Tuesday
Sep042012
Just WHO are the members of the LIM community?
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 3:00AM An epic question from Peter M. today. You need to answer every preference. Good luck!
iOS or Android?
Sony or Apple?
Amiga or Atari ST?
Spectrum or Commodore 64?
Betamax or VHS?
Action Man or Barbie?
EastEnders or Doctor Who?
Radio 4 or Radio 1?
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey?
Tetris or Civilisation?
David Cameron or Ed Milliband?
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney?
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins?
Derren Brown or David Copperfield?
Raleigh or BMX?
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred?
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment?
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail?
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder?
Queen or Dizzy Rascal?
Reader Comments (26)
Well, some of the questions don't really fit for us non-Brits. But here goes.
Both (iOS and Android), Apple, Amiga rules, C64, VHS, Action Man, Brits only, Brits only, War and Peace (never read the other), Civilization, Brits only, Neither, Canterbury (reluctantly), No idea, No idea, Raiders of the Lost Ark, No idea, No idea, Queen (never heard of Dizzy Rascal).
Best I could do!
Android, Sony, Amiga, C64, VHS, Neither, Doctor Who, Radio What??, Neither, Civilisation, Not a Brit so no idea, Not american either but would say Obama, Both are fundamentalists but maybe Dawkins, Neither, BMX, What??, Lost Ark, Either ;-), Blackadder as I don't know the other, neither really but maybe Queen...
Android, Sony, Amiga, Commodore 64, Betamax, Neither, Doctor Who, Radio 1, Fifty Shades of Grey, Tetris, David Cameron, Barrack Obama, Richard Dawkins, David Copperfield, BMX, Florence and Fred, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Inca Trail, Blackadder, Queen
... mind you, as a non-Brit, and its been 7 years since I lived in England, I had to google a few of these.
I'm surprised that Sainsbury/Tesco/Waitrose didn't show up as one of the questions.
Or for real polarisation, how about John Lewis/Argos?
Both, amiga, spectrum, vhs, action man, doctor who, radio 4, war and piece, civilisation, Cameron, Obama, Dawkins, copper field, bmx, gieves, raiders, inca, blackadder, queen,
Adding to the shopping question range should be Harrods, Selfridges, Waitrose, Tesco, Lidl :-)
iOS or Android? - iOS
Sony or Apple? - Apple
Amiga or Atari ST? - Atari ST
Spectrum or Commodore 64? - Commodore 64
Betamax or VHS? - VHS
Action Man or Barbie? Action Man
EastEnders or Doctor Who? - Doctor Who
Radio 4 or Radio 1? - Radio 4
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey? - War and Peace
Tetris or Civilisation? - Tetris
David Cameron or Ed Milliband? - Cameron
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney? - Obama
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins? - Archbishop
Derren Brown or David Copperfield? - Derren Brown
Raleigh or BMX? - Raleigh
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? - Gieves and Hawkes
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment? - Raiders
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail? - Inca Trail
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder? - Only Fools
Queen or Dizzy Rascal? - Queen
now i no all yr passwordz lol
Actually, having thought of this one, I should do it. So here goes:
iOS or Android?
The beauty, simplicity and elegance of iOS.
Sony or Apple?
For a long time, Sony, but they've gone awry. Apple has won me over.
Amiga or Atari ST?
Nice to see the majority plumping for the Amiga, a computer years ahead of it's time. Yes, the ST was great too, but it was a panicked, speedily developed attempt to take on the Amiga with a similar CPU but none of the customer chips that made the Amiga so amazing.
Spectrum or Commodore 64?
ZX Spectrum. Actually, I was lucky enough to have both, but the Spectrum and it's precursor, the ZX81, were what got me into computing, now my career.
Betamax or VHS?
Betamax. We all went VHS in the end, but it was terrible, wasn't it?
Action Man or Barbie?
Action Man. My mum made a barracks for him using plans from Blue Peter.
EastEnders or Doctor Who?
Doctor Who. Who needs shabby realism when you have watch imaginative sci-fi nonsense? Not me.
Radio 4 or Radio 1?
Radio 4. I would pay the license fee for it alone. For those in the US, imagine a radio station filled with drama, news, comedy and current affairs, with programming as high-quality as the best TV stations and no advertising. That's BBC Radio 4. For the record, I hate music radio!
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey?
War and Peace.
Tetris or Civilisation?
Civilisation.
David Cameron or Ed Milliband?
Reluctantly, Ed Milliband, but Britain has a serious lack of inspiring politicians. And I don't hate Cameron, it must be said. I wish him good luck.
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney?
Obama. The world's choice, except we don't get a vote.
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins?
Actually, I don't think the Archbishop of Canterbury is an extremist. He's a pretty moderate and tolerant guy and I respect him a great deal. But I don't believe him, unfortunately. So, it's Richard Dawkins for me.
Derren Brown or David Copperfield?
Derren Brown. I like my magic tinged with sinister, psychological manipulation and a hint of mischievous evil.
Raleigh or BMX?
Raleigh.
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred?
Florence and Fred. I have no branded clothes and all my T-shirts cost £3.50!
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment?
Raiders of the Lost Ark. Best. Film. Ever.
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail?
The Inca Trail. Must see Macchu Picchu before I die.
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder?
Both, but Blackadder has to win.
Queen or Dizzy Rascal?
I think Dizzy (or, Mr Rascal, as Jeremy Paxman called him) is a great talent, but although I think Queen is tragically uncool (sorry, Shaun), I've played their two Greatest Hits albums to death over the decades.
As for the supermarkets? Waitrose or M&S, most of the time.
@Gavin, do you shop at Harrods? I think I'd heard of Selfridges, but Lidl? Don't recall that one. I mostly did Sainsbury and Waitrose on occasion. Hated Tesco.
@Peter M, betamax was the superior format, just less used. When I was working for one of our national TV networks, I saw the tape library and the cameras they used; many years after Betamax had been phased out of the retail sector, it was still the only choice of the professionals.
Android
Sony
Atari ST
Spectrum
VHS
Action Man
Doctor Who
Radio 1
War and Peace
Tetris
David Cameron or Ed Miliband (Neither)
Barrack Obama
The Archbishop of Canterbury
Derren Brown
Raleigh
Florence and Fred
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Costa Del Sol
Only Fools and Horses
Queen
iOS
Apple?
Amiga
Commodore 64?
Betamax
Action Man
Doctor Who?
Radio 4
War and Peace
Civilisation?
David Cameron
Barrack Obama
Richard Dawkins
David Copperfield
BMX
Florence and Fred
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Inca Trail
Blackadder
Queen
Android
Sony
Amiga
Spectrum, if I had to choose; owned both.
Betamax
Action Man
Doctor Who
Radio 4
War and Peace
Civilisation
Miliband...Reluctantly
Barrack Obama, though he's been a disappointment.
Richard Dawkins
Derren Brown (though would choose Dynamo if he were an option)
Raleigh
Florence and Fred
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Inca trail
Blackadder
Queen, though haven't listened to them for years.
iOS
Apple
Atari ST, never had an Amiga
Spectrum, though I owned both
Betamax
Neither Action Man or Barbie
Doctor Who
Neither Radio 4 or Radio 1. Jack FM and Radio 5...
Neither War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey
Tetris
Both should be ashamed of themselves
Barack Obama, but that's a case of choosing the visually impaired over the blind...
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins - As a scientist, I'd lean towards Dawkins, but I don't believe you have a right to impose your own dogma, regardless of evidence. So... neither!
Neither Derren Brown or David Copperfield
Raleigh or BMX? - Neither - Brompton...
Florence and Fred
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Inca Trail
Blackadder
Queen
@David never shopped at Harrods. Too expensive and far away from me. Selfridges is similar to Harrods. Waitrose and Sainsburys are lovely places to shop. Waitrose is now as cheap as Tesco.
iOS or Android? Tough call, I like both. WP7 for merging the best bits of both!
Sony or Apple? Apple. Sony have failed to deliver compelling product or design fornearly a decade
Amiga or Atari ST? Amiga, by a mile.
Spectrum or Commodore 64? Had both, C64 was a superior product but Spectrum was my introduction to computing
Betamax or VHS? VHS
Action Man or Barbie? Action Man... the new HM Armed Forces toys aren't anything like as well built, my son has a whole platoon of them missing limbs
EastEnders or Doctor Who? Neither... unless we're talking old school Dr Who.
Radio 4 or Radio 1? Radio, what's that?
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey? War and Peace
Tetris or Civilisation? Never really got hooked by either, Civilisation probably
David Cameron or Ed Milliband? Aren't they pretty much interchangeable? There are few politicians who I have any respect for, certainly none that put the good of the country over that of themselves or their party. /rant
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney? Obama, at least the US has one politician who on the surface appears to be the exception to the above rant!
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins? Dawkins
Derren Brown or David Copperfield? Derren Brown
Raleigh or BMX? Raleigh
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? Probably F&F
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment? Raiders!!!
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail? Inca Trail
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder? Blackadder
Queen or Dizzy Rascal? Queen
iOS
Apple?
Atari ST (no experience of either)
Commodore 64 (no experience of either)
VHS
Action Man
Doctor Who (no experience of either)
Radio 4
War and Peace (no experience of either)
Civilisation
David Cameron
Barrack Obama (no experience of either)
Richard Dawkins
David Copperfield
Raleigh
Gieves and Hawkes (no idea who either of them are)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Inca Trail?
Blackadder (genuinely difficult decision)
Queen
iOS or Android? Android
Sony or Apple? Sony
Amiga or Atari ST? Amiga
Spectrum or Commodore 64? Commodore 64
Betamax or VHS? BetaMax
Action Man or Barbie? Action Man
EastEnders or Doctor Who? Doctor Who
Radio 4 or Radio 1? don't know
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey? Never read either one
Tetris or Civilisation? Definitely Civilization
David Cameron or Ed Milliband? Don't know
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney? Mitt Romney
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins? The Archbishop of Canterbury
Derren Brown or David Copperfield? David Copperfield
Raleigh or BMX? BMX
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? Florence and Fred
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment? Raiders of the Lost Ark
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail? don't know
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder? don't know
Queen or Dizzy Rascal? don't know
BTW, it looks like we all love Raiders of the Lost Ark, LOL!
Considering that I'm Canadian, so some of these don't apply.
iOS or Android? iOS
Sony or Apple? Apple
Amiga or Atari ST? Atari ST
Spectrum or Commodore 64? Neither
Betamax or VHS? VHS
Action Man or Barbie? Neither
EastEnders or Doctor Who? Doctor Who
Radio 4 or Radio 1? CHEZ (Classic Rock)
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey? Neither
Tetris or Civilisation? DungeonMaster
David Cameron or Ed Milliband? Who? Just kidding, I know who Cameron is
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney? Obama
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins?
Derren Brown or David Copperfield? ???
Raleigh or BMX? Subaru
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? ????
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment? Raiders
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail? ???
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder? Blackadder
Queen or Dizzy Rascal? Queen
iOS or Android? - Both really.
Sony or Apple? - Apple at a push
Amiga or Atari ST? - Amiga
Spectrum or Commodore 64? - Spectrum (I'm an Amstrad kid really)
Betamax or VHS? - Betamax
Action Man or Barbie? Action Man
EastEnders or Doctor Who? - Neither thanks
Radio 4 or Radio 1? - Radio 4
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey? - Neither. One's too long, the other is trash.
Tetris or Civilisation? - Tetris
David Cameron or Ed Milliband? - Ed
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney? - Obama
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins? - Have to go Dawkins but the Rowan fella is a nicer chap
Derren Brown or David Copperfield? - Copperfield
Raleigh or BMX? - Raleigh
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? - Huh?
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment? - Raiders
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail? - Inca Trail (ah one day maybe...)
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder? - Blackadder
Queen or Dizzy Rascal? - Queen are so old and boring (sorry Shaun)
iOS
Sony
Amiga
Spectrum
VHS?
Action Man
Doctor Who?
Radio 1?
War and Peace
Tetris
David Cameron
Mitt Romney?
The Archbishop of Canterbury
David Copperfield?
Raleigh
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? Don't know either
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Costa Del Sol
Blackadder?
Queen
Now, I really think we need to see Shaun's answers....
No votes for "Fifty Shades of Grey"? I'm shocked!
iOS or Android? Can't decide- good and bad in both
Sony or Apple? Apple
Amiga or Atari ST? Atari ST(E)
Spectrum or Commodore 64? Spectrum (48k)
Betamax or VHS? VHS (no choice)
Action Man or Barbie? Action Man
EastEnders or Doctor Who? Doctor Who
Radio 4 or Radio 1? Radio 4
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey? Neither
Tetris or Civilisation? Tetris
David Cameron or Ed Milliband? Ed (hate him about 10% as much as I hate Cameron)
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney? Obama of course
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins? Richard Dawkins
Derren Brown or David Copperfield? Derren Brown
Raleigh or BMX? BMX
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? Gieves and Hawkes
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment? Raiders
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail? Inca Trail
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder? Only Fools
Queen or Dizzy Rascal? I love Dizzy and listen to him more than Queen nowadays, but seriously. Has to be Queen.
iOS or Android? Android
Sony or Apple? Oh great; my two least favourite companies. Ok then, Apple, because at least they haven't had someone jailed for helping people to re-enable functionality they sold their products with and then decided to remove even from already-purchased units (Linux support on PS3). Nor have they installed rootkits on people's PCs to prevent them copying a CD to their mp3 player. Nor have they had my credit card details stolen from their pathetically secured servers.
Amiga or Atari ST? Amiga; better hardware
Spectrum or Commodore 64? Spectrum. Started with a ZX81, then got a 48K speccy, then the bastardised Spectrum+2.
Betamax or VHS? VHS; never actually got to see Betamax
Action Man or Barbie? Action Man
EastEnders or Doctor Who? Doctor Who
Radio 4 or Radio 1? Radio 4
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey? War and Peace
Tetris or Civilisation? Tetris
David Cameron or Ed Milliband? There's a difference?
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney? There's certainly a difference here; Obama fooled the world
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins? Richard Dawkins
Derren Brown or David Copperfield? Derren Brown
Raleigh or BMX? Raleigh; can't stand wide tyres. Except on my car.
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? Gieves and Hawkes
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment? RotLA
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail? Inca Trail
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder? Slackbladder
Queen or Dizzy Rascal? Queen
iOS or Android?
- Android - I hate the concept of locked down computers
Sony or Apple?
- not sure what this is asking about. Apple for the iPod Classic, Sony for its Clies
Amiga or Atari ST?
- never used either, haven't got a clue
Spectrum or Commodore 64?
- same again
Betamax or VHS?
- I always hated video recorders and waited till DVDs and PVRs came along
Action Man or Barbie?
- hate both these dreadful sexist toys
EastEnders or Doctor Who?
- last watched Doctor Who in the 1960s! Have never watched a complete episode of EastEnders (though I did live there for forty years)
Radio 4 or Radio 1?
- Radio 4
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey?
- War and Peace - read it twice in Russian
Tetris or Civilisation?
- I'm not a computer games person, but I did try Tetris on my Palm and thought it was good. Never heard of Civilisation
David Cameron or Ed Milliband?
- Miliband. Cameron is taking us back to the 1930s
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney?
- Obama, though very disappointed with him so far. But Romney is an enemy of decent civilisation
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins?
- Not keen on either of them. Dawkins is definitely right, but has a slightly unpleasant way of expressing his views
Derren Brown or David Copperfield?
- couldn't give a s--t
Raleigh or BMX?
- ditto
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred?
- who the hell are Florence and Fred? Marks & Spencers, I'm afraid
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment?
- Never seen either of them
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail?
- Never been to either of them - I find them both unappealing, but in completely different ways
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder?
- Never seen Blackadder, though everyone tells me it was brilliant. Only Fools I've seen a bit, mildly amusing, but not worth turning the telly on for
Queen or Dizzy Rascal?
- Well, since Queen are my unfavourite group of all time (Sorry Shaun - though I did used to know John Deacon, who was a very nice bloke and lent me an excellent LP - Soul Finger by the Bar-Kays), it has to be Dizzy Rascal
iOS, Apple, Amiga, Commodore 64, VHS, Action Man, Doctor Who, Radio 4, War and Peace, Civilisation, David Cameron (Merely over Ed!), Barack Obama, Richard Dawkins, David Copperfield, Raleigh, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Inca Trail, Blackadder, Queen/
iOS or Android? Android
Sony or Apple? Sony (but that was a coin flip)
Amiga or Atari ST? Atari
Spectrum or Commodore 64? Commodore
Betamax or VHS? VHS
Action Man or Barbie? Barbie
EastEnders or Doctor Who? Doctor Who
Radio 4 or Radio 1? Radio 1
War and Peace or Fifty Shades of Grey? Fifty Shades
Tetris or Civilisation? Civilisation
David Cameron or Ed Milliband? Cameron
Barrack Obama or Mitt Romney? Obama
The Archbishop of Canterbury or Richard Dawkins? Dawkins
Derren Brown or David Copperfield? Copperfield
Raleigh or BMX? Raleigh
Gieves and Hawkes or Florence and Fred? Florence and Fred
Raiders of the Lost Ark or Terms or Endearment? Raiders
Costa Del Sol or the Inca Trail? Costa Del Sol
Only Fools and Horses or Blackadder? Blackadder
Queen or Dizzy Rascal? Queen