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Inspired by the money or love thread, I though it's be interesting to see what would temp certain people. Imagine that you wake up one night to find an old man standing beside your bed. He offers to pay you as much money as you want in exchange for one thing. For the next twenty four hours, you have to live the lifestyle/act in the way you find most revolting.

Would you say yes? how much would you ask for, what’s the least amount you would do it for, what would you have to do? what would you do with the money?

If I were offered a million quid I'd take it. But if I were asked? Twenty million quid to you, Sir!

Any figure? Fuck, about £10 Billion then.

I wouldn't do the act I find the most revolting for any amount of money. The thought sickens me as is.

Inspired by the money or love thread, I though it's be interesting to see what would temp certain people. Imagine that you wake up one night to find an old man standing beside your bed. He offers to pay you as much money as you want in exchange for one thing. For the next twenty four hours, you have to live the lifestyle/act in the way you find most revolting.
Why is it always old men in these scenarios? Old men who want to have sex with me, old men who want me to wear a diaper, old men who want me to kill my best friend, old men who want to buy my soul/youth/intelligence.
Is this what my social security dollars are going toward? Being used by creepy old men as part of some bizarre scheme to mess with other people's heads?
Would you say yes? how much would you ask for, what’s the least amount you would do it for, what would you have to do? what would you do with the money?
But, he wants me to go back to high school? That's gonna cost him big time, an even $100 million says I, but I could probably be haggled down to a measly $5 million.
Once I had the money, I'd build a giant elderly-proof house, because waking up in the middle of the night to see a insane, yet wealthy old guy whom I've never met before standing beside my bed would fill me with enough psychological scars and paranoia to last a lifetime.

yes, for 20 pesos.

im sorry but for free i will not scour my mind for the lifestyle choice that is most revolting to me

Inspired by the money or love thread, I though it's be interesting to see what would temp certain people. Imagine that you wake up one night to find an old man standing beside your bed. He offers to pay you as much money as you want in exchange for one thing. For the next twenty four hours, you have to live the lifestyle/act in the way you find most revolting.

Would you say yes? how much would you ask for, what’s the least amount you would do it for, what would you have to do? what would you do with the money?

I wouldn't do it. I'm actually pretty good at turning down bribes. But if I had to do it, I'd take the old guy for all he's got.

I wouldn't do the act I find the most revolting for any amount of money. The thought sickens me as is.

I think the OP should include a requirement to detail the thing we're being paid to do.

I think the OP should include a requirement to detail the thing we're being paid to do. I don't know if saying would get me banned or not. :eek:

In answer to the question, there are very few things that totally repulse me as I'm a very curious person and want to know what most things feel like anyway.

I'd do it for £100,000.

The price, then, for waving a placard with 'God hates gays, Muslims, and Black guys, and I agree with him' for 24 hours is thus : £19 million.

Not sure why I picked that much, but it'd set me up somewhat nicely for the rest of forever, really.

$1 billion and I'd suck his dick! :)

You can buy a lot of therapy for $1 billion! :)

I'd just roll around in a pool full of prostitutes for the next few weeks and wash the stink off my brain! :)

Couldn't I just lie to the dude and tell him something that is less revolting, yet revolting nonetheless?

If so, my price is $100 billion.

I think the OP should include a requirement to detail the thing we're being paid to do.

Fair enough, if you want to include a descriptor of what you do, feel free.

That's it? Act like someone I can't stand for 24 hours? Phbt, I'd do that for a few grand. I thought it was going to be a moral dilemma.

Several million pounds, at the very least.

I'd be a Fundamentalist Christian wacko. :) Although that's my 2nd most revolting lifestyle, not 1st.

In answer to the question, there are very few things that totally repulse me as I'm a very curious person and want to know what most things feel like anyway.

I'd do it for £100,000.

But there's no limit to the money he offers....

Incidentally, I quite agree with the first part of the post, although in an emotional sense as well (yes, I'm a pretentious Keats believing self-absorped fool).

But there's no limit to the money he offers....

Incidentally, I quite agree with the first part of the post, although in an emotional sense as well (yes, I'm a pretentious Keats believing self-absorped fool).

Why be greedy?

£100,000 is enough money for me to live on for quite a while and any more than that would probably kill me. I'm way too much of an idiot to be trusted with a really large amount of money and easy access to hookers and drugs ;).

I guess is should be assumed there's a fixed amount offered.


If it's truly what I find the most revolting, then I wouldn't survive it anyway.

Why be greedy?

£100,000 is enough money for me to live on for quite a while and any more than that would probably kill me. I'm way too much of an idiot to be trusted with a really large amount of money and easy access to hookers and drugs ;).

Hookers and Drugs= new sensations...:p

Why not be greedy anyway? If you feel that terrible give the bloody money to charity or twenty.

$57 Billion Dollars. So I can be richer than Bill Gates. I know someone else has more, but I just want to be richer than Gates.

Inspired by the money or love thread, I though it's be interesting to see what would temp certain people. Imagine that you wake up one night to find an old man standing beside your bed. He offers to pay you as much money as you want in exchange for one thing. For the next twenty four hours, you have to live the lifestyle/act in the way you find most revolting.

Would you say yes? how much would you ask for, what’s the least amount you would do it for, what would you have to do? what would you do with the money?
there is NOT enough money in the world that would make me even consider living the lifestyle I find most revolting for one hour, much less 24 hours.

An old MAN? Sorry, But I'm a man myself. Wouldn't do it for any price.

You know, I'm having a hard time imagining a lifestyle that i would find particularly revolting.

Sure certain acts I'd find particularly revolting, but there aren't that many who would make a lifestyle out of it...

Baby, I'm PRICELESS.

If it's truly what I find the most revolting, then I wouldn't survive it anyway.


Interesting, what is it?

How would he know if what I offer to do is actually what I find to be the most revolting thing?

Inspired by the money or love thread, I though it's be interesting to see what would temp certain people. Imagine that you wake up one night to find an old man standing beside your bed. He offers to pay you as much money as you want in exchange for one thing. For the next twenty four hours, you have to live the lifestyle/act in the way you find most revolting.

Would you say yes? how much would you ask for, what’s the least amount you would do it for, what would you have to do? what would you do with the money?

No. I do not have a price. I am not a commodity to be purchased. If he wishes to give me the money because I have earned it, fine, but I will not be bribed and doing what you describe would not be earning it: it would be accepting a bribe.

How would he know if what I offer to do is actually what I find to be the most revolting thing?

Dude, he's in your room, waiting for you to wake up. He probably knows more about you than you do.

If it's the most revolting thing, then I don't think I have a price given normal circumstances. If I was in dire straits - aside from being horrified to find myself in a 70's band - that might change, desperation does things to people.

For anything else, I'm cheaper than I might think, depends how it's sold to me.

I would barter. A lot. Starting high and getting higher. Then I would do it; but only if the old man was really a duck, my bed was flying over the Sahara, and I finally got my wish for a stenographer for my thoughts. Then I might consider it.

I wouldn't do it for any price in itself, but if, say, the old man was god and he offered me the ability to instantly travel to anywhere in the universe or see on a quantum level or travel through time or develop synesthesia or the ability to alter my dopamine level at will or anything else obscenely awesome, I'd likely take it.

$57 Billion Dollars. So I can be richer than Bill Gates. I know someone else has more, but I just want to be richer than Gates.
Ah, but what you don't know is that Gates has exactly $2 billion stuffed in his mattress (it is a big bed) waiting to pulled out at a moments notice in case of just this sort of situation.

I'd wear a Che Guevarra shirt and act like the kind of tool that would wear it for at least $10,000. I'd ask for $100 million, however, as this would be what would be necessary to happily do it. (Then again, wearing a Che Guevarra shirt for money is a reward in and of itself.)

Personally, I can't think of something I wouldn't do for enough money. But just because I can't think of it doesn't mean I wouldn't be revolted if I ever thought of it.

Money buys my happiness. ;)

Given that I haven't particularly thought much about what, exactly, I find most revolting, I would take him up on it immediately. The entire day would be filled with indecision about what exactly I find revolting, eventually winding up with me sticking my foot in a full porta-john just to at least make it seem like I tried to do something disgusting.

Well, if I were filming this story, it would go something like this...

After the old dude gave me the offer, which I refused, there would be a flash back to something horrible in my life, but just a quick flash, of my family being taken captive by some maniacs. Back to the old guy, who assured me that any amount of money was possible, and just think what I could do with it. More flashbacks of the maniacs threatening my family, then me thinking how much I hated them. Finally, I would take the old guy's offer, and he would pay me the money (probably billions) up front. In a more extended flashback, we would see my family being brutally sliced to pieces by the maniacs while I am forced to watch. Then the old guy asks what the most evil and vile thing I could ever do is. Cut to a close up of my face, my eyes looking all dead and evil, then a shot of old guy looking worried, then pan out to me holding a knife and then a shot of blood spraying everywhere.


Of course, in real life, I don't need money so badly that I would do the most evil thing I can imagine, so no, I would never take the offer.

Most horrific lifestyle? I can think of maybe two things:

1. Janjaweed
2. Neo-Nazi

The first one, I would not do if you put guns to the heads of my immediate family. The second, however, offers possibilities.

I'd do for maybe a billion pounds (pound>dollar) under the following conditions:
1. I do not have to actually kill anyone. If I am in a firefight where we are firing at cops or as the aggressors, I will miss. Badly.
2. After 24 hours, I am free to betray the neo-Nazis to the police.

I'd be willing to inflict non-fatal injuries, and even do drugs, if it meant a ton of money (which I could and would spend on rehab and other people's medical bills) and turning in the Neo-Nazis to the authorities.

Oh, one further condition: a guarantee that I will not be found out as a Jew until I choose to - ie, when the skinheads are being handcuffed and I am laughing my keister off.

As a final note, I double the price lest I use some of my existing money to implicate the old man in terrorist attacks against Israel, resulting in his death at the hands of the Mossad. Better than a hitman.

I don't even know what the most revolting lifestyle is to me... but I can think of some pretty bad things that I wouldn't do for any money in the world.

Inspired by the money or love thread, I though it's be interesting to see what would temp certain people. Imagine that you wake up one night to find an old man standing beside your bed. He offers to pay you as much money as you want in exchange for one thing. For the next twenty four hours, you have to live the lifestyle/act in the way you find most revolting.

Would you say yes? how much would you ask for, what’s the least amount you would do it for, what would you have to do? what would you do with the money?

I've had to sit through Evangelical church services before...

...I'd be a fundie for a day for about $25 million...I could be talked down to as low as ten million, but only if it's tax free.

I'll even help out Phelps with a funeral protest...

...and then the next day I'll be donating $100,000 to the Patriot Guard Riders to appease karma. :)

For the next twenty four hours, you have to live the lifestyle/act in the way you find most revolting.

I don't think anyone would really want that, since it's pretty clear where my standards are, given my post history.