You are given 2 options (A) $100K with no fame; (B) $1M with fame. U hafta pick
rogertex
Texas
Friday, February 9, 2018 7:25 PM
No contest here. I'll pick option A, 100 out of 100 times.
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What would I be famous for? I supposed I should ask first. It could be something really unbecoming. But what the hell, I like to double down on stupid life choices!
I'm not sure how the current life on Mars might react if the planet suddenly warmed up. If it was microbial life that was toxic to humans at warm temperatures , could be a problem. Assuming there is no life already on Mars just because we haven't found it would be arrogance on our part. If there was a secret alien base on Mars and we nuked the ice caps where one base was located, they might decide to destroy our planet. as a tit for tat. Steven Colbert asked Elon Musk whether he was a super hero r super villain.
I would not like reporters waiting outside my door to talk to me. I was once in the background on the news a few times. Stuff just kept happening where I was. I'm glad no one had a camera filming me on a couple of occasions many years ago or I probably would be famous.
No chessmaster - you only get to pick one !
Let me break it down for fellow TUSCLers who are opting for the Million.
Yeah - Million is great. But it comes with fame. For a gentleman who like girls, girls and more girls - fame is poison. fame is shackles. And as easy as it feels - no you cannot buy privacy. Ask any famous person !
I can picture this:
RamPaige = Arnold Schwartznegger
max_starr = Hugh Grant
MackTruck = Bill Clinton
orionsmith = Ashton Kutcher
Dominic77 = Tiger Woods
shailynn = David Letterman
Uprightcitizen = Kobe Bryant
AnonymousJim = Jesse James
DC9428 = Donald Trump
justme62 = Willie Smith Kennedy
Read up on the above guys - all decent looking. Got their first woman easily and quickly. Prison after that.
In fact the only famous people that have not got in woman trouble are those that never had a second woman, let alone a third or a fourth or a fifth. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are good examples.
So really the options were (A) $100K or (B) $1M with one girl of your choice and no more forever.
Question was meant for us PL and mongers who like lotsa women all the time
my observation based on all famous people is - fame kills mongering. And for die-hard TUSCLers - its girls, girls, girls or death.
Money - really it comes and goes. Time with a mesmerizing woman - priceless and peerless.
In that case, I would have to think about it because I do not care for fame. However if I was already famous, might not care. I might still take the million a year because then I could buy my own strip clubs and it would be no big deal. As owner of the strip clubs, I could help audition the girls. On the other hand I could be like Hugh Hefner and run a different version of the Playboy Mansion. I could have hot girls wanting to be featured. I disagree that fame prevents someone from being with multiple girls.
I have no desire to be a famous politician.
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/267347/tur…
Ergo, I'll go for option B!
You probably answer the question differently if you already have a 100K or more saved. I think a lot of you mongers do. I don’t. Not even close. I have 0.404K. Truthfully, mongering isn’t in the cards no matter which option I choose.
To quote Svetlana from the article the other day: “In Russia we have an expression: “If I’m hungry and you’re full, you won’t understand me.”” I don’t think Rogertex understands me.
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The $100K one-time-gift option represents I pay off my mortgage at $103K. That frees up $550-600 month in my budget, but doesn’t yet allow for mongering. But it allows to perhaps change jobs or careers where I can temporarily accept a job at a lower salary to build my career.
The $1MM one-time-gift option represents what Mr. Money Mustache stands for. I invest it, the “pull down 3-4% per year: (9% gains, -2% inflation, -1% taxes, etc.) That gives me an extra $30,000 year in extra income after taxes, while keeping the nest egg intact. This represents paying off my house in 3 years, 4 months. That frees up $550-600 month in the budget, too, same as option A. Option B also pays for some needed home improvements in year 4, and a new garage in year 5. Year 6 and on is gravy. My wife and I can do well with that.
What is mongering except fucking your wife with a different color wig on anyway??
So, you can see, neither option gives me mongering nor sleeping with women on the side. That was never the point. But option B gives me a jumpstart on a nice life for my Swedish ex-model wife and I. Is that right, Elin?
а Я голоден, и вы полны, вы меня не поймете.
First of all, Mrs. 77 says thank you for comparing her to Swedish model Elin Nordegren. She’s a cutie.
Second, I have a question. Is Tiger more famous for playing golf or for having the most expensive divorce in the history of, well, all divorces ever. At this point Mrs. 77 interrupts that says she’s trying to plan how to spend her 1/2 BILLION dollars in divorce money. lol
Third, But serious, if I have a Swedish model at home, why would I need anyone else? Who would cheat on that? Hell, I’d never leave the house!
in closing, I did notice most of the people above writing “fame is overrated” already have money or sizable incomes. Just saying!
Sometimes I do think that not having the means cheat (money, time, resources) does keep me honest. also, since you're new around here, I'm sort of different from the others in that I read Tuscl with my wife. I don't hide anything from her. She does think that once I have the resources (once my career and savings take off) that I will seek out other women on the side. She thinks it is inevitable since I'm been faithful for so long (14 years) and life is short. In fact, shes OK with it and looks forward to being "bought off." lol
Not all of the guys had the same upbringing I did. Supposedly my father cheated an got another woman pregnant less that a month after she was pregnant with me. I don't know who he is and my birth certificate under father says, "DECLINES TO STATE." But as luck would have it, he apparently registered on a Tuscl in the month or two!
My step dad used to cheat a lot on my mom and had a kid with another woman outside of wedlock. He used hit her. I think he thought he was hiding the affairs well. But the lesson there is you don't really hide "obtainable variety" very well. Trust me, in most cases the wife either suspects or knows. And being a kid in that situation, even the kids know. I'm really doubtful the guys on here are hiding their outside activities NEARLY as well as they would like to think. Trust me, she probably suspects but just looks the other way thinking it's the price for family and security. But it hurts the women, emotionally to keep quiet.
So @taxi_driver and @rogertex, a young Dom made a promise to himself that when he grew up he wouldn't be like that. If I got something on the side, I would be honest about it. But I would also be discreet. Think Russian society from the novel Anna Karenina, by Tolstoy.
And if I don’t spend it all I bequeath the remainder at death to my offspring @taxi
I think I would still chose the $1M option.
Dominic - you are lucky to have Mrs 77. In casino-speak you have 777 by your side !
Unfortunately rest of USA is not that lucky - as evidenced by over 50% divorce rate.
Clubber - you like neither option?
DeclineToState - can we call you father of the nation?
BJ99 - that link did not work, but I know which episode of Southpark you meant - it was funny - but we TUSCL guys don't see "too much of sex and love" as a problem. Blissfully in denial.