GOOD or BAD?

[coalescent]

This is something I used to do every so often on umta. It comes from The Brunching Shuttlecocks, and it's the ultimate way of determining merit.

What we've got for you is a list of things that you may come across in your own life from time to time. We don't care what you think about these things, we want you to answer one simple question: are they good, or bad?

Keep in mind, these aren't shades of grey. When and if we shut down the voting, anything that ends up above the line is good, anything below is bad, forever and ever, deal.

Simple, right? Just decide whether the following things are GOOD or BAD. There's nothing in-between. No 'it depends'. You have to answer all questions--there's none of this 'informed opinion' nonsense here! In the final analysis, when all is said and done, all that matters is ... how do you vote?

[Poll #369685]

EDIT: So far, I want to know (a) how ang_grr justifies her answer on the hamster question, and (b) how cleanskies justifies her answer on the liquorice-with-salt question. Explanations invoking temporary insanity will be accepted.

SON OF EDIT: Those who have decided that praline Flake bars are bad are also suspect. Even without having tried one, it's clear they must be one of the nicest forms of confectionary in existence.

THE RESULTS

GOOD

Hamsters in giant robotic hamster-shaped battle suits (89.8% GOOD)

Clicky (78.3% GOOD)

Genres (69.5% GOOD)

Praline Flakes (61.0% GOOD)

Having lunch at 2:45pm (59.3% GOOD)

The Line of Truth

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The new Doctor Who logo (54.4% BAD)

Liquorice (61.7% BAD)

Days when you achieve nothing (66.7% BAD)

The Line of Beauty winning the Booker Prize (67.9% BAD)

Liquorice covered in salt (88.3% BAD)

BAD

Comments

[snowking.livejournal.com]

I see you already have fence-sitting spineless flip-floppers.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

If they were within sharp-stick-poking range, believe me I would be making them vote.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

I imagined one running toward me with a gun.

[ang-grr.livejournal.com]

And so did I.

Oooh. Quiz.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Me too. Hence GOOD!

[talvalin.livejournal.com]

I'd be more worried about people who think the new Doctor Who logo looks good than dissenters over praline Flake bars. Not that I'm trying to divert your attention away from me or anything.

Robo-Hamster GOOD!

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

There are reasons for being optimistic about the Who logo. It might, as some have suggested, look better as part of a title sequence. That naively wishful thinking is something I can relate to.

Doubting that the fusion of Flake and Praline is a marvel of tastiness requires a special kind of sickness, however.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Salt liquorice is the bomb. Those brilliant/crazy Dutch/Danish/Europeans!

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

If salt liquorice is the bomb, it is a dirty bomb.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Salt liquorice is the bomb

Only in that the foulness will make your head explode.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

You mean stupid. Mattia tricked me with salty licquorice. Foulest of foul snackfoods! Worse than Peeps!

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

Yay, it's the return of Good or Bad. And with extra clicky!

Well done to all those rightheaded when it came to the liquorice question.

However, I have never tried liquorice with salt, but it sounds terrible.

Having lunch at 2:45pm

What? That's not normal? *munches on sandwich*

Praline Flakes

I haven't had one, and am not that fond of praline, but Cadbury's Flake? Always GOOD. Unless they decide to make a Marmite Flake, which would be BAD.

Also, wrongheaded people? Clicky = GOOD. Okay?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Yay, it's the return of Good or Bad. And with extra clicky!

I can't believe I didn't think of this before.

However, I have never tried liquorice with salt, but it sounds terrible.

There I was, preparing to head home after a hard day's work. I take my mug down to the kitchen to wash it out, and on the counter is a bag of tempting-looking sweets. 'Ooh', I think, and pop one into my mouth.

Bad move. Bad, bad move.

This food is the work of the devil.

Having lunch at 2:45pm
What? That's not normal? *munches on sandwich*

On the upside, it does make the afternoon very short.

Yes!

[xsabx.livejournal.com]

Unless they decide to make a Marmite Flake, which would be BAD.

THis quite clearly fills that gap that has always existed between Sweet and Savoury Chocolate Products. I will be pulling out my green biro and writing to Cadbury *immediately* :D

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

Days when you achieve nothing

This is subject to interpretation; I voted BAD!, but I would consider a day not getting up properly but reading a book, playing computer games or watching something good on DVD/TV a day when I achieved something. Others may not consider such a day in the same light.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

This is subject to interpretation

What, and the others aren't? :)

This is the way of GOOD or BAD.

So if there some lj_nifty utility

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

that will do a SparkMatch type match-up of people based on who had the closest results?

Re: So if there some lj_nifty utility

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Not as far as I know. But there should be. That would be GOOD!

salty liquorice fun

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

What's not to like about a sweet that tastes like absinthe and sweat?

It's also great for feeding to little siblings.

Re: salty liquorice fun

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

What's not to like about a sweet that tastes like absinthe and sweat?

This is a trick question, right? :-p

Re: salty liquorice fun

[applez.livejournal.com]

Mmm...I hadn't thought of that for a salt combination. I suppose if you added some iron one could get an absinthe-sweat-blood combination.

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

ok, i voted against the praline thing because i find pralines too nasty overly sweet when you could have had regular nutty goodness. (and so putting it in bar form is unlikely to improve it

I also really want to try the liquorice with salt now.

(I also voted agrainst the dr who thing on the principle that change is bad though I know not the old nor the new logo.

[kalorlo.livejournal.com]

There's a logos poll here if you want to have a look :)

They're in chronological order. (I assume)

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I just can't do it. I can't choose good or bad for things which I have no experience at all of. Something deep inside me won't let me. I know nothing of Line of Beauty or it's opponents, Dr Who logos, or praline flakes (I can never remember which type of sweets pralines are).

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

Praline is hazelnutty goodness. A praline flake is a normal yummy flake, covered in praline yumminess. Sort of exponentially yummy, really.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

You didn't say they were Praline Flake bars. You said Praline Flakes. And I've had Waitrose Honey Nut Bran Flakes, which are the most disgusting cereal product ever made (and I speak as a crunchy nut cornflake fan here, you understand, and a bran flake addict).

Surely

[xsabx.livejournal.com]

A Praline Flake is self-explanatory? It's not like a Cadbury's flake is a bar *per se* (it's a stick of crumbly chocolate) I know you call a bar of chocolate a bar, but doesn't a Flake just get to be a Flake?