What's the strangest you've seen?

a day ago by LadyButterfly she/her to c/Memes

Snapz 47 points a day ago

Indefinite free loan to an animal sanctuary.

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noli 6 points 19 hours ago

That counts as giving it away. You'd probably need to rent it out at the steep price of €1/year.

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chuckleslord 12 points 16 hours ago

That counts as selling it. You have to create a shell corporation that owns the elephant and then create a co-ownership agreement with a zoo that guarantees that they house it in exchange for the profits that it generates.

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Vex_Detrause 2 points 4 hours ago

You're hired Mr CEO!

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chuckleslord 1 point 3 hours ago

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Snapz 3 points 15 hours ago

Literally does not. I own the elephant in perpetuity and reserve the eternal right to reclaim it at any time, for any reason - I am the legal owner of record, now and forever. It's the same relationship you have with digital media, except I never took an upfront fee.

If you still disagree, I'll see you in court.

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AbsolutelyNotSpez 46 points a day ago

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lath 36 points a day ago

The answer to these questions is always a method of extracting wealth and donating it to the company as a good little minion should.

Edit: You won't be hired, but your ideas will be appropriated.

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merc 3 points 10 hours ago

Oh no, my ideas on how to... checks notes... care for an elephant, will be appropriated!

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bizarroland 2 points 17 hours ago

I was thinking I would just contact my local homeless shelter and kill it and have it butchered and turned into food for them.

Your local billionaire can't eat elephant steaks, but hey, looks like the homeless population's gonna be set for a week.

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Coskii 31 points 19 hours ago

Transport it on my freight train animal carrier to my 60k acre animal sanctuary where it can join the herd of other elephants I already have.

Hypothetical questions with unrealistic rules allow me to make silly answers unhindered by realism.

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Diplomjodler3 27 points 20 hours ago

From Wikipedia

In the past, lower grade white elephants were given as gifts to the king's friends and allies. The animals needed a great deal of care and, being sacred, could not be put to work, so were a great financial burden on the recipient; only the monarch and the very rich could afford them. According to one story, white elephants were sometimes given as a present to some enemy (often a lesser noble with whom the king was displeased). The unfortunate recipient, unable to make any profit from it, and obliged to take care of it, would suffer bankruptcy and ruin.

So the only correct answer is obviously to start a rebellion and overthrow the king.

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merc 2 points 10 hours ago

If this works, it's a flex of the king's power. The other person is bankrupted and the elephant is cared for until that happens.

On the other hand, this could also show that the king has lost a power struggle. Imagine if that lesser noble announced to the court that the king had bestowed on him a great gift, and that all the members of the court were welcome to come to the noble's estate and leave gifts for the king's elephant.

If the nobles did that, it would be a sign to the king that the court was sick of his bullshit and his rule might be in trouble. Just like he couldn't just order a noble to be punished outright and had to gift them a white elephant instead, the king presumably also couldn't forbid his court from giving gifts to this noble to help care for the elephant.

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TropicalDingdong 22 points a day ago

Me and Stampy are riding off into the sunset.

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thespcicifcocean 21 points a day ago

Ride it into battle.

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MutantTailThing 12 points a day ago

Calm down Hannibal.

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AngryCommieKender 3 points 15 hours ago

That still only counts as One!

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shawn1122 1 point 14 hours ago

Easy there Baahubali

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MutantTailThing 20 points a day ago

Ignore it and pump exorbitant amounts of money on ill-advised boondoggles.

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OwOarchist 6 points a day ago

Found the AI businessman.

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El_Scapacabra 19 points a day ago

Put it in the room with the other one and ignore it.

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JackbyDev 18 points 9 hours ago

Can't give it away or sell it? Fine, I set it free. Didn't say I couldn't do that.

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friend_of_satan 15 points 8 hours ago

Candidate application status: Denied due to lack of capitalist understanding and enthusiasm. Refused to monetize valuable resource.

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JackbyDev 3 points 7 hours ago

Elephant rent seeking behavior

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fubarx 17 points 19 hours ago

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HopeOfTheGunblade 12 points a day ago

Ask the elephant what they want.

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zurohki 9 points a day ago

The question hasn't magically given me the ability to contain or control the elephant, so realistically the elephant will decide what happens next. I don't see where I can meaningfully change the outcome.

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somegeek 11 points 19 hours ago

I acknowledge tge elephant in my room

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GraniteM 11 points 17 hours ago

They're not really that strange, but I'm infuriated by questions phrased like "Have you ever thought about stealing anything?"

Even if I'd never in my life before that moment thought about stealing anything, because you have asked me that question, now I have. You may as well ask me whether not I've ever imagined a pink elephant.

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Rugnjr 10 points a day ago

I think the only reasonable answer is to just leave without it. This one's on the gift giver; I can't possibly accept it. For one, it definitely can't go in my apartment, and it would cost a shit ton to keep it healthy. It would be an extraordinarily bad idea to take it under my care. I would be getting all sorts of new and exotic fines for all the damage it will do to neighborhood cars etc.

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Lupus108 10 points 18 hours ago

Ride it to work every day, taking the best parking spots. Good luck trying to tow ab elephant.

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AngryCommieKender 3 points 15 hours ago

Bananas work wonders for getting an elephant to follow you.

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CameronDev 10 points 21 hours ago

Im going to assume that "can't give it away" also means that it can't be transferred to my next of kin. Which if you squint hard enough, means as long as the elephant lives, I must be invincible, or the "can't give it away" rule is violated.

So im gonna get creative with my newfound invincibility.

I suppose I should give the elephant a nice sanctuary to extend its life.

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merc 2 points 10 hours ago

Which if you squint hard enough, means as long as the elephant lives, I must be invincible

That's an absurd amount of squinting. You can't give it away. When you're dead, that obligation is no longer in force.

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CameronDev 1 point 8 hours ago

More absurd than a free elephant?

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merc 1 point 2 hours ago

Yes

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FedX 9 points 16 hours ago

I release it back in the wild. It's not giving it away or selling it if it "runs away."

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merc 8 points 10 hours ago

FYI:

Elephants are megaherbivores. They eat up to 300 kilograms (5% to 10% of their body weight) of food each day. To meet their needs, they require 50,000 to 70,000 calories daily.

Even if they're eating the cheapest plants you can buy that they can digest, that will still probably be hundreds of dollars per day.

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MML 7 points 6 hours ago

I pay someone $1 to take it, there I didn't give it away and I didn't sell it.

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DarkFuture 7 points 11 hours ago

Love it. Ride it. Crush my enemies with it.

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RamenJunkie 2 points 9 hours ago

Gonna have the best cosplay at the LotR convention.

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I_Has_A_Hat 7 points 12 hours ago

Easy, I ignore it until it gets taken away by the authorities for neglect and for me not having a license to own an elephant. I did not sell it. I did not give it away. It was taken from me.

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SCmSTR 7 points 14 hours ago

Is this an ethical question or a logic question or a creative question

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Malfeasant 6 points 12 hours ago

Yes.

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flandish 7 points 9 hours ago

name him Stampy and rent him out for weddings.

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Vex_Detrause 1 point 4 hours ago

Stompy! But I think they are very gentle on their feet.

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tabularasa 1 point 4 hours ago

Came here for this.

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OldChicoAle 6 points 5 hours ago

Address it

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diffaldo 5 points a day ago

I know the answer! Its ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Your mom :::

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secretsoundwave 5 points 7 hours ago

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Onomatopoeia 5 points 16 hours ago

"Give it away"

Rules don't apply if you're making shit up

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libre_warrior 4 points 3 hours ago

What type of job is this? Zookeeper?

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LovableSidekick 4 points 9 hours ago

Magically make it disappear. Because this situation is so unlikely an equally unlikely solution should work. But if didn't I would walk it down the street so authorities would confiscate it, and then it would be their problem.

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solarvector 4 points 17 hours ago

I've heard a million times that the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time, so.... that.

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Alwaysnownevernotme 4 points 11 hours ago

Ride it over the alps.

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OwOarchist 4 points a day ago

We're having a really big barbecue, and everybody is invited!

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Malfeasant 2 points 12 hours ago

I think that constitutes giving it away. You'd have to eat it all yourself.

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Sharkticon 4 points a day ago

I hear elephant meat is quite tasty actually.

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Whats_your_reasoning 3 points 19 hours ago

I can't give it away or sell it, but nothing says can't trade it for something more practical (as long as it's not money.)

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rumba 3 points 14 hours ago

I would lease it to a nature preserve that had elephants and took good care of it.

Failing that, interview zoos that take good care of their elephants.

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draco_aeneus 2 points 11 hours ago

How are you going to give/sell it to the zoo if you cannot give it/sell it?

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rumba 2 points 10 hours ago

$1 per year lease.

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MonkderVierte 3 points 18 hours ago

you can't give it away

The local zoo says that's illegal.

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Agent641 3 points 3 hours ago

Teach it to love the taste of HR blood

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can 3 points 16 hours ago

I would trade it away

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merc 3 points 10 hours ago

These are annoying in the context of a job interview. But, these are definitely interesting questions to think about. How much does an elephant eat? How much space do they need? What temperature is too cold for one? Do they need to be around other elephants, or is a loving human enough? What are the laws about privately owning an elephant? I know they can make trumpeting noises, but do they do that often? Would they annoy neighbours with their noises?

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Dearth 2 points 3 hours ago

I honestly love these sorts of questions. I love asking them in interviews too. There's no real right answer and it demonstrates an ability to think outside the box

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lobut 2 points 2 hours ago

I only like it when it's like expected to be that way ... the problem that I see in tech interviews is that there's an expected path to solving these and they don't "actually" reward out-of-the-box thinking ... they want to nudge you to their answer and I find that boring.

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pineapplelover 1 point an hour ago

I believe google interviews throw a question like that. Where there's no right answer but they just wanna see how the interviewer answers

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dogdeanafternoon 2 points 6 hours ago

Paint it white

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Zamboni_Driver 2 points 2 hours ago path: 0 24391984, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
AnnaFrankfurter 1 point 10 hours ago

Simple turn it into a Hadoop cluster

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secretsoundwave 1 point 7 hours ago
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Professorozone 1 point 6 hours ago

Take it on interviews, of course.

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SethTaylor 1 point 5 hours ago

I put on Harry Nilsson's Best Friend and do a goofy video montage of us getting into all kinds of shenanigans

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