Doesn't have to now, it's over a billion now. I wonder how many signs and displays and websites are screwed up because they don't have room for that many digits.
There's a joke in there about third world immigrants running convenience stores, but I'm too hungover to piece it together.
The line at the grocery store to buy tickets was 40 people long at 6. I personally have $10 invested in this. Wish me luck.
You better remember who your fellow TiBers are... I expect, at the very least, a singing telegram by some dude in a gorilla suit.
The guy at my local gas station was confused and asked if I was sure I wanted $60 of lottery tickets. I think that means I live in a good school district. I had every intention of posting a video of the strippergram scene from How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, but the internet has failed me.
FTFY. This is TiB after all and we do have standards, Thanks to the casinos, we don't get to partake in Lotto games here. It's about an hour drive to the Lotto store and then stand in a line that wraps around the building for a few hours. Somehow 1:259M odds just can't convince me to make the drive and then stand around for hours with people I'd probably hate.
Finally got our lake house cleaned up. We're looking at under $5k in damage. The houses to both sides of us are basically a wash as far as their docks, boats, and anything within 25 feet above normal lake level. Same thing goes for about 75% of the houses in our cove, and closer to 90% of the houses on the lake itself. It's like an F5 went through the neighborhood and flattened every house but us. This is what it looks like when a lake rises over 20 feet in less than an hour. For size perspective, that white flat structure in the water is the roof of a dock, and the thing that goes by at 0:17 is a small pontoon boat.
I've mentioned before that I watch shows like Ghost Adventures and Dead Files. I can't say I believe in ghosts/demons/whatever, but I don't disbelieve either. I just find the whole phenomenon interesting. I'm highly skeptical, but I do find the possibility that some of the shit they document is possible. Anyways, I watched an episode of Dead Files the other night and usually their recommendation to cure the paranormal activity is to have the house cleansed and some other hocus pocus bullshit. This episode was different...they told the people to get the fuck out. And have every family member go through an exorcism. That's pretty drastic. It got me to thinking...if a person actually believes they're being physically/mentally attacked by spirits in their house, how fucked up is it that they would sell that house to some unsuspecting person who will likely go through the same thing if their suspicions are true? That's not a nice thing to do to.
1.6 billion today. I Won six bucks of the ten I spent for this drawing. All being reinvested into the next.
That is just plain nuts. No normal person is going to be able to manage that much cash. Ours it at an all-time high right now at 60 mil and everyone thinks that’s a crazy amount. It’s so much more than any of us would ever need.
after lump sum and federal tax that is around 725million . what normal person would even begin to cope with that much money. and pretty sure ours is at an all time high of 60mill plus 55 1mill prizes.
How exactly do you blow one billion dollars? I would give two thousand dollars to every single person in this city, that’s how I’d blow it. I’d be the king of this jerkwater berg for that, and I would still have more money than I could ever spend. Nobody needs a billion dollars. Sure, we’d all love to be wealthy enough not to have a care again. But what’s enough? Ten million would be perfect for me. You could have an awesome home and love put in comfort with that. And the dollar amount probably wouldn’t drive you insane and you end up living your twilight years in a storage container thinking your family wants you dead. Keanu Reeves is a guy who knows what “rich enough” means. He profited over a hundred million dollars from the Matrix trilogy and he gave something like 90% of it evenly to the set crew and designers. Many of them make You And Me money or less. Imagine how much improved quality of life that all gave them.
If you won when you were 20, you could possibly spend 10 million a year for your entire life, even if you didn't invest a penny. You could transform lives - imagine if you could live off 5 mil a year and give 5 mil away forever. Whole neighborhoods getting Habitat houses, Alzheimer's research endowed, drilling wells for water in Africa, and you STILL get a beach house and nice ski vacations.