The posting times for recent messages seem way ahead of the actual time. I'm typing this at 4.51 on the 19th, but the last message I can see was put up at 00:50 on the 20th.
Obviously, the high levels of thrill power on the board have caused a temporal rift making some posters ahead of the real time.
So, now that the board is 7 hours ahead - think what we can do!
I'm sure there is a use for this in helping world peace, and so on, but sod that. Would someone please post the footie results and lottery numbers, so I can put a bet/ buy a ticket.
Jade got voted out BB for being thick as shite. Stick a bet on that.
If I played the lottery, and I wouldn't because it's for fools and the superstitious, I'd bet on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... Mainly because it would really annoy the above mentioned fools and superstitious folks if it actually won.
Actually, Art, those are often the most played numbers in any given draw. Thus, you'd mostly just annoy yourself for going to the effort of annoying other people and not getting much money out of it.
Actually, that's one of the most played combinations. 'Clever' people assume that ordinary mortals will think it highly unlikely that those particular numbers will ever be drawn (when statistically, they're just as likely as any other combination) and that by playing those numbers themselves, they won't have to share the jackpot if those numbers come up.
Fools.
Hive!
Pff. Worrying that other people may have played the same numbers when you've been silly enough to buy a lottery ticket and by some fluke actually win is a bit like worrying about the ore-composition of meteorites which may or may not strike you. Not that it stops people buying books on the subject.
Now, being the person that writes the books, or runs the lottery, that's where the smart money is...
Just to be clear, I gleaned that amazing fact from casual browsing of the TV- not a book. I'd no more buy a book on how to win the lottery than I would buy penis enlarging cream or second hand super powers...
Not playing the lottery makes me feel superior as well.
I never knew that statistically speaking, enough pople choose sequenced numbers to make it virtually pointless any of them winning. They should get a random selection instead.
But I can barely contain my contempt for people who buy more tickets when the prize total is increased by rollover weeks when no-one has won the jackpot.
Bearing in mind the huge difference it would make to most people's lives to win £900,000 let alone £3 million, it amazes me that anyone on an average wage would be so much more motivated by the prospect of winning £17 million. Just how much happier do they imagine it would make them?
"Wow - I wouldn't just be able to quit my job once; I'd be able to quit it a dozen times' worth!!!"
Fools.
"I'd no more buy a book on how to win the lottery than I would buy penis enlarging cream"
Mine seemed to work OK...
Not that it stops people buying books on the subject.
There are books about the ore compositions of meteorites which may or may not strike you?
and by some fluke actually win
People do win, every week.
A bloke I know (a friend of a friend really) won 3.5 million a few years ago, he was (is) a real prick, just the sort of person you don't want to win 3.5 million.
A girl in works brother won £35,000 not to long ago.
So, off to buy me a lottery ticket!!!
Yeah, to be fair, I know a bloke who's mum won a few million a couple of years ago as well- I'd forgotten that. Of course, he also went on TV saying that it'd ruined their lives- now that I DON'T get. You've got millions in the bank- you'll never have to worry about pesky little things like paying for mortgages, medical care or getting your clapped out Ford Fiesta through another M.O.T. again. It sounds terrible...
Bottom line- somebody has to win it. Two tickets a week? It's not even the cost of a pint. If you actually made the effort to save two quid a week from somewhere else in your life (I don't know- drink one less pint, don't buy half a Subway sandwich, ride one less stop on your tube/bus, buy one less comic- whatever) and put it on the lottery instead, it might be the best investment you'll ever make.
In fact, now that I'm thinking about it like that, you'd have to be stupid NOT to play.
Usher- I bought multiple tickets when there was £125,000,000 up for grabs a while ago- but I had big plans for that money...
Noisybast- maybe you were just rubbing it in a little bit vigorously? Think back- did it shrink again after a while?
;)
I won £57 on Wednesday. :-)
(But we spend about £200 a year on the lottery in our house and it hasn't been a great investment so far)
You know, there's a book you could buy...
The "it-ruined-my-life" brigade are quite hard to fathom. As the bulk of us-in-the-West earn more in a month than the majority of the world's population will see in their entire working lives (at average weekly wages of less than â?¬1), most of us are already unfathomably rich in comparison to nearly all our fellow humans, and (unfortunately) we all seem quite able to sleep at night. Moving up from the top 10% to the top 5% shouldn't be so much of a shock - there will still be plenty of folk whose level of wealth you can't approach, and far far more whose level of poverty you can't imagine.
I certainly think I could manage to not worry constantly about the mortgage, the public health service and the cashflow disaster that is my business, and suggest that any worried winners let me carry their burden. You know it makes sense.
What is your business?
"...did it shrink again after a while? "
Oh. I thought that was just 'cos I hadn't used enough cream.
I've got another crate on order...
What is your business?
My own! ; )
Nah, I'm a consultant archaeologist, which means nearly all our outgoings are personnel wages (up to 80) that need to be paid every Friday, but our revenue has to be forcibly extracted from developers and Councils that don't want to pay until the job is done and the houses sold/road opened, and even then, not for a few months. You can be simultaneously rolling in it on paper (ie invoices issued), while on your knees in the bank begging for yet another overdraft extension. Hence cashflow is the bane of my existence - I swear the word is tattooed on the inside of my eyelids.
Wish I was in manufacturing and distribution of illegal and addictive substances, like yourself.
I'm supposed to be looking for work.
You're an archaelogist??? (green with envy...)
Living in London, I see a lot of sites, particularily around the city, where they're doing Archaelogical recces before new concrete is poured...
Being of a nosey diposition... it's all I can do not to turn up uninvited with a spade...
:-)
Tordelback, Umpty Candy's not addictive.
It just tastes soooo goooooood.
- Trout