Wouldn't care about harassment. The first thing I'd shut down is facebook. I'm really close with my family on my Dad's side I'd probably toss everyone a couple of bucks there, a select few really good friends and then I'd be done with it. I'm investing, I'm putting myself through school and that's the end of it, what I do after that is mine. I already don't answer my phone so whatever on that.
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Wouldn't care about harassment. The first thing I'd shut down is facebook. I'm really close with my family on my Dad's side I'd probably toss everyone a couple of bucks there, a select few really good friends and then I'd be done with it. I'm investing, I'm putting myself through school and that's the end of it, what I do after that is mine. I already don't answer my phone so whatever on that.
Appleyard
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That was the NHL game I played most of every one I have ever owned...
So sad about Bowie... and I don't usually get sad about 'celebs' dying... but as JDinkalage said music is somehow different. Maybe because a lot of musicians are still amazing and active right up until the day they die... whereas celebs from other fields are generally not really as active as they age.
I was devastated for example when Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker & Joe Strummer died within like a year of each other... I was maybe ~10-11 and they were three of my favourite musicians... I always kind of held out hope I would see them live as I got older. I was only 4 when Dean Martin died and apparently cried for fays when I found out!
And Bowie always kind of seemed like some immortal, ethereal being, very bizarre knowing he is no more.
Well... at least he will be re-united with Mick Ronson now if you believe that kind of stuff. One of my personal guitar heroes and such a big part of Bowie's music for a long time.
JDinkalage Morgoone
U of South Flurrida
Shutting down FB is a must, but I feel like it'd be harder than that. This is all under the thought that the state has to declare who the winner is, of course. If not, I'd tell no one.
Maybe it's the paranoid psycho in me, but you gotta think that someone kidnapping or attempting to hold you hostage with that ridiculous sum of money is possible. I mean, I know this isn't Mexico (where I've heard this happening) but things have happened to celebrities who likely have less money.
Appleyard
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What I would do with 1 billion:
Give ~100k each to like ~20 of my closest friends and tell them flat out they were never getting any-more.
Buy my own Island... probably in Denmark/Sweden/Finland.
Also have apartments in: Manchester, UK, Utrecht, NL, Ghent, BE, Barcelona, ES, Cadiz, ES, Rome, IT & Philly. Nothing extravagant, just say 2 bed in decent areas.
Live on my island.
Maybe buy an SHL team.... or an Allsvenkan team instead and make them great!
Write about hockey.
Get my PhD from wherever I chose. Mwahaha!
Do mixed-method Criminological studies on whatever took my fancy.
JDinkalage Morgoone
U of South Flurrida
The article that Striiker posted is pretty good in terms of a fool-proof plan and I think I'd do that.
Beef Invictus
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Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
haha to be honest. I'd make very few lifestyle changes. I'd quit my job and just go to school full time instead of working full time school part time. I'd live in the same house drive the same car. And really just settle in. I'd do a similar thing to Appleyard. Give money to close relatives and friends and make it crystal clear that that was going to be it.
I wouldn't spend hardly any of it. Sit on interest. I may buy an apartment somewhere nice so 1) The majority of things are taken care of 2) It already has wealthy people in it + security and 3) to avoid people falling on my lawn and taking me to civil court constantly
This culture sucks
This culture sucks
The Rage Kage
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CodyTheHuman
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If I won the lottery, I'd buy myself a new guitar. I'm tired of my broken Epiphone Les Paul. I want a real one.
Captain Dave Poulin
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Don't publish who you are if you become a billionaire? But how would all the gold diggers know I'm rich then?? Y'all need to think this thru. Start by buying the Playboy mansion and go from there
Tripod
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That amount of money for 1 person/ family is just insane. Having 1300 people each getting 1 million $ would make so much more sense.
Of course, I am Canadian and our lotto's never come close to this. Up here, 50 million is a big one.
Of course, I am Canadian and our lotto's never come close to this. Up here, 50 million is a big one.
JDinkalage Morgoone
U of South Flurrida
It's truly a marvel that we live in a world where a rock legend like David Bowie can pass away and we have the technology to figure out who he is, listen to a couple songs, and then mourn together on social media.
Jokes aside, it's pretty strange how people accessorize their grief now on social media. Make it all about you!
Jokes aside, it's pretty strange how people accessorize their grief now on social media. Make it all about you!
JDinkalage Morgoone
U of South Flurrida
I have only been able to check out Lazarus so far, but I liked it. I'll have to check out the rest.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is one of my favorite albums of all time, completely listenable from start to finish multiple times. Love it.
Beef Invictus
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Yeah, my FB feed is practically a mourning contest.
Its not entirely unique to social media. Mourning in Rome in the 3rd century BC got pretty pit of hand, with families doing what they could to show they were more bereaved than anybody else had ever been, even hiring professional mourners. Mourning limits were instituted by Quintus Fabius Maximus following the brutal, disastrous defeat at Cannae because all the wailing as everyone tried to outdo each other was just way too much.
Its not entirely unique to social media. Mourning in Rome in the 3rd century BC got pretty pit of hand, with families doing what they could to show they were more bereaved than anybody else had ever been, even hiring professional mourners. Mourning limits were instituted by Quintus Fabius Maximus following the brutal, disastrous defeat at Cannae because all the wailing as everyone tried to outdo each other was just way too much.
Hollywood Cannon
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Boy do I love this post going around on social media:
It's hilarious to see the people that post it and don't bother to actually check and know that it would give each person $4.33, yep four dollars and thirty three cents.
It's hilarious to see the people that post it and don't bother to actually check and know that it would give each person $4.33, yep four dollars and thirty three cents.
JDinkalage Morgoone
U of South Flurrida
Boy do I love this post going around on social media:
It's hilarious to see the people that post it and don't bother to actually check and know that it would give each person $4.33, yep four dollars and thirty three cents.
Still waiting for my $4.33.
Hollywood Cannon
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JDinkalage Morgoone
U of South Flurrida
Maybe if no one wins long enough, I'll be able to buy myself dinner at a decent restaurant.
Hollywood Cannon
I'm Away From My Desk
Cyborg LeClair
Thank You Mr. Snider
I've heard black star which was ehh, and I watched the Lazarus video and got really sad. I'd heard it "makes a lot of sense" since he passed away and it does.
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