Would you cut off one finger for 1 million dollars....

[Logical]

You get to pick the finger!

You have to cut it off! You pick the tool.

Ambulance is standing by to take you to hospital!

[petronius]

1. I get to pick the finger? Any finger?

Then I pick one belonging to someone else. (I'll still probably need that ambulance, though - I get a bit squicked by the sight of blood...)

[eShirl]

2. by "off," do you mean the base

or can it be anywhere below the fingernail?

[Logical]

13. Base! nt

[PoliticAverse]

3. For 1 million dollars?!...

[Logical]

14. LOL, good one! nt

[hibbing]

4. likely

Wasn't there a twilight zone or outer limits with a plot about someone having their pinky wacked off? Telly Savalas in it?

I think I would.

Peace

[pipi_k]

26. I don't know about

that, specifically, but I do remember that in the movie "Black Rain", one of the villains (Sato) had to whack off his own pinky finger as part of a Yakuza ritual.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. Hitchcock, maybe?

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

[Brother Buzz]

5. Just maybe, if it allowed me to play a guitar as sweet and hot as Django Reinhardt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. Dude, I just posted a Django duet in the Weekend Music to Chill By this week!!!

Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli when S.G. was young.

I saw Grappelli live in the 1970s and he was awesome!!!

He taught Jean-Luc Ponty all his jazz licks, reportedly.

[Brother Buzz]

18. I saw Stephane Grappelli perform with David Grisman in the seventies

Stephane Grappelli and David Grisman had just finished filming 'The King of Gypsies' in Monterey; they hit it off well and produced an album a few years later. David Grisman had the gig at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, Grappelli was the unannounced guest. I was blown away at my good fortune.

Oh, Stephane took a few minutes, in his broken English, to explain how he had fallen and severely broken his hand in the early seventies and how he had to relearn how to play his violin. He made comparisons between his problem and the obstacles Django had to overcome.



Here's The Hot Club of San Francisco, and in my opinion, they produce some of the best contemporary interpretations of 'la pompe' Gypsy jazz out there. There is no doubt in my mind Django and Stephane are smiling:

[Earth_First]

22. Thanks for the HCSF link...

I really enjoyed that, I definatelty plan on following up more listening!

[BlueStreak]

6. Sure. I pick YOUR ring finger.

Ahhh. I see Petronis beat me to that one.

[Taitertots]

7. Yes, I pick your finger n/t

[BootinUp]

8. Just let me read the contract and do a credit check

Then I'll hack it off with a butter knife.

[NuclearDem]

9. Oh God, I just had a Heavy Rain flashback.

[Incitatus]

11. I might after drinking 9 or 10 shots. nt

[Chan790]

12. Someone who would know...

told me that most people in this situation think the finger you want to lose is the pinky of either hand...but it's not. The pinkies provide ~70% of your grip strength and are the anvil against which your thumbs work for most manual tasks.

The least useful finger is the pointer finger of your non-dominant hand, followed by the ring finger...you use it for virtually nothing unless you're a typist, pianist or play a stringed instrument.

[Logical]

15. Interesting! Good to know! nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. no, that is not a good enough reason.

[Demo_Chris]

17. In a freaking second. For a million I'd chop off a hand...

Maybe more. Hell, for a million guaranteed I would be sorely tempted to eat a bullet. That way my wife and daughter would have a shot at a better life than I have managed to give them.

And damn is that one fucked up realization.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. you need help, seriously. -

that is fucked up, dude.

[Demo_Chris]

41. Sorry. nt

[7wo7rees]

19. Where do I go for my million dollars? I'm in.

I can get one of these...


...and still have $999,500 for my retirement. No brainer.

[Blue_In_AK]

20. No.

[Jamaal510]

21. $1M is not worth looking like a freak for the rest of my life. nt

[dipsydoodle]

23. Your own or somebody else's ?

Do fish fingers count - one off a frozen pack ?

[blueamy66]

24. In a heartbeat.

To be able to help my family and spoil the little ones and live comfortably the rest of my life? In a heartbeat.

[Raffi Ella]

28. ugh, omg. I would want to but couldn't.

Maybe, IF they could sew it back on. I couldn't live with a hand that I'd mutilated, I'd be so freaked out! I wouldn't be able to sleep much less ever trust myself again, lol.

[hunter]

29. It's like I tell Comcast when they call...

"Sure, you can hook my house up to your cable system just as soon as you start sending me the money..."

That doesn't mean I'll use it.

But I'm not going to cut off anyone's finger for money. If their finger's stuck in a railroad switch and a train is coming (or something like that...) then my emergency finger removal services are free.

A society where people do (name your bad thing here) for money is not truly free. And that's not the same as getting paid fairly for difficult work that needs to be done.

[nolabear]

30. I said "No" at first but then you got me thinking. But, no.

If I could give the money to my kids to get them started in the lives they are trying to prepare for? It becomes more tempting then. Even then I don't think I could do it myself.

I have a deep and extremely painful early association with amputation so the idea isn't theoretical to me, but my association is so much more than a finger it probably colors my response in the extreme.

[Logical]

32. Good point! nt

[Inkfreak]

31. Sure, both my grandfathers are missing a finger.

Back in the day it was common with work conditions being subpar. They did just fine. I could use a million.

[Logical]

35. Me too! n-t

[struggle4progress]

33. *snork*

[Logical]

34. Ahhh, grumpy? n-t

[struggle4progress]

37. Just kinda wonderin what sorta creep might actually offer somebody a million bucks

to self-mutilate, since it can't benefit nobody, and also what sorta benighted blighter might give the fuggin sadistic shizzhead the satisfaction of acceptin the offer

Not so much up my alley, workin out such hypotheticals

[Logical]

38. Just pretend. Don't take it so serious. It would never happen in real life. n-t

[femmocrat]

36. No. nt

[BlueJazz]

39. No...Not Interested.

[newcriminal]

40. I know a bird that will do it for you.