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rgocs posted:Honestly curious. Was your aunt Liz an alcoholic before she won the 15 million or became one afterwards? She was before and it only made her worse. The kicker is that her drink of choice is Coors light on the rocks. Have some class! All of her bar buddies came out of the wood work and wound up either stealing or outright using her. It was/is a horrible slow motion train wreck.
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Meiers Goldbrick posted:OP, why the hate? hm yes, good point, I wonder why it was so lovely, though, maybe if we get the richest people in the country to help pay for these things instead of focusing on wringing money out of the working poor???
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Aug 1, 2015 12:17
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Lol at all these destitute people gambling as their only method of escaping poverty. Better not invest in education or social programs, because the American machine is greased with the blood of the poor.
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Aug 1, 2015 13:32
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CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:OP i think scratch offs are a fun birthday gift kinda
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Aug 1, 2015 13:38
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They had some at a wedding party and I won $40. The cashier looked surprised that I didn't want to get 40 more...
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EvilJoven posted:I know how miniscule my chances are of winning but I also know my chances of being wealthy enough to stop being a wage slave any other way so gently caress you for criticising me for spending 5 bux a week I'd piss away otherwise.
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Aug 1, 2015 20:32
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lottery should be illegal, all gambling above personal games between friends like poker should be illegal
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Aug 1, 2015 20:42
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Pitdragon posted:Lottery isn't about winning money. You're buying a dream, buying a ticket out of the hellhole of drudgery and misery that is your existence. Sure, most tickets are losers, but in the meantime, before that inevitable disappointment, you have the chance to daydream about your wonderful new lottery existence, and even believe that it has snowball's chance in hell of becoming a reality. that actually makes it worse, selling dreams is cynical and the people who scam and fool the gullible and poor should be executed
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TEAYCHES posted:that actually makes it worse, selling dreams is cynical and the people who scam and fool the gullible and poor should be executed
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Aug 1, 2015 20:45
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you can't win if you don't play OP sounds like you know nothing about money
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Aug 1, 2015 20:48
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scratching that silver stuff off with the edge of a coin makes a really unpleasant feeling and sound imho
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Aug 1, 2015 20:50
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Jim Barris posted:Agreed, burn all churches and lotteries to the ground imo with churches you get a community and social club so it serves a purpose other than pure cynical exploitation
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Aug 1, 2015 20:51
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I let my kids each buy a 2 dollar scratcher with their allowance once. They were pretty disgusted by the whole deal. I am so glad the lesson worked as I planned and they didn't win, or I might have made little gamblers out of them.
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Aug 1, 2015 20:52
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TEAYCHES posted:with churches you get a community and social club so it serves a purpose other than pure cynical exploitation
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Aug 1, 2015 20:55
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Jim Barris posted:Would you be interested in buying your own personal prayer package for just 29.99? It's a dishrag that you pray into and it grants wishes. yea ppl who peddle that kind of stuff or tv evangelists should also be executed
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Aug 1, 2015 20:56
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TEAYCHES posted:with churches you get a community and social club so it serves a purpose other than pure cynical exploitation That is why I don't hate on religion.
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TEAYCHES posted:lottery should be illegal, all gambling above personal games between friends like poker should be illegal this is how it used to be. ahh, the good old days when lotteries were run by the mob...
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Aug 3, 2015 18:31
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i call my friend an idiot for getting scratchers sometimes but he says 'well whatever I can afford to spend a few bucks once in a while and it's just fun scratching them.' i can't really argue with that logic but at the same time it really is an idiot tax. it's whatever though I guess but where it gets evil is the states that are making apps or whatever for it. I'm already a little disgusted with skinner box mobile games that take advantage of psychological exploits to make stupid amounts of money for nothing, just sucking money out of the economy, but if you made a lottery app that just took a dollar every time you hit the button and told you if you won or lost instantly (or after a little game maybe) I could just imagine some stupid gently caress sitting there and spending his rent on it in a day. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Here in the UK, the lottery company realised lately that takings are down because all the poors are shovelling their money into fixed odds betting machines at the bookies or online bingo, so they doubled the price of tickets in the hope that the millions of once a week players wouldn't notice the difference. That didn't work, and they realised a lot of people only play on a rollover. The solution: add 10 more balls so the chance of winning a jackpot drops by a factor of 5.
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Aug 3, 2015 19:42
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Soylent Yellow posted:Here in the UK, the lottery company realised lately that takings are down because all the poors are shovelling their money into fixed odds betting machines at the bookies or online bingo, so they doubled the price of tickets in the hope that the millions of once a week players wouldn't notice the difference. i mean did the people in charge even take business or economics classes or what? "sales are down! what do? double price!" loving morons lol. a public employee should get fired after that kind of gross incompetence.
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Aug 3, 2015 19:46
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Soylent Yellow posted:Here in the UK, the lottery company realised lately that takings are down because all the poors are shovelling their money into fixed odds betting machines at the bookies or online bingo, so they doubled the price of tickets in the hope that the millions of once a week players wouldn't notice the difference. That didn't work, and they realised a lot of people only play on a rollover. The solution: add 10 more balls so the chance of winning a jackpot drops by a factor of 5. yes, im sure this is exactly the logic they used
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Aug 3, 2015 19:55
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I was once in a deli eating a delicious sub sandwich when a russian guy and an old man came in separately to buy scratch cards 20 dollar scratchcards the russian dude won 500 dollars, got it right there and then and immediately spent half of it on more tickets and won nothing. he probably spent the other 250 but by then i'd finished my delicious sandwich and left
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Aug 3, 2015 20:13
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Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.
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Aug 3, 2015 20:15
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actually gambling owns if you are the one making money off it
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Aug 3, 2015 20:27
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the biggest scratch card win i ever processed as a clerk was like 500 or 600 dollars. iirc they just opened a house account at the station and used it to pay for gas for a few months. which is about as small_town_america.txt as you can get lol there was also the guy who went to my family's church who would come in twice a week and fill out one of those scantron tickets for the jackpot game. same numbers every time. then one day he came in and said he forgot to get a ticket last week and would've won $100k 
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Aug 3, 2015 20:31
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Windows 98 posted:People will literally spend $100-$300 a day for scratch tickets. They scratch them, pay out, buy more, repeat until they run out of money. Lotto really is a tax on the dumb. Never seen a smart healthy normal person playing a scratch ticket unless it's like a lovely birthday gift from an aunt who hates them. 
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Moridin920 posted:i call my friend an idiot for getting scratchers sometimes but he says 'well whatever I can afford to spend a few bucks once in a while and it's just fun scratching them.' i don't gamble but being angry about apparently stable ppl like your friend or thinking they're idiots makes no sense to me at all, he's obviously paying for a temporary rush or some fleeting entertainment that's harder to quantify and not investing in his future like you go eat at a nice restaurant for the fleeting experience of tasting good food or the social experience or whatever, but if you analyze it from a strict cost/benefit perspective the way "idiot tax" people analyze playing poker or scratch tickets you're just wasting money on something disposable that has the exact same result as if you cooked a bunch of beans at home (calories) and making a bad investment it's all disposable income and life sucks rear end if you boil every financial transaction you make down to efficiency
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