So my daughter likes to watch Deal Or No Deal every once in a while. When she does, I don't mind watching it. I'm fascinated by the greed and stupidity that some people display. As soon as a player crosses the line that I deem rational for them (yes, I am judge and jury) I root against them with all my person. Why? I'm teaching my daughter a valuable lesson. If you were watching earlier this week, a complete nimrod who was either in his late 20's or early 30's was on. He delivered pizza. He lived at home. Looked and acted like a total slacker. He didn't have 2 nickels to rub together. He got down to where he had (and the specifics are a little fuzzy) $250,000, $25,000 and 2-3 smaller numbers. The offer to quit was $126,000. God must have really given this turd a big fat brain because he decided to push ahead and at that moment I was begging for the quarter mil to show up. He deserved it. Here he was, a "man" with nothing, and he was going to tempt fate? How dare he! Now, if said contestant was a lawyer or doctor or successful businessman, maybe $126 large was gambling money - but to Skippy - it could have been a good (late) start on life or he could have paid his mother off for all the free Pop-Tarts and laundry he was scraping. Of course, he got nailed and the offer went down to $15K and change. Apparently that was funny money to him as well because he tempted fate yet again and again fate said "F you, ass clown" as the $25K came up. Does it say something about me that I enjoyed his failure so much? I hope not. I'm sure most people at home root against the people who make poor decisions. It is not by accident that this particular human finds himself in the situation he is in today. I bet his mom threw up a little bit in her mouth when he said "No Deal!" to the delight of the Romans. Poor woman. She deserves better.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Life Lessons
So my daughter likes to watch Deal Or No Deal every once in a while. When she does, I don't mind watching it. I'm fascinated by the greed and stupidity that some people display. As soon as a player crosses the line that I deem rational for them (yes, I am judge and jury) I root against them with all my person. Why? I'm teaching my daughter a valuable lesson. If you were watching earlier this week, a complete nimrod who was either in his late 20's or early 30's was on. He delivered pizza. He lived at home. Looked and acted like a total slacker. He didn't have 2 nickels to rub together. He got down to where he had (and the specifics are a little fuzzy) $250,000, $25,000 and 2-3 smaller numbers. The offer to quit was $126,000. God must have really given this turd a big fat brain because he decided to push ahead and at that moment I was begging for the quarter mil to show up. He deserved it. Here he was, a "man" with nothing, and he was going to tempt fate? How dare he! Now, if said contestant was a lawyer or doctor or successful businessman, maybe $126 large was gambling money - but to Skippy - it could have been a good (late) start on life or he could have paid his mother off for all the free Pop-Tarts and laundry he was scraping. Of course, he got nailed and the offer went down to $15K and change. Apparently that was funny money to him as well because he tempted fate yet again and again fate said "F you, ass clown" as the $25K came up. Does it say something about me that I enjoyed his failure so much? I hope not. I'm sure most people at home root against the people who make poor decisions. It is not by accident that this particular human finds himself in the situation he is in today. I bet his mom threw up a little bit in her mouth when he said "No Deal!" to the delight of the Romans. Poor woman. She deserves better.
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I'm with you - there are too many nimrods out there that think they "deserve" more. Luckily in most cases fate thinks otherwise.
I think some of the players think that "well, there are more small numbers up there than big numbers, so the odds of picking a small number are with me", but they don't think about how much the offer goes down if they pick the largest number. Was this the disco episode? We saw that one too.
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