You have been given $50,000 USD by...

[thelonewolf266]

Invest. Eventually sell and fund a science team to invent a time machine. Go back in time to '95, and tell my father to invest in Apple.

Considering you would have a time machine investing in apple is a bit unambitious.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

£30,000? Simple - set up an ISA for my god-daughter.

 

[Bassik]

Get a better apartement, maybe one where the kitchen, living room and bedroom don't occupie a the same, small area.

 

[Particulate]

Invest. Eventually sell and fund a science team to invent a time machine. Go back in time to '95, and tell my father to invest in Apple.

Considering you would have a time machine investing in apple is a bit unambitious.

Agreed... why not go WAY back and give it all to Nikola Tesla and set yourself up as his financial manager. Because $50K at that era would be worth MILLIONS and maybe then we'd all be enjoying flying cars and infinite power and your ancestors would be rolling in it for eternity.

 

[Outright Villainy]

I'd spend a grand on a godly rig, about another hundred or so on games, then invest the rest.

Or

Have my own casino, with black jack. And hookers.
In fact, forget the blackjack.

 

[hotacidbath]

Pay off my debts, buy a truck, and the rest in the bank.

Get a better apartement, maybe one where the kitchen, living room and bedroom don't occupie a the same, small area.

You, my friend, are an idea man. Add this one to my list too!

 

[Vidi Kitty]

This is completely off topic, but I just finished watching Spice and Wolf before clicking on this thread... So OP, you caught me off guard with your picture.

 

[Thundero13]

Well, you seemed to have the best idea so... no point me saying anything, I guess i'd just get like, I dunno, I really don't need that much money so yeah, childs play...
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[dillinger88]

Pay off my ridiculously large student loans.

$50000(£31000) would basically pay off my course (all 4 years of it) and would get me a shiny new laptop for next year at uni. i don't care if he gave me it, then id rent a house with my girlfriend for the next couple of years with the rest buy a reasonable second hand car and party the rest away.

Can I just say, assuming you're at university in the UK and funded by student loans company, if you ever do get a load of money, DO NOT pay off all of your student load. The amount of interest you're paying is below the rate of inflation, therefore it's not really 'costing' you anything to drag it out.

I think I'd use the money to make a video game where you play a parent of child and actually do your job and make sure you know what your kid is playing, watching or listening to, rather than using the TV or games as a baby sitter.

Seriously though? Deposit on a house, some to my parents and friends. Maybe the token bit to charity to say I did, like most people do.

 

[Jedoro]

I'd open up a shooting range/gun store after getting an FFL.

I'm sorry but $50K is barely enough to cover start up business costs let alone stock said business with guns, ammunition, and then staff the place.

I'd get loans, but I decided leave out how exactly I'd open it up so I didn't bore people with all the details.

 

[imnot]

Gummy bears!
Millions of them!
How many gummy bears could i buy with that money?

 

[Particulate]

I'd open up a shooting range/gun store after getting an FFL.

I'm sorry but $50K is barely enough to cover start up business costs let alone stock said business with guns, ammunition, and then staff the place.

I'd get loans, but I decided leave out how exactly I'd open it up so I didn't bore people with all the details.

Why not just invest in Colt, Heckler and Koch, or FN... wait a few years... and then cash out and in doing so avoid the loans altogether and get a taste for being a major shareholder in the gun industry? Because those three ( arguably the biggest throughout the world considering that every NATO country has at least a thousand M4s sitting around, HK is popular with literally every organized military and police force, and the FN FAL has been in demand for nearly half a century) are going nowhere but up... especially with the advent of caliber modularity and the influx of polymers and propriety high pressure cartridges in every weapon platform known to man. So that way not only would you avoid getting REALLY deep into debt with banks, relatives, or other parties but you'd also get things like shareholder notices and some degree, however minor, of privilege. Very few companies will knowingly turn someone away that dumps upwards of $20,000 into them, regardless of scale or global presence.... that's still a lot of money from an individual private citizen. So by investing and getting that proverbial foot in the door you could reasonably ask about future projects and possibilities... things that your money would be spent on. So that way when you did cash out down the road you could contact the company directly about stocking your shop with top of the line, cutting edge weaponry which would net you a healthy profit which *shazam* you could then use to invest further and continue the cycle.

 

[Veldel]

Id spend 3k of it to buy children violent games to piss him off then id save 20k of it and invest the rest

 

[The_Yeti]

I'd get my Vespa GTS 300 Super, and Finally have my own small place to call my own, thats about it.

 

[Beastialman]

Invest. Eventually sell and fund a science team to invent a time machine. Go back in time to '95, and tell my father to invest in Apple.

Same thing, but get my dad to work on one of the first search engines (yes he was offered to work on a search engine), also invest in IBM.

 

[Artina89]

I would use it to pay my student loans and then I would put the rest of it on the bank.

Pay for grad school. I hear he's a Christian fundamentalist, so there's a chance he'd be upset that his money paid for a geologist's training.

Imagine what he would do when he realises he has paid for a biochemist's degree I reckon we would be able to see the explosion from here in the UK.

 

[GBlair88]

Well first I would get it changed to Pounds Sterling...

Buy an airbrush + compressor to finish some (quite a few) of my models and put the rest in the bank until I pass my driving test.

 

[The_Emperor]

save some and spend some.

 

[funguy2121]

Jack Thompson. Don't ask how or why. For all you know, he suffered a bout of temporary insanity (well, more than usual), held a random drawing, and you were the lucky winner. Regardless of the reason, you now have this money, and he asks what you are going to do with it.

So, what do you do? Give it to charity? Intentionally piss him off and buy video games? Invest? Refuse it? The choice is yours, and you're limited only by your imagination.

As for me, I would donate most of it to Child's Play, just to see his face when he sees his money go to buy video games for kids (of course, I'm assuming he doesn't know that CP donates age appropriate video games).

So, let's hear your ideas?

Thompson is your anti-gaming kook politician over there, yes? Over here, we'd call him Joe Lieberman or (swear I'm not kidding) Tipper Gore, and he would be ravenously anti-music.

 

[Simon1]

Swim in it like Scrooge McDuck. What can I say, I'm a man of simple tastes.