If you won the lottery would you go public?

[V8mate]

Galsia said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Galsia said:

If I won the lottery jackpot the first thing I would do is go out and buy a safe. Then I would put it under the floorboards of my house and put the winning ticket inside. I'd contact Camelot in about a month or two after the interest from the media had died down. I'd still go to work and live normally. It would be bloody hard but would be the best thing to do.

Of course when I collected my winnings I wouldn't go public.

You don't think '£56M unclaimed prize still out there!' 'Only 2 days to collect!!!' type headlines would increase the media interest in the ultimate winner?

I do, which is why I'd wait until its out of the media interest but collect well before the deadline. A lottery ticket is valid for 180 days. I'd contact Camelot after 100.

Of course. Why wouldn't you?
Put up with my idiot fking colleagues for another 3 months, when I could be VMAXing my new Sunseeker somewhere in the Med. No contest.

When all you have to do is tell Camelot to had over the dosh and then fk off.

[drivin_me_nuts]

No.

[AngryApples]

V8mate said:

Galsia said:

Justayellowbadge said:

Galsia said:

If I won the lottery jackpot the first thing I would do is go out and buy a safe. Then I would put it under the floorboards of my house and put the winning ticket inside. I'd contact Camelot in about a month or two after the interest from the media had died down. I'd still go to work and live normally. It would be bloody hard but would be the best thing to do.

Of course when I collected my winnings I wouldn't go public.

You don't think '£56M unclaimed prize still out there!' 'Only 2 days to collect!!!' type headlines would increase the media interest in the ultimate winner?

I do, which is why I'd wait until its out of the media interest but collect well before the deadline. A lottery ticket is valid for 180 days. I'd contact Camelot after 100.

Of course. Why wouldn't you?
Put up with my idiot fking colleagues for another 3 months, when I could be VMAXing my new Sunseeker somewhere in the Med. No contest.

When all you have to do is tell Camelot to had over the dosh and then fk off.

Spot on!

(aside from the colleagues bit, quite like mine)

[AngryApples]

EDLT said:

Stupidlikeafox said:

And people that work in computer game design must enjoy it, as it's more like a paid hobby for them.

I can think of some people who'd quit if they won:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RockstarSpouse/2010...

Not always such great fun and certainly not enough to keep you at it after a £5m plus win

When I secured my job in games testing (many moons ago) my friends thought It must be like winning the lottery and to a degree, so did I

The group I worked with made it great for most of the time, but working on a game you hated 60+ hours a week for months on end for a pittance isn't that much fun

[Taffer]

Bing o said:

I'd like to start a thread called "Bing o, are those your Maclarens"

Winning the lottery and you'd buy some prams and buggies? Would you not rather have a McLaren?



Oh, and would I go public with the win? Not a chance.

Edited by Taffer on Tuesday 16th February 19:54

[p4pedro]

I would tell my wife I have just been promoted at work and she need not work , due to huge payrise. The so called promotion means me working away for a couple of days a week, these days would be spent playing golf / fishing / watching various sporting events and lounging in the sun. not to mention driving nice cars.

peter

[croyde]

Galsia said:

If I won the lottery jackpot the first thing I would do is go out and buy a safe. Then I would put it under the floorboards of my house and put the winning ticket inside. I'd contact Camelot in about a month or two after the interest from the media had died down. I'd still go to work and live normally. It would be bloody hard but would be the best thing to do.

Of course when I collected my winnings I wouldn't go public.

Sod's law would be that you'd get knocked down by a bus the day before you collect your winnings.

[SystemParanoia]

Galsia said:

If I won the lottery jackpot the first thing I would do is go out and buy a safe. Then I would put it under the floorboards of my house and put the winning ticket inside. I'd contact Camelot in about a month or two after the interest from the media had died down. I'd still go to work and live normally. It would be bloody hard but would be the best thing to do.

Of course when I collected my winnings I wouldn't go public.

you would be "giving away" 2months of interest... a bloody fortune that camelot will just keep.

better to book a plane ticket for the day you collect, and just dissapear!

[Tiggsy]

NO ONE who won big would wait ANY time at all - the need to get official confirmation would be too large. The notion you would sit on it for days (or weeks) is ludicrus.

[bazking69]

No. Not in a million years.

I'd probably tell the missus and my parents, and that would be about it.

I'd imagine that that sort of money would bring out alot of golddiggers, old 'mates' and family that you were never close to anyway, and all the expectations/resentment that goes with it.

[Pork]

Having thought about this a lot since yesterday, I've categorically decided that silence is the key. No pblicity for me thanks.

I'm ready for a lottery win now.

[croyde]

Would you post it on here when you win?

[Tiggsy]

anonymous said:

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Do what? You give away 25% of your wealth? While you are free to do what you like i think you'll find others will not go down that road! Do you think all wealthy people just set up trusts with vast sums of their estates????

[hairykrishna]

I'd probably spend about 10m on scientific research kit if I won 50m. It's not exactly charity because I'd get to play with it but it'd have benefits for society (hopefully). I'd still be able to do whatever the hell I liked with 40 million.

[V8mate]

anonymous said:

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[paulhaveawhisky]

If I won all that money, I suppose I would have to think about all the begging letters.... Would I stop sending them or what?

[Marf]

No.

[Adam B]

Chris_w666 said:

bonsai said:

HOGEPH said:

Chris_w666 said:

I would even keep going to work

Er....why?

I wouldn't take it too literally, it's the kind of empty comment you can make when the odds of winning are what they are.

It is literal, I really do enjoy my work and would still be involved with the place I am at now if I moved on for a better salary. If I won a huge sum of cash then using that could fulfill quite a few of the things on my wishlist to achieve at work.

you are very fortunate, what do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking?

[Pork]

Is the £40m winner a PHer? Not a fraction of the coverage the Gloucestershire couple had.

A wise winner. Good luck to him/her/them!

[DangerousMike]

hairykrishna said:

I'd probably spend about 10m on scientific research kit if I won 50m. It's not exactly charity because I'd get to play with it but it'd have benefits for society (hopefully). I'd still be able to do whatever the hell I liked with 40 million.

bingo. I'd set up my own lab with all the kit and chemicals I need and do some research. I'd have to employ people to deal with all the regulations Otherwise I could create a DangerousMike fellowship which I could award to myself and fund my own career at some universities or something. might fund fellowships for other people too.