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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 18:56:09 GMT -1
That's what a UKE citizen just won on the Euromillions lottery. How could one person/family even begin to spend that kind of money? Even the interest on it would be what, £5 million a year, if you just invested the capital? Wouldn't it be better to spread the wealth around and have say, 100 prizes of £1million? Think how many lives that could change for the better. As it happens I met a well-kent WE musician clutching his Euromillions ticket in the shop the other evening. The following day I saw ran into him down Byres. Asked him if he'd won, to which he replied he'd forgotten to check his ticket. He told me the story of a man in England who did away with himself after giving up playing the Lottery on the same numbers for years, only to find 'his' routine numbers came up with a spectacular jackpot. Possibly one of thae 'urban myths' though... What's the first thing you'd buy if you won £108 million pounds? My choice'd be an old masia in Catalonia. That'd leave me with £107 million pounds I can't wrap my head around that kind of money.
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Post by ozneil on Mar 15, 2014 19:21:01 GMT -1
Round the world first class air ticket and visit all places on bucket list. House on the harbour Island on Barrier reef in Whitsundays
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Post by notanimby on Mar 15, 2014 21:22:23 GMT -1
One of those big trailer advertising things, I would Pakistan it out a few people I knows houses, the signage would say - Get it right up yeez! Wae photoes of us giving them the finger
Not very subtle, but helluva cathartic.....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 21:40:21 GMT -1
One of those big trailer advertising things, I would Pakistan it out a few people I knows houses, the signage would say - Get it right up yeez! Wae photoes of us giving them the finger Not very subtle, but helluva cathartic..... You'd WHIT? Thon predictive text on your fancy Ipad's just so shite, Nota!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 21:43:44 GMT -1
I'll show you how to spend that amount, but better still my wife and mother in law will show you how.... Wooops! Did I just open a can of worms or what? Gilly, what would YOU, PERSONALLY, buy first if you won 108 mill? <dodges incoming..>
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 21:45:08 GMT -1
Round the world first class air ticket and visit all places on bucket list. House on the harbour Island on Barrier reef in Whitsundays Where's on your bucket list then, Oz? ps once you've bought house on harbour you'd likely only have about a fiver left out the 108 mil
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Post by notanimby on Mar 15, 2014 22:25:26 GMT -1
One of those big trailer advertising things, I would Pakistan it out a few people I knows houses, the signage would say - Get it right up yeez! Wae photoes of us giving them the finger Not very subtle, but helluva cathartic..... You'd WHIT? Thon predictive text on your fancy Ipad's just so shite, Nota! Ah, fuckin hell....... That should read park it outside a few people..........
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Post by peony on Mar 15, 2014 23:11:25 GMT -1
I would set up a self perpetuating fund for a sanctuary for forgotten and abandoned animals. Especially dogs. Houston has a million and a half stray dogs.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2014 23:36:57 GMT -1
But...would that be the first thing you'd buy, Peony?
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Post by ozneil on Mar 15, 2014 23:59:59 GMT -1
BUCKET LIST In no particular order apart from the above mostly to see places But First Walk Milford Track in NZ ( Too effen old ) between lake Te Anu & Milford Sound on West coast of South Island 4 day walk with restrictions on numbers allowed on track 3nights either in a hiut with hot showers and a drying room or de-luxe lodge all amenities including food (only access for staff id by helicopter) some the most fantastic scenery anywhere3 in worls> Great pics www.themissingyear.com/archives/3248Explore General Wade's roads in Scotland. His engineers and surveyors must have been extremely competent. His brief was to construct roads and bridges capable of carrying 12? pound cannon and limber at the trot. Canadian Rockie mountaineer From Vancouver to Banff the engineering feat was almost unbelievable given the equipment and maps or lack of at that time Train Skagway AK to Whitehorse BC ditto then on to Dawson Canning Stock Route WA Makes the US Chisholm trail look like a Sunday School Excursion Drive from Cairns to tip of Cape York (4wd a must, Landie is best mud crawler) Live in Whitsunday Islands (off MacKay in Qld) Explore Scottish history Follow Clarke & Lewises trail thru the Rockies See Prague & Budapest(old buildings) Visit Villers-Bretonneux www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/1918/battles/dernancourt/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2014 18:52:23 GMT -1
Well, after spending £1mil on the masia, I'd live there six months of the year and charter a plane to bring out groups of family and friends for their hols. Still a bit left, I guess, so: 1) Pay off mortgage 18 months early 2) A beautiful home-- without stairs-- nearer me in the WE when my mother decides the time's right plus all the personal care she could ever need 3) His first ever 'new' car for Mr R--or a classic one of his choosing 4) A trip to the Circuit Catalunya for the Grand Prix by private jet, with John Travolta piloting 5) The gift of never having to work again for my sister and brother 6) Trust funds for Ms R and her wee cousin 7) A cash gift to my old friends That's about it, really! With the very substantial remainder, it'd be a charity foundation to help Scots who're suffering through no fault of their own and also a bursary for young talented musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds. Oh, and financial support for transplant patients less lucky than I, who've not been able to go back to work.
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Post by peony on Mar 16, 2014 23:08:32 GMT -1
But...would that be the first thing you'd buy, Peony? A big farm.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2014 23:26:30 GMT -1
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Post by notanimby on Mar 17, 2014 6:01:03 GMT -1
A specially made iPad wae no predictive text/auto spellchecker. ( failing that just hire someone to do dictation)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2014 21:26:49 GMT -1
Just looking back there on our various *wishlists*: Quite struck by how many things we probably don't actually need a humoungous lottery win to achieve Is it that we all have realisable dreams we could actually do if we weren't being risk-averse, over-cautious and uber careful with our hard-earned? What's dead clear from the posts is that nobody here really has a mind to put themselves first, apart from a wee treat or two. CLASS.
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