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Title: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Chair on August 25, 2010, 11:23:58 PM
What would you buy?

This is what I'd get:

Ball chairs

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/2361734879_d6bf186f24_z.jpg?zz=1) (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3577/3295812268_4103c42b3b.jpg)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3646/3538164189_7730c4c001_b.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2275/2037835840_0487cd500a_b.jpg)

Double bubble lamps

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/391608985_5e863de9c3_b.jpg)

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/433332885_f309b46b81_z.jpg?zz=1)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2146/2150824841_baa2f4831f_b.jpg)

Bubble chairs

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2411/2032364406_409d611b08_b.jpg)

2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon

(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6057/x11chcr001.jpg)

The original Alice and Elisabeth Cahen d’Anvers

(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6275/aliceandelisabethcahend.jpg)
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Callaway on August 26, 2010, 01:03:48 PM
Maybe a painting:

(http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Claude_Monet/red_poppies.jpeg)
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Icequeen on August 26, 2010, 01:14:16 PM
(http://media.il.edmunds-media.com/dodge/challenger/2010/ns/2010_dodge_challenger_f34_ns_102209_717.jpg)

Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Frolic_Fun on August 26, 2010, 04:01:29 PM
A room full of these:

(http://www.synthtopia.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/chemical-brothers-synths.jpg)
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: SBI_Patience on August 26, 2010, 04:19:52 PM
I would spend it all on apple products.

(http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/apple_mac_mini_3.jpg)
Mac Mini

(http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2010/4/iphone-4g-real-picture.jpg)
iPhone 4G (I rather wait until the newer one comes out).

(http://www.varologic.com/blog/Images/imm9400-stereo-system-with-iPod-dock.jpg)
Good system for my iPod.

(http://www.tvmagic.com.au/images%5Chomecinema.jpg)
My very own home cinema.

(http://gadgetophilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/sony-vaio-p-1.jpg)
My very own sony vaio mini laptop for traveling.

That's all for now. :thumbup:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 26, 2010, 06:10:07 PM
Lots of land with a farm
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: DukeNukem on August 26, 2010, 06:23:58 PM
I would spend it all on Apple products because I am a dumb ghetto ass nigga.

How much do I fucking pity Apple fanboys! :duh:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: SBI_Patience on August 26, 2010, 06:28:11 PM
I would spend it all on Apple products because I am a dumb ghetto ass nigga.

How much do I fucking pity Apple fanboys! :duh:

And why do you even care?
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 26, 2010, 06:29:47 PM
I would spend it all on Apple products because I am a dumb ghetto ass nigga.

How much do I fucking pity Apple fanboys! :duh:

Like pies and apple sauce
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: 'andersom' on August 26, 2010, 06:31:09 PM
I would spend it all on Apple products because I am a dumb ghetto ass nigga.

How much do I fucking pity Apple fanboys! :duh:

And why do you even care?

Because of his prosthetic balls of steel.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 26, 2010, 06:31:52 PM
He could have balls of apple
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: SBI_Patience on August 26, 2010, 06:33:19 PM
I would spend it all on Apple products because I am a dumb ghetto ass nigga.

How much do I fucking pity Apple fanboys! :duh:

And why do you even care?

Because of his prosthetic balls of steel.

I thought he has balls of plastic or no balls. :LOL:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 26, 2010, 06:34:20 PM
I would spend it all on Apple products because I am a dumb ghetto ass nigga.

How much do I fucking pity Apple fanboys! :duh:

Just minding his own business again.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 26, 2010, 06:35:27 PM
Nobody else would buy land?
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: 'andersom' on August 26, 2010, 06:37:59 PM
Nobody else would buy land?

Massive amounts of money, yeah, I'd buy land, and get it forested too. Massive amounts of land.

And a very private plot for me too. Somewhere close to the sea, and close to the woods.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Diesel on August 26, 2010, 06:39:46 PM
Lots of land with a farm


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This
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: P7PSP on August 26, 2010, 06:40:27 PM
A trip overseas.
Nobody else would buy land?
With enough money I would, and build shooting range on it.


I would spend it all on Apple products because I am a dumb ghetto ass nigga.

How much do I fucking pity Apple fanboys! :duh:
What specifically do you have against people who like Apple stuff?
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: 'andersom' on August 26, 2010, 06:41:34 PM
Lots of overseas trips.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 26, 2010, 06:42:09 PM
With the farm would come livestock too
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 26, 2010, 06:43:36 PM
With the farm would come livestock too

And with the livestock comes manure.  I have had a lifetime of manure in one day as a child.  Never again.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 26, 2010, 06:45:49 PM
With the farm would come livestock too

And with the livestock comes manure.  I have had a lifetime of manure in one day as a child.  Never again.

It would not bother me one bit I want goats. chickens and sheep.  May by some LLamas
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: P7PSP on August 26, 2010, 06:49:53 PM
With the farm would come livestock too

And with the livestock comes manure.  I have had a lifetime of manure in one day as a child.  Never again.

It would not bother me one bit I want goats. chickens and sheep.  May by some LLamas
That would be too much work on top of fucking up my travel plans.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Icequeen on August 26, 2010, 06:56:13 PM
(http://www.trouthousefalls.com/graphics/home.jpg)

I want something up in the mountains, away from everyone. 8)

Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: 'andersom' on August 26, 2010, 07:00:33 PM
With the farm would come livestock too

And with the livestock comes manure.  I have had a lifetime of manure in one day as a child.  Never again.

It would not bother me one bit I want goats. chickens and sheep.  May by some LLamas
That would be too much work on top of fucking up my travel plans.

With that amount of money, you could hire someone to take care of the Llamas.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: DukeNukem on August 26, 2010, 07:03:53 PM
I'd spend it on another testicular implant. :green:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Diesel on August 26, 2010, 07:04:44 PM
Along with lots of forested land.......there'll be an earth bermed house, wind turbine, solar panels, fresh water source & bio diesel production equipment.

Also the main residence must be situated so that is is easily defendable from the masses that flee the cities when the collapse of society comes.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Icequeen on August 26, 2010, 07:16:40 PM
Along with lots of forested land.......there'll be an earth bermed house, wind turbine, solar panels, fresh water source & bio diesel production equipment.

Also the main residence must be situated so that is is easily defendable from the masses that flee the cities when the collapse of society comes.



:thumbup:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 26, 2010, 07:32:29 PM
Along with lots of forested land.......there'll be an earth bermed house, wind turbine, solar panels, fresh water source & bio diesel production equipment.

Also the main residence must be situated so that is is easily defendable from the masses that flee the cities when the collapse of society comes.
:plus:
Off grid and self sustainable has always fascinated be like to move that way but it will take time
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: P7PSP on August 26, 2010, 07:35:06 PM
With the farm would come livestock too

And with the livestock comes manure.  I have had a lifetime of manure in one day as a child.  Never again.

It would not bother me one bit I want goats. chickens and sheep.  May by some LLamas
That would be too much work on top of fucking up my travel plans.

With that amount of money, you could hire someone to take care of the Llamas.
Or, save the money and come here for free to see drama llamas.  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Callaway on August 26, 2010, 08:13:17 PM
(http://www.trouthousefalls.com/graphics/home.jpg)

I want something up in the mountains, away from everyone. 8)



Maybe a house on a private island or up in the mountains would be nice. 

You would have to leave to get supplies from time to time, though.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 26, 2010, 08:17:18 PM
(http://www.trouthousefalls.com/graphics/home.jpg)

I want something up in the mountains, away from everyone. 8)



Naturally I could visit, right? So beautiful...  ;D
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 27, 2010, 05:47:50 AM

Maybe a house on a private island or up in the mountains would be nice. 

You would have to leave to get supplies from time to time, though.

I worked on a private island twice
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Callaway on August 27, 2010, 12:33:48 PM

Maybe a house on a private island or up in the mountains would be nice. 

You would have to leave to get supplies from time to time, though.

I worked on a private island twice

8)

How did you get to the private island?
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: wutid0420 on August 27, 2010, 03:05:15 PM
A mansion with a zoo so I could have tigers. Also a 1967 Shelby  gt 500 mustang
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 27, 2010, 03:18:42 PM

Maybe a house on a private island or up in the mountains would be nice. 

You would have to leave to get supplies from time to time, though.

I worked on a private island twice

8)

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How did you get to the private island?


Boat,  Once all the materials were delivered in containers that the garbage was stuffed into at the end of the job before they too them away.  The second time we went with two trainees who just rode the boat back and forth with the materials till we had them all and we had to carry out the garbage.  The guy spent over six million dollars just to have the electrical service ran out to his island.  He had five houses on it one was the care takers which I worked on another was a boat house which was the other one I worked on. There was his house, a guest house and  a tea house.  It is Tavern Island st off Norwalk Ct.  He was weird he bought a million dollar home next to were he docked his boat and parked his car and tore it down to make room for his garage on the mainland  It was a strange experience.  I have worked on the most bizarre houses you can think of some even for famous people
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: odeon on August 27, 2010, 04:09:45 PM
If I had a lot of money to spend, I wouldn't go for a used Jaguar...

(http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-2010/ghij/2010-Jaguar-XFR-Rear-Angle-1280x960.jpg)
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 27, 2010, 04:30:50 PM
I'd probably continue with pick up trucks  just can't get the redneck out of me :LOL:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: 'andersom' on August 27, 2010, 04:43:48 PM
I'd probably continue with pick up trucks  just can't get the redneck out of me :LOL:
Or going for the very reliable?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 27, 2010, 04:52:02 PM
 :thumbup:my brother had one of tose   Mine a chevy 2500 HD with an eight liter engine
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Icequeen on August 27, 2010, 05:32:19 PM
I'd keep the truck too. 8)

Just need more cargo space on grocery days sometimes. :zoinks:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: wutid0420 on August 27, 2010, 10:43:43 PM
I would buy my own bar
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2010, 01:30:31 AM
I'd rebuild our house.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 28, 2010, 03:58:00 AM
I'd go to Ripon, England, and stay there tracing my great-great-grandmother's family.  :viking:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on August 28, 2010, 01:14:27 PM
I'd rebuild our house.

I would build one out it the middle of the woods miles from neighbors
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2010, 03:08:52 PM
I'd rebuild our house.

I would build one out it the middle of the woods miles from neighbors

You'd like the location of our house. While it's not miles from the closest neighbours (I'd say around 700 metres), we can't really see them and definitely not hear them. ;D
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: 'andersom' on August 28, 2010, 04:29:48 PM
I'd rebuild our house.

Why does it need rebuilding?
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: 'andersom' on August 28, 2010, 04:36:41 PM
I would want to live in a place where the nights are still dark. 

So, a house in an area without street-lights, without huge amounts of traffic and without background light from other things.

Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2010, 04:41:14 PM
I'd rebuild our house.

Why does it need rebuilding?

I'd like to make it bigger, improve the soundproofing and isolation, and we need a more modern kitchen.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: richard on September 04, 2010, 03:55:54 PM
i'd buy a house so i would never have to pay rent again, then i'd probably get serious into card collecting the old stuff like ty cobb, christie matthewson and mickey mantle stuff
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 17, 2016, 06:07:39 AM
  I'd like to have a house in Telluride, and maybe another in Ripon, UK.  8)
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: WolFish on March 17, 2016, 09:45:51 AM
I would want to live in a place where the nights are still dark. 

So, a house in an area without street-lights, without huge amounts of traffic and without background light from other things.
Second that. When I lived in MA I lived in places with no streetlights, and in FL we had one on the whole street, around the corner. You could walk out and see stars. I followed Orion until we moved here.
It was also quiet since the houses were off the beaten track.

I would also go to Florida and buy a 1991 Toyota Camry (preferably white) with a sun/moon roof, air conditioning and luxury seats. One of the best cars I ever owned. You could put a million miles on those things and fix anything that went wrong yourself.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Icequeen on March 17, 2016, 01:54:13 PM
I would want to live in a place where the nights are still dark. 

So, a house in an area without street-lights, without huge amounts of traffic and without background light from other things.

I grew up in a place like that. I like a little bit of light.

SO's trailer up in the woods is like that, creepy dark...so dark you run up to the door at night because bigfoot is hiding in the trees waiting to drag your ass off into the woods and eat you.

Yes I do still use a night light.  :LOL:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: 'andersom' on March 17, 2016, 03:22:29 PM
I would want to live in a place where the nights are still dark. 

So, a house in an area without street-lights, without huge amounts of traffic and without background light from other things.

I grew up in a place like that. I like a little bit of light.

SO's trailer up in the woods is like that, creepy dark...so dark you run up to the door at night because bigfoot is hiding in the trees waiting to drag your ass off into the woods and eat you.

Yes I do still use a night light.  :LOL:

I grew up with darkness. Loved it. No curtains closed when I went to bed. If I couldn't sleep, I could see Orion move. Only 'disturbed' by the lights of cars passing by. But those were cool too, making patterns on my ceiling.

Never saw more shooting stars than when I was a kid. I love the dark.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: WolFish on March 17, 2016, 04:12:49 PM
Let's put in a skylight - it's awesome when it snows and you can hear it falling on the skylight - when it's done you can see moonshine marking the patterns in the snow. For Py I would also build a couple of climbing walls - one inside and one on one of the outside walls of the house.

and just because i am geeky i would buy repair insurance for the house in addition to all the other kinds they make you buy.

how much money are we talking about, anyway?
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 17, 2016, 08:22:54 PM
how much money are we talking about, anyway?

A lot.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: WolFish on March 18, 2016, 05:53:54 AM
In that case I am going to buy more land and build a retreat center with full amenities.

Rough outline:
It will be a hike in center with a restricted handicap accessible (via atv) road.

I'll have cabins around a main center where there will be conference rooms, a video theater, a listening room and small meeting rooms. The area will be large enough to handle 50 to 100 people - no more than that tramping around in the woods (there will be marked trails). It will be open year round with some rooms reserved for individuals or very small groups and the rest available for larger groups.

There will be an exercise room, a small indoor pool and a hot tub. Might add a sauna later.
In addition to housekeeping staff there will be counseling staff, a concierge and a business manager with good social and business skills. There will be kitchen staff for larger meetings and a smaller private kitchen available for individuals.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 21, 2018, 06:56:01 AM
A nice big lot of land (10 acres or more) west of Redmond.

I'd build a big shop building and an energy efficient house on it.

Then I'd just play with my toys, drink beer and smoke some dank.  :stoned:
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Lestat on September 22, 2018, 04:32:39 PM
Telluride? isn't there a gold mine round those parts? IIRC the name comes from their being a natural gold telluride mineral in the region, that was easily smelted down.

I  would get my own place, somewhere with a large garage, and a shed like the one we have now, only I'd upgrade the machine shop, I'd love a large scale 3D printer, one of the ones that can print in titanium, build a laser spot welder, would love a CNC lathe and CNC milling machine; currently got an old capstan turret lathe, pre-WWII, was an antique when my old man got it as an apprentice, and he's a pensioner now. Setup entirely manual, adjusting screw stops for setting the tool cutting depth. Stil, it works,  and once past the pain in the arse setup its lovely to use.

I'd kit myself  out  with a MIG welder (actually thinking of buying one, I could save up, within my price range), and use the power supply to power a homemade plasma torch.

Plus I'd get somewhere with space to fit some HUGE fucking great electromagnets, to build  an isochronous cyclotron, something I've wanted to do for ages, plus  space for the hefty quadrupole and sextupole magnets for focussing the particle beams  for the experiments I want to try out,

In particular, I really want to obtain a radioisotope that ONLY has electron capture as its sole means of decay, and excite it to a Rydberg matter state.
In Rydberg atoms, the electrons are excited to higher and  higher energy levels, eventually to the extent where the electron cloud 'sees' the nucleus of the atom as a point charge. I want to try exciting such an electron-capture radioisotope of an element to a Rydberg state, because I want to find out if the radioactive decay could be halted, by more or less, dragging off the electrons so far that they become isolated to the extent that electron capture becomes impossible.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Parts on September 22, 2018, 05:02:17 PM
Large property like a farm with out buildings with some frontage on a well traveled road for an antique barn
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 24, 2018, 02:37:42 PM
I'd love a large scale 3D printer, one of the ones that can print in titanium,

I hadn't heard they were making those now. I'd imagine it would have to be a sealed unit contained inside an argon purgebox. Whenever Ti gets heated up to melting temperature, it has to be in an oxygen free environment.

Quote
currently got an old capstan turret lathe, pre-WWII, was an antique when my old man got it as an apprentice, and he's a pensioner now. Setup entirely manual, adjusting screw stops for setting the tool cutting depth. Stil, it works,  and once past the pain in the arse setup its lovely to use.

Is that a benchtop model, similar to one of the Hardinge chucker lathes??


(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/121034786434-0-1/s-l1000.jpg)

The first production lathe I ever ran was a British made Automatic Accuratool like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwYfwCksgFs

Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Lestat on September 24, 2018, 02:50:43 PM
I'll try to remember to take a picture of it tomorrow. Doesn't look anything like it, and it isn't THAT new. This one has a well-loved look to it for sure.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 24, 2018, 05:50:57 PM
I would take out the grass in my yard.  Have it landscaped with flowers and a pathway or two in the front yard.  The back yard would have some flower areas and the rest garden with something soft in those pathways. 
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on September 24, 2018, 06:04:01 PM
Give up work. Maybe do a cooking course and open a small restaurant or cafe. Take my son to the Smithsonian, the British Museum, and the air museum at Duxford. Buy a house for each of my children. Join a boat-share club.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: DirtDawg on September 24, 2018, 07:03:35 PM
I would take out the grass in my yard.  Have it landscaped with flowers and a pathway or two in the front yard.  The back yard would have some flower areas and the rest garden with something soft in those pathways.

Great idea and I did similar many years ago.
Now I only have grass to mow along the sidewalks on the street side and a bit in the back yard.
The rest is all mine. Only veggie things I grow up front where most of my permanent perennial plantings and spring bulbs are established is a few patches of onions and garlic plus a couple of basil plants up near the house.

The back yard is where all my vegetables grow. Of course on two sides I have deep plantings of screening shrubs, very tall and impossible to see through.
My cop "friends"  hate this, because it would allow hiding places for fleeing suspects. I just remind them that they do not need to worry and that if they are in my yard, they are MINE!

They gave my mom the same crap, told her that since she was a senior citizen the city would pay to come in and cut everything down and remove it all. FUCK! She had spent thousands of dollars buying special flowering shrubs and paving little trails all through it so my wheelchair bound father could enjoy his final years, in his own back yard just moments from the kitchen table any time he felt like it.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Pyraxis on September 24, 2018, 08:58:57 PM
I would custom build a house somewhere rural with woods and hills but within a half hour drive of amenities. There would be a garage with a coach house on top and I would hire a live-in nanny for the cub who would have a private suite up there. The house would have an art studio with lots of sunlight, guest rooms and yes, I think I'll borrow WolFish's climbing wall concept from earlier in the thread and put one on the inside and one on the outside. The inside one would be in a tower with a reading/viewing nook up top.
Title: Re: If you had a lot of money to blow right now...
Post by: Lestat on September 24, 2018, 11:16:56 PM
DD-If they'd have said that to me, I'm pretty sure  I'd have had  to give them advanced  warning, that then next thing I would be planting
would be a crop of land  mines. Right before I threw them over the hedge and told them they can  STAY  fucked off, because I as deadly serious about the  antipersonnel mines.

Raxy-sounds  nice,  I'd love to visit chateux de la 'raxy. :)