I'm homeless after making and losing £1,000,000 from busking
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  • mannycalavera@feddit.ukEnglish
    56·
    2 months ago

    Saw this guy and the cat Bob during their rise to fame. Pre book, pre film. Utter cunt. Very aggressive with people and literally told my friend she couldn’t look at the cat without a donation.

    What a waste of an opportunity he was given.

    • EdanGrey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      I took him and his cat water during a very very hot summer, saw them on my way back to college during my lunch break, all before the fame too. He seemed ok at the time but that may be because I was giving him something he probably needed.

    • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      He actually seemed like a bit of a prick in the film, too.

    • Bob@feddit.nlEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      I got all three of the books for Christmas one year because my name’s Bob too, and I wouldn’t say he comes off as an utter cunt, but he does seem like poor company.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    Sounds like he wasted all that money. A £500k bungalow? JFC with a million bucks I could buy a prefab house and a lot to plop it on and live the rest of my life until I inevitable drop dead from heart disease. Also RIP Bob. I wouldn’t be surprised if whoever hit him didn’t even realize it.

    • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      London prices. Saw someone else say it would have been much better if he left london

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      103·
      2 months ago

      A million dollars spread out over 12 years is not amazing money.

      It’s not like he got a million dollars and could have bought the house outright. He took out a mortgage because he had a respectable middle class income for 12 years.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        I could live if a million GBP for the next 40 years and even buy a house too.

        I know this because I am not going to earn that much over the next 40 years.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        2 months ago

        I could easily retire for life on that money and live very comfortably. Shit, it would give me a higher yearly wage than I’m on now.

        I don’t get why people online frequently act like that’s not a lot of money. It’s £750k.

        You could buy an alright house (outside of London) on that, retire at 30, and enjoy an above average amount of after-bills spending money for the rest of your life, without having to work at all.

        • danafest@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          How does the math work out on that? I’m not quite sure what home prices are like in the UK, but let’s say you bought a house for 350k and paid cash. That leaves 400k. You retire at 30, and conservatively have 40 more years to live. That’s only 10k/year for the rest of your life. You still have expenses such as home insurance, car insurance, consumables, etc. Doesn’t seem like much. To be fair I’m also not factoring in any kind of pension or social security or anything like that.

          • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            I live in the north east so I put £200k for a house.

            I don’t think your calculation takes savings interest into account.

            If someone gave me 750k and said you can have that but you aren’t allowed another paid job for the rest of your life I’d 100% take it.

        • bizarroland@fedia.io
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah but it gets parceled out to you over 12 years and you still have to live on the money as it comes in in the meantime

      • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        In the UK, that’s pretty damn good money. If you are able to plan financially at all you can comfortably pay off a mortgage and live off that amount of money for the 12 years.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          You could live off 35k forever and 40k probably forever.

          Things would start dropping off more quickly after 40k

          Odds are if you do 35k/40k for awhile you could also bump the amount eventually and remain in the forever or probably forever category.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    All a bit sad but heroin addicts tend to be self-destructive at the best of times - half the smackheads I know managed to kick the habit and go on to lead productive lives but I still see a few around begging (when they aren’t banged up) and they are getting on a bit now.

    Add in bad advice, likely a few parasites putting their hand in his pocket and this isn’t a huge surprise.

    • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I know some who have managed to hold down successful careers despite their habit. I wonder how many hidden “functional” users there are