The people you know well enough to trust them are close to you but unknown to others, so other people wouldn't really appreciate your unswer if it was just some common unknown people. You mostly cannot bet on the character of celebrities, because you don't know them personally (see Gaiman). Fictional characters are known by many people and their personalities are nicely described in the books, movies, whatever....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

it really isn't, people comfortably stand in elevators with men all the time lol

[–] [email protected] 35 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We're in the LOTR community, the sample may be a little biased

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but the person who responded to the question wasn't in a LOTR community.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

All the other people who answered weren't posted here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I know, I'm just referring to this particular person's response.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Good point!

Okay, real world examples from me (notably, a big dude, so y'know, probably not as in tune to things as I could be):

Bernie Sanders My brother My Uncle

... I... Really thought I'd have better options until I really started thinking about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. Same issue here. So how about:

Bob Ross. Carl Sagan. Steve Irwin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'd swap Steve for Bernie.

Not because I think Steve would hurt anyone directly. But at any moment he may be like "would you like to see this deadly spider I've got in m'pocket?" And then pull out a spider that even spider scientists didn't know existed or some shit. He would never let the spider hurt you, but you'd have a heart attack anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I think he'd respect the spider enough not to keep it in a pocket. Though Bernie seems popular in the comments too.