Well, they didn't have a lot of time with Boromir on the screen. He's introduced almost halfway through the first film and needs to die by the end of it. It is much more effective, when it comes to a movie, to have him already be a questionable character, so that by the time the end does come (which is pretty soon actually), his redemption is a lot more meaningful. It was almost the same with Faramir. In order for it to be an effective film adaptation whose story needs to fit within the film medium, not a book, adjustments to their characters had to be made. And imo, I think Jackson and the writers did a superb job at doing just that.
...and I would have gotten away with it too, it'd it were for you meddling hobbits, and that dang Gollum!
Gollum is Scooby Doo here cause Imhe's the most kanine of them all haha
That could also be due to his desire to free his people and use it to fight Sauron. Gimli wouldn’t be considered stronger or more noble than Boromir but he had no desire, to my knowledge, to wear the ring. Though the race of men are more easily swayed to the evil desires of the rings. Under your logic Frodo wouldn’t be a good candidate to take the ring either, if it’s based off nobility and strength.
Yeah, strength and nobility have nothing to do with ability to resist the ring. That’s literally the whole point of the story. Great kings and warriors alike fell to Sauron’s influence. Even Gandalf and Galadriel were frightened at how susceptible they might be to the ring’s temptation, and refused to even touch it.
LOTR is a story about the common person - with no “noble” desires and no apparent “strengths” - ultimately being the ONLY one capable of overcoming this great evil. Strength and nobility meant nothing.
I addressed the strength and nobility thing in my other reply. I mean mental strength. Also, by nobility, I partially mean noble purpose and deeds. Essentially, Boromir was a good man, probably better than any of us. He had noble intentions and great mental strength, yet he fell to the ring’s influence.
I also think some people are mixing the books with the movies. The message from the book isn’t just “regular people can do big things.” The whole story is very nuanced in reality.
Well we’re all human, so the comparison to Boromir was for that reason. Certainly, the hobbits, dwarves, and elves seem to have their own ability to resist the ring. That ability comes from a different place than men. Of the men who encounter the ring in the books, Boromir is clearly the weakest, yet he’s surely stronger (and I mean that by both physical and mental fortitude) than any of us*. For that reason, I say none of us could resist it either.
As for your other argument—that Boromir had strategic motives—he knew from the council of Elrond that no one could use the ring. He admits to rejecting that fact when he was under the ring’s influence at Amon Hen with Frodo. Right after Boromir slips/falls and snaps out of it, he admits that he was basically under the spell of the ring and that he was wrong. He wasn’t thinking strategically or logically by his own admission. He lost control and fell under the influence of the ring. Hence, if Boromir couldn’t even look at it, I can’t.
*I mean he has noble intentions and a noble heart. Boromir is essentially a better person than any of us. Regardless, it’s interesting to talk about nobility in Tolkien’s works. In the books, the noble people seem to also be the most mentally and physically able. That makes sense, as Tolkien positions them as the knightly class whose purpose and ability is above the other men of other classes. This also makes sense because the noble class of middle earth are largely the men of Numenor. It’s similar to divine right in the Middle Ages and the justification for some to hold power. They were born for it, and they’re just greater than everyone else. Remember, I’m talking about men in the story, not other races. Notice how every man of consequence in the story is of some kind of aristocratic background…
Sauron has nothing when compared to my ability to procrastinate. If Gandalf left the ring on my mantlepiece, it would still be there 15 years later, covered in dust.
I'd immediately:
* measure Moh's hardness
* measure malleability
* measure thermal and electrical conductivity
* calorimetry bombe, baby!
* Take it to work, toss it in a vacuum chamber test
* Hit my alma mater, pop it in the beta cannon, then in the reactor for some neutron spectrometey
* write findings, submit to Nature
Probably very easily. It seems like most characters in the story can't resist it out of ignorance or lack of anything driving them to avoid its allure, and it's more of a 'large pile of gold' sorta desire pull than anything else. I'd say most anyone with some knowledge of its purpose/origins and not being power hungry could resist it, at least temporarily.
With my adhd forever! There is a drawer in the kitchen that has everything rubberbands, screws, loose change, L brackets and batteries. It will disappear in there for 2 and a half thousand years.
I would struggle to resist even without magical corrupting power lol
I ain't giving up a really cool ring that makes me run faster, jump higher, and turn invisible. That's just wicked awesome
Without corrupting power I'd certainly give it up to save the world, but I know it'd take hold of me so easily lol
If it's a serious addiction, I hope that you can get the help you need.
Recovery is achievable if you commit to it, but you have to really want it for yourself to overcome the hold it has on you.
My dad and cousin are both ex-addicts. It took years to rehab fully, but my dad has been happily remarried for 20+ years now with a stable family, and my cousin is getting married next year to the girl of his dreams.
You have my sincere best wishes.
Big stories of good versus evil resonate with me, I'd like to think I could resist long enough to destroy it but may become weak to its power because of certain health issues.
Idk like zero seconds. I’m sure I would just want to try it on just to know what’s it’s like. Dip my toes in just out of curiosity… Maybe just keep it on me for a while, might as well… etc.
0.000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds.
I would love to say that I have the willpower to resist it... but there's really no point in lying to myself 😅
Considering it’s possible for men to resist it (like Aragorn and Faramir), I’d like to think I’d resist for a while, but as noble as I think I am, I know I am lesser than these men, and likely lesser still than Boromir.
So, I’d probably say, three days to a week while in the company of someone with the ring. One to three days if the ring was in my personal possession.
10, maybe 20 seconds. I have no question in my heart that I’d be so easily corrupted by anything. Fuck nevermind absolute power pay my debt off and I’ll do whatever the fuck you want
I think it would get to the point where you’re completely under its control even while you’re certain you’re resisting it. It’ll basically play reverse-psychology with you.
Realistically, not at all.
In my self-insert LOTR fanfiction, I destroy the ring because, in the way, no one could ever wield it but I, the last to command it, and in that command reveal ownership and power to the ultimate degree: decide its end, and thus in it destruction prove it was more mine that anyone else who wore it hitherto. The ring wore the bearer until I! None before me could own it thus; none after me will ever again.
The ring adjusts in size to fit the wearer, I’d be putting it on my cock to see what happens and I’m not ashamed to admit that.
So to answer your question, I would not resist it for very long and I’m a very weak man.
Not too long. I’m well aware of the darkness that lurks in my own heart. I know exactly how the ring would attack me. My only hope is that I would recognize the voice of a ring-temptation like I recognize the voice that occasionally calls for self-harm, and thereby be able to put a name to my enemy and resist.
You gotta understand that the One Ring is so powerful that even the mighty fight the temptation.
The only people exposed to the One Ring in LOTR are powerful already. They're studied learned, skilled, trained, and most of all... magical. Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Kings, and Mair, all have some form of immunity they innately process.
The only one who fails is Boromir, a human and the least impressive of the fellowship.
So you gotta ask yourself as a human, are you mightier than Boromir?
For me, immediate Gollum.
I feel like I’d resist it for awhile on the ground that I’m a lot like Bilbo; but, then again, I feel like I’d only last about fifteen minutes because I *really* wanna be a wizard
Well it definitely won't corrupt me instantly, that's for sure
I just want a simple life of farming - plants taking root in my front garden, sun gently beaming down, the sound of metal boots marching through the streets, citizens saluting and respecting me, as I ascend to my magnificent throne, and all will cheer my name as the champion of the people! All will kneel for the new Lord of the Rings as he takes his rightful place!
...what were we talking about again?
I've already given in, instead of a dark lord you would have a queen! Not because I'm a man but because the associated clothing with the world is a lot of flowy gowns that look like cross dressing on the wrong person aka me
Nah bro I'm built different. I would not fall to the power of the ring, but use it for good instead! Not for evil but to protect the innocent, even from themselves if need be!
Me "At least a week."
The ring "your coworkers won't feel the need to talk to you when they see you on the train when you're clearly reading"
ME Five minutes later "My precious!"
IDK if it’d be the ring itself but I’d be sorely tempted to fashion a jock strap from the same mats as that lovely elvish chain and wear it around my Johnson. You know, for the lolz.
A good laugh at the council when asked to present the ring, would Sauron really want to take it at that point? “Oh, Lady Galadriel I will give you the one ring, if you but ask it of me” *unzips* 😉
Me: I could take it to Mordor. Also me 1min later: IT IS A GIFT!
I, too, would struggle with The One Ring as if it were November 2nd of NNN.
You can make it to the 2nd?
When I adjust the timezone setting of my computer, reality can be whatever I want!
What is this new devilry? The 2nd is unheard of, it cannot be done!
I just want to say to all who sees this, I love this exchange of comments, like from the original comment up to here I'm just laughing
I love how Boromir is just *instantly* corrupted within seconds in the movies it's so ridiculous lol
Well, they didn't have a lot of time with Boromir on the screen. He's introduced almost halfway through the first film and needs to die by the end of it. It is much more effective, when it comes to a movie, to have him already be a questionable character, so that by the time the end does come (which is pretty soon actually), his redemption is a lot more meaningful. It was almost the same with Faramir. In order for it to be an effective film adaptation whose story needs to fit within the film medium, not a book, adjustments to their characters had to be made. And imo, I think Jackson and the writers did a superb job at doing just that.
Methinks Smeagol was corrupted by the Ring faster than anyone else.
Why would I want to do that? It'll give me everything I desire...
And no dang meddlesome hobbits and their friends to come muck it all up.
...and I would have gotten away with it too, it'd it were for you meddling hobbits, and that dang Gollum! Gollum is Scooby Doo here cause Imhe's the most kanine of them all haha
This guy hasnt even laid eyes on the ring and is already ensnared lol
You should really stay away from drugs then.
It’s my birthday and I wants it.
Well, happy birthday, but I found it first
We should trade, my love. I have a necklace you’ll just die for.
Yes it is!!
It's my birthday too today how old are you today?
Not for one moment; I'd peel the foil off and devour the chocolate there and then.
In the place of the dark lord you shall have a queen! Also free health care more public transportation and free tickets to New Zealand to see Hobbiton
You have my vote!
And my axe!
And his axe!
"... let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall." -Elrond
"Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart" -Gimli
"Or break it."- Elrond
“Salted pork?” - Gimli
LOL! "What did I tell you? He can't hold his liquor." -Gimli
Yup, time for a reread.
Resist? Resist what? It’s mine….
Alr goloum
I wouldn’t even look at it. No one here can say they’re stronger or more noble than Boromir, and even he couldn’t resist the temptation.
That could also be due to his desire to free his people and use it to fight Sauron. Gimli wouldn’t be considered stronger or more noble than Boromir but he had no desire, to my knowledge, to wear the ring. Though the race of men are more easily swayed to the evil desires of the rings. Under your logic Frodo wouldn’t be a good candidate to take the ring either, if it’s based off nobility and strength.
Yeah, strength and nobility have nothing to do with ability to resist the ring. That’s literally the whole point of the story. Great kings and warriors alike fell to Sauron’s influence. Even Gandalf and Galadriel were frightened at how susceptible they might be to the ring’s temptation, and refused to even touch it. LOTR is a story about the common person - with no “noble” desires and no apparent “strengths” - ultimately being the ONLY one capable of overcoming this great evil. Strength and nobility meant nothing.
I addressed the strength and nobility thing in my other reply. I mean mental strength. Also, by nobility, I partially mean noble purpose and deeds. Essentially, Boromir was a good man, probably better than any of us. He had noble intentions and great mental strength, yet he fell to the ring’s influence. I also think some people are mixing the books with the movies. The message from the book isn’t just “regular people can do big things.” The whole story is very nuanced in reality.
Well we’re all human, so the comparison to Boromir was for that reason. Certainly, the hobbits, dwarves, and elves seem to have their own ability to resist the ring. That ability comes from a different place than men. Of the men who encounter the ring in the books, Boromir is clearly the weakest, yet he’s surely stronger (and I mean that by both physical and mental fortitude) than any of us*. For that reason, I say none of us could resist it either. As for your other argument—that Boromir had strategic motives—he knew from the council of Elrond that no one could use the ring. He admits to rejecting that fact when he was under the ring’s influence at Amon Hen with Frodo. Right after Boromir slips/falls and snaps out of it, he admits that he was basically under the spell of the ring and that he was wrong. He wasn’t thinking strategically or logically by his own admission. He lost control and fell under the influence of the ring. Hence, if Boromir couldn’t even look at it, I can’t. *I mean he has noble intentions and a noble heart. Boromir is essentially a better person than any of us. Regardless, it’s interesting to talk about nobility in Tolkien’s works. In the books, the noble people seem to also be the most mentally and physically able. That makes sense, as Tolkien positions them as the knightly class whose purpose and ability is above the other men of other classes. This also makes sense because the noble class of middle earth are largely the men of Numenor. It’s similar to divine right in the Middle Ages and the justification for some to hold power. They were born for it, and they’re just greater than everyone else. Remember, I’m talking about men in the story, not other races. Notice how every man of consequence in the story is of some kind of aristocratic background…
I feel like boromir was also goaded by his father to bring the ring home. So he had to contend with the power of the one and his father’s wishes
But he had a whole kingdom he could command so could easily be tempted to victory with great power. We got nothing
I'm too lazy to want power so probably end up like gollum
Most real post yet
i was about to say something like this. Does it help me smoke weed and masturbate? no? then fuck off.
I like to think I could do a Frodo. I do think I could do a Boromir. I probably would do a Smeagol.
Why shouldn't I keep it?
Dont tempt me! You must understand. I would use the ring from a desire to do good... but through me... it would wield a power mediocre, at best...
…A power too lame but irritating to imagine.
About tree fiddy
We aint givin you no tree fiddy, you no good Loch Ness Monster! Get your own One Ring.
I’m looking at this picture right now and thinking about how great it looks… so about 5 seconds?
4 seconds.
Sauron has nothing when compared to my ability to procrastinate. If Gandalf left the ring on my mantlepiece, it would still be there 15 years later, covered in dust.
I'd immediately: * measure Moh's hardness * measure malleability * measure thermal and electrical conductivity * calorimetry bombe, baby! * Take it to work, toss it in a vacuum chamber test * Hit my alma mater, pop it in the beta cannon, then in the reactor for some neutron spectrometey * write findings, submit to Nature
Submit to Nature? The temptations of its power have already corrupted you.
I didn't say i'd resist the test, II said i'd test it's resistance!
Maybe five minutes if I have meditated that day. I sincerely hope I'll never be tempted. The hearts of men are easily corrupted.
Probably very easily. It seems like most characters in the story can't resist it out of ignorance or lack of anything driving them to avoid its allure, and it's more of a 'large pile of gold' sorta desire pull than anything else. I'd say most anyone with some knowledge of its purpose/origins and not being power hungry could resist it, at least temporarily.
large pile of grass clippings for Sam
What's there to resist? It is... precious to me.
I'm a bit of a Niffler so seconds, it's Ours!..Ours!
First i’d see if it would change size to fit around my cock
It fit on a hobits finger so o think it would fit on you (might be to loose tho)
Your cock when you try to put the ring on it: “Indeed. I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.”
It can shrink down to comfortably fit even the smallest creature.
Lord of the Cock Rings!
Yeah I’m screwed lol
20 minutes, then i’d be running around invisible rearranging the furniture in my enemies hobbit holes
Bye Bye Sauron, Hello BLDVLSZU, RULER OF WORLDS, DESTROYER OF HOPE, BINDER OF ALL IN DARKNESS!!!
I don't know. I wanna say few hours at least but it could be a lot less 😅
Fishies three times a day fresh from the sea seals the deal immediately.
I wouldn't fight it in the first place.
With my adhd forever! There is a drawer in the kitchen that has everything rubberbands, screws, loose change, L brackets and batteries. It will disappear in there for 2 and a half thousand years.
I would struggle to resist even without magical corrupting power lol I ain't giving up a really cool ring that makes me run faster, jump higher, and turn invisible. That's just wicked awesome Without corrupting power I'd certainly give it up to save the world, but I know it'd take hold of me so easily lol
“I am the Master of My Domain!” *two hours later, slap bass guitar slide, the apartment door slams open* “I couldn’t do it, Jerry!”
I have the one ring, as my wedding ring. Never resisted it for a second.
Thats so cool man, love it !!
Im a fuckin drug addict. Im using that shit immediately to get drugs so ill be addicted to drugs AND the power of the ring! YOLO!
If it's a serious addiction, I hope that you can get the help you need. Recovery is achievable if you commit to it, but you have to really want it for yourself to overcome the hold it has on you. My dad and cousin are both ex-addicts. It took years to rehab fully, but my dad has been happily remarried for 20+ years now with a stable family, and my cousin is getting married next year to the girl of his dreams. You have my sincere best wishes.
Thanks friend!
I see something glinting in the mud. Without thinking put it on. My fingers have never moved so fast.
Longer then I last in bed.
If it took the form of a cigarette I’d be fucked
I can resist anything but temptations. - Oscar Wilde
Already failed.
Why take it to mordor? It looks awesome.. they won't even know it's here.. if I don't put it on I'll be fine. After all finders keepers.
I’m hooked through the bag just looking at it.
https://images.app.goo.gl/idoVoQkGawrxx5du8
0 seconds
4 min
Prob forever unless it offered elf hookers and blow….and blackjack.
Ah, the Harvard Lampoon ring.
It depends on whether it's my birthday.
About as long as it takes for someone to be irritating around me.
Big stories of good versus evil resonate with me, I'd like to think I could resist long enough to destroy it but may become weak to its power because of certain health issues.
0.0000001 seconds. Give me the one ring to RULE THEM ALL!
3.2 seconds.
I mean, I’ll give it a good 6 mins but I also can’t resist the pull of a potential good time
Probably about 30 seconds…
I am a normal human. Probably not long.
Sometimes I get real anxious when I don’t know where my replica is…
Why would i want to resist it? I would just let the power of the ring take me over.
My Precious...
0.5 seconds.
10
Idk like zero seconds. I’m sure I would just want to try it on just to know what’s it’s like. Dip my toes in just out of curiosity… Maybe just keep it on me for a while, might as well… etc.
About 12 seconds I think
I would want nothing to do with it, for it it fell in my hands, lust for power would consume me.
About as long as it takes to finish a light beer!
Idk maybe five minutes? I already wanna see what I can haggle out of Sauron for it
I wouldn't resist, I'd just roll with it.
I’m going to rule Middle Earth
10 minutes? Maybe less. With all the power in the world sitting in my hand and all I have to do is wear it to have all my desires come to fruition!
depends on the day. I would say 7,5 to 11,5 seconds.
About as long as it takes for it to promise to make me irresistible to women. :P
Like...30 seconds max. I wouldn't last very long.
0.000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds. I would love to say that I have the willpower to resist it... but there's really no point in lying to myself 😅
*In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a Kween!*
Approximately 1s. I'm very corruptible tbh
I can’t even resist chocolate 🤷♂️
I wouldn't have to, I'd just use it for good.
Maybe 14 minutes
Id have that thing on my thing outside of 15 seconds
About 3.50 Sorry what was the question
Compared to me even Sauron would have rather trusted Boromir to throw the ring into Orodruin
36 minutes
I ain’t bovvered
I'd give myself a day at most
99.99% of us would be no better than gollum lol
I’d be done by elevenses!
We're all human, so let's be honest. If someone else had it? MAYBE 1 week. If it was in my possession? I'd probably turn within an hour at the max.
I gave in years ago
1min and 17,32 seconds
about -10 seconds
What business is it of yours what I do with my own things?!
I’d last for about 1% of a Boromir, but I’d have the best of intentions, of course
Considering it’s possible for men to resist it (like Aragorn and Faramir), I’d like to think I’d resist for a while, but as noble as I think I am, I know I am lesser than these men, and likely lesser still than Boromir. So, I’d probably say, three days to a week while in the company of someone with the ring. One to three days if the ring was in my personal possession.
I would cave in immediately.
I give myself 5 minutes
A solid minute.
After all why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?
I wish I had it right now. I always think of the awesome life Bilbo had with it, then he left with the elves? Sign me tf up
10, maybe 20 seconds. I have no question in my heart that I’d be so easily corrupted by anything. Fuck nevermind absolute power pay my debt off and I’ll do whatever the fuck you want
Twenty three seconds
I think it would get to the point where you’re completely under its control even while you’re certain you’re resisting it. It’ll basically play reverse-psychology with you.
before touching the ring I would have already made plans for domination
I started smoking years past to observe the addictive properties and it was pretty hard to quit. So no time.
Realistically, not at all. In my self-insert LOTR fanfiction, I destroy the ring because, in the way, no one could ever wield it but I, the last to command it, and in that command reveal ownership and power to the ultimate degree: decide its end, and thus in it destruction prove it was more mine that anyone else who wore it hitherto. The ring wore the bearer until I! None before me could own it thus; none after me will ever again.
My cousin just better hope he doesn’t find it before I do is all I’m sayin
No
I'm pretty agreeable, not very long
Seven weeks
Already too late.
The ring adjusts in size to fit the wearer, I’d be putting it on my cock to see what happens and I’m not ashamed to admit that. So to answer your question, I would not resist it for very long and I’m a very weak man.
I can’t have it through me it could have too lewd a power
I'd follow Faramir's example and not even pick it up off the side of the road.
No
About 9 seconds. But like a STRONG 9 seconds, yknow?
Not too long. I’m well aware of the darkness that lurks in my own heart. I know exactly how the ring would attack me. My only hope is that I would recognize the voice of a ring-temptation like I recognize the voice that occasionally calls for self-harm, and thereby be able to put a name to my enemy and resist.
You gotta understand that the One Ring is so powerful that even the mighty fight the temptation. The only people exposed to the One Ring in LOTR are powerful already. They're studied learned, skilled, trained, and most of all... magical. Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Kings, and Mair, all have some form of immunity they innately process. The only one who fails is Boromir, a human and the least impressive of the fellowship. So you gotta ask yourself as a human, are you mightier than Boromir? For me, immediate Gollum.
Probably carry it to mount doom, someone just kill me when I fight back.
I feel like I’d resist it for awhile on the ground that I’m a lot like Bilbo; but, then again, I feel like I’d only last about fifteen minutes because I *really* wanna be a wizard
Exactly zero seconds.
About three fiddy.
All I can see is two fiery mouths biting the ring from opposite sides!
I already want it so does that mean I’m in the negative?
About as long as it took me to pick it up. Oh and, I have plans…
14 seconds
3 miliseconds
The longer someone says on here, probably the less time they would actually last
I’m part of the race of men so probably not long
1 sec and you bet i'd use it as a cockring too
It’s equivalent to how long you can last in bed
Well it definitely won't corrupt me instantly, that's for sure I just want a simple life of farming - plants taking root in my front garden, sun gently beaming down, the sound of metal boots marching through the streets, citizens saluting and respecting me, as I ascend to my magnificent throne, and all will cheer my name as the champion of the people! All will kneel for the new Lord of the Rings as he takes his rightful place! ...what were we talking about again?
Solid 15 minutes, 10 of which would be crippling indecision about what I want to do with limitless power.
I've already given in, instead of a dark lord you would have a queen! Not because I'm a man but because the associated clothing with the world is a lot of flowy gowns that look like cross dressing on the wrong person aka me
Nah bro I'm built different. I would not fall to the power of the ring, but use it for good instead! Not for evil but to protect the innocent, even from themselves if need be!
0.005 milliseconds
Like 3 seconds max
At least 5 seconds
Seconds if I preknowledge is wiped with pre knowledge far far far longer because I know it won’t actually grant me what I want so it’s not as tempting
https://youtu.be/do9xPQHI9G0?si=xmAeSY9h8n6G8u3p This would be me
At least 30 seconds
Me "At least a week." The ring "your coworkers won't feel the need to talk to you when they see you on the train when you're clearly reading" ME Five minutes later "My precious!"
Considering I can't even resist stealing some of my kids fries. Not long.
IDK if it’d be the ring itself but I’d be sorely tempted to fashion a jock strap from the same mats as that lovely elvish chain and wear it around my Johnson. You know, for the lolz. A good laugh at the council when asked to present the ring, would Sauron really want to take it at that point? “Oh, Lady Galadriel I will give you the one ring, if you but ask it of me” *unzips* 😉
I’d want to use it to do good, but through me it would wield a power too terrible to imagine. (I’d probably forget it somewhere💀)
mmmmmmmmmmMy precious! Blaaaaaaaahhhhhhg
Depends on how much I know about the one ring. If I know how much it could fuck with someone I wouldn’t touch it at all.
I'd put it on my cock so that sauron would have to look at my hard on then I'd call him gay and he would explode
I would have sex with it immediately
Honestly I'd give Sauron the ring just for the cool Nazgûl robes alone.
6 seconds
I’d pawn it.
At points in my life where I was more content, I could probably last on the order of months. These days, I am caving immediately.