Reason #5,110 to hate lottery winners

[Ideologue]

 

He'd return me as expired product.

[Razgovory]

If I had $27 million after taxes, you can guarantee that I'd waste at least $1.1 mil of it on something as dumb as this.  As would just about everyone else here, I imagine.

There is nothing I'd really want to waste my money on.  I think I might hire one of the financial guys to look after the money and make sure it's prudently invested.  Perhaps I'd move to St. Louis to be closer to my family.  I'm sure I could find a nice basement there.  I wonder if having 27 million dollars would help my dating prospect.   Maybe I'd buy a car and perhaps a new PC.  I suppose I should hire a real psychology and psychiatrist.  That would probably be helpful.  The current psychologist tells me to wrap rubber bands around my arms and new Psychiatrist thinks that running and hiding is the best solution to all my problems.  I get the feeling this isn't top notch medical expertise I'm getting.  Beyond that, I don't know.  I've never been burdened by large amounts of money before.

[Ideologue]

I wonder if having 27 million dollars would help my dating prospect.

Thailand budget increased to $1.5 million.

[Jacob]

$27 million isn't enough to build a proper MMO. Nowhere near.

Now if he wants to do a micro-transaction free-to-play type game with MMO sensibilities the $1.1 million he's putting down might do the trick... but it does take more to make a successful game than playing them and knowing what you like.

[Razgovory]

$27 million isn't enough to build a proper MMO. Nowhere near.

Now if he wants to do a micro-transaction free-to-play type game with MMO sensibilities the $1.1 million he's putting down might do the trick... but it does take more to make a successful game than playing them and knowing what you like.

That reminds me, I was curious what your opinion was about that Wasteland 2 Kick starter thing?   They have scrounged up an impressive amount of cash.  Over a mil and half.

[DGuller]

I've done something I've never done before voluntarily.  I'm playing the lottery.       All of my home game poker group chipped in $5 into the pool, and I had to do it as well.  The thought of all of them winning half a bil, and me being left out, is too horrible to contemplate.

[Eddie Teach]

It would mean they'd have more money for you to win off them.

[CountDeMoney]

CdM the seed money to relocate to Wyoming to start his teaching career at UWyo

Throw in two horses, a trailer and let me jack my Jeep up 6", and you got a deal.

[Monoriu]

I'd buy Mono a one way ticket to America
Raz a new basement
CdM the seed money to relocate to Wyoming to start his teaching career at UWyo
ticket for Lettow to go to Japan and never ever post on Languish again.

Just first few things off top of my head.

I prefer the new basement please.

[lustindarkness]

Would you drive 224 miles (@18 mpg vehicle), 4 hours, to buy a 1 in 175 million chance of winning a $500 mil jackpot?

[CountDeMoney]

Would you drive 224 miles (@18 mpg vehicle), 4 hours, to buy a 1 in 175 million chance of winning a $500 mil jackpot?

Shit, I've been drop $20 daily for the last two drawings, what's a little drive? 

[lustindarkness]

Would you drive 224 miles (@18 mpg vehicle), 4 hours, to buy a 1 in 175 million chance of winning a $500 mil jackpot?

Shit, I've been drop $20 daily for the last two drawings, what's a little drive? 

1 in 175,000,000 chance of it been a good investment, otherwise a waste of time and gas money. I may have to do this, hell, I may take time off from work so I can still be home for my Thursday night MW3 gaming night.

[Caliga]

You want lies with that?

Lawyer hasn't seen claimed winning lottery ticket

By SARAH BRUMFIELD
The Associated Press

Posted: 5:56 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, 2012

BALTIMORE — A woman who has claimed to have Maryland's winning Mega Millions ticket appeared with an attorney Wednesday asking to be left alone, though the news conference raised more questions than it answered.

Attorney Edward Smith Jr. said he didn't know if his client, Mirlande Wilson, has the winning ticket worth $218 million before taxes. Maryland Lottery officials say no one has claimed the record jackpot, but they plan their own news conference Thursday.

Smith said at some point they would make a claim for the prize and he was preparing for possible challenges to it. Wilson's co-workers at a McDonald's restaurant claim she was part of a group pool and she is trying to take all the winnings.

In the meantime, Smith asked that the media "go home" and allow Wilson and her family some privacy. Smith said that the attention of media hanging around Wilson's rowhouse in south Baltimore caused her blood pressure to spike and has kept her seven children from playing outside.

"She wanted to remain anonymous. She still wants to go back to her life and be anonymous," Smith said. "Let's be human about this. It's just money, people."

Media peppered Smith with questions, but he said he could answer few of them. When asked about a New York Post report that Wilson hid her ticket inside the McDonald's, the attorney repeated that he does not know where it is.

Since the drawing, Wilson has given varying accounts to media, saying alternately that she had won and that she wasn't sure. At the news conference, Wilson said little, only confirming that she is originally from a village in Haiti.

Smith said Wilson had been thrust into the spotlight by a story about her co-workers' accusations.

"Obviously, there's going to be a challenge. That's how all this started," Smith said. "I'm assuming somebody dropped a dime on her. But for that, none of this would be happening."

I like how they call a news conference and then yell at the reporters who showed up to leave them alone.

As Obama would say, "This could be my daughter."

[Admiral Yi]

That story is a monumental clusterfuck.  Why would anyone ever go in on a group purchase of lottery tickets?

[Caliga]

That story is a monumental clusterfuck.  Why would anyone ever go in on a group purchase of lottery tickets?

I dunno.