Whats' the strangest/least popular thing you would do if you came into big money?

OldNotWIse

So we are all familiar with the usual ideas - buy the dream house, help out family and friends, maybe return to education - all after a two day bender of course :P But what weird thing would you do? The thing that when you say out loud people laugh at or squirm a bit in their seats? For me it's my pigeon sanctuary. I love pigeons, the way they bob around and their soft little feathers and I think they have a really hard life - everybody hates them, they're a little stupid so constantly wandering out in front of cars, they have terrible mutated feet from old injuries that make it painful for them to get around and they must resort to eating drunks' vomit when the going gets tough so...if I won a sh1tload of money, I'd set up a sanctuary in the mountains somewhere, where all the injured and sad city pigeons could come and live out their lives without fear of poisoning/accidents etc.

So AH - what are your weird ideas?

Bandito909

I would pay you to STFU!

Dravokivich

It'd be considered "Fúck you money." If I was obscenely rich I'd use it against anyone I couldn't stand. Laughing at the idea of compensation, the mere pittance it'll be! HAHAHAH

OldNotWIse

Bandito909 wrote: »

I would pay you to STFU!

Or for free you could choose to ignore threads you dont like.

danniemcq

I would hunt humans from a helicopter.

but to be fair I'd give them an elastic band to try and get me with

OU812

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A939QRRSNV4

Pumpkinseeds

I was discussing this with my brother the other night. I'd buy a ton of land, minimum 30 acres, preferably mature woodland and build a nice house with no public access. It would be a hunting free zone and I would use a shotgun to threaten anyone trespassing on our land. My brother considers himself a socialist, *spits in contempt, and says he would shoot me for doing that with land.

Of course he'd have to wrestle the gun out of my cold dead hands first and I'd have shot him long before he got near enough to grab the gun:D

OldNotWIse

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I was discussing this with my brother the other night. I'd buy a ton of land, minimum 30 acres, preferably mature woodland and build a nice house with no public access. It would be a hunting free zone and I would use a shotgun to threaten anyone trespassing on our land. My brother considers himself a socialist, *spits in contempt, and says he would shoot me for doing that with land.

Of course he'd have to wrestle the gun out of my cold dead hands first and I'd have shot him long before he got near enough to grab the gun:D

WIth mad money you could actually create a new world where people could live but only by a prescribed set of rules, and if they broke the rules they'd be out...

wait.....is that a cult?:(

danniemcq

OldNotWIse wrote: »

WIth mad money you could actually create a new world where people could live but only by a prescribed set of rules, and if they broke the rules they'd be out...

wait.....is that a cult?:(

Sealand.

Guys bought an oil rig declared it its own country, have their own passports and crap, had a raid by a bunch of mercs, kidnapped a German Lawyer and charged him with treason and waited for a diplomat to land and then used that as a claim that they were a legit country.

wiki

Beruthiel

OldNotWIse wrote: »

The thing that when you say out loud people laugh at or squirm a bit in their seats?

How much would it cost to get Rammstein to come play in the courtyard of my newly acquired vineyard in the Bordeaux region of France?

keithsfleet

I could do a lot if I had some money.

sebastianlieken

Paintball go-karting track.

Sunnyisland

I would set up a sanctuary for cats up the mountains as I heard there is an oldnotwise man up there feeding pigeons all day everyday....

Duggy747

Get big land, big house, and care for a load of animals.

Or, more realistically:

A sex dungeon with gold-plated chains.

OldNotWIse

danniemcq wrote: »

Sealand.

Guys bought an oil rig declared it its own country, have their own passports and crap, had a raid by a bunch of mercs, kidnapped a German Lawyer and charged him with treason and waited for a diplomat to land and then used that as a claim that they were a legit country.

wiki

Looks like a really bleak place to live. I was thinking more the Great Valley from The Land Before Time :P

Joe prim

If I came into big money, I would feel compelled to acquire a bigger wallet, perhaps A4 size,and in turn , this might necessitate bigger trousers, with larger pockets, to accommodate the big wallet, with the big money in it. That is all.

sebastianlieken

danniemcq wrote: »

Sealand.

Guys bought an oil rig declared it its own country, have their own passports and crap, had a raid by a bunch of mercs, kidnapped a German Lawyer and charged him with treason and waited for a diplomat to land and then used that as a claim that they were a legit country.

wiki

haha, the guy who sits beside me here in the office bought himself a title from sealand.

he is now a Lord. officially.

monkeysnapper

I'd buy a load of land and make a Tarmac race track around the edges and on inside off road , then buy a load of different vehicles to race all day on my tracks. I'd just go on done deal every day buying cars and 4x4 and race them.

I'd also make a lake on the center and buy a boat.

Mrs Garth Brooks

Change my name so no one will ever find me.

I may also have to get my face operated on in case people recognise me from missing person pictures. Maybe even a sex change to be safe.

ghogie91

If i came into big money I would move away from society

I would go somewhere into the mountains, but land, build a 4/5 room cabin, set up solar power, wood heating units, propane heaters and cooking stuff and live up there

I would have a bedroom, gaming room, kitchen, tv/home cinema room, bathroom and gym. I would pay the esb and eircom to sort some sort of electric and tv/broadband set up for my cabin and would be happy out.

I would get a big truck from my trips in to the nearest town or something once in a blue moon to get ammo, some rice/pasta and food etc. or to travel to my boat that I would buy so that I could go out on the water for weeks at a time fishing and being alone reading or something

Theta

Buy up lots of land and try create some large areas of woodland/forests, we don't have enough in Ireland.

yeppydeppy

Not give any to charity.

Gambas

I'd clone Jedward. And unleash JedJed and Wardward and WardJed on an unsuspecting world.

Mint Aero

I wouldn't share a cent with anyone or donate anything to charity

Rabelais

Buy the Guardian newspaper and subtlety turn it into an ironic version of itself.

Invest in stocks, bonds and futures to make even more money. Making money is much more fun that simply getting it.

Organise and fund the biggest Fox Hunt seen since the age of Queen Victoria. Hundreds of horses, dogs, riders, hipflasks, cigars and crusty protestors.

UCDVet

If I had billions, I'd like to produce a television show called, 'Tough Guys Of The Internet'

I'd seek out/have people submit names and comments by people they suspect are full of crap. Then my team would investigate and and either publicly sham them or pay them lots of money to participate in my show.

Someone on a sports forum who insists he can bench 180kg, but people suspect that he can't? We'd track him down, get him on camera and offer him 1000 euro to do it.

Someone says some professional athlete is a no talent hack and that they could do X better....I'd like to arrange that scenario.

I think it could be a great show for a season, maybe two, before it got repetitive and boring. It'd mostly be about showing the world how full of crap people are, but it could include some serious stuff about online fraudsters. And sometimes it would show that people who make wild claims *ARE* telling the truth.

I'd enjoy it, for a brief period of time anyway.

inforfun

Do **** all the rest of my life.
And doing that somewhere where it is 20/25 degrees all year long.

OldNotWIse

realies wrote: »

I would set up a sanctuary for cats up the mountains as I heard there is an oldnotwise man up there feeding pigeons all day everyday....

:eek:

Sunnyisland

OldNotWIse wrote: »

:eek:

Are you not :o oops

jonnyfingers

Depending on the amount of money I'd either build a compact wooden rollercoaster in my back garden, or a small theme park with a few rides.

This would be ideal when I'd have a few people around for a BBQ!

Also I'd build a full music room, complete with walls full of instruments and a recording studio.

And lastly I'd buy the Taco Chip recipe and cooking equipment from Abrakebabra and set it up in my kitchen.

Alun

I'd set up a Donkey Sanctuary

I am pie

I'd buy Leitrim and use it for hanging out the laundry, extra car parking space and for the occasional bbq. I might stick a bit of decking down of i got round it, just to tidy the place up a little.

Kilgore__Trout

danniemcq wrote: »

Sealand.

Guys bought an oil rig declared it its own country, have their own passports and crap, had a raid by a bunch of mercs, kidnapped a German Lawyer and charged him with treason and waited for a diplomat to land and then used that as a claim that they were a legit country.

wiki

Heard about this. Something to do with Kevin Costner, loads of water, and fake ears, right?

Thoie

I want to build something like a roundtower, or something a bit like Newgrange that will appear utterly useless, except every now and then it will line up with some astronomical event. I just want something that will annoy future archaeologists as they try to figure out what it's for. For bonus annoyance, I'd have 4 stone slabs shipped in from somewhere unique and incorporated in the build, so they could spend years puzzling out the significance of those particular slabs.

The Diabolical Monocle

danniemcq wrote: »

Sealand.

Guys bought an oil rig declared it its own country, have their own passports and crap, had a raid by a bunch of mercs, kidnapped a German Lawyer and charged him with treason and waited for a diplomat to land and then used that as a claim that they were a legit country.

wiki

Huh...Sounds like they were British.

Renegade Mechanic

Buy a Marauder. In 6x6 form with a "Hummers are for GreenBeards" sticker on it and drive it daily!

Vincent Vega

I'd pay for my immediate family to relocate somewhere far away and unknown so that they didn't do something stupid as they would, like getting kidnapped, held for ransom and blowing the whole thing for me :mad:

The Diabolical Monocle

Id design and build a new aircraft that would carry 200 passengers from New Yorks Idlewild airport to the Belgian Congo in 17 minutes !!

Ill call it the spruce moose

Id buy the previous company I worked for and sack all the pricks I didn't like that still work there.

Muise...

I would turn Parnell Square into a looped antenna, hook it up to the Spire, and play Dublin like a giant Theremin.

I am pie

Hmmm...I'd knock down Leinster house and on the site I'd build an enormous catapult. On the opening day of said catapult i'd phone up all the politicians and tell them to get down to leinster house as there is a great new corrupt money making scam they really need to get in on....clearly they'd all show up, i'd have them shoved onto the catapult and shot out into the Irish sea for the amusement of all and sundry.

Anyone who managed to swim back ashore would be sent to Leitrim to clean my decking.

old hippy

Jack in the 9 to 5 and take a permanent vacation.

I am pie

old hippy wrote: »

Jack in the 9 to 5 and take a permanent vacation.

Strange? Unpopular? ...or in fact exactly what everyone would do ?

Sleepy

Build a nice house with a basement gym and swimming pool. Nothing unusual in that I suppose... though I would run a water slide down to it from a wardrobe in my bedroom.

Also like the idea of one wall of the pool being a giant live coral aquarium.

Get my lawyer to contact every newspaper in the country informing them of extent of my winnings and just how much damage I can do them with that should they publish my name or identify any of my family in any way.

celica00

I think those strange or weird ideas would just happen if you actually have the money on your account. I know myself, sometimes i just need to see something so stupid that it is funny again and i love it

so far i found most of the posts here kinda cool and not too strange.

howamidifferent

Like the guy in the Movie "The Millers" I'd build a huge aquarium in my house with several Whales and sharks etc in it.. :pac:

Aglomerado

howamidifferent wrote: »

Like the guy in the Movie "The Millers" I'd build a huge aquarium in my house with several Whales and sharks etc in it.. :pac:

And feed them Airtricity salespeople?

howamidifferent

I'd somehow tie it up to the letterbox so anyone who deposits SPAM mail gets dropped in as fishfood...

YellowFeather

One. No two. No THREE monocles.

Actually, two. Two would be enough.

MonstaMash

I'd disappear & live my life incognito in a luxury wood cabin in Alaska spending my days hunting, fishing & tending to my grow site & shine-still...wouldn't actually need obscene amounts of cash to do this in retrospect

diomed

Install a "release the hounds" button, and buy some hounds.