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Just watched In Time, where he gambles his life several times.

How much money would it take for you to gamble your life? And what odds u die?

Examples-

Coinflip, u get x amount if win- if lose you die. Evens to die
Dice roll- u get y amount if u dont roll a 6, u die if roll 6. 5-1 to die
Roulette Spin- u get z amount if u dont roll a 0, u die if roll 0. 36-1 to die

Id say for me, X wouldnt happen now, but if was broke and 50 then would consider. Y would have to be 100 million. Z would have to be 10m, but possibly less depending how was doing

I wouldn't do X

20m for Y

Probably do Z for 2m.

Tbf most of us if under it would do Z for a lot less thinking about it

Yeah would find it hard to turn down 1m if it was on the table in cash.

I reckon we could get a sponsor to make it happen for 100k. So any takers and il get the "ball rolling"

Similar amounts to Brent before I had my little boy last year, couldn't imagine doing any for anything now.

Everything has its price

What about 100-1 shot to die, and 10m? Tempted Chip? :)

Thought you had finally bit the bullet and decided to start a diary, sigh.

Does death mode make a difference ?

X 100 Mill (Over 40 yrs old)
Y 6 Mill
Z 600K

I wouldn't do X or Y, I'd do Z for 50million.

[14:59:18] David Shallow: would u roll a dice- 100m if dont roll 6, dead if do?
[14:59:34] James Dempsey: would i snap die?
[14:59:50] David Shallow: maybe not snap
[14:59:53] David Shallow: cos have to feel some pain
[15:00:00] James Dempsey: i probs wouldnt

This looks like the start of a very sinister staking thread

I'd perhaps take 500-1 for £1mil  :)

If i was single, potless and 55 would do X for 2 Million but not now

Y = 10-15 Million

Z = 5 Million

and as long as my current life insurance was in place would consider Y and Z even today

X £50!

winner :) Come on skype

I can't believe people would take a 5-1 shot on there life for such a "little" amount of money, 6million is little imo for that high a risk of dying, by the time you shared it with family etc you'd do well to have a good standard of living for the rest of your life without needing to work. At first I thought I wouldn't do any but for 50million I'll take the risk on the roulette and if I lost it'd be a pretty com runbad story, for others too tell. I'd be tempted to do the roulette for less but there's no way I'd do X or Y for any amount.

obviously theres a price for everyone tho but for me it would need to be 10,000-1 to win £1m

anyone that wouldnt risk 100-1 shot for 10m isnt a gambler imo

Would rather not die tbh, maybe the 10,000 - 1 shot but I'm happy not risking my life.

yeah but with less than 1% chance of dying it isnt really a risk. Just a smart investment

Ok what price to lose an arm or leg then??

Obv in Dubai's case one arm means he "can still click buttons!"  ;)

Think I'd rather lose a leg than an arm but would want a lot of cash for it.  I'd be happier to risk the limb for a few mill with the 50-1 or something.

Lol can you imagine the feeling of the dice being rolled and you there waiting to die if it goes wrong..

Wouldn't do the first 2 , would prob do the last one for little enough money if it was laid out in front of me

Your balling out of control Mr Norton if you cant live happily on a bag a day!

Either your all talking BS if it actually came to it, or your just on a different planet, I would snap decline gambling my life at 100,000-1 for £100m.

Triggs old school

[16:29:02] David Shallow: would u flip a coin for 100m? win u get money, lose u die?
[16:29:34] Keep My door: yes

This is pretty silly- you probably have done several things with a higher chance of dying with no financial reward. Im all for valuing life but ive never seen a 100,000-1 chance win in sport and probably never will. Its the equivalent of Vatican City winning the World Cup with the Pope scoring the winner

This thread is brilliant, top stuff, especially this ^^.

A bag a day ?

I'd give at least 1/2 to family, that leaves 3million, without inc cars, houses, earlier excessive partying, spending 1k a day I'd be busto in 8 years.

meh, living is overated. I find it hard to believe that some people think their life is actually worth such vast amounts of money. You would have to grind out life say at 40k a year for 50 years to get 2 million or take a 6-1 shot there and then. Yes please! and a 36-1 shot, pfffffffft, free money! Surely we have all done stuff as kids/young adults that has nearly got us dead at no financial gain to ourselves. I jumped out of a second floor window on to a tree, got catapulted through a water gate in a weir, let alone all the 5050 shots i took where the chick could be riddled with aids. Probs other stuff that doesn't spring to mind. Everytime we have a heavy night and drive in the morning etc.

That said i am a massive degen anyways. 36-1 and 6-1 are just far too big and lol at sharing any with my family. They can risk their own lives.

If someone had a gun to your head and 6 million on the table I don't believe you'd roll, if you did you aren't a gambler, just fukn mental.

I don't value my life anywhere near the figure, I just don't value money very much.

Monda, i swear down, i would roll twice!

Gotta be a tv show in the making.

Can start off with small budget, get loads of winos in for 10k a man- 37 of them round a roulette wheel. Make it pay-per-view, easily cover the 360k payouts. 37 walk in, 36 walk out

How many of the David Milligans winos come back next week for another 10 bags and another spin do you reckon?

when ur 1-36 to live, u can afford to take a few shots for sure. Parlay the reddies into something worth while- i reckon third of them comeback next week

lololol

If the situation arose I couldn't say 100% for ceartain that I'd do it, but for 50million and for the odds of me losing I think I would.

I don't believe anyone with any kind of normal living circumstances would flip a coin.

Nearly all of them, they´d just be a fair bit drunker (on classier booze) than they had been the previous week.

China FTW.

Sounds just like bumfights.

If they made 100 people put their right leg in a guillotine, 1 loses it- 100k to rest, would you do it?

Ur 1.01 to win 100k- same as having 10m bet at 1-100.

3mil still sees you with a sensible return of around 180k a year though without touching the capital?

To be fair sounds like your a lot more generous than me also, I still had £5,999,500 after I had looked after my friends and familiy.

Would obviously feel bad for the guy that lost his leg but otherwise sounds fine to me, I´m in :-).

It's a very different gamble when you know 100% that one of them's going to die.

Much fairer and more fun if they take it in turns to spin the wheel if you ask me.

As for the bet I don't think there's a price for a 36 to 1 shot.

100,000 to 1 I'd do for a few hundred k. Hopkin's insane if he wouldn't do it for £100m. That's just stupid.

Also Monda thinking you couldn't have a good standard of living for £3m is the best joke I've heard in ages.

I quite like the idea, keep spinning wheel- if number comes out u get paid. Headsup could last ages tho

Not if everytime a number comes up, you then fill it in, so by the end there is only two slots left to fall into!

So you think someone's going to be degenerate enough to do it in the first place but then not degen enough to blow the money without worrying about being sensible with it ?

37 people. 37 roulette wheels. £3.7m kitty.

1 simultaneous spin.

All the zeros get killed. The rest share the kitty.

Guaranteed £100k return, possibly more if your fellow contestants all die.

Right now I'd X it for 10m, roll the dice for a couple mil and the roullette I'd prob do if you chucked 50 lumps in front of me

I'm pretty fucked as it is so they're short changing themselves by throwing those kind of figures around at me

In fact you could half those for X & Y I think

Are they paying you to flip or you only get paid if you win?

If the money goes to family if you run bad then I stick to those numbers. If your family just get the body then I'm out......

Only paid if u win- company would cover costs of funeral tho

Ah right scrap those numbers then, I don't think I'd X for any number, I'm not sure about Y either but could probably be tempted by a few million and the wheel is probably still the same if they just chucked 50 lumps on the table

I was looking at it as a win win, either I win and so do the family or just the family win :D

The only thing that would stop me from flipping for a million is knowing the affect it would have on my mum if i lost

Is she hoping for a new kitchen..

Even when my life is shit, it's too incredible to take on a guaranteed shot at death

Wouldn't do it

Hilar at how fast that 100m would go

if i could get pissed and laid before id snap do the wheel for 10m

Presumably you have travelled by plane thus risking death?  So we have established what you are and are just negotiating the price.

Some interesting stats:

Odds of being killed on a single airline flight

Top 25 airlines with the best accident rates
  1 in 9.2 million
Bottom 25 with the worst accident rates
  1 in 843,744

Source: OAG Aviation & PlaneCrashInfo.com accident database, 1985 - 2009

Perhaps not quite as reliable source:

Odds of being killed sometime in the next year in any sort of transportation accident: 77 to 1

Source: funny2.com

I drove to work today for a few hundred quid and had a fair chance of dying on the way there or back. FML

If you had £10m in the bank and were told you had a week to live due to illness how much of it would you give up for a cure?

 :)

Yes but this guarantees you a shot at death!

What? All of it plus all of my own cash. Not a difficult choice.

Would gladly have a go at the roulette for £100k if you all wanna start having a whip round.

I wonder at what point the police would get interested in all this with a potential suicide/murder on the cards  8)

Let's put it to the test :)

Fck that I wouldn't take 1000-1 for 10 billion

Think it's different if you have kids. If i was single would think about but wouldn't risk 6/1

I wouldn't do any of them.

game close to threads heart

http://www.webstoregames.com/flash-games/apple-shooter.php

Bah, think this one is closer:
http://onemorelevel.com/game/handless_millionaire

has anyone called them?

Wouldn't fancy coin or dice but probably do roulette for a pretty low amount.

The coinflip one is a tricky one TBH..
The Dice 12mill
The roulette £3mill would cover that, I reckon.

All on the bases that you snap-die and no pain and all that sort of shit.

at first I thought no chance of x or y, but I'd do z for sure for about £2m or so.

but then as pleno will confirm..

[ ] sure can leave the roulette table after having a winning spin

so i prolly have to either just shoot myself now (making bet somewhat neutral EV...) or pay someone about three fiddy to make sure I can only take one spin.

Unless after winning I can decide each spin whether to play for money or for life. Then we have a deal for £2m.

Fade the zero, get furious if 17 or 20 comes in without me having money on it, put entire £2m on numbers in 2nd 12, fade and play for life again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Makes me think the expert line is just to ask more than £2m to spin first....but I guess if that was the going rate, that's what I'd do..

but you flip worse than anyone I've ever met. you really should be asking for a lot more than a million

What a great question. What unexpected answers.

It's a definite no to all for me.

Even if I was offered twice the money for half the risk, I wouldn't contemplate it.

I mean, consider all those countless eons of time that have passed since the big bang.

Think about the universe settling down, the billion to one chance of a planet developing and sustaining life, and then evolving into this world of countless miracles and wonders.

Contemplate holding the winning ticket for the 600 million to one sperm race.

Overcome those odds, and you get to spend a few inestimably precious decades in awe of the world around you.

Imagine losing it all on a 35/1 shot....

Not me. I don't think the money is very important anyway. A survey of lottery winners showed that after the  initial euphoria wears off, those people who were unhappy before the win are just as unhappy afterwards. 

Welcome to blonde red dog.;)

Fantastic post!

I know it is everyones own opinion, but if the individual was placed in a situation of death they would react sooo much differently.

Great FIRST post IMO

yeah, but in any real sense, those events are entirely independent of each other and since you couldn't contemplate this question without having already won at those bets already, i don't think it has much rigour as a line of argument.

Unless your argument (as mine would be) was:

zomfg, I already won a billion-to-1 and a 600m-to-1 so I must be on a mfkn heater. Where do I sign up for this 35-1er that I'll obv crush? ^^

am i really that bad at flipping

Nice post Red, a great man once said;

For billions of years since the outset of time
Every single one of your ancestors has survived
Every single person on your mum and dad's side
Successfully looked after and passed on to you life.
What are the chances of that, like?
It comes to me once in a while
And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile.

Absolutely true. All it takes is one stone-age woman with a headache and you're toast.

X - never.

Y - 12 million

Z - 1.5million

Has anyone watched the film 13? 

From IMDB - A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

Us being here proves that we have thousands of generations of rungood coursing through us.

With that much luck in our genes how could we ever lose a death flip?

Love this Thread for the reason it teased Tom back - & I knew those would be his precise sentiments!

Good to have you back. Now i'm so happy that i wouldn't even take the coin flip! Y and Z still stand

Never flipping or dicing, would roulette it for 5 million.

Interesting thread. Dying would just be really shitty. It's so selfish as well to the people around you, you'll forever be remembered as a selfish gambler, it would have to be a really long shot AND life changing money for me to be in.

I dont count anything less than 5million as life changing. Of course 1million would change my life, but to me, life changing means meaning you'll never have to work again and can fund you're entire life without any worries as well as your families and live like a balla forever. Probably more like 15 or 20 to have a totally balla lifestyle.

It's weird, I do a lot of stuff that costs a lot of $$ but I'm just as happy when I don't do that stuff really. I wouldn't even take a 100/1 shot for my life to be a billionaire.

stuffs just stuff init

yeh who cares. Money cant buy a dad, a mum, a sister, true friends etc.

In the word of the old song

Money can't buy back your youth when you're old,
or a friend when you're lonely,
or a love that's grown cold.

Thanks mate

needs more love.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it does afford you a much better standard of misery.

True dat

I'm developing quite a taste for eating hot food cold.

It started with bacon and egg banjos and has now extended to soups and stews, toast, pizza, and all kinds of take-aways, esp Chinese. 

Do you also get morning sickness?

No, now shut up and pass me the gherkins and the coal scuttle.

lol, TBH actually had to google scuttle. Not a word I've ever come across.

Nice to see you posting a bit again, Mr Red.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_in_Scapa_Flow

Ah yes, of course. Uncle Luddie was a hero in my family.

Not a Benny Hill fan then?


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Apart from knowing and hating the effect it'll have on my Mum and a few others, I'd flip for 100mill.

Roulette for 2 mill right now.

If I was 55+ and busto probably dice for the same

Doubt I'd flip unless I had a terminal disease or summat.

If I just insta die after the event (no waiting around or pain or anything) then:-

Coin - Not sure I would but would have to be 30M or some such silly number where money becomes totally irrelevant for the rest of my life.

Dice - probably about 6M

Wheel - 2M

In answer to my earlier post didn't you say you would give up 10m if you had it to live if you were going to die. That to me means you value your life and would rather be alive with no money so why take the risk for 2m?

Not having a go BTW, I just think its a great question and was trying to see how people viewed the opposing situation. Unfortunatly only you responded because my question didn't have any "gamble".

Wasn't really about gambling my first post tbh. It was just if I was 100% gonna die I'd give up everything, no point having the money if your not there to spend it. The 2 mill to play roulette is a different proposition obv as there is only a small % chance of me dying.

for me x n y are out (for now)
if some swiss clinic wanna put up £2.5m for z then im in

I had the exact same thought to Woodsey about that, imagine everyone would do the same, slightly strange not to imo.

1 loaded gun from 36, do it then ?

Put it to your own head obv.

As a teenager i'd snap say no to all options, but meh, I'm 38 now, missing one number for a mirrion sounds appealing. I mean in the end if you actually spin that one number it's such a fml moment you should just go and quietly accept death as for the best anyhows.

37

My point is when the question is put this way I guess almost everyone would say they would give up the cash. This means life is more important than leaving all the money to family, friends, charity whatever. But take a risk on your life for any amount of money and you are risking not being there for those same family and friends. Seems odd to me.

Your assuming we are thinking about others rather than just ourselves. I don't have wife/kids etc so I only need to worry about myself.

£200
A kebab
£0 just for the craic

It's not the same though, the same would be if your net worth was 10million would you give it all up for

x evens chance of surviving ...

from 37
yes id do it

win

Doesn't look like anyone's willing to flip for their life. Pretty interesting to see that in order to answer the flip, you have to theoretically value your own life in a lump sum. Pretty difficult from a psychological perspective, exactly how much your life is worth.

When we get to 5-1, we're not directly valuing our own life, because obviously we're mathematically more likely to survive but also psychologically we start to build an air of invincibility. Take the dice situation and change it to russian roulette, and all of a sudden things get a bit more real, and I think we increase the value.

Honestly though, the roulette wheel situation I do for £500k no problem.

This might seem bizarre, but my friends and I always put these propositions to each other. Sometimes they're a little less classy (how much would you take to be the cum sponge for ten guys etc.) but often find them coming to life and death situations. A pretty sick one is situations in which you would take another person's life instead of your own. 5-1 on winning money or watching your friend get killed. Lots of variables such as manner of death, what % you and your friend split etc. Pretty fun way of realising how empathetic you are if you can be honest with yourself.

Someone in the office was retelling the story of the man who won a car after getting 'Mini' tattooed on his penis:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/853682-man-has-mini-tattooed-on-penis-to-win-car

The conversation went on, about how he didn't know he'd win, but how much would it take for you to have 'Mini' (or other word or phrase) on a certain part of your body?  One bloke in the office said he'd have any word tattooed on his penis for £1K.  We're having a whip round now...

I had a word tattooed on my penis...didn't get anything though...stupid drunken dares.

Feel a bit of a twat, especially as they could have said Titin and it would have hurt less.

It says; "Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine" now

There's a fun little paradox here if we take a recent article in the Guardian regarding the plans to increase the national speed limit. If your intention is to drive more quickly than the speed limit allows in your new car, then your penis isn't big enough for said tattoo which earns you said car.

I'd need a very accurate tattooist.