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

I am pie · 06-12-2013 01:12PM

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 · 06-12-2013 01:15PM

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 · 06-12-2013 01:24PM

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 · 06-12-2013 01:35PM

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 · 06-12-2013 01:39PM

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

Vincent Vega · 06-12-2013 01:40PM

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 · 06-12-2013 01:52PM

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

06-12-2013 02:07PM

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

Muise... · 06-12-2013 02:19PM

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 · 06-12-2013 02:24PM

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 · 06-12-2013 02:24PM

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

I am pie · 06-12-2013 02:28PM

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 · 06-12-2013 02:30PM

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 · 06-12-2013 02:36PM

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 · 06-12-2013 02:37PM

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 · 06-12-2013 02:43PM

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 · 06-12-2013 02:47PM

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

YellowFeather · 06-12-2013 02:56PM

One. No two. No THREE monocles.

Actually, two. Two would be enough.

MonstaMash · 06-12-2013 02:58PM

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 · 06-12-2013 03:21PM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 06-12-2013 03:35PM

I would buy the Flying Scotsman

Hobbes · 06-12-2013 03:50PM

I would hire a TV crew. Buy them a car and myself a new car. Then this TV crew would follow me around filming me drive.

Then when some idiot on the road decides to do something stupid, like over take on a traffic merge, rather then avoiding them I will let them hit the car. I will then with the footage and high priced lawyers proceed to sue them to the point if they looked at a car funny they would end up in jail.

Wossack · 06-12-2013 03:52PM

spend all my lottery winnings, trying to win the lottery again - just to really piss off the initial begrudgers

Ray Palmer · 06-12-2013 04:34PM

Take out a full page ad in the newspaper saying everybody who ever wronged me would soon have revenged served upon them. It would of course be un-signed.

dr strangelove · 06-12-2013 05:02PM

Build a huge underground secret lair (James Bond super villain stylee) and plot to destroy organised religion.

OldNotWIse · 06-12-2013 05:49PM

I might commission my own fleet of buses where there would be verrrrry strict rules to adhere to - no shuffling/sniggling/flight socks etc :P

06-12-2013 05:53PM

I would open up a Irish wrestling company and go touring around the country with a wrestling ring selling out bingo halls and gyms!

OldNotWIse · 06-12-2013 06:24PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

And feed them Airtricity salespeople?

And TV license inspectors and members of well known cults religions who go door to door looking for new members?:P

Thoie · 06-12-2013 06:26PM

Oh, and another thing..

This may not be particularly strange, but it might be unpopular.

I'd buy a train carriage, and have it fitted out with comfy chairs, a nice ensuite, a kitchenette and a bed, and I'd pay Irish rail to tack it on to a train whenever I wanted to go somewhere. The unpopular bit is that I wouldn't let anyone else into it, even if the main train was standing room only.

Longboard · 06-12-2013 06:59PM

Buy a small area of land across the road from Micheal O'Leary's house. Build a giant billboard & put up a giant picture of Micheal ( This one! ) with a speech bubble saying "Aer Lingus 4ever".

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

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