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Hypothetically, how much money must someone owe you (w/ no intentions of ever paying you back) for you to consider doing the unthinkable?
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GeekyDad
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What do you mean by "the unthinkable"?
Also, PleaseBanHim/Her/They.
haxan7
Banned
Why does your type's response to everything always require some higher force to come in and impose external regulations on everything, including what questions people are even allowed to ask.
Derekloffin
Member
There is no such amount because at no point would 'doing the unthinkable' actually help me get said amount.
Too small an amount, where it is realistic I might get it, and I'm not going to be prompted to do anything particularly drastic. At most I'd go through legal channels to get it which I hardly consider 'unthinkable'.
Too large and no unthinkable act will get it for me, so said act is pointless.
And unfortunately for this question, those two ranges overlap for me so, yeah. Never.
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I'll even change the scenario a bit. Let's say someone offers me the money to do some unthinkable act (like murder someone).
While this one is more realistically going to get me to consider it, again it runs into an overlapping situation problem. Too small and I'll have no interest the request. Too large and I'd be thinking 'why me of all people? This is obviously a setup.' And that points kicks in a lot sooner than the temptation.
Too small an amount, where it is realistic I might get it, and I'm not going to be prompted to do anything particularly drastic. At most I'd go through legal channels to get it which I hardly consider 'unthinkable'.
Too large and no unthinkable act will get it for me, so said act is pointless.
And unfortunately for this question, those two ranges overlap for me so, yeah. Never.
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I'll even change the scenario a bit. Let's say someone offers me the money to do some unthinkable act (like murder someone).
While this one is more realistically going to get me to consider it, again it runs into an overlapping situation problem. Too small and I'll have no interest the request. Too large and I'd be thinking 'why me of all people? This is obviously a setup.' And that points kicks in a lot sooner than the temptation.
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NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
The rule of thumb I live by is "if you ever lend money, always assume it will be never paid back".
If they pay me back that's cool and I'm glad. But I make sure I won't miss it
If they pay me back that's cool and I'm glad. But I make sure I won't miss it
West Texas CEO
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Lending out money? lol
If anyone asks me for anything over $2.00, I'm like, "Sorry, bruh, I ain't got it!"
What the fuck do I look like? Bank of America?
If anyone asks me for anything over $2.00, I'm like, "Sorry, bruh, I ain't got it!"
What the fuck do I look like? Bank of America?
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Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
I sometimes lend(people don't need to return, but I prefer owed favors over money as returns), but mostly gift, which is why I must hack the system to gain infinite money cheat. Of course you need more than dollars, as printing dollars only creates Zimbabwe, you need to go at the root of money, power, hack into infinite power, hack the mind of God, reality itself.
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haxan7
Banned
And that was the exact moment I realized I've been watching too much anime.
PleaseDontBanMe
Banned
Why are u guys assuming the unthinkable is murder?
I meant kiss and hug them
I meant kiss and hug them
Bullet Club
Banned
Having sex with their mother?
NinjaBoiX
Member
This is pretty sensible advice right here.
I rarely loan actual money, but I’ll often buy an extra ticket or two on top of how many I’m for a gig or similar, just in case any of my friends missed out. I don’t expect any money for it, but if they offer then that’s cool.
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
No but for realsy, it is theoretically possible in the real world just very very difficult to do. Us transhumanists going to do it via triggering an intelligence explosion, in a sense the inverse of a nuclear explosion -but a universe scale nuclear explosion-, and destroy your world through an event called the singularity creating a perfect world.
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haxan7
Banned
I thought my sex and pooping related derails were something. This is a whole other level.
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FunkMiller
Member
I’d kill all of you for like…. 20k, so one dude is probably about 2k.
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fran.fernandez
Member
Idk..if I lend money it won’t be a big sum to do the unthinkable (0.1 ％ of savings max ). But even if is all my savings I will just start again lol.
if I have to do something that hurts (I won’t ) hypothetically it would be something like crack his/her knee bone with a hammer or cut Achilles’ tendon With scissors… but I will be in jail… so I will add take one eye out with a spoon.
story time.
long time ago one of my ex gf mother call me and ask for money, she said she will pay back in time but please don’t tell her daughter.
I don’t like it but it was my ex gf mother. I lend the money, she gave me a check with the date to check out, the day came and I went to the bank… no money on her account.
I call her, I said "give ma moneyyy", really, give my money today as we spoke or I will tell your daughter and never help you again or enter your house. She did pay me back, but my ex was kinda sad because she had to lend money to her mother again ( well my money lol).
if I have to do something that hurts (I won’t ) hypothetically it would be something like crack his/her knee bone with a hammer or cut Achilles’ tendon With scissors… but I will be in jail… so I will add take one eye out with a spoon.
story time.
long time ago one of my ex gf mother call me and ask for money, she said she will pay back in time but please don’t tell her daughter.
I don’t like it but it was my ex gf mother. I lend the money, she gave me a check with the date to check out, the day came and I went to the bank… no money on her account.
I call her, I said "give ma moneyyy", really, give my money today as we spoke or I will tell your daughter and never help you again or enter your house. She did pay me back, but my ex was kinda sad because she had to lend money to her mother again ( well my money lol).
Gonpachiro Kamaboko
Member
I went on a road trip with a bunch of friends to Colorado and my buddy (who has really bad credit) wanted to get a camper for his truck. So he needed a co-signer and I figured it’d be alright since he makes really good money he’s just terrible at saving. Fast forward a few months, I owe 1100 on the camper and he is duckin my calls. I tell my other friend that he lives with that if I don’t get my money I’m going to destroy the camper (my property) and then we’ll be even.
Dick move, but it worked
So I guess like a grand would cause me to break the law hahaha
Dick move, but it worked
So I guess like a grand would cause me to break the law hahaha
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Usually if someone needs money, I just give it to them with no expectation of getting paid back. This would only be for a very select few. Otherwise, I don't loan out money.
Jasper_Rose_808
Neo Member
I don't think that doing the "unthinkable"(btw what do you mean by the "unthinkable", killing them, burning their house, breaking their legs and then spreading my sweaty ball sack on their face like it's strawberry jam on a loaf of bread?) is the right thing to do ever because you know, jail.
Sooooo nope, I would never do that, I would simply try to resolve thing in a legal way (luckily enough, I have an aunt that is a lawyer).
Sooooo nope, I would never do that, I would simply try to resolve thing in a legal way (luckily enough, I have an aunt that is a lawyer).
niveaformen
Banned
I imagine killing someone might only apply to the super wealthy or crazy/gang related.
But, to what extent would I go to get my money back if the sum was large enough? I like the idea of kidnapping the person and maybe tickling them like in that ninja turtles episode.
But, to what extent would I go to get my money back if the sum was large enough? I like the idea of kidnapping the person and maybe tickling them like in that ninja turtles episode.
jufonuk
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This is weird viral marketing. You tickle them so much they sweat you redden their skin they after offer your products for use ?!?
MaestroMike
Gold Member
20 bones I break the hand you jerk off with OP don't u ever Fukk me now let's party !!
niveaformen
Banned
you got me. Now that I have your attention, have you tried our new range of aluminum/aluminium free deodorants?
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
jufonuk
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Give me some samples.
synchronicity
Member
Yes, you have to consider it charity. Having said that, I'm always amazed at the lack of honor in some people. No repayment, no acknowledgment of the help, no "I'm sorry things are tough for me, but I haven't forgotten about my debt." Nothing. Life can be - and sooner or later is - tough on all of us, and if someone gives you help, at the very least you ought to embody some gratitude imho.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
Always gift, never lend. Problem solved. If someone asks a lot of money of me (like four digits) I simply say I don't have it*.
*family is different, obv
*family is different, obv
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Nobody_Important
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PleaseDontBanMe
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because we live in a very homophobic society unfortunately
Flash Junkins
Member
The beta, ladies and gentlemen. Get your 100 quick.
GeekyDad
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Exactly this. Don’t give people money and expect it to be paid back, unless you’re a bank. So to answer the OP: someone would have to like steal my entire retirement fund or the deed to my house before it would get to the point I would want to do anything about it, and even then it would all be within the law because I have too much to lose to waste my time seeking violent revenge or anything like that. If I got wiped out financially tomorrow, I still have decades of making good money to recover. If I decide to do something that puts me in jail for decades, it seems like I’d be better off hammering nails into my dick
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Relativ9
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We (me and wife) have a very fortunate combination of a low-maintence lifestyle and tastes and a decent income. I can't imagine I could ever lend anyone enough money to need it back so desperately that it would be worth it for me to risk my entire life rather than just make the money back.
QuantumZebra
Member
Yeah, if this was the wild west and I lost anything over $10k... I'm coming for ya.