I'm going to buy loft in Asheville and a modest apartment in Brooklyn

what are you going to do?

11/3/2010 12:35:41 AM

Nothing...
I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.

11/3/2010 12:36:50 AM

I'm going to pay off all the creditors that I've been saying "Fuck You" to for the last 5 years.

11/3/2010 12:37:00 AM

I thought you wanted to open a dave and busters that served microbrews and no food?

11/3/2010 12:38:07 AM

Two chicks albeit asynchronously

11/3/2010 12:40:28 AM

first i would pay off my student loans

then i'd see how much i had left over

i'd love to move to brooklyn

i'd also love to have a ski condo somewhere

OR

a vacation home in central america or southeast asia.

11/3/2010 12:41:39 AM

...start an organization aimed at starting organizations aimed at starting organizations aimed at organic atheist liberty.

(That's right, you read that correctly.)

11/3/2010 12:45:14 AM

I'd probably do exactly what I'm doing now

11/3/2010 12:50:15 AM

^^ That's awesome!

11/3/2010 12:51:08 AM

^^^ basically, and I think I'm reading this right, you'll change your party affiliation from (R) to (D).

risky with all that cash

11/3/2010 12:55:05 AM

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"i'd love to move to brooklyn i'd also love to have a ski condo somewhere OR a vacation home in central america or southeast asia."

Wow, I have similar ones. Condo in Whistler and a beach house in Nicaragua, or Costa, maybe Belize.

11/3/2010 1:07:02 AM

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"organic atheist liberty."

Quote :

"I think I'm reading this right, you'll change your party affiliation from (R) to (D)."

I was never, and will never be, either of those...(libertarian for life, baby.)

"organic" --> +1 for dems, -1 for repubs
"atheist" --> +1 for dems, -1 for repubs
"liberty" --> -4 for dems, -2 for repubs


(nope)

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 1:22 AM. Reason : ]

11/3/2010 1:13:46 AM

all i'd want is a chauffeur

11/3/2010 1:17:04 AM

lol all these years and libertarians still can't define liberty in a way that makes any goddamned sense whatsoever

gg

+5 libertarians semantic grab-ass

11/3/2010 1:18:06 AM

I would right past wrongs.

11/3/2010 1:18:32 AM

^^
You mean, big "L" libertarians, right? (right)

11/3/2010 1:22:58 AM

I would go to school to learn many skills.

11/3/2010 1:34:20 AM

not even following me son

11/3/2010 1:35:58 AM

I already got all the fuck you. so nothing, just like I do now.

except I have been thinking about a place in belize for a while.

11/3/2010 1:51:31 AM

I would probably eat at "Golden Corral" like every day.

11/3/2010 2:00:06 AM

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"not even following me son"

BACK AT'CHA

11/3/2010 2:07:17 AM

1) Invest 50% straight away, bank 25%
2) Buy my parents a house
3) Buy a house in Mauritius or some other island (for vacationing purposes)
4) Buy a house in the US/UK (vacationing, but also so I can work there one day)
5) Buy a new car, probably an M3
6) Buy a ton of gourmet food from http://www.igourmet.com and other sites
7) Give some to charity
8) Open a small business (juice bar, etc)
9) Continue with my job
10) Stop posting on TWW

11/3/2010 2:34:58 AM

^how have I never heard of that website?

I can't afford nigh anything on it, but it's cool to look

11/3/2010 3:11:17 AM

Let me give you a tip when it comes to when it comes to making "Fuck You" money. When you want to start off with a base price, forget what you paid for it and forget what people are selling it in the stores for. Prices of new things fluctuate, especially when there is still demand for it and it's no longer in production. Heck, many websites have such a mechanism built in so that when the quantity reaches a certain amount, it bumps the price up by a certain percentage.

The best place to look is places like craigslist and ebay. And don't just look for your monitor. Look at competitors within the same specs. Even if you looked at new 19" monitors, you should have found sites like Newegg, Tiger Direct and even Amazon that listed them between 100-150 USD (yes, i widened the gap, because two of the websites I mentioned will probably be 20 or so dollars more than another website for the same product).

Look, I knew you weren't expecting to get 150 bucks for the monitor. But typically when someone puts a price and follows up with OBO, they're looking for something in the ball park of 150 bucks. Unless you just pull numbers out of your butt, which you clearly don't, you typically start out with what you think the maximum someone would pay for what you're paying. It's not necessarily going to be what you'll get, but it's a number you feel that is achievable. And hell, like most sellers, you already know a minimum price that you will accept. Kind of like selling a car.

KB value says the car is worth 10000, but that's a pretty high estimate and you know you would take 9500 for it.

My point is that if you're going to pick a number, pick something that is reasonable. And before you sell the monitor, I will throw you a bone. Similar monitors, and that same monitor, are being sold for about 60 bucks on ebay. If you want to try to get more for the monitor, try listing it's condition. Most LCD monitors use a CCFL backlight. They dim over time. If your monitor is 2 years old and it's noticeably dimmer than when you first got it, that might be something to with hold or put on the table. If it's still pretty damn bright because it sat off most of the time, you can use that to your advantage when selling the monitor.

I know you called me a troll, and I know you don't really understand it's meaning even though I detailed what a troll is. But after reading my first post, asides from thinking that I'm an asshole, did you have a better understanding of what you should expect to get for that monitor and what it's worth? If so, then what I was doing was not trolling.

11/3/2010 3:34:59 AM

When the equation of my life reads: Surroundings = (# of Trees + Captivating Hot Chica) > # of People

11/3/2010 5:33:33 AM

invite me to the housewarming party in your dreams

11/3/2010 6:55:49 AM

I'd pay back all the money I've borrowed from my parents to be able to go back to school and for the time I've been camping out at home looking for a job. After that, I'd probably invest it and/or put it in the bank.

11/3/2010 7:50:11 AM

I would buy some land in Appalachia with a mountain on it and build a survival compound in the mountain big enough to sustain a few thousand people of my choosing for a few decades. Just in case of nuclear holocaust, tsunamis, chinese/russians, super volcanoes, or zombies.

I'd rent out a luxury hotel suite for a year in beverly hills, vegas, or nyc and try to bang hot stupid celebrities. Possibly woo them back to my survival compound.

11/3/2010 7:50:33 AM

ahhh ... Brooklyn. doesn't that name come from an old Dutch word meaning, "one day hipsters will discover us"

11/3/2010 8:09:57 AM

Open an intimate, luxury jungle lodge in Nicaragua or Costa Rica

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 9:14 AM. Reason : d]

11/3/2010 9:14:13 AM

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"I'm going to pay off all the creditors that I've been saying "Fuck You" to for the last 5 years."

lol




I'd buy a place on a lake, a nice little boat for myself, and complete it with a man room you wouldn't believe

11/3/2010 9:17:21 AM

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"I would relax... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing."

11/3/2010 9:25:14 AM

I'm going to buy a beach lodge in Costa Rica or Panama (profit-generating), and a house in Nicaragua (cheap as hell but I'll have to build in one of the very few safe areas). A house in Puerto Rica where I'll spend most of my time. Continental US will be primarily for short visits to family and nostalgic vacations.

11/3/2010 9:28:56 AM

I'd actually like to expand on my response.

I'll open a luxury jungle lodge in Costa Rica or Nicaragua. It will be a health/wellness retreat with an emphasis on yoga, Pilates, surfing and hiking. It will offer healthy, gourmet cuisine and a variety of enriching wellness-related activities and amenities, like macrobiotic cooking classes, spa services and meditation classes.



[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 9:44 AM. Reason : s]

11/3/2010 9:38:34 AM

I'll probably move out of the country to a place where the currency exchange is high.

I'll probably start some sort of art project that uses up a lot of time and will last 1000's of years.
Like the pyramids.

11/3/2010 1:33:59 PM

11/3/2010 1:36:14 PM

you would not know that I had "fuck you" money in the first place. I would try to live modestly with one house and save and spread my money in mutual funds like manure.

11/3/2010 1:36:22 PM

booo

11/3/2010 1:37:38 PM

11/3/2010 1:39:01 PM

Invest in big oil.

11/3/2010 1:52:44 PM

lol at only posting the graph from January 2009 until today.


Why don't you post the graph from January 2008 to January 2009

11/3/2010 1:58:38 PM

Phase 1: Wander the earth. Go see some weird shit. Eat some even weirder shit. Witnessing a coup would be nice.

Phase 2: Buy a house at an NC beach. Open a restaurant/bar. Work to make the best possible version of a couple of different dishes so that it gains some notoriety, one of which must be shrimp and grits. Eat shrimp and grits EVERY DAY. Die happy.

11/3/2010 2:44:49 PM

In order:

- Pay off my law school loans and my mortgage

- Buy my mom something nice

- Put a good chunk of change in the bank

- Travel the world. Probably hit up Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, etc. Then some South America. Then finish it off with some European travel. I would do it backpacking/hostel style, as I enjoy this type of traveling.

- Open up a bar either in Charleston or just some tiny beach bar somewhere tropical. Would probably lean towards Charleston because I still want to do the family thing...although I could do that somewhere tropical, it would probably turn into hippy family...which although I don't frown upon, would not be my first choice.

11/3/2010 3:09:21 PM

design the most audacious chain of putt putt courses you've ever fucking witnessed

holy shit is this real grass where i have to avoid a sand trap, off a castle, up a ramp to a jump over a pit of live alligators, down the ramp, miss the water hazards, time it right to get hit by the windmill that lifts the ball over a wall, down the neck of a live giraffe, and into the correct of three funnels?

two words:

fuck and yes.

and thats just hole number 1.

11/3/2010 4:00:40 PM

John Hine's now a freakin' millionaire...

11/3/2010 4:02:17 PM

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"you would not know that I had "fuck you" money in the first place. "

Yeah, sort of the same here.

I'd live more extravagantly than I do now, and I certainly wouldn't say it would be "modest", but it wouldn't be baller or anything, either.

I mean, it would be apparent that I had a decent amount of money, but not that I had dozens of millions of dollars sitting around. Like, people might figure that I made a couple hundred thousand per year, but not that I had fortyeleven million dollars sitting around. You wouldn't see me on Cribs or anything.

11/3/2010 5:38:18 PM

that's how the REAL rich stay that way

NPR was running a story on changing perceptions of wealth in the US

used to be a multi-millionaire had a nice but reasonable house somewhere (probably in an expensive area code) but now you've got to buy a mega-yacht for people to think you've got money

that's why we're all broke and fucked

dumb shit conspicuous consumption

11/3/2010 6:17:24 PM

time to get a farm and live peacefully with some goats and a handloom

11/3/2010 6:29:42 PM

^^yeah, even if I had HUGE money...like multibillionaire sort of wealth, and no amount of mansions or megayachts would make any financial difference (I'd have to start buying up shitloads of corporations and islands and stuff to ever go broke), I still wouldn't live that way. Maintaining a relatively normal lifestyle, hanging out with normal people, doing normal things, etc, would be much more valuable, at least to me. Again, it would look like I made a very good living--I wouldn't drive around in a Crown Victoria like Warren Buffett--but it wouldn't be an NBA superstar or Saudi prince sort of lifestyle. I wouldn't tell a damn soul how much money I had, and I would maintain the appearance of living plausibly within the realm of the upper middle class.

[Edited on November 3, 2010 at 6:30 PM. Reason : ]

11/3/2010 6:30:26 PM

Peace out on this bitch:

http://www.aboardtheworld.com/

11/3/2010 8:03:13 PM