If a mad gunman gave the choice between your mum and dad, who would you choose? - General Discussion

gunneruk · 07-07-2007, 17:13

If you say you can't decide than both of them die.

I choose my mum.

Weeping Dreams · 07-07-2007, 17:15

The only thing dead around here is your brain.

Babe Rainbow · 07-07-2007, 17:16

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Originally Posted by gunneruk

If you say you can't decide than both of them die.

I choose my mum.

I couldn't choose - which would maybe mean they'd both be dead but if I chose, I would be in a living hell - I couldn't do it - I couldn't live with myself aftewards.

07-07-2007, 17:21

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Originally Posted by gunneruk

If you say you can't decide than both of them die.

I choose my mum.

Choose what? The one to be saved or the one to be shot?

gunneruk · 07-07-2007, 17:22

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Originally Posted by Socha

Choose what? The one to be saved or the one to be shot?

Same difference

stoatie · 07-07-2007, 17:24

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Originally Posted by gunneruk

Same difference

Erm, not really, unless by "same" you mean "exactly opposite".

sarahcs · 07-07-2007, 17:24

I'd kick the gun out of his hand. And do a spin round and shoot something to scare him. In the confusion we'd escape. And flag down a passing helicopter or something.
Well, you did ask...

stoatie · 07-07-2007, 17:25

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Originally Posted by sarahcs

I'd kick the gun out of his hand. And do a spin round and shoot something to scare him. In the confusion we'd escape. And flag down a passing helicopter or something.
Well, you did ask...

You're Chuck Norris?

WICKED!!!

(Don't worry, I won't tell anyone).

gunneruk · 07-07-2007, 17:27

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Originally Posted by gunneruk

Same difference

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Originally Posted by stoatie

Erm, not really, unless by "same" you mean "exactly opposite".

Sorry I meant to be saved.

Currer Bell · 07-07-2007, 17:36

Considering that my dad disowned me when I was seven and I've never truly known him, but I absolutely adore my mum who has been my rock since birth...I don't think I'd have as much trouble making the choice as I ought to.

stoatie · 07-07-2007, 17:38

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Sorry I meant to be saved.

Thank you!

Erm... not sure why I bothered, as my dad died when I was a kid, so it's not really a situation ever likely to happen to me.

Thanks anyway.

batdude_uk1 · 07-07-2007, 17:49

I would just turn the gun on the gunman, I mean if he gave you a gun then said choose, and you had the time to choose, surley you would have the time to choose to shoot the gunman?

Sonic Dave · 07-07-2007, 17:52

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Originally Posted by gunneruk

If you say you can't decide than both of them die.

I choose my mum.

I don't like to think that way about my parents.

trinity2002 · 07-07-2007, 17:54

I'd point him over to the inflatable santa in the corner. If he's as mad as you say he wouldn't know the difference.

Babe Rainbow · 07-07-2007, 17:55

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Originally Posted by Currer Bell

Considering that my dad disowned me when I was seven and I've never truly known him, but I absolutely adore my mum who has been my rock since birth...I don't think I'd have as much trouble making the choice as I ought to.

I have very different relationships with my mum and my dad - they both have their ups and downs. But I could not choose one over the other. They are my mum and Dad and if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here. I'd rather we all died together than choose one over the other. The alternative would be too bad to contemplate

Sloopy · 07-07-2007, 17:57

What an appalling question! Totally unanswerable.

gunneruk · 07-07-2007, 17:58

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Originally Posted by Babe Rainbow

I have very different relationships with my mum and my dad - they both have their ups and downs. But I could not choose one over the other. They are my mum and Dad and if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here. I'd rather we all died together than choose one over the other. The alternative would be too bad to contemplate

What a waste.

I got this idea from watching a movie with Meryl Streep where she was playing a Jew during the Nazi period and they asked her to choose between her daughter and her son. She chose her daughter. Very good acting.

07-07-2007, 17:58

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Originally Posted by Sloopy

What an appalling question! Totally unanswerable.

As it was in the film Sophie's Choice...

gunneruk · 07-07-2007, 18:00

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Originally Posted by Socha

As it was in the film Sophie's Choice...

Is that the one with Meryl Streep?

07-07-2007, 18:00

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Originally Posted by gunneruk

What a waste.

I got this idea from watching a movie with Meryl Streep where she was playing a Jew during the Nazi period and they asked her to choose between her daughter and her son. She chose her daughter. Very good acting.

Well, she chose her son over her daughter. The look on the face of the little girl when she heard her mother say: 'take the girl'. I remember bursting into tears.

Very good acting indeed.

davidweller · 07-07-2007, 18:01

I'd choose my mum as my dad's been dead for some years.

ÐåÑ©ìÑG ÐïVÅ™ · 07-07-2007, 18:02

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Originally Posted by Sloopy

What an appalling question! Totally unanswerable.

I agree....

gunneruk · 07-07-2007, 18:05

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Originally Posted by Socha

Well, she chose her son over her daughter. The look on the face of the little girl when she heard her mother say: 'take the girl'. I remember bursting into tears.

Very good acting indeed.

Wouldn't you say better one than none?

Babe Rainbow · 07-07-2007, 18:07

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Originally Posted by gunneruk

What a waste.

I got this idea from watching a movie with Meryl Streep where she was playing a Jew during the Nazi period and they asked her to choose between her daughter and her son. She chose her daughter. Very good acting.

Yes I know the movie - I obviously thought of it first thing when reading the thread title.

I couldn't think of it in terms of "very good acting" cos the subject was so very traumatic and horrendous - it was visceral - it's impossible to think of in terms of dramatic, theatrical terminology

07-07-2007, 18:08

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Originally Posted by gunneruk

Wouldn't you say better one than none?

No, I don't think so in this case. I always thought that if I was in that situation I would just go all three of us.

But it's an impossible situation to be in. There could never be a choice that you could live with I suppose.

And who knows what you would say in such a situation where you would have to decide in a second with a gun to your head so to speak.

Absolute horror.

07-07-2007, 17:13	#1
gunneruk Forum Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,946	If a mad gunman gave the choice between your mum and dad, who would you choose? If you say you can't decide than both of them die. I choose my mum.

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Weeping Dreams Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,498	The only thing dead around here is your brain.

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sarahcs Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 6,127 Blog Entries: 4	I'd kick the gun out of his hand. And do a spin round and shoot something to scare him. In the confusion we'd escape. And flag down a passing helicopter or something. Well, you did ask...

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Currer Bell Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 432	Considering that my dad disowned me when I was seven and I've never truly known him, but I absolutely adore my mum who has been my rock since birth...I don't think I'd have as much trouble making the choice as I ought to.

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batdude_uk1 Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 16,454	I would just turn the gun on the gunman, I mean if he gave you a gun then said choose, and you had the time to choose, surley you would have the time to choose to shoot the gunman?

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trinity2002 Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 9,683	I'd point him over to the inflatable santa in the corner. If he's as mad as you say he wouldn't know the difference.

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Sloopy Forum Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 59,936	What an appalling question! Totally unanswerable.

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davidweller Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Wallington, Surrey Services: Panasonic HD TV, Blu-ray, Freeview PVR Posts: 6,316	I'd choose my mum as my dad's been dead for some years.