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   suncrafter
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   Joined: 03 September 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 6  | 
  ![]()   Topic: Hypothetical Question...Posted: 16 September 2007 at 4:30am  | 
 
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    Hypothetically speaking - lets say you have an opportunity to win $1,000,000 in a contest. To win - you must choose from one of the following five options: "Punch" option ---- You will be punched in the face, just once, by a big fat man. The punch is guaranteed not to be fatal nor to cause brain damage, but you will likely sustain a nasty injury such as a split lip, black eye or perhaps even a broken nose. After being punched - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Bomb" option ---- Nothing will happen to you. However, you will start the countdown on a huge bomb that is hidden deep inside the center of the Earth. The bomb is large enough that, when detonated, it will cause devastating earth quakes and floods all over the planet. The bomb is completely undetectable and can not be disarmed. However it will not detonate until exactly 5,000 years in the future. As soon as the countdown has started - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Insults" option ---- Twenty people will shout terrible insults and obscenities at you for one full hour. These people will not come into physical contact with you nor harm you, but they will say all sorts of horrible and upsetting things to you. After one full hour of intense verbal abuse - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Magic" option ---- Your personality and ethical convictions will be painlessly altered in some unknown way by a magic spell. The alteration will be instantaneous and will not affect your memory, cause brain damage nor result in any physical harm of any kind. After the alteration - you will be given the $1,000,000! "Nothing" option ---- None of the above. Nothing happens to you or anyone else, but you will NOT be given any money. 
 Please list them like so ... (with "1" listed as your first choice, "2" as your next choice, and so on...) 1 - option name  | 
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   spartan_117
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   Joined: 14 June 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 478  | 
  ![]()   Posted: 16 September 2007 at 5:36am | 
 
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1-insults // i can ignore them completely 
   
  2-bomb // mankind will destroy itself before 5000 years ( i had a premonition) 3-nothing 4-punch // it would probably cost a million dollars to fix you up. 5-magic//i put this last in the fear i might turn gay.(i dont hate people who r gay i just hate the idea) Edited by spartan_117 - 16 September 2007 at 5:36am  | 
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   Hapiel
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   Joined: 30 June 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3266  | 
  ![]()   Posted: 16 September 2007 at 7:41am | 
 
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   Insults 
   
  Nothing All those things are just stupid.. If you dont REALLY need those 1000000000 why would you take them? those things are just stupid. however the insults cant be that wrong..  | 
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   Larwick
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   Joined: 18 July 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4015  | 
  ![]()   Posted: 16 September 2007 at 7:57am | 
 
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   1. Insults 
   
  2. Punch (but only if i didn't get a broken nose) 3. Nothing None of the others. Lame.  | 
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   Monkey 'o Doom
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   Joined: 24 September 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2994  | 
  ![]()   Posted: 16 September 2007 at 11:20am | 
 
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    1.Insults 
2.Punch 
3.Bomb 
4.Nothing 
I would take the bomb option because beyond the impractibility of getting a bomb to the earth's core, it would also be rendered useless (or at least the timing mechanism and other sensitive components) by the massive heat and pressure there. 
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   PixelSnader
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   Not a troll! Joined: 05 June 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3194  | 
  ![]()   Posted: 16 September 2007 at 5:09pm | 
 
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   i can't buy stuff with dollars here.
    
   
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   Metaru
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   Joined: 03 February 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3305  | 
  ![]()   Posted: 16 September 2007 at 10:55pm | 
 
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    Originally posted by suncrafter "Bomb" option ---- Nothing will happen to you. However, you will start the countdown on a huge bomb that is hidden deep inside the center of the Earth. The bomb is large enough that, when detonated, it will cause devastating earth quakes and floods all over the planet. The bomb is completely undetectable and can not be disarmed. However it will not detonate until exactly 5,000 years in the future. As soon as the countdown has started - you will be given the $1,000,000! Kid, that countdown already started a century ago, and is set to 50, not 5,000. ![]()  | 
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   Hapiel
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  ![]()   Posted: 18 September 2007 at 6:20am | 
 
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    Originally posted by snader i can't buy stuff with dollars here. If you get a million dollars, come to my house with them, ill give you 1000 euro's if you give the million for me.. those 1000 euros are usefull for you :)  | 
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   Metaru
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  ![]()   Posted: 18 September 2007 at 8:26am | 
 
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   and, on the other hand, it surprises me how cheap is mankind's future.
    
   
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   Aleiav
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   Joined: 08 April 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2380  | 
  ![]()   Posted: 18 September 2007 at 1:42pm | 
 
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   1. Bomb
 
   
  2. Insults 3. Punch 4. Nothing 5. Magic  | 
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   Larwick
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  ![]()   Posted: 18 September 2007 at 1:57pm | 
 
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   It's surprising how much some people will do for a million dollars. You'd think you'd prefer to earn your own money properly right? Plus, it's not that much, it'll get you an average house in England these days, and you couldn't live off of it.
    
   
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   Metaru
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  ![]()   Posted: 18 September 2007 at 6:00pm | 
 
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   after all, it's just one millon dollars. that thing was a lot of money in the 60's
    
   
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   Aleiav
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  ![]()   Posted: 19 September 2007 at 12:08am | 
 
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   I would like to earn my money properly. In fact, I plan on it. But this is a hypothetical situation, not real life.
    
   
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   greenraven
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  ![]()   Posted: 22 September 2007 at 1:48pm | 
 
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   1. Insults. Sticks and stones...  
   
  ![]() 2. Nothing. None of the others seem worth it.  | 
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   Skull
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  ![]()   Posted: 22 September 2007 at 1:54pm | 
 
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   Insults.. I make witty comebacks to all of them 
   
  Punch.. I'd later tw*t that fat guy.  | 
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   ScarredShadow
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   Joined: 11 May 2018 Location: New Zealand Online Status: Offline Posts: 43  | 
  ![]()   Posted: 14 October 2007 at 11:55pm | 
 
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   Insults:  Purely because of two things, everyone would be rushing to say something so it would just a blur of noise and sticks and stones. 
   
  Punch: A black eye or split lip isn't a bad injury, especially for $1 million. And I mean these are easy ways to earn $1 million, and a million isn't just pocket money.  | 
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