Last time you cooked for someone, was it the dish you can do blind or one you'd never made?
Leanings
Questions with two honourable answers. Whichever one you pick says something about you.
How to play
- Pick a side out loud before you explain yourself. 'Both' and 'it depends' are not answers.
- Then say what it cost you last time you picked that side.
- Nobody is right. Swipe up when the easy ones stop being interesting.
Level 1
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Last time you cooked for someone, was it the dish you can do blind or one you'd never made?
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Last time you cooked for a crowd, did you serve your best dish or gamble the meal on a new one?
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Last thing you cooked for other people: did you weigh anything?
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When you moved in, did you pay movers or buy your mates pizza and borrow a van?
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What's in your cupboard: one sport's kit worn through, or five hobbies barely used?
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A company owes you forty quid by mistake. Afternoon on hold, or let them keep it?
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Your dinner money: does it go to a regular table at one joint, or fifty places you haven't tried?
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Who do you travel with, the one with the spreadsheet or the one who books the flight the night before?
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Your last free evening with friends: one person until closing or a quick drink with half the town?
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What happened to the box your television came in: straight to the recycling, or into the attic just in case?
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The last gift you overspent on: had they asked for it, or did you spot it and buy it?
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On your last trip, did you follow the itinerary or walk until you got hungry?
Level 2
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The friend who's done one job since school: do you envy them, or would their life kill you?
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Did you leave your last job with the next one signed, or did you just go?
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Someone you had a bad feeling about and nothing to back it up with: did you work with them anyway?
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Which has cost you more: biting your tongue, or saying exactly what you thought?
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Who do you admire more: the sellout who bought their mother a house, or the purist who stayed broke?
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What got you out of your last job: the math of a new offer, or dreading the commute?
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Who got a handshake when you left, instead of the riot act?
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When a friend last walked you through their new venture, did you point at the hole or tell them to go?
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Someone's father says something ugly at dinner. Last time, did you argue or pass the potatoes?
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When you booked your last birthday dinner, did you reserve seats for everyone invited, or just the reliable ones?
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If you lost the job tomorrow, do you sign another lease here or pack the car?
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Have you kept the accent, or trained yourself to sound like you're from nowhere?
Level 3
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Where did you spend last Christmas, and who had to accept you weren't coming to theirs?
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Do you take the big lie to the grave, or leave it on a note for them to find?
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When the doctor asked how much you drink, did you give the real number or round it down?
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Who did you cut off because they knew too much about how you used to live?
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What paid for your current life: the jobs you turned down, or the friends you stopped calling?
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The friend still chasing it with no money in the bank: envy or pity?
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Which apology will you have to make at the end: sorry I wasn't around, or sorry I didn't amount to more?
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The busy years took something. Which went first, the body or the friends?
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What would the job have to pay for you to miss your father's last spring?
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The last person who told you to be honest with them: were you?
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Who do you call unambitious behind their back and envy on Sunday nights?
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You missed something at home to finish a piece of work. Would you miss it again?
Level 4
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The morphine takes the pain and the last clear conversation with it. Do you take it?
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Are you going to stay awake to give the last instructions, or take the painkillers and let them guess?
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One old argument gets your final hour. Do you settle it or let the other person keep their ending?
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What did keeping a family story in the family cost you?
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Will you pack your own bags for the hospice, or make them carry you out of the house?
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Who signs for you at the end, the one who'll do exactly as asked or the one who'll fight to keep you breathing?
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Who decides what happens to your body, you on a piece of paper or the people left in the room?
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Of the deaths you've sat through, whose would you take for yourself?
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One call left in you: the person you stood up for the work, or the one who did the work beside you?
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A funeral back home or a week of work that can't move: which one have you already picked?
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If your last week turns painful, do you stay awake for it or take enough medicine to lose the thread?
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Your last healthy summer has room for one: care for your sick brother or take the trip you postponed for thirty years?