If you were a (cash) billionaire...?
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One thing I definitely wouldn't do would be going into politics or running for office.
Anyone with half a brain soon works out it's cheaper to just hire the politicians to do what you want.
The real trick is not getting caught at it and ending up at the wrong end of a Royal Commission...
Anyone with half a brain soon works out it's cheaper to just hire the politicians to do what you want.
The real trick is not getting caught at it and ending up at the wrong end of a Royal Commission...
A billionaire (I assume 1,000,000,000 in some form of currency apart from Zimbabwean Dollars (43p)).
I'd keep 10 million each for me, the Mrs and each of the kids.
Then I'd buy Haymarket, replace all company cars with Vauxhall Merivas and remove all swear filters from PH. Just so I can say the odd smutty word.
The rest I'd spend on trying to eradicate Polio.
I'd keep 10 million each for me, the Mrs and each of the kids.
Then I'd buy Haymarket, replace all company cars with Vauxhall Merivas and remove all swear filters from PH. Just so I can say the odd smutty word.
The rest I'd spend on trying to eradicate Polio.
I would learn to fly a plane or maybe a Helicopter, this is despite my own theory that private Helicopters, and to a lesser extent planes exist solely to keep the number of rich people down, when you have good food, security, private medical care and personal trainers it is less easy to die before your time, unless you get a Helicopter which changes your life expectancy from 90 plus to that of a Glaswegian chemicals enthusiast.
Would bin work off and travel, see the world, preferably first class or in my own Gulfstream, though I like the idea I think FIrst Class my actually be more fun after the novelty wears off, life is about people really, go first and maybe end up sat there chatting with Joan Collins or something, it is easy with money to isolate yourself, big house out of the way, gym at home, pool at home, private plane etc etc, but a lot of the joy in life is the people watching and the interactions, easy to think you are above all that because you have money, you really arent.
Other than that, get rid of most of it, leave enough to do what I need but nobody needs that much cash.
Car wise, would try a few and then perhaps settle on a handful, not vast fleets, perhaps get involved in building stuff myself.
Big Yacht, nah, might rent one for a week.
Wouldl have more time to exercise
Would bin work off and travel, see the world, preferably first class or in my own Gulfstream, though I like the idea I think FIrst Class my actually be more fun after the novelty wears off, life is about people really, go first and maybe end up sat there chatting with Joan Collins or something, it is easy with money to isolate yourself, big house out of the way, gym at home, pool at home, private plane etc etc, but a lot of the joy in life is the people watching and the interactions, easy to think you are above all that because you have money, you really arent.
Other than that, get rid of most of it, leave enough to do what I need but nobody needs that much cash.
Car wise, would try a few and then perhaps settle on a handful, not vast fleets, perhaps get involved in building stuff myself.
Big Yacht, nah, might rent one for a week.
Wouldl have more time to exercise
eldar said:
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The rest I'd spend on trying to eradicate Polio.
Why destroy the mint with the hole? The rest I'd spend on trying to eradicate Polio.
(Yes, they do give off flashes of light when smashed with a hammer. And for a bonus factoid, if you whack a blob of marmite with the back of a spoon, eventually it loses its colour and goes a pale green)
Wiccan of Darkness said:
Why destroy the mint with the hole?
(Yes, they do give off flashes of light when smashed with a hammer. And for a bonus factoid, if you whack a blob of marmite with the back of a spoon, eventually it loses its colour and goes a pale green)
Every day is a schoolday. I shall employ you as my personal strange factoid tutor. Triboluminescence, a word to remember(Yes, they do give off flashes of light when smashed with a hammer. And for a bonus factoid, if you whack a blob of marmite with the back of a spoon, eventually it loses its colour and goes a pale green)
eldar said:
A billionaire (I assume 1,000,000,000 in some form of currency apart from Zimbabwean Dollars (43p)).
I'd keep 10 million each for me, the Mrs and each of the kids.
Then I'd buy Haymarket, replace all company cars with Vauxhall Merivas and remove all swear filters from PH. Just so I can say the odd smutty word.
The rest I'd spend on trying to eradicate Polio.
I must learn not to skim read.I'd keep 10 million each for me, the Mrs and each of the kids.
Then I'd buy Haymarket, replace all company cars with Vauxhall Merivas and remove all swear filters from PH. Just so I can say the odd smutty word.
The rest I'd spend on trying to eradicate Polio.
I thought you wanted to eradicate Plato, which is a bit harsh when he has finally got a competitive car.
Set up my own race team and employ my mates as drivers, enter Blancpain, BTCC & Le Mans along with sundry other series.
Buy wife a new vacuum cleaner, our Henry's seen better days.
Fund Orkambi for all CF patients in the UK (daughter has CF and Orkambi would extend her life expectancy from mid-late 20s to near normal but NICE won't fund it in the UK) except for any that watches anything with Danny Dyer in it.
Commission billboards all round the US telling Jay Z what a massive bellend I think he is.
Might be a bit of a stretch but.....build a swimming pool in the garden in 3 weeks.
Buy wife a new vacuum cleaner, our Henry's seen better days.
Fund Orkambi for all CF patients in the UK (daughter has CF and Orkambi would extend her life expectancy from mid-late 20s to near normal but NICE won't fund it in the UK) except for any that watches anything with Danny Dyer in it.
Commission billboards all round the US telling Jay Z what a massive bellend I think he is.
Might be a bit of a stretch but.....build a swimming pool in the garden in 3 weeks.
Invest enough to secure the future for myself and my family (yawn).
Create my own racetrack, which would feature exact replicas of lots of famous and excellent corners, but would also include corners from roads I love, all melded into one Nurburgring-esque track, somewhere dry, obviously.
Make sure a slide is an option for going down a floor in my house.
Help people, and help people help people. Micro-moderate investment in projects specifically designed to be taken to market with no expectation of profit in order to improve lives.
Provide bursaries and grants for education at all levels, not just to university.
Travel.
Learn to do things properly, so for example, take my car and do a nut and bolt resto on it alongside a mechanic/expert willing to mentor me through each task.
Start a business for me, that of course needs not be profitable, but allows me to create things for other people they really want in a way I really want. A bit like Singer, for example, but in a screw the bottom line kind of way, though profitability would nice.
As an aside, I quite like that one of the reasons Bill Gates isn't at the top of the worlds rich list any more is because of how much he's given away...
Create my own racetrack, which would feature exact replicas of lots of famous and excellent corners, but would also include corners from roads I love, all melded into one Nurburgring-esque track, somewhere dry, obviously.
Make sure a slide is an option for going down a floor in my house.
Help people, and help people help people. Micro-moderate investment in projects specifically designed to be taken to market with no expectation of profit in order to improve lives.
Provide bursaries and grants for education at all levels, not just to university.
Travel.
Learn to do things properly, so for example, take my car and do a nut and bolt resto on it alongside a mechanic/expert willing to mentor me through each task.
Start a business for me, that of course needs not be profitable, but allows me to create things for other people they really want in a way I really want. A bit like Singer, for example, but in a screw the bottom line kind of way, though profitability would nice.
As an aside, I quite like that one of the reasons Bill Gates isn't at the top of the worlds rich list any more is because of how much he's given away...
Smitters said:
Invest enough to secure the future for myself and my family (yawn).
Create my own racetrack, which would feature exact replicas of lots of famous and excellent corners, but would also include corners from roads I love, all melded into one Nurburgring-esque track, somewhere dry, obviously.
Make sure a slide is an option for going down a floor in my house.
Help people, and help people help people. Micro-moderate investment in projects specifically designed to be taken to market with no expectation of profit in order to improve lives.
Provide bursaries and grants for education at all levels, not just to university.
Travel.
Learn to do things properly, so for example, take my car and do a nut and bolt resto on it alongside a mechanic/expert willing to mentor me through each task.
Start a business for me, that of course needs not be profitable, but allows me to create things for other people they really want in a way I really want. A bit like Singer, for example, but in a screw the bottom line kind of way, though profitability would nice.
As an aside, I quite like that one of the reasons Bill Gates isn't at the top of the worlds rich list any more is because of how much he's given away...
Good shoutCreate my own racetrack, which would feature exact replicas of lots of famous and excellent corners, but would also include corners from roads I love, all melded into one Nurburgring-esque track, somewhere dry, obviously.
Make sure a slide is an option for going down a floor in my house.
Help people, and help people help people. Micro-moderate investment in projects specifically designed to be taken to market with no expectation of profit in order to improve lives.
Provide bursaries and grants for education at all levels, not just to university.
Travel.
Learn to do things properly, so for example, take my car and do a nut and bolt resto on it alongside a mechanic/expert willing to mentor me through each task.
Start a business for me, that of course needs not be profitable, but allows me to create things for other people they really want in a way I really want. A bit like Singer, for example, but in a screw the bottom line kind of way, though profitability would nice.
As an aside, I quite like that one of the reasons Bill Gates isn't at the top of the worlds rich list any more is because of how much he's given away...
Welshbeef said:
Smitters said:
Invest enough to secure the future for myself and my family (yawn).
Create my own racetrack, which would feature exact replicas of lots of famous and excellent corners, but would also include corners from roads I love, all melded into one Nurburgring-esque track, somewhere dry, obviously.
Good shoutCreate my own racetrack, which would feature exact replicas of lots of famous and excellent corners, but would also include corners from roads I love, all melded into one Nurburgring-esque track, somewhere dry, obviously.
This one is ten miles;
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/motorsport/here-a...
For me I'd buy
1. A farm
2. vineyard
3. cider farm
These 3 to keep me entertained with a work angle.
Really big house in the country
A top end Ski chalet in Gstaad
I like the idea of a huge villa overseas I really like Majorca so one there would be fine. Also one in the Carribean
Cars.
Firstly I'd pay top $ to get to the position I could participate at a genuine racing level. That would be a lot of fun.
I'd like many of those super rare and wonderful classics
E type
275 Nart
Ferrari Daytona
F50
458 Speciale
F12 TdF
DB6
Cerbera Red Rose
Lotus Carlton.
Lancia Themia 8.32.
But use these cars all the time as high mileage vehicles. Enjoy them for what they are.
1. A farm
2. vineyard
3. cider farm
These 3 to keep me entertained with a work angle.
Really big house in the country
A top end Ski chalet in Gstaad
I like the idea of a huge villa overseas I really like Majorca so one there would be fine. Also one in the Carribean
Cars.
Firstly I'd pay top $ to get to the position I could participate at a genuine racing level. That would be a lot of fun.
I'd like many of those super rare and wonderful classics
E type
275 Nart
Ferrari Daytona
F50
458 Speciale
F12 TdF
DB6
Cerbera Red Rose
Lotus Carlton.
Lancia Themia 8.32.
But use these cars all the time as high mileage vehicles. Enjoy them for what they are.
Aside from all the ridiculous cars and ballin houses etc I'd do stupid s
t like buy number plates that are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and put them on horrendous vehicles like rusty old LDV convoy scrap vans with perished windscreen rubbers, rust everywhere and newspapers all over the dash.
t like buy number plates that are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and put them on horrendous vehicles like rusty old LDV convoy scrap vans with perished windscreen rubbers, rust everywhere and newspapers all over the dash.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff