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  • - Hello, this is Jack from tofluency.com.

  • And today, Kate and I are going to ask each other

  • some would you rather questions.

  • Now.

  • What does it mean if someone's asked you,

  • would you rather this, or that?

  • - So, to be honest,

  • this is not a game that I have played--

  • - You've never played it? - Since,

  • I was about 13 years old.

  • - It's a very popular game to play.

  • When you're at university, too.

  • - Oh really? - Yeah.

  • - Okay.

  • - It's known as a drinking game.

  • - Okay.

  • - And the questions you ask at university.

  • We are not going to ask today.

  • - Okay.

  • - We're gonna keep this somewhat PG.

  • Which means suitable,

  • for children.

  • - Yes.

  • - But we are going to ask each other some tough questions.

  • So if you ask a question, for example,

  • would you rather spend your entire life at the beach,

  • or in a city?

  • - Ooh.

  • I am

  • 100% a beach girl.

  • And I love the ocean,

  • it's where I feel happiest

  • and calmest.

  • And I love a lot of different ocean sports,

  • so I would have to choose the beach.

  • - Yeah, so. - What about you?

  • - Just to

  • go into the game a little bit more.

  • What you're saying, this is your preference.

  • - Yes. - So the question is,

  • would you rather live here or here?

  • You're asking for the preference.

  • And you have to choose one.

  • - Okay.

  • - So this is

  • how difficult this game can be,

  • because it's not an easy option.

  • So, you would rather live at the beach.

  • I think I think I would rather live in a big city.

  • - Okay.

  • - Yeah.

  • For the rest of my life.

  • The rest of my life.

  • Because, hammering home,

  • that this is the difficulty of the game.

  • - Stakes are high.

  • - Yeah, very high. (chuckles)

  • I think, yeah, I'd choose the city because,

  • there's a lot more you can do there.

  • Now, there's always gonna be someone who says,

  • "Oh, I'd prefer to live in a big city by the beach."

  • But, the idea is that you can only--

  • - You can only choose one. - You can't change,

  • you can't change it.

  • - Okay. - But I knew,

  • I knew that you would say the beach.

  • - Why did you know that?

  • - Because you love the beach.

  • - I do love the beach.

  • - Yeah.

  • But it's a difficult choice.

  • Because the beach is fun,

  • you can do so many cool things at the beach.

  • It's very relaxing.

  • - It's very relaxing,

  • and I think that's what I based my decision on.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Because no matter how interesting and neat

  • the things that you can do in a city are,

  • I feel like the entire time that I'm in a city,

  • I'm just a little bit stressed out.

  • - Yeah.

  • - And every time that I'm at the beach,

  • I'm just a lot more relaxed.

  • - Yeah. - I'm the best version

  • of myself at the beach.

  • - When you meet people who live at the beach,

  • they always seem very relaxed.

  • But then if you meet people randomly in New York City.

  • I wouldn't describe them

  • as relaxed. - As relaxed.

  • They're a little bit

  • faster-paced. - Yeah.

  • Everything is hectic and stressful.

  • But the beach, everyone is chilled out and relaxed.

  • - That's a good question.

  • - What about you?

  • Would you rather live in a big city, or at the beach?

  • (upbeat music)

  • Number two is, and I'm reading from a screen here.

  • Would you rather be able to detect any lie you hear,

  • or get away with any lie you tell?

  • - You get to answer this one first.

  • - Okay, so, I'll just explain a couple of things here.

  • Detect any lie you hear, which means,

  • be able to know when someone is lying.

  • So if somebody lies to you, to detect that they're lying,

  • means you know that they're lying.

  • And to get away with something,

  • means that they won't know that you're lying.

  • Hopefully that makes sense.

  • - Yeah. - Hopefully.

  • This is a hard one, because

  • if you detect every lie someone says,

  • then you're never going to trust anyone.

  • And its going to be,

  • you're constantly going to just think,

  • "Everyone lies."

  • Like Dr. House says.

  • - That everybody lies.

  • - You're not going to ever feel comfortable, I feel.

  • But then you might meet that one person

  • who never lies.

  • - (chuckles) That's me.

  • - This is, yeah.

  • Or get away with any lie you tell.

  • Now that one's difficult too, because

  • that might make you wanna lie all the time.

  • Because if you can get away with lying,

  • then you can, think of the possibilities.

  • - Oh I am*

  • (Jack laughs)

  • - For example,

  • what's a possibility?

  • - This reminds me of the film with Leonardo Dicaprio.

  • - I was thinking the exact same thing.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Catch Me If You Can. - Catch Me If You Can.

  • And he lies his way into all of these situations.

  • - So he gets away with the lie of being a pilot,

  • for a long time.

  • He is somebody who says he's a pilot.

  • (mumbles) It snowballs, doesn't it?

  • - So it's kind of like, would you rather be a sociopath,

  • or would you rather be

  • a bitter and deeply suspicious person?

  • - That's one way to look at it.

  • I'd say,

  • get away with any lie I tell.

  • And then,

  • I wouldn't lie.

  • (laughing)

  • - I also would choose to get away with any lie that I tell,

  • but, for different reasons.

  • - To take advantage of it.

  • - Well, I wouldn't wanna think

  • that I would take advantage of it,

  • but I would like to think, first of all that

  • there aren't too many people that are lying to me.

  • - Yeah.

  • - And usually I can tell, when someone is lying.

  • - Right.

  • - And that, conversely,

  • I feel like,

  • if I had the power

  • to make anything that I said seem so convincing,

  • I would be able to use that power for good.

  • - Okay.

  • What about you?

  • Leave your answers below.

  • (upbeat music)

  • Okay, number three.

  • Would you rather get a paper cut between you finger

  • every time you touch paper,

  • or bite your tongue every time you eat something?

  • It's easy.

  • - Yeah.

  • Well, I would say that,

  • a couple years ago,

  • it would not have been as easy.

  • - Well, what's your answer?

  • - My answer is the paper cut, every time I touch paper.

  • - Yeah. - Because we are living

  • in a paperless world.

  • (laughing)

  • Where you can now get-- - Yeah.

  • - Everything on your phone.

  • And for a while, it was really difficult for me

  • to transition from reading print.

  • - Yeah. - 'Cause I love

  • the feel of books, and I love to read.

  • To a kindle,

  • or a reading device.

  • But now that I've transitioned,

  • I'm not looking back, and I love to eat way too much,

  • to get burned every time that I ate.

  • - Yeah.

  • I think that's an obvious one.

  • But papercuts do hurt.

  • - They do hurt.

  • - They do hurt. - Yeah.

  • - And, it just means that you will never touch paper again.

  • Because you don't want to get a paper cut.

  • - Nope.

  • - Biting your tongue

  • every time you eat something-- - Yeah.

  • As a teacher, I would have to say,

  • "Students, please, pick up the papers." (chuckles)

  • - Yeah.

  • - Which I do anyway.

  • - Yeah, you can just

  • delegate that task. - Delegate that (laughs).

  • - But then, yeah,

  • to bite your tongue every time you eat something,

  • this is painful and, well you know, we eat all the time.

  • - We eat all the time. - Yeah.

  • So, that one's easy.

  • (upbeat music)

  • Would you rather be allergic to chocolate

  • or allergic to smartphones?

  • (chuckles)

  • - (exclaims) That is a tough one.

  • - This is specific to you.

  • - This is, it seems like this question

  • was designed to

  • stump me.

  • - Should I go first?

  • - Yeah. - Alright.

  • Definitely, chocolate.

  • (Kate exclaims)

  • Easy.

  • It's easy.

  • - It's not easy-- - Chocolate.

  • - It's not, it is not easy.

  • It's not easy.

  • - Chocolate.

  • - Yeah, oh, I'm gonna have to

  • go with chocolate-- - Come on.

  • - I'm gonna have to-- - There you go.

  • - Go with chocolate too.

  • - This is when it gets difficult,

  • but you have to make a decision.

  • - Yes.

  • I think that I love chocolate,

  • I have chocolate everyday.

  • - Yeah.

  • Me too, more or less.

  • - More or less.

  • But

  • in these days like,

  • a smartphone has so many things.

  • But chocolate just has one role,

  • and I think you could find other things to fill in,

  • for chocolate. - Yeah.

  • Definitely.

  • But, (exclaims).

  • - I can see why you are struggling.

  • - Uh-huh.

  • - But at the same time, it's an easy choice.

  • - Yeah, yeah it's-- - If you actually

  • have to make the choice.

  • - Yes.

  • - Just because, for me anyway,

  • we use them so much, probably so much

  • probably too much.

  • And that's

  • another conversation.

  • - Yes. - For another time.

  • But they're just so practical.

  • As you were saying before, you now read books on there,

  • et cetera.

  • And remember what we were talking about the other day?

  • This is interesting.

  • That people talk about how

  • smartphones are taking all these natural resources,

  • and they're bad for the environment.

  • But when they actually looked at

  • what smartphones have replaced,

  • when it comes to books,

  • so they don't have to produce books anymore.

  • Calculators,

  • torches,

  • - Flashlights.

  • - (chuckles) Recording devices, cameras,

  • all these apps have now taken away the need

  • for those stand alone products to be made.

  • And they say,

  • I read this article,

  • with the headline

  • where they said, (laughs)

  • I did read y'all.

  • Well, they said,

  • because of that,

  • it's actually better for the environment

  • to create smartphones. - Smartphones.

  • - Found that very interesting. - very interesting.

  • - So in my case,

  • I would rather be allergic to chocolate.

  • I wonder...

  • Allergic to smartphones.

  • So you touched it

  • and you get a rash. - Maybe.

  • - Maybe.

  • Okay, what about you?

  • (upbeat music)

  • The last one is,

  • would you rather eat the food prepared by your mom

  • or by your partner?

  • - You didn't say that one first.

  • (Jack laughs)

  • I just realized how difficult this is (chuckles)

  • and I have to answer as well.

  • It's very difficult. - Yeah.

  • - This is (chuckles) mainly because you are both

  • fantastic chefs.

  • You both excellent in the kitchen

  • and you make delicious food.

  • - And we will both be aware of this video.

  • - Yeah, exactly.

  • Yeah, and you both don't cook that often,

  • but when you do, it's excellent.

  • Yeah, that's my answer.

  • What about you?

  • - You haven't answered. (Jack laughs)

  • Nice try.

  • Nice try, try again.

  • - Okay I will do five seconds.

  • If I had to decide one,

  • I'd rather eat food prepared by my mom.

  • She makes an excellent hot pot,

  • a very good chili,

  • and she also makes more of the kind of food that I like.

  • - Pause.

  • Last week,

  • my Thai beef stew.

  • - It was good.

  • It was good.

  • - My Mexican sweet potato soup.

  • - Yeah, decent good.

  • - The coconut soup.

  • - I know it was good.

  • I thought you're saying, if I had to decide.

  • Now when you answer this question,

  • Forget my answer.

  • Don't use what I answered too influential your answer.

  • - My answer was already my mom.

  • (Jack laughs)

  • - Is she a good cook?

  • - Better than you.

  • - Good chef.

  • (laughing)

  • - Well, some of my favorite foods

  • I think he'd said I've grown up with.

  • - Yeah.

  • - And

  • I am still reeling by the way

  • but I'm trying to answer my question.

  • I love vegetables.

  • and my mom really prepares vegetables well--

  • - Yeah. - And salad.

  • She also,

  • I mean everything that I grew up eating

  • really was through my mom--

  • - Yeah and I...

  • - And you--

  • - (mumbles) things.

  • - Yeah just like meat and potato.

  • - Meat, potato and a little bit of vegetable.

  • - No vegetable. - On the decide.

  • - No vegetable.

  • - (laughs) Potato and vegetables. (chuckles)

  • And pasta sauce is a vegetable.

  • - Pasta sauce is not a vegetable.

  • - Yes it is, it has tomatoes...

  • But it has onions and it has peppers.

  • There is tomatoes...

  • Anyway, so we got interrupted. (laughs)

  • We got interrupted.

  • I don't know where we were up to on that,

  • we run out of memory

  • on the memory card.

  • And we had to just start again.

  • But

  • Kate was asking. (laughing)

  • Kate had a few questions about my answer.

  • The way I interpret this question is, right now,

  • would you prefer to eat the foods prepared by your mum

  • or your partner?

  • I know that my mom is going to make, okay, Shepherd's Pie,

  • or hot pork.

  • Or something like that.

  • Maybe like the lamb and potatoes.

  • And then in my head you would make

  • a smoked salmon salad, which is good,

  • but I prefer to eat (mumbles)

  • - Have you ever heard the expression

  • of digging yourself a hole? - Yeah.

  • - In the conversation? - Yeah.

  • - That's when you say something

  • inappropriate or just playing wrong.

  • - Yeah.

  • - And then you try to fix it by saying more things.

  • And every time you say something,

  • it just makes the situation worse.

  • - But do you have to insert same answer?

  • - I know, but mine...

  • - So if you want to learn more about the phrases

  • that we (chuckles)

  • that we use in this video,

  • then go to go to (laughs) the description.

  • We'll leave those phrases for you.

  • And then check out the other conversations that we've had.

  • I've made a great playlist.

  • I think this is maybe episode 15.

  • - Okay.

  • - It might be the last one. - No.

  • - And I hope you enjoyed it.

  • And if you did enjoy it,

  • then please like and share this video

  • with your friends, your partner,

  • and your mom.

  • Anything else?

  • - I would like for Kate's question

  • every day-- - Oh yeah.

  • - To be for people to answer.

  • Would you rather eat the food prepared

  • by your mother and by your partner?

  • - Thank you again for watching.

  • Speak to you soon, bye.

  • - Bye.

  • (upbeat music)

- Hello, this is Jack from tofluency.com.

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