dj_bollocks Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Eminently doable... Motivated by the cash you could fixate on the fun that you would have at weekends with your money. So long as it wasn't some sort of Saw/Hostel torture porn type experiment... I'd do it. Link to comment
caledonia Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 You would at one point fall asleep and not get paid. Link to comment
looksgoodinred Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 given the high weekly rate of pay, i'm assuming you have to finish the entire year to collect the pay packet? i wouldn't try. can't see how you wouldn't go insane. fuck that shit. Link to comment
DD1903 Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Sit in the dark for 8 hours a day, but then get to go home at the end of each day? Eh...yeah, I can do that! Link to comment
Henry Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 And most importantly, you cannot quit this job until you've been doing it for at least a year. I'd do it for couple of weeks and then quit!! Thankfully reading isn't one of the requirements of the position. Link to comment
Bobby Connor Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 I'd do it, but in reality there's no way you could stay awake in total darkness and with complete sensory deprivation. Physically impossible to do I'd say. Some sort of amphetamine would be in order, or acid. Link to comment
Ke1t Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Are you allowed to go in hammered, and scream for 8 hours because the darkness is filled with unimaginable horror... although you're giving imagining it a really good go anyway? Are you allowed to do that? Link to comment
Bobby Connor Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Are you allowed to go in hammered, and scream for 8 hours because the darkness is filled with unimaginable horror... although you're giving imagining it a really good go anyway? Are you allowed to do that? If you are allowed to go in fucked out of your nuts then it's an easy 1.5M that will set you up for life. Consider it a challenge. Link to comment
RUL Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Surely it would fuck with your eyesight? Been in the pitch dark awake for 8 hours a day then sleeping 6-8 hours a day. What no cunt knows is it's that Fritzl boy who's putting the cash up. Link to comment
Pash Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Your bottom teeth are like a row of gravestones Ke1t. Link to comment
Ke1t Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Your bottom teeth are like a row of gravestones Ke1t. Rest assured Kelt has lovely, straight, white teeth.... though admittedly there might be one missing from the back as a result of youthful exuberance during a game of fitba in Northfield circa the mid 90s. Nothing worse than mad teeth. Link to comment
Henry Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Three – or was it four? – days after he shut himself in a pitch-black bathroom, Rich Alati started to hallucinate. He saw little white, bubble-like balls, floating around the room. To calm himself he imagined he was in a magical cloud, cozy and relaxed. Embracing the visions was key. “Or else,” he says, “you might get a little scared.” Alati was in the dark for a bet, which makes a little more sense once you know he is a professional poker player. On 10 September last year, the American was sitting at a poker table at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, when he was asked a question by a fellow professional player, Rory Young: how much would it take for him to spend time in complete isolation, with no light, for 30 days? An hour later a price had been agreed: $100,000. Young would hand over the money if Alati could last 30 days in a soundproofed bathroom with no light. He would be delivered food from a local restaurant, but the meals would come at irregular intervals to prevent him from keeping track of time. There would be no TV, radio, phone or access to the outside world but he would be allowed some comforts: a yoga mat, resistance band, massage ball, and, appropriately for a bathroom, lavender essential oils as well as a sugar and salt scrub. If Alati failed he would have to pay Young $100,000. Poker players are known to bet on just about anything but some thought Alati had taken things too far. “I wouldn’t do this bet for any amount of money,” professional poker player Danielle Moon Anderson noted at the time. Dr Michael Munro, a psychologist Young consulted before agreeing to the bet, told Young: “Even if he lasts for 30 days, it will be extremely taxing on his mental health for the short and potentially long term.” https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/10/rich-alati-poker-player-bet-dark-room-isolation Link to comment
Redforever86 Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/10/rich-alati-poker-player-bet-dark-room-isolation I'd easy do that for £100k. Link to comment
Poodler Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 Had a few comedowns like that. PoP Link to comment
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