Best thing Bill Gates ever made.
His daughter.
How did he manage that? :-o :lol:
How did he manage that? :-o :lol:
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please don't tell me you think seriously that gemma is his daughter? they share the same surname and thats it.. they aren't related.
as for Miss Gates, it'll be a bit of a curse for her since she has a good chunk of her dad's fortune... so will blokes be dating her for her looks / money?!?! she was only born in 96..
On further reading this appears to be Rachael Leigh Cook and not Bill Gate's daughter. However, it seems that someone said it and now half the web believes she's Bill's daughter.
Still fwwwoorh eh?
oh well she can become yet another urban myth type web thing.
Bill is only 54...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_old_is_Jennifer_Katharine_Gates
but I looked elsewhere and it said the same..
http://www.technoworldinc.com/techno-images/jennifer-katharine-gates-pictures-would-u-like-to-date-her-t64720.0.html
is well funny.. apparently they are pictures of an actress.. but the comments on there are stupid..
even when women are older , I'm crap at telling their age.. I don't think I'm the only one either..
I'm sure their parents have made sure they are grounded.. but it's for the best they are out of the public eye for security reasons for a start.
I just googled for Rowan Atkinson's daughter and it is full internet of links to Gemma Atkinson so I thought they were not lying, also I got a pps with her of subject of Mr. Bean's daughter, so is it all fake ?
edit: aha, I googled more precisely, so his daughter's name is Lily.
coz she is googled a lot.. and her rating goes up...THATS ALL lol
probably image search.haha
it's like when I was doing "reinforced" website.. it would always come up with reinforced concrete as the first link.. sod all to do with DnB. now it comes up with the reinforced DnB label :)
The internets got a lot to answer for sometimes when people do a search and think its the truth !
A bit tarty as you might expect.
Not bad......i would.
I remember reading before BG got married that he didn't believe in inherited wealth. Whether he still believes that now he has kids is another matter entirely though...
those rich dads only say that so they dont get pushed down the stairs.
as for bill not giving his kids any money.. rubbish.. it's nature for parents to do that regardless of if he had ?10 or well what he has..
Jof's "daughter" is 40.. do the maths..hehe
I'm hoping this is his cousin or niece and he can put in a good word for me, being the decent chap that he is >
"Kim" smith
I think its good if thats true and he doesnt spoil his kids, but either way his kids wont have it bad, not like they have to do a paper round to pay their folks housekeeping etc like lots of us did.
Granted its just from watching the Apprentice but Donald Trumps kids seem to be decent and are into business (Granted their dad gives them some projects to oversee) but compared to say Paris Hilton, theyre totally different.
If i had tons of money i wouldnt spoil my kids but would obviously help out here and there.
(Start the violin)
My folks werent rich so i've had to buy everything, my friends got a car bought for them (not me), deposit (or a big amount) for a house (not me !) and some didnt pay housekeeping and even got money every month (!) - not me, had to pay 120 quid a month to my folks. Granted its not huge compared to a mortgage but when most friends actually got money for living at home i was quite gutted !
At the time i wasnt super happy with all of that but over the years its made me appreciate things much more. One friend used to get a new car every 18 months and didnt care for his motor at all (As he didnt get out a loan and for 5 years pay it back i think)
Warren Buffett seems to be of a similar mind, which I think is more worthy of respect than actually having the money.
Despite becoming a self-made billionaire, (from my recollections of watching a documentary about him) Buffett has lived in the same relatively modest suburban house for something like 30 years. When he buys a new car every few years, he buys 'gravel-chip damaged and repaired' ones to save a few thousand dollars. His daughter (he has three children) once got into some debt difficulties and he declined to bail her out -- something that she doesn't feel bitter about: she actually appreciates why her dad decided to let her sort herself out.
On the subject of inheritance, he's said: "I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing."
It's nice to see that it's possible to gain money without completely losing a grip on reality.
Having said that, I suppose it's quite a different thing to work towards gaining money yourself (like Gates and Buffett have) than it is to blunder backwards into a small fortune like, say, a lottery winner would do. I imagine gaining wealth from scratch is more likely to produce people who have some appreciation of what they have than those who're either born into it or who come across it all at once by chance.
That's not to say I wouldn't mind suddenly coming into a lot of undeserved wealth... Just as a scientific experiment to see if I could handle it... ;-)
I'm sure Mr Buffet's kid wasn't in the deep brown stuff regarding what she owed and he would have bailed them out at the VERY last minute.
much like branson starting his business from a phonebox in portabello road... so daddy didn't lend you ANY money ?!?! riiiight
2 things that made me think about money / relationships..
I dated someone briefly (yes jof another one.lol) and when she was younger her family put her in a boarding school here BUT her family / sister lived aboard.. she was REALLY damaged because of it and distrustful /distant with people.
Another one, we looked after a girlfriends younger cousin.. while her folks went off to watch footy in the VIP box or play golf.. and 1 kid was a teen off the rails and the other wasn't doing homework etc. The one thing both kids needed was their parents time. They had material things, but big deal.
it's all balance.. as for giving your money to your kids.. well most can do it within reason.. but the government that hammers you for inheritance tax... the folk in that, all have their money in land / abroad etc. due to clever accounting. 50% for doing nothing IF it's a lot.. remember its on things that have already been taxed..e.g.. a house.. and well a house in london EASILY goes past the threshold.