MCMLXXV wrote: » Now this thread is a little different than the usual lotto type thread. The way things are these days if you did win the Irish lotto you would barely have enough to pay off your debts, buy a nice house and have a savage holiday. If you won the Euro Millions however it would be quite a different story: Champagne would fall from the sky, you could buy multiple houses, cars, maybe a modest 'plane or pleasure cruiser, have coke and hookers for breakfast, etc. - you get the picture. So picture this: you are in a long term loving relationship, married or 'partner' status, with or without kids but strong ties and planning to spend the rest of your lives together, then you win the Euro Millions with a ticket you bought yourself for yourself. Can you see yourself staying with your current partner in this scenario?
Aoifey! wrote: » Yes, why would the money make a difference to your relationship?
jive wrote: » Yes because I am with my partner because I like them not because I am not wealthy.
MCMLXXV wrote: » It's a very hypothetical question obviously but realistically, if it happened to you and your lifestyle changed completely and every door was open to you could you honestly see your outlook on life remaining the same?
jive wrote: » In terms of lifestyle it wouldn't make that much of a difference to me. I might buy some stupid **** and ridiculous cars but at the end of the day I'd probably go home to the same house equipped with a theatre and ****. I'd still live in the same area, be with the same person and do the same things. I would take more holidays and the likes and buy properties around the world but I'd still go to college and work in the summer. It's not fun sitting on your ass doing nothing regardless of having money or not. You get used to everything - if I drove a lambo it might be cool for a while but after a few months it'd be just normal to me.
Ronnie Short Windshield wrote: » When the money goes to your head-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249209/Lotto-lout-Michael-Carroll-dole-squandering-millions.html
MCMLXXV wrote: » You win the Euro Millions and you would still go to college? For what exactly? Just to learn for the sake of it? I can see myself changing very little if I won the irish lotto but with Euro Million type money, no matter how down to earth you are you're just going to project yourself to a different level than your buddies! Have none of you really thought about this?
strokemyclover wrote: » That's some shallow, cold-hearted sh*t right there!
MCMLXXV wrote: » Is it fcuk - it's the truth! Picture it: Yourself and herself have been together for say 5 years. She's a lovely girl, pretty enough but no model but you like her well enough. In fact she's also a really good person to boot and you would be happy enough to be together for life. You've got a nice gaff in a fairly decent area, no kids yet but planning on same, maybe a couple of cats, or a dog, neither of you are on the dole or anything but struggling a little like us all. Then all of a sudden BAM! You win €100k! First thing you do is round up all your buddies, family and friends for an all in session and before you know it there is 2000 in attendance and you don't know 90% of them but you're paying for their beer. That over you buy a nice little gaff in Dalkey, not too far away from Bono, another 'Cribs' type residence in the Hollywood Hills, maybe an apartment in Monaco overlooking the GP Track and a small little cabin in the Swiss Alps. While your friends are still struugling to pay their mortgages or are in council accomodation you are swannnig around in an Aston Martin, the wife in an M3 convertible and you've got your V12 whatever just for the weekend. You're gonna fine dine every fcukin' night of the week just because you can and all the while your buddies are still in their Fiat Punto and having Lidl brand fish fingers for dinner. Do you think you'll be on the same level for long?
