If you suddenly got £100,000,000,000 what would you do?

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17 Jul 2009, 6:28 pm

id buy a BIG plot of land in the country and build my house in the middle of it.


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17 Jul 2009, 10:14 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
If I received $1.4 billion dollars,
which would be the equivilant of 100 billion pounds,
this is what I'd do with it.

$275 million would go to charity

$80 million would go to my mom

$80 million would go to my older sister

$150 million would go to my high school

$150 million would go to Portland Community College

The rest I'd ditch in a Swiss bank account.



Why would your schools need so much money>.


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17 Jul 2009, 11:25 pm

Purchase Scotland.


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18 Jul 2009, 7:53 pm

I would use most of that to start a organization to end world hunger (well I think with that much I might be able to put a dent in it anyway)
I would use a little bit to buy myself some land and build a little house on it (I could never live in some giant house, what a waste)
no use being greedy, there are people who need it more then I do, I am happy with what I got, and buying a bunch of junk is not going to make me happy, but I know for sure feeding people inorder to give them a opertunity to live, that would make me very happy



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18 Jul 2009, 7:57 pm

I would buy a luxury SUV, and the PPG Building in Pittsburgh.


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18 Jul 2009, 8:16 pm

Hire a civil attorney to hire a patent attorney

After the trust is set up, and the patented idea is submitted

Then all the money would be in my account with any press coverage

After paying the attorney's, and the R&D lab, I would take the remaining half to travel

Frequent temporary guest abound, sponsored of course, and build a social ladder to a few key people, that I have certain questions for.

After my Curiosity Cat has committed social suicide, I would build a beautiful commune in the middle of nowhere for the truly victimized people of society, who's job it would be to help others.



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18 Jul 2009, 9:08 pm

Ohhh, this is my kind of question :twisted:

First and foremost, I'd buy this feller

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The Fv101 Scorpion. It's actually road legal in ireland. Then, I would buy an abandoned industrial centre somewhere, and just blow crap up, drive through houses, and so on. I'd live on the top two floors of a 5 or six storey abandoned building, full of vents, broken stairways, and hidden routes.

Back in my hometown, I would go to the top of the hill I live on, and build a massive rack for holding six or seven hundred fireworks, and point it towards the town. I would have cherry bombs (loud, but harmless firecrackers) rigged to detonators at various points of the main road!

Just after sunday mass, huge trenches filled with oil would be lit, blacking out the sky. I would have hundreds of monolite plains fly over the town in formation, and at the exact same time a swarm of hundreds of naked people would run through the town screaming. The firework racks would be light, and a cacophony of screeches would fill the air. Explosions would be going off everywhere, and the people in my town would be wondering what the hell was going on. The streakers would leave the town with no trace, and disappear into the woods. And no-body would have the faintest clue what the hell just happened!! ! :mrgreen:

Is that a way to spend money or what??


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19 Jul 2009, 12:14 am

1. Burn it
2. Laugh manically as it burns



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19 Jul 2009, 1:08 am

Buy Monaco



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19 Jul 2009, 8:29 am

Um... Probably go on a massive spending spree then shoot myself because I have no life left... just pointless money...

God damn it, I've turned into a hippy...


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19 Jul 2009, 10:52 am

Let's see.... I'd need to do some maths, but i'd first try to calculate the average amount of money one needs to have a rather fulfilling life, then give the rest to charity. <.<



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19 Jul 2009, 11:45 am

i would go and buy some lollies.



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19 Jul 2009, 4:12 pm

I'd buy a house with a party deck (the roof you can party on, OH YEAH!) and a really expensive pedigree dog and 100 tattoos and a life supply of cookies in 100 different flavours. and i'd pay my doctor to stop nagging me about eating billions of cookies. I'd have the breakfast cookies and the lunch cookies, and the triple fudge chocolate s**t on a stick cookies that look like tar from all the sugar... and I'd crap on my managers desk. I hate him. I'd crap in the confessional box at the church too. and I'd get the best male prostitutes in town when i was bored :wink:



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19 Jul 2009, 8:51 pm

Convert it to US (they don't make change on the street, alas...;)
Pay taxes, which should leave me with...oh, say 20 million.
Pay bills
set up a fund to manage the money
live off the proceeds
buy all my musical instruments, books, CDs, and records back...;0
get a job (bribe HR...;)



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19 Jul 2009, 11:58 pm

i am suprised how much people are seem materialistic. =.=



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20 Jul 2009, 3:46 pm

ruennsheng wrote:
AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
If I received $1.4 billion dollars,
which would be the equivilant of 100 billion pounds,
this is what I'd do with it.

$275 million would go to charity

$80 million would go to my mom

$80 million would go to my older sister

$150 million would go to my high school

$150 million would go to Portland Community College

The rest I'd ditch in a Swiss bank account.



Why would your schools need so much money>.


Because of budget cuts...f-ing recession's laughing at everyone.

PCC would probably take the $150 million and use it
to get their expansion on warp speed.

I'd also take $125 million and use it
to buy a new house for my family.


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