What if money were no object?

[star-warrior]

I'd love to travel and spend time in the places I'm interested in, Iceland, Mexico, Japan and a number of other places around the world.

Something thought provoking in this vdieo.

[AlmondMilk]

I guess I wouldn't need to work then or go to school. I'd buy things for my family, travel, and donate.

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

make big mirror fa worlds lands so check they assholes everyday
ans lots but classfied

thankyou

[PreTTy PeTe]

I'd go to Manchester

someone I care about lives there

[HoodedRat]

I would get the fuck out of the gone-to-the dogs, shit-hole, of Once-Great-Britain, the Disunited-Queendom, before it totally implodes under the weight of unchecked, non-intigrationist, Muslamic immigration, and ends up as yet another hell-hole under Shariah law.

ie: I would travel the world.

[PreTTy PeTe]

I'd also get ear enlargement surgery.

why you got small ears.

you do know that ears get bigger as you get older.

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I'd fly to Edinburgh of course.

I would go find this werewolf and comfort him.

he looks like he needs a hug.

[star-warrior]

I would get the fuck out of the gone-to-the dogs, shit-hole, of Once-Great-Britain, the Disunited-Queendom, before it totally implodes under the weight of unchecked, non-intigrationist, Muslamic immigration, and ends up as yet another hell-hole under Shariah law.

ie: I would travel the world.

Antartica would probably the only place you'd be travelling to...?

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Money isn't an object, it's just an idea.

Owning stuff is just an idea.

I thought I owned a beautiful laptop but our Romanian guest had another idea about that.

[PreTTy PeTe]

My ears are average sized, but I need them to be big so I can be more desirable to a certain someone.

don't change yourself dude. you are perfect as you are and if that certain person does not see that then he is not worthy of your love.

[PreTTy PeTe]

I's spend my money how I want.

true my apologies. take care.

[HoodedRat]

^
You're (almost) too late.

[PreTTy PeTe]

Given this...I'd like to see London before it falls under Sharia law.

you silly racists. Sharia is proper and good.

damn the queen and stone her.

i'm just being silly.

[ronboy]

If money were no object...

I'd rent the honeymoon suite in the Toronto Four Seasons Hotel for PeTe's and my wedding night...

[HoodedRat]

Antartica would probably the only place you'd be travelling to...?

Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Germany, Poland, etc, etc, are top of my list ... Antarctica is the other end of the world. But I would love to visit it someday.

[PreTTy PeTe]

If money were no object...

I'd rent the honeymoon suite in the Toronto Four Seasons Hotel for PeTe's and my wedding night...

honey I would have the Queens suite at the Royal York for you.

and what a wedding it would be.

[zoltanspawn]

I'd love to travel and spend time in the places I'm interested in, Iceland, Mexico, Japan and a number of other places around the world.

Something thought provoking in this vdieo.

Presumably, Watts' audience isn't the hungry poor.

I frequently daydream about faraway exploits and have even managed to enjoy a few.

But my day to day reality has its swell points, too. So much so that when I've been tempted to 'live for my passions' I remember that I love my quotidian riches even more.

Now, if money were no object and this wasn't an imaginative exercise, you might find me aboard a decommissioned 747 remodeled to my liking, hopscotching around capitals with no fixed address.

[ronboy]

honey I would have the Queens suite at the Royal York for you.

and what a wedding it would be.

You're right, PeTe! The Royal York is more romantic...The Four Seasons is considered a 5 star hotel, but the Royal York has history on its side (I stood there with my ex, Dave, once, back in 1998).

[Anders123]

There are many people and places I'd like to visit.

There are also many subjects outside of those I've chosen that I'd love to study extensively. I would be forever a student.

[HoodedRat]

I'd also get ear enlargement surgery.

You could have mine if you want.

I have gigantic, elephantine, freakishly-grotesque, monstrously-huge, flapping, wing-nut, ears.

[bankside]

Some cities cater to rich people. London is probably best at it; with money as no object, that's where our household would be based.

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

The caption under the video on the YouTube page makes no sense to me. It says that money is an "an illusion" that keeps you from "experiencing life to its fullest." Excuse me? The richer you are the more you get to travel, learn and experience the world and so much of what it has to offer. More money = more opportunities to live life comfortably by having all your basic necessities met and, yes, this enables you to "experience life to the fullest" since you are no longer laboring away to make ends meet. You can afford to branch out and follow your whims and explore.

I mean, it's easy to just say things like "follow your heart, money is an illusion" but it's simply not practical for most people on the planet who are still just trying to cover the basics to support themselves and their families.



Yeah. It sounds like something well-off people would romanticize about. How money really doesn't meant all that much, but following your heart will make you "truly rich." Oh please. As if following your heart doesn't require money.

interestin wit world as is fa eons
ans internet 2 invent wot suck up 1st world rich play their nose pickins

while etc so on

is sure travel is help folk find shoelaces one day

thankyou

[Nishin]

I would settle in a new country every year, learn the language, culture, take tons of pictures, I would ask a JUBber to accompany me to do all that.

[PreTTy PeTe]

You're right, PeTe! The Royal York is more romantic...The Four Seasons is considered a 5 star hotel, but the Royal York has history on its side (I stood there with my ex, Dave, once, back in 1998).

I would love to meet you at Union Station and then run across to our suite at the Royal York.

one day it will happen.

so romantic it will be.

[zoltanspawn]

I'd provide free healthcare to as many people as possible

If money were no object, why stop with healthcare?

[RaKroma]

I would have several upscale apartments decked out to my taste. I'd hire a personal stylist who would manage my wardrobe. I would travel around the world with a Belami boy (if Elton John can do it why can't I?) I would visit those places you see on the Animal Planet and watch elephants have sex and tigers eat baby zebras. I would go back to uni and study for sake of knowledge with leading academics of our time, in between my world explorations. I'd fund STD vaccine research so every gay is vaccinated; then I wouldn't have to worry about which hottie I take home. and the list goes on....

[maxpowr9]

I would buy a mansion on the Cape (ocean-adjacent) and just live it out there and occasionally do some traveling. I was never one for an extravagant lifestyle.

[xbuzzerx]

I'd be a student of the world for the rest of my life.

[bankside]

I would buy a mansion on the Cape (ocean-adjacent) and just live it out there and occasionally do some traveling. I was never one for an extravagant lifestyle.

Cape of Good Hope?

[Ryuukie]

I would buy houses for the peole I love and then Iwould retire. Aahhhhh!

[refujiunderground]

i wouldn't do shit.

[zoltanspawn]

problem is, if I tried to do all of those things, I think someone or some corporation would try to have me killed

I'm here for you.

The bastards can try.

[justsimon]

First, I'd do the usual things: pay off debt (mine, my brother's, and my mom's), donate to various organizations, upgrade to a nicer apartment or buy a house, and buy several frivolous items. Next, I'd take a few weeks to do nothing. After, I'd spend several months on an extensive road trip that I've been idly planning.

[frankfrank]

I am going to assume this "money is no object" scenario = ONE BILLION DOLLARS AFTER TAXES.

Instead of spending the next three or four years going through the mechanics of my retirement (so that instead of maybe getting $25,000 for this stuff in bulk and quickly, I can perhaps add a zero to it...as the current situation stands), I would just tell a friend who lives 72 miles from here to just come and "work" the whole thing for me, while I am ELSEWHERE and neither of us are "underfoot" in the way of each other. He would also be allowed to buy my property for $1, with an agreement to make his best effort to eventually sell it, when he no longer needs the facilities, and pay me two-thirds of the proceeds from the sale. (He is also a rather desperate guy who could DEFINITELY use, and be grateful for, the job...and yes, I actually trust he would be "good" for this arrangement, as well as for the commission for selling the other stuff.)

Most likely I would live in downtown Vancouver, as my PRINCIPAL residence. Do what I can to get a DUAL CITIZENSHIP.

Have a second home somewhere in the United States. Boulder? Ann Arbor? Seattle/Portland? Manhattan NYC/Jersey City/Hoboken or...?

More overseas traveling and perhaps, eventually, having a third home in some foreign place that I might really fall in love with.

These homes (probably condos inside high-rises) don't really need to be anything opulent or elaborate, NOT AT ALL - just places where I can be, and be comfortable with amenities such as media that I enjoy, etc. Why would I need more than maybe four or five rooms? Something like Neverland would be entirely irrelevant and rather impractical, even though I'd be able to easily afford it.

If I'm in a relationship, that person would likely live in one of my places, hopefully the Vancouver one.

Take some of this wealth, and give it to some friends I know personally who could definitely make good use of it, not to people who are just going to blow it on frivolous things. (I think I generally can tell the difference.) This would include some people who I know from JUB (perhaps even including some I DON'T know, but I just see in here), a friend in Florida who has been homeless for years and definitely not by choice, a friend in Detroit who is on the verge of homelessness, a friend in Ann Arbor stuck in a hardscrabble part-time-job life with no benefits, etc. Some help for my siblings, but not as urgent because all three of them are in situations which are at least adequate. A widow friend in PA who has no relevant means of support, and both are/were too young for any Social Security to be involved. $20 or $25 million should take care of all this stuff that I'd want to do. Of course this is an incomplete list...

In the world of political donations, emulate Sheldon Adelson - but not catering to "the dark side" as he does.

STILL eat at places like Golden Corral buffets, some chicken restaurants I know, some random Indian restaurant on Devon Avenue in Chicago, a gcreasy spoon diner in central New Jersey, etc. - because I like the food. Still eat bananas, Moser Roth dark chocolate from Aldi, turkey noodle soup made from leftovers, pancakes made from Bette's Oceanview Diner buckwheat pancake mix, Ritz Crackers, steamed vegetables, a Labatt's or a Blue Moon, etc. Still enjoy playing Scrabble in Indianapolis. Still enjoy going to the weekly music parties in Oregon when I have the chance. Still have the great conversations with people like centexfarmer, Sausy, mikeylove, thad1847, swerve, pianist, rationallunacy, GL *and* G-Lexington...as well as many other JUB people current and past (and including some I haven't even talked to much, yet)...I could go on and on.

A billion dollars isn't going to suddenly cause me to enjoy skiing, golf, or polo...or travel to Ibiza and Puerto Vallarta in lieu of more-authentic destinations (such as Montevideo, Croatia, Bangkok, Fortaleza, Cape Town, Rome, Warsaw, Toronto, Sapporo)...or lose my taste for Ritz Crackers, a nice occasional beer, or great chicken-fried steak and replace it with a taste for truffles and for some really ridiculously pricey $300 plate of exotic French food and 1948 vintage wine. That French plate isn't going to suddenly become my favorite food because it's $300. I would probably just rather have my own chili.

Not likely I would suddenly start going around in $3,500 clothes and $2,000 shoes - OK I'd probably buy $100 American shoes instead of the cheap Walmart shit that lasts six months, but I'd still be wearing thrift shop Hawaiian shirts and jeans, etc.

I don't need even CLOSE to $1Bn to accomplish all this.

And...oh yeah...I wouldn't work anymore.

[Scealle]

Going to buy the things I wanted like Camera, Video games and hanging out with friends. Also wanted to go traveling, so many places I want to visit.

[youfiad]

Ohh God, I really want to answer this questin before work, but I have to leave in five minutes and I only type about 1 hundred words per minute.

[palbert]

I would tear down my present home on the lakeshore and put up a log cabin style one.

[Ram]

Arse implants and if I am free, I will do something about world hunger.

[Laufey]

I'm fine with living in a studio apartment and honestly don't want a bigger one.

What I would love most about having more money is that I could treat myself more often with things like clothes, going out to restaurants and travel around the world. It sucks when most months almost all of my money goes to rent, food and gas... very little to spend on something fun.

If I was filthy rich I would spend majority of it on loved ones and good causes.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I just had an 'A-ha' moment.

I had my 'A-Ha' moment in 1985.

you silly racists. Sharia is proper and good.

damn the queen and stone her.

i'm just being silly.

Off with her head!

[Scealle]

I had my 'A-Ha' moment in 1985.





Off with her head!

Love that song! I also like the way they do the MV so creative. Which reminds me I also wanted to blast a lot of money either into a short film or music video.

[LemonMonk]

If money were no object. Give a lot to just causes. Not work. Have fun all of the time. Screw the rules, I'd have money [free hug for whoever gets that].

[derelictdarrel]

Buy my mom and dad a house and give them a boost in a pension. And besides whatever-the-hell-else, start a small business.

[cgymike]

Take derelict out for a date

[frankfrank]

If money were no object. Give a lot to just causes. Not work. Have fun all of the time. Screw the rules, I'd have money [free hug for whoever gets that].

Yes, the scenario that I proposed wouls leave me with many, many, many millions for such things as well.

And cgymike - take a derelict out on a date? - sure. The hardest part would be convincing that person that I am not intending to harm them or anything else, because the circumstances would be so out-of-kilter to how derelicts are usually treated, that the person would have every right to be extremely cautious, suspicious and wary.

I have interacted with derelicts before, when I've run into them and had any "down time" or such - and listened intently to their stories, commented, conversed, etc. It is definitely one of those things that can be considered as a learning experience.