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What would you do if you were a Billionaire????????

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  • #32
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    I'd buy Manchester United and then just ruin them for the craic.


  • #33
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    A billionaire? Meh, it wouldn't be enough for world domination:(


  • #34
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,775 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I'd have my own life size game of Sims.


  • #35
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    I'd take over your water supply and start charging ye for it. And your hospitals.. and the esb... and the gas..and the filling stations....I'd own ye after a bit....not like that Denis O'Brien lad, he's way too soft...


  • #36
    GT_TDI_150
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,917 ✭✭✭✭GT_TDI_150


    Buy Newcastle United.

    Buy lots of cars.

    Buy NY pad.

    Buy carribean pad.

    Buy boat, jet, etc...


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  • #37
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    Quazzie wrote: »
    I'd have my own life size game of Sims.

    Josef Fritzl already tried, didn't end too well.


  • #38
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Buy 2 islands and send letters to everyone with 50+ convictions inviting them to an event that would grant the winner more tracksuits than they can count. They will be split into 2 groups. The first island is a battle royal/ hunger games style event and the second would be a new society where they all have to work together while I give some of them tasks to sabotage the society.


  • #39
    Pawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭Pawn


    Half Rhodesian wrote: »
    thing you'd do with your cash?
    Ah, simple question. I would buy a remote Caribbean-type island, equip it properly, buy a yacht and make sure I am never going to hear from the society ever again.


  • #40
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Two chicks at the same time, man!


  • #41
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Hire someone to post on boards for me, like JK Rowling.


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  • #42
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Sit down and beg outside the local shopping centre. When people blank me I'd swear at them. If they got stroppy I'd have my minder discuss the situation with them.
    That, or buy a few racehorses.


  • #43
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    I'd be cautious, think i'd get advice from Sean Quinn first.:D


  • #44
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Treat myself to a Burger King instead of a McDonalds.


  • #45
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I'd probably consider signing off the dole.


  • #46
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭Duff


    I'd buy a few packs of Oreos, some milk, vanilla ice-cream and a blender and then make Oreo milkshakes.


  • #47
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    I would pay wayne rooney to wipe my bum..after 15 pints of stout


  • #48
    Flincher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Flincher


    Turn the Luas into a rollercoaster. Few corkscrews, loops and ****. Just to brighten up the commute.


  • #49
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    If I had that kind of money in my hands, I would pay some people back, but then I would put everything towards helping animals with the help of organisations/people that have proven their effectiveness. It's a huge gripe when I see very wealthy individuals donating to terrible organisations that do nothing or very little or donating to something when their own work completely contradicts their good intentions. I have very little interest in personal gain, but donating to charity is meaningless unless you can see that they're getting the best use out of that money.

    That's my miss world answer and also my real answer!


  • #50
    Garzard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭Garzard


    Posted this before a few times:

    Purchase a large open spot of land just outside Dublin and convert it into a massive airsoft site, with influence taken from a few Battlefield & CoD maps. Cheap entry + access to everywhere inside. In it there'd be an urban area with dummy estates, streets, high rises, an army barracks, a shopping centre, power station / refinery... everything a typical town or city would have. Also give it a large forested area loaded with trenches, pillboxes, old tanks, airsoft machine gun / artillery emplacements, a small airfield map full of retired and destroyed planes and accessible ATC tower, a dark underground area, and finally if there was enough room, a massive open area to replicate Kursk with trenches, [plastic] barbed wire, machine gun posts, tank traps, dug in tanks, and a minefield full of airsoft mines.

    To add realism there'd be fires, smoke screens, old army vehicles and burnt out cars everywhere, especially in the town and Kursk areas. (These could be sourced easily & cheaply from both military and civvie scrapyards) Basically what a war ravaged city and country would look like. Then throw in a few hundred / thousand players, organise them into teams, let them do what they want or give objectives and it would be good to go. Think something like this would be great fun and would attract worldwide airsoft attention, countless tourist players and massive revenue!


  • #51
    Shaun Plays Games
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭Shaun Plays Games


    I'd buy unlimited kinder eggs...


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  • #52
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Treat myself to a Burger King instead of a McDonalds.

    Makes sense to downgrade.


  • #53
    NotASheeple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭NotASheeple


    Rebuild Gaza.


  • #54
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    I'd buy up all the unecessary question marks floating around in the title and only let them out when they were really needed.


  • #55
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,833 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    I'd become a millionaire fairly quickly if I was a billionaire.

    :P


  • #56
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    NotASheeple wrote: »
    Rebuild Gaza.

    So you can destroy it with an Apache and Hellfires?


  • #57
    Gosub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Gosub


    NotASheeple wrote: »
    Rebuild Gaza.
    You'd have to spend most of your fortune just keeping him off the gargle.


  • #58
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Gosub wrote: »
    You'd have to spend most of your fortune just keeping him off the gargle.

    Imagine Gazza with bionic legs...


  • #59
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    NotASheeple wrote: »
    Rebuild Gaza.

    No need.


  • #60
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    No need.

    Some boyo.


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  • #61
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Garzard wrote: »
    Posted this before a few times:

    Purchase a large open spot of land just outside Dublin and convert it into a massive airsoft site, with influence taken from a few Battlefield & CoD maps. Cheap entry + access to everywhere inside. In it there'd be an urban area with dummy estates, streets, high rises, an army barracks, a shopping centre, power station / refinery... everything a typical town or city would have. Also give it a large forested area loaded with trenches, pillboxes, old tanks, airsoft machine gun / artillery emplacements, a small airfield map full of retired and destroyed planes and accessible ATC tower, a dark underground area, and finally if there was enough room, a massive open area to replicate Kursk with trenches, [plastic] barbed wire, machine gun posts, tank traps, dug in tanks, and a minefield full of airsoft mines.

    To add realism there'd be fires, smoke screens, old army vehicles and burnt out cars everywhere, especially in the town and Kursk areas. (These could be sourced easily & cheaply from both military and civvie scrapyards) Basically what a war ravaged city and country would look like. Then throw in a few hundred / thousand players, organise them into teams, let them do what they want or give objectives and it would be good to go. Think something like this would be great fun and would attract worldwide airsoft attention, countless tourist players and massive revenue!
    Hmmm...cast eyes left and right, steals idea...logs off quietly..


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