National lottery, do you?

[Mr Pig]

Never played it once. Stupidity tax.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

No, never. As Eddie Izzard once said, the odds of actually winning the lottery are the same as the odds of being able to eat the moon in under a minute. And it's only a mechanism designed to give those at the bottom of society hope.

 

[thomas]

I won £40 on my first ever go at the lottery...I was only 15 at the time

I played a few other times, lost, did some of their instant website games, lost...so stopped still in pocket

Bought a £1 scratch card once....doubled my money on that!!!

Stupidity tax? Errm...more like Brainy Benefit

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I chip into a works syndicate - mostly out of the fear of being the only one here on Monday if they had a big win!!

 

[ColinJ]

No. I prefer to spend the money on other things to try and 'make my own luck' (domain names, web hosting, subscriptions, software packages and so on).

When I did have some money to spare, I bought £6,000 worth of Premium Bonds and won £50, 3 months on the trot but that was probably less than I could have made in interest elsewhere at the time. At least the bonds are 'buy once, play many times' and you can also cash them in.

 

[Kestevan]

No. It's a Tax on stupidity.

 

[Mr Pig]

I chip into a works syndicate - mostly out of the fear of being the only one here on Monday if they had a big win!!

When the lottery started our whole work started a syndicate, except me! ;0) For years I go the 'You'll be sorry when we win big' routine but they've given up. They still play it, win sod all.

If you buy a ticket on Saturday morning you're more likely to be dead by the evening than you are to win the thing.

 

[mr Mag00]

the gap is widening now, interesting though nonetheless, well not really, I just wanted to know

 

[swee'pea99]

"A lottery is a taxation — upon all the fools in creation
And heaven be praised, it is easily raised; credulity's always in fashion."

- Henry Fielding

 

[potsy]

I run a syndicate with my fellow workers 9 of us in total,each spend over £100 a year share the winnings out at xmas,best payout so far in 5 years is £22 but you never know,someones got to win it.

 

[Mr Pig]

someones got to win it.

Someone got to be in a plain crash too but that dosen't stop you getting on a plain does it?

 

[potsy]

Someone got to be in a plain crash too but that dosen't stop you getting on a plain does it?

Yes
Maybe I'm just one of lifes optimists.

 

[mr Mag00]

id like to see salisbury plain crash

 

[ComedyPilot]

No option for sometimes/occasionally/seldom?

 

[weevil]

someones got to win it.

It's perfectly possible for no-one to win it. It's even possible, though very unlikely, for no-one to win week after week after week.

And to put those winning odds into perspective, it's about the same as correctly calling three rolls of a die...followed by 16 coin tosses!

Good luck.