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A website for fun. You get to vote on how much you'd have to be paid to do kind of unpleasent things.
Example question:
'How much would you have to be paid to eat a can of dogfood?'.
The options are £0, £5, £50,£200 etc up to about £20m
When you've voted -- you get bar graphs showing how
others have voted .. and if you've (optionally) given your age or gender or location the stats further break down. See if you are more susceptable to the lure of money than other people. Does the average person require £5, £50 or £150 to let himself be stung by a bee?
Naturally users can input their own questions -- so once it's set up the website kind of runs itself. I suppose if you got loads of hits you could get some advertising revenue from it if this really needs to be a business idea!!
(Non-relevent boring fact of the day -- I was on Dragons Den .. hows that for half-bakery? hoorah!)
Halfbakery: What Would You Eat For $1m
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Predecessor? [jutta, Nov 22 2007]
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I'll bake that for a dollar. |
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Seriously, I'll make it if you have no objections. |
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Sounds cool -- I have but 1 condition -- If it all works well and you do get some advertising revenue.. I get 20% before costs! |
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[+] as long as other site members can stump up the required amount of cash to see you perform the task in question. Broadcast the act live via webcam, and the held funds are transferred to your account. I'll drink a pint of Elephant Cum* for a tenner. Any takers? |
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Before costs? that would be a bit harsh if it made less than it cost. |
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Anyway, if you are into the idea and want to help me with some of the promotion and content, we can go 50:50 on profits if you want. |
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I've just been thinking that a 'Deal or no deal' type site where you are given a scenario and a reward and you just say yes or no. They said this once on 'Green Wing' |
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I'm not really a business man so I'll change it to 'You can do it no problem, and just give me whatever you think is fair if it turns good'! You can't beat that! |
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I think 'deal or no deal' is very cool in its simplicity but may restrict the stats that could be produced (average money peopel require for example would be gone). Also it makes the question writing extremely difficult as you have to try and get the amount of money 'just on the mark' otherwise you'll keep getting 99% of people that go one way .. for that reason personally I'd stick with 7 or 8 monetry amounts to choose from. |
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But it's your call it's your baby now! |
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Also if you did it you'd need some form of moderating as after about 2 minutes kids and idiots are going to be writing questions like 'How much would you need to be paid to f**k Mike Smith's mom'. You could do 'auto-moderating' where people can 'report abuse' and after 5 reports it auto-deletes the question or something .. I dunno .. up to you. |
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They need to be paid? But she's one hot milf! |
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But, yes, it could get bogged down with crap. You'd also have to be careful to avoid aiding and abetting criminal or dangerous activities. Well, you don't have to be careful, but it'll all end in tears if you don't. |
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Dude. I don't mean to be all wack and shit, I mean, like, I'm respekking you an'all. It's just that "milf" can sometimes come over as being a little bit misogynistic, innit. You dig? |
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Yeah, ick. It's going to be about ten minutes, tops, until this turns into "I'd do her/him for a dollar". |
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You were on Dragons' Den? Cool! What did you pitch? |
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I thought this would be about computers ("I'd fix your firewall for a dollar") |
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Anyway, it depends what kind of crowd this ends up attracting. After all, Halfbakery could be filled with stupid scum, but it isn't. |
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Totally dig, [zen-dude]. My 'milf' comment was intended to be in the style of the type of 'crap' I felt the (idea) site could get bogged down with. My actual feelings towards Mike Smith's mom are far more platonic and honourable (honest, Mike). |
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It's being bugging me all afternoon but I now realise that this idea is reminiscent of 90's UK late night television show The Word and it's "I'll do anything to be on TV" feature. |
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No worries, but I'm still confused - Wasn't Mike Smith that slightly shite DJ from the '80s - his mum must be at least 70. |
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Aw feck, I'd forgotten about him. The image that's now given me is just wrong (although I guess for some it just changes the 'm' to a 'g'). |
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"slightly shite" I love that. |
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It'd be "Gike Sgith", surely. |
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We're talking a mother's mother here people. What do two 'm's make? |
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MM. Let me think about that one. |
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I'll eat a can of dog food for $200 USD. But I get to pick the can. [+] |
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Perhaps pictures and videos could be uploaded, if someone actually decides to carry out the idea. Of course, there would be a lot of fakery there. |
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Dragon's Den? I love that show! What were you pitching? Better yet, which episode? A Baker on Dragon's Den...what are the chances? |
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That's too cool [britboy]. You da man.
I'd be scared witless, they really expect to see some dotted I's and crossed T's 'fore they fork out any dough. |
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Way to go [britboy], funny idea too+ |
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I was pitching a way to link your exercise bike to your home computer to see 3D graphics, race on the internet etc. as you cycled away. |
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I had a 'full pitch' on the telly -- not one of those 'Also appeared' 20 second jobs but the full thing! The dragons fishboned me to death :) |
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Needless to say -- they ripped me to peices. Anyone remember me? Link your exercise bike to your PC using this hardware and software? No? Oh well! (Climbs back into shell!) |
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This would make a good gameshow. How much would you take to eat this cockroach? The lowest bidder eats it and gets the money. |
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[hugeboofhead] I like it. Related idea: Who would you do for a dollar? (somewhat baked on Indecent Proposal) |
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Big kudos to [britboy] for getting as far as that. This bun is really for that, though this idea isn't bad either. [+] |
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Any chance of seeing your DD appearance on Youtube?? |
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No. I was the first guy to appear on the last episode of the 2nd season (!!). |
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Had the red letter days girl there when I was on (who then went bust .. hohoho). |
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Some interesting facts .. you get up there and when they start laying into you, you hear this dull 'click', and just off screen a 3kw bar heater gets turned on, sending heat at you! As they get more nasty to you you here more clicks .. by the end they had 5, yes FIVE bar heaters trained directly on me .. whilst under their desk the dragons have personal air conditioners. |
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So, unavoidably, you start swerating like a pig. It's not the pressure .. I knew exactly what I was getting into .. it's the heaters! Guess thats TV for you. |
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Also you have to sign a form saying you will 'accept directors requests'. They didn't say anything to me .. but one other guy who was being filmed on the same day as me said the dragons told him 'His product s*cks' (basically), and he just smiled -- the director shouted 'CUT CUT STOP everyone please' and instructed him that when the dragon said that sentence the pitcher had to look miserably at his shoes for 2 seconds. And the thing was re-shot! |
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As I said -- be careful with watching factual TV -- deep down, they're making a show for entertainment. |
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(Final boring fact -- behind the camera there are actually about 50 studio geeks watching as well, so theres hardly just you and the dragons in the room. Also -- yes you do have to film 'Noddies' as they only have 1 camera ... oh .. and they made us wait for 5 hours before filming which was very dull) |
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Sheesh! You'd think they could afford more than one camera. |
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