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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I've just come into some stupid money, something like £100b or whatever, and I'm giving you all £1m each, I want that back in exactly one year's time, if you don't give it back you have to kill everyone you love (who I don't love).
What are you going to do with the money?

//edit//
Ok, the killing thing is silly. Let's say you don't have the money at the end of the year, but have bought assets, they get turned over to me, 100% of them, no matter what their value is... so you buy a £1m property that goes up to £1.2m, I get the whole property, you get nothing.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:21, 151 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
buy and sell drugs

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
Purchase Monty
Grind down to powder and re-sell on the streets for massive profits
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:26, Reply)
Haha!
Next time I see him I'm going to sniff his armpit and see if I get high.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:30, Reply)
You are one brave lady

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)
She who dares.........wins.
Or dies of an overdose.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Or the smell

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
Nah! I reckon he's on top of his body odour.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
I don't smell at all.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)
damaged your nose that badly eh?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
He has no nose (left)

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Kill Gonz.
Keep cash.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
I was just thinking about changing my answer to that

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Have you arrested.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Hedge fund.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)
That is a lot of topiary

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)
do you remember that statistic
something like 98% of hedge fund workers have no idea why they are called hedge funds.

one of them thought it was something to do with some jewish dude.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
I hadn't heard that

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)
Why are they called hedge funds?
I have no idea. This does not make me a hedge fund worker.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)
The phrase "to hedge"
Has been around for hundreds of years to signify taking a position of least danger... So Hedge Funds are essentially a way of offsetting the potential danger of a stock market price change i.e. if you place a bet at 5/1 you get that price even if the odds go up or down...

To back track a bit further "Hedge" as in a surround of a field was used to limit the size of the field and a Hedged fund limits the risk of the fund.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Informative reply is interesting!
Cheers for that Mr DooDahBand
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)
My pleasure
errr Mr Athletic Bovine
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Needs moar boobs.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)
This reply works for every post on here

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
To Hedge your Boobs
Is an Olde Engerlish Phrase whereby the wenches of the day would entice innocent young, but well to do, men by enhancing their god given gifts with a trimming of finest French lace creating an effect not dissimilar to a picket fence surrounding a small hillock. This would tighten the aformentioned young mans trousers and loosen his purse.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)
Isaac Hedge?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
Gonz?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
Sensible answer
Invest it into a 1 year highest rate bond and keep the interest at the end of the year

No sensible answer
GAMBLE!
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)
Kill everyone I love.
They've had a good innings.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:26, Reply)
With £1 million you can buy some new friends

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)
I'm only 27 years old =((

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:28, Reply)
Hey, they were your rules man

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)
BACK OF THE NET, CLAUSES FOR THE WIN, "(who I don't love)", BO-YA-KA-SHA

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)
Ha!
You don't love you, Gonz.
FACT
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
I'd be quite gutted if I died, which is basicly the same thing.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
hire a team of discreet military men to kidnap you and then I'll buy a lovely house and build you your own room
I'd buy lots of toys we could play with, but never let you out of the house
I'd buy a babysitter/freelance black ops person to watch you while I was gone for the day
oh what fun we'd have!
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Then you break his ankles until he writes you a book?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:30, Reply)
Only in the film

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
Just read the synopsis
Chopiing it off with an axe is worse :/
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)
+ serving him a cake with his thumb on the top

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
no :(((

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
Why would anyone want to break my ankles?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
To make you write another book!
Keep up!
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
You threatened everyone I love

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
Not really, not _everyone_, I'm sure we love some nutreal people. and you don't have to take up the deal.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
Hire my own militia
and seize power in some shitty African country. Rule with an iron fist, enslave the population and work them to death building a massive impregnable military compound. Buy a dirty bomb from a former Soviet Bloc country and begin taking over the surrounding countries one at a time, creating a brutally unfair despotic regime. Just for the lolz, you understand.

Something like that.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
I think many people got there first

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
I'm not saying it's an original idea.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
I think its the best so far
Kristine's was fairly good though
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)
the point is, he won't be able to make me kill my loved ones
but man, think how much fun it would be!
like that movie Toy!
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)
at least we know it's a relatively solid plan

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)
*nods*
Are you in? I need people of your calibre - people who can think on their feet without getting bogged down by petty morals.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)
Don't bother recruiting me.
I can't even remember to put oil in a car.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
The only morals on here that get discussed
grow under trees
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
look, I'm not saying I like the idea, but most people will do anything for money
hell, sometimes when I'm hungover I could punch a 5 year old for a pepsi
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)
That should be your sig.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
Someone played too much Risk when he was a kid

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Never played it.
I played 'Escape from Colditz' relentlessly though.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
Did you ever manage to finish a game?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
+ failed on purpose

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
naa, he was always the guards

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)
best game ever
Risk isn't far behind
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)
Somehow I have obtained three copies of Risk
Lord of the Rings (not bad at all), Transformers (shit cash-in) and the original, which is still enormously playable. My quest to take and hold Asia throughout continues. Fruitlessly.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:55, Reply)
Apologies
Asia cock
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)
Jimi Hendrix played Risk all the time
when he was living with Chas Chandler of The Animals.

FACT.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
Did he go in unsheathed?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Oh god, I need to buy Key to the Kingdom.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
I've got it
I'm in tomorrow night if you want to pop over
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
I can't remember where you live =(

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)
According to you, everywhere

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
haha!

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
'cus you're ev-ry where too me, and when I close my eyes, it's you I see.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)
This is going to bug the fuck out of me
Who's this song by please?
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Michelle Branch =)

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)
who MARTIN, 39, BOTTOM INSPECTOR FROM LUDLOW?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Viz lols

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
The bottom inspector part I was expecting
but I'm not having you claim I'm older than you. That's not on.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:53, Reply)
"so you buy a £1m property that goes up to £1.2m, I get the whole property, you get nothing"
this is the legal definition of marriage, isn't it, gonz?
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
haha!
You bitter and twisted woman you
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
well not quite
as the woman, i would be the beneficiary!
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)
A lot of truth in that.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
only guaranteed if you have his child

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)
I think Swipey would be reluctant
Unless you mentioned that the money she'd receive would be tax-free
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
I'm going to invest it all in Gonzalicious Pugs and Sushi Inc.
It literally cannot fail.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)
I'd buy Monty loads of pairs of slippers with my Gonz-o-loan as well.
*Voms*
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
I'd buy you a cider farm.
And a kennel to live in.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)
That is love, right there

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)
That would be fantastic.
I'd love that.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)
: )

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)
I'd spend my days listening to The Wurzels and drinking the profits.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
While I make patchwork cushions and invent new curry recipes.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Can I have one of your patchwork cushions for my kennel?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)
Course you can petal.
I'll do some sort of doggie applique design on it too.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:17, Reply)
TERRIBLY IMPORTANT CRICKET UPDATE
New Zealand have just been cleaned up for 217. With a top four of Tharanga, Dilshan, Sangakkara and Jayawardene you'd be prepared to put an obscene amount of money on Sri Lanka winning this one. Say, a million pounds. Gonz, you can have the profit, but I'm keeping the pound I get back from Bartleby.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
It can't be long till the county season starts.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
CRICKET IS FUCKING SHIT

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
I agree completely
However, I put a bet on each of the 4 quarter finals and New Fucking Zealand were the only ones to fuck things up.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:13, Reply)
So, by your edit, I'll be no worse off than I was before.
AND I get to have an amazing year doing awesome things?

Wow, that's awful sweet of you, Gonz.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Well, you could have the year off, or you could try and double it and have a lifetime off.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:53, Reply)
I reckon I'd finish my books that I've started.
Hire someone to edit and critique and help me finish them.

I'm not smart enough to know how to double that kind of money.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)
I'll do it for nothing.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)
I'm guessing your critique would be
"fucking shit"
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:03, Reply)
Depends whether it is or not.
Firm but fair, me.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:04, Reply)
true

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)
it's fucking shit

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)
Ah.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:11, Reply)
c'mon
it's me we're talking about here, it's not going to be some groundbreaking thing that will make everyone sit back and think "wow, that girl, she's really something"
it's girly, and sex, and I don't know much about grammar and don't know anything about punctuation or sentence structure so, it's a bit shit.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:16, Reply)
I am happy to look over your work if you want me to.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:35, Reply)

look wank
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:36, Reply)
Reads:
Kristine needs someone to help her read.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:02, Reply)
I am from Virginia, after all.
This is also my assistant reading things out to me and typing my reply.
Brenda says hello.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:04, Reply)
Is it like this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8yb32iX9O4
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:07, Reply)
*waves*
Hi Brenda
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:07, Reply)
I would seriously like to see you get that money back off me
I would go into work the day it was due as well to make sure I was good and angry
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
I had a retard caller today on a par with yours.
When I said the name of the firm this Northern spastic woman kept bellowing 'WHO? WHO, LOVE?' and 'WHAT DO YOU DO? WHAT DO YOU DO?'
When I explained, she wanted to know why I'd called her. I had to point out that she'd called me. Eventually she said 'OH, FOR GOODNESS' SAKE' and hung up.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)
it's for situations like that
that you need to be able to discharge a massive amount of electricity down the phone line.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:14, Reply)
Or some kind of sharpened needle

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:15, Reply)
haha I think you may have the edge slightly on that one

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:15, Reply)
those irish cunts
if it's not Bono being his normal cunty self then the guitarist is making nuisance phone calls...
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:17, Reply)
hahaha

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:17, Reply)
Haha well played.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:27, Reply)
some foreign sounding tool has just called my mobile three times looking for "tom"
he is not getting that he HAS THE WRONG NUMBER.

oh now he's left a vm. despite the fact that my vm SAYS MY NAME so clearly I AM NOT TOM AND HE STILL HAS THE WRONG FUCKING NUMBER.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:33, Reply)
If you fancy, I wanna cook tonight, sweet potato chips with chorizo kieves.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:04, Reply)
*invites self round*
I love sweet potato and I love chorizo

(awaits strikethrough)
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)

sweet potato chorizo
chorizo sweet potato
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:08, Reply)
*CLICK*
I fucking love this! Well done Gonz
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:09, Reply)
Oh man that sounds awesome.
Stick it on coll3ctive when you're done.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:13, Reply)
Ok I need to go swimming so actually (for once) a late tea would be good if you're ok with that?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:15, Reply)
Brillient =D

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:40, Reply)
pay someone to kill you

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)
omg
i just tried the rice pots at itsu, AMAZING. total new obsession. sticky brown rice and lots of fresh veg in thai sauce. i am in love.

also went and bought some obscene easter eggs at hotel chocolat for various friends and family, although even i resisted the £65 "ostrich egg" on the basis that i don't want to give anyone diabetes for easter. this has been a good lunch time.

oh, what, the question? i answered that up there ^^
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:29, Reply)
the rice thing sounds good

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:31, Reply)
it's lush. they also do fish and meat ones, for those of you who swing that way!
i love itsu because it's low calorie (well mostly, that rice thing was about 480, but that's all i've had today, so that's ok!) and low fat and lots of veggies - but mostly because the enormous pots appeal greatly to my sense of greed.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:32, Reply)
that sort of thing is what is missing from Exeter
it's getting better, but a lot of the interesting food places don't last long.

One of the best restaurants in town was a Russian place, with angry hot russian waitresses, and it closed down a while back for lack of interest. Fucking heathens around here.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:34, Reply)
i know itsu is just a chain
but i do really like it.

where did the hot russian waitresses go?
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:38, Reply)
nothing wrong with chains if they are good
not sure. back home perhaps.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:42, Reply)
On The game

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:44, Reply)
I've just eaten a half family bag of Haribo Golden bears.
I win the internet.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:34, Reply)
I'm eating a clementine

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:35, Reply)
BOGOF TTD in Sainsburys

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:36, Reply)
TTD?

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:37, Reply)
taste the difference

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:42, Reply)
i have hotel chocolat salted caramel chocolate puddles
which should be fucking illegal
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:37, Reply)
How much are they?
I walk past a Hotel Chocolat every day
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:42, Reply)
the chocolate buttons? £5 a bag
the easter eggs? about £25 - £65 depending on which one you get.

go in. they give you free chocolate. my colleague goes in daily for the free sample!
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:43, Reply)
Hmm
A good plan I think. Not really going to help the whole "remove blubber" kick I'm on though
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:44, Reply)
I don't know,
I bet 25 quids worth of easter egg contains less calories than 25 quids worth of chips.
(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:49, Reply)
They tried to headhunt me once.

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 15:02, Reply)
Needs more meat

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:36, Reply)
story of my life, NA

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:37, Reply)
Haha!

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:38, Reply)
There's a 70's sitcom hiding here somewhere

(, Tue 29 Mar 2011, 14:43, Reply)

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