Euromillions gigawin would probably turn into a small but carefully deployed private insurgency unit.

Please do?

About 80% of any misery or unhappiness I've experienced over the past decade or so have been directly linked to the requirement to grind out a living. 

About 10% has been from not being able to afford to do things I would like to do. 

I have no idea why people think winning a shit load of money wouldn't cause anything other than massive liberation and opportunity.

Brooks wrote:

If it's within budget and operationally called for, Revel.

That is good enough for me my captain. I will ask no more questions on the matter.

*salutes*

mk64 wrote:

I thought one of the main reasons that the national lottery offer counselling is because of the influx of begging letters etc big winners receieve. And its hard when you're a normal person to reject every single heart-string request when you've probably got the cash. But there are other adjustments too. The class thing can be tricky. Just because you can afford a membership to the exclusive golf club doesn't mean you'll enjoy it when you turn up with a working class accent and everyone shuns you.. (exaggerated example). They also offer financial assistance too.

Yeah, as I said, it's to help with the adjustment. I personally would never go public on something like this. 
But as I said earlier, no doubt you then get letters from people asking you to fund their sick kids trip to get treatment in the USA to the simple 'give us £1000 because you aren't gonna miss it are you' 

They say that a certain amount of money is life changing. If you aren't expecting it then there is good as well as bad.  

I would pay to get Last Guardian finished with 100m and Shenmue 3.

From the same article Redeye...

"There is no doubt there is a very strong [initial] euphoria, then the evidence suggests people don't enjoy the money for the first year or two."
It's not clear why there is this gap before lottery winners start to really enjoy themselves.
"We have postulated after the euphoria wears off, in their subconscious they realise they don't deserve the money and it takes a while for this non-deservedness to wear off," says Prof Oswald.
But there are some bad effects of a win, notably in someone's health.
"They start to smoke more and drink more," he says. "We think that may be bad for their health and hold down their happiness for a while."
This type of research is important in the field of behavioural economics as it offers evidence for one of the great political and social questions.
"All politicians speak as though if they could make their citizens richer it would make their citizens happier. This is the closest we have to randomly assigned forms of money."

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 Life is boring and there is too much nonsense 

Former Pools winner Viv Nicholson

EuroMillions £56m win 'amazing'


[/td][/tr][/table]But of course, while the odd millionaire can crop up in a long-term study, it's not going to be possible to study the psychological effects on the mega winners.
"There is no quality research on what happens to people with absolutely enormous wins - £50m is so extreme it is hard to know how to fit it in."
And the newspapers have often relished the travails of the big winners. In 2007, one tabloid noted that a multimillion pound winner had put on a stone, split up with her boyfriend and become reclusive.

So basically enter the regular Lotto instead of the Euromillions, don't let your health go to shit and don't expect to the happy for the first couple of years and you can't go wrong.

Tempy wrote:

Not exactly black and white then m8

Nothing is, but it's certainly a lot more black and white than you're trying to suggest it is.

Brooks wrote:

Euromillions gigawin would probably turn into a small but carefully deployed private insurgency unit.

I will run your Air Wing.

Slightly more sober jackpot would amount to personally localised energy self-sufficiency gear, immune to statistically unlikely occurrences like magnetic pole reversal.

I want to see what Brooks does with £100

£10 - lotto tic (I've actually lived this dream)

£100 - dinner or expensive gubbins

£1k - deposit for house/misc savings
£10k - same as a k

£100k - house.

£1M - house and pay off other houses. Nice car.

£10M - Ferrari and houses
£100m - fund military coup.

Brooks wrote:

Wipe my arse 20 times.

This was anticlimactic.

£10 A ten bag.

£100 - Twenty bag, some skins, twenty cigs, take the missus out.

£10,000 - A couple of ounces, a ton of clothes, whatever the missus wanted within a grand, treat family.

£100,000 - Save 50k. Rest on family based treats and stuff, and get my own flat (rented, obv).

£1,000,000 - Buy a cheapish flat/rent an alreet one. Give varying amounts of money to family, and spoil meself rotten. Plus hire somewhere for a weekend, pay for hotel rooms, stock it with beer/gaming/drugs/whores and invite you lot.

£10,000,000 - Spread a mil among you lot plus the venue madness, donate 2 mil to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, and go mental with the rest, keeping 2 mil or so in the bank.

£100,000,000 Spread 5 mil between you lot plus the venue madness, donate 20 mil to Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, have a succession of creampies with unbelievably hot pornstars, smoke way too much weed, die by the time I'm 35.

I'll only share my monies with mk if he makes me undisputed Mario Kart master of the Universe.