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Author Topic: I know it's daft, but.....  (Read 3978 times)

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05omegav6

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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #15 on: 10 January 2016, 01:04:54 »
Based on your number and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lottery_(United_Kingdom)

The Treasury receives £660,000,000.

Just saying...
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #16 on: 10 January 2016, 01:14:52 »
And the relevance is?  ::)
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #17 on: 10 January 2016, 01:24:53 »
It doesn't matter a jot who owns Camelot ;)
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #18 on: 10 January 2016, 07:55:25 »
Two winners...£33,000,000 each. Now.....was Tigger one of them?  :)
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #19 on: 10 January 2016, 08:15:05 »
Quote from: STEMO on 10 January 2016, 07:55:25
Two winners...£33,000,000 each. Now.....was Tigger one of them?  :)
I doubt it... You'd have heard the bouncy bouncing from Barnsley :D
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #20 on: 10 January 2016, 08:56:59 »
Quote from: Harris K Telemacher on 10 January 2016, 01:24:53
It doesn't matter a jot who owns Camelot ;)

You might think that, but that's £27,500,000 a year that could/should be going to good causes rather than to a foreign investor.  ::)

The whole thing has been a stitch up from word go in the '90's when it was set up and Branson wanted to run it on a non profit basis.  That caused quite a hoo haa as I recall when the government awarded it to Camelot who planned to make a profit on the venture.  A minimal profit as you say, but a profit none the less.  ::)

And no I didn't win and I'm feeling particularly bitter and twisted today!!  >:(                                                   ;D ;D ;D
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #21 on: 10 January 2016, 10:03:30 »
Never playing the lotto ever again  >:( >:( >:( Even the raffle was a fix , they didnt even draw a Gold number and i had 2  ::)



Whens the next draw  ;D
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« Reply #22 on: 10 January 2016, 10:05:20 »
£27,500,000 or 0.5% is small change compared to the £1,540,000,000 or 28% that goes to good causes and the £2,750,000,000 or 50% that goes in prizes...

And no I didn't win either ::)
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #23 on: 10 January 2016, 14:29:09 »
10 of us in a syndicate at work which I run , done the National Lottery since 2004 a few wins but nothing major, we are in agreement that from February we switch to the Health Lottery smaller prize but we are not happy with the changes that have been introduced.
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« Reply #24 on: 10 January 2016, 15:13:53 »
I thought the change to 59 numbers, and the subsequent lengthening of the odds against winning the jackpot, would be the death of it. But, of course, as the prize gets bigger, the more players it attracts. Shrewd or accidental?
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #25 on: 10 January 2016, 16:32:09 »
It was 57.8 million on wed then it went up to 66 Million, so lots of tickets must of been sold after last wed for it to go up by another 6 million.

Some idiots got took in by the bigger prize money  :-X
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #26 on: 10 January 2016, 16:37:01 »
Its voluntary but still a tax on the poor :-\
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #27 on: 10 January 2016, 18:30:26 »
Quote from: Harris K Telemacher on 10 January 2016, 10:05:20
£27,500,000 or 0.5% is small change compared to the £1,540,000,000 or 28% that goes to good causes and the £2,750,000,000 or 50% that goes in prizes...

And no I didn't win either ::)

Al, you should really go into politics with that relaxed attitude towards other peoples money!  :P 

I just hope that the Clapped Out Canadian Teachers are grateful for my 1p that went into their pension pot yesterday, although I'd rather it went towards disabled kids or something like that in this country along with my 56p.  ;)

Quote from: BIGtime on 10 January 2016, 16:32:09

Some idiots got took in by the bigger prize money  :-X

Guilty as charged!  :-[  ::)  ;D
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #28 on: 10 January 2016, 18:38:26 »
Quote from: EMD on 10 January 2016, 10:03:30
Never playing the lotto ever again  >:( >:( >:( Even the raffle was a fix , they didnt even draw a Gold number and i had 2  ::)



Whens the next draw  ;D

Eh,  "GOLD 5521 8325" (Draw 2,092 Sat 9th Jan 2016)
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Re: I know it's daft, but.....
« Reply #29 on: 10 January 2016, 19:04:31 »
Happiness is everything and there is no evidence to suggest  you'll be twice as happy should you win forty million instead of a paltry twenty million. :)

I'm happy enough with barely five million. :)
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