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LOL, upgrade a PC ;) if you won that money you'd never have time, you'd be too busy learning to fly a helicopter, captain your yacht , getting a private jet from one exotic/erotic location another etc etc:)
 
I just play LD because mathematically they are all the same, to think otherwise is nothing less than wrong.

Plus I'm too lazy to decide a set of numbers and have to remember them.
 
Yeah, I always think the same "I'll buy an awesome PC!"

If I had 140m in the bank, PC gaming would be one of the last things on my mind :p
 
There is so much hope in this thread.
I'm still waiting for someone who has posted in this thread, to say truthfully, "I won the jackpot!"

The odds of winning are so ludicrously low, I'm not sure if its worth spending even £2 on this.
 
How do you guys feel about giving people (close friends/relatives) money?

My mother has always said, all her brothers and sisters and a very select group of close friends she'd give a million quid each.

I don't think i'd give anyone any money (except my mother!) though I would buy people things. IE a house or help them with a business start up.

But I wouldn't directly give anyone any significant amount of cash.


What do you guys think? I'd be worried I might push someone off the rails with something like that (provided I can stay on them :P)
 
I would be generous, I'd probably pay off mortgages for all my close friends, for most people being 'mortgage free' would be pretty life changing.

I'd buy my parents a big house, my sister is already pretty sorted so I'd probably buy her and her hubby a nice Yacht and pay for all the mooring fees etc, I certainly wouldn't throw the money away but half the joy of a win like this would be sharing it with friends/family :)
 
Enough to pay off mortgages would probably be about right.

Funny thing is that if you had a huge work bonus or you sold a business for a big profit you (probably) wouldn't give any money to your friends. Cos you've won it, it almost seems the norm that people expect to get some of it.

But I'd give them all the same amount and make it clear that's it. One off.
 
Kevin Clark said:
Enough to pay off mortgages would probably be about right.

Funny thing is that if you had a huge work bonus or you sold a business for a big profit you (probably) wouldn't give any money to your friends. Cos you've won it, it almost seems the norm that people expect to get some of it.

But I'd give them all the same amount and make it clear that's it. One off.
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People are greedy, it's human nature and if you give them money once and they will expect it again and again for as long as you have a dime left and they would want that very last dime.
 
ilcp said:
is there a benefit of choosing your own numbers VS lucky dip?

I know the numbers are drawn randomly but is there way to maybe pick the numbers that appear more often than others?
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Every single number has the same chance of appearing...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 is as likely to come up as 2, 23, 44, 18, 34 and 1
 
Raymond Lin said:
People are greedy, it's human nature and if you give them money once and they will expect it again and again for as long as you have a dime left and they would want that very last dime.
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That's a rather negative take, we don't really know how our friends and family would take us winning till we actually do. But I'm pretty sure mine wouldn't act like that.
 
If I won, I'd create a thread and everyone who registered before today would be eligible to enter.

I would then select after a day, a random selection of 100 people, who I would grant 100,000£ each. :)
 
Skunkworks said:
Sounds like your family are douches.
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Quite the opposite, my parents are mortgage free and my sister is doing fine professionally.

MikeTheNative said:
That's a rather negative take, we don't really know how our friends and family would take us winning till we actually do. But I'm pretty sure mine wouldn't act like that.
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It may be negative but when there is money, and when people see it as free and easy money, it changes people in a way that is hard to predict. I know my family actually wouldn't need a dime from the winnings, I mean they would like it to be like a early pension balloon payment but they would be fine without it and of course I would share it. As for outside that, if rather do things like make my friends mortgage free than give them money.

The winnings will not be a parachute to everyone I know, that's not fair to me or to them. Last thing I want is to be the guy who hands out cash just because you need a new kitchen or something.
 
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