Social Science Hypotheticals

[nicky]

Would you eat a live slug slithering across a table at a bbq for a million bucks?

 

[nicky]

My answer to this is HELL NO and i will post why after a few answers.

 

[CheapCharlie]

A Sydney-based man who ate two garden slugs as a dare during a party narrowly escaped death from a rare form of meningitis, an often fatal swelling around the brain.

The case involving the consumption of leopard slugs Limax maximus was reported in this week’s issue of the Medical Journal of Australia by a team including neurologist Dr Don Pryor of St George Hospital and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

The case is the first record of a human acquiring the disease from slugs in Sydney, although other mammals in the area have been known to become infected.

As well as developing meningitis - inflammation of the membrane that surrounds the spine and the brain – the man developed encephalitis – swelling of the brain and spinal cord.

“He nearly died - his consciousness was impaired and he was very ill indeed in hospital. He had extremely high pressure inside his head,” Pryor told ABC Science Online.

“It took him many months until he felt better again … I don’t think he’ll ever feel the same again after such an experience but he was able to complete his university studies and get back into the same level of sporting activities as he was into before.”

While the Sydney man survived, others have not been so lucky. In an earlier case, a young child in subtropical Brisbane died, believed to have eaten slugs crawling on milk bottles which had been left at the front door. Another man had acquired the disease during a holiday in Fiji.

The most infamous form of meningitis is caused by meningococcal bacteria, however, the condition can also be caused by viruses, reaction to drugs, autoimmune disease, or - more rarely - by fungus or parasites.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_969551.htm

 

[nicky]

Another Sydney man died 9 years after eating a garden slug as a dare.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html


Anyway there goes that hypothetical. Charlie you think of another one.

 

[CheapCharlie]

Hypothetical
Would you eat a Dog turd for $1 million?

 

[nicky]

Hypothetical
Would you eat a Dog turd for $1 million?

No. Too much dangerous bacteria. Pretty sure the reason the slug killed that guy eas because of a bacteria usually found in rats.

Speaking of, have you heard of toxoplasma, parasites that can only breed in the stomachs of cats. If they get into a mouse they travel up to its brain and rewire its fear of cats to sexual arousal towards cats. So the mouse gets eaten by the cat and bam ! Taxoplasma ends up where it wants to be, in the stomach of a cat.

Would you walk into you 7/11 naked, fill up a large slurpee and casually pay and leave like all is normal... for 100k?

 

[Deliverance]

No to the slug. Yes to the dog turd. No idea what id do with the money though.
What would you do with a million dollars?

 

[nicky]

I would buy a property outright and rent it out.

Would ypu walk into 7 11 naked for 100k

 

[CheapCharlie]

No. Too much dangerous bacteria. Pretty sure the reason the slug killed that guy eas because of a bacteria usually found in rats.

Speaking of, have you heard of toxoplasma, parasites that can only breed in the stomachs of cats. If they get into a mouse they travel up to its brain and rewire its fear of cats to sexual arousal towards cats. So the mouse gets eaten by the cat and bam ! Taxoplasma ends up where it wants to be, in the stomach of a cat.

Would you walk into you 7/11 naked, fill up a large slurpee and casually pay and leave like all is normal... for 100k?

Yes
As long as I dont have to drink the slurpee

 

[Shell]

Another Sydney man died 9 years after eating a garden slug as a dare.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html


Anyway there goes that hypothetical. Charlie you think of another one.

Stick to food and/or drink pls nicky.

Dont risk it.

 

[Shell]

What would you do with a million dollars?

Right now- seeing as ive just bought my own apartment would:

- pay off apartment
- give (a little) to family, friends and charity.
- stick maybe 500k in a long term deposit for retirement
- buy a shiny new car (nothing too expensive maybe $50k)
- install a spa in my living room Coming to America Style
(if i had the room would put in a pool)

Thats about it really. Wouldnt travel screw that.

 

[Shell]

I would buy a property outright and rent it out.

Would ypu walk into 7 11 naked for 100k

At 3am- yes.

At 3pm- maybe - no

 

[Demosthenes]

Geoffrey Robertson is turning in his hypothetical grave.

 

[nicky]

At 3am- yes.

At 3pm- maybe - no

Cctv will record it all shell, doesnt matyer what time of the day you go.

 

[Shell]

Cctv will record it all shell, doesnt matyer what time of the day you go.

Eh fine then yes.

How long do i have to stay in the 7-11 for?

 

[nicky]

Eh fine then yes.

How long do i have to stay in the 7-11 for?

10 minutes and you have to engage in small talk as if all is normal.

 

[Shell]

10 minutes and you have to engage in small talk as if all is normal.

Then its a yes

 

[Shell]

And the first thing id do is explain re the 100k

 

[M Malice]

When we had our pub in the early 90s this kind of stuff went on all the time with the local shearers, roo shooters and rig workers. They'd get paralytic and eat anything, some of the ones I can remember are- roadkill crow, cockroach's, grubs and the grossest one was a bloke ate a fully formed chip out of someones vomit. Not for a million dollars though, usually just another drink.

Not to do with eating but a good mate I made out there one day rode into the bar on his horse and on another occasion come in with a cut off roo tail sticking out of his pants, had the bar in hysterics.

 

[nicky]

And the first thing id do is explain re the 100k

I was thinking small talk about the cricket and the price of petrol.

 

[nicky]

When we had our pub in the early 90s this kind of stuff went on all the time with the local shearers, roo shooters and rig workers. They'd get paralytic and eat anything, some of the ones I can remember are- roadkill crow, cockroach's, grubs and the grossest one was a bloke ate a fully formed chip out of someones vomit. Not for a million dollars though, usually just another drink.

Not to do with eating but a good mate I made out there one day rode into the bar on his horse and on another occasion come in with a cut off roo tail sticking out of his pants, had the bar in hysterics.

Where was this pub?

You have just described some brilliant scenes for an Australian bogan bleak blockbuster.

 

[M Malice]

Mitchell a small town in western Queensland, half way between Roma and Charleville.

There was zero responsible service of alcohol going on back then.

 

[MWPP]

No I wouldn't eat a slug or streak into 7/11 for money
With a million dollars (assuming tax-free), I would pay off the rest of my mortgage (100k) , go on a big holiday (50k) , get a new car (50k) and use the rest to offer to help out family/close friends. If (as I suspect they would) many of them declined, I'd use the rest to buy another investment property .

 

[Shell]

I was thinking small talk about the cricket and the price of petrol.

So tonight?

I have a 7-11 within walking distance of me.

I may have to shave/tidy up first..

 

[Sparkle]

Would you walk into you 7/11 naked, fill up a large slurpee and casually pay and leave like all is normal... for 100k?

Probably yes, I can deal with losing my dignity in front of strangers for at most two minutes. I'd end chickening out though