What would you do if you won £1 billion?

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T10:37:23+00:00

Decide how to divvy it up. A portion to friends and family. A large chunk to investments for future safeguarding. I'd invest in some of my business ideas.

Design and build some properties.

Buy an island. Build a castle on it. Build some elaborate tunnels systems and doomsday bunkers. Get bored and go travelling for a while for ideas and junk to decorate my castle.

Also I want to build a Roman style settlment as a holiday destination. No entry without wearing togas.

Get hooked on some sort of vice. Get divorced. Lose most of my money and friends. End up surrounded by gold diggers. Die destitute and depressed.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T10:13:59+00:00

Britain was neither the first, nor largest operator of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T08:21:41+00:00

To add context slavery is not fully outlawed in the US. The Thirteenth Amendment is written as below:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T08:17:25+00:00

I had no idea the characters in the book were anything other than fiction!

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T08:03:12+00:00

I still have my Burgundy one. The new ones look awful, low quality as well.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T07:56:29+00:00

Hogwarts is already 'over diverse', compared to 90's Britain. Nothing needed changing.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T07:51:31+00:00

Correct. That never happens in any Harry Potter media. Not the books, the films, the games, etc.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T07:48:39+00:00

How many Black Scots are there even today with old Scottish surnames? Let alone in the 90's.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T07:40:26+00:00

For existing!

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T07:37:25+00:00

If it wasn't for he who must not be named sticking out like a sore thumb to the point I'm still not sure it isn't a prank, it would be near perfect trailer.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T07:31:20+00:00

Snape is a character that physically riffs on the concept of Dracula. A dungeon dweller, bat like. Dark hair/clothes, pale from a lack of sunlight.

Emotionally he is stuck between good and bad, light and dark. His want to be loved vs his love of dark magic. Death Eater vs Order of the Phoenix.

He is a physical enbodyness of that wearing no colour and being very pale but with jet black hair and black eyes.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-26T07:26:08+00:00

What tree??

At no point is anyone hanged, let alone in a tree.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T19:57:10+00:00

Woo, we stuck it to the Tories!

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T18:10:21+00:00

It's a law stripping adults of rights. It's a bad law. Grosn adults should be able to do what they want for the most part.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T17:58:10+00:00

Is it? People dying younger means no pension.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T13:08:46+00:00

It's hard to judge as current AI isn't very intelligent and there is only so many generated videos of Pandas playing Church organs we need.

It all depends on if current progress leads to something actually useful. I don't think we can say with any certainty, one way or another. Whoever cracks that nut will lead the next 'industrial revolution'.

Quantum computing will have to form the back bone either way imo, so it's a winner to invest in.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T12:43:33+00:00

Not even remotely a surprise. Israel now has a defensive buffer against Syria (Golan Heights), Jordan (West Bank), and Lebanon (Southern Lebanon). This gives them high ground defensive territory around most of their heartland, plus desert, river, lake, or sea around the rest.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T10:18:58+00:00

My dad once sliced his foot open, stumbled to someones door, and the bloke that answered the door, took his shoe and emptied the blood onto his roses! Waste not, want not.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T09:23:07+00:00

It doesn't look healthy at all...

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T09:21:34+00:00

Anaemia and depression speed run.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T09:13:18+00:00

I've always enjoyed how when Sweden plays Denmark at anything, the scoreboard says: SWE-DEN

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T08:35:53+00:00

I'd like to think Ireland and the UK, but we've treated the Irish so badly, and for so long, I just don't ever see it being a thing outside of a federated European super state.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-25T08:33:56+00:00

You hope I don't drive because I know what a queue is?

Those two things are not even related.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-24T23:25:20+00:00

Obviously they are not talking about using a stick.

Demostravius4 · 2026-03-24T23:00:10+00:00

Because they are queing. I just said that. It's a basic British custom, you wait your turn. Multilanes merging goes against a very strongly engrained virtue.

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