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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: nutterly_uts on January 09, 2016, 06:53:28 pm
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With the crazy jackpot has anyone got a ticket?
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I went and got 4 lucky dip today. I very rarely play - oy when I get sucked in by the marketing and hype of a massive jackpot.....
If I win a little farm with will certainly be on the top of the list.
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It's just a very clever tax on (mosty) the poorest in society.
Why not save up each week until you have enough to buy a block of Premium Bonds? At least you don't lose your stake.
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It's just a very clever tax on (mosty) the poorest in society
They do a lottery here over the summer where tickets are £100 (or there abouts) and most of the winners have been people able to afford the tickets outright, rather than as syndicates. .
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It is 150 times more likely that someone will be struck by lightning than win the lottery
(source Elizabeth Williamson, of the Royal Statistical Society).
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I'm betting it won't.
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It is 150 times more likely that someone will be struck by lightning than win the lottery
In their lifetime, or at 10pm on a Saturday?
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With the crazy jackpot has anyone got a ticket?
Never have, never will.
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They were laughing t me in the shop when I asked for instructions on how to do it, I sometimes get a lucky dip but went for my own numbers this time. I had one. And several close ones. Nevermind, the brand new lorry will have to wait lol.
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Matched two number so have a free lucky dip for next week....... Maybe next week I'll win! :innocent:
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i guess i'm wealthy enough, no money, but two lovely fields gradually building up with livestock, fences being erected, animal houses being built, and all with our own hands….who wants millions…i think you would start to worry about loosing it, then start to question all those friends who come out the wood work…
nope..i will stay poor and happy :thumbsup:
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I won £25 on it last Wednesday and re-invested it on last nights draw.
If I win the jackpot I'll still carry on farming till it's all gone.
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Didn't win anything - no farm for me :(
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I'm cold, wet , grumpy and tired , bits of me no longer work. I look around at the flooded parks,lakes of mud and next doors wind blown rubbish ! but like everyone else We all have won the lottery ! the prize is of living the dream ,immeasurable wealth regardless of how many share the winning numbers and no ticket required.
Didn't need the money anyway :huff:
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I generally consider it a tax on stupidity but did invest a small sum this (rare) time.
I did win but the £25 doesn't quite cover the cost of the new house to be built into the side of middle field hill, the whole new drainage system and relevelling of the flat fields, the new extensive hobby shed and machine tools or the citation jet on standby with my personal R24 heli to get to the airfield and I've had to cancel the order for my new maclaren car. Sadly 60mill wouldn't have been enough for my prospective designs for far field hill glasshouse and hillside terracing for Welsh grown bananas, sapodillos rambutans and breadfruit and orchids. But then i guess I was dreaming a bit high.....
Of course if was the last but one socialist prime minister I'd have accumulated more than that...
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Who needs money when you have a spotty goat :love: :goat: :love:
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;D
Have you ever heard of the Monty Hall Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem) Clydesdaleclopper?
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/monty_hall.png)
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Have you ever heard of the Monty Hall Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem) Clydesdaleclopper?
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/monty_hall.png)
When I went in for surgery on my hand a few months ago they had to cut off my wedding ring as it wouldn't come off over the scar tissue on my finger. As my hand was injured by one of the goats I commented that my husband would be pretty hacked off with the goat causing me to lose my wedding ring. One of the medics piped up "but you could get a new one". They all fell about with laughter when I replied "a new goat - fantastic" - he had meant a new ring.
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Who needs money when you have a spotty goat :love: :goat: :love:
Or any other goat, come to that. :goat: :goat:
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Depends whether you want more goats / bigger, posher goats house, more land for more goats, diamond studded collars, personal design of none waste hay racks, which of course you wouldn't really need because you could afford lots of hay, but then if you perfected the design, you would make more millions ;D
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Depends whether you want more goats / bigger, posher goats house, more land for more goats, diamond studded collars, personal design of none waste hay racks, which of course you wouldn't really need because you could afford lots of hay, but then if you perfected the design, you would make more millions ;D
A t which point it's probably a good time to bring ot the parapble of the Mexican fisherman:
An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, “only a little while. The American then asked why didn’t he stay out longer and catch more fish?
The Mexican said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs. The American then asked, “but what do you do with the rest of your time?”
The Mexican fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siestas with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine, and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.”
The American scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat. With the proceeds from the bigger boat, you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing, and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then LA and eventually New York City, where you will run your expanding enterprise.
”The Mexican fisherman asked, “But, how long will this all take?”
To which the American replied, “15 – 20 years.”
“But what then?” Asked the Mexican.The American laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions!”
“Millions – then what?”
The American said, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos.”
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If I won I'd buy this farm off Bazz, next doors and the land next to that, a new horsebox, Harry spankers tractor hor his lordship. Most importantly I would create a new generation of youth centres and a legion of dignity nurses to help at our hospitals. We can all dream, costs nowt. :thumbsup:
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It's interesting that masses of people decide to buy a lottery ticket when there is a big jackpot to be won. "Three million? I couldn't be arsed. I'm in it for the big money".
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If I won I'd buy this farm off Bazz, next doors and the land next to that, a new horsebox, Harry spankers tractor hor his lordship. Most importantly I would create a new generation of youth centres and a legion of dignity nurses to help at our hospitals. We can all dream, costs nowt. :thumbsup:
I'd love to buy the neighbours out and stop all their riff-raff visitors and tenants speeding up and down our track.
But first I'd have to buy a ticket.
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It's interesting that masses of people decide to buy a lottery ticket when there is a big jackpot to be won. "Three million? I couldn't be arsed. I'm in it for the big money".
And yet I think the lower the jackpot the higher chance you have of winning?!
I'd be perfectly happy with £300k :)
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I've never done the lottery and never will but if I did and won, all I would want would be enough to pay off our mortgage and get a bit done to the house, buy the four children a house each and that's about it. A million would be ample for that. And none of that would give me my health back.
The reason I don't do it is not because I know I don't stand a chance of winning but because I know how badly charities have been affected by the lottery. My brother used to work for Charities Aid Foundation who do a lot of work for smaller charities and told me that every charity has had fewer donations. I don't consider it charity to pay for subsidised theatre tickets for people who can afford £50 a ticket but don't want to have to pay more which is one of the 'good causes' paid for out of the lottery funds. I know some charities have benefited - our local Samaritans received a grant enabling the doing up of their centre to make it more workable - but over all, they are worse off.