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10 things you cannot buy with £45m (about $68 million)

news.bbc.co.uk — Two lucky ticketholders are to share a £90m (c.$135m) lottery jackpot, but there will still be some things they cannot afford.

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  • whiteyx, on 11/08/2009, -2/+4411. Class
  • ldsan, on 11/09/2009, -0/+35you might not be able to buy everything with $68 million, but who the ***** cares when you have $68 million dollars?
  • virtorio, on 11/09/2009, -0/+26Money doesn't make you happy.
    It would however make me happy.
  • matt9m5, on 11/09/2009, -0/+20Even BBC does lists now...
  • elijahyossie, on 11/08/2009, -0/+16very good point indeed.
  • inactive, on 11/09/2009, -0/+15Better list.

    1. International Space Station $157,000,000,000
    2. Three Gorgos Dam $25,000,000,000
    3. "Big Day" Tunnel/Road system $2,000,000,000
    4. ITAIPU Hydro Electric River Dam $19,600,000,000
    5.Second Avenue Subway $17,000,000,000
    6. Channel Tunnel $10,000,000,000
    7, CVN-78 class aircraft carrier $8,500,000,000
    8.Alaska Pipeline $8,000,000,000(1977 Dollars)
    9.Al Maktoum International Airport $8,000,000,000
    10. Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant $7,800,000,000
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_most_expens ...
  • IHaveIssues, on 11/09/2009, -5/+18What a stupid reason for an article.
  • johnjohnstonson, on 11/09/2009, -1/+13A week's supply of cheeseburgers for an average American.
  • basickly, on 11/09/2009, -0/+9I for one appreciate your overanalysis.
  • josecapgar1, on 11/09/2009, -1/+9I accept your premise.

    The chances of winning the UK lottery are 1 in 13,983,816. You could win again and again.

    By the way, this is sarcasm. This has been tried before, it would be near impossible to mobilize enough people to purchase the tickets within the timeframe. Some lotteries have weird rules against making large, group purchases as well. You also have to compensate all your co-conspirators.
  • avirk86, on 11/09/2009, -0/+8what an arbitrary list, might as well add the moon to it
  • Ninh, on 11/09/2009, -1/+912. Lack of jealousy from BBC website editors who tell you what you cannot afford.
  • jamdogg, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7I'll take a six pack of International Space Stations' please.
  • avirk86, on 11/09/2009, -0/+711. Isn't real
    12. Cloning
    13. R&D to create it
    14. Time better spent
  • salinungatha, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7I'll sell you the moon for 68mill. Hell, you can have it for a buck.
  • zyklon, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6At least it's on one page.
  • fuxxx, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6***** spot on.
  • theCoffee, on 11/09/2009, -1/+6You could buy a lot of lottery tickets with that kind of dough.
  • kestermatsumoto, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5..a dinosaur.
  • salinungatha, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Money can't buy happiness. But it can buy a boat big enough to sail right up next to it.
  • Kanaka, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4This is just an article designed to make people feel better about not having £45 mil in their bank accounts
  • victorp, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4"Money doesn't by happiness. But you can park your yaht right beside it" -Unknown
  • Apex3, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3Some of those are just stating the obvious...A house or boat can be as expensive as you want it to be. And an island? Seriously?
  • acceleration, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4It makes me just a little bit sad that even though the euro and the pound sterling are globally two of the most well-known and widely-used currencies (the second and third largest reserve currencies in the world, in fact), and that even though this article is not only from a website that ends in .co.uk, but is from the most well-known UK news provider, the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)... the person who submitted this thought the currency in the article was euros, and not pounds (as evidenced by the incorrect conversions into US dollars).

    € ≠ £
  • theCoffee, on 11/09/2009, -2/+5So when did talking about what rich people cannot afford become interesting in a recession?
  • LarkStew, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3$140 million dollars for a Jackson Pollock that looks like something my 3 year old nephew would do? How do they get away with that?

  • salinungatha, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3sense of humour fail
  • avirk86, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3or make them feel even more inadequate by showing them that the money they are earning are pennies compared to wealthy people.
  • fraggle35, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Didn't work :(
  • inactive, on 11/11/2009, -0/+2The stimulus package could buy you 5 =)
  • avirk86, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3well, money can buy braces
  • johnjohnstonson, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2@ avirk86

    Yes, but there's a big gap. In both senses of the word.
  • elijahyossie, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2I certainly didn't think that the article was talking about euros. I'm British. I generally work on the idea that £2 = $3 and converted accordingly.
  • ninjagoron, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2that painting looks like my friends retarded three legged dog could have stepped on a couple 'a tubes of paint and done that.
  • freedomorfire, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2A Dinosaur!
  • penguinxp, on 11/09/2009, -1/+211. government healthcare


    now go ahead and bury away like this is some big political statement, not just a fact that government healthcare will in fact cost more than $68mil
  • crispynoodle, on 11/09/2009, -4/+5Notice they dont mention the millions of things they now can afford, sour grapes per chance?
  • secureslash, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1Your parents. You can not buy a new parents.
  • secureslash, on 11/12/2009, -0/+1And new parents
  • acceleration, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1I'm sorry, I've seen this happen so many times before that I felt like something should be said.

    I normally use Google to confirm my suspicions, and in fact €90 does exactly equal US$135 - which was the $ figure you gave (whereas £90 should equal $151). This is because at the moment, coincidentally, €2 = $3 (compared to £2 = $3.35). Thus, the case was strong that yet another clueless person submitted this, felt the need to give US$ figures, and converted using Google whilst wrongly assuming the original currency was euros.

    I was wrong, however, so I do apologise.
  • elijahyossie, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Nah, we're 9th.
  • avirk86, on 11/09/2009, -4/+4The United Kingdom the world second fattest nation, don't hate cause your #2
  • vroom101, on 11/09/2009, -2/+1Eight things you don't have to buy ever -- big, beautiful photos of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) F-22A Raptor stealfth fighter jet and the USAF B-2 Spirit stealth bomber: http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm
  • josecapgar1, on 11/09/2009, -3/+1*humor

    /s
  • hyped, on 11/09/2009, -4/+1what a retarded article
  • brandnewx, on 11/09/2009, -6/+211. True love.
    12. Life of the loved one who died.
    13. Time-traveling trip.
    14. YouTube, Facebook, Digg, etc.
  • jayrok, on 11/08/2009, -10/+2Dental hygiene.

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