For $10 Mil, would you? - Other Topics Forum - Discuss Pop Culture, Arts and Entertainment

Two Plus Two Forums 2+2 Communities Other Other Topics

For $10 Mil, would you?

View Poll Results: Would you give up your sense of taste for $10 Mil?

YES

143 62.45%

86 37.55%

Post Reply Subscribe

...

Page 1 of 6

1 2 3 4 5 6

Page 1 of 6

1 2 3 4 5 6

11-13-2008 , 04:50 AM

OneTimePlz!

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 387

In exchange for $10 million dollars in cash, taxes paid, would you:

Give you your sense of taste for the rest of your life

You'd obviously still need to eat and drink, but you would never again taste any foods or beverages.

Part of the joy of being filthy rich would be eating awesome food all the time, but think of how depressing it would be to never be able to get joy from food again.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 04:52 AM

General Tsao

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 30,575

Yeah...

Def. I'd prob lose a lot of weight too. Or get insanely fat as I kept trying to eat things and see if I could taste them.

Sight/Hearing I doubt it, though.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 04:57 AM

Ed P. Furlong, Esq

banned

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,660

So some dickhead could literally serve me a sandwich filled with poop and I'd never know? No thanks.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 04:58 AM

popeye18

banned

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 6,801

I can honestly say i would not give up any of my senses for any amount of money.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 04:58 AM

PrimogenitoX

banned

Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,859

No way clown

Quote

11-13-2008 , 04:59 AM

2incher

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,751

yesh

Quote

11-13-2008 , 05:11 AM

sards

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,554

I think I would. I love food; it's one of my favorite things in life. But for $10 million I think I could learn to do without taste. In fact I think I wouldn't miss it much after the first few weeks. I have a friend who lost his sense of taste after a head injury and he says he doesn't really miss it.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 05:12 AM

General Tsao

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 30,575

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed P. Furlong, Esq

So some dickhead could literally serve me a sandwich filled with poop and I'd never know? No thanks.

Well..you don't lose your sense of sight or smell...Or reasoning abilities

Quote

11-13-2008 , 05:21 AM

Ed P. Furlong, Esq

banned

Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,660

I guess I was assuming that not being able to smell the food was implicit.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 05:31 AM

#10

garcia1000

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 7,853

Well smelling is half the taste of food so like wat

Quote

11-13-2008 , 05:32 AM

#11

AApjAA

grinder

Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 657

Nah

Quote

11-13-2008 , 05:32 AM

#12

orange

Guest

Posts: n/a

**** no

Quote

11-13-2008 , 05:49 AM

#13

Nichlemn

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 9,480

A lot of this depends on your expected life earnings. Most of us here (some probably erroneously) probably expect (or currently do) to have a sufficiently high income that $10 million won't mean as much to us as it would to a struggling working class mother of four, or a starving African family. If this was framed somewhat differently (like "$10 million and no sense of taste OR sense of taste and you have to live of a minimum wage job for the rest of your life") it gives a better indication of preferences.

Last edited by Nichlemn; 11-13-2008 at 06:13 AM.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 06:00 AM

#14

dtemp

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,554

Hell yes. 10 million means I fulfill my dream of retiring tomorrow. While I do enjoy cooking, I enjoy doing nothing even more. Agree with Taso, its the easiest diet in the world.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 06:09 AM

#15

Henry17

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 27,710

No. I am not a food person but I still prefer to be able to taste stuff.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 06:20 AM

#16

Suicigobo

adept

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 847

Tempting, but no thanks. If i just check my daily life i would be giving up quite some pleasure moments and I'm not sure 10 million could compensate for a lifetime of giving up those moments.

Suici

Quote

11-13-2008 , 06:27 AM

#17

swingdoc

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 3,531

Don't forget this could make you the greatest cunilinguist of all time.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 06:37 AM

#18

yeotaJMU

Shines ELIte's Shoes

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 22,410

Quote:

Originally Posted by swingdoc

Don't forget this could make you the greatest cunilinguist of all time.

you can still smell dude

Quote

11-13-2008 , 06:38 AM

#19

yeotaJMU

Shines ELIte's Shoes

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 22,410

id do it for a more infinite amount of money- like 10 billion.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 06:39 AM

#20

Chilltown

SuperMegaElitePoster

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 40,532

Quote:

Originally Posted by dtemp

Hell yes. 10 million means I fulfill my dream of retiring tomorrow. While I do enjoy cooking, I enjoy doing nothing even more. Agree with Taso, its the easiest diet in the world.

QFeverything I wanted to say.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 06:51 AM

#21

K.O.S.

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 20,798

I would definitely give up my sense of taste for $2-3 million, maybe less.

Quote

11-13-2008 , 07:01 AM

#22

LetMeLive

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 25,131

Quote:

Originally Posted by popeye18

I can honestly say i would not give up any of my senses for any amount of money.

having lived with a disabled relative i have to agree

Quote

11-13-2008 , 07:02 AM

#23

General Tsao

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 30,575

I just thought of Chocolate Mousse cake and I'm almost reconsidering!

Quote:

Originally Posted by LetMeLive

having lived with a disabled relative i have to agree

What's the disability?

Quote

11-13-2008 , 07:02 AM

#24

Hurley

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,530

Taste is overrated, prob the most useless sense. Remember everything is covered in salt, sugar and all kind of crappy chemicals to make stuff taste better, probably could be a lot healthier if you were eating just the raw food without the crap on it.