Live Poll: If You'd Found a Genie, What Would You Wish For?

Gitte: LOL!  :DPaok: This is an awesome idea!  I love scenario polls.  I say Unlimited Wishes!!!  Suggs: FriendsPerfect Weather All the TimeServants/People to Help Me Get Things Done!  :)

I just couldn't help it! 

Yeah, that's okay - I'd wish for something like that, too!  ;)

You must be in love with Tom Hiddleston. Unfortunately the Genie can't make him fall in love with you, so you must find a way to earn him just as Aladdin did with Princess Jasmine.

Oh well, there's no law against hoping! In addition to looking gorgeous he is also an extremely gifted actor.

Yes, he's the most tolerable in the Thor movies.  Have you seen Cranford (or Return to Cranford)?

Oh yes!!!!

Good.  :)  I like those movies; so sweet.

He is the most intresting character in MCU. I hope they'll bring him back for the series they preparing and not choose a different actor.

He is the most intresting character in MCU. I hope they'll bring him back for the series they preparing and not choose a different actor.

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Yes, Paok, I believe ElM is right... perhaps you could change the wording to, '100 More Wishes.'  That way you'd have to run out sometime!  Opening a Jar... LOL!  :D

Oh, I have crazy trouble with jars - and not just Binks!I imagine even Schwarzenegger in his prime struggled with that!"I caan't opean eet!  Eet's too had!"

Oh, sorry, Mr. Schwarzenegger.  Was just making a joke, hehe.  ;):D

I was never that good with the pickle jar to begin with, I know many people dry their hands or use towels but I learned the trick, which is to take it upside down and hit the bottom several times with your palm, it worked 90% of the time... and that "PLOP" sound it makes when you open it (or when it decides to give up) is perhaps one of the most satisfying sounds ever... I feel like Popeye whenever I get it done.

Yeah, I usually use one of those jar opener things made of some kind of rubber or whatever, (you know, the rag-like things) but sometimes even that won't get the job done!  Will keep ElM's trick in mind!

I'm an Stuffed olive guy. So is Popeye lol...

Done. You are right, ''Unlimited wishes'' will ruin the poll.

Yes, the smell of a freshly opened bag of chips is delightful... but the sound is insane, especially if someone else is opening it, and you're trying to take a nap!  :D

That's because people try to do it as silently as possible and it makes it painfully slow and noisy... you've got to do it in one quick "craaaak"... and try not to get them all over the floor. Funny you didn't mention the possibility of that thing happening in a movie theater, I guess that's because by the time the film finally starts, all the bags have been opened. I remember once I had the time to eat half the bag of M&Ms during the film's opening logos.

Haha!  Yeah, usually at theaters people have opened their snacks before the movie... it's just the people coughing, talking loud, getting up and down, and dropping snacks you have to worry about, now!  I understand that nobody's perfect, and people will make some noise at the show... but c'mon!  You don't have to verbally react to every line of dialogue that is said at the top of your lungs!  "Ooh!"   "Whoa!"   "Ha ha!"   "Jeez!"   "What?"   "Aw, cool!"  *etc*

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Alb, since you're beautifully fluent in at least two, and I can't seem to get past an elementary understanding of anything but English, if you were to be granted languages, would you share it with me? : )Oh, and I love your suggestions! I was just wishing for time travel, in fact, lol. 'Great minds think alike. : )

Don't worry Ruby, I'd wish for 10 trillion Dollars and buy a time freezer with that. Then we both use it to learn all the languages we want in an instant.

Hahaha, that's a great plan. Thanks, Albe. 

Wow, great thinking!  

Nice, although there is the same problem as with love. There is 'outside' wealth that everyone can acknowledge, but the definitions of wisdom and love can only be found in each individual's mind and heart. They are often hard to grasp and are constantly evolving as your personality grows; I would even say you can't 'have' wisdom or love, you can only act them out.

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If you wish for wisdom, you'll get wise enough to understand that it's unwise to wish for something else when you should be satisfied with what life gave to you or that the wisest move would be to transfer the right to have those wishes to people who "really" need it, either ways, you're going to wish nothing for you, which kind of cancels out the purpose of the wish.A wise Rabbi said once: "men should only want what they have so they can get whatever they want" 

PK,Wisdom added.Thanks.

Ooh, you're right - if the Genie can't do those things, they should not be on the list!  :)

Done!

You think I should add this as an option?

I think that would be the thing I would ask for, it's worth everything. You can read in people's mind by asking the right question to yourself, you can use it to know how to behave in social instances and say the right thing at the right moment, you can win money from game shows, you can predict the future, you can find how to cure cancer, you can find the proper word, then the proper sentence and eventually write a book. It all comes down to asking the right question... you can even know which religion you should practice... or not lol.

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Added, thanks.

Actually, I guess "If You'd Found" could mean "If You Had Found," which is correct, but it sounds like the contraction means "If You Would," which would be more common, and, in that case, it should be "If You'd Find" or "If You Found""If You Found" is probably best because it's the most straightforward and it avoids a contraction. Like I always say, English is a strange language. : )

Also, in the last option: I would set the Genie free

Corrected, thanks! I added math because a person from above request it.

Oh, yeah, I did see that. Thanks, Paok. 

I've spoken American English as my first language for 60+ years, and (insignificantly) published in the same, and "If you'd found" sounds like perfectly fine grammar to me, e.g.:  If you'd found a genie, you would have fixed the world's problems.  But you didn't.(Said with a smile) The third wish is traditionally to fix all the unforeseen problems caused by the previous wishes!

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Thanks!

Possibly the first EU Parliament reference in the history of the IMDb Poll board.