You've just won the Lotto
May 28th 2016, 6:44 am
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You've just won the Lotto
So double question!
1) How much would you need to win in the Lotto to give up everything and retire
2) What would you do with your first winnings?
Serious Q.
3) If you play the lotto by direct debit and live outside of UK can you claim it...
So What about you?
PS Can we not turn this in to a conversation regarding its a "tax", or zero chance of winning etc.
1) How much would you need to win in the Lotto to give up everything and retire
2) What would you do with your first winnings?
Serious Q.
3) If you play the lotto by direct debit and live outside of UK can you claim it...
1) How much would you need to win in the Lotto to give up everything and retire. I would think I would need £2million plus. Even then, I don't think thats enough. £5million I'd be comfortable for life
2) What would you do with your first winnings?
Buy my mum a house in Cornwall
2) What would you do with your first winnings?
Buy my mum a house in Cornwall
PS Can we not turn this in to a conversation regarding its a "tax", or zero chance of winning etc.
May 28th 2016, 7:30 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
May 28th 2016, 7:34 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
Half a mil.
Mumm Cordon Rouge and some manchego. (Best I can muster here.)
No -- read the rules: you've gotta live there to play. You could buy tickets or set up a standing order when you're in UK on leave (or do it online from abroad if you can find a VPN that gets past their security), but that'd be pointless because if you won and then they checked and discovered that you broke the rules, they wouldn't pay. And that wouldn't be a nice feeling. I suspect they're fairly serious about it since the living-in-UK rule is plainly stated, and their security blocks access from abroad.
I play via proxy, sometimes.
Mumm Cordon Rouge and some manchego. (Best I can muster here.)
No -- read the rules: you've gotta live there to play. You could buy tickets or set up a standing order when you're in UK on leave (or do it online from abroad if you can find a VPN that gets past their security), but that'd be pointless because if you won and then they checked and discovered that you broke the rules, they wouldn't pay. And that wouldn't be a nice feeling. I suspect they're fairly serious about it since the living-in-UK rule is plainly stated, and their security blocks access from abroad.
I play via proxy, sometimes.
May 29th 2016, 5:59 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
Half a mil.
Mumm Cordon Rouge and some manchego. (Best I can muster here.)
No -- read the rules: you've gotta live there to play. You could buy tickets or set up a standing order when you're in UK on leave (or do it online from abroad if you can find a VPN that gets past their security), but that'd be pointless because if you won and then they checked and discovered that you broke the rules, they wouldn't pay. And that wouldn't be a nice feeling. I suspect they're fairly serious about it since the living-in-UK rule is plainly stated, and their security blocks access from abroad.
I play via proxy, sometimes.
Mumm Cordon Rouge and some manchego. (Best I can muster here.)
No -- read the rules: you've gotta live there to play. You could buy tickets or set up a standing order when you're in UK on leave (or do it online from abroad if you can find a VPN that gets past their security), but that'd be pointless because if you won and then they checked and discovered that you broke the rules, they wouldn't pay. And that wouldn't be a nice feeling. I suspect they're fairly serious about it since the living-in-UK rule is plainly stated, and their security blocks access from abroad.
I play via proxy, sometimes.
I assume you could give the ticket to family and they claim it...and then pray that you don't become a headline in The Sun if they screw you over?
May 29th 2016, 6:48 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
You wouldn't go public, you wouldn't tell any one you won.
May 29th 2016, 6:57 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
I was thinking more along these lines where the lottery creates family feuds..
’I gave family £20m... now we don’t speak’: £148m EuroMillions jackpot tore my family apart
’I gave family £20m... now we don’t speak’: £148m EuroMillions jackpot tore my family apart
May 29th 2016, 10:40 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
1.5 million would pay off our mortgages and buy my mum and brother their homes and set my mum up for retirement. Another 3 million would mean our own retirement and the kids private education, if we were careful.
10 million would mean a no brainer... instant resignation.
10 million would mean a no brainer... instant resignation.
May 29th 2016, 12:46 pm
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
I have never understood why anyone would go public about a big lottery win. I can only imagine it's a weird form of showing off but it is frightfully crass.
I don't enter as I think it's little more than a voluntary tax on overly optimistic, probably greedy but mostly rather daft people. The odds are abysmal.
I don't enter as I think it's little more than a voluntary tax on overly optimistic, probably greedy but mostly rather daft people. The odds are abysmal.
May 29th 2016, 1:09 pm
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
I have never understood why anyone would go public about a big lottery win. I can only imagine it's a weird form of showing off but it is frightfully crass.
I don't enter as I think it's little more than a voluntary tax on overly optimistic, probably greedy but mostly rather daft people. The odds are abysmal.
I don't enter as I think it's little more than a voluntary tax on overly optimistic, probably greedy but mostly rather daft people. The odds are abysmal.
May 29th 2016, 4:14 pm
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
10 mill
Donate half to charity.
Would buy homes in: Tahiti, Costa-Rica and French Polynesia . Take friends/family on beach vacations.
Would buy this Ford Raptor (costs about $650,000)
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Donate half to charity.
Would buy homes in: Tahiti, Costa-Rica and French Polynesia . Take friends/family on beach vacations.
Would buy this Ford Raptor (costs about $650,000)
Stewart's Raceworks | Our Vehicles
May 29th 2016, 5:32 pm
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
Even if I do win the lottery which I highly doubt anyone with my luck would ever win, I dont think Ill ever truly retire. Ill probably buy a few houses to rent out etc and live in one of them but I wouldnt want to stop working untill my boys throw me out of the office one day 
May 29th 2016, 5:49 pm
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
I'm not sure I'd fully retire either, but I think all the holidays and golf would get in the way.
May 30th 2016, 10:21 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
1) minimum 5 mill, and i'll retire instantly
2) pay off my mortgage and buy my folks and my bro a home each
2) pay off my mortgage and buy my folks and my bro a home each
May 30th 2016, 10:31 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
1) How much would you need to win in the Lotto to give up everything and retire
2 million would be extremely useful, pay out mortgages and kids student loans and some left over, probably not retire.
10 million would be fantastic and definitely give up working, would buy homes in different locations around the world but now the kids are off our hands we would travel, travel, travel very comfortably.
2) What would you do with your first winnings?
After getting up off the floor - Stick it to the bank, take family on month long holiday, buy nice property and travel. Have fun, the world is so big and life is short.
2 million would be extremely useful, pay out mortgages and kids student loans and some left over, probably not retire.
10 million would be fantastic and definitely give up working, would buy homes in different locations around the world but now the kids are off our hands we would travel, travel, travel very comfortably.
2) What would you do with your first winnings?
After getting up off the floor - Stick it to the bank, take family on month long holiday, buy nice property and travel. Have fun, the world is so big and life is short.
May 30th 2016, 10:36 am
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Re: You've just won the Lotto
I don't believe any of you. The first thing you'd do would be to celebrate by getting drunk on fancy fizz! 
