Started By
Message

What would you do with a billion dollars?

Posted on 7/11/15 at 6:58 pm
Posted by PeteRose
Hall of Fame
Member since Aug 2014
16815 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 6:58 pm
The reason for 1 billion is because this isn't one of those "invest at 5% and live off the interest" thread or "put 30% in stock", blah, blah, blah.

With 1 billion, no need to go out of your way to "save for the kids". You can live an extravagant lifestyle 20X.

1 Billion means complete freedom, all the time in the world.

So what would you do? How would you enrich your life?
Posted by VABuckeye
Naples, FL
Member since Dec 2007
35457 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 7:15 pm to
I'd be much more interested in a thread about how to get there.

You can dream of the lottery or you can go figure out how to make it happen.
Posted by GFunk
Denham Springs
Member since Feb 2011
14966 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 7:23 pm to
Snort coke off of each remaining wonder of the world, pay the reigning Oscar winner for Cinematography to film it, cut each clip into a Vine, and then pay to make it trend worldwide. Start a companion website of people doing coke off of other well known monuments-Mount Rushmore, Big Ben, Gary Busey-and allow them to upload onto it and then up vote the coolest ones.

After we got the site up and running I would roll up $100K into each link in a bandolier and buy an original Three Amigos uniform worn on set and have Vera Wang do a custom tailor job. Then I'd wear it onto an international flight first class around the world. I would pay a film company or TMZ to follow me on my trip.

Once I finished, I would travel to Baton Rouge and go to the LSU AD and ask them to name the price of Les Miles' buyout. Once we reached that number, I would ask them to name the price to ensure that every advertisement in Tiger Stadium on every sign, daktronic billboard, or overheard by fans via Dan Borne on the PA was never seen or heard from again, for all eternity. In return I would ask for a simple moment of recognition before the band filed onto the field for Pregame where Dan Borne would say the following phrase:

"This commercial and avarice-fueled money grab opportunity has been avoided thanks to the G-Funk Social Aid & Benevolence Fund."

ETA: I would allow Dan Borne to continue to recite the Abita Water Commercials on 2nd thought. If for no other reason than Dan's ability to turn a phrase is in its full on Glory when he says, "Better service...Better Water...Better Call...The Abita Man!!!"

I would sit in the SEZ in our Season Tickets and snort coke off my seat and smile as I uploaded it to my website, basking in the applause...

Yeah...in short a billion dollars would literally allow me to do these things. It's F*ck you Money and that's what I feel like would need to be done by a man of my stature in order to live up to it.
This post was edited on 7/11/15 at 7:40 pm
Posted by funtimes
Member since Dec 2014
71 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 7:38 pm to
don't you know mo money mo problems.
Posted by achenator
Member since Oct 2014
2942 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 8:04 pm to
Cars. lots and lots of them. On the really rare or expensive ones, one to rock, one to stock
Posted by dkreller
Laffy
Member since Jan 2009
30227 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 8:08 pm to
Two chicks
Posted by Grouper Picatta
Sarasota,FL
Member since Mar 2013
1590 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 8:14 pm to
philantropist
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
26901 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 8:15 pm to
Jets, boats, cars, clothes, watches, shoes, food, drink. Practice criminal/constitutional law maybe half the year because I enjoy it, travel the rest.
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 8:35 pm to
quote:

1 Billion means complete freedom, all the time in the world.


You'd be surprised. Normally it means everybody in the world wants your time. If you're living in a house at all things still break down. A bigger house means bigger problems.

Plus you have to spread your money around multiple countries to lessen the risk that politicians will steal all your dough. Then have people in place to manage each stash, who have to be monitored. Etc. etc.

You will, however, be able to pick up dimes on sugardaddy.com and trade in every few months.

ETA: Let's not forget that when you are traveling you may occasionally be the target of kidnappers looking for a sweet ransom. Better get bodyguards, the good ones who really will shoot.
This post was edited on 7/11/15 at 8:38 pm
Posted by I Love Bama
Alabama
Member since Nov 2007
37683 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 9:29 pm to
Not trying to be funny but I know myself well enough...

I would die of a cocaine overdose on a yacht with about 20 strippers. Pretty pathetic but its the truth.
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
101155 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 9:33 pm to
quote:


Practice criminal/constitutional law maybe half the year because I enjoy it



Seek help man.
Posted by TheHiddenFlask
The Welsh red light district
Member since Jul 2008
18384 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 10:01 pm to
quote:

Two chicks at the same time.


FIFY.
Posted by Kashmir
Member since Dec 2014
7533 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 10:23 pm to
buy about 1000 acres of prime hardwoods. new truck. new tractor. build an awesome log home. build a 10 acre pond. bowhunt only.

live on retirement and social security. leave the balance to my son.

happy, happy, happy!
Posted by Upperdecker
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2014
30512 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 10:26 pm to
Burn stacks of $100 bills in the streets and force the poors to watch
Posted by navy
Parts Unknown, LA
Member since Sep 2010
29013 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 10:36 pm to
I'd do FOUR chicks at the same time.
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 10:38 pm to
quote:

I would die of a cocaine overdose on a yacht with about 20 strippers.


I'm calling BS on that. With a billion you'd be able to buy up fifty thousand Bama properties at $20k each.
Posted by I Love Bama
Alabama
Member since Nov 2007
37683 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 10:44 pm to
and with my 30% returns I would be the richest man in the world in how long?
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
26901 posts
Posted on 7/11/15 at 11:28 pm to
What? I feed on that shite
This post was edited on 7/11/15 at 11:29 pm
Posted by offshoretrash
Farmerville, La
Member since Aug 2008
10165 posts
Posted on 7/12/15 at 1:15 am to
Buy a lot of land, build several lake houses, hunt and fish for the rest of my life.
Posted by GREENHEAD22
Member since Nov 2009
19572 posts
Posted on 7/12/15 at 2:00 am to
Turn it into 20B


Start and oil company and buy as much land as I possible could. Also restart the family ranch and get back to having some of the best Brahman genetics in the world.
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 3Next pagelast page

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookTwitterInstagram