J4CKO

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What would you do if you won, say 2 Million quid ?

super_si

hmmmmmm Built a better pc then nicks

i wouldnt want to, so i dont play it.

Si

the chosen one

put it a high interest bank and live off the interest or.....................i'll just blow it on a huge house and a few flash motors

carl

2 million eh?
Buy a nice-ish house for about £500k, buy some nice cars , stop working. Live off the interest on the rest.

Long term -- maybe emigrate somewhere nice (Australia?), maybe enrol for a PhD to keep the brain occupied. Perhaps some part-time consultancy work.

[Edited by carl - 5/21/2003 9:28:09 PM]

bigsinky

911 turbo, take it to gemballa in GDR and get a big **** off power upgrade to it. come back to norn iron and blow the doors of everyone

stuckhere

Play the lottery again.....but in Vegas!

Johnny50

Buy the company i used to work for, and sack all the tw@ts that i dont like...just cos i could !

Ame

Chill! No work! Loads of shoppin', drivin', and Drinkin'. If I get bored, probably pop into the company i'd own!

Would I have enuff money to hire Robbie Williams (and maybe Kylie, to keep Gridlock Mikey entertained) to clean the swimming pools!!!!?

Luv Ame

P.s A lurvely BIG House in the South of France!

[Edited by Ame - 5/21/2003 9:38:51 PM]

Crush

Very simple.

Buy a flat beside the harbour. Put a lot into savings to gain loads in interest

Then start a GroupN rally team running an Evo 5,6 or 7

And I would also have an Evo VI TME & RS for the weekends & evenings

But, that isn't going to happen, so IDGAS

bug-eyed wonder

Bigsinky could you not just spend a tenner on a pipebomb and blow the doors of anyone you desired in norn iron?

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

I am dying to see what Mycroft would do ?

I think he would buy all the Soarers left in the world or even just one mega Soarer, in fact the last time I saw someone exhibit this kind of tendency, it was Baldrick off Blackadder buying a huge Turnip.

"Do you have any ambitions in life apart from the acquisition of turnips?"

"No"

"Baldrick, how did you manage to find a turnip that cost 400,000 pounds?"

"Well, I had to haggle."

carl

BTW: I saw a Soarer today, but it was in that nasty turquoise that Audis seem to come in

ChrisB

You could do what our local rag reports tonight...

Bloke wins £14 million
Starts tracing his long lost son
Finds son, gives him £1 million
Son is running a car bodyshop
Workeds of said bodyshop turn up this morning to find he's put it into liquidation and they are all redundant

He'll be popular then...

Apparition

Pay all me families debts off. Take 'em all on holiday. Make sure we all had nice new vehicles.Bank a load to earn some interest.NOT in the stock market,,,,,,,,,,, been stung there before.
Having once upon a time had a million in my grasp I know only too well how quick it goes...so's for the rest of the time I'd live life pretty normally.

astraboy

Big house on the wentworth estate.
Fill garage of said house with the following cars:
My 3-door Cossie (which I would have bought back and taken to Sheady for the obligatory 550bhp upgrade)
My Astra (after a quick trip to courtney turbo for a ground up rebuild and a nitrous V6 engine)
Something nice and exotic and RWD (probably a Lambo, but I like Ferrari F40s as well)
Start my own rave organisation "The Astradance collective" and put on open air, 100% legal, but 100% free hardcore raves. the way it should be.
astraboy.

RON

Life wouldn't change much really, wouldn't be into flash things, wouldn't want a huge house, I've just built a perfectly adequate sized one, the only thing that would change, is that I wouldn't have to start thinking about doing some work soon, took a couple of years out to do the house, need some pennies now, so it would be nice to win big-time, if someone could arrange that I'd be ever so grateful!
Ta.

shug

Give a referee a 'monetary gift'

yoza

Die, within about 3 months!

fast bloke

2 million quid....... mmmmmmm..... pay off at least two of my credit cardss

Freak

Stick a million in the bank and live off the interest
Spend the rest- not rapidly but house cars etc usual crap.

oh and buy my exs block of flats and have them knocked down- just because i can.Hopefully then she might f*ck off for good and stop pestering me

bigsinky

@fast bloke

i suppose that 7k you earned today wont even scratch the surface. know how ya feel m8. i need a pace FMIC, new front entry TD05, ported manifold, 550cc injectors, induction pipe, boost controller and a remap ala BRD. looks like the egg card could be getting another batterin.

cheers

big sinky

bigsinky

on another note what do folks think would be the minimum amount of money you would need, to be able to leave work but still keep the same lifestyle. i reckon about £250k coz i don't earn much

cheers

big sinky

corradoboy

Buy a farm in south of France, build a sh1tload of villas and a twisty racing circuit on it. Rob £8000/acre from EEC for decomisioning it as farmland and charge you lot an attractive price to come and do what the fek you want for your 2 week jollies each year.

Luke

I wouldnt tell anyone.......... I'd make it look like business got a whole lot better.

I would build a fantastic modern house in istanbul. Huge windows etc. Then buy a business........ Who wants to shop 24/7????

I would like to set up an Orphanage.


Buy some new socks........... can never find a matching pair!!

camk

if you stuck 2M in the bank you'd not pull in a lot more than 100K per year. That is really not a lot of money, especially if you've got inflation eating into your windfall and the fact you'd want to continually dip into it.
A big splash out on a decent house,holidays, party, cars and some to your relatives wouldn't leave much change from 1M, you're now down to 50K pa.....The big issue with winning money is that it can change your life if its enough but 2M isn't guaranteed to change it forever, possibly just for 10 years or so, or not at all if you stick it in the bank. Since your'e likely to be earning only roughly a bit more than you had before.
The other thing to ask is if you are not working, then what would you do during the day ? Its likely all your mates will still be working....

MarkO

If I won £2m I'd be astonished, 'cos I don't participate in the 'stupid tax' (I mean 'Lottery').

However, as has been said, £2m wouldn't be enough really. By the time you've bought a decent house, nice car, had a couple of holidays and a big party, 2/3rds of it would be gone, and the rest wouldn't last long after that.

TBH, I'd need a win of about £8-10m before I even contemplated giving up work and all that sort of stuff.

NACRO

Like MarkO I don't play the lottery but if by some chance I won it then I would give most of the money away.

Perhaps I would buy a modest second home somewhere sunny and stick a new set of wheels on my Impreza but other than that I can't see what the money could give me that I don't have already.
I'm healthy, love my girlfriend of over 10yrs more than ever and don't do any work I don't want to. Life is sweet enough folks without having pots of cash- I think a lot of people who win end up having the money control them.

camk

I'd probably buy a big 4x4 or a JCB and stalk the RSOC meets , make sure they drive nice and slow. Since they are being held up by someone in a big shiny car/tractor..., they'd like that

daiscooby

I had 5 and the bonus once, dont change your life. I still work 45 hours a week, and still have a mortgage. But it paid off all my debts, bought loads of nice gear for the house and a fully spammed STi4, and the money thats left is for a rainy day. Though the scoob does eat into it occasionaly for bits and bobs. When I won my money some people said wasnt I gutted just one number out. No because I had X grand I wouldn't have had and I consider my self lucky. If I had £10m in the bank I would just fill my days with travel, sport and high class hookers whilst on hooters full of coke.

corradoboy

How refreshing to find someone who's happy with their lott (NACRO).
And MarkO, £2m wouldn't be enough if you stay here and live a UK life, but a nice home and good lifestyle can be had elsewhere for a lot less.
I'd opt for New Zealand or Greece and live normally but without pressures.