Hypothetically win a £100k on a gameshow

ivrytwr3 said:
I said in this thread, not to her, that it would be nice that if she won big that she would consider gifting an amount to her immediate family at no point was this a demand or an expectation.
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I wasn't under the impression that it was a demand, my point still remains.

ivrytwr3 said:
You really are getting offended on her behalf.
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Nope, you started a thread with an open question, I've given you an answer and seemingly you don't like it. It's no good soliciting opinions if you're going to kick off like this when you don't like some of the opinions.
 
dowie said:
I wasn't under the impression that it was a demand, my point still remains.



Nope, you started a thread with an open question, I've given you an answer and seemingly you don't like it. It's no good soliciting opinions if you're going to kick off like this when you don't like some of the opinions.
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Don't like the answers? Kicking off? I think you're reading a bit too much into this and you also think people on the internet opinions matter to me - they don't, not even a little.

This was just a fun thread, water cooler conversation, "oooh, what would you do if you won the lottery? " etc. A really thin conversation which you are reading far too much into. You've posted your thoughts and I appreciate that, but we can't all have the same opinion.

Chill dude - let's just shake hands and move on.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Yup it's sad mate.

Unfortunately a lot of people seem to have an obsession with getting money and possessions, neither of which truly bring happiness.
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There's this strip of land that's will contested in my parents case.
I asked at one point how much this strip of land is valued at. I expected something excessive. But the value of the land was under 20k.

When everyone is sitting on estates of 500k-1mln it kind of blows your mind how such paltry sums can rip apart a family.

Now no one wants to lose. I genuinely cannot see this being resolved until either my mum dies or my uncle dies.

Unbelievable really.
 
413x said:
There's this strip of land that's will contested in my parents case.
I asked at one point how much this strip of land is valued at. I expected something excessive. But the value of the land was under 20k.

When everyone is sitting on estates of 500k-1mln it kind of blows your mind how such paltry sums can rip apart a family.

Now no one wants to lose. I genuinely cannot see this being resolved until either my mum dies or my uncle dies.

Unbelievable really.
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My other half's mum & sister cut her out of the inheritance for the sake of an 8 year old car worth £4k (at best), and a couple grand in a savings account, it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic :(
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Don't like the answers? Kicking off? I think you're reading a bit too much into this and you also think people on the internet opinions matter to me - they don't, not even a little.
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I'd say the same to you re: claims of getting offended, calling people names etc. I think you're reading into it too much.

It was a straightforward argument about basic numeracy and entitlement.
 
Haggisman said:
My other half's mum & sister cut her out of the inheritance for the sake of an 8 year old car worth £4k (at best), and a couple grand in a savings account, it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic :(
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Yes.
My mum tried to say "it's for your inheritance". I called BS on that.

Its literally down to "not losing" and I got mum to admit it. Someone has to back down and all parties are too stubborn to do the sensible, right and economically correct thing.

I've written this bit before. But my uncle says if he got a terminal diagnosis (like cancer) he'd shoot my step dad. That's how extreme it's got.

Imagine a house derelict (essentially) for 4 years and unkept. That could have been sold at peak of covid housing boom. The legal costs battling this out. The mental health non tangible cost.... It's completely revenge based.

Its infuriating.
 
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dowie said:
I'd say the same to you re: claims of getting offended, calling people names etc. I think you're reading into it too much.

It was a straightforward argument about basic numeracy and entitlement.
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It's also hypothetical, arguing over non-existing money that we haven't robbed our daughter of - yet :D

I 100% see your point, parents with minimal mortgage looking to take money from daughter who isn't even on the housing ladder yet.

But the thing is, we haven't took anything. I have just said I thought it was a thoughtful gesture of her to offer.

Were going in circles, you obvs have a strong opinion about this, but I promise you, we're not stealing our daughters non-existent cash.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
I 100% see your point, parents with minimal mortgage looking to take money from daughter who isn't even on the housing ladder yet.

But the thing is, we haven't took anything. I have just said I thought it was a thoughtful gesture of her to offer.
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I never said you had "took" anything.

ivrytwr3 said:
Were going in circles, you obvs have a strong opinion about this, but I promise you, we're not stealing our daughters non-existent cash.
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Not particularly, you just keep on quoting me about it for some reason, you literally asked for opinions and yet when you've got one you don't like here you are replying to me multiple times about it.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Sadly £100k isn't even that much anymore, sure it's a great start in life, particularly if you are young and use it wisely, but they use terms like "life changing" I mean it's not really us it?

If I could buy a mansion and a yacht, buy a large business and retire on coke and hookers at 24, that's life changing.
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100k for someone is a life changing amount of money. They could pretty much do anything and come out debt free.

If my daughter won we wouldn't want any of it. I would think that she would do the right thing by it though and make good use of it.
 
dowie said:
I never said you had "took" anything.



Not particularly, you just keep on quoting me about it for some reason, you literally asked for opinions and yet when you've got one you don't like here you are replying to me multiple times about it.
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You're reading stuff that isn't there, you must be a bundle of joy at parties - I'm out.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
You're reading stuff that isn't there, you must be a bundle of joy at parties - I'm out.
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Eh? You've quoted me a bunch of times to argue some random things I never said in the first place, if you don't want to keep on talking about it then why keep on popping back in with yet more arguments?
 
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