What would you do with £1000000000?
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I\'d invade Poland, after all, I AM German.
Stop this shocked look, I\'m German so I can make stupid jokes about German people.
I\'d have someone buy me the largest Schnitzel possible, then buy a bottle of Fanta or something and that\'s about it. Yes, I\'m easily pleased. Rest will be for my unborn children, I\'ll gladly live off the interest.
Stop this shocked look, I\'m German so I can make stupid jokes about German people.
I\'d have someone buy me the largest Schnitzel possible, then buy a bottle of Fanta or something and that\'s about it. Yes, I\'m easily pleased. Rest will be for my unborn children, I\'ll gladly live off the interest.
The usual, I change my name to Elmer J. Fudd, and I\'d buy a mansion and a yacht.
Oh wait, that was 1000000000? OK, make that a Bavarian Castle and a Cruise ship.
The ship would be called the USS Pointdexter, and it would be setup as a gamer/egghead/nerds paradise. There\'d be a huge gaming room where the casino usually is on those things, and there would be bookstores, comics shops, incredibly well-stocked game stores, toy stores, a huge Computer-gaming/web cafe thing for online fragfests, Japanime\' everywhere, shows with medieval re-inactments, gladitorial combats...oh yeah...and a Hooters! In fact, the ships crew would all have to wear barbarian garb. Chainmail bikini women serving cocktails on deck... and of course burly Shwartzenagarian types giving messages for the female gamers. Lastly, I\'d spend all of my time sailing around the world bringing joy to all my fellow eclectic types, spending a few weeks in every port.
Oh yeah, and whatever was left I\'d give to World Peace, or ending World Hunger. Maybe get Chuck Norris some acting lessons. Forget it, I\'ll just stick with the first two, at least they\'re possible.lol
Oh wait, that was 1000000000? OK, make that a Bavarian Castle and a Cruise ship.
The ship would be called the USS Pointdexter, and it would be setup as a gamer/egghead/nerds paradise. There\'d be a huge gaming room where the casino usually is on those things, and there would be bookstores, comics shops, incredibly well-stocked game stores, toy stores, a huge Computer-gaming/web cafe thing for online fragfests, Japanime\' everywhere, shows with medieval re-inactments, gladitorial combats...oh yeah...and a Hooters! In fact, the ships crew would all have to wear barbarian garb. Chainmail bikini women serving cocktails on deck... and of course burly Shwartzenagarian types giving messages for the female gamers. Lastly, I\'d spend all of my time sailing around the world bringing joy to all my fellow eclectic types, spending a few weeks in every port.
Oh yeah, and whatever was left I\'d give to World Peace, or ending World Hunger. Maybe get Chuck Norris some acting lessons. Forget it, I\'ll just stick with the first two, at least they\'re possible.lol
ipaintminis
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hummm
first id exchange it and id have like double that...so thats like 2 billion dollars
then id like get a really good agent...and get famous...
id get a new house for the family, and totally get new cars for me, mama and papa, let the parents retire...move somewhere nice...take the rest and oggle at it...and then decided what to do...
first id exchange it and id have like double that...so thats like 2 billion dollars
then id like get a really good agent...and get famous...
id get a new house for the family, and totally get new cars for me, mama and papa, let the parents retire...move somewhere nice...take the rest and oggle at it...and then decided what to do...
No Such Agency
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Add a few chain guns and an onboard attack chopper, piracy is on the rise these days.
I used to play this game with a friend of mine all the time in grad school. Our answers usually consisted of some variant of \"leave grad school and never come back\".
In all seriousness, I\'d have to 1) set myself up so I never have to do a job I don\'t like again (i.e. invest wisely), and 2) be very generous to friends, family and certain charities (so I could look in the mirror without shame).
Legacy Account
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lol
Tanks!! I could buy a tank! And a fighter jet. Hell, if I\'ve got my own dictatorship, the Yanks\'d probably sell me an entire airforce.....lol
wiccanpony
Official Freak Bar Witch
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh......thinking of all the \"BoyToys\" I could hire......just makes one \"tingle\" at the thought :innocent:
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elitesoljah
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grr
:flame: @becca u forgot me what about the nice car for me (future car that is) and the bigger room to fit the car in and the basket ball courts (plz dont forget the friggn basket ball) and the football and the football field :~( :moon:? its all about you ur rank ur mini blah blah blah lol *this is a joke im not pissed or flaming*
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@becca u forgot me what about the nice car for me (future car that is) and the bigger room to fit the car in and the basket ball courts (plz dont forget the friggn basket ball) and the football and the football field :~( :moon:? its all about you ur rank ur mini blah blah blah lol *this is a joke im not pissed or flaming*
No Such Agency
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Well, if there\'s one thing the past few years have shown, it\'s that one can become famous just by being rich... and stupid. You could buy a lobotomy with the money and then you and Paris H. could be best buds (since in your present state you would probably try to strangle her with her own intestines after five minutes together).
Better to be rich and obscure. You could hire a couple of ex green berets and fly around the world discreetly rescuing kittens and orphans from mean people.
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Broke n English
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I think the soldier lad has it,a footy pitch! I\'d hire Liverpool and cream em\' every sunday for a laugh!
I\'ve given this some thought....
I can think of lots of OTT things like having \'Page and Plant\' come round to perform in my living room etc..
But if I actually had that sort of money...I\'d sponsor young entrepreneurs with a bit of talent and a fire in their belly and then place dibs on 10% of all their future earnings.
Then, when I was really rich....:flip:
I can think of lots of OTT things like having \'Page and Plant\' come round to perform in my living room etc..
But if I actually had that sort of money...I\'d sponsor young entrepreneurs with a bit of talent and a fire in their belly and then place dibs on 10% of all their future earnings.
Then, when I was really rich....:flip:
Thats a great idea Finn, I\'d steal that one, but you guys don\'t think big enough...
1) Get a space ship and do some exploring, preferably one that could actually make it to the next sun in a decent amount of time, but given thats currently impossible, I\'ll settle for a system ship to explore the solar system.
2) Buy an island, set up a new state, and get some sensible laws in place, create a perfect utopian state (well at least from my POV).
3) Buy land in various places around the world.
4) Build a castle (a proper one with moat, portculiis, dungeon etc.), live in it. Have SCA events there, jousts, feasts etc.
5) Setup a science foundation to fund research, and make myself a big lab, get some grad students and postdocs in and start actually doing doing all the research ideas I have that I can\'t get funding for. Base it somewhere near to a decent beach (pretty easy in Oz) so we can have some fun after work.
I\'d also do the whole investing, charity, buying new toys, family thing, but given that no. 1 would probably cost more than I have, I\'d need to find a way of turning that 1 billion into a few thousand billion.
Trevor, never stumped when asked what he\'d do if he won a million, the answer is always: \"A million is no way enough for what I want to do\"
1) Get a space ship and do some exploring, preferably one that could actually make it to the next sun in a decent amount of time, but given thats currently impossible, I\'ll settle for a system ship to explore the solar system.
2) Buy an island, set up a new state, and get some sensible laws in place, create a perfect utopian state (well at least from my POV).
3) Buy land in various places around the world.
4) Build a castle (a proper one with moat, portculiis, dungeon etc.), live in it. Have SCA events there, jousts, feasts etc.
5) Setup a science foundation to fund research, and make myself a big lab, get some grad students and postdocs in and start actually doing doing all the research ideas I have that I can\'t get funding for. Base it somewhere near to a decent beach (pretty easy in Oz) so we can have some fun after work.
I\'d also do the whole investing, charity, buying new toys, family thing, but given that no. 1 would probably cost more than I have, I\'d need to find a way of turning that 1 billion into a few thousand billion.
Trevor, never stumped when asked what he\'d do if he won a million, the answer is always: \"A million is no way enough for what I want to do\"
I was actually discussing something along these lines with my wife, just the other day. Our basic conclusion....
There comes a point where you stop being rich, and the money truly stops mattering at all.
Now, granted, not everyone wants to buy a dictatorship, an air force, an island, and all that... but there does come a point where you\'d just have to say \"What do I do with this money?\"
You can retire and live off the interest comfortably with only 1 million dollars, provided you don\'t touch the prinicple, and keep turning it over. Between 70-90K a year, just on basic interest in a GIC.
A billion? There just... isn\'t a way I can think of - in things I\'d do - to get rid of it all.
Unless one of you embezzles it from me.
There comes a point where you stop being rich, and the money truly stops mattering at all.
Now, granted, not everyone wants to buy a dictatorship, an air force, an island, and all that... but there does come a point where you\'d just have to say \"What do I do with this money?\"
You can retire and live off the interest comfortably with only 1 million dollars, provided you don\'t touch the prinicple, and keep turning it over. Between 70-90K a year, just on basic interest in a GIC.
A billion? There just... isn\'t a way I can think of - in things I\'d do - to get rid of it all.
Unless one of you embezzles it from me.
kittykat23uk
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I would pay off my debts, and my family\'s debts. Then I\'d buy a nice sized house, get some more display cabinets for my minis and probably get a cleaner as well. Then I\'d spend half of the year travelling (either diving or birdwatching, safaris, that kind of thing) and the rest of the time painting, chilling and having fun with friends. I\'d invest the money so I\'m able to live comfortably off the interest as well, maybe get a nice car, etc.
I\'d invest the money so I\'m able to live comfortably off the interest as well, maybe get a nice car, etc.
freakinacage
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i\'d probably cry a little. or a lot. go into town and buy free drinks for everyone in the pub for the night (i\'d find the pub with most hot women first). i would give a load to charity. buy a load of minis and paint loads in my new house with giant hobby room. i\'d quit my job for a bit so i could get bored with painting 24/7. buy a nice car and go on holiday with all my mates. oh and get my parents a decent car, pay for their new conservatory and buy them a holiday home.... oh the joys of being rich eh?
