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Bullshit. No one ever succeeds in this country anymore. Ever. Haven't you read any threads in the bar?
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Bullshit. No one ever succeeds in this country anymore. Ever. Haven't you read any threads in the bar?
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I am going to laugh when Mark Zuckerberg wins the lottery.
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I like how there have been an almost equal amount of serious and funny replies. My wife and I have been together over 15 years this year. We have spent a portion of many a road trip day-dreaming about winning a big lottery. Here's what we would do:
1. Make everyone in our lives rich. What's the point of being rich if your family and friends aren't either? Say we walk with 500 million from the PB on Wednesday, we'd easily give away 200 million or 40% to family and friends. I don't want to have to pay for them to come stay the month in Hawaii with us. I want everyone who has shaped us, supported us, or put up with us to be financially free. No jobs for anyone!
2. I'm not a car guy, but after buying two armored tanks to drink my two precious little boys around in, I'd buy a 67 Ford Mustang Fastback. I rode in one as a teenager and told myself I'd get one if I ever hit it "big."
3. Upgrade our house in Colorado, but also buy two more properties. One would be a fancy downtown Chicago condo. 3-4 bedrooms with a wine cellar. We would use it for all of the Bears games with our family and friends. We'd also buy the rights to six PSLs. Other property is to be determined. After travelling extensively the next several years, we will find a huge lakehouse on a huge lake. Something with a big dock, sand pit, wrap around porch and lots of privacy and fishing. This is where I will retire.
4. First trip/vacation? Las Vegas. I would invite my two older working stiff brothers to the Eiffel Tower restaurant while my wife has a girls night out with her friends. I would wine and dine them to their amusement and bewilderment with fancy French food and seriously expensive Bordeaux. Once dessert arrived, I would tell them to feel under the table. They would find and then open an envelope with a check with too many 0's. They would cry. Then we would take a private limo filled with the finest sativa I can find to a strip club and make it fucking rain. Sorry, honey. I wonder what 50K cash could get my divorced brothers at the Spearmint Rhino?
5. After initial dole outs of money and preliminary vacations, we'd go back to school. Maybe I'd get a Masters or a Bachelors in another field.
1. Make everyone in our lives rich. What's the point of being rich if your family and friends aren't either? Say we walk with 500 million from the PB on Wednesday, we'd easily give away 200 million or 40% to family and friends. I don't want to have to pay for them to come stay the month in Hawaii with us. I want everyone who has shaped us, supported us, or put up with us to be financially free. No jobs for anyone!
2. I'm not a car guy, but after buying two armored tanks to drink my two precious little boys around in, I'd buy a 67 Ford Mustang Fastback. I rode in one as a teenager and told myself I'd get one if I ever hit it "big."
3. Upgrade our house in Colorado, but also buy two more properties. One would be a fancy downtown Chicago condo. 3-4 bedrooms with a wine cellar. We would use it for all of the Bears games with our family and friends. We'd also buy the rights to six PSLs. Other property is to be determined. After travelling extensively the next several years, we will find a huge lakehouse on a huge lake. Something with a big dock, sand pit, wrap around porch and lots of privacy and fishing. This is where I will retire.
4. First trip/vacation? Las Vegas. I would invite my two older working stiff brothers to the Eiffel Tower restaurant while my wife has a girls night out with her friends. I would wine and dine them to their amusement and bewilderment with fancy French food and seriously expensive Bordeaux. Once dessert arrived, I would tell them to feel under the table. They would find and then open an envelope with a check with too many 0's. They would cry. Then we would take a private limo filled with the finest sativa I can find to a strip club and make it fucking rain. Sorry, honey. I wonder what 50K cash could get my divorced brothers at the Spearmint Rhino?
5. After initial dole outs of money and preliminary vacations, we'd go back to school. Maybe I'd get a Masters or a Bachelors in another field.
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The part where you would (we all would) run into trouble would be the cutoff of family and friends where 1 group of people gets money and the next doesn't get any. Could you imagine if someone you knew kinda well won the lottery and gave a friend of yours say... 5 million dollars but gave you NONE? And if there was that much money involved, people would surely overestimate their relationship with someone else.
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We've thought about that. All living relatives would get something, even if distant and long forgotten. Perhaps about 100K or so, but enough for sure. Or, at least we'd hope it would be enough.
Perhaps a name change is inevitable after a certain point.
Perhaps a name change is inevitable after a certain point.
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My family is small, friend too, hook them all up.
Shit... How much you really need?
Shit... How much you really need?
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Sit down a advisor/lawyer, book a 2 week stay in Tahiti, buy my closest friends harleys/100k each, change my phone number, give a million to homeless shelters for people/animals.
I'd get a 72 chevelle ss, 68 camaro, and a whole bunch of other things.
Oh, and I'd change my number. Can you imagine how many people will line up getting money from you? I'd be so far off the grid you wouldn't find me lol
I'd get a 72 chevelle ss, 68 camaro, and a whole bunch of other things.
Oh, and I'd change my number. Can you imagine how many people will line up getting money from you? I'd be so far off the grid you wouldn't find me lol
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Promise. :lol:
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Sounds like too much work. I'd bang a couple of my favorite pornstars.
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Someone would still give out your new number. I'd give a shitload to my parents and let them spread it to the family how they like. Give some to a few of my close friends and cousins. Other than that, I'd buy a nice house, but nothing real extravagant. I'd buy a Tesla and probably a beamer. Have a bad ass man cave. That's it. I'd put a shitload aside to keep garnering interest.
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Not me, I got a pretty big family, and I know shit would get petty. Oh well though, some of them don't even talk to me right now.
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OK, I am in. Sorry you poor bastards.
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If this gets high enough, wouldn't it be possible for some billionaire to buy one of every number combination possible and be guaranteed to win? I do realize that if there were two winners and they had to split it would be a loss...but am I crazy or would that work?
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He will be spending a shit ton of money in order to win.
If I win I'm going to buy this site, buy the bears and then give Cutler a lifetime contract and if anyone bitches....
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That is an insane number of combos and would cost more money than it's worth.
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Yeah I figured if the odds are 1 in 292 mill you'd need 292 mill combos at 2 bucks each. It'd have to be high enough where the lump sum and taxes still left it high enough. Was just a thought.
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You know, I wouldn't be surprised if this were actually true.
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You would need to spend $584,402,676 in order to buy every combination. So if, after taxes, the winnings would be more than that, then I guess it'd be worth it. But then again, those who can afford to spend 580 million bucks on lottery aren't playing the lottery.
Also, how hilarious would it be if someone actually did that, and there were like 4 winners and they only got 25% of the winnings.
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What about that story of a person who won a lottery in Illinois and they said they didn't have the money so dude got an IOU. Can you imagine if someone was the sole winner of this jackpot and they said, oops, we don't have that kinda money. haha
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