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

OldNotWIse · 06-12-2013 11:11AM #1

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 · 06-12-2013 11:14AM

I would pay you to STFU!

Dravokivich · 06-12-2013 11:15AM

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 · 06-12-2013 11:21AM

Bandito909 wrote: »

I would pay you to STFU!

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

danniemcq · 06-12-2013 11:21AM

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 · 06-12-2013 11:22AM

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

Pumpkinseeds · 06-12-2013 11:26AM

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 · 06-12-2013 11:41AM

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 · 06-12-2013 11:44AM

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 · 06-12-2013 11:48AM

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 · 06-12-2013 11:48AM

I could do a lot if I had some money.

sebastianlieken · 06-12-2013 11:48AM

Paintball go-karting track.

Sunnyisland · 06-12-2013 11:48AM

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 · 06-12-2013 11:51AM

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

Or, more realistically:

A sex dungeon with gold-plated chains.

OldNotWIse · 06-12-2013 11:55AM

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 · 06-12-2013 11:58AM

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 · 06-12-2013 12:02PM

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 · 06-12-2013 12:03PM

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 · 06-12-2013 12:06PM

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 · 06-12-2013 12:10PM

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 · 06-12-2013 12:11PM

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

yeppydeppy · 06-12-2013 12:12PM

Not give any to charity.

Gambas · 06-12-2013 12:17PM

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

Mint Aero · 06-12-2013 12:20PM

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

Rabelais · 06-12-2013 12:20PM

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 · 06-12-2013 12:22PM

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 · 06-12-2013 12:27PM

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

OldNotWIse · 06-12-2013 12:35PM

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 · 06-12-2013 12:40PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

:eek:

Are you not

:o oops

jonnyfingers · 06-12-2013 12:44PM

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 · 06-12-2013 01:08PM

I'd set up a Donkey Sanctuary

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

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