any other choice. Both A and C have nothing to indicate they might be able to do the job.

[Sub]

Originally posted by acropolis
Yeah.

That was what I thought. They decorate everyone in the army, and they give them extra decorations if they ever serve during a war. That doesn't really make him a 'hero' unless you are either trying to spread nazi propaganda or are one of those peeps who calls everyone a hero, like everyone who serves overseas is a hero, everyone who died on 911 (except the cowardly terrorizers!) is a hero, etc.

I think that's just the American army

[Pyr0 MK III]

Candidate B gets my vote without looking at answers

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Sub
I think that's just the American army

While it is true that the modern US military gives out more decorations than you would believe possible (if I remember right serving in Germany gets you three ribbons but it could be two) Hitler genuinely WAS a 'hero' in world war 1. Strange but true.

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally posted by Gayle29uk
While it is true that the modern US military gives out more decorations than you would believe possible (if I remember right serving in Germany gets you three ribbons but it could be two) Hitler genuinely WAS a 'hero' in world war 1. Strange but true.

Unless someone sterilises his village before he's born, in which case Europe is dominated by the German armies and people from Cambridge flee to Harvard.

Which is also in Cambridge, oddly enough.

[Texan]

Originally posted by Gayle29uk
While it is true that the modern US military gives out more decorations than you would believe possible (if I remember right serving in Germany gets you three ribbons but it could be two) Hitler genuinely WAS a 'hero' in world war 1. Strange but true.

The only one that is guaranteed is the Overseas Service Ribbon. A soldier might get the Good Conduct Medal if he doesn't get in trouble for three years. He would also get the National Defense Service Medal if the United States fought a war anywhere in the world while he was serving in Germany. And finally, if he did a good job and did not piss off his bosses he might get an Army Achievement Medal or Army Commendation Medal. If he did something exceptionally well like graduating at the top of his leadership class, he might get a medal as well.

I served in Germany for five years around the time of the Gulf War and I had 2 Army Commendation Medals, 3 Army Achievement Medals, 1 Good Conduct Medal, 1 Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Medal and 2 Overseas Service Ribbons. That makes 9 total plus the Army Service Ribbon that everyone receives when they complete basic and advanced training. That seems like a lot, but you should see how many I have after serving two deployments in the Balkans as a reservist.

On the other hand, an Army Commendation Medal is not a very high award. I would say 1 Bronze Star is equal to about 10 Army Commendation Medals in prestige.

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Texan
The only one that is guaranteed is the Overseas Service Ribbon. A soldier might get the Good Conduct Medal if he doesn't get in trouble for three years. He would also get the National Defense Service Medal if the United States fought a war anywhere in the world while he was serving in Germany. And finally, if he did a good job and did not piss off his bosses he might get an Army Achievement Medal or Army Commendation Medal. If he did something exceptionally well like graduating at the top of his leadership class, he might get a medal as well.

Thanks for expanding on it for me, I knew there was a reason American generals always had uniforms that looked like an explosion in a paint factory on the left side

On the other hand, an Army Commendation Medal is not a very high award. I would say 1 Bronze Star is equal to about 10 Army Commendation Medals in prestige.

Gallantry medals are always 'worth more' in prestige terms. Anyone wearing the Silver Star or DFC you know they did more than just 'their bit'

[Tobe]

Originally posted by Dr`Era


Pretty interesting isn't it. Makes a person think before
judging someone. Remember amateurs built the ark...
professionals built the Titanic!

well not really it just shows that without enough information people are likely to make bad decisions

which is how the world works on imperfect information

[KaosTrigX]

Am I the only person that remembers this exact same thread has already been posted on these exact same boards?

[Dante Hicks]

Originally posted by Dr`Era
Candidate C is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital affairs.

While I get the point of the exercise, what on Earth do any of these points have to do with being a competent leader? Being a vegetarian is utterly irrelevent, having affairs is beside the point and only having medals (obviously depends what for, etc) could have some possible bearing on what type of person you are. I've never had an extramarital affair, does this make me a good prospective Prime Minister*?

* Bearing in mind I've called for heroin to be legal and available for the over 13's.

p.s. "Old".

[Texan]

I have a lot of Army medals. I eat meat (even horse sometimes). I smoke cigarettes. I drink beer and occasionally vodka. I have never had an extramarital affair. Vote for me to be the president of your country and I promise I will fix whatever problems your country has.

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Texan
Vote for me to be the president of your country and I promise I will fix whatever problems your country has.

You gonna assasinate Bush then?

Joke

[HobbieRogue4]

Originally posted by Texan
I have a lot of Army medals. I eat meat (even horse sometimes). I smoke cigarettes. I drink beer and occasionally vodka. I have never had an extramarital affair. Vote for me to be the president of your country and I promise I will fix whatever problems your country has.

Your opponent could be my left foot and I'd still vote for it over you.

[Bunga]

Originally posted by KaosTrigX
Am I the only person that remembers this exact same thread has already been posted on these exact same boards?

Nope. And I haven't seen it sent to me a hundred times over email either during the past seven years. [/sarcasm]

This was old in 1994 ffs.

[Bunga]

Originally posted by WorkMonkey
Hitler fought in WW1?

He was a corporal in the German army, got got the Iron Cross First Class for bravery. Quite a war hero actually. Of course, in WWII he was a war criminal, but thats a different matter.

[Mong]

This was vaguely clever, but doesn't stand up to proper inspection.

¡Invoke the Vegetarian!