If you were a (cash) billionaire...?

[Hoofy]

Apart from the usual stuff including hypercars and regular track days, I'd probably set up a few Penny Brohn-style venues around the country (or indeed, world) but have some for cancer patients and some for people with mental health issues. Boring, I know.

[Shuvi McTupya]

Riley Blue said:

I'd spend some time thinking about it, maybe ten seconds or so, then I'd walk out the front door, lock it and never visit this st hole of a country again.

I wouldn't even pause to shut the door on the way out. Pick up wallet and passport and leave the car running outside the airport..

[al1991]

Shuvi McTupya said:

Riley Blue said:

I'd spend some time thinking about it, maybe ten seconds or so, then I'd walk out the front door, lock it and never visit this st hole of a country again.

I wouldn't even pause to shut the door on the way out. Pick up wallet and passport and leave the car running outside the airport..

at these, I share your sentiments exactly.

[Celtic Dragon]

Id be insanely boring but would make me smile

Put up a 3 -4 million for the British Biathlon union per year for an Olympic cycle to see how good they can get. The athletes are mostly service forces and they struggle along on 250k per year even though they go to the Olympics and compete in the world cup. Bounty for the athlete who could put a world cup or Olympic medal in my hand.

Sponsor a Womens cycling team for the world tour and a development squad. Making everyone on a minimum salary.


Then there are the other things you'd think of whilst swilling Champagne around doing nothing.

[MKnight702]

I would have a brand new De Havilland Mosquito built for tootling around in. You can keep the Bugatti Veyron and its newer brother, they are as ugly as sin, I would have a much more expensive and better looking Ferrari 250 Testarossa.

[Never you mind]

Try to recreate the dodo from old DNA, and gain a Nobel Peace prize for it or something. Then sell dodo burgers to the rich and famous.

[Trevatanus]

I have always said I would have a house or home built, with a secret annexe, that you need to access via a hidden door, that opens when take a book or a bookshelf, or something similar.
Maybe as above, accessing the "Batcave"

[Justayellowbadge]

Become a Movie producer and commission things like a rap musical biopic of the Chuckle Brothers, set in space With every role played by Danny Dyer, save for the live tiger, to be filmed in space with a somewhat lax attitude to health and safety.

[TheLuke]

al1991 said:

Shuvi McTupya said:

Riley Blue said:

I'd spend some time thinking about it, maybe ten seconds or so, then I'd walk out the front door, lock it and never visit this st hole of a country again.

I wouldn't even pause to shut the door on the way out. Pick up wallet and passport and leave the car running outside the airport..

at these, I share your sentiments exactly.

Our country is one of the most expensive to live in in europe? there are plenty of other countries if you dont fancy this one? Why havent you three gone already?

[hyphen]

Justayellowbadge said:

Become a Movie producer and commission things like a rap musical biopic of the Chuckle Brothers, set in space With every role played by Danny Dyer, save for the live tiger, to be filmed in space with a somewhat lax attitude to health and safety.

[Wiccan of Darkness]

Medieval castle would be top of my list too, weird that, thought i was a tad freaky. I'd also set up my own commune for witches and pagans, akin to Stonewylde (A series of books by Kit Berry, awesome read and escapism if you're that way inclined).

Aside from the usual toys, pilots license etc the rest would be benevolence. All based around medieval stuff, even creation of a medieval town where everything is built and maintained in an authentic way.

Oh and stuff like this

OzzyR1 said:

My friend's son recently had to use crowd-funding and other ideas (charity concerts etc) to raise £100K for his son to get treatment in the US as the NHS would not pay. Fingers crossed, he had the op a couple of weeks ago and it looks like a success so far:

http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/10/boy-with-the-cursed-...

http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/us-operation...

I'd have no issues about coughing up the full £100k straight off for st like this. I mean for fks sake, what is this country coming to? Sorry for the rant but this really boils my piss, friend of a friend had a 12 yr old son with a rare form of leukemia. Local NHS trust said sorry, can't afford the treatment, didn't even fund the palliative care. At the same time they found £100 million for state of the art geriatric care. I mean what sort of country have we become to say a 12 yr old has to die because some centenarians need new hips and knees for the remaining few years of their lives? Oh yeah, they've worked hard all their lives and paid their taxes. Obviously children haven't paid anything in to the system so they get fk all.

Ergo, after the medieval castle has been built and all the other bits on the side done and dusted, I'd set up a charity for something like paediatric and adolescent mental health care. Something the country doesn't have (ask anyone with a suicidal child).

However, there is a sort of appeal to simply having a hollowed out volcano and delusions of grandeur and megalomania as I develop a mind-controlling ray gun. Though mind control devices have already been invented

[p1stonhead]

Ten seats in the House of Commons bish bash bosh

[Vaud]

Set up a charitable foundation.

[steviegunn]

Other than some of the things already mentioned (homes, cars, other forms of transport, travelling, helping others, etc).

I'd want to go into space and to the depths of the ocean.

[Plate spinner]

I'd set up a commercial race track / track day / driver training facility.

Probably somewhere in Southern Europe.

[thebraketester]

Pay off all my friends mortgages...

Buy some houses...

Give loads to charity...

Buy a plane...

Buy an MX5...

[anonymous-user]

I'm fairly lazy, and like the sun so would buy a nice tropical island somewhere, bung a yurt on it and lounge around doing fk all for the rest of my days

[MiniMan64]

Can I build my own private railway and build a steam train?

(Nothing to do with the fact I've been at the National Railway Museum today)

[Moonhawk]

I'd have a state of the art astronomical observatory in a dark sky site.

[poing]

I'd buy a volcano, I'd then hollow it out and cover it in the a fake lake made from metal that opens.

Inside I'd build a massive missile and then I'd take over the world. OK most of the world, that North Korea place seems to share some common interests so I'd just invite them over for a party.

I would name the missile Trumpy McTrumpface.

Once I've taken over the world I shall introduce naked Wednesdays. Then an IQ test for the entire population, anyone under 100 is to be turned into medical test subjects.