u/Physical_Orchid3616

You're given $500,000 to gamble with in Las Vegas over a weekend, starting from Friday afternoon through until late Sunday evening. You are also being put up in a luxury suite at the Venetian hotel. Travel and food are paid for. You get to take one other person as a guest. Here's the rules:

1. You can only use the $500,000 for gambling, nothing else.

2. Your guest may not have any access to the money. Not even to gamble with.

3. Your betting amounts must total $500,000 by 11:59pm on the Sunday, which is the deadline.

4. When the deadline comes, you get to keep any money you've won, plus you get to keep £50,000 of the $500,000 you were given, as a bonus (You must return the remaining $450,000).

5. If you lose all of the $500,000, you must pay a $20,000 fine.

Do you accept? And if so, what's your game plan?

Here's the offer. You get $10 million paid into your bank account. The catch? The very next morning, you wake up and you weigh a whopping 350 pounds.

The rules:

You CANNOT go on the GLP jabs at any time (no ozempic, mounjaro, wegovy, etc), or you will lose all the money. You also cannot have gastric surgery. The only way you can lose the weight is through diet and exercise. Your body will behave as if it's been morbidly obese for at least five years (rather than overnight) although you will not have any issues preventing you from exercising. To drop the weight, you will also have to overcome a five year food addiction, so the challenge will be both physical and psychological.

What do you say? Deal?

I've come across a few posts on here where the OP, who is usually male, will talk about how he's getting life long, obsessive revenge against someone for a very minor thing. That's bad enough. But then you read the comments and see all the upvotes. Thousands. People love it. They literally lap it up like hungry dogs. Not only are they calling the OP things like "hero," but they are enthusiastically helping him to come up with more ideas for revenge against this person. It is very disturbing. Meanwhile, you can be a non psychotic, decent person on here, with normal posts, and you're lucky if you get 3 upvotes. Anyone?

Here's the offer. You have a month to say goodbye to everyone you love. After the month is up, your former self vanishes forever, as if you never existed. You get born again. Only YOU remember your previous life, nobody else does. Your new parents are both unloving assholes. Your siblings are mean to you. You are plagued by minor health issues. You're very awkward looking (stick out ears, large nose, very curly and thick ginger hair, buck teeth, and bad skin). You get badly bullied through middle school and high school, and after, you get bullied in the workplace. People stare at you sometimes. Other times, they laugh or avoid you. You struggle to find love and friendships. You often feel quite lonely. Life is rough all around.

But then, on your 40th birthday, you win the lottery. You are the only winner for that draw. The jackpot is $120 million.

A horrible, sad life until 40, but then you get a huge payout. You are guaranteed to live until at least 70 years of age. So you can enjoy the money for at least 30 years.

So, would you take the deal? Why or why not?

I get it. Youtube is free to watch, usually anyway. So it's infested with adverts unless you pay for there not to be. But I PAY for netflix, and there's loads of adverts, and it's ridiculous. Why should I have to deal with adverts when I pay to watch?? What's even more annoying is that if you're rich and can afford to pay a lot more NOT to have adverts, you will do. Stupid, really, because advertisers want people with money, but those people aren't the ones watching the adverts. Us poor people are. People who arent going to buy what's being advertised.

I'm currently reading "You with the sad eyes" by Christina Applegate. I'm only at chapter 4, but i have to keep putting the book down, because i get quite triggered by all her effortless good luck, something i've never known in my own life.

1. She talks about having a giant crush on Duran Duran's John Taylor. Well, guess what? Some years later, she gets to star in a movie with him. As if that's normal.

2. She writes in her diary about how she has a crush on some guy, but says he'll never like her back because she's "too ugly." 10 days later she writes in her diary how she's going out with him.

3. She feels like she should be in the film about the Wonderland murders of Laurel Canyon, because she's from the area. She, of course, knows the director. Presto, your wish is my command. She gets handed a role.

It's very hard for me to read about someone's repeated successes and good luck. You just think "wow, my life is really, really shit." Yeah, I know, she was slapped with MS. Which is why I got the book. But again, I have to keep putting it down because I get upset being made to read about one victory after another after another with minimal effort. (her acting career was handed to her from the age of 3 months).

What do you do when you find books trigger you? Do you keep reading, or stop? She also has a way of tooting her own horn quite a bit - "my never ending great work ethic got me and everyone else through everything" when she never actually worked a real job