View Full Version : What would you do if you had a million quid?
Marshall
26-05-06, 10:59 AM
Pay off all my debts, Buy a house and furniture and stuff, then throw a massive party for all my friends and family, if theres any left over at the end of it id invest it
DanDare
26-05-06, 10:59 AM
Well?
Give you half Steve! :D
Get some car insurance? :?
Samnooshka
26-05-06, 11:00 AM
It's a difficult one, although i would buy all my dream bikes, and a house with a massive garage to put them all in :D.
Sammy
DanDare
26-05-06, 11:02 AM
Get some car insurance? :? :winner:
Well?
Give you half Steve! :D
I like you!
Oh and I meant to say "NO BORING STUFF" like pay off debts etc......
DanDare
26-05-06, 11:03 AM
Pay a bunch of scientists and engineers to build me a working X-Wing Fighter!
Pay a bunch of scientists and engineers to build me a working X-Wing Fighter!
Now we're talking. More ideas like this!
1st off go to the watch shop, get myself a Brightling, Omega and TagHeuer watches. Then off to the Audi shop and a buy an RS4. Then off to east grinstead to the aprillia shop and buy a Tuono, then to the estate agents to buy a house. That will be about it really, oh and probably book a holiday
Or Spend it on sweets
Get some car insurance? :? :winner:
Even better, set up my own insurance company. :evil:
No really, I'd buy a nice flat in London. Not sure there would be much left afterwards though. :evil:
wyrdness
26-05-06, 11:08 AM
Pay a bunch of scientists and engineers to build me a working X-Wing Fighter!
I don't think that a million quid would get you very far with that.
I'd buy a small house in London - that would take up most of the dosh.
Actually, I'd buy a large house in New Zealand and set up my own brewpub.
Spiderman
26-05-06, 11:09 AM
Leave this country and live off the intrest someplace that aint so expensive to live. Dull but true.
But for you Scoobs, i'd give it all away just to see you tazer yourself again ;)
DanDare
26-05-06, 11:10 AM
Go to my local sweet shop and ask for 100,000,000 penny chews!
socommk23
26-05-06, 11:23 AM
buy my own island in miami with the best track on it and have people come by invite only!
your all invited!
OK, apart from the sensible things of getting a new knee, paying of debts, buying house etc, I'd use it to do any of the following...
... change my name by deed poll every week for the rest of my life.
... buy a million lottery tickets to see if I won.
... put it all on Black.
... buy some piece of very expensive yet overrated bit of modern art that looked like it was painted by a monkey in handcuffs... then use it to start a fire in the iddle of the Tate Modern.
... put a monkey in hadcuffs and let him loose with a load of paint, then hype the painting so much I can get some daft American to buy it for a million quid.
... have Lord of the Rings read to me by Sean Bean as a bedtime story.
... call it a day with the problems of my left knee, have the whole leg removed and get a cool robitic replacement WITH the robocop style gun holster in the thigh.
... buy cake.
... have War and Peace read to me by Sean Pertwee as a bedtime story.
... give it all to the tramp who can show me this mythical place where they claim to be able to get a cuppa for 20p in central London.
... start my own lottery.
... Have the Oxford English Dictionary read to me by Keifer Sutherland as a bedtime story. (OK, a go for the sexy voice rather than looks!)
... paint the town red - with Dulux Masonary Paint
... give it to one of my mates if he eats some poo (which he would for a million quid - we've had this conversation before!)
... change it into fivers and spread them round the base of Nelsons column, hold the crowds back then let them all go whilst simultaneously setting fire to it all - just to see who'se greedy enough to get first degree burns for cash.
... put in a locker in a train station and then start a national treasure hunt for the key.
OK, apart from the sensible things of getting a new knee, paying of debts, buying house etc, I'd use it to do any of the following...
... change my name by deed poll every week for the rest of my life.
... buy a million lottery tickets to see if I won.
... put it all on Black.
... buy some piece of very expensive yet overrated bit of modern art that looked like it was painted by a monkey in handcuffs... then use it to start a fire in the iddle of the Tate Modern.
... put a monkey in hadcuffs and let him loose with a load of paint, then hype the painting so much I can get some daft American to buy it for a million quid.
... have Lord of the Rings read to me by Sean Bean as a bedtime story.
... call it a day with the problems of my left knee, have the whole leg removed and get a cool robitic replacement WITH the robocop style gun holster in the thigh.
... buy cake.
... have War and Peace read to me by Sean Pertwee as a bedtime story.
... give it all to the tramp who can show me this mythical place where they claim to be able to get a cuppa for 20p in central London.
... start my own lottery.
... Have the Oxford English Dictionary read to me by Keifer Sutherland as a bedtime story. (OK, a go for the sexy voice rather than looks!)
... paint the town red - with Dulux Masonary Paint
... give it to one of my mates if he eats some poo (which he would for a million quid - we've had this conversation before!)
... change it into fivers and spread them round the base of Nelsons column, hold the crowds back then let them all go whilst simultaneously setting fire to it all - just to see who'se greedy enough to get first degree burns for cash.
... put in a locker in a train station and then start a national treasure hunt for the key.
YEAH BABY YEAH
socommk23
26-05-06, 11:51 AM
I'd travel
yeah...think i would go back to florida...tis nice there!
Anonymous
26-05-06, 11:52 AM
Buy this forum, ban you all who dont agree with me, the invest the rest. :lol: :wink: :P
socommk23
26-05-06, 11:53 AM
Buy this forum, ban you all who dont agree with me, the invest the rest. :lol: :wink: :P
:shock: be quit an empty forum by the looks of last night dude! :lol:
timwilky
26-05-06, 11:55 AM
I'd get a divorce.
Then give my wife sorry ex, the wedding we should have had, but couldn't afford at the time.
Buy this forum, ban you all who dont agree with me, the invest the rest. :lol: :wink: :P
Its not for sale!
socommk23
26-05-06, 11:55 AM
I'd get a divorce.
Then give my wife sorry ex, the wedding we should have had, but couldn't afford at the time.
will that cover a divorce these days? :wink:
Balky001
26-05-06, 12:02 PM
wonder where the rest went! :wink:
No, start a little supersport team, on the Gold Coast in Australia.
Peter Henry
26-05-06, 12:07 PM
I would immediately retire to an isolated monastery and devote my remaining years to meditation and philosophy.
timwilky
26-05-06, 12:09 PM
I would immediately retire to an isolated monastery and devote my remaining years to meditation and philosophy.
and I thought you had spent the last 10 years navel gazing already
On the other hand you could...
... get the to paint the Forth Bridge yellow for once.
... get some new stones for Stonehenge.
... give it all to GYKD so he could do all the things he wants to do and then see where life takes him when he has nothing to complain about anymore.
... wander around the country asking random people you meet on the street to smile for a quid. A millions smiles - not bad.
... put it all on Red.
... gold plate my car (a 19 year old mini)
... put diamonds in the heels of all my shoes.
... get my own flagstone on Hollywoods walk of fame.
... go into a £1 shop, but one thing and pay with a fifty pound note.
... sell it on ebay.
... buy something stupid on ebay for a million quid.
... buy the biggest diamond you can and give it to the first person who will eat it.
... buy the premises and stock for a nice little bookshop and then strictly adhere to standard second-hand bookstore opening hours = so erratic you never actually appear to be open.
... give it to my dog to see whether he eats it, burys it or simply falls asleep on it.
... actually that's cool - stuff my mattress with it.
... have a coat made of fifty pound notes.
... diamond stud my ****.
... dress like a tramp and anti-beg. Hassle people on the undergraound and in London and give them money.
... Go on an anti-crime spree, break into people houses and upgrade their TV's and Stereos!
... dress as a tramp and cruise round high class shops and car dealers like Mercedes and after being abused by the sales staff flash the cash, force them to treat me like royalty and then after a few hours of torturing them like this - walk out and not buy anything.
... be nice and pay my parents back for all those supportive things they've done for me over the years and send them on a round the world holiday. Then have a huge party at their house and trash it - something I never did as a teenager and I feel we all missed out.
Peter Henry
26-05-06, 12:18 PM
I would though of course allow myself the occasional naked pool party with drunken babes splashing about and draping themselves over me..sighs. :lol:
I would though of course allow myself the occasional naked pool party with drunken babes splashing about and draping themselves over me..sighs. :lol:
Is this an admission you'd have to pay for the babes?!
Spiderman
26-05-06, 12:38 PM
... put diamonds in the heels of all my shoes.
.
I read this and thought "oh the poor girl, always wearing out her heels. This makes some sense to me."
Then i read this...
... diamond stud my @rse.
.
:shock:
How much wear and tear does that get then K?
Quiff Wichard
26-05-06, 12:41 PM
fight off my ex wife and kids who i aint seen fer 2 years ! who no doubt would then want to re- unite !!...
serious!---
I would do the normal stuff- debts- nice bike etc..
but would give a big donation to cancer research in memory of my nan and then arrange to have my grandad taken in a spitfire !! even if he has to wing walk.!!
Pay off my mortgage,
leave my tedious job,
open a nice little hobbie shop (don't care if it doesn't make a profit)
ensure my daughters have a good start in life.
Don't worry about how to pay the next big bill.
Peter Henry
26-05-06, 12:50 PM
k...Alas there could be more painfull truth in your question than you might realise. :cry:
Balky001
26-05-06, 01:01 PM
k...Alas there could be more painfull truth in your question than you might realise. :cry:
Peter - pool party - How many would you be splashing out on at a time? Sounds like a scene from a rap video
northwind
26-05-06, 01:01 PM
Nothing exciting here I think... Get a nice big house with some serious garage and workshop, get the place set up nice, bunch of bikes and cars... I'd like to be able to say on here "You're probably running rich... Pop over and I'll stick it on the dyno" :) Basically make the place available to others (not the house! You riff raff are sleeping in the shed)
Do some travelling... Help out my family with a good chunk of the cash, and invest the rest. I'd not want to just retire, but I'd probably not do a regular job either, who knows.
Anonymous
26-05-06, 01:10 PM
id do whatever i wanted when i wanted with whomever i wanted :lol:
Peter Henry
26-05-06, 01:13 PM
Well if the cheque came through the door tomorrow I would still be up to do my paper round at 5.00pm before heading off to my 12 hour public toliet cleaner duties, like most other peeps I s'pose. :wink:
Nick762
26-05-06, 01:20 PM
http://www.coutts.com/media/20051013200.asp
Sorry guys, couldn't resist it :twisted:
Edit: Although I wouldn't turn my nose up a £1,000,000
... put diamonds in the heels of all my shoes.
.
I read this and thought "oh the poor girl, always wearing out her heels. This makes some sense to me."
Then i read this...
... diamond stud my @rse.
.
:shock:
How much wear and tear does that get then K?
Well, being an crippo I don't have much choice but to sit down alot. :lol:
I'd buy:
A nice house with a big garden
A new car
Several motorbikes
A dog
Scooby Drew
26-05-06, 02:11 PM
id do whatever i wanted when i wanted with whomever i wanted :lol:
You could get the SV lowered with all that dosh :lol:
I'd go for a nice pad in the country, a horse, some tweeds and a KTM 640 LC. And a Mexican horticulturalist :smt028
Gor, come on. What would you do with it if you already had that lot.
y'know, no debts, helped out your mates/family, got your dream house/car/bike/boat etc.
If you just has £1,000,000 to burn...
... apart from just burn it. That would be boring.
Gor, come on. What would you do with it if you already had that lot.
y'know, no debts, helped out your mates/family, got your dream house/car/bike/boat etc.
If you just has £1,000,000 to burn...
... apart from just burn it. That would be boring.
Hire Donnington park for the day for me and my best biking mates (all 4 of em !) to have our own private track day.
Also hire some really trick bikes to play on and some top racers (or ex racers) to act as an instructors.
** Edit - there would be top notch catering set up in one of the pit garages as well (obviously) **
Either buy 100 million penny sweets and eat them all then :puker:
buy some mates :)
or hire a small private army to take over the Vatican City and call it home.
MeridiaNx
26-05-06, 02:54 PM
Take a good chunk of it, maybe 1/4 million and play some serious poker with it. Nothing gets my heart racing as fast as playing for £200-£300 in a hand, damn what a buzz. Imagine doing it with £10k at a time, phew....
Pay for a band to come round my house and play a party just for me and my mates:
Vocals - Freddie Mercury
Lead - Jimmy Page
Rhythm - Pete Townshend
Bass - John Entwistle
Drums - John Bonham AND Keith Moon
Think the money would be enough to cover having all the relevant peeps re-animated?
Oh, and a small arsenal of nukes and light arms to wike out some choice places from the map, think might get Plymouth first, finish off what the Jerries started :wink:
They got anything that could target anything on whatever road i'm on and just blink it out of existence :?:
Vocals - Freddie Mercury
Can you get a time machine for £1million? :?
MeridiaNx
26-05-06, 03:04 PM
Times machines from JML available from all good local retailers, including: Asda, Co-op, Costcutter, Wilkinson & £stretcher.
Gonna need one seeing as four of those guys have popped it!
id phone in sick.
then ponder.
I'd make myself into a whole new person. :wink:
kwak zzr
26-05-06, 07:48 PM
you could buy this for 279,000 quid
http://upload4.postimage.org/278795/boat.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/278795/photo_hosting.html)
saw it in paignton harbour.
1st off go to the watch shop, get myself a Brightling, Omega and TagHeuer watches. Then off to the Audi shop and a buy an RS4. Then off to east grinstead to the aprillia shop and buy a Tuono, then to the estate agents to buy a house. That will be about it really, oh and probably book a holiday
Or Spend it on sweets
i bought a breitling chrono avenger to replace a fake omega, brilliant watch.. got it from a great price.. the only problem is it is bulky and can be fiddly to get a shirt / leathers over it comfortably, it's heavy, and you have to get it serviced to maintain the warranty which is expensive but i love it all the same :)
the_runt69
26-05-06, 10:13 PM
Pay off debts
let wife have the house
buy myself a place
let Paws have my SV
buy Speed triple for wet days
Buy Benneli TNT for sunny days
enjoy whats left of life
H
if i had a million, i'd pay off my mortgage, buy a plot of land in a nice place and build myself a garage with a house next to it, buy a few toys then invest the rest.. wouldn't be able to give up work, and wouldn't want to - even with a big lottery win. material things can only give you so much
toddpnewton
27-05-06, 03:04 AM
Look at all the pretty non-green colours on it.
busasean
27-05-06, 06:08 AM
i'd be very very drunk!
timwilky
27-05-06, 06:18 AM
you could buy this for 279,000 quid
http://upload4.postimage.org/278795/boat.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/278795/photo_hosting.html)
saw it in paignton harbour.
Here is one going cheap near Blackpool yesterday, brand new. The first time it had been on the trailer. I bet the owner is fretting about his insurance as the police could find no fault with the trailer
http://editorial.jpress.co.uk/web/Upload/PRES//TH1_265200614M55USE.JPG
1st off go to the watch shop, get myself a Brightling, Omega and TagHeuer watches. Then off to the Audi shop and a buy an RS4. Then off to east grinstead to the aprillia shop and buy a Tuono, then to the estate agents to buy a house. That will be about it really, oh and probably book a holiday
Or Spend it on sweets
i bought a breitling chrono avenger to replace a fake omega, brilliant watch.. got it from a great price.. the only problem is it is bulky and can be fiddly to get a shirt / leathers over it comfortably, it's heavy, and you have to get it serviced to maintain the warranty which is expensive but i love it all the same Smile
I have an "expensive" watch, a Longines. It was all my old man left me when he snuffed it. Everything else went to his wife (Not that I ain't bitter) £13,000 when new so long a go. the last valuation I had for the insurance was £4000. I dare not wear it apart from posh do's. The battery (Yes a bloody quartz, might as well get a cheap 100 quid watch) only lasts a year and the authorised repairers want £35 to supply/fit a £1 battery. I have to get it serviced every couple of years which costs £250. My advice is never to waste your money on a good watch, they are expensive to own, heavy, your scared stiff of damaging the thing. Save the money to buy a decent bike with.
fizzwheel
27-05-06, 09:11 AM
I'd do track days continually until I was able to get my knee down at will. Then I'd invest enough money so I wouldnt have to work anymore and go bike racing. I wouldnt care even if i was rubbish ( I probably would be ) Its something I've always wanted to do.
I'd buy a big house with some land and build myself stables and get some beautiful horses.
I'd buy an empty shop with some land and turn it into a bike shop/cafe for purchasing & get togethers etc.
Get a St Bernard !
:D :D
carelesschucca
27-05-06, 10:24 AM
buy a house and build a floodlit go kart track in the grounds, get about 8 or 10 Balata minimotos and invite everyone round for a minimoto party...
Nice big BBQ a few beers and we'd have a great day...
DanAbnormal
27-05-06, 11:11 AM
This may sound odd. And I'm not sure why I would have to have a million punds to do this....but here goes:
I would go out somewhere and find someone homeless, I would give them the opportunity to clean themselves up. I would offer them food, clothing and shelter and try my hardest to see if I could sort them out with a job. It may not make much difference in the grand scheme of things but to that one person, it would make the world of difference.
tigersaw
27-05-06, 11:48 AM
I'd quit work and move house. I'd get a dog. Other than that there is nothing particular I'd buy.
This may sound odd. And I'm not sure why I would have to have a million punds to do this....but here goes:
I would go out somewhere and find someone homeless, I would give them the opportunity to clean themselves up. I would offer them food, clothing and shelter and try my hardest to see if I could sort them out with a job. It may not make much difference in the grand scheme of things but to that one person, it would make the world of difference.
probably the best reply to this thread.
seedy100
27-05-06, 01:03 PM
Learn to fly a helicopter!
Buy a helicopter!
hand in my notice, from the cockpit of said helicopter.
Pi$$ myself laughing.
OK, apart from the sensible things of getting a new knee, paying of debts, buying house etc, I'd use it to do any of the following...
... change my name by deed poll every week for the rest of my life.
... buy a million lottery tickets to see if I won.
... put it all on Black.
... buy some piece of very expensive yet overrated bit of modern art that looked like it was painted by a monkey in handcuffs... then use it to start a fire in the iddle of the Tate Modern.
... put a monkey in hadcuffs and let him loose with a load of paint, then hype the painting so much I can get some daft American to buy it for a million quid.
... have Lord of the Rings read to me by Sean Bean as a bedtime story.
... call it a day with the problems of my left knee, have the whole leg removed and get a cool robitic replacement WITH the robocop style gun holster in the thigh.
... buy cake.
... have War and Peace read to me by Sean Pertwee as a bedtime story.
... give it all to the tramp who can show me this mythical place where they claim to be able to get a cuppa for 20p in central London.
... start my own lottery.
... Have the Oxford English Dictionary read to me by Keifer Sutherland as a bedtime story. (OK, a go for the sexy voice rather than looks!)
... paint the town red - with Dulux Masonary Paint
... give it to one of my mates if he eats some poo (which he would for a million quid - we've had this conversation before!)
... change it into fivers and spread them round the base of Nelsons column, hold the crowds back then let them all go whilst simultaneously setting fire to it all - just to see who'se greedy enough to get first degree burns for cash.
... put in a locker in a train station and then start a national treasure hunt for the key.
PMSL :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'd buy an ex Soviet fighter plane,arm it then destroy where I work.
OR Commision someone to build me a Bike that fly's with a big rocket jet thing.
OR Leave the country and spend it on Fast bikes,Cars and women.
OR Buy a nice size house,with a massive garage and have a Batmobil,then throw a big party,and never work again.
="Speedy]
OR Leave the country and spend it on Fast bikes,Cars and women.
Yer and the rest you'd just waste!!
="Speedy]
OR Leave the country and spend it on Fast bikes,Cars and women.
Yer and the rest you'd just waste!!
Too bloody right my friend! :lol:
Give it to my mate Scoob's...
As I would expect the same of him... any thing your not telling us.. lol
I would do the something sensible and buy some houses to rent out. 6 of them at £100k each would earn me £2400 a month before G Browns took his share. After his share I would have about what I earn now. Then the other £400k left would pay me about £300 a week in intrest. I would just live off that, watch my investment grow and not work for a living! Thing is though I would not tell anyone!
tigersaw
28-05-06, 12:19 PM
I would do the something sensible and buy some houses to rent out. 6 of them at £100k each
You can still buy houses for £100k ?
I would do the something sensible and buy some houses to rent out. 6 of them at £100k each
You can still buy houses for £100k ?
yep.. I've seen a few beach huts going for 80k...
Longshotmojo
28-05-06, 04:15 PM
Blow it all in one weekend, and then go back to work Monday morning :(
Yep you can still get a small/medium terrace house up here for £100k.
In Leeds you can buy a Studio Appartment just outside the city centre for £100k but there tiny.
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