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10 Sep 14
18:43
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if so how much and did it change them? assuming it was substantial, I haven never known anyone to have won any big prize and starting to believe all winners are fictional 
of course this isn't true, or is it
of course this isn't true, or is it
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I've known two families win amazingly. Our ex next-door neighbours were one of the first winners and won £1.6m. Having lost a baby through a cot death on Christmas Day 1981 they deserved every bit of luck they got. Hasn't changed them a bit. Still are down to earth lovely people who we still see quite regularly. Second winner was a fellow retained fireman in our town who won £4.5m. Still basically the same man and is spending heaps on new cars, luxurious holidays etc. but still only living off the interest. The £4.5m is largely untouched.
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my daughter has a friend, one of her parents won the lottery (think his wife had left him but came back to grab her share) can't recall the exact amount, 50 odd million ish
both have large houses within a short distance of each other close to where we live, so yes big winners are real |
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My wife's best friend's parents won several million a few years back. Bought some property but pretty much stayed the same sort of people. Very nice people and didn't spoil their kids or anything like that. The mum still hits the casino though
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50 mil? I don't think I would have claimed it, would have a heart attack before I got to the phone.
I came across a youtube video of a couple who won around 8 mil I thought they were actors, interest was over 300k a year so no need to even touch the winnings as red bum said. I suppose there was that doughnut micky carroll who spunke d it all away, couldn't make him up. |
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fish n chip around here won the jackpot,brought the worse out of him the ****
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fish n chip man
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Not long after it started a nice young girl from local Ladsbroke won 1.6 million or thereabouts. Said she enjoyed her job so would not be leaving her job... she did.
Another 'winner' I knew quite well, but it was really his mother that won about 9 million and he was given a million. He's in the property rental game now. |
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I've had 4 numbers a few times but biggest payout was about 80 odd quid
 I wonder which chit chatter has won the most? |
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I know 3 people who have won circa 50k.
The Scottish couple who won 165million lived up the road from us, although I don't know them. They have done a tremendous amount for their friends (paid mortgages, funded businesses, bought cars) and for this community. Fair play to them. |
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A cousin won £6m ,he is about 60yrs and hardly ever had a job,your typical feckless waster .Got to give him credit for seeing his brothers and sisters alright,first decent thing he has ever done.
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An ex colleague knew a girl that won a couple of million early on. Not had a boyfriend in years before she won. Luckily she found love soon after the win.
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Not one, but two.
I worked with a youngish bloke (late 20s) for a few years in the late 1990s. His parents were divorced. He used to give me a lift home now and again, but wouldn't drive down my cul-de-sac as he said he never spoke to his mother since the divorce, and she lived opposite my house, up in the block of low-rise flats. I asked what she looked like, to see if I knew her. He said 'She's always got a ciggie in her gob and spends all day leaning over the balcony watching everybody.' I said I knew her. (grade A munter) Just after Xmas he turned up for work in a brand new Range Rover. We asked him if he had won the lottery. He said 'No, my dad did.' About 4 months later, his mum vanished overnight, leaving her place fully furnished. The caretaker of the block said she had won the lottery a few weeks back, and this was confirmed by the newsagent, who sold her the ticket, but she had asked him not to tell anybody until she was gone. Some people are lucky, and some ain't. |
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i looked it up, it was 56 million
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A chap lived on our road won 100k, did the lot in the bookies. Another guy I know won 250k and bought a brand new Renault Laguna, both late 90s. The decade, not their ages.
My best win, 34 quid in all the time its been going |
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Old guy I knew won 20 million. He suffered a heart condition and his daughter was scared to tell him in case he took a heart attack. She went to his doctor and explained the situation. Doctor told her not to worry and that he would break it gently to him when he came for his annual check up at the end of the week.
Doctor was examining the old boy, checking his heart beat with his stethoscope, when he calmly said to him, "Tell me Jock, what would you do if you won 20 million on the Lottery?" Almost immediately the old guy replied, "Seriously doctor, I would give half to you" and the doctor dropped dead from a heart attack! |
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I convinced some staff at one of my previous jobs that 'perms' were the way to go.
I said that if 12 of us paid £1-50p each a week, starting in January, by xmas we would have enough for a full cover 12 number perm. 11 plus me started paying. It cost roughly £920, and with 3 numbers we would get back about £860. With 4 we get all the lines of 4, plus the 3s that missed by one number, etc. Filling out the forms took facking ages, and me and Mrs CMAT decided to put them on in different areas while we were out xmas shopping. The reason for this was that if we put the whole lot on in our local shop, and got the jackpot, news would have spread, but we would only have one twelfth of it, and wouldn't be certain of moving away. By the time all the forms were filled out we both knew the 12 numbers off by heart. On the night of the draw we were going to visit Mrs CMATs sister, so I phoned the bro-in-law and asked him to record the lottery draw. He put it on and played it in slow motion the first ball dropped, and it was one of ours, the second ball was also ours. We needed one more ball to get most of our money back, but it wasn't to be. We got fack all. And the staff, all non-gamblers, didn't want to have another go the following year. |
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I know someone who won ca. 3 million. I did not know him before his win, but people tell me he has not changed. He still goes to the dogs ca. twice per week and comes to the pub with us 2-3 times per month.
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I won about £150 for 4 numbers the week a chap from Blackburn landed a big uk lottery win.
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When my (now wife) and I got engaged (1968) we went out for a calebratory meal with her parents and then got dropped off at the local disco.
We won a pair of brass candlesticks in the raffle and they were the first items to go in our "bottom drawer". Them were the days - before the lottery made gamblers of us all. And should you ask, yes we still have them to this day ... no I'm only joking - they were cheap and horrible and I chucked them away soon after we got married, but I kept the wife. |