We're going to start streaming our conversations to pick each week's question. This week we decided on a different question, but this is the one I wanted to do!

76%

The Office

24%

Game of Thrones

 

1. Why the office? Oh... let's think. In the world of game of thrones, if you are born a peasant, your life with be fraught with danger from nearly everything. It's not uncommon for your entire family to be murdered because your Lord is or properly was Ned Stark or any of the other 99 percent of the lord's that are murdered by the end of the show. If you're lucky enough to be born in a rich family you still have to live a life of Machiavellism to survive, not just from your enemies but also your immediate family.
 

While Game of Thrones is one of my favorite shows and I've only seen a few episodes is the office, the life at the office is full of zany antics for sure!!!

Zany antics any day over continuous tragidy.

- Jon Snow 4 president 2020

 

2. Two words: modern plumbing.

- A modern homo sapien

 

3. I am no good with the kind of intrigue that costs people their lives. Dealing, however, with my personal items in jello, my desk in the men's room (yuk!), or my entire work area simulated in Xmas wrapping paper, might just add a bit of mirth and entertainment into my dull trapped-working-at-home-all-alone life. Someone, PLEASE, god, pull such a prank on me...anything, if it means other human beings...help...help

- @imjeannettec

 

4. Even though I would be the Angela Martin of the group, I would choose The Office. I'd rather marry the love of my life while standing in my grave than risk a red or purple wedding. Besides, only Ed Truck died on The Office (Deangelo Vickers was only brain dead). Literally anyone could die a brutal death on GoT.

- Jamie

 

5. All of the characters live a simple and happy life together in unison. It’s mundane but they love it.

- Artisticdork

 

1. So I had to think long and hard about this one. For real, I got up and took my dogs for a walk. During that time, I thought about what I do currently. I sit at a desk, and in between the times I look at spreadsheets all day, trying to divine the statistical anomalies surrounding Email Deliverability, I create funny gifs and ways to mildly annoy my compatriots by subtly messing with their Google Sheets, or making bots that whenever they mention certain words (these days, it is "egregious"), a funny message pops up in their Slack Channel.

Now I know what you're thinking, "That is funny, why would you choose Game Of Thrones?" I'll tell you, confused reader. Because I was born in the wrong time. I wasn't built for office work. I was built to explore new places, rough the wilds and tundras. I accidentally fell into this job. My jobs before this were almost always outside, or involving heavy labor. I just happened to have this skillset as well.
If I fell into a world where there be dragons, magic, all sorts of weird stuff to work with and explore, I'd be pretty damn happy.

Yeah, I'd probably die, but it would likely be a pretty metal death, at the end of someone's pike, a dragon eating my head off, starvation, not something so banal as heart disease from eating processed food. As one of the greatest living comedians, Bill Burr, once said, "Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there, fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe."
 

Now "sleeping on a futon" isn't the same as "fighting a white walker", but hell, it would be more exciting. 

I know this is a departure from my more satirical posts, but this one made me think more than I should.

- @zacheryrose5

You killed me with this one, Zach. You won't be hearing from me in a while as I now feel a strong call to adventure! - Chris

 

2. More sword. Less screens. Unseating a rival > than unjamming a printer.

 

3. This is a really tough one, I like both shows.  A point for the Office is who wouldn't want Michael Scott for a boss?! Sure he is an idiot but he is actually a good guy.  Overall, I had to go with GoT because the Office world would be too close to normal life. I would like to take my stab (pun intended) at sitting in the iron throne in a world with dragons and ice zombies.

- @corey_cojo aka Redbeard of the House Johnson, the first of His Name, King of tacos, Pusher of pixels, Director of art, Breaker of plans with friends and Father of 3 doggos.

 

4. Look, there is a good chance that in a GoT world I would be killed quickly, or be one of the poor people living in the muck at King's Landing or something, but I do live in the world of The Office right now, and I could really use a change.

- Jenn G.