If you won the Lotto... [Archive] - Politics ~ Irish & International

Gruffalo

17-08-2010, 01:15 PM

What would you do if you won the Lotto; a modest sum say €1,000,000.

Would you buy gold or silver, invest in shares or property.

Would you spend or save, and in what manner?

10% would go to charity and the rest would sit in the bank (not one of ours) until I had thought of some constructive use for it.

TotalMayhem

17-08-2010, 01:22 PM

the rest would sit in the bank (not one of ours)

Having a fond attachment to offshore banks? ;)

Slim Buddha

17-08-2010, 01:44 PM

I'd stick it in a bank close to where I live.

Cáthasaigh

17-08-2010, 01:53 PM

I'd set up a co-op and remain involved until my initial investment was repaid and then do the same again, repeating the process indefinitely to build a network of empowered citizens.

charley

17-08-2010, 02:08 PM

make sure my family was well provided for and carefully manage the rest. It would only be in a bank until the cheque clears .

musashi

17-08-2010, 02:37 PM

I'd set up a co-op and remain involved until my initial investment was repaid and then do the same again, repeating the process indefinitely to build a network of empowered citizens.

+1

I like the mutual benefit investment.

I don't like the idea of the entire 1,000,000 being currency based.

musashi

17-08-2010, 02:40 PM

I would buy a few phones for Ivor Callely and throw some cash towards Bertie Ahern.

Get thee to the Dail.

Iolo

17-08-2010, 03:11 PM

I'd give the kids two thousand each, have a bloody good night out and send the rest to Plaid Cymru. I've got better taste than to try to be rich.

DCon

17-08-2010, 03:22 PM

The government is doing that on your behalf as it is. So you get another go :D

Could I buy the naming rights to the new Offaly airport?

I would call it the Queen Elizabeth memorial airport, just to annoy all the BIFFO's

Gruffalo

17-08-2010, 05:39 PM

Could I buy the naming rights to the new Offaly airport?

I would call it the Queen Elizabeth memorial airport, just to annoy all the BIFFO's

I would, quite literally, hunt you down and shoot you.

Ah Well

17-08-2010, 06:57 PM

Pay off any outstanding debts firstly getting a settlement figure rather than firing cash at 'em ;)

And then sit back, have a good chill and take good time to decide the best route to deal with it logically rather than rashly chasing some spur of the moment ideal

:D

Cáthasaigh

17-08-2010, 07:09 PM

Could I buy the naming rights to the new Offaly airport?

I would call it the Queen Elizabeth memorial airport, just to annoy all the BIFFO's

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__RtQMk1SpuA/TGhH2l3uvDI/AAAAAAAAAV4/XEu9vtE5VFw/s1600/01+the+auld+protocols.jpg

Gruffalo

17-08-2010, 07:20 PM

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__RtQMk1SpuA/TGhH2l3uvDI/AAAAAAAAAV4/XEu9vtE5VFw/s1600/01+the+auld+protocols.jpg

His leather lips have spent years kissing ass so it probably wouldn't trouble him to bend down and kiss the ground she walks on.

DCon

17-08-2010, 10:27 PM

I would, quite literally, hunt you down and shoot you.

you do not have to use the Offaly QEMIA (Queen Elizabeth Memorial International Airport). Nobody does

:)

Gruffalo

17-08-2010, 10:35 PM

you do not have to use the Offaly QEMIA (Queen Elizabeth Memorial International Airport). Nobody does

:)

http://splinteredsunrise.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/father_ted_down_with_this_sort_of_thing.jpg

Ah Well

17-08-2010, 11:43 PM

you do not have to use the Offaly QEMIA (Queen Elizabeth Memorial International Airport). Nobody does

:)

You mean King's County International Airport ;):)

Cáthasaigh

18-08-2010, 08:58 AM

You mean King's County International Airport ;):)

Offaly is named after Elvis?

Ah Well

18-08-2010, 09:00 AM

Offaly is named after Elvis?

heh no :)

King's County of course being the Anglo name for Offaly ... unless of course Cowen has plans for renaming it in his own honour :D

Andrew49

18-08-2010, 10:19 AM

What would you do if you won the Lotto; a modest sum say €1,000,000.

Would you buy gold or silver, invest in shares or property.

Would you spend or save, and in what manner?

I'd get up late, and probably have that guttering seen to at last.

greengoose

18-08-2010, 11:47 AM

Me, I would buy 1,000,000 more lottery tickets. I might be on a roll.

Andrew49

18-08-2010, 12:10 PM

Me, I would buy 1,000,000 more lottery tickets. I might be on a roll.

:D:D

On mature reflection I'd buy Anglo Irish Bank, and with the remaining €999,999 I'd retire to a South Seas Island and start up a property empire.

musashi

18-08-2010, 12:13 PM

I rarely do Lotto (maybe once a year), I figure with odds that bad, what difference. When I do buy I see it as an investment in my own psychological wellness; it's like a license to dream.

I wouldn't place all my chips on one turn of pitch and toss.

musashi

18-08-2010, 12:15 PM

:d:d

on mature reflection i'd buy anglo irish bank, and with the remaining €999,999 i'd retire to a south seas island and start up a property empire.

:D:D

C. Flower

18-08-2010, 12:32 PM

I'd give the kids two thousand each, have a bloody good night out and send the rest to Plaid Cymru. I've got better taste than to try to be rich.

Plaid are lucky to have you.

The way things are here, I don't see too many people using their lottery win to make a political donation.

Slim Buddha

18-08-2010, 12:39 PM

Plaid are lucky to have you.

The way things are here, I don't see too many people using their lottery win to make a political donation.

I would give at least half of it to anybody who could guarantee that Fianna Fail will actually be a proscribed organisation by 31-12-2010, membership of which to carry a mandatory 7 year jail sentence.

greengoose

18-08-2010, 02:12 PM

I would give at least half of it to anybody who could guarantee that Fianna Fail will actually be a proscribed organisation by 31-12-2010, membership of which to carry a mandatory 7 year jail sentence.
I'll top that - I'll give all my winnings from the 1,000,000 tickets to :D same cause.

Binn Beal

18-08-2010, 02:55 PM

Buy a few TDs, a handful of Senators and all the county councillors.

Kev Bar

18-08-2010, 03:36 PM

I'd get up late, and probably have that guttering seen to at last.

If the gutter man is any good let me know.

I recently asked the bank for a loan.
I was told No.
It was then suggested I surrender my overdraft in the name of fiscal wisdom.
I told them No.
And others words I wld not repeat in the Flower's house.
Irritated i bought a €20 Euro tic in the millionaire raffle.
Promptly forgot about it.
Remembered during the thaw's glaw in Jan. Took tic to shop for a scan.
It said "winner."
Being a man of logic I deduced that I would be writing this post from St 278 in Phnom Penh. There were a few stopovers on the way there. Kabul and Tehran finally got visited.
Logic then interupted....revealing a figure that was a bit light on zeros.
First I thought it was a grand. On 10th insertion - I realised it was 10,000.
Oh how we laughed.
Just what I needed to get out of a hole with a grin.
But one minor insight.
Dont write about or publicise your winnings!

musashi

18-08-2010, 04:10 PM

If the gutter man is any good let me know.

I recently asked the bank for a loan.
I was told No.
It was then suggested I surrender my overdraft in the name of fiscal wisdom.
I told them No.
And others words I wld not repeat in the Flower's house.
Irritated i bought a €20 Euro tic in the millionaire raffle.
Promptly forgot about it.
Remembered during the thaw's glaw in Jan. Took tic to shop for a scan.
It said "winner."
Being a man of logic I deduced that I would be writing this post from St 278 in Phnom Penh. There were a few stopovers on the way there. Kabul and Tehran finally got visited.
Logic then interupted....revealing a figure that was a bit light on zeros.
First I thought it was a grand. On 10th insertion - I realised it was 10,000.
Oh how we laughed.
Just what I needed to get out of a hole with a grin.
But one minor insight.
Dont write about or publicise your winnings!

Hey Congrats :)

Don't spend it all in one shop.

C. Flower

18-08-2010, 04:15 PM

Hey Congrats :)

Don't spend it all in one shop.

+ 1. Nice little number. :)

Kev Bar

18-08-2010, 04:16 PM

Hey Congrats :)

Don't spend it all in one shop.

I'm only telling you cos it's gone. There was, however, a night of equal distribution of the means of inebriation.
Ta tho.

Stendec

18-08-2010, 04:23 PM

wine women an song and Stendec would do his own song!!! :):):):)

musashi

18-08-2010, 05:05 PM

I'm only telling you cos it's gone. There was, however, a night of equal distribution of the means of inebriation.
Ta tho.

Jeez that must have been some night ;)

Ecoprincess

18-08-2010, 07:55 PM

unfortunately I'd be very practical, finish fencing the fields, concrete the goats yard, dig the ditch to stop the water running into the cottage everytime it rains, complete the renovation of the house, finish the garden, buy a van, service the Harley and pay off the mortgage.

OMG I'm so boring LOL, but I would be free of debt life would be a little easier.

musashi

18-08-2010, 08:11 PM

musashi

18-08-2010, 08:13 PM

wine women an song and Stendec would do his own song!!! :):):):)

Plenty of both would certainly be the order of that day, but then what? Sing forever?

musashi

18-08-2010, 08:15 PM

Buy a few TDs, a handful of Senators and all the county councillors.

Don't subscribe to extending influence through our democratic system.
Limited returns you see.
One vote will do me.

Sam Lord

18-08-2010, 09:02 PM

YouTube- If I Had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies [BEST ONE]

Kev Bar

19-08-2010, 12:52 AM

Jeez that must have been some night ;)

For a freezing day in Jan, it was kind of....**** I cant recall.

Stendec

27-08-2010, 12:26 PM

Plenty of both would certainly be the order of that day, but then what? Sing forever?

liver pisoning an a dose of **** rot but shur youd die happy :):):)

musashi

27-08-2010, 01:39 PM

liver pisoning an a dose of **** rot but shur youd die happy :):):)

Eyyewwww.
Never mind; buy new liver from Chinese (best price, no cheque) plus cheyenne powder for cheesy knob rot, best cure, work good ;)

C. Flower

27-08-2010, 01:40 PM

I feel a little light modding coming on....

musashi

27-08-2010, 01:47 PM

I feel a little light modding coming on....

Duly noted maam.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AxBvyEAebkY/SjgY_3AvAYI/AAAAAAAAAFY/VN4uH7vScLU/s320/salute.jpg

Stendec

27-08-2010, 02:11 PM

Eyyewwww.
Never mind; buy new liver from Chinese (best price, no cheque) plus cheyenne powder for cheesy knob rot, best cure, work good ;)

jaziz thatid be worse than a blow lamp :):):)

Stendec

27-08-2010, 02:12 PM

I feel a little light modding coming on....

a dont do that look at the little weasels place the pervert is after startin a tread about womens bare diddys!! were not that bad yet shur were not??

Sam Lord

27-08-2010, 02:46 PM

a dont do that look at the little weasels place the pervert is after startin a tread about womens bare diddys!! were not that bad yet shur were not??

I can't find it. Any chance of a link? :D

Stendec

27-08-2010, 02:55 PM

I can't find it. Any chance of a link? :D

here it is. http://www.politics.ie/justice/135834-why-women-forced-cover-up-their-breasts.html
anyone else would get barred for that but the pervert is a mod so he can do what he likes!!!

musashi

28-08-2010, 12:01 AM

here with drinks on bhoard,
my bro says gold,
buy goldl,
yeh, i says but what about when the bubble bursts,
no; pick up n sell before the gold creashes, he says.

ser8iously, after you've settled all your debts your'e still flush,
what then?
say you settle your mortguage,
funds for your young wans'; college, first ohmes etc.
you've still got a wad o cash, what then?

Do you leave it sitting in your bank, waiting for the hammer to fall?

fisirr=y vbiobad typing fring

RahenyFG

29-11-2010, 08:29 AM

I'd wouldn't have to worry about the recession:)

antiestablishmentarian

29-11-2010, 10:35 AM

I'd give a very large donation to the Socialist Party and the United Left Alliance, and I'd make a donation to my old school for the refurbishing of its buildings. I'd set aside a relatively small amount from it for finishing my education and for emigration, perhaps €10,000-€15,000, then the remainder I'd set aside in trust for my sisters.

tea drinker

29-11-2010, 12:10 PM

I'd have some fun with work, making increasingly irrational decisions. I'd hire "advisors" to back me up, someone promising from a theatric background. I think we already have a few lotto winners in government!
Anyway, after getting fired, I'd start spending, blow half of it on boys toys and travel. A few gifts to the right people and save the rest... where I dunno. Brazil maybe.

wickedfairy

29-11-2010, 02:02 PM

buy a little house in the south of France and a few sheckles to charity, but not the Irish Red Cross tho!

I am a life memebr of the Red Cross and have seen at first hand the methods they use to bully people into a state of total distress. Of course these bullies are not the Red Cross they are volunteers within the Red Cross who abuse their position and use their position as they have only one intention in life POWER !

I have seen the methods used and have been on the end of this barage, but I unlike others would not take any of the **** that these guys could come up with and never intend to show any respect to their meaningless lives. They purport to be involved in a Humanitarian Society which insures respect for humanity. The only guys that do well out of the Red Cross are lawyers and consultants. Well, they won’t be spending my money not a sngle penny would I give them that is the Irish Red Cross they that is the management have shown time and again the capcity to do wrong again and again.

comment from Bocktherobber's blog
http://bocktherobber.com/2010/08/stupidity-of-irish-red-cross

musashi

29-11-2010, 04:43 PM

I want me one o' deeesse...

http://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/xbox-360-kinect.jpg

Kev Bar

29-11-2010, 05:08 PM

I'd take you all out to dinner.

TotalMayhem

30-11-2010, 09:30 AM

What would you do if you won the Lotto?

RUN!!!

Catholic bishop advises lottery jackpot winner to flee (http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1602372.php/Catholic-bishop-advises-lottery-jackpot-winner-to-flee-Philippines)