Winning the Lottery - Would you tell?

If you won the Lottery, would you be one of these people that ticks the publicity box?

Would you want the entire world (including gangs of kidnappers) to know that you are now supremely rich?

How about letting people in your family know, including the relatives you never see or can't stand?

Or worse, would you be one of those people that wins the Lottery and then goes whining to the newspapers about how being rich has ruined your life?

For the final nail in the coffin, would you tell the press that winning £58 million would not change your life one bit?

Obviously, I've never won it, because if I did, I'd be on my yacht in Monte Carlo choking Romanian hookers to death, rather then posting on a comedy forum.

Besides, even if I did win it, I'd keep it quiet as I don't want to risk my DSS benefits.

So if you won, would you spill?

I'd spread myself around like a cheap whore except I wouldn't be cheap anymore

No.

I wouldn't tell anyone and instead pretendthat the money was from pimping out hookers instead.

I wouldn't tell anyone because I have the kind of family that would use every way possible to bleed me dry.

No. Not at first anyway.

I'd give lots of it away and gradually let people know.

That or buy an atomic bomb from North Korea and finally get even with the world.

I'm not sure if I would actively tell, but when I buy up huge swathes of English countryside and set upon building myself a massive country estate, it'll be rather self-evident.

You'd be like Richard Pryor in Superman III, turning up to work in your new Ferrari.

I'd tell my girlfriend, as she'd probably notice after a while, diamond top hats are pretty conspicuous. I probably wouldn't tell anyone else, not even my family. Actually I would, but not how much, I'd say I won a few hundred grand or something, so I could give family members nice little chunks, rather than have anyone know I was a millionaire.

Anytime anyone wins in my section of the country, within just a few years the money has been pissed away and they're back on public assistance again.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 18 2009, 11:12 PM BST

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No. I'd just explain to impecunious friends and relatives that I was able to provide them with financial assistance because I had "come into some money from whoring myself out to wealthy old women".

I'd try to keep my name out of the press, but I wouldn't hide it from my friends and family.

I've known two people who won the lottery. My friends' parents won $7 million and my brother's baseball coach won $14 million. They both quit their jobs, bought big houses and later went back to work part-time because they grew bored after a few years.

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I heard a report which suggested that winning the lottery does indeed often ruin people's lives, but that just playing it can make people happier. So you're likely to be better off not winning.

That report's a load of balls!

All the DVDs I could buy...