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Cracked me up so hard i got in trouble in class for laughing to loud and was getting a number of looks. This is so funny but so smart at the same time!
I see a lot people laughing about, that this is their life, it's a vacation, etc. Look at what is given: a bed, a toilet, food, and water. THAT"S IT. No books. No computer. No CONTACT with humanity WHATSOEVER. I know ALOT of people don't like interacting with a live human. I get it. But even when we're "alone" we're still "doing things" that more often or not required (at some point) another human. Even an artist who creates most probably also 'consumes' other art. I think the challenge is do-able, but I think it would a LOT harder than it sounds.
It’s just one month. Seriously. Most people here are acting as if you are exiled for life. For $5 million? Easy. You can think about all sort of things. Think of the books you read. Count the bricks in the wall. Give yourself mental challenges. When you get bored you think: huh, I’ll be set for life after this.
Load More Replies...No matter how "Introverted" you are, no human contact for a month would drive you insane. Your mind would literally not be able to handle it and you would go crazy. Why do you think that prisons have isolation chambers?
Not true. People are in solitary confinement for months and years on end and do ok. The longest was 43 years. Prisoners of war often endured far worse in far worse conditions and survived ok. I keep thinking that those that say they can’t do it are seriously deficient in imagination. There are lots of things you can do to keep you occupied: carve into the walls. Take the bed apart. Tear the sheets apart and knit them back. Draw with your food. Figure out how the toilet flush mechanism works. It’s. Not. That. Hard.
Load More Replies...I am an introvert and frequently spend long periods of time alone, but I don't know how possible this really is. Vsauce as well as many others have done experiments like this and it was so boring and there was no brain stimulation and they nearly went crazy. Vsauce described himself as an extrovert so he may not have lasted as long as some others, but he was only in there a few days and he got completely disoriented and didn't know what time it was. A month is a long time.
Yeah, because no human interaction is one thing, but nothing to do is something else entirely. I can stay on my own for a week fine if I have some books to read and some cleaning to do. But try just laying in bed for more than a few hours straight in the silence and you'll see how hard it is.
Load More Replies...I'd just sleep most of the time, or talk to myself, I already do it most of the time
Nowhere in the rules does it say I cant have a mental breakdown. 5mil can pay for my therapy if I go insane ;)
Jesus, of course. No problem at all. I’d just talk to myself, like usual 😅
I'm pretty much self-sufficient. I'd sleep through most of it and the rest of the time would be spent with daydreaming. I've been thinking about this a lot, reading about the experience of people in solitary confinement. Iknow i's a method of torture, but I still don't get how it is this disturbing for people.
There is a short story regarding this experiment, I read it in class this year, I don't remember the name but I highly recommend it, but instead of a month, he's in there for I think... 5 years? I don't exactly remember, but it was an interesting story.
Oh I remember what it was called, it's "The Bet", by Anton Chekhov.
Load More Replies...Psh... a whole month? Please. If I do it for a year, do I get $60,000,000?
I could do it. Being an extrovert, it would be EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, but possible. I may go insane, but then I could sing in peace
I went through TWO YEARS of this during the pandemic. Where's my money?!?!?!?
Yep, sounds like my everyday life. I think I would need a notebook to write down all my witty comebacks to things I see/hear.
My bank details are . . . . . . Now, i have a truck full of books . . .yes, truck, not trunk . . . . just open the door and stand back . . . .
Heavenly! I just talk to myself because I am very good company.
I wouldn't do it unless I could bring books or I could bring my Kindle loaded up with books. And maybe some color pencils and a drawing pad.
Sounds like you're in jail doing a month in solitary confinement. Easy.
it's not the no people that would get you, it's the no anything else. No books, magazines, video games, etc.
I 'ld say: yes, 2 months for 15 000 000 is fine, thank you. My strategy? Act as usual.
I’ve been doing this for more than a month because of corona now, so can I have my money please? I can do it for as long as I need to
I literally couldn't do it... Maybe the no human contact would be doable. It no books, tv or internet? Impossible!!!
I could live without contracting people for a bit. But I couldn't live without a pet.
No books allowed!! You only have those things that are listed.
Load More Replies...Vsauce did that experiment for a week, go watch it on youtube, he nearly lost his mind. What none of you realize is that on that short list there is nothing to entertain you, no internet, no books, no games, no crafting materials, not even a pile of sand to build a small sand castle or to at least count the grains. In short nobody could do that challenge and live.
Do I get 10 million for 2 months ? PS : I do need air and preferably a window. Pencil, paper and a few books, or tablet.
I already try to do it on the daily basis, with that amount of money I would have no mental breakdown.
Wait basically you're asking me to go to solitary confinement in prison? Ok
If it's allowed to bring something like books or knitting or whatever along :P Or are you just supposed to sit there 24/7 doing nothing but stare at the wall?
Or just sleep most of the time :P eat, exercise and sleep
Load More Replies...If I got paid to sleep for a month I would be totally down....maybe would need like some paint by numbers (the really difficult ones) or that gem painting thingy
I could do that easily. But I'd have to have my dog and access to the internet. I could easily live without people.
This would be great, I already struggle to get enough sleep, I would sleep and work out and I'd come out of that room refreshed and ripped!!
no games would be a challenge but then again I do get a little less sleep that I would want on everyday bais soo challenge accepted and I guess I would sleep for 16 hours, now I only have to figure out what to do with the other 8 hours. Times 30.
This "social experiment" is routinely conducated by totalitarian states on political prisoners. It does not typically end well for them, even without any physical torture.
I agree, but it can be different if you do it voluntarily and you have lights, heating, proper food, proper bed, running water, etc. Not being threatened by insecurity, abuse and the possibility of being taken to somewhere anytime also makes a difference. Knowing your future and knowing your family is all right, also differs from what a political prisoner faced with. There is also a question regarding your right to interrupt the experiment if needed. My grandpa spent 1,5 years in a Soviet jail as a political prisoner and suffered a trauma he never even wanted to talk about.
Load More Replies...Nothing could be more true then this. Just do it if you are alone and want friends, true friends.
From a man to ladies: you might think the hints you give are very obvious, but they are not! And if you like a man, make the first step yourself. Don't get upset if a man doesn't get your "obvious" hints.
I once asked someone (A non-drinker), what would you possibly do, if you are way to much drunk, Response: I won't remember a thing I guess. Friends for life.
I feel like I'm in a foreign culture where everybody knows the customs, the language and how to interact but me, and I'm just here terrified I'm going to try to say something nice but end up calling someone's mother a whore.
Zimbabwean Dollars. 10 billion is surely going to require more than a briefcase in most other dollar currencies!
I do this with my daughter. I have successfully stopped 'dabbing' and 'flossing' in my house. I hope to progress to stopping her wearing inappropriate clothing when she is a teenager using the same techniques.
My favourite is (translated by me to English so sorry that it might sound like it): A man walks into the surgical ward in a hospital saying: "Hello, I think I'm a moth." A nurse replies: "I'm sorry, this is the surgical ward, psychiatry is on the third floor." "I know but you had the lights on."
Hahahaa.. omg.. that would definitely fck someone's head if you just started living with them.
My sister's cat suddenly seemed to get fatter overnight. We thought it was doing the above until one day we found it fighting with another cat - which looked exactly like it, but thinner. Things went 'click' and we realized we had been feeding an impostor who kept chasing my sister's actual cat off when he tried to come home. Smartest thing I've ever seen an animal do.
The one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eaters....does anyone remember those being everywhere??? Nope...see
my primary school decided to take away the rubbish bins because they thought it would mean we would take our rubbish home but it just made us litter more
Restaurant staff that spit in your food....very rare, people think it's common
Not telling people what you really think of them for the sake of being "polite". I wouldn't need to be so scared of being that annoying person everyone secretly hates but just puts up with if I knew people would just tell me if I was bothering them. Would save both our times and make for an actually pleasant interaction.
Having a product that has quantity like food, drinks or cosmetics, have a big, medium and small sizes, and making the difference in price between the big and the medium considerably smaller than between medium and small so that people will always buy the big, even when they definitely don't really need or want that much, since it's a "much better deal".
My sister Brooke did this with chocolate chip cookies. She was babysitting for my other sister Shelly who lived above the business they owned. All ingredients were bought in bulk, & were not labeled. Brooke never baked again without tasting both the sugar & the salt.
I had my baby 5minute after my water broke. I was in hospital. Unfortunately I was locked in the bathroom at the time. Long story short, I ended up delivering my own baby while about 10 midwives were trying to break the door down. They burst in, with one marine crawling across the floor, to find me holding my son and grinning like an idiot. I don't think I'm allowed to write what nickname my friends gave me after that!
well, if a person is killed by a landmine, how many organs there is left to donate?
"Being honest." "I don't think that's a weakness." "I don't give a f**k what you think." Classic joke.
If your hands swell after touching them they are probably toxic. Might want to avoid licking them.
i guess that isnt to crazy if you think of all the movies etc. and if fireworks count as explosives?
I wonder if 50 hawks could carry me aloft and safely away from the combat?
The Fox And The Hound. Plot/Message: Even though, as children, it is obvious that we are all basically the same, in maturity it's a bittersweet necessity to discriminate violently based on class and race. The order of things only to be disturbed in the event a lesser shows complete subservience and loyalty by risking their life to save their superior; only then should we suffer their existence.
It’s called hongi. It’s where you exchange the breathe of life. By engaging in this you become one with those around you. When done by those who know about it, it’s a bit more solemn and meaningful than other greetings.
My friend has asymptomatic strokes. Previously had a stroke, got a blinding headache? Go to hospital just in case
Hetalians (Hetalia is a show about countries) are told that women were not allowed to watch the Olympics in Greece because they were originally all naked when doing it.
Did he/she know it was a vibrator at the time and what his mum used it for? If so then there is a LOT going on here...
The secret is actually sleeping enough. It's easier to concentrate and learn, and you have energy to work out, which makes your brain work even better. It's also easier to just get things done instead of procasinating out of tiredness. Thus leaving you excess time for having fun and meeting friends.
"Good job Guys! This looks almost real, like I'm actually on the frikkin moon!"
My school is a private school and we where blazers and i was in grade 12 and i was walking outside and i realise i didnt have my blazer i walk inside grab my dressing gown walk a couple of meters into the school and absolutly die of embarrasment!
"Why don't you have a boyfriend, are you a lesbian or something?" My uncle at a family party because I was still single in my late teens/early 20's
in my experience, at my birthday party, took all my toys out of the wardrobe after I kept telling them not to, even stole some of them when I was sulking in the living room on my own
Splitting matches in two ( no lighters in British prisons in the past)
I once could cancel a lookup of a technican. I could not watch TV and thought it is the cable provider. Turned out my TV had deleted all stations by itself...
Here is a bucket of cleaner. I'm going to leave you at this warehouse in the middle of nowhere to clean all of these appliances and cars. I don't have gloves so your hand may itch or sting a little from the cleaner. Oh and non of the facets or toilets work. See you in 4 hours.
WOULDNT IT BE THEY ARE COVERED IN BLOOD OMG WHY DID I JUST SAY AND TYPE
well, you would still have the same level of procrastination as before
First one that made me actually laugh out loud. Maybe that says something about my level of maturity.
Yes if it were chickens. They are angry, tiny, stupid dinosaurs that have no trouble on eating their own.
When I was about 6-7 my Dad was a commander of a battalion in the US Army. One night I overheard my parents talking. My Dad told my mother about a couple of young men that he caught with drugs in their living area. He said to her "What do they think I am stupid? I will always know if someone is hiding something that they should not have." It always stayed with me while growing up. Hence I was a really well behaved kid.
I used to believe that social liberalism and economic conservatism could co-exist (a la, Tony Blair's "Third Way", or Bill Clinton's economy), then I started working for the courts and realized that people only have the civil rights/liberties they can afford to pay a lawyer to defend. You want racial/gender/religious equality? Then you have to have government (any disinterested economic actor would do, but let's be serious, the only economic actor that is ever disinterested is government) enforcing anti-monopoly, anti-fraud, progressive taxation and public welfare laws.
"it shines brighter during the day 'cause it's awake and it's dimmer during the night because is like in SleepMode"
My husband is the proud owner of 40,000 "I love my crazy wife," bumper stickers. I already wondered why they came in two packs...
Mash your avocado and mix it with mayo, that way it doesn't slip n slide off your sammich, and you get the yumminess of avocado with every bite.
That a a restaurant, random people will sit at your table and make conversation. Also most places left a pitcher of water there for you.
Star Trek is more peaceful and survivable for normal people, but Mad Max is COOLER...
"When a cop asks you for license and registration, there's no law that says you have to give it to them..."
i can put on as many clothes as i want to get warm, but i can only talk off so much clothing in hot weather before i'm arrested for public nudity
Fill a swimming pool, push Donald Trump into it and video the result.
Funny but not technically correct. You'd become a vacuum cleaner cleaner.
The bride and groom went home with their respective parents and not together
OH MY GOSH...... MY CHILDHOOD.... WHAT IS THIS..... congrats, you just ruined my day
In Portugal it isn't illegal to use drugs - ANY KIND of drugs - or pirating software, music and movies for personal use.
Not true in all butter cases. Just the ones where the company has a lot of brands. Everything is like that. Makeup, shampoo, etc
Had to go to a gay bar to fix their glass washer and on the bottom of the work order it said "all repairmen must enter the rear." I laughed and questioned the owner and he smiled and said he could care less if we followed this rule. He just liked the sound of it. Great guy!
Negotiate yourself to King of the world. This guy knows what he is talking about.
Whoever gets the filing in first gets the patent. See Alexander Graham Bell.
I didn't say no but I did ask if he was serious since we'd only been dating three weeks. We've been married 15 years :)
Did it hurt when you clawed your way up from the fiery depths of Hell to ruin my life?
6th grade math teacher, first day of school, had a "special assembly" in his classroom to yell at all of us. I don't remember why, we hadn't done anything, it was the first day of school. I told my dad what happened and he said it sounded like the teacher just wanted to show who was boss. the guy was insane, he also yelled at us when we were too upset the day after a kid got killed in a horrible traffic accident.
Liam Neeson, now my date has to change his undies and hide under the dvuet for the rest of his life. Socially inept me no longer has to go on a date
Or having a very loud conversation when I'm seriously trying to watch something.
I think you're right. Just like the kids are terrified to pick up the damn phone and make a call.
syrups that go into your coffee are just high fructose corn syrup. there are no "secret recipes," no one has time for that or gives a s**t. the whipped cream also has high fructose corn syrup and it's made from heavy whipping cream. none of the fraps don't have coffee in them unless they have "coffee" or "espresso" in the name, you're just getting syrup and add-ins. The "fruit smoothies" are a very small amount of frozen fruit in sugar syrup, syrup, and milk. The largest part of any drink is milk.
But think of this, if you work mon thru thurs on 10 hr shifts, you could also work on Friday and get over time.
I so want to see the owner! He must've been confused as F**K! "wh... what's happening...? h-h-help?"
" I remember you said, sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead "
whenever i like someone i'm either really awkward or really ferocious acting
So.. a photo of her pussy? Ok, ok, but someone was going to make this joke. It's inevitable. I'm just obeying destiny's laws.
that is called stalking and she should have called the cops on him.
I live in the Netherlands and also eat crickets. What's so weird about it?
already exists. For keeping infant males from pissing on your face, mid-diaper change. Pro-Tip; They hella don't work
I'm a strict parent so this is a crazy terrible thing to have happened bc I watch my kids like crazy but I'm one week my kids broke my moms brew dish washer and laptop. We have no idea how bc there was 3 people in the house at the same time watching them
if I could choose useless charities that are stupid, cos there are some really stupid charities
I'm 28 and I still don't watch the fox and the hound, or the iron giant. They aren't even allowed in my house. My kids have never seen them. They can watch them when they go to college but I don't even want a phone call discussing it. They better call their dad.
Oh - on the plus side -- most prepack sandwiches and sushies are all made at the same commisary, so they're safe to eat even if the convenience store looks sketchy. It's the same sammich as the one at the nicer store, I mean.
As an European I'm amazed that something that dumb exist at all. Here, you would get at least minimal wage AND get tipped IF you were actually doin your job well. I cannot wrap my head around idea that anyone can be tipped for half-assing their job just because it's basically legal to cheat your customer about amount money they need to have to eat in your restaurant. I used to tip real small amount of money when I was poor, but that was always a thank-you to the waiter. Making it a duty cheaps it, like if it was a duty to give a gold medal to everyone for just being alive.
I remember working Night shift at a hotel. 48 hour work weeks. I would have happily worked 2x 24 shifts to get the rest of the week off. Now my work week is 37.5 hours. I'd be happy working two 19 hour days and getting it over with. Would have a lot more time to do stuff I enjoy.
Much less awkward I could think, without having to figure out small talk.
congrats red eyed traveler you have made the list . . . Imma go get some popcorn rn
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