Of course I would. You would have to be an idiot not to.
:D:D
Yup. I had a strange obsession with the idea after seeing Aliens 3 too many times. (3? 4? Oh, whatever one Ripley’s bald in!)
The money would just be an excuse
I once paid a guy 5 Rand (equivalent to about 0.5 USD) to shave only the front part of his hair off.
This guy had long (about a foot and a half) red hair. Imagine drawing a line from one ear to the other along the top of your head. I shaved his hair from that line forwards.
He kept that hair style for quite a while. I think he quite enjoyed it.
After I shaved his hair, he asked me if it made him look hardcore (he was into old kung fu movies). Thats when I started to feel guilty.
this. everyone has a price. in hypotheticals, you can pretend that you don’t, even if it’s only to ward off the “now that we’ve determined what kind of person you are, let’s settle on a price” trick questions.
You couldn’t hand me the razor fast enough!
In one of my favorite short stories a woman has her hair cut (in 1906) for $20 and still enjoys her Christmas present:
Sure, I’d go chrome-dome for a million. Maybe even for a tenth of that. Not that anyone’s offering.
I have long hair - but I would do it in a heartbeat.
God, I’m Indian, and could technically get away with a swastika - it was ours first before those horrid bastards appropriated it - and I still wouldn’t do it here. Now that’s real repercussions.
Hell in the 80s my mother got a pair of swastika earrings from India which she returned. Even my mother knew, you do not wear that shit here.
As compared to India - we put the swastika in giant red paint on a new car (comes off at the first wash). It just means different things there.
I’m not a lady, and I’ve been bald for decades, so the question is not for me. But the answers in this thread are entirely what I expected.
“Would you shave a swastika into your head for $1,000,000?” Now, that’s a more provocative hypothetical. If there were a provision that I’d have to display it in public, I think I’d decline. There are some things you just can’t recover from, socially. But if I could hide out in seclusion and/or cover it with hats until it grew out, then, sure, why not?
Like you said, you had it first. Unfortunately, hardly anyone – including the skinheads – knows where it originated as a symbol.
To get on topic, as I’ve mentioned before, DesertRoomie hasn’t cut her hair since she was 17 when she got out of her mother’s clutches so, as the song says, “it stopped by itself.” A million? Almost certainly. $500, probably not. I’ll have to ask her.
I’ve been wanting to shave my head for years, I’d love it if someone went and paid me for it!
There are these things called “wigs”, that make it look like you have hair, even if you don’t. I think you can get one for a lot less than a million dollars.
I come at it from the other direction - how much can I get?
This is boggling. I know a guy who shaved his head essentially on a dare.
I think this is right on the money (ha). These women are getting what they think of as some kind of prestige in saying “I wouldn’t shave my head for a million dollars!”, whether it’s self-affirmation of their hair’s attractiveness, exhibiting that a million dollars isn’t life-changing enough a figure to disrupt their lifestyle, or a combination of both. They know the offer’s not real so it costs nothing to reject it. But put the cash and hair clippers on a table in front of them, and I’d be surprised if they didn’t have a fight over who would get to do it. Unless of course she works with millionaire heiresses or spouses working in an ordinary office job to pass the time or something.
Hell yes. My hair’s really short already, so it wouldn’t be much of a change ^_~
Me too. I have really thick, slightly coarse hair that poofs up whenever it’s humid and if I could get away with it, I’d shave my head. I don’t think Hubs would care for it and my odd head-shape might scare small children.
I can’t believe some women said no either. I doubt they would if the money was really there on the table. The amount is so out of proportion to the task.
The interesting thing would be to do a progression. See how much it would take for people to shave their heads. (Possible opportunity for fetishist website here. You might actually get bidders.) Alternatively, you could see what people would be willing to do for a million dollars. (Possible opportunity for a very lucrative, but niche market, website.)
“What would you do-oo-oo for a million?”