Happiness. Is 45M enough for that?
the way this thread looked from 'forum view' was both question and answer to me.
What would be the first thing you would buy if you won £45m? Haribo.
First thing I'd do as new owner would be to ban any of those crappy spongy things and demand more monkeybollocks and french ticklers in each bag of tangfastics.
Then I'd buy my own private dentist.
Pint of beer.
Hit squad
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Then we could all live in peace 🙄
+1 for the beer
Start looking for that elusive house 5 minute walk from a decent beachbreak and 15 minute ride from some decent singletrack.
Also take great delight in telling the MD that I have slightly more money than him. 😆
A bank to put it in..............don't trust banks me!
New pair of socks every day would be my ultimate fantasy.
I like new socks.
I'd also like a deep sea submersible house thing, like that one in James Bond.
I think I might get a new BB for my bike. The old one is squeaking a little, so I think it is due for a change. Maybe even go for something better than the XT one I was planning to get.
Other than that, I think I might treat my wife to a nice meal out somewhere nice. Like New York. Or Rome.
Then I'd think about skiing. For the next four months or so.
Job lot of sintered brake pads for the Peak locals, like a skip load in different configurations to be handed out free in caffs around Hope, Edale etc.
I'm curious alpin, whats wrong with the pharma industry?
I mean, assides from prety much eradicating measles, smallpox, TB, mumps, rubbella, unwanted pregnancy, cervical cancer (hopefully), and developed treatments for pretty much every illness you've ever had or are likely to have, whats it ever done to you?
As for what I'd spend it on,
A race track, probably Donnington 😀 and build a massive house in the middle of it (I love the smell of petrol in the morning). Then I'd spend the rest of my life doing whatever I feel like, if I wake up one morning and feel like walking to the north pole, the so be it 🙂
Buy STW and run it my way?! 😆
Buy a section of woodland, build my own playground and never ever let anyone drive logging machines all over it and turn it into liquid tree mud soup. (local loop just got trashed)
Another lottery ticket
Very first thing would be a BMW R1200GS Adventure with all the add ons. Then a house with a nice big garage to put it in. Then a car, but NOT a BMW a Merc or an Audi. I might be loaded but I'm not a tosser.
Then I'd get my GF anything she wanted and then send cheques to my closest friends for a couple of Mill each.
I'd also be tempted to buy a controlling share of the company I work for and sack all the bosses for incompetence.
If it was right now - book out a hotel/chalet in Canada for a couple of weeks and take a group of close mates snowboarding to celebrate - everything paid for and buy them all new boards and kit. Leave my job and then think about setting up a small business with my brother and help my parents build their dream house.
Now if I could just remember where I put that ticket....
what bigsi said except my hit squad would be a private army employed with the sole purpose of patrolling the country listening out for the word 'x factor'
on hearing the word they would flip out and windmill into the perpetrator holding sharp things in their hands.
there would be no exceptions and the killing spree would culminate in me locking simon cowl in a room with a bottle of rohypnol, a video camera and the murderer bloke from the film 'seven'
robots would do actually, big oppressive looking robots.
mrmichaelwright - Memberwhat bigsi said except my hit squad would be a private army employed with the sole purpose of patrolling the country listening out for the word 'x factor'
on hearing the word they would flip out and windmill into the perpetrator holding sharp things in their hands.
there would be no exceptions and the killing spree would culminate in me locking simon cowl in a room with a bottle of rohypnol, a video camera and the murderer bloke from the film 'seven'
robots would do actually, big oppressive looking robots.
That's worrying! 😆
[i]what bigsi said except my hit squad would be a private army employed with the sole purpose of patrolling the country listening out for the word 'x factor'
on hearing the word they would flip out and windmill into the perpetrator holding sharp things in their hands.
there would be no exceptions and the killing spree would culminate in me locking simon cowl in a room with a bottle of rohypnol, a video camera and the murderer bloke from the film 'seven'
robots would do actually, big oppressive looking robots. [/i]
[donates a tenner to the cause]
A notebook, a pen & a ticket to somewhere hot with a nice beach. For a fortnight, to do some serious planning.
cheryl cole's phone number.
once all the 'x factor' fans had been removed i would venture out of my command post on my bike and ride through the nearest city in a post apocalyptic stylee, possibly listening to Beethoven Symphony No.6 very loudly
I'd buy a frigate with Apache attack helicopter on the flight deck, full crew and a detachment of Royal Marines.
Then I would set sail for the Somalia coast and go pirate hunting. That should keep me entertained for a year or so.
Oh, the rest i would put in a high interest account till I returned to be knighted. 😀
[i]go pirate hunting.[/i]
booo hiss. Pirates rock. I'd buy some pirates and go Marine hunting.
I'd spend quite a long time at that Flying School in Russia where you can fly in military jets - http://www.su-47.com/packages/
I like the Spitfire/chav hunting idea though as well. 🙂
you can head up the airborne wing of my x factor oppression army crazy-legs
oh, and I'd have a word with Trout and set up Troutlight Inc (and i've not even bought one...... yet....)
and, I'd sort out the bearing on MrPotatohead's 5 - they we're squeaking worse than grandma's old rocking chair on the Marple ride yesterday..... 😉
Pirates rock. I'd buy some pirates and go Marine hunting
You would have to buy a lot AndyP. A 50cal. with 200 round mag would make a mess of a RIB with half a dozen Pirates! How much of that 45m are you willing to waste? 😉
spend it all on those tiny little cars (think they are made in india) and have them limited to 65mph. give them away for free so they clog the roads up even more so those other lottery winners can sit in their lambos in slow moving traffic pondering the british love affair with the motor car.
i'd buy the m25 and make it the london equivalent or the nurburgring with a minimum speed and pit stops 🙂
[i]You would have to buy a lot AndyP. A 50cal. with 200 round mag would make a mess of a RIB with half a dozen Pirates! How much of that 45m are you willing to waste[/i]
in English please?
One big boat. Pressgang a lot of the crew. Pick up some cheap cutlasses and cannonballs on ebay. Job lot of rum and parrots. Can't cost that much. I'd sit on my desert island on a huge pile of Haribo making necklaces out of Marine fingerbones.
I'd buy a massive plot of land and build my ultimate playground: 2 BMX tracks (indoors and out), 4X track, dirt jumps, 2 Go-Kart tracks (indoors and out), etc.
I'd also buy a rock band style tour bus so my team could travel to races all over Europe.
Now which SLR should I get?
One big boat. Pressgang a lot of the crew. Pick up some cheap cutlasses and cannonballs on ebay. Job lot of rum and parrots. Can't cost that much. I'd sit on my desert island on a huge pile of Haribo making necklaces out of Marine fingerbones.
I actually laughed out loud at that! 😀
AndyP - i'm looking for someone to head up my x factor oppression Navy, would you be interested, you'd have to be a pretty good aim with a cannon, that cheryl crow is a skinny one.
Consider it done. Yaaar.
After telling work to whistle, I'd go on holiday for a month or 10. Probably on a motorbike through America and Canada.
Then I'd come back, buy a whopping great big house in town, kit it out with decent but basic furniture and go round finding homeless people and giving them somewhere to live for free, on the condition that they got a job or some training and moved out when they were sorted. If they needed medical/drug help I'd provide it. If the hose got trashed, hey who cares?
Every time I saw a little kid on the TV who needed £40k or whatever for an operation or £5k a new wheelchair etc and they were tying to raise the money, I'd just pay up anonymously for the whole lot. You could make a lot of people happy with money like that, or ruin your own life very easily
I'd love to be able to do that. I don't think I could live with myself if I kept the whole lot, or blew it.
£5m would be enough for me - Decent 5 bed house with some land and a nice big garage/workshop and games room, a few flash cars, nothing silly, and s small, snug cottage in the countryside and I'd be happy.
Keep 10m. Give away 35m.
Even at 10m, I'd be staggeringly rich. Who needs the rest?
(Oh, and I'd also buy the M25, but rather than turn it into a race track, I'd build the new Berlin Wall, and keep all those London types locked down.)
First thing would be FIRST CLASS flights to America to see the wife's folks. That's FIRST CLASS. And hire a luxury motor at the other end. Then I'd drop a few grand in Attitude Sports in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and probably head over to the Hostel Shoppe in Steven's Point which is an enormous recumbent dealer with some truly amazing things in it.. like an off-road 3 wheeler complete with lockable diff and fully independent suspension... I'd also buy a cabin in the countryside there.. and possibly one of the nice houses on 4th St for peanuts.
Then I'd come back and buy a new Prius in white with all the trimmings, and a VW Sirocco or an Audi TT - both diesel.
I'd have to think hard about giving money to family and friends and all, but I think in the long term I'd set up a bike shop somewhere with enough staff to run it; then I could spend some time in the shop and some time doing whatever I fancied. Then I'd employ my mates there too highly paid and extremely flexible, which would be a good way of giving them a good life but not actually handing out cash.
As for bikes.. well I fancy a track bike, maybe a DH monster and perhaps BMX. Then of course I'd buy land on which to build places to ride them (and of course open it to the public).. including an indoor Veolodrome or three, cos we don't have enough of those in the UK.
I'd also upgrade my Patriot to XTR and get some coil forks. Some Am Classic wheels for the Kona.. Fox shock and possibly Magura Thors for the 5.. a new road bike with better kit, a wireless powertap and a bigger frame.
First thing I would do is get to a place of solitude to get my head around the fact that I had just won £45million and life was never going to be the same again.
One thing I would do though is always fly first class, no more cattle class.
I would pay for Kylie to come round to my home to sing to my little one who is mad on her.
Wonder how much that would cost me?
😉
sing to my little one
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Whores, Cristal and Coke.
Lithuanian & Honduran hookers, ecstasy and viagra in large quantities.
Plus that house close to the sea and some good hills, with my own uplift.
I'd buy a large chalet in a top ski resort and take all my friends for a fortnight, including all new gear for each one.
Then what PeterPoddy said with the rest.
Oh yes a new full sus for me and the hubby.
