Fun Facts

Numerically, the difference is twice the chances. The real difference between nothing and something is more important to most people.

what was that name, again? lol

FF: There's a charity organization that makes porn to protest against cutting down trees in rainforests. Ironically it's called "Fuck for Forest".

htt p: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Fuck_for_Forest

FF: There's a charity organization that makes porn to protest against cutting down trees in rainforests. Ironically it's called "Fuck for Forest".

htt p: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Fuck_for_Forest

Tonka Toys still makes trucks? :-D

Where's Robert when you need him...

"You didn't win a truck, the government won a truck for you."

"1 chance in 145,000,000 is a whole lot better than 0 chances in 145,000,000, but 2 chances in 145,000,000 isn't that much better. "

I think you should re-read that.

When I buy, I only buy 1 ticket for either the PowerBall or Mega Millions. 1 chance in 145,000,000 is a whole lot better than 0 chances in 145,000,000, but 2 chances in 145,000,000 isn't that much better.

I don't consider the lottery a tax on stupidity. I consider it a tax on hopelessness. If you don't think you'll ever be able to earn enough money to give yourself and your family a better life, you're willing to take a chance on a crazy long-shot.

I remember that...

You gotta play to win!

I won a new truck once.

Same here. I might spend $50 on powerball throughout the year when there's a few hundred mil in the pot. Otherwise, I'd just as soon waste my disposable income on more enjoyable activities.

T

i have often thought that if they would just save the money they spent on lottery tix, they would have a nice sum by the end of the year. we hardly ever get them unless it is a really high amount.

I used to work a convenience counter in a store many moons ago. It was in Canada but the lotteries are more or less the same - powerball-like draw games, scratch and win games, etc.

We had these break-open tickets for 50 cents which had slot machine style fruit and such inside. Match 3 and you win (something). People would buy $20 of them at a time, move aside and work them all, and take any winners ($5-$100, which was the max) and then leave all the busted shit on the counter. The winners were used to buy more of them, and they'd repeat until they had no money left. I have no recollection of anyone ever taking their money and leaving.

I swear - I saw someone buy 2 tickets for $1, win $100, and then buy $100 worth of more tickets, win maybe $20 among them, buy $20 worth of tickets, and lose on all of them.

Great way to kill an hour, I guess.

I just stopped for gas and went inside to get a cup of coffee. There was an older woman organizing her lottery tickets in a multi pocket folder of sorts that she had in her suitcase size purse.

Scratch-n-sniff tickets in one file, Power Ball/Mega Millions/Hot Lotto tickets in others, pockets for winning and pockets for losing tickets, a little pocket for cash.

She was so busy organizing her folder that she almost forgot her carton of Salem Lights as she left.

Kind of sad actually, thinking that she is probably on a low fixed income and spending money on lottery tickets and cigarettes.

I thought all of them did that.

I get a kick out of the lotto junkie who buys a bunch of scratch tickets and then stands off to the side to scratch them off, just so they can take any winnings and buy more lotto tickets.

T

I usually get my coffee from the circle k near us. the clerks always check the tickets. they do have some kind of scanning device, but they have to stand there and load every damn one into the machine to check it. no offense to anyone who plays, and I couldn't care less what people spend their money on, and I don't want anyone telling me what I can or should spend mine on. I just wish it could all be automated so the rest of us don't have to stand around waiting on it.

Fun Fact: I will only buy a lottery ticket when the jackpot is over $100M. Not every time though- maybe 10 a year. I can afford $20/yr.

Having said that...

Fun Fact: When people in front of me are buying tickets (usually 20 custom picked numbers), I always offer to take their money and tell them how much fun they just had.

I agree, VA. I see abuse of the system every day. But, some poor are very good stewards of their meager resources~and some are not. Just like people of average or above average means.

Well, I am of the opinion that if you can buy cigarettes, booze, lottery tickets, iPhones, or put $2,000 rims on your 1981 Impala (many people call me a liar - I see that shit ALL the time in our area) than you probably don't need such things....

Anyway - enough poor-bashing. It's more like stupidity-bashing, but many are unable (or unwilling) to see the distinction.

I'll tell you something that really got some lefty friends of mine's panties all in a wad.

I said, "why do they allow food stamps to buy things like twinkies and soda. Maybe there would be less of an obesity problem if you didn't give everyone free junk food".

Omg you would have thought I had just proposed nazi style concentration camps or something.

Fun Fact: I just won the lottery!

Just kidding, y'all~you have to play to win, but I couldn't resist running with it.

I've said such things many times. I'm called "out of touch" when I do.

I know this is rapidly becoming political, but here's one more:

Low-income smokers in New York spend 25 percent of their income on cigarettes, according to a study published by The American Cancer Society.

I one time suggested that poor smokers spend their money on shoring up their financial lives, and was told I was "out of touch". Twice.

I sort of gleaned that about you about five years ago. I dig it.

Mr.Jinx...you think like i do. I crunch numbers all the time. I swear its an effin' disease. It started in grade school. When a teacher told us about the risk of smoking. He told us that instead, we should place the money for a pack of cigarettes in a jar and once a month deposit it into an interest bearing account until we're old enough to invest it wisely.

Fun fact:

3% of a 13,000 income, invested monthly over your working lifetime, (looking backwards), would be worth about $425,000 upon the day you apply to collect SSi.