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[QUOTE=Ravager] I wish I wasn't short-sighted.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Athena]*fizzle* (damn) you near-sighted gynocologist, you![/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Ravager](Actually it's much more recent )

Hmm, shouldn't you make a wish Athena? :devil:[/QUOTE]

not exactally, since I didn't grant your wish, I merely put you to work

Ravager-

Wish granted, everything you see is now exponentially shorter. The sexiest women are pint sized, the strongest of men are the size of your thumb, and something else that makes you sad also appears quite short, yes down there.

I wish for a better bloody monitor.

*poof* your new monitor is so hi-tech that you have a seizure from sencory overload. :devil:

I wish for some sleeping pills

It's too easy to simply say you never wake up, so...

The sleeping pills work really well and have no negative side effects. Then one day the pills fall out of your bag, and a kid swaps them for tic tacs. That night you try the pills, and they don't work. You take a few more, finishing the bottle and you still can't sleep. You open a new lot and take a whole heap of them...and we all know what happens then.

I wish that I could cook food without having to use any effort.

Your wish is granted. You become a master chef in your kitchen, making delectable dinners for yourself at any time of the day. However, all the food tastes so good that you gain several hundred pounds. Eventually, the media finds out about you, and shoves you on a Cooking Reality Show. The pressure then blows out your guts... not literally.

I wish I had time to read books... and as I know you people well now, I would like to have the time to read my books if it does not damage my job, health or social life.

Lets see someone play words with that one.

[QUOTE=Hill-Shatar]Your wish is granted. You become a master chef in your kitchen, making delectable dinners for yourself at any time of the day. However, all the food tastes so good that you gain several hundred pounds. Eventually, the media finds out about you, and shoves you on a Cooking Reality Show. The pressure then blows out your guts... not literally.

I wish I had time to read books... and as I know you people well now, I would like to have the time to read my books if it does not damage my job, health or social life.

Lets see someone play words with that one. [/QUOTE]

Alright..it's tricky...but..

Granted, you find that whenever you want it, you have plenty of time to read...so much that you finish your current collection thrice over. As you buy more and more books, you discover that you have infact accidentally collected the diaries of many people you know quite close (including on GB)...and you uncover their dark, terrible brooding secrets, and their sick fanatasies that centre around you. Speechless at these atrocities (which you consider should be classified as war crimes)...([I'm lost right now - NO idea how to finish it]...and then... ...ummm...)..you vow to *never* reveal these discovered secrets to anyone, hence these truths dwell in the pit of darkness that is your soul, and manifests itself as a brain tumor. (It's not the wish that gave you the tumor - it's you. )...

Someone else have a go at that..

I wish my skin (and eyes..my whole body infact) was impervious to fire.

[QUOTE=Hill-Shatar]I wish I had time to read books... and as I know you people well now, I would like to have the time to read my books if it does not damage my job, health or social life.

Lets see someone play words with that one. [/QUOTE]Granted it is. From that moment on, you have loads of spare, extra time to read your books. Every minute takes 10 seconds longer for you, every day is 28 hours. But you start to feel very miserable if you haven't read a book for over a couple of hours. You'll have to take books with you everywhere. You're extremely addicted... to books.

I wish to spend the rest of my life with that fine gentleman in the mirror. (we don't want kids though.)

@ik: Granted. I think that's punishment enough .

@Fenix: You become impervious to fire, however the opposite is said for water. It poses a serious risk to you, and one day while out in the rain, you are drained of all your life and die.

I wish we had a world where bartering still existed.

Granted. All the money in the world disappears and everybody returns to a system of bartering. This does not work very well in urban areas, since nobody has any food to barter and nobody wants much else. At an international level Australia is in a particularly unfortunate position since there is no demand for snakes, kangaroos, koala bears or anything else the country produces. In any case transport costs cannot be met through barter. Australia rapidly returns to the stone age and is ignored by the rest of the world to such an extent that they forget it is there. Several hundred years later the "lost continent" is discovered and since the only people who inhabit it are technologically deprived they are deemed not to exist. It is decided that Australia would be the ideal place to send criminals, and a penal colony is founded.

I wish someone would keep me in luxury, expecting nothing in return. Because I'm worth it

Oops, I meant haggle not barter.

Granted. You live in luxury for the next two years. During that time, what was luxury, now becomes normal, and is no longer so grand. This then leads to you looking further for luxury, and you create percurliar tastes for certain items. While searching for the mysterious albino panther, you disappear forever.

Now, I wish the world encouraged haggling in all uses of money (I meant this before).

[QUOTE=Fiona]I wish someone would keep me in luxury, expecting nothing in return. Because I'm worth it[/QUOTE]It is granted. An ugly, little slave appears at your feet. He treats you well, but boy, he's ugly. You decide you want to read a book, so you stand up, but the slave noticed you were looking at the bookshelf and carried it towards you. Oh my, he's clumsy too...
EDIT: fak, I'm too slow.

I wish the whole world was one country, with one language and one culture and one religion (or none), so there would never be a cause for war.

Granted. Here are a few outcomes:

• The olympics are completely ruined due to there only being one country
• Disagreements are strife and civil war engulfs the nation
• The leader of this nation is a tyrannical dictator who makes life a misery
• With immigration laws down, millions flood the more inhabitable areas causing disease
• Technology stops advancing as there is no longer competition to be the best country

Five should do .

My wish still stands, I wish that haggling was a common practice.

Granted. You're bad at it and pay double what everyone else pays. You end up in poverty until all you have to sell is your body.

I wish I didn't have to share my office with two other people.

Granted. Your organisation employs consultants to review efficiency. For a mere million dollars they produce a report which is adopted in its entirety and implemented. Your workplace is now completely open plan and you share your office with the entire workforce.

(At least that's what happens here)

I wish management consultants were exposed as charlatans

Granted. Now management has nowhere to go for inspirational phrases and advice. Many businesses go down the pan, others reduce wages and others still have to suffer their bosses' extra ignorance.

I wish that glasses were cheaper.

[QUOTE=Ravager]I wish that glasses were cheaper.[/QUOTE]
Granted, this encourages home drinking and leads to the closing of many pubs. (oh, you didn't mean those glasses... that'll teach you to formulate you wishes better says this djinni)

I wish I got a mental picture of a person as I read their post on GB.

Sorry, I meant the glasses you see through.

You see the true hideousness of the SYMers and die of shock...which is a really a good thing once you've seen all that .

I wish I had a remote to make people be quiet.

Granted. But the battery life on it is horrible. You have to replace the batteries every couple of days, soon enough you can't get enough of being able to use the remote and you have to sell your belongings off one-by-one to afford the batteries. You end up on the streets with a useless remote because you can no longer afford the batteries and no-one is willing to give you a loan.

I wish that I could get a higher score quicker on that Viking Invasion game.

[QUOTE=Ravager]I wish that I could get a higher score quicker on that Viking Invasion game.[/QUOTE]
This Djinn says: HA! You can't beat me!! But he grants your wish and you get a higher score within 5 minutes from now. Unless you weren't playing that game, in which case it's a wish badly spent.

I wish I could teleport into any time I want, whenever I want to.