For $10,314.15, would you not cut your head hair and facial hair for one year. Rules are, no trimming and styling and no hair product of any kind. Only washing and brushing is allowed. For women, no shaving of the legs and armpit hair for a year. Would you do it? This is a pickle I am in right now. My gut feeling is keep things the way they are and say no. Ugh!
A serious question to ask both men and women
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I only shave every once in a while, when I feel like it anyway so yeah I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Who's offering you that much money to do that??? And how do I get in on this sweet deal?
p.s. John was right: we are all whores in one way or another.
it's a contest at work, my
it's a contest at work, my boss is putting the money up for grabs and anyone at work up for it can do it, so there can be more than one winner, and you can start at anytime, you just have to last a year. my boss says no one will last and there are more than a few participants so far, just not me.
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That's the equivalent of a second full time job making minimum wage. If you don't do it you're a sucker. And not only that, being lazy and unkempt will be added to the ever expanding list of "jobs Americans don't want to do." Do you want to be responsible for the outsourcing of one of the last industries that we have a real competitive advantage in?
flowing locks
If it weren't for two things:
public health codes for food service workers (have you ever worn a "beard guard"? aside from their ridiculous appearance, they're irritating to wear).
-long hair exacerbates my scalp condition, so I have to keep my hair fairly short.
Otherwise, hell yeah I'd do it. I'd just have to wear white shirts for a year.
Unfortunately, long hair would just make the kitchen even hotter. However, you work in a much different environment than I, so I say go for it.
Really?
Is $10,000.00 really the equivalent of one year pay for a minimum wage job? Can I just hire you to sort my life out so I can stop having insomnia?
Also, I totally did the no shaving thing for a year to get over my aversion to body hair and it was no big deal. I even got laid by more than one hot guy. Not at the same time. Can really see ever venturing down that road.
no my boss does not loook like that
haha, quite the opposite, really.
it's a very tough decision, but more and more people at work are "starting out" every day. a good friend and i may decided to do at it once, that may be the only way i can do it. if anything, it needs to be decided by this week because i dont want to be left too far behind from the others. it'd be cool if everyone does it at the same time which is what is happening. i am wanting a house in the near future, and this would be great to add to a down payment, or it could go directly to student loans. also, not sure i mentioned it, but it's $10k before taxes, so that's like maybe $6k i'd pocket.
i thought of alot of pros and cons for this. first of all, i'm sort of a shy guy, but i think this could be a great confidence booster. i can't grow a full beard, it's a bit patchy. so the look is already not going to be good. but maybe once it comes in more it can hide the patchiness?
also there's going out in public, i mean, i can't hide for a year. i go to a gym 3 times a week, do muay thai twice a week, and do indoor bouldering once a week...another thing, is the fact i like to go out on weekends. does this increase my chances of not getting laid for an entire year? depends on how well my game is i guess. all about the confidence and how i promote myself. if anything, i can get complete strangers on my side to root me on if they question my appearance and i can tell them the full story. maybe i can be a local hero (ok, maybe that's going a bit too far).
and yeah, most people are taking pics of themselves daily and plan on putting together a youtube video at the end of it all...if they last ;)
josh, i sent u a PM.
Curious
What kind of job do you have to grow hair? And how is it taxed? I assumed this was some kind of slush fund reward system devised by a lame boss. Now I am not sure. Does all this lead up to something? Is there a goal beyond just going through with a dare? Also are you not familiar with the BBC series, the Office? I only ask because your reply that your boss doesn't look like the picture of Ricky Gervais/David Brent seems like an inappropriate response since I believe the intent of posting the picture was to compare your boss's character to that of David Brent's. Also, you work out a lot. you must be ripped. Post pics of your guns.
PS I can't sleep. YAR! I just killed a mosquito.
i can't sleep either, haha.
i can't sleep either, haha. sorry, i haven't watched The Office at all, UK or US version. so i dunno what character he is...explain if you wish.
the reason my boss made this contest was because alot of people were being stupid at work one day. not sure if the intent is to see what lengths we'd go for money, u know? and we don't have to grow the hair if we don't want to.
and i can only wish i was ripped. i been doing the kickboxing for almost 4 months now and just started going back to lifting weights (3 weeks in) and close to 2 months of bouldering again. so...ripped in time i shall be :)
well he told us it needs to be taxed, i guess it'd be considered a "bonus" i dunno..he just said he could go to jail if we didn't tax it or something. the goal is just the moolah and the fact we are able to go through with it.
hmm, haven't done hardcore research or anything, but i heard you can get up to $10k a year and not get taxed on it: "Under federal law, any individual can give away up to $10000 to any other individual in one year without having to file a federal gift tax return."
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I haven't cut my hair in 5 years, and didn't shave for two years. I have a ponytail, which is very low profile and inconspicuous. I also am prone to wearing a long black coat with a fedora hat, which, along with the full beard, led several people to mistake me for an orthodox Jew. The line was drawn on Wednesday morning, when three different people made that mistake, including a man who asked me where the Kodmoh temple was, and an old Jewish lady who told me how her son always wore a hat like mine. I bought a razor that evening and shaved as soon as I got home. My neck feels cold.
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Not saying there's anything wrong with looking like a Jew, aside from perhaps the religious insanity and flesh phobia that ultimately results in Hassidic Jews dressing the way they do. It was just awkward.
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I also am prone to wearing a long black coat with a fedora hat
kettle
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Not saying there's anything wrong with looking like a Jew, aside from perhaps the religious insanity and flesh phobia that ultimately results in Hassidic Jews dressing the way they do. It was just awkward.
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I also am prone to wearing a long black coat with a fedora hat
kettle
My attire is not based on a phobia of the human body based on archaic tribal taboos. Therefore your sanctimonious attempt to portray me as a hypocrite fails.
Sanctimonious is my middle name
You ridicule a group of people for their fashion while wearing the same fashion, and you're not a hypocrite? Oh right, you have a different, though equally ridiculous, justification for subscribing to that fashion. By the way, those must be some bitchin' archaic tribal tattoos if you have to wear a fedora to cover them up.
But why be defensive about being a hypocrite? We're all hypocrites. Own it, Alan.
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Actually, no, I'm not ridiculing a group of people for their fashion. I'm ridiculing them for the archaic superstitions that cause them to dress the way they do. In fact, it isn't fashion at all, it's superstition. My justifications for dressing the way I do are not even close to as ridiculous as the dogma of the Abrahamic religions. The beard was a mistake, so I shaved it. The black hat may have also been a mistake, I think it makes me look too severe, and I may switch to a brown or gray one. Someone wearing specific articles of clothing for a religious reason does not have this option. And I wrote "archaic tribal taBoos, not taTToos. Though tattooing for religious reasons is also bunk.
yeah i heard vegas casino
yeah i heard vegas casino have slot machine payouts set to a dollar under the tax number so people can win 10999 and not have to pay taxes, either way e file taxes makes it easy to file but no one wants to give up money not on taxes from a gift/prize money
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