Welcome to our ''new'' Friday rubric. Today really is Friday unlike that other rubric posted on Wednesday!! Today's topic is: What do YOU find is better or worse?
We'll start with the ''what do YOU think is WORSE?'' questions:

1. A person who talks too slow or a person who talks too fast?
2. Body odour (we'll limit this to the armpits) or bad breath?
3. Say you're in an empty train compartment except for one other person. That person is listening to music. Do you think it's worse when they sing along (badly) or make some rhythmic movement such as tapping their fingers on the table or feet?
4. Having your arm amputated or your leg surgically chopped off?
5. Physical pain (such as being stabbed) or mental pain (such as being stabbed in the back [metaphorically])?
6. Say you're sitting on the bus and you hear some of your classmates mention your name. They are talking about your [general sense of the word] hideous new haircut. Would you prefer to find out about their dislike this way or if they had said it to your face?
7. Hurting a friend to help them and thereby losing their friendship or keeping them as a friend and knowing they'll never be happy if they don't change?
8. A person being shallow or a person being ego-centric?
9. Being locked in darkness or being trapped in coldness?
10. Dwelling in the past or living in the future?
11. Lying to others or lying to yourself?
12. Someone having stinky feet or someone having bad breath (sort of like #2)?
13. Helping a friend or loosing a friend (like #7 condensed)?
14. Being late or missing it (refers to anything: a lecture, a program, etc...)?
15. Being burned or being frozen?
16. Dying of thirst or starving to death?
    

Now to the ''what do YOU find BETTER?'' section:

1. Doing what's right or doing what's easy?
2. Having many friends or a few you can rely on?
3. Having loved/been loved on true time and having had your heart broken into a trillion little pieces or going through life without loving?
4. Being thankful or being sorry. According to GB Shaw being thankful is accepting submission.
5. Being rich or being happy?

That's it... Dunno what else to add.
I'll answer some, not all.

1. Well, both extremes are annoying!
2. Depends whether that person talks to you or not, but body odour is worse, since you could always offer them a breath mint. You're not going to say: ''Here's a deo wipe.'', are you?
3. Singing is worse although the tapping is infuriating!!!
4. Loosing an arm is worse.
5. Mental pain.
6. Dunno, neither is good. If they don't say it to your face how will you change?
7. Being selfish, so cherishing their friendship over their happiness.
8. No comment.
9. According to James Blunt: coldness (in his -can't remember which one- song)
10. Seriously dunno.
11. According to the bible => yourself.
12. As long as they shut up and leave their shoes on, they are both OK.
13. Well, NOT helping the friend, but dunno.
14. I hate being late, I prefer to miss the whole thing! Dumb, but true.
15. Never really thought about it, but burning yourself is never a pleasurable experience.
16. Probably starving to death is worse.

Now for the ''which is better?'' questions:

1. Doing what's right is better, but not always simple.
2. Few and good is better than many who flee at the first site of danger.
3. Probably the first, although it's more painful.
4. Depends what you're sorry and thankful about.
5. Being happy, but being rich wouldn't be bad by any means...

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