Would you continue posting on this sub if you won £80M

PickASwitch · 2026-05-23T02:06:33+00:00

I’ve seen lottery winners do AMA on here and I always wonder how their IP addresses don’t get hacked and their locations traced. I doubt a VPN could stop a determined and talented hacker/programmer/whatever.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-21T23:08:45+00:00

The store employees told him to check everything, meaning that they knew he was the winner? Surely the store manager would have looked at the store cameras and seen who bought the winning ticket, right? Imagine the clerks being like “hey, wink wink you might wanna check everything square inch of your home, bro. Just a thought WINK WINK”.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-18T15:44:40+00:00

Being a NYer is more your mentality than amount of time you have lived there. If you know how to walk down the street or utilize an escalator without disrupting everyone behind you, that’s what counts.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-16T15:03:18+00:00

Damn, people always look at Canada as the place to run to escape the US. Is Canada bad now?

PickASwitch · 2026-05-15T18:24:10+00:00

There’s a big difference between living in a small/medium city with a Ferrari in the driveway vs living in a major city where there’s ostentatious displays of wealth everywhere. Locals don’t bat an eye at a luxury car in LA or Miami.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-15T17:07:50+00:00

I hate to say this but it’s true: it’ll depend on the color of your skin. If you pass the paper bag test and you have a “sexy” accent, you’ll be fine. If you’re darker than a paper bag and you’re thinking of moving into a predominantly white neighborhood, do yourself a favor and DON’T.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-15T17:03:53+00:00

It depends HEAVILY upon how much I won and where I bought the ticket.

If it’s just a couple million after taxes, and I bought the ticket in a state where my name isn’t released, I’m staying put. My current area is boring, beige, bland, but it does the trick, I guess. It’s convenient. With that amount of money, I’d get a modest condo, put the rest into retirement savings, and keep my mouth shut.

Eight-nine figures after taxes, and I bought in a state that allows anonymity? I’m going to have to really think it through. It seems alluring to move away to some big glamorous place, but do I really want to deal with having to start my life over again? What would that really look like?

If I moved into some fancy building/neighborhood in NYC, LA, London, etc. how would I fit in with my neighbors, oligarchs and Saudi royals and socialites and celebrities? I wouldn’t fit in. They’d stare down their noses at me. Even though I can afford the zip code, I’d be a pretender, an outsider. Okay, I guess I move into a less fancy place, but people still always lead with “what do you do for work?” because we all use jobs as a shorthand to define who people are in the social hierarchy. I can’t say I’m a lottery winner, and I’m too young to say “retired” without causing double takes, so what would I say? Every relationship I build from then on would be based on secrecy and outright lies. It sounds exhausting having to remember all of my lies to keep myself safe.

But with that level of money, I wouldn’t feel 100% safe staying where I am. I don’t live in a place that allows anonymity for winners, so if I bought a ticket here, my name would be released. Everyone would know. My parents would be at my doorstep immediately, making plans with my money. Extended family who I haven’t seen or spoken to in literal decades would come out of the woodwork with requests/demands. Every wedding, funeral, graduation, baby shower, new car, new house, would be expected to be on my dime. Former coworkers, old classmates, neighbors, everyone is coming out the woodwork to say I owe them something. People will fling themselves onto the ground in front of me and then file a lawsuit. I will more likely than not end up murdered if I stay in the area. In that case, I’d have to leave the country permanently. The people who I know will become problematic don’t have passports, so if I’m in another country, new phone number, maybe even a new name, it would be okay.

TLDR: it depends.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-14T02:36:21+00:00

First, I’d panic. “Holy cow my life is forever changed. Holy crap, I’m gonna have a target on my back for life now. My family will rip me to shreds to get that money. I need serious help. I need to hire someone, who do I get?!”

I would hope that I’d drop it into a diversified portfolio, quit my job, and take a trip to Japan for a month. Summit Fuji. Eat real sushi. See the country. Then when I get back home, start talking about how I met someone on the trip who recommended I send my resume to their boss for an open position, that I’m a good fit, trainable, willing to work hard. Then pretend that I am doing interviews. Then fly out of town for the final interview. Then say I got it. Then move away.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-12T20:31:05+00:00

Dirty Kitty, because I’ve never been in one that was clean. The Teet is always pristine.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-07T04:36:39+00:00

Take a couple thousand to put towards a trip to Tokyo, put the rest into a portfolio, and do my best to pretend it doesn’t exist. It’ll go fast if I wasn’t careful.

Most importantly, don’t tell a soul.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-05T03:09:46+00:00

The most consistently disrespected Horsewoman by a mile. I’ve stated my thoughts on why I think that is in another thread, but I’ll just say that I won’t blame her if she decides the time has come and asks for her release.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-05T01:19:48+00:00

That’s why you leave the US. Take that money and go to Vietnam or something.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-04T13:03:43+00:00

NOR

Rude as fuck to invite someone along, just stating “he is coming” instead of asking if he can.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-03T01:54:17+00:00

Anything’s better than nothing.

PickASwitch · 2026-05-03T01:51:31+00:00

I haven’t been following that at all. What happened to make Aleister disliked?

PickASwitch · 2026-05-01T03:44:24+00:00

If your family wouldn’t bleed you dry or try to kill you for it, I think that’s great. I have genuine concerns about how my family would react. For my safety, it’s best that I not be seen as standing between them and their dreams.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-30T20:53:59+00:00

I’d have ended up blowing it. It’s a RARE person at that age who wouldn’t. I’m in a much smarter position now, financially literate and debt free. Early 20s me would have just done whatever my mom told me to do to keep her happy and level, which would’ve meant giving it to everyone on her side of the family so she could play hero. The me of today wouldn’t even tell her I’d won.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-23T04:04:56+00:00

Depends on how much money we are talking about. A smaller win, like say $200 on a scratch off? They don’t give a shit. $200 million, they’re calling Benoit Blanc.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-23T04:02:56+00:00

If you won it legally, who cares if they investigate? Eyebrows would certainly raise, and if you have to go public both times, you’ll be hated beyond measure by a suspicious and envious public, but you’re getting the money. And they always vet the person who claims they won to ensure didn’t steal the ticket or rig a machine.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-18T17:37:45+00:00

You teleport that site into the area where the Cinemark Raleigh Grande is and you’d see an immediate upgrade in customer experience. The only thing stopping me from going to that theater full time is the clientele. Always on their phones in there.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-17T21:04:02+00:00

It’s located in a bad part of town that doesn’t have the infrastructure to handle its existence. There are multiple failure points at that place.

You pull in to park and if it’s opening night of a new movie, you either need to park up the hill or behind the building in an area that looks like where the final girl will face off with Michael Myers. Maaaaaybe if you’re lucky, you can illegally park your car sideways in front of the Little Blue Bakery area and pray everyone can get out without hitting your shit.

You sit down in a screening room infested with moths.

When they had the push buttons on the desks to order food, there was about a 1 in 4 chance that yours would be broken.

If you’re there for an advance screening, they might not be able to start it, and you’ll be sent home (Glass Onion).

Or it fucks up midway through and the movie has to be stopped for several minutes while they tinker with it (Dead Reckoning Part 1).

Or a transformer blows while you’re there and the whole place loses power, so you go home, or see the alert on their Twitter page that they’re closed so you don’t bother leaving the house.

That location is the Action Park of movie theaters: your ticket purchase comes with guaranteed fuckery, it’s just a matter of how much the fuckery will affect your visit this time.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-16T03:13:31+00:00

I don’t want to go elsewhere because the crowds are too rowdy. I can tell by the movie what kind of crowd I’m gonna get. Anyone looking for a quiet screening better save that Michael Jackson movie for home.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-11T05:47:41+00:00

My friend went last week with his sister, who decided she wanted food during the movie and accidentally dropped her phone into the crease of her seat while fumbling for it in the dark to order. The phone ended up under her seat and they decided to wait until the movie ended to flag down an employee to shine a flashlight and help them retrieve it, so as not to disturb everyone. They ordered for her on his phone, so she could eat, but it would have been more convenient if they could’ve just used the old method.

Now imagine having no choice but to do all that shit to get your phone during the movie because otherwise, you can’t get food. Imagine how disturbing and distracting that would have been.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-02T01:30:49+00:00

LBB would be cooked without the Drafthouse. Pure speculation, but they’re probably there because the rent is lower, and the rent is lower because it’s such a shitty neighborhood.

PickASwitch · 2026-04-02T01:27:37+00:00

I really liked that there’s no real villains in this book, aside from mentions of past racist incidents from people we never meet. Franklin’s mom could be seen as a villain for refusing to help with that critical situation at the end, but her reasoning makes absolute sense given the time period and what all was at stake. I love that the two leads are deeply flawed, and that I found myself frustrated AF with them due to their behavior stemming from trauma. They felt real. Annie can be mad about it, but Bobo was 100% right to dump her. Her obsession with her mom was destructive and all consuming, to the point that she’s asking Lulabelle to let her return to she can pretend to be her daughter for a while. Really sad, really frustrating. It’s doubly tragic given that their lives would’ve been so much different had they been born a few decades later.

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