£201 million jackpot on the Euromillions tonight!

[Mr. Dazzle]

FFS, get the mega millionaire KFB to buy the leathers. Entirely unreasonable to gift you a Panigale and not do that IMO.

[KungFooBob]

FFS, get the mega millionaire KFB to buy the leathers. Entirely unreasonable to gift you a Panigale and not do that IMO.

Jeez, I'm already providing the drugs and hookers.

[Taipan]

I'd buy all the regular posters a Panigale.

It’s a kind thought, but with my knees it’d be as much use as an ash tray on a fish. Will there be a cash alternative?

Nope.

I'll book Cadwell for the day and you'll all have to come pick them up from the track and do at least 20 laps.

I'm disabled and can't do that and could sue you under the 2012 Equality Act, but i'll let it fly as were all internet mates. Plus its lucky for everyone else I wont be riding, cos I'm actually blisteringly fast and would have showed you all up!

[Noggin]

It’s a kind thought, but with my knees it’d be as much use as an ash tray on a fish. Will there be a cash alternative?

Nope.

I'll book Cadwell for the day and you'll all have to come pick them up from the track and do at least 20 laps.

I'm disabled and can't do that and could sue you under the 2012 Equality Act, but i'll let it fly as were all internet mates. Plus its lucky for everyone else I wont be riding, cos I'm actually blisteringly fast and would have showed you all up!

You're just showing off cos you have TWO metal joints

[Taipan]

Nope.

I'll book Cadwell for the day and you'll all have to come pick them up from the track and do at least 20 laps.

I'm disabled and can't do that and could sue you under the 2012 Equality Act, but i'll let it fly as were all internet mates. Plus its lucky for everyone else I wont be riding, cos I'm actually blisteringly fast and would have showed you all up!

You're just showing off cos you have TWO metal joints

It's for even weight distribution when cornering at speed!

[Yambo]

I've been thinking about this and decided I'd be quite happy taking the money.

I'd spend very little of it but I could really do with a workshop so I'd like to find a bit of land where I could put one together. Of course, said bit of land might necessitate a bit of travel so I'd buy some wheels that I can get a sheet of plywood in. There's still plenty of life left in my electric scooter for getting around the village. A bike would get used but at the moment I'd find it hard to get my leg over one with this bloody arthritic hip. I suppose I could afford to get it replaced though so . . . It wouldn't be a sports bike mind, I'm far too old for that sort of body position.

I'd keep all the boats, I don't need any more or bigger or faster boats but a bit of extra spending money would mean I don't have to clean the bottom of the bloody things myself. The bit of land would have to be big enough for a second small shed which I'd make into an observatory (need a removable roof) to house my own, current telescopes and camera equipment but also some bigger, better equipment that would be available to be used by interested amateurs and for outreach events. I can (but don't) do remote imaging, using telescopes and cameras around the world which is certainly useful for Southern hemisphere targets but it's expensive and I'd undercut the big boys to allow those starting out to have cheap access to data. While I'm sitting outside the observatory watching the world rotate I'd put together a list of people or organisations I might throw some money at, ones where I can be sure it'd do some good.

I don't need £200 million but I'd rather have it and give it away than some other fucker having it and wasting it.

[Count Steer]

I'm disabled and can't do that and could sue you under the 2012 Equality Act, but i'll let it fly as were all internet mates. Plus its lucky for everyone else I wont be riding, cos I'm actually blisteringly fast and would have showed you all up!

You're just showing off cos you have TWO metal joints

It's for even weight distribution when cornering at speed!

+ built in sparky sliders!!

[Noggin]

I'm disabled and can't do that and could sue you under the 2012 Equality Act, but i'll let it fly as were all internet mates. Plus its lucky for everyone else I wont be riding, cos I'm actually blisteringly fast and would have showed you all up!

You're just showing off cos you have TWO metal joints

It's for even weight distribution when cornering at speed!

But, but, , , if you aren't doing track days, how can you be cornering at speed??

You're just showing off cos you have TWO metal joints

It's for even weight distribution when cornering at speed!

+ built in sparky sliders!!

Proper ROFL

[ZRX61]

Mostly 401(k) type, all in company shares. Very cheap for the company, very dangerous for the pensioner.
Several people I know has £1m+ pension pots in Worlcom, then one day they had zilch.

Covid/Biden wiped about 40% off most peoples pension funds. One of roomies funds (about $350k) lost $10k/month for Aug/Sept/Oct & then made $27k of it back during Nov.

Mate of mine had a TWA pension, then the unions & Icahn fucked them over. He gets $67/month

[Cousin Jack]

Mostly 401(k) type, all in company shares. Very cheap for the company, very dangerous for the pensioner.
Several people I know has £1m+ pension pots in Worlcom, then one day they had zilch.

Covid/Biden wiped about 40% off most peoples pension funds. One of roomies funds (about $350k) lost $10k/month for Aug/Sept/Oct & then made $27k of it back during Nov.

Mate of mine had a TWA pension, then the unions & Icahn fucked them over. He gets $67/month

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Firm goes bust you lose job AND pension.

[Count Steer]

Mostly 401(k) type, all in company shares. Very cheap for the company, very dangerous for the pensioner.
Several people I know has £1m+ pension pots in Worlcom, then one day they had zilch.

Covid/Biden wiped about 40% off most peoples pension funds. One of roomies funds (about $350k) lost $10k/month for Aug/Sept/Oct & then made $27k of it back during Nov.

Mate of mine had a TWA pension, then the unions & Icahn fucked them over. He gets $67/month

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Firm goes bust you lose job AND pension.

It's the good ol' American way. Land of the free, home of the 'brave'.

[Cousin Jack]

Covid/Biden wiped about 40% off most peoples pension funds. One of roomies funds (about $350k) lost $10k/month for Aug/Sept/Oct & then made $27k of it back during Nov.

Mate of mine had a TWA pension, then the unions & Icahn fucked them over. He gets $67/month

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Firm goes bust you lose job AND pension.

It's the good ol' American way. Land of the free, home of the 'brave'.

And the home of Ponzi schemes too.

[Yorick]

Another 199 wouldn't change me

[ZRX61]

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Firm goes bust you lose job AND pension.

Not just companies...
Government employees in California (Service Employees International Union & others) have agreed to pension/wage deals over the years where the daft fuckers fell for empty promises. The State pension fund is somewhere between $800Billion & $1Trillion short of funds.
The money didn't exist when the promises were made
The money doesn't exist now
and it sure as hell won't magically exist at some point in the future.

[Mr. Dazzle]

That's true of most state pensions in the western world

[ZRX61]

That's true of most state pensions in the western world

Yup, the entire US social security system is due to collapse fairly soon. GOP keep trying to fix it, Democrats scream & shout about the GOP trying to cut the payouts, but don't mention the alternative is a complete collapse.

[Cousin Jack]

That's true of most state pensions in the western world

Yup, the entire US social security system is due to collapse fairly soon. GOP keep trying to fix it, Democrats scream & shout about the GOP trying to cut the payouts, but don't mention the alternative is a complete collapse.

The UK Benefit system is in a similar state, as no doubt are the state systems in most Western European countries. Too many 'deserving' causes, too few taxpayers. It will get worse.

[weeksy]

How did we get from a nice thread back into politics?

Fuck me you doom and gloom mongers

[ZRX61]

How did we get from a nice thread back into politics?

Fuck me you doom and gloom mongers

$535M jackpot for Saturday night!!

($163M take home, the fuckers)

[Count Steer]

Gift Tax has been mooted since 2019. It was raised by the IPPR. £125,000 lifetime limit.

https://www.griffinsfinancial.co.uk/blo ... itance-tax

I actually blew £12.50 on t'Euromillions last Friday. Needless to say, there will be no 'RTTL Festival of Panigales' - not a sniff of a prize.