You find a suitcase with £1 million in it. What would you do

You find a suitcase with £1 million in it. What would you do

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Jagmanv12

1,573 posts

164 months

Tuesday 12th November 2013
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Alexandre MX said:
My rational side says: Save 75% of the money and the other spend it in shallow luxury stuffslaugh
Or you could spend it like the late George Best "90% on my money I spent on women and booze, the rest I wasted"

Alexandre MX

299 posts

128 months

Tuesday 12th November 2013
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Jagmanv12 said:
Or you could spend it like the late George Best "90% on my money I spent on women and booze, the rest I wasted"
Booze yes, women nahhh.


Monkeylegend

26,407 posts

231 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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Alexandre MX said:
Booze yes, women nahhh.
Are they a perk of the job in your part of the world then wink

The Jolly Todger

2,742 posts

180 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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shirt said:
i reckon dubai is one of few places in the world where i could simply march into the bank and deposit the cash no questions asked, or at the very least buy a few supercars for cash straight out of the showroom and flog them on.
How are you going to get to Dubai with a suitcase containing £1M?

Alexandre MX said:
My rational side says: Save 75% of the money and the other spend it in shallow luxury stuffs laugh
What do you mean by 'save'? How are you going to save it? You can't put it in a bank and leaving it under your bed and spending it as and when will only be useful for relatively small purchases and only until the bank notes change.

shirt

22,578 posts

201 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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The Jolly Todger said:
How are you going to get to Dubai with a suitcase containing £1M?
the same way you'd get to the uk with one. i.e. i'm already there.

Monkeylegend

26,407 posts

231 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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shirt said:
The Jolly Todger said:
How are you going to get to Dubai with a suitcase containing £1M?
the same way you'd get to the uk with one. i.e. i'm already there.
Yes, but that sill doesn't answer the question, how?

shirt

22,578 posts

201 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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i'm assuming that i'd find the suitcase of cash here, either in £, $ or local currency. my point being that where i live doesn't have much morality when it comes to cold hard cash so i would not need to be cloak and dagger about laundering it to a format where i could move it around digitally.

DannyScene

6,628 posts

155 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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New POD said:
DannyScene said:
New POD said:
DannyScene said:
I'm here, not sure what help I can offer though biggrin
Are you 6 foot 2 inches tall and twice as thick ? Did you get thrown out of a full time paid job as professional rugby league player, for taking drugs ? Do you work in 'security' and would you do it for free if they let you hit more people ? Are your hands made of steel and your brain made of jelly? If so, you might be the 'personal assistant' that I'll need.
I'm just below 6 foot, got told not to play rugby union again because I tore my achilles tendon, I work in IT so if anyone has any ideas I can and will sign them up to as many free emailers as possible, also my pre mentioned work in IT has made my brain jelly and my typing muscles on my hands similar to steel, will work for 1 bacon roll per day and as many cans of coke as I can drink, is that close enough? tongue out
All sounds great, but the type of coke he takes, doesn't come in Cans.
I'm not fussy, both types of coke are good enough smile

The Jolly Todger

2,742 posts

180 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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shirt said:
i'm assuming that i'd find the suitcase of cash here, either in £, $ or local currency. my point being that where i live doesn't have much morality when it comes to cold hard cash so i would not need to be cloak and dagger about laundering it to a format where i could move it around digitally.
Ah, I see, should have checked your profile.

Alexandre MX

299 posts

128 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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The Jolly Todger said:
What do you mean by 'save'? How are you going to save it? You can't put it in a bank and leaving it under your bed and spending it as and when will only be useful for relatively small purchases and only until the bank notes change.
Why the sudden critics to a very rare remote hypothetical situation that will never happen?

The Jolly Todger

2,742 posts

180 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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Alexandre MX said:
The Jolly Todger said:
What do you mean by 'save'? How are you going to save it? You can't put it in a bank and leaving it under your bed and spending it as and when will only be useful for relatively small purchases and only until the bank notes change.
Why the sudden critics to a very rare remote hypothetical situation that will never happen?
I'm sorry, I assumed we were talking about what would happen if you find a suitcase with £1 million in it.

Alexandre MX

299 posts

128 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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The Jolly Todger said:
I'm sorry, I assumed we were talking about what would happen if you find a suitcase with £1 million in it.
Yes, yes but my point are the critics towards my answer. laugh

KFC

3,687 posts

130 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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Alexandre MX said:
Booze yes, women nahhh.
Booze and men then?

The Jolly Todger

2,742 posts

180 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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Alexandre MX said:
Yes, yes but my point are the critics towards my answer. laugh
I was genuinely interested to what you meant by 'save'.

Literally that.

Alexandre MX

299 posts

128 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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The Jolly Todger said:
I was genuinely interested to what you meant by 'save'.

Literally that.
Well I just said "save" but not how, those details arent important on this post biggrin

Alexandre MX

299 posts

128 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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KFC said:
Booze and men then?
Booze yes, men no... I have a bf.

New POD

3,851 posts

150 months

Wednesday 13th November 2013
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DannyScene said:
New POD said:
DannyScene said:
New POD said:
DannyScene said:
I'm here, not sure what help I can offer though biggrin
Are you 6 foot 2 inches tall and twice as thick ? Did you get thrown out of a full time paid job as professional rugby league player, for taking drugs ? Do you work in 'security' and would you do it for free if they let you hit more people ? Are your hands made of steel and your brain made of jelly? If so, you might be the 'personal assistant' that I'll need.
I'm just below 6 foot, got told not to play rugby union again because I tore my achilles tendon, I work in IT so if anyone has any ideas I can and will sign them up to as many free emailers as possible, also my pre mentioned work in IT has made my brain jelly and my typing muscles on my hands similar to steel, will work for 1 bacon roll per day and as many cans of coke as I can drink, is that close enough? tongue out
All sounds great, but the type of coke he takes, doesn't come in Cans.
I'm not fussy, both types of coke are good enough smile
If I find £1 million I shall seek you out and employ you as "Business Consultant". It will be a contract position and I'll expect you to be Vat registered and have professional indemnity insurance, but you'll be employed to a) Protect me from persons unknown, b) run the real accounts, and c) Run the fake accounts and d) think of ever mental ways of spending the cash.

c123

523 posts

149 months

Thursday 14th November 2013
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Is it legal to sell sex, or is that just a urban myth? You could go in to the bank every couple of weeks boasting about how you've whisked off to Monte Carlo, again, and paid £20k for services rendered.

In all seriousness there must be a few girls (certainly more likely than guys) at the very top of the sex industry who make tens of thousands of pounds in a short space of time, presumably mostly cash or high value goods, who are able to bank it. Surely not all of them are trafficked or controlled by criminal gangs.

Although maybe you'd need to look like Demi Moore to convince someone you'd made £1m that way.

carmadgaz

3,201 posts

183 months

Thursday 14th November 2013
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The Jolly Todger said:
carmadgaz said:
Spend the big notes on little things, get change in the 'current' bank notes.

Hell I do it on nights out, use a £20 to buy the first drink as I can't be bothered to count change out, same with the second maybe the third, then the tenners get used and I end up with a pile of coins at the end (And I've probably only spent £30/40 ).

I'd use it as pocket money and use enough of my wages on bigger things to keep it all looking legit.
I'm not sure this works.
Give me the million and I'll try it out wink

New POD

3,851 posts

150 months

Thursday 14th November 2013
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c123 said:
Is it legal to sell sex, or is that just a urban myth? You could go in to the bank every couple of weeks boasting about how you've whisked off to Monte Carlo, again, and paid £20k for services rendered.

In all seriousness there must be a few girls (certainly more likely than guys) at the very top of the sex industry who make tens of thousands of pounds in a short space of time, presumably mostly cash or high value goods, who are able to bank it. Surely not all of them are trafficked or controlled by criminal gangs.

Although maybe you'd need to look like Demi Moore to convince someone you'd made £1m that way.
I sold my virginity once. Unfortunately I sold it to my wife, who was clearly running some sort of complex financial hedge fund, with options and t&c's I didn't have explained, and apparently I owe her, and she in fact OWNs me.