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What would you do with £148m

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Medro, Aug 14, 2012.

  1. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    Aye Lavery had people knocking his door begging money and what not. I was in a new bar of his at Cornmarket the other month he opened and the fat **** pulled up in a weapon of a motor and got out with some smashing big blonde.

    That woman from Limerick and her family were dodgy as **** anyway.
     
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  2. Cyclonic

    Cyclonic Well Hung Member

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    There once was a lady from Limerick.........
     
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  3. jenthesaint1990

    jenthesaint1990 Well-Known Member

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    marry jordan in a lavish ceremony.

    go on a world cruise.

    buy a box at st marys.

    give loads to my family.


    ...thats about it <ok>
     
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  4. RAVENBLACK

    RAVENBLACK Well-Known Member

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    I would take you on a rocket ship to the moon dollface and buy you the stars darling.

    We could be heroes, just for one day.
     
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  5. VenomPD

    VenomPD Merrick jr

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    <laugh> <laugh>
     
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  6. gas

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    You're my hero everyday ER

    Can you actually buy stars? Who is the vendor? How much do they cost?
     
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  7. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    <laugh>.

    Ya smooth **** ye.
     
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  8. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    £148 mill? I'd ****in spend that in a year, on helicopter trips to Cheltenham. Get into horse racing and you won't need a coke habit or a collection of avaricious blondes to do your dough.
     
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  9. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs
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    A few years back I happened upon a betting strategy which found a big hole in a particular betting website's system - I built a program which allowed me to optimise when to bet on certain things as they happened. This betting strategy lasted about 9 months until the niche was closed and left me with a bit of savings for the first time in my life - I made the stupid mistake of telling someone about it in theory (but not how to pull it off) and how much money it was making - every **** came out of the woodwork trying to get on it. I let one person in because I needed more hands on deck as I wasn't able to have a night off - within a few months this person was demanding much more of the pot than we agreed because he could see what I was getting - even though it was my scheme, my software code that was pulling it off and I had been kind enough to let him in.

    My next door neighbour was the friendliest guy in the world when my house in Belfast was a mess - when I moved to Malta he even went in and cut my grass as well as fixed some tiles that had blown off the roof. Fast forward a few years and I start using my new found betting winnings to renovate the entire house. My friendly neighbour spent all of the 6 months renovating complaining about every single thing - when I needed access to his back garden to build a wall for the extension he was demanding that the builders do other work for him on the garden to make up for the disturbance, which I had to pay for. He complained because we put kids swings in the garden and he could see them from his window, he complained because we put raised decking in the back garden and could see over the fence - he even complained because we cut down our bushes which provided less privacy for his house from the street.

    The builders I got into the house started becoming very curious as well - how are you getting a new kitchen, extension, bathroom, driveway at the same time - what do you work as that allows you to do all this? Did a relative die and leave you something? Any jobs going in that company you work for?

    Examples of people seeing someone else make or spend even a relatively small amount of money and become envious, even if you give them a bit of it it still isn't good enough if you are doing much better than them.

    This was my experience of only making a few quid over a short period of time - If I won £146m I wouldn't tell anyone out of the immediate family - you'd get absolutely tortured. Envy brings out the absolute worst in people.
     
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  10. Kim Jong Il

    Kim Jong Il Well-Known Member

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    if i won no one would know. all they would notice is me not working anymore, and me becoming even more of a **** than usual.
     
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  11. Tina_old

    Tina_old Princess

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    fixed.
     
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  12. Medro

    Medro Well-Known Member

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    Heard he was wanting to open a whiskey distillery in Belfast. God know how he has any of his money left, I would have spunked the lot by now.

    Yeah you can.

    My mate was stumped as to what to get his fiance on their anniversary few years back and I told him about this. Only the idea was to photoshop the documentation, not pay a bean and let the poor girl think she had a star named after her.

    He was broke at the time and thought this was a great idea but eventually bottled it in the end. Treated her like **** enough and thought that if she found out that would be him out the door.
     
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  13. Erik

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    RE: What Mick said

    My mother told me I was a greedy **** last week, because I said I'd be pissed off if my numbers came up the week after the EuroMillions cap. The way I look at it, people are going to hound you just as much for money if they know you're worth £8-10m as if they know you're worth £150-160m, so the extra is compensation for all the **** that being rich is going to bring you.

    Nobody who plays the EuroMillions regularly genuinely wants to win tonight. They all want it to roll over every game for the next 6 weeks and reach the cap, and then have their numbers come up. The only reason they play weekly is because they know that, as unlikely as it is that you will overcome the astronomical odds and have your numbers come up once, they certainly ain't gonna come up a second time if you've forgotten to play one week. It's a means of 'closure'. £10m, which is roughly what it's going to be tonight, is a fantastic amount of cash but it's not going to last forever. As good as it would be not to have to worry about bills for the rest of your life, you wouldn't be able to indulge yourself quite like you would with, say, £50m, and especially not £150m. You could have houses in Sandbanks, West London, Key West, Dubai, Tokyo, etc, and essentially live off the interest (which for an amount like the Brayfords have just won, equates to around £30,000 a week) whilst buying as many cars, boats, planes, etc as you wish. Absolutely mental.
     
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  14. Tina_old

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    blah blah ****ing blah
     
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  15. Erik

    Erik Well-Known Member

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    I know you think you're hard with your 6 green lights, prick, but you're just a jealous wee ****. Don't deny that you'd trade a couple for my brains.
     
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  16. Tina_old

    Tina_old Princess

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    I think I used to have 7 or 8 men on the go at one time :laugh:

    ****.
     
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  17. irishgreen

    irishgreen Well-Known Member

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    **** me Venom ! And to think I've just bought your latest album. <wah>
     
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  18. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs
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    Tina's green lights will quickly disappear now she's banned from the Geordie board <whistle>
     
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  19. Tina_old

    Tina_old Princess

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    The L'pool fans are taking them away now. :laugh:
     
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  20. irishgreen

    irishgreen Well-Known Member

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    What's this green light shoite ?
     
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