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why didn't they just go to a funeral?


They'd have got they're million there and then.

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good point. tbh there's a lot of pain in the world and one can either chalk it up to the teapot being diabolical in what kind of pain it would reward or plain old bad writing. i still enjoyed the film though.

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Going to a funeral makes no sense. As it's made clear from the beginning that there has to be physical pain. At a funeral, the person is already dead, they can't feel anything.

The only pain is emotional from the family and the teapot doesn't give anything for that.

Going to a funeral would be useless, as the person needs to be alive, or in the process of dying painfully for it to reward them....wasn't that made obvious in the movie?

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The teapot did react to emotional pain... that's why it paid so well when they were hurting each other with painful truths. In fact it seemed to pay more when the pain was emotional.

Happiness is a warm gun.~ The Beatles [fight2]
No touching guns. River ~ Firefly[fight8]

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Exactly.. I don't know whether Starrynight meant to sound so obnoxious ('wasn't that made obvious'?) but the teapot did reward emotional pain as well as physical.. Either they fell asleep during that part or stopped watching half way through - that's why she said she had oral sex with their landlord and he said he kissed that other girl at the New Year's Eve party.

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As it's made clear from the beginning
Ahh, see, there's your problem. You're not supposed to watch just the beginnings of films, you're supposed to watch, like, MORE, than just the beginnings. Like... maybe... to at least 1/2 way thru. Then you wouldn't sound like such a retard.

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are you trolling or what? did you even watch the movie?

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Or, the E.R. of a busy hospital. Imagine that. Hospital E.R. on Friday and Saturday nights..? Pfff they'd be billionaires in a few months.

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From a story telling perspective, I think that the answer to that question is pretty clear.

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In my case, I would have had a great idea to make money: fix myself and my family's horrible health issues. Between surgery, joint replacements, alternative medicines, and therapy, that would be tons of pain for years:

I would need 2 full elbow replacements (4+ years of excruciating pain from surgery and therapy), a fix for my dislocated knee, and surgery to fix my rotator cuff injuries. Not to mention that I would still have chronic pain for life thanks to my nerve deformities, so I guess I would just keep making money.

For my mother, she has no stomach muscles so she has nonstop stomach surgeries and her left hand is half paralyzed due to an accident, so more surgeries equals more pain.

My father's spinal column is breaking and fusing together. When you consider how many surgeries that would take to fix, that means even more pain.

My brother-in-law broke his femur and it never healed properly. They'd have to re-break it and then reset it. That equals even more pain.

Then I would start working into charities that help others and go around to the places where I helped said people and, Voila, more pain equals more money. It would be less suspicious than me just going around and hurting myself, plus it would help everyone out.

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I would hurt myself enough to get enough money to rent an empty space next to a dentist.

Cover all the windows to make sure nobody can see.

Have the teapot on stings, hung upside down below one of those collapsible hamper bags for college kids. Have a trash bag inside as lining.

Have ten or twelve of them ready to go.

Get there before the dentist opens and catch all the falling cash from the serious fear, misery and pain generated next door. Switch out the hamper as it be become full, repeat.


$$$

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