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I know it's daft, but.....
« on: 09 January 2016, 13:14:19 »
.... I'm going to buy a lottery ticket later.  ::)  £57.8 million which has to be paid out tonight!  :y

According to reports I have a 1:45,000,000 chance of winning, up from 1:14,000,000 since they added 10 extra numbers.  >:(.  Even though it will cost me twice as much as it used too  >:( and I've less chance of winning, I just feel compelled.  :-\

You've gotta be in it to win it.  ::)  Right?  :D  ;D
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #1 on: 09 January 2016, 13:17:34 »
Remember all your friends on OOF if you win, especially that snot green Astra driver, could chuck him enough to respray it perhaps???  :D :D ;D ;D
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #2 on: 09 January 2016, 13:29:13 »
Got a free go from last week  2 numbers = free lucky dip apparently  ( thats first time we've entered for quite a while)

Can't see the new 10 extra numbers idea is going to work as big roll overs are going to be the norm IMO

But you never know  . . . winning a few grand on a free ticket would be delightful   :y :y
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #3 on: 09 January 2016, 13:39:41 »
Just got 1 ticket , not even a queue . Going to buy a nice Vxr monday   ::)
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #4 on: 09 January 2016, 13:50:02 »
Its been said that tickets are being bought at 400 per second  :o :o :o So someones making a fortune!!!
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #5 on: 09 January 2016, 13:53:14 »
Quote from: Jasonm on 09 January 2016, 13:50:02
Its been said that tickets are being bought at 400 per second  :o :o :o So someones making a fortune!!!
And before the idiots on facearse say owt, the parent company make a whopping 0.5p on every ticket... ;)
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #6 on: 09 January 2016, 14:36:39 »
It`s probably harder to get five numbers now than it was to get six numbers before they added the extra ten balls  :-X

I`ve not bought a ticket since they changed it but I might get a couple of lucky dips tonight though  ;D
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #7 on: 09 January 2016, 14:38:03 »
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A 2012 study suggested the Romford postcode area was the luckiest place in Britain, with one in 1,238 adults having won a prize of more than £50,000 since the lottery began.

Dammit thats reduced the odds for the rest of us  ::)

Lottery website has gone down  ::)
« Last Edit: 09 January 2016, 14:39:52 by EMD »
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #8 on: 09 January 2016, 15:16:55 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 09 January 2016, 13:14:19
.... I'm going to buy a lottery ticket later.  ::)  £57.8 million which has to be paid out tonight!  :y

According to reports I have a 1:45,000,000 chance of winning, up from 1:14,000,000 since they added 10 extra numbers. >:(.  Even though it will cost me twice as much as it used too  >:( and I've less chance of winning, I just feel compelled.  :-\

You've gotta be in it to win it.  ::)  Right?  :D  ;D

Yeah...yeah...sure you'll win it. ;D

You have more chance of STMO saying something good about the Omega. ;)

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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #9 on: 09 January 2016, 15:20:54 »
Now you're being silly :D
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #10 on: 09 January 2016, 15:40:50 »
Must admit I've been tempted into buying a ticket too!
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #11 on: 09 January 2016, 16:04:52 »
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #12 on: 09 January 2016, 18:05:18 »
One of the comments at the bottom of the DM article.....  :-X

You've got to in it to win it, so why isn't our pension fund in it, instead of a Canadian Teachers Pension fund?

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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #13 on: 09 January 2016, 19:36:43 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 09 January 2016, 18:05:18
One of the comments at the bottom of the DM article.....  :-X

You've got to in it to win it, so why isn't our pension fund in it, instead of a Canadian Teachers Pension fund?
Ah, another facearse reader ;D...

Camelot runs the lottery. It happens to belong to the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, who paid a mere £389,000,000 for it an age ago. This pension pot receives it's income (technically a return on its intial £389,000,000 investment rather than a pay cheque) from Camelots' profits... which incidentally is 0.5p in the pound...

Ticket vendors receive 5p and the Treasury receives 12p for every £1.00 spent on the National lottery. So before jumping on the DailyFail/facearse band wagon, ask yourself who actually makes money from it...

Worth also considering that if our public sector pensions were run with a bit more of an open mind rather than Icelandic banking whims, we probably wouldn't be quite so screwed ;)

Not that any of that should get in the way of a decent story ;D
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #14 on: 09 January 2016, 21:11:15 »
Quote from: Harris K Telemacher on 09 January 2016, 19:36:43
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 09 January 2016, 18:05:18
One of the comments at the bottom of the DM article.....  :-X

You've got to in it to win it, so why isn't our pension fund in it, instead of a Canadian Teachers Pension fund?
Ah, another facearse reader ;D...

Camelot runs the lottery. It happens to belong to the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, who paid a mere £389,000,000 for it an age ago. This pension pot receives it's income (technically a return on its intial £389,000,000 investment rather than a pay cheque) from Camelots' profits... which incidentally is 0.5p in the pound...

Ticket vendors receive 5p and the Treasury receives 12p for every £1.00 spent on the National lottery. So before jumping on the DailyFail/facearse band wagon, ask yourself who actually makes money from it...

Worth also considering that if our public sector pensions were run with a bit more of an open mind rather than Icelandic banking whims, we probably wouldn't be quite so screwed ;)

Not that any of that should get in the way of a decent story ;D

By my reckoning the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan receives £27,500,000 per annum from Camelot which represents a healthy 7.07% on their  original investment of £389,000,000.  :y 

As the Daily Mail commentator points out "You've got to be in it to win it!"  ;)
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