1979 kids wealth survey

    por Gloriaunhinged: British Broadcasting Corporation

    1979 Survey asked kids what they'd buy if they had serious cash.

    Transcrição (en)

    What would you buy if you were rich? Cuppages. Yes, carrots. And I'd buy a platinum ball, that big, very expensive. And I'd earn some money till a billion pounds. And what would you do with this golden ball? I'd put it on a display cabinet. it and clean it when it gets dirty. What if you had a lot of money? By a water pistol. How much money do you have to afford to be very rich? How many pounds? Fourteen. What do you think it's like to be really rich? Horrid. I'd rather be poor than rich. Why? Because if you're rich, you've got so much money that you don't know what to do with it. And you got your lady because you got so many servants and big cars It better to walk than go in a car You make it sound really miserable to be rich. It is. How much money do you have to home before you're rich? About 100. What would you do if someone suddenly gave you 100 pounds? Give it back. I'm English. Well you can be rich and English. Why not? Because it's silly. I've got lots of money in my piggy bank. How much? Ten. What? Ten million dollars hundred. Really? And what are you going to do with it all? I'm going to spend it to get the carpet because we haven't got a carpet on our stairs. What kind of carpet do you want? Pink. Nothing for you. Perhaps you'd like to buy a beautiful dress. Would you? A silver dress. A silver dress? My mum's got a gold and dust with rubies on it. Has she And when does she wear that When she goes out to America Does she do that often All the time I got a car Have you? You must be jolly rich. Is it a nice car? Where'd you go in it? Near the sea. because that's where my castle is. You have a castle. Is it a large castle? Pretty large. Lots of rooms inside it. What's it look like? It's silver on the inside and it's gold on the outside. That's extremely nice. You have to polish it a lot though Or do you have lots of servants to polish it? For you? No. And... And they clean our castle where we go somewhere That jolly useful isn it And has it got flags and things on it That very nice Can I go and visit it It a long way away Is it? It's near the London Zoo, a long way away. Gosh, that is a long way away, isn't it? Well, perhaps I could walk there if I took it slowly. It took a long time. Oh dear. Well, perhaps I could take a bus, could I? An aeroplane. An aeroplane? That's awfully expensive. You see, I'm not rich. You couldn't lend me some of your money, could you? No, because we live a long way away. We've got thousands and thousands of days to get back home now. It's going to take you thousands of days to get back? Well, perhaps you ought to leave now, haven't you? I mean, I wouldn't want to keep you. Have you got some sandwiches? Because you get a bit hungry. We have our own aeroplane. Oh, silly. It's a helicopter with a little piece of a caravan on it.