If you won the lottery...

stu · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 17.57

Buy a super smashing house in the midlands and never ever ever step outside of the midlands ever ever ever again, cos everywhere else is mega-shite, especially Lincolnshite, which is very very very shite

(very annoyed today)

Jamez · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 18.09

Spencer For Hire wrote: it's very difficult to buy 14 million tickets.

You'd be forever trying to find winning ones. You'd have several thousand £10 winning tickets too.

Lorns · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 18.20

Well, after i'd passed out, thrown up and cried my eyes out after i realised, i really,really had won the lottery.
I'd..

Pay off my brothers mortage and buy my mum the home of her choice.

Put money into a trust for my niece, nephew and my fellas kids.

Buy an appartment in Folkestone overlooking the channel.

Buy another Salon.

Other than that i don't really know what i'd spend it on. I know i would take life alot easier and be able to bugger off to Italy to live the simple life without having any financial problems. I'm quite a simple girl really ( and i don't mean mentally okay).

Jamez - How on earth could you manage to spend £10,000 on plastic surgery

Jamez · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 18.25

Easily. I'm probably one of them most self-conscious and physically insecure people on this forum believe it or not!

Lorns · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 18.36

You saying you need cosmetic surgery is like me saying i need breast implants

You surprise me, you really don't come across as insecure. Until just now.

Dr Lobster* · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 21.29

Spencer For Hire wrote:
Dr Lobster* wrote:i wouldn't bother with charities either, the amount of money some of them spend on marketing is horrifying.
So give some to a charity which doesn't spend loads on marketing - perhaps a local charity. You wouldn't want people thinking you're just coming up with excuses for being selfish now would you?

perhaps then, if they are spending loads on marketing they need to rethink the way they get donations. i apprechiate there will be some overheads, but the amount of crap you get through your door from companies like christian aid and the rspca tells me there is something very wrong.

Jamez · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 22.45

Plus those free pens they always send me can't be that cheap to make!

Chris · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 22.48

Dr Lobster* wrote:
Spencer For Hire wrote:
Dr Lobster* wrote:i wouldn't bother with charities either, the amount of money some of them spend on marketing is horrifying.
So give some to a charity which doesn't spend loads on marketing - perhaps a local charity. You wouldn't want people thinking you're just coming up with excuses for being selfish now would you?
perhaps then, if they are spending loads on marketing they need to rethink the way they get donations. i apprechiate there will be some overheads, but the amount of crap you get through your door from companies like christian aid and the rspca tells me there is something very wrong.

I dislike those that use "chuggers" (short for charity muggers; the pratts with clipboards in the street who bug you to try and stop you to spout their spiel about the charity and to obtain your bank details). What a waste of money it must be to employ these gimps on the street.

cdd · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 23.28

Spencer For Hire wrote:There have been cases in other countries of people trying to buy every combination of numbers to guarantee winning the jackpot when it's been worth more than the cost of the tickets.

That's a point I'd made in another thread -- at least to buy half the total tickets and be in with a fighting chance! I think I'd organise some special automated filing system to ensure that all my tickets went to the right place, and perhaps buy a camelot machine to print out the tickets too.

cdd · Tue 14 Jun, 2005 23.32

How charaities manage to afford minute-long TV ads is beyond me!

It's actually in companies economic interests to register themselves as charities, as it means that, so long as they reinvest their profits and do a bit that could be construed as charitable, they don't pay tax (or at least get a hearty reduction). I'm sure someone "in the biz" could explain it a lot better than I could, but the whole idea seems very cynical. Some companies (e.g. BA) go a step further and invite the customer to cough up for their charitable share... sickening. To think that a company "cares" is incredibly naive, as it is contrary to the basics of business. Yet people just lap it up, giving their money to companies who forward the money as if it were their own.

tvmercia · Sat 18 Jun, 2005 01.45

nodnirG kraM wrote:Charity ads which beg are most irritating and more often than not completely vulgar. Fine, show the work that volunteers do and show what a worthy cause you are fighting for, but don't sit a picture of a hungry bloke with a bandaged face and flies everywhere staring at me for about 30 seconds.

Instant remote grabber for me.

quite how colin firth, george clooney, brad pitt and claudia schiffer think that, on one hand they can appear in an advert trying to pluck the heart strings of mere mortals such as ourselves, who earn modest salaries in order to pay the bills and hopefully better ourselves. whilst themselves earning VAST sums of money which is spent on lavish lifestyles and basically frittered away is beyond me.

i know this campaign isn’t about us putting our hand in our pocket, but for us to exert political pressure on the government, however, the assertion that each of their clicks are a needless death really doesn’t sit comfortably when you contrast the excesses of the "celebrities" with the cause they purport to care so much about.

when george, brad and claudia are living in a reasonably sized house and are using their wealth to ‘de-povertise’ even the smallest african village THEN i will be sure they are not just jumping on a bandwagon that could be ever so good for their image.

its not that i don’t agree with the "make poverty history" idea, i just think its wrong to sell it as the be-all and end-all in saving lives, and i think its a tad more complex than the celebs make out.