if you had 100 million pounds.

If everybody knew you had £100 million you can expect a gang of villains to visit you shortly.

So keep plenty of cash around as they certainly won't believe you have none in the house, and you will lose fingers and toes at an alarming rate with bolt cutters, unless you produce a fair wedge of it sharpish.

yes,that would be a down side,but you would have no problem getting a loan on credit,and have a big punt and hope it wins

If I had 100 million, I would not have 100 million kept in one account for starters, if that bank collapses you are screwed a la Northern Rock, so the depending upon how many banks you use to spread the capital, the manager might sip his tea a bit more before rushing out to see you

You would be completely inundated with begging letters, happens to all lottery winners

i'd be getting deep throat off a slat right now

back doors would be opening all over the place

it does happen,many a guy was left big money in a will and somebody somewhere contests the will and the guy can not get his hands on a penny until after the courts decide if he is entitled to it.

A poor thread

There would have to be many positives,all the babes would be after your body.(cough cough)

I'm beating them off with a stick as it is! 

I've just realised that this has reminded me of a very old film. The Million Pound Note?

A couple of years ago Rio Ferdenand happened to mention where the Manchester united  Christmas party was to held.He let it slip on radio while being interviewed and named the hotel.Over 2000 babes turned up from all over the country.The daily Mirror reported the next day that the hotel was full with wall to wall babes.

Indeed crags, Gregory Peck. It wasn't a bad film either.

I thought you'd be too young to remember it Slippy, it was a very long time ago - can't be arsed to google any more tonight. It was good but can imagine it would look very, very dated now.

Yes,i remember that film,two guys had a bet,one bet that he would would not be able to live without cashing the cheque ,and the other bet he would spend it all .I think.

It's on about twice a year on some channel or t'other. I've seen i

It's on about twice a year on some channel or t'other. I've seen i

It's on about twice a year on some channel or t'other. I've seen i

It's on about twice a year on some channel or t'other. I've seen i

..it a few times. Bloody laptop freaking out again. On that note I bid you all a goodnight.

night mate

Night Slippy - I've seen a repeat of the film but must be about 20 years or more ago. I've not got Sky TV or anything like that so don't know about their repeats of these old uns.

The case of the broken spectacles.

There was a man mentioned on Stephens Fry's QI programme that was absolutely minted.

Unfortunately for his family he was taken seriously ill, but was unable to sign his will because he had broken his glasses.

He died before the new glasses arrived, so the lawyers etc, representing different people in the family, began fighting it out for the money. 

Well over a hundred years later, the legal battle stopped as his massive fortune had been eaten up by the 'legal eagles' fees.

His descendants got nothing at all.

Anyone could still sign a will, broken spectacles or not

If somebody gave me 100 million pounds but said I couldn't spend any of it, the first thing I'd do is offer them 50 million to keep their mouth shut.

Failing that, I'd spend it anyway. Fúck 'em.

crags
18 Sep 14 00:36
Anyone could still sign a will, broken spectacles or not

I suggest you contact Stephen Fry and tell him that he was wrong.

Remember it well, very good film, can watch it here.


http://www.alluc.to/movies/watch-the-million-pound-note-1954-online/106922.html

if one of you guys doubled up a quid for 27 weeks with your high street bookie you would end  up with 100 million,and I guess you would have to have a court case to be paid.you could then tell us what it is like  to be millionaire a 100 times over and not be able to spend it .just thinking of the final even money shot,and going in to bookie and saying"there is 68 million returns on that receipt will you throw it on Spurs to beat west brom at even money".

@call me a taxi re court cases eating up the whole estate

That is the plot of Bleak House (by Charles Dickens) -- the famous case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce.

Here is what Wikipedia says, which also covers the QI case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce

Plot
Jarndyce v Jarndyce[note 1] concerns the fate of a large inheritance. The case has dragged on for many generations before the action of the novel, so that, when it is resolved late in the narrative, legal costs have devoured the whole estate.

... big snip ...

Real-life cases
"Jarndyce and Jarndyce" is a byword for an interminable legal proceeding. For example, Lord Denning, when referring to Midland Bank v Green (1981) 1 All ER 583,[1] said, "The Green saga rivals in time and money the story of Jarndyce v Jarndyce."

Some commentators have theorised that the Jarndyce v Jarndyce case was inspired by the dispute over the will of the father-in-law of eighteenth-century writer Charlotte Smith; the Chancery case took thirty-six years to get through the court.

On 8 December 2012, the BBC QI series claimed that Jarndyce v Jarndyce was based on the case of William Jennens from Acton, Suffolk and known as the Acton Miser. Jennens v Jennens commenced in 1798 and was abandoned in 1915 (117 years later) when the legal fees had exhausted the Jennens estate of funds. Thus it had been ongoing for 55 years when Bleak House was published.

As of 25 January 2013, $755 million has been spent on dividing up the Nortel Networks estate worth an estimated 9 billion dollars with no resolution.

Thanks Ramruma.

I'm sure crags will spot this later.