Winning the Lottery and Becoming Notorious

OK, if you had enough money to fund your own private army, you could have your own country and declare yourself a tax exile, but still.

(I have been working in the Finance Dept. for too long. Sigh.)

I need a country. Somewhere arid and inhospitable.

http://www.privateislandsonline.com/

(see, I don't need £100 million to become obnoxious . . . )

By RJG.

I think once you're rich and bored, you need to do anything (or anybody, in this case) to... spice up your life.
hang around paris and watch her evolve would be a fun way to make time pass...

He was charged again last week for fighting with Christians...

Be notorious tonite, you guys...

(I didn't revive the Promiscuous or the Obnoxious ones, for obv reasons...)

got a good feeling bout this tbh

Yesterday someone told me more Mega Millions lottery winners bought tickets in New Jersey than anywhere else, and we'll be passing through there on tour in a week or two. So I've got to try my luck.

I think at this point if i ever won the lottery I'd pretty much buy a really nice van and constantly go on tour with my bands. Also I'd start a mostly vinyl-only record label and put out stuff constantly. That shit ain't cheap.

Some old lady or a scroat* will win it. I am neither :(

* http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scroat

If I win I promise I'll buy ILX a new server to ready it for the big upgrade to ILX-3D.

pay for everyone to get a pc that sprays dr pepper at you

I was just going to ask for a measly million, but after reading that to live a millionaire’s lifestyle; you need a least £3.7 million.

So, um, can i just have £3.7 million please?

I promise I’ll spend it wisely.

anyone got the numbers?

I never watch or look for the numbers, i wait for the e-mail that says "news about your ticket" then get all excited and find out i've only won a tenner.

Although i did get a nice surprise when i won £68 one week.

I never watch or look for the numbers, i wait for the e-mail that says "news about your ticket" then get all excited and find out i've only won a tenner.

They've started sending me two emails to tell me when I've won a tenner now. I won £2.80 on Friday, which I took as a precursor to the £116m coming my way this evening.

Congratulations ailsa! Couldn't go to a more deserving, beautiful and nice girl who I never have been in a fight or disagreement with that I can remember and who is therefore like my best friend on this whole board.

It's £166 million isn't it?

I'd happily take the £50 million you don't seem to care about :) :/ :s

Is there a smiley face for begging?

Get in the queue StanM!

Someone from the UK won the jackpot, apparently.

goodwin?

I'd have thought so, yeah!

So, anyone notorious yet?

(I got one number. it was 19)

so did we :(

yeah, one number on a nine euro qp

what a swizz /bashstkids

half of the country does this purely to avoid the resentment and bitterness if somehow their office syndicate wins.

i have never bought a lottery ticket but this pull is strong, i still have avoided so far tho.

just got the 'We have some news about the ticket that you bought' email...

£6.40 BITCHES

wow! That's breakfast sorted

240 box of these:http://shop.twinings.co.uk/shop/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/180x/17f82f742ffe127f42dca9de82fb58b1/f/i/file_6_4.png

and enough left for a copy of i.

i , uh,

I trust you'll 'remember us', like?

Let's see, I'd pay off my loans and buy tickets to ever Broadway show playing that season.

this has changed me enormously

half of the country does this purely to avoid the resentment and bitterness if somehow their office syndicate wins.

oh god yes this fucking shit. i despise the lottery, i would never play it if it weren't for this shit.

i can just imagine the evening times article, picture of me looking glum at the desk, "unlucky glasgow office worker jamie m____ of finnieston returned to work this morning, the only person of his team of twenty who did not take part in the lottery syndicate that won the £x jillion jackpot on friday etc."

Ow man, remember when the real blueski used to post here? Now he employs a whole team to be on ilx for him.

(if I won I could just hire a bunch of cheap second rate pun writers to kill popular threads like I still have to do in person now)

Unfortunately, i have had to cancel my gold plated guard dogs.
will have to wait for the next euro lottery roll over.

It rolled over 14 times btw!

the naniball, they call it

well glad somebody had won it so i don't have to fucking splash a tenner on it each week like i have done for the past three!!!!!!!!!

Ha, I love the idea that people turn their nose up at a measly £13 million...

There's a midweek lotto here whos first prize if not jackpotted is $1mil AUD - and I found myself realising that, in the context of a lotto win, thats not actually a huge amount of money. It would buy a comfortable house, round where I live, and leave you with maybe enough change for a new couch.

Bit depressing.

it's sad you could buy a comfortable house

having a one in several million chance of being able to buy a compfortable house is i suppose

it was sad, she was a comfrtable house

half of the country does this purely to avoid the resentment and bitterness if somehow their office syndicate wins.

haha yeah ive never wanted to play the lottery or bought a ticket on my own but figured a couple of bucks was p much insurance against the possibility that the office pool won & i had to kill myself

So the jackpot was won by a couple from Falkirk (Scotland) and they will reveal their identity this afternoon, according to a news site.

Reveal their identity? I can't imagine why they'd even consider that - are they nuts?

Cutely roly-poly Falkirk couple did not want to reveal their identities, apparently, but were persuaded.

yeh i figure certain media forces were desperate for a new front page topic. poor fuckers.

poor rich fuckers.

They hacked teh Camelot's phonevoicemail...

They aren't from Falkirk, they're from Largs. You could pretty much buy the whole of Largs for £161m (and still have wodges of cash left over).

There's no WAY I'd let anyone persuade me into revealing my identity if it was me. Still, at least you all know it wasn't me, so StanM's adorable begging effort was all in vain.

161m could buy you a lot of smokescreen. maybe in the shape of a fat couple from largs...

yeah, it only cost me £500,000 to pay for that.

http://i55.tinypic.com/2hd5w94.jpg

Lol @ her looking like a man in makeup and him like an old lesbian

jealous much?

There's no WAY I'd let anyone persuade me into revealing my identity if it was me.

i am just wondering how they were persuaded.. i mean, were they after £5000 for being on the story?

Not at all. Their life will be hell now they've announced who they are. Xpost

they seem v nice for rich bastards

Is there enough press interest in lottery winners to make their lives difficult in the long term? Unless they're going to blow the money in two years on drugs and playing dodgems with Ferraris, i'm not sure.

Press, not so much, but dodgy investment opportunities, loads of people with expensive diseases, kidnappers, robbers, etc etc

That's the kind of thing that all rich people potentially have to deal with though, isn't it? Assuming they're smart enough to hire a financial advisor and someone to filter their post, they'll probably be ok. It would be interesting to know if lottery winners do get more begging letters than regular rich people, actually. I guess there might be a perception that they aren't so strongly attached to their money and might want to spread the good fortune.

And this is why you don't go public...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015539/Lottery-winners-flee-Spain-begging-letters-pour-in.html

No! Really? How shocking and totally unexpected.

Nice to see the value of their house go up twenty grand in the space of one article. Also Glasgow now located on the banks of Loch Lomond and Edinburgh just outside Falkirk

incredible

Still, I'm sure printing a picture of their house will stop the letters.