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

[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.

 

[kouriichi]

Put 70% of it into high yield savings accounts, and spend the rest on videogames, cheap booze, and a Tali Costume for my wife.

Ok, the last one is a bit iffy, and i really just wanna make a video of unmasking Tali to anger the internet, but i think it would be good fun.

 

[neoontime]

45,000 in the bank. the rest I'd probably use for everyday expenses. Hey, it doesn't hurt to be reasonable with my pretend money.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Spoiler

I have a thing for this particular combination of model and finish.

 

[Cybele]

Buy a nice pc and laptop and dozens of games for them.
Lots of books.
A motorbike.
License so I can use said bike.

 

[Gitty101]

I hear there's a Steam sale going on right now ^^

I'd probably hoard most of it though... or buy a bigger motorcycle.

 

[Pyramid Head]

I'd buy a new computer capable of running some old games like Thief and System Shock that i've been curious about for a while, buy a PS3 and pre-order The Last Guardian, buy the inFamous series and God of War III, order a couple of games from the Persona series to see what the hype is about, and then use the rest of the money to start up a slogan t-shirt business, expand into other ventures using my twisted humor for profit until i eventually have enough to start up a small time gaming studio of my own, and then do a console spin-off of the Ace Attorney series since it looks like Capcom is no longer going to export those games and Rockstar can't do detective games up to my standard.

Or i'd just publish light novels. Plenty of possibilities with that type of cash.

 

[andrew201292]

Car bills bank

 

[thePyro_13]

I'd keep a little for myself and use the rest to help pay off my parents mortgage. The source isn't really important to me, as long as it's legit monies.

 

[Xok]

Use craploads of money into Steam video games and sales, buying almost every publisher/developer catalog and game pack and awesome sale, buy a cool ass new computer, and invest the rest or maybe also buy a new car
The video games aren't intentionally to piss this guy off, I just love video games

Wait, also, I'd buy a tablet and Adobe CS5, buy tons of pizza and sushi, and, erm..
well, buy alot of little luxury things that don't cost much in the scale of fifty thousand, like video games and pizza (which is all I'll ever need)