If you had to.....

Which limb?

  • Left Arm

    Votes: 6 60.0%
  • Right Arm

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Left Leg

    Votes: 3 30.0%
  • Right Leg

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    10

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........eat one of your limbs (left or right, arm or leg), in order to survive. Which would you choose and why?
 
Being dyslexic I'd choose a lamb that went best with mint sauce, two veg, baked spuds and a good bottle of Chianti :p
 
For god sake Mo! What are you doing at 4.30 in the morning asking questions like this?! Its paints a pretty scary picture.

By the way, phsiologically I don't know if eating any part of you would be a useful way to survive!
 
I've heard some interesting answers and was just randomly wondering what people would do.

I've gone for left leg, but was a tough choice.
 
Also, it would take much longer to eat a leg compared to eating an arm. All hypothetical, mind. Plus, as Heavymental points out, eating your own leg might not be a very wise 'survival' move. Ideally, you'd want to eat another persons leg. So to speak.
 
IMO the obvious choice is left arm if you're right handed and right arm if you're left handed.

Reminds me of "debates" I used to have at school about whether, given the choice, it was preferable to be deaf or blind.

Michael.
 
michaelab said:
Reminds me of "debates" I used to have at school about whether, given the choice, it was preferable to be deaf or blind.

Michael.

That sounds like "Would you rather..."

Which often starts a little crude (drink a pint of your own piss or a fork full of your own sh@t), then moves to the truly sick (sleep with your mother or father!).

I think the leg convo' started with something about being trapped/stranded, somewhere and being told it'd take *X* aMOunt of time to rescue you. And thus you'd need to eat a body part to survive.

Daft, I know :)
 
the last proper office i worked in was terrible for that sort of thing. it got to a choice between 'your dead mother' and a 'bearded octopus' at one point - in fact that conversation is a bit of an office legend now mainly down to the fact that one guy answered 'the octopus' with barely a femtosecond of thought - as though he'd actually considered the situation before.
cheers


julian
 
IMO the obvious choice is left arm if you're right handed and right arm if you're left handed.
On that basis, for those that voted to lose an arm, I must be the first left handed person to vote. :D

Reminds me of "debates" I used to have at school about whether, given the choice, it was preferable to be deaf or blind.
Easy choice, I'd rather be blind. No hearing = no music. :)
 
I would eat my butler, probably legs first, otherwise he'd have difficulty ironing my shirts and mixing my G&Ts.

-- Ian
 
HenryT said:
Easy choice, I'd rather be blind. No hearing = no music. :)
I've thought about it a lot and the "no music" bit is a serious problem about being deaf but all things considered I think I'd prefer to be deaf rather than blind. Bit of a pointless debate though, and makes me think about the people who didn't have a choice, and some who ended up both deaf and blind :(

Michael.
 
michaelab said:
I've thought about it a lot and the "no music" bit is a serious problem about being deaf but all things considered I think I'd prefer to be deaf rather than blind.
Personally preference of course. Just out of curiosity why did you elect for being deaf over being blind. Apart from the "no music" issue, the one and other overriding thing which would make life unbearable about being death is the feeling of "isolation", the thought of not being able to hear ambient noise clues or what other people are saying in the same room as me whether they are talking to me or not is just freigtening. I suppose it helps though that I know at lot of people who have either been born blind or have gone blind yet still lead totally full and independent lives, therefore I know I could adapt too to a loss of sight.

michaelab said:
Bit of a pointless debate though, and makes me think about the people who didn't have a choice, and some who ended up both deaf and blind :(
Very true Michael, although I'm usually of the opinion that if you're born a certain way then you don't know any different. It's obviously much more difficult to have known what you have lost or having to live with the fact that you may eventually lose one, the other, or both. Luckily I've not personally been in either position.
 
wadia-miester said:
Mike,
The sort of debates you had a school were more of the Wanking race type maybe?

I bet he also played soggy biscuit a lot...! :D
 
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