Issue 41 / 2012
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OLYMPIAN SPENDING WHAT YOU £11 billion of taxpayers moolah has been spent on the olympics...take a look at what we could've spent it on...
1 The Cullinan Diamond, which comes in at 3,106,75 carats, is the
third most expensive diamond in the world, and, with the money used to fund the Olympics, you could buy it roughly thirty-six times.
3 Polly Cay, a private island in the Bahamas, is currently selling
for approximately £2,865,000. You could purchase about 500 similar islands with the Olympic spending money.
5 The world's most expensive guitar was made for charity in
7 Despite being seemingly worth- less the web address insure.com,
2005 for tsunami victims; the likes of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian May signed the guitar, mak- ing it worth £1.7 million. You could buy a bus load.
(the most expensive domain name in the world), was bought up by QuinStreet - a Californian marketing firm - for a cool £10.2 million. Ten thousand insure.coms for you, then.
9 If you live in London, where the average rent band is £600
a month, you could live in your student house for over 833,333 years. You'll never have to ask your parents for rent money again.
2 David Cameron's combined annual salary, for being both an
4 The most expensive hotel room in the world is the Royal
MP and the Prime Minister, would fit into the Olympic's cost nearly 60,750 times.
6 The most expensive phone ever is a 22-carat gold iPhone.
Penthouse Suite, located in the Hotel President Wilson in Geneva. It charges just over £41,000 per night, but you would be able to stay for around 684 years.
It is studded with 53 diamonds, and was made for an anonymous Australian businessman. The bill came to £1.9 million, which means you could treat yourself to over 500 of them. Nice.
8 Fancy a packet of crisps? How about 22 billion? That's
the amount you'll be able to get if you took the five rings' money pot and went to your local newsagents. Do you think they do discount for bulk purchasing?
10 The Queen's Diamond Jubilee reportedly costed the
economy £1.3 billion. And, yeah, it was quite a good weekend. But we're expecting a lot more from a party costing nine times as much. No pressure guys.
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