that's standard for a residential tox trial.
usually for 10-20 days. Easy money, but you won't be allowed out of the building for the duration, you can't drink, smoke, do anything they say you can't do or see anyone bar the other participants.

2K isn't anywhere near enough to make me want to spend even a day in the 24-hour company of students and layabouts on near-fatal doses of experimental medication. Let alone 20.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:44, archived)

So it's basically £100 a day
To be in Big Brother without getting to see stupid fucking slags take their clothes off ?

Fuck that
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:46, archived)

I've got to spend 5 days residential, then 28 days at home, then another 2 days residential.
The study starts in about 2 weeks time.
( WHARRGARBL, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:46, archived)

Do you get to vote each other out
and show everyone your willy in the swimming pool ?
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:48, archived)

still 7 days too many for me.
and the 28 days will be resticted diet. fuck that and the horse it rode in on.

Good luck. Someone has to do these things. I hope the side effects aren't too shitty.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:49, archived)

I think cheif among the side effects is
OMG I LOST ALL MY DIGNITY BY TELLING PEOPLE ONLINE I WAS SO DESPERATE FOR A PALTRY £2K I'D RISK MY HEALTH AND SANITY.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:50, archived)

£2k is paltry?

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:51, archived)

In the big scheme of things it is
What exactly can you do with it ? Nothing life changing.

You could earn that working in McDonalds for 2 months and as it is he has his life fucked about for a month in any case.

If I owed "Harry the murdering bastard" £2k I can see that £2k would be important but it's not exactly a kings ransom.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:54, archived)

pay off debts
go on holiday
not always be in overdraft
buy something you've always wanted.

I think the point is that it's potentially money for nothing. Like TMB says, he could get a low dose, or a placebo.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:56, archived)

well, it's not money for nothing
it's (usually) at least 2 weeks of your life. So if you live in the real job world, you can do it, but there goes most of your holiday. I realise it's not the same for everyone, but my holiday is worth about £500 a day to me since that's what I charge to consult in my free time, so it's effectively losing money in my case.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 17:01, archived)

yeah, my time's not worth that much
:)
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 17:02, archived)

It is if you dress up as Jimmy Krankee in crotchless knickers....

( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 17:05, archived)

you may be on to something here...

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 17:07, archived)

£2k's not exactly paltry

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:51, archived)

potentially for your life and the risk of serious long-term damage to your health?
are you sure?

put it this way. If I take you up in a plane and say "here are 100 parachutes. 1 of them has the cords cut. I'll pay you 2K to choose one and jump" ... what are you going to do? Do you want 2K that much?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:54, archived)

not personally
I'm just saying, that as a statement on it's own, £2k's not paltry.

As you're a medical-doctor-scientist type guy, I'll take your word for how risky it can be though.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 17:00, archived)

I WOULD.

( sleepybinky, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:52, archived)

you rich cunt

(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:54, archived)

Meh
£2k for a month out of your life only equates to £24k a year.

That's fuck all really.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:55, archived)

It's more than I can imagine.
Well I've earnt £2k in a month before, but I'd be well chuffed if I could make that a permanent arrangement.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:59, archived)

could you die from it?
Or have permanent damage? I mean, there was that case in the news a while back but other than that people seem to get away scot free.

I'm considering it, see.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:46, archived)

This is why they pay you
If they were certain it worked, they'd be charging people.
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:48, archived)

there's a difference between "feeling a bit ill" tohugh and "losing liver function".

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:50, archived)

they've tested it on animals first, at least.
That last "incident" is fairly uncommon, and from what I gather, caused by a mistake of some sort.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:49, archived)

they will have done animal tox models.
so you shouldn't die. But you'll certainly risk get some fucking unpleasant side effects, because that's the point of tox tests. They'll be running at 100x or 1000x dose for the high end, to see the effects of overdose. No-one is going to give you 2K to sit pleasantly and eat rich tea, it'll hurt. unless you're lucky and get low-dose or placebo.

but, yeah, by taking the money you're signing away your life and right to sue, effectively. You die, hard luck. It is possible. not likely, but possible.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:52, archived)

nyeurgh.
Maybe I'll skip it then.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 16:55, archived)

See this is why £2k is paltry
If it were £200k, I'd do it and pay my mortgage off.

If it were £20k I might do it and use it as a deposit to buy another house, but £2k ? OMG LOOK I BOUGHT A 2002 HONDA ACCORD !!!!

No thanks....
( Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 17:03, archived)

Actually I don't think even I'd do that for £2k,
and I could really use £2k.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 17:07, archived)