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Hypo: $1M for nothing OR $1M for every mile you swim across the English channel
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Date: July 24th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Two choices:
(1) Get $1M right now for doing nothing.
(2) Get $1M for every mile you swim across the English Channel. You need to start within 48 hours. The swim must be consecutive. The final measure will be the furthest point you were from the coast of England or France (whichever you started from). You can't have any support on the swim. You can tow behind you anything you want for safety or for the journey back (or onward across the Channel) after you're done swimming, but it can't help you on the swim. E.g., you can pull a rowboat with you for use after you're done.
Also: You 2x your money if you successfully make it across the English Channel with no support.
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Date: July 24th, 2026 12:45 PM Author: Bellevue therapy dog tp (retired on 11/11/26) Im gay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50021723) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 2:05 PM Author: Nazca Redlines So are you in? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50021871) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 2:08 PM Author: nude litigator so my options or $1M or $1M but I drown
I'll have to mull it over |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:03 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Do you think you can make it a full mile before you drown? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50021997) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:12 PM Author: nude litigator right, my initial thought was like "oh I've done a mile swim it's nbd" but that ofc wasn't in the English channel.
however I'm still going to say yes on the gattaca theory - in this hypo you don't have to save anything for the swim back |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:29 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Explain. Unless you make it all the way across, you need something left in the tank to get back to land, though you can get into the boat you've been pulling with you, if you were inclined to do so. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022064) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:28 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface $1 million now. That water is cold as fuck, and what, I'm going to get at most an extra million? Not enough to be worth the effort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022060) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:33 PM Author: Nazca Redlines The water off Dover is a comfy 68 degrees right now. Same as it is in the Hamptons. Once you get used to it, it would feel fine. And you can bring a wet suit if you want.
With no clock and a boat you can pull behind youreslf to get back, you should be able to earn way more than $1M extra. |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface Motherfucker, how many miles do you think I'm swimming and in what kind of water?
I'm ready for my million dollars |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:32 PM Author: Darnell only mile swims i've done were in a nice lap pool with flippers on. also i was a teenager. not happening today
take the 1M and no swimming. |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:34 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Why? There's no time pressure. Swim for a while, take a break floating on your back, back to swimming... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022082) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:36 PM Author: Darnell it's not a pool. floating on your back in the middle of the english channel with waves and currents pulling you this way and that would be brutal and dangerous. i'd have to tread water and there's no way i'm doing that for long enough to rest. i'd definitely drown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022087) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:40 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Drowning risk is pretty low. Tow a life boat behind you for when you're ready to give up.
And the waves are pretty small when the weather is good. It's not the open ocean. |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:43 PM Author: valar vettiri morghulis lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022217) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:48 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Just in case you don't make it all the way across. Once you get to mile 10, you might as well keep going all the way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022228) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:37 PM Author: The BJC do i get a wetsuit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022091) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:41 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Regular, reasonable wetsuit: Yes.
A wetsuit with flippers built in or something like that: No.
Are you in? |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: The BJC I’d do it with a life vest or some float device only this hypo is insane (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022170) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: Nazca Redlines You can pull a life vest with you, but once you use it, the hypo is over.
And the hypo isn't that insane. A short, 3 mile swim in fairly calm water isn't that big a deal. Several poa in this very thread have talked about mile-plus swims they've done. |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:41 PM Author: Debunked antisemitic trope your hypos are bona fide retarded man. take a million or swim a mile tugging a boat to get the same money (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022101) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:14 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Explain. I would swim several miles and make several million. And you don't need to tug a boat if you think you can make it back to land without it. Or if you don't care to make it back to land. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022163) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:20 PM Author: Debunked antisemitic trope explain how many miles you are going to swim befrpe you realize you need to turn around.
who is tugging a boat while swimming miles? wtf kind of hypo is this |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:28 PM Author: Nazca Redlines I'll see how I feel after 3 miles. Probably go for 5+ total. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022189) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: Debunked antisemitic trope so 10 if you want to live (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022193) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:38 PM Author: Nazca Redlines No need to double the mileage. I'll swim out 5 miles (or more), then hop in the dinghy I pulled behind me to head back to land and hit the pub for a nice bitter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022211) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 3:43 PM Author: gerry mander $42m (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5885800&forum_id=2:#50022108) |
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Date: July 24th, 2026 4:41 PM Author: valar vettiri morghulis $1 million now. If a pool the length of the English Channel I’d do the pool and target $5 million. Open water swimming is not for the feint of heart.
Edit: LOL at no support. |