Euromillions winners named

[Lee]

http://news.sky.com/story/972395/148-6m-euromillions-jackpot-winners-named

Can't you see how excited they are about this: A couple who scooped last week's £148.6m EuroMillions jackpot have described winning as a "very nice feeling". - Seriously you've just won 148million pounds and you call it "very nice" lol

Congratulations though they decided to go public wonder if they'll regret it.

[Futz]

They seem like a nice couple, happy for them

"Facing the cameras, the couple, who have a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, said the news had only just sunk in."

Imagine being those kids

[efq]

Only live down the road. Well done to them, rather it was me though ;)

[Stephen]

i bet the guy weighs more than 148 million pounds

[GoldenMerc]

ngl, winning 148m would most likely "destroy" a lot of my dreams, Im not sure you can class winning the lottery as being "self made" and doing a hard working life, it'd be nice don't get me wrong, but it'd destroy my goals in life

[Lee]

ngl, winning 148m would most likely "destroy" a lot of my dreams, Im not sure you can class winning the lottery as being "self made" and doing a hard working life, it'd be nice don't get me wrong, but it'd destroy my goals in life

So you mean your goals are to work hard, earn your luxuries etc or am I misunderstanding you :P

[GoldenMerc]

So you mean your goals are to work hard, earn your luxuries etc or am I misunderstanding you :P

Yeh, i guess not to get given everything, yeh its nice to be given stuff but you don't appreciate it at all :(

[efq]

I really do not understand why people go public. It is really not necessary at all, the only reason I can think somebody would do it is to gloat. I can't see any positive out of it?

Keep it to yourself, lower the risk to you and your family, stop getting bugged by people for money etc.

[Meanies]

ngl, winning 148m would most likely "destroy" a lot of my dreams, Im not sure you can class winning the lottery as being "self made" and doing a hard working life, it'd be nice don't get me wrong, but it'd destroy my goals in life

It may destroy the goals you have now, but it might give you new goals too. Like you could set up a business and a new goal could be to make it successful.

Well done to them, lucky *******s :(

[GoldenMerc]

It may destroy the goals you have now, but it might give you new goals too. Like you could set up a business and a new goal could be to make it successful.

Well done to them, lucky *******s :(
But then if it starts failing i can't pay money to make it right, i'd rather use skills.

[Absently]

i wonder how much they will donate :D

[Meanies]

But then if it starts failing i can't pay money to make it right, i'd rather use skills.
Yeah but you wouldn't necessarily have to use money, that's the easy way out if you have it. If it was a goal you really wanted to achieve you'd use your skills instead. Or maybe pay for a course to learn those skills needed :P

[GoldenMerc]

Yeah but you wouldn't necessarily have to use money, that's the easy way out if you have it. If it was a goal you really wanted to achieve you'd use your skills instead. Or maybe pay for a course to learn those skills needed :P

I wouldn't say they were goals, to be fair with 160m in my bank lazyness would be key unfortunately

[Eric]

why do they even want to go public? they'll have people after them and people around them will suddenly become their best friends lol

[Stephen]

If I was their cousin or related to them in anyway I'd make them pay for security guards incase I got kidnapped

[AlexJRiley]

Yeh, i guess not to get given everything, yeh its nice to be given stuff but you don't appreciate it at all :(

I agree entirely with you here, but it'd be nice to not have to worry about money ever again

[garriet]

well done to them and stuff, they're very lucky.

i can't understand why you'd want to be named though?! :S

[Oleh]

Being named just makes things worse. Con men at every corner, everybody seems to be your friend and you get more attention than you want.

[GommeInc]

Being named just makes things worse. Con men at every corner, everybody seems to be your friend and you get more attention than you want.
It's quite a dilemma :P If you keep it secret, it seems selfish to hold all that money away from friends and family (because they will probably tell friends, and those friends will tell others etc etc) or do you just get named? I suppose they are hoping to buy a new home so they could just move away and avoid conmen and anyone likely to ask for money. The middle ground of not going public but telling friends and family is difficult to control, because those friends might suddenly change or tell people who will just spread the word anyway.