No, I didn’t win shit. I didn’t even get one number correct. Looks like I will have to double down and buy 4 tickets. The pot will now be One Billion dollahs!
I guess half would go to taxes. So, the question is; — What would you do with $500,000,000 dollars?
Me;
— $100 million goes in the bank — some combo of cash and gold — so, I can live comfortably for the rest of my feeble life
— I’m spending the other $400 million. Goddamned right I am. The first $100m on loved ones. Then $1.98 on friends. “Charity” isn’t getting jack-shit. And the other $299,999,998.02 on me. Me. Me. Boomerfuk me!
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Other: We had several showings yesterday, spaced apart so that we were effectively “locked out” for the whole day. Pleasant surprise. Can’t believe this many people are looking in friggin January. We have two more showings today.
One guy came back on Friday, this time with his wife, for a second visit. The first time he stayed for one hour. This time they stayed for two hours!! They really like the house. BUT ….. there’s always a fucking ‘but’ …. the wife is hyper-sensitive to smoke … and she smelled smoke. Jeezus.
Do, I smoke in the house? Yes, but ONLY in the kitchen, next to the open window, and with the doors closed to the other rooms. Also, Ms. Freud burns candles every now and then. We asked several people yesterday if they can smell any smoke. All of them said no.
Whatever. So, when Home Depot opens this morning I’ll be there. Gonna rent a carpet cleaner, and shampoo and sanitize every room upstairs. Then, I’m going to wash down all the walls AND ceiling with a water/vinegar/baking soda formula. Then I’m gonna piss in the corner of each room. All that should take care of the smoke smell.
Who the fuck cares, right? I do!! That’s why I’m buying FIVE fucking Powerballs today. I’m sick of this shit.
Am I paranoid?
I have noticed in the last week record prizes up for grabs in lotteries in the UK, US, Europe and maybe Australia too. Pure coincidence or an effort to keep hope alive amongst the great unwashed?
We got two numbers out of 4 tickets. If we won, I’d spend some/save some. Leave most to the kids. Move the fuck out of Bergen County, NJ that’s for sure.
Good luck with your showings today Stucky. Hopefully the rain will stop so the looky-loos don’t muck up your floors.
Stucky,
It may be you that smells like smoke.
Try taking a shower and putting on fresh clothes before they come over next time, and a good strong dose of mouthwash wouldn’t hurt as well.
Smokers never seem to know how badly they smell of smoke, they become insensitive to it.
stucky, why don’t you suggest a good faith deposit and the place will smell any way they wish
I’d donate $100 Mill to several charities that provide service dogs, especially to Veterans. These charities would be investigated prior to funding.
I’d donate 100 Mill among a handful of organizations that are ‘fighting the good fight’ against the GloBull Warming scammers.
I will spend Millions developing a trading program for the Futures Market and then I will reach out to specific people that are disadvantaged in life (missing limbs, etc.), teach them how to trade with the program and provide initial funding.
I’d buy a new, modern, well-equipped house.
We are seeing record jackpots simultaneously in several countries because the games in all of them have such ridiculous odds built into them, that ginormous prizes accumulate after weeks on end with no winner. No “conspiracy” necessary- just consider what every additional number in the chain does to the odds- it multiplies them by thousands. After October 2015, the numbers in the first field increased from 59 to 69, and in the powerball field to 26. These changes more than doubled the odds against winning, which were pretty astronomical to begin with. For this game, so far, nearly $3 billion worth of tickets have been sold with no winner, not even a lesser prize, which tells you what the odds are if you didn’t know already.
I might buy a couple of tickets, but playing games outrageously rigged against me, never much appealed to me, so it will be one ticket, or $2 into an office pool.
If I were ever to get such a windfall, I would take the lump sum, since I do not trust our government to continue to pay the annuity over 20 years, and, after settling the sum of $10M each on family members, roll the remaining several hundred million into a non-profit foundation, with a charter stipulating that the funds were to be kept in the safest instruments possible. One third of the income would be for carefully selected charities that benefit children and animals; another third would be for improvements in my local community- civic amenities, in libraries, parks, and public art that beautify and improve my nabe and those nearby, and that are available to all denizens; redevelopment for profit with the idea of beautifying the area, with profits returning to the foundation to fund further efforts, and education in science and math for promising youth in the area. And the last third would be to play ‘angel’ to promising industries essential to the continuance of modern civilization.
My reward would be good salary to run the foundation.
I think I am paraphrasing WC Fields or someone “I would spend most of it on booze and young pretty women and waste the rest”
i think yet he up front payment is the present value of a 20 year stream of payments, so you also get a discount there and then taxes. I bet you get ~40% of the advertised number after all is deducted. Maybe if I am bored later I will do some math, guessing at the discount rate, it would be great if they used the treasury rate, but knowing the government it is probably higher.
IF we had universal numeracy Casinos and Lotteries would not exist and Donald Trump and Sheldon Addison would have to revert to their native abilities and pimp for the neighborhood.
cocaine and hookers.
and a little pussy for little bb.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
Whoever loves money never has enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
This too is meaningless.
11As goods increase,
so do those who consume them.
And what benefit are they to the owners
except to feast their eyes on them?
12The sleep of a laborer is sweet,
whether they eat little or much,
but as for the rich, their abundance
permits them no sleep.
13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun:
wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
14 or wealth lost through some misfortune,
so that when they have children
there is nothing left for them to inherit.
15 Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
and as everyone comes, so they depart.
They take nothing from their toil
that they can carry in their hands.
16 This too is a grievous evil:
As everyone comes, so they depart,
and what do they gain,
since they toil for the wind?
17 All their days they eat in darkness,
with great frustration, affliction and anger.
18 This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot. 19 Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God.
I would spend 200,000,000 to bring free low income housing as close to the gated communities of these liberal 1% fuck tards that got us to this point.
The rest I would devide with family very unevenly to entertain myself.
I still won’t buy a ticket. Very few people can handle that kind of money without total destruction of their soul.
I would take $100 million and open a foundation for alternative/free energy projects. I would hire thousands of the smartest people and pay them to come up with whatever they can. The money would probably be ultimately wasted but at least creative people would be earning some money.
I would take another $100 million and start an IQ based grant program. Any American with an IQ over 140 could win roughly $10000. And the money would scale up to around $50000 for people above 160 IQ. There is a lot of dysgenics out there so I’d like to try and offset that by making sure that the smartest people arent completely destitute.
I’d come up with a couple more things like that. I’d invest the last $100 million. Buy stocks when this current cycle bottoms.
Permit me to offer some advice on several topics:
To “NoHomeHere” – It is offensive you would quote scripture from some ancient book that clearly has no cultural or historical relevance or topicality to certain individuals that are identifiable by a well-known and indeed self-acknowledged classification, who happen to control levers of power in central banking, communications, etc. etc. Money is its own intrinsic reward and like salted peanuts or coitus, you just can’t get enough.
Re Lottery odds – I believe I read once that Voltaire categorized lotteries as a taxation on stupidity. I believe he nailed it on that one. And speaking I think from the right side of the curve, I think taxing stupidity is a guaranteed money-maker in this vale of tears.
Re Stucky and odors. Don’t micturate in your house dude. Borrow a tom cat for that purpose for a couple days. Guaranteed to smoke out the smoke odor.
Wow. So many generous people here! Happily giving millions of dollars, even a hundred million, to this or that organization.
This is what I think about that.
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LIARS!!!
Am I the only honest fucker left around here?
Not difficult.
First of all, I’d get my parents out of Germany, bring them close to me. I’d set them up in a colonial style house and garden in a secure and exclusive neighborhood, including the highest amount of privacy. Chauffeur, maid, food services, private tourist guide, whatever you can imagine.
I’d provide them with personal medical services, including emergencies, in the best private hospital in town. Basically, round the clock “surveillance”.
I’d then buy an obscenely large and beautiful ranch, probably in some remote part of Argentina, at the foot of the Andes as a refuge for my family, where our dogs can roam and get lost. On it, I’d build my own rifle range, just for my own fucking pleasure. I’d arrange the same kind of medical services for us. Private airstrip, of course.
I’d provide the best and brightest and most creative of my ex-students with several millions of venture capital, no questions asked. I already know who they are, just in case.
No fucking charities.
I’d announce an international competition in the fields of medicine, efficient energy use, nanotech, biotech and a few other fields I’d still have to figure out. I’d ask for a detailed business plan for, like 10, 20 and 50 million. They may set up a research facility, if not a business, or pool their resources.
I guess some beachfront property for us as well.
And then I’d retire and exercise the most basic of all human rights: to be left the fuck alone.
I’d pay off my neighbors farm. They worry about it.
Me and the Mr. would give it away. He can decide,
and play with it…he buys the tickets. Maybe I might
hire a few guys to build a greenhouse against the
South side of the house. Maybe splurge big time and
install a cement driveway. Actually, I want to do those
things anyway.
When I was the big shot psych nurse…there were a plethora
of famous and wealthy people admitted for one reason or
another, I called it “nervous breakdown.” Money is trouble.
It sure comes in handy though if you only have a little. LOL
Stuck, the guy went to your house alone? He only brought the old lady back for a convenient escape. I use that all the time, I will have to ask the wife…
Actually, it is embarrassing to say you have to check with the wife. Either she is there and you ask her opinion or you don’t show up alone and stay a whole fucking hour.
The problem I see is that you are doing the showing. As a little guy, I am intimidated by towering terminators trying to sell me something. I’d rather speak to a diminutive damsel about the possibility of a purchase.
You can’t satisfy every fucking excuse, the person who wants it will buy it.
I’m poor and I have all these internet friends.
If I had $1.3 bn, I’d have a hell of a time keeping track of all the expenditures and taxes and gift tracking and stalkers and beggars and grifters and ex-girlfriends showing up.
I’d have 2 or 3 headaches a day minus my internet friends and what would I have to be happy about?
“The problem I see is that you are doing the showing.” ——— EC
Nope.
They always come with a Realtor. I only let them in. (We won’t do the “lock box” thing). Then we leave and drive down the street, and wait for them to leave. I let the Lookers know that if they want to talk to us after seeing the house to just turn off the porch light …. otherwise, they are free to just leave without further interaction with us.
I recall listening to ‘cuentos’ – folk tales – when we lived in the Chihuahuita tenements in south El Paso. They are a Mexican tradition and radio personality Don Cheto keeps it alive.
He told such a story once, about a mule drive who happened upon a cave. He followed a strange glow to the rear of the cave where he discovered a pile of gold coins. The devil! he thought. Back in town, he warned a couple of bandits about going back there. They went.
It is too heavy for our horses, said one. Go back to town and get a mule and cart and bring back something to drink. The second thief was considerate enough to flavor a tequila bottle with poison. When he arrived at the cave, the first bandit shot him dead. He put the gold in the cart and decided to rest a bit before he headed back to town, he took a deep drink from the tequila.
This sounds like the plot of Fargo.
I’d hook up my parents, and maybe………………maybe my brothers. I set aside enough to watch George Carlin’s “Freak Show” from a comfortable distance for the rest of my life. After that I’d “walk the Earth getting in adventures” like Jules from Pulp Fiction and quite literally give the rest of it way to decent people. I’d run out of gas on purpose and hand the first person to stop and help, $100,000. I’d give $50,000 to anyone holding a door for me. $75,000 to a waitress that provided exceptional service. Just blow peoples minds! I’d try to do it all as anonymously as possible.
Stucky, regarding odors…………rent an ozone machine or two. It’s what they use to get rid of the odors after a house fire. Take Mr’s Freud to a nice hotel and let the machines run for 24 hours. You will not have any odor problems after that.
I would set up a trust, thereby avoiding the tax, and build Libertarian University.
Mandatory classes/activities for students:
Austrian Economics
Urban, suburban, rural warfare tactics
Small arms training, weekly
Would be required to own, possess, and open carry at all times on campus (profs too)
Survival school and excursions
Basic mechanics, small engine repair, welding
Introductory animal husbandry and farming
Constitutional studies and history of founding fathers and the early US
Free speech and respect thereof mandatory – no political correctness or “safe spaces”
Students would not be customers.
Require a minimum of 40 hours per week study
Concentration in English, math science
Course on small business required
Etc.
@Lipoh, My son is a freshman at Liberty University. The school encourages concealed carry. In his first government class, they read Hazlitt. No safe zone liberal college brainwashing bullshit. I would give a boat load of cash to that school. Oh, just found out he made deans list his first semester, and he has been volunteering for Cruz since spring. There is hope with youth who don’t have their head up their socialist professors asses.
EC
Very wise words that you posted in your 1:02pm post. I agree with you 100%.
That kind of money would be the end of your happiness as the vultures would eat you alive. There would be no peace in your life. BUT, if I won 500,000,000 dollars I would buy a few large carat weight emeralds of the highest quality and a large estate in a undisclosed country.
Bea, I’m at the point in age where I need a basic cell phone with 9 buttons. I need to simplify, simplify. Winning a pot of money is contrary to my capacity now.
My old boss Earnie said, the doctor told me I have to quit drinking, smoking and sex. I already quit smoking, drinking goes next. I hope to pare my to-do list down to that.
Actually, I don’t do any of the above.
I would also earmark a few million to try to buy into TBP, so as to allow the Admin to leave his day job and work full-time on TBP, as well as move away from Shitadelphia while he is still youngish.
Try just painting kitchen walls…
I would hire every polecat to not pass anyone elses legislation. Yet, even if I did win that amount I would be tRumpfed.
Stucky I’m disappointed that you didn’t follow my advice. How do I know you didn’t? Because your house isn’t sold yet.
Relieve yourself of the aggravation….just get a 5 or 6 inch St. Joseph statue from the beadsqueezer store and bury it upside down in the front yard. Doesn’t have to be that deep, just do it’s covered by a couple of inches of dirt.
You’ll sell the property within two weeks thereafter.
The real bb says he would buy Stucky’s house for 10 million so he would never have to worry about money ever again. I would try to buy a few TV stations and give Admin and Lipoh prime time just so they could talk economics. I would get El Coyote out of los Angeles before the big one hits. I’m sure I would do more to benefit MAN just can’t think of anything else right now.
Oh ,I would buy Billy a tractor.
Thanx fer membering mi preprayshun h addik.
I think I am paraphrasing WC Fields or someone “I would spend most of it on booze and young pretty women and waste the rest” ~dave
Im pretty sure it was Charlie Sheen.
Take the lump sum. Pay the tax. Buy the biggest island I could find in the sun. Build a golf course, tennis courts and all the water toys one would need. Enough housing for anyone I care to visit with and say goodbye to everyone else. Anyone I wanted to visit with would be picked up in a private plane and free to stay as long as they remain fun and happy.
I’ve already given Enuff thru taxation to give a shit about the rest of the bleeding hearts!
No Stuck, I really would do a lot for charity, number one would be supporting homes for wayward girls. And not just money, I would give my time me as well.
Hiya’ Stuck! Sorry to hear about the continued house problems. Sometimes things are happening, or not, for a reason we don’t know of – yet. Have faith that the best will happen for the highest good of all involved. Hugs.
As one tiny member of a BIG family, I’d be giving a ton away to my relatives. And, of course, paying the IRS for the pleasure (50% gift tax if you reach the – way too low and not adjusted for inflation – maximums). Oh well, I’d still have more money than I could ever need.
I’d buy small farms in different parts of the country, try to figure out where the best place to live is.
I’d give most of it away to those I am led to give it to. So many good people have lost faith and are struggling, those are the people I’d wish to help the most.
And, my biggest expenditure would be private jet transportation so I could see the world. I have no desire to travel now with the exposure to TSA agents molesting my daughter or myself, it would be phenomenal to be able to use private transports and avoid the herd lines and humiliation.
Hugs to you all. And, again, have faith that these delays are serving some purpose Stuck.
Good luck to you all in your lottery dreams!
TE
Nice to hear from you. We were getting worried.
It’s a tax! Nevertheless, I may buy 3 tickets to join the co. pool. That is the entry. A bunch of white guys, what could go wrong? They already lost $150, the second time around has got to be different. We might even win $20.
TE – yes, I too was worried. Thought maybe you finally snapped and whacked your husband in the head with a big piece of cast iron. Glad you did not, or at least that you got away from it.
If any of youse guys win, you’ll have more money than El Chapo.
If I even get $1.00 on my investment of $6.00 in the company pool, I will lord it over you losers, you know who you are.
You plungers have sunk over $4.00 already and you haven’t the balls to quit throwing good money after bad.
Hi TE!
Buying one ticket raises the odds from impossible to astronomical. If you buy more than one ticket your odds are only very slightly less astronomical so I don’t see the benefit. If I get out today or tomorrow I might buy a ticket just because sometimes it is fun to dream.
I’d definitely make sure that my parents have anything that they need or want.
The rest of my family I’d set up some kind of a trust that they could draw on if they really were in need, but I’m not sure that I’d give them too much outright especially the young ones because I think having too much money too young doesn’t give them a chance to develop character.
Charity – definitely, but something that goes directly to survival and quality of life for people in 3rd world countries/situations – water, food shelter. If someone has a smartphone and a big screen TV like the “poor” in this country how poor are they?
For me and hubby I’d find a large working farm or ranch somewhere warmer and safer.
After that? More dreaming to do…