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What would you do if you won a huge amount of money in the Lotto?

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    #32
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    if i won a substantially large amount (euromillions)

    step one - open a swiss bank ac

    step two - move 90% of the winnings to the swiss bank ac and let it gather interest safely in the knowledge that if the euro fails/devalues my fortune wont get wiped out

    step three - pay off any outstanding bills for me and my family

    step four - book a year long holiday travelling around the world.. i'd bring a special someone with me of course ;)

    step five - buy a nice new car

    step six - build my own home

    zzzzzzz

    gold house and rocket car for me.

    then I'd buy an island, a small one somewhere, and get around to this whole cloning dinosaurs thing I've heard about, spare no expense.


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    #33
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    I would buy a farm, feed the cattle laxatives, collect the diarrhoea.
    Purchase a jet or helipcopter and a massive bucket.

    Fly over the Dáil and Enda's gaff & release

    then profit


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    #34
    mitosis
    Registered Users Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭mitosis


    newport2 wrote: »
    Why limit yourself to two?

    Only has two dicks?


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    #35
    Scioch
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    I'd build an underground mansion. It would look like a regular nice enough 400-500k home from the outside but inside it would be like an underground city.

    And I'd have a batcave type entrance complete with movable shrub for when I need a quick getaway.


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    #36
    ruthloss
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    Go shopping on Grafton Street and do a 'Pretty Woman' on their snooty asses!:D


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    #37
    JohnMarston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    Make sure my family is financially set up and well looked after

    Take the population of After Hours on a night out

    Buy one of the many ghost estates and set it up like a real life game of monopoly, painted to the correct colours, community chests, a banker, massive dice, pass go, the works.

    Buy a monopoly guy suit (tail coat and monocle and twirly mustache) and get some friends to play the first game there with me.
    Set it up as an attraction where people can come, get in costume, and play it like a proper game.

    Should that venture fail, just invite everyone to come and help me bulldoze the estate down.

    Build a cinema in my home town. Always wanted one there growing up.

    A rivendell style house from Lord of the Rings, in my patch of forest that i would buy.

    Keep the rest for a rainy day


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    #38
    Kev_2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    After getting f*cked up drunk on Champagne, buying a Ferrari and going everywhere on earth?

    Probably get some stunner of a bird and an aphrodisiac mad from the pockets of the pocket fox. A species which existed for exactly 3 weeks.


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    #39
    christmas2012
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    I would get robot servants,those cute little japanese dog robots and have some high tea with posh scones,clotted cream and blueberry jam..

    Then i would buy a mansion,buy three guard dogs,2 cats and a chauffer..

    Go to vegas and do the vegas thing just cos i can..


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    #40
    Tzar Chasm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    buy some Islands, leave one as a nature reserve and build an eviloverlord type city/base on the other one, complete with light rail, nuclear power station, communications array, doomsday weapon, environmentaly sustainable farm, and an army of minions.


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    #41
    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    Got that all worked out.
    I would buy a big house with a lot of ground, preferably near enough town.
    I would then get together with an animal charity (already know which one), and offer them the use of some of the house, and the grounds for the animals.
    The house would have to have two wings, or a set of outbuildings for just that purpose. We'd live in one half, the animals in the other.

    I would then open a restaurant and cooking school, just for the fun of it. And just take it from there.


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    #42
    [Deleted User]
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    I would get Sky Movies


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    #43
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Charter a 50ft yacht and sail around the world drunk


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    #44
    Dr.Silly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Dr.Silly


    If I won 100 million,

    I'd give everyone in Greece 1 million (that's 12 million gone),
    I'd give everyone in Spain 1 million (that's say 50 million)
    I'd give everyone in Portugal 1 million (another 12 million)

    so that's 74 million spent.

    I'd move to the bahamas with the rest in cash, and watch total turmoil unfold on sky news (on my 102 " flatscreen) !!!


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    #45
    mitosis
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    Dr Silly maths fail :D


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    #46
    JohnMarston
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    Dr.Silly wrote: »
    If I won 100 million,

    I'd give everyone in Greece 1 million (that's 12 million gone),
    I'd give everyone in Spain 1 million (that's say 50 million)
    I'd give everyone in Portugal 1 million (another 12 million)

    so that's 74 million spent.

    74 people in Greece, spain and portugal :confused:


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    #47
    smash
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    I'd lodge it to ulster bank. Should be safe there!


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    #48
    mikemac1
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    I'd be a sap with the begging letters
    Tell me any story and I'd be writing cheques

    So first step is hire a secretary


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    #49
    SunnyDub1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    sort out family and friends....

    Go on a mad shopping spree

    Buy a nice big Villa looking out onto santa Monica beach :D

    And a new white Range rover sport :cool:


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    #50
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Dr.Silly wrote: »
    If I won 100 million,

    I'd give everyone in Greece 1 million (that's 12 million gone),
    I'd give everyone in Spain 1 million (that's say 50 million)
    I'd give everyone in Portugal 1 million (another 12 million)

    so that's 74 million spent.

    I'd move to the bahamas with the rest in cash, and watch total turmoil unfold on sky news (on my 102 " flatscreen) !!!

    with maths skills like that can i carry your money for ya


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    #51
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Start an artisan community.
    Reproduce some of the bits missing off buildings.
    Keep it hidden I won.
    Create nature preserves in towns and cities.
    Reopen iveagh market as an up market venture.


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    #52
    Goafer
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    Dr.Silly wrote: »
    If I won 100 million,

    I'd give everyone in Greece 1 million (that's 12 million gone),
    I'd give everyone in Spain 1 million (that's say 50 million)
    I'd give everyone in Portugal 1 million (another 12 million)

    so that's 74 million spent.

    I'd move to the bahamas with the rest in cash, and watch total turmoil unfold on sky news (on my 102 " flatscreen) !!!

    You are very silly as your name suggests !!! Epic math fail is epic


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    #53
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Make sound investments. :)


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    #54
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    Make sound investments. :)

    buy shares in Nintendo????


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    #55
    cocoshovel
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    Buy boards, then shut it down.


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    #56
    hbr
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    Goafer wrote: »
    Like Dolores Mcnamara in Limerick. Say, you won €100 million .
    What's the first thing you would do / buy ??

    A new set of wiper blades for the car.
    Would you give any to charity?

    No. I hate chuggers. I might buy a gun and shoot them all. As I'm
    one of the super-rich, I can do things like that and get away with it.


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    #57
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    I prefer to day-dream about what kind of plastic flowers I want on my pauper's grave after I get struck by lightning for the second time.
    Might as well plan for the more likely scenario.


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    #58
    IM0
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    daily orgies


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    #59
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    buy shares in Nintendo????

    Now would be a good time to buy Nintendo shares. There was a fall after there lackluster E3 presentation, but I have a gut feeling the price will rise again in the future with the success of the new console.


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    #60
    Kev.OC
    Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭Kev.OC


    I could very easily spend many many millions on transport. Few Ferraris, few Lamborghinis, an Aston Martin or two, maybe a Maserati, few nice Audis, BMWs and Mercs for everyday use. Nice jeep or two.

    Small fleet of motorbikes.

    Helicopter.

    I'd charter the Maltese Falcon (world's largest sailing yacht, to the best of my knowledge) for the family for a month.

    Actually, I'd probably buy a yacht of some description. I could watch the Monaco and Abu Dhabi GPs from the back of it. :D

    As for houses, an apartment in New York, a cabin in the mountains I could use for skiing in the winter, and a modestly big house here in Ireland, with a very large garage for all my vehicles. Also, my house would have a gym in it.

    And then of course looking after family and friends. Not necessarily supporting them for life, but making sure they're never stuck.


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    #61
    crazy cabbage
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    would hate to have that amount of money. Would proberly just put enough aside to put myself and the brother through the rest of college and pay off parents loans.

    After that i dont really care. proberly give it to charity or burn it all in a big bonfire or something :rolleyes:


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