The million pound limit.
Nov. 12th, 2010 11:10 am"Come off it, David. You're hardly picky. Get you drunk and you'd cop off with Gordon Brown."
"I most certainly would not."
"Not even very drunk?"
"No!"
"Well... I bet you'd do it for a million quid."
"Yeah, no problem."
There's something about the figure of a million quid which does something inside people's brains and makes them turn off their discriminatory faculties. When I was a member of the debating society at school we once had a debate on whether or not prostitution should be legalised, and I got the chair of the 'No' team to concede that "for a million quid [she]'d do it if he had three heads". Mention a million quid, and suddenly all kinds of principled objections (or just plain good sense) go out of the window.
The converstaion above quickly turned into an exploration of what I would do for a million quid, and it rapidly became clear just how mercenary I am compared to some other people.
But still...it's Friday and, as usual, you aren't doing any work. So...
What would you do for a million quid which you wouldn't ordinarily do?
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"I most certainly would not."
"Not even very drunk?"
"No!"
"Well... I bet you'd do it for a million quid."
"Yeah, no problem."
There's something about the figure of a million quid which does something inside people's brains and makes them turn off their discriminatory faculties. When I was a member of the debating society at school we once had a debate on whether or not prostitution should be legalised, and I got the chair of the 'No' team to concede that "for a million quid [she]'d do it if he had three heads". Mention a million quid, and suddenly all kinds of principled objections (or just plain good sense) go out of the window.
The converstaion above quickly turned into an exploration of what I would do for a million quid, and it rapidly became clear just how mercenary I am compared to some other people.
But still...it's Friday and, as usual, you aren't doing any work. So...
What would you do for a million quid which you wouldn't ordinarily do?
[Poll #1643607]