 swils
Female, 18-29, Canada
 43 Posts
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 4:37:03 PM
That should be worth something. |
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 Musuko42
Male, 18-29, Europe
2109 Posts
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:35:20 AM
@Mr_Pedo_Bear
Better to have £100 worth of fun, than the miniscule chance of £2,000,000 worth of fun.
Bird in the hand and all that. |
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 almightybob1
Male, 18-29, Europe
4278 Posts
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Monday, October 24, 2011 4:49:59 PM
Oh? So you are saying that there are the same exact odds of me getting a series of numbers each directly 1 minus the amount of each respective number of the lottery... as it is to actually get the exact numbers of the lottery?
Go kill yourself immediately.
... they ARE the same. |
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Insomniatic
Male, 18-29, Southern US
5 Posts
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Monday, October 24, 2011 4:24:07 PM
Matwix- Well that's heavily generalizing the group of people that do buy lottery tickets. Just because some people buy them that shouldn't doesn't make the whole group a mass of idiots. You could say that about literally anything. Alcohol is the drink of idiots, since so many who should be spending their money on other things buy up booze. Clearly not everyone abuses alcohol like that. |
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 Mario561
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
57 Posts
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Monday, October 24, 2011 10:05:15 AM
had that happen once... |
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 ledzeppeloyd
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2197 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:48:24 PM
oooo, so close |
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 Shufdog
Male, 30-39, Southern US
121 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 7:26:17 AM
I've actually had the same thig happen to me! Every number was off by one. |
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 Viking864
Male, 40-49, Southern US
817 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 6:03:19 AM
@ Pedo_Bear, NICE! |
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 IRockYeah
Male, 30-39, Europe
2155 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:22:00 AM
It was £20.8 million ($33 million) too. Unlucky. |
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 Matwix_2004
Male, 18-29, Europe
2101 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:03:28 AM
Insomniatic - That's the point. People who don't have the money to spend on it are the ones who are most likely to buy it in hope that they will be the ones to win; sure, it might only be a dollar that time, but that quickly adds up. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do occasionally, a lot of people do it however often it happens. |
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 Flibmeister
Female, 18-29, Europe
840 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 3:37:47 AM
I prefer scratchcards.
@Mr_pedo_bear... can I adopt you as a family member who sits in the corner at christmas and creeps everyone out? cos that'd be AWESOME. |
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 lisalezah
Female, 18-29, Australia
255 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 2:17:56 AM
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFuuuuuuuuuu...... |
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 Mr_Pedo_Bear
Male, 70 & Over, Southern US
338 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:36:37 AM
@An_egg please do the math. I play the Euro Lottery which is £2 a week. Say I invested that money roughly £100 a year and added the £100 each year. I have an extremely good interest rate of 11% it would still take 45 years to make 100k Now take into account inflation etc I'm now 70 what am i realistically going to do with the money. If buy some freak chance with the 20 million jackpot now wooohooo! Solid gold hooker robots ahoy! |
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 kcpd2050
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
327 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:29:08 AM
There should be a consolation prize for that. It's probably harder to get that to happen than to win with the actual numbers. |
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 Student_Law
Male, 30-39, Europe
966 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 1:08:45 AM
It's just God, saying FU  |
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 asianchamp
Male, 18-29, Australia
413 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 12:54:02 AM
I play lotto. its the rush before the draw, that you could actually win and get out of your rubbish life. and then comes the crushing reality.. |
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 An-egg
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
726 Posts
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Sunday, October 23, 2011 12:21:14 AM
Let me see. If you took that dollar and invested it every day, or that 20 or 40 you're really blowing...
I won't insult your intelligence by doing the math, but you could retire with a handsome nest-egg
I will insult your intelligence by saying that you have more chance of being trampled to death by a herd of bees than you have of winning.
Notice how I didn't say 'statistically' to make it sound kooky. |
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Insomniatic
Male, 18-29, Southern US
5 Posts
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Saturday, October 22, 2011 11:13:38 PM
I don't really agree on the idiot tax cliche either. Sure you probably won't win, but you might, someone always does. And are you really going to miss that dollar? Really? If a dollar makes or breaks you, then sure, you're probably an idiot.
Besides, think of it as charity to the education system it profits (atleast it does in my state, that may not be a worldwide thing). |
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 Veint
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
12 Posts
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Saturday, October 22, 2011 10:20:46 PM
The odds this happening is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000 (if you include the 0's as a digit being guessed). It is more likely that you will guess someones social security number on the first try. |
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JDplaysFF
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
509 Posts
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Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:52:49 PM
"Well said. The lottery is a stupid people tax, and maybe sometimes a source of Darwin award recipients."
Actually, from a probability standpoint, buying one lottery ticket is one of the smartest things you can do. Your probability of winning go up quite a bit when you actually play. Conversely, buying a second ticket is one of the dumbest things to do. Doesn't change your probability hardly at all. |
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SephirothA83
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
950 Posts
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Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:43:07 PM
lol |
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 LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
10503 Posts
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Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:15:01 PM
Go kill yourself immediately.
I like that you said that despite your avatar. You're just a barrel of contradiction aren't you? |
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 MightyPeanut
Male, 30-39, Canada
407 Posts
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Saturday, October 22, 2011 7:51:22 PM
its a gootcher!!! |
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 BlankTom
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
6541 Posts
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Saturday, October 22, 2011 7:21:00 PM
oh yeah, splurbyburbl is most definitly wrong. |
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Keyh
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
197 Posts
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Saturday, October 22, 2011 7:09:10 PM
BlankTom is basically saying spultra13, Insomniatic, and I are right. It's the same probability as actually winning |
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