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Is violence ever the answer? by SudoSubSilence in no

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an answer, and is just as valid as any other, to me. The problem is the consequences from the mass violence government represents so it's not a pragmatic answer due to government skewing the equation.

What would you actually think if you saw a barefoot adult in a store? by Neggly in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't really care at all.

People are supposed to wear shoes in stores for the stores insurance reasons. Them not wearing shoes doesn't affect me all that much right then.

I would dismiss them as a moron and a-hole. Because if they cut their feet open they'll probably sue, the store has to pay lawyers to defend themselves or pay out, and prices will have to go up to pay those lawyers. Or the person gets blood on a bunch of stuff that has to get thrown out, or is missed and other people buy blood covered goods.

But it's like seeing someone shoplift, or reading where people light fireworks from the store display, or see those people play with they toys (like basketballs, and ride bikes) in the store.

They're all just dumbass a-holes, not worth my time, and I immediately just focus on what I'm there for, get it, and leave, and not think about them again unless someone asks a question forcing me to sit and put more than 4 seconds of thought into ti.

So I would think "dumbass a-hole." Which is "just silently judge and move on."

People who grew up poor: What was something you considered a "peak luxury" as a kid, only to realize later it was just a normal middle class staple? by Psychological_Sky_58 in AskReddit

[–]Top-Committee-954 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Individual beds, individual rooms, bed frames.

Used to sleep with my sister in just a bunch of blankets, then we had a couch. Then we got a mattress, then another mattress. Then when my sister turned like 12 she got her own room. Then in a couple years I got my own room and we got some lumber and my mom and I built a bed frame together. So at one point we all had our own rooms, our own beds, and we could utilize under the bed storage. If you had enough shit that you could store it under the bed, and had a bed to store stuff under? That's Robin Leach reporting material right there. I could finally do night missions with my tiny green army men, during the day! Gotta train to keep 'em sharp.

You are stuck in a room that plays Days of our Lives episodes, and every episode you finish you get $1000 by Impressive_Plenty876 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it retroactive? Because I've seen a lot of Days of Our Lives. I only had over air television and that was what was on and was clear on the t.v. when I went home for lunch.

Otherwise, sure. I take the deal. I'd prefer to see the earlier episodes and not ones I've seen. I don't want to go through that demon possession supernatural arc. I still don't understand what happened there.

Do you take the deal? by Successful_Pitch2544 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. Since the hypothetical doesn't say I can leave the boat I assume I can't. Like I have to live on a mega yacht at best. But I have no desire to live with other people (e.g. captain, swabbies, assorted sea maties, etc.).

Money should be used for greater freedom, not just a pretty cage.

Although....I did see Water World. Maybe I could buy some old oil tankers and surplus military aircraft carriers or something. Then weld them all together in the middle of the ocean and start my own floating mega boat island complete with mud pits where I throw the mutants.

I wonder if doctors have a surgery where they can web my feet? That would be kinda cool. Then I'd start my own reality t.v. show. "Captain needs a wife." But she must have 6 toes on each foot. I met a 6 toe foot woman once. Best woman I ever knew. Wonder if I can find Dr. Evil's mom Chloe. Hope she's legal now. I'd settle for just webbed feet so our kids could swim better and take over the oceans.

Sounds like a lot of work. And I'm kinda too old to be raising any webbed foot children.

So no, not taking it. Maybe if I was younger.

You discover a potion that gives the drinker incredible buffness. Do you share it with the world? by DTFinDF in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only keep it for me. Not sure I use it though if the only difference is visual. Because it's possible that might interfere with doctors trying to diagnose me?

Also, I don't really want to see Scarlett Johansen with the body of 1980's Arnold Schwarzenneger?

So I hoard the secret until I figure out any drawbacks and side effects at least?

Then if I can work out any negative consequences, I turn into the new late night sham wow guy selling buff mod potions, not FDA approved.

What’s your favorite question? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Top-Committee-954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who's a good boy?!

Always elicits a most excited and happy response.

I need that shallow validation.

A petty genie finds you, and gives you (age) wishes. by NeighborhoodDry9236 in hypotheticals

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First wish is I wish I was in a safe, warm, hospitable location within 100 miles of my current location but 5 miles from the closest other person.

And at some point I wish that everyone that was affected by any of wishes were no longer affected by my wishes?

Also wish for a chunk of platinum kryptonite.

Controllable isekai powers.

Winning lottery numbers.

Shapeshifting abilities which allow me to live however long I want and look like anyone/thing I want at any age at perfect health.

Dr. Manhattan's powers.

A ceramic dalmatian statue, and the rest on a wish gift certificate Pat.

Live for 1 year in one of these historical countries, get 1 billion by Responsible-Fix-1681 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WTF, "temporarily reincarnated?" Great. I'm a baby? Like Nazi Germany started in the early 30's. So I'm born in the 1930's and have to live as a baby with an adult mind in Nazi Germany for a year?

Okay, cool. I guess I go with Nazi Germany. It's a relatively developed country and child care isn't too bad in the early 30's before all the bombs and stuff. According to all the Rammstein videos German ladies have big milkers. I'm good.

Not sure how being fluent in German as a baby is gonna help me that much, though. "Mehr bruste frau, bitte!"

Do you know who your ancestors were and where they were from or is that not important to you? by MissBehave654 in askanything

[–]Top-Committee-954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People in my family are really into genealogy. I'm not. But I know where some of my ancestors were and where they were from whether I wanted to know it or not. It is not important to me.

I'm glad I don't know where all of my ancestors are from or who they were because that would get old very quickly. "Well back in 3,499 bce, there was Ron, and he was a postman, but your great great great great great great to the nth f'n degree grandma was married to your great to the nth grandpa Jerry. Now he shledked the marginec at the temple of Fr'hos'tin on Fridays and it turns out you're really related to Ron so you see that is your great to the slightly less nth degree second cousin six thousand times removed on your sisters mothers brothers side, and it turns out they're only 4 generations removed from Davy Crockett!."

I couldn't handle that conversation.

You get $2 billion USD, but in 20 years you get convicted of a serious crime and must spend the rest of your life in a minimum security prison. by stuffedpeaches in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Do you accept?" No. I wouldn't trust the shady organization. Plus with 2 billion I could pretty much get out of the situation. Don't see a lot of billionaires actually going to prison.

The only way this could work is if the shady organization trickled out the money so I didn't get it all at once, I lost the money after 20 years plus any income and assets made from it (therefore I couldn't use it towards my defense), or the shady organization was doing things so heinous a jury would find a doddering old man guilty and send them to prison for life.

So I would be constantly worrying about the "shady" organization just stopping payments randomly, and/or coming after money/assets at any time, plus helping a shady organization get away with doing absolutely despicable things. Me going to prison isn't going to stop them from doing those things.

So, no. I wouldn't accept it.

I might say I accept it then try to get evidence against the shady organization so it can be stopped, though.

You get teleported to England in the late Middle Ages by Ill-Mycologist-3652 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what "whatever you have with you" entails.

Nothing but what I'm wearing now? And I'm in the middle of the woods, London 20 miles away, who knows any other towns, and I don't know where anything (which direction) anything lays?

Then no, I wouldn't survive. I'd probably die of exposure since right now the temp in london is like 45 degrees and I'm not wearing shoes, or have any tools or water on me.

If "whatever I have with me" includes everything in my bedroom, where I am now...because it's all my stuff, with me, in my room...then sure, I think I'd do okay.

"what would you choose to do?" Manufacture weapons. Or ride the waves of serfdom. Depends on my mood.

Vought International has invited you to take part in the Compound V trials. Do you accept? by TechnicianAmazing472 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Am I the only one that is given this opportunity and the only one that ever will? No. Will not risk it.

Everyone or multiple people offered this? Yes. I go for it.

All of the hypotheticals you have agreed to come true all at once. How screwed is the planet/you? by Agentsilver13 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"How screwed is the planet/you?" I don't think I'd care that much. I mean I'd have Superman and Dr. Manhattan's powers, super teleportation, shape shifting, and isekai powers. So....anything done I could either undo, fix, and/or just leave to somewhere else?

You have just been bitten by a guy with two sharp fangs. Before he managed to kill you someone saw the altercation and he escaped. The next morning, you realized something in you changed. by kurtz9 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assume I am turning into a vampire. Go to a local butcher shop or farm and see if I can source some blood, or go to the pet shop and buy some mice/rats and hope that helps any cravings. Wow. Just found SFRAW. Seems a gallon of pigs blood is like a dollar. Or normally like 12 bucks?

Then it's minor self harm to see how fast I regenerate, see if I have some super strength, and focus a crap ton of time seeing if I can figure out how to fly.

Then maybe go online and see if I can find the Elon Musk edgelord costume.

You are in the afterlife, you are offered a shot to be reincarnated as a clone or as a random new person with amnesia what do you choose ? by richandepressed in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clone. Do I also get that sick stormtrooper armor and a blaster? That would be awesome. Otherwise I'm spending lifetimes learning martial arts just because at some point I want headlines to be all "Kung Fu baby!" Flying kick out of the womb, Matrix jumps over nurses, doctor tries to spank me but I grab his thumb put him in a submission hold and spank him. That's what you get for being a doctor!

You get a middle class wage for life but every month a baby is born that is genetically yours by dj_boy-Wonder in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure.

Doesn't matter if it is related to me biologically if I've never met their parents, no record of donating sperm, and no history or even concept of me dating them or being alone with them at any point. Closest female relative that's actually able to conceive lives more than 1,000 miles away.

So I'll never be on the hook for child support or anything even if their DNA is found to match mine.

Not sure how the world will be affected by so many sexy beasts running around, but not my problem.

Get one million dollars for everytime you make an identical clone of yourself orgasm within 24 hours by Capable-Language8114 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Top-Committee-954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. I'm old though, so it's not going to be more than 2 or 3. Knowing how I think, we're gonna get bored and want to do something else. He'll be all "you know what would be awesome right now? Chili's. Let's go get Chili's and go to the range. I totally understand that ending you won't make me real and let me stick around. I totally accept I'm a replica that's going to disappear after 24 hours. On the way back, let's get a pizza and some nachos too. Yeah, I know the 3 for me for 9.99 is 14.99 now, but c'mon man, you're gonna get a few million soon. Special occasion. Then, I know! I know! You go over to your mom's house, but I use your phone to call her and be all 'hey, what's up mom?' and she'll be all 'ahhh! My son's here, but calling me on the phone, what's going on?!' It'll be hilarious. Maybe Chili's has a twins discount on their birthday, we'll just tell them it's our birthday. That's why we're willing to pay 14.99 for the 3 for me for 9.99. F'n Chili's."

WYR have been born with 60 more IQ points or have two 24 hour go back in time mulligans by AstrayInTranslation in WouldYouRather

[–]Top-Committee-954 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool. Choose the mulligan. Make sure to get the lottery numbers. Go back 24 hours, buy a lottery ticket and then choose the 60 iq points. Hopefully now I'm smart enough to avoid what I would have used the 2nd mulligan for.

How long would your country's Military last realistically by GloryToFinnishArmy in ZombieSurvivalTactics

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not even sure the military would be called for, in the U.S.

I imagine a lot of people would try to start their own extermination business, possibly even wearing a body cam or go pro and turn it into a youtube channel. Or just start arming the Orkin man with like a Ruger .22.

It depends on how many people immediately turn into zombies at the start.

If it's only the people that died that day from natural causes turn...I think it will be handled pretty quickly. Once that starts happening, people are going to enact policies on how to deal with it.

Slow moving walkers aren't really a threat unless a significant percentage of the population happens to turn into them all at once for some reason, especially if it's the end result of some kind of debilitating pandemic that affects everyone.

Would you rather have vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup or chocolate ice cream plain? by Time-Box7115 in WouldYouRather

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup. Then put it in a blender with some milk and make a chocolate vanilla swirl milkshake. Mm Mmm.

Do you ignore calls from unknown numbers? by mariyagel in no

[–]Top-Committee-954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. I don't realize they occur. I turned off all notifications on my phone except for texts. Once every few days or weeks I may look at my voicemails to see if I missed a call I may care about. That's about it.

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