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Do you subscribe to the "can't win if you don't buy" philosophy, or are you in the camp that believes "my odds of getting hit by lightning are higher, so trying to win the Powerball is flushing money down the toilet"? I don't buy tickets for the mega-lotteries, but I occasionally plunk down some dough for charitable lotteries where the odds are better and you could win a new home or some subsidiary prizes. Have never been lucky enough to win though. Have you ever known anyone who's won a substantial sum, say $1 million or more?
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Jun 20, 2020 02:51
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Lottery tickets are for old people over 65 years old Or hi-vis vest wearers who go to the TAB have lovely conservative views but still do meth occasionally
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Jun 20, 2020 02:54
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I won like $2 off of a $1 scratcher once. Never bothered to redeem it. Never bought a lottery ticket though. I think part of it is the resentment of being behind people at 7-Eleven that are buying them.
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Jun 20, 2020 02:54
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A Grand Egg posted:Lottery tickets are for old people over 65 years old There are quite a few workplaces where employees pool their money weekly and purchase multiple tickets, committing to dividing any winnings. So that broadens the range quite a bit.
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Jun 20, 2020 02:56
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I knew somebody who won $10,000,000 after the lump sum. They lived a few houses down from us. Their house was nicer than ours, obviously. Their mom kept getting arrested for shoplifting vodka and getting drunk in the bathroom of the Kroger. They rescued abused dogs so I always thought they were pretty cool.
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Jun 20, 2020 02:57
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Winning the lottery is almost guaranteed to ruin your life in a horrible catastrophic way
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Jun 20, 2020 02:59
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The_Continental posted:Winning the lottery is almost guaranteed to ruin your life in a horrible catastrophic way This is bullshit that poor people tell themselves so they can momentarily feel better about their squalid conditions.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:01
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In the 20'ish years of being an adult, I think I've probably dropped, pfff, MAYBE somewhere around $100 on lottery tickets of all kinds scratch/draw tickets? Something like that? Once in a blue moon if I'm paying cash I grab a $2 scratch off, and I've gotten in on office pools at work when the drawings get large. I don't actually remember the last time I've done either, though, so that $100 is a real rough ballpark.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:01
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If the powerball is over a hundred million I buy one ticket
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Jun 20, 2020 03:06
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Nigmaetcetera posted:This is bullshit that poor people tell themselves so they can momentarily feel better about their squalid conditions. I read a piece in a psychology journal that analyzed the outcomes of lottery winners over the decades and the end consensus was basically “if you were good at saving money before, you’ll probably be judicious with your winnings. If you aren’t, well, you’ll leave a beautiful corpse.”
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Jun 20, 2020 03:07
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1redflag posted:I read a piece in a psychology journal that analyzed the outcomes of lottery winners over the decades and the end consensus was basically “if you were good at saving money before, you’ll probably be judicious with your winnings. If you aren’t, well, you’ll leave a beautiful corpse.” I guess I only knew the former type of lottery winners. You know, with all their problems.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:09
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Nigmaetcetera posted:This is bullshit that poor people tell themselves so they can momentarily feel better about their squalid conditions. I mean, you can look it up. There aren't a whole lot of happy stories from lottery winners. I'm not saying that having money ruins your life. But suddenly winning a large sum of it tends to have a negative effect.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:09
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I love the thrill of comparing my wrong numbers to the winning numbers. How many other games let you compare wrong numbers to right numbers? Not many right?
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Jun 20, 2020 03:10
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The_Continental posted:I mean, you can look it up. There aren't a whole lot of happy stories from lottery winners. I'm not saying that having money ruins your life. But suddenly winning a large sum of it tends to have a negative effect. Yeah if you don’t immediately hire a financial advisor, which everybody who can afford one should have, and should be the first thing winners pay for, maybe even before paying their debts.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:11
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Dear Watson posted:I love the thrill of comparing my wrong numbers to the winning numbers. How many other games let you compare wrong numbers to right numbers? Not many right? Keno Bingo Probably a bunch of Asian games I don’t know how to play
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Jun 20, 2020 03:12
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When I worked in a call center and was underpaid and hated my life, yeah I bought lottery tickets when the pots got over $100 million or if I was having an especially lovely day. For the past four years, I've had a job that I love and pays well and sometimes when it's a record breaking jackpot, I think, "I should buy a ticket," and then it just slips my mind. So in summary; miserable = buys lottery tickets not miserable = doesn't even think about it
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Jun 20, 2020 03:16
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Out of all of the number comparing games, I'd rather lotto than bingo
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Jun 20, 2020 03:16
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I went to pick up a pizza, it wasn’t ready, went next door spent $1 on a scratch off. Won $60. My grandpa just died and on Christmas 2019 he bought me 5 $1 scratch offs and my haul was $504.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:18
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There was some record powerball back in like 2013 or so, and I had a roommate who spent over $100 on tickets. I was trying to explain to him that statistically he didn't have a better chance of winning with 1 ticket vs. 100. But he was just insistent that he had 100X more chance of winning and was therefore a smart person. He didn't win, and I purchased a $100 bottle of scotch to celebrate and did not share with him.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:20
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The_Continental posted:There was some record powerball back in like 2013 or so, and I had a roommate who spent over $100 on tickets. I was trying to explain to him that statistically he didn't have a better chance of winning with 1 ticket vs. 100. But he was just insistent that he had 100X more chance of winning and was therefore a smart person. He didn't win, and I purchased a $100 bottle of scotch to celebrate and did not share with him. You seem p fun
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Jun 20, 2020 03:20
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I'm actually a real mushroom. I just didn't like that housemate very much.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:21
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My secret shame is that I spend $2 twice a week ($4/week total, there's a draw for both of them on wednesday and saturday) on the two smallest jackpot lottos we have in this province. One of them is a 1/3,921,225 chance at winning half a million dollars and one of them is a 1/13,983,816 chance at winning 2 million dollars. My chances of winning may be miniscule but my chances of being financially secure at any point in my life are just as small, and an extra $208/year will not make any difference. One time I won $750, that was nice. I've always been good at saving money and not wasting it on poo poo so I'm not too worried about things going bad if I suddenly had a lot of money. Classon Ave. Robot fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Jun 20, 2020 |
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Jun 20, 2020 03:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGNZnfKYnU Seriously. Lose and your out the twenty bucks you spent (times 52 weeks times 30 to 50 years, probably) Win and you really screw up your life.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:25
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My parents played the lottery, and I tend to do the opposite of what they did, so no, OP. I do not.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:28
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I guess the answer is not very often, no.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:32
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Heres a cool video about why winning the lottery is a bad deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCO9k1FKaE
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Jun 20, 2020 03:33
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I'm so certain that winning the lottery would only affect me positively. Sooooo certain.. Cmon god's sense of irony cmon.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:36
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The_Continental posted:Heres a cool video about why winning the lottery is a bad deal. I like this comment: 1 out of 4 drivers die texting while driving People: Not gonna be me 1 out of 350,000,00 chance of winning lottery People: you never know
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Jun 20, 2020 03:38
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I buy a scratcher sometimes because its right next to the dining area at the chinese grocery store, and eating a huge 6 dollar container filled with beef chow fun makes me overconfident
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Jun 20, 2020 03:40
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The_Continental posted:Heres a cool video about why winning the lottery is a bad deal. You are never going to convince anyone that free money is bad. You can use psychology, statistics, theology, it absolutely doesn’t matter, free money is FREE MONEY.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:42
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CocoaNuts posted:1 out of 4 drivers die texting while driving
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Jun 20, 2020 03:42
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Really if you think about it, stealing lottery tickets might be the smartest idea ever. Outsource all the risk and gain all the rewards!
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Jun 20, 2020 03:47
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No i went to college, op
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Jun 20, 2020 03:48
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:No i went to college, op Well, if I won the lottery, Iona College! So there! 
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Jun 20, 2020 03:57
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Nigmaetcetera posted:You are never going to convince anyone that free money is bad. You can use psychology, statistics, theology, it absolutely doesn’t matter, free money is FREE MONEY. Yeah but its not even free. Its money earned from gambling. Most people that play lotto tend to be from lower income brackets and play weekly if not daily. I worked at a CVS pharmacy that sold scratchers and would get people spending $50/day on the things. They also would know which days they were being restocked, and when new scratch games were being released. Whats pretty telling is the amount of people that end up gambling with their winnings. Many lotto winners continue to play the lotto even after they hit a jackpot. Its about giving people a little something to hope for. The frightening reality is that on the minuscule chance you win, the thing you were hoping for ends up being catastrophic and life-ruining. At its best the lotto is an incredibly regressive taxation system, at its worst its a decentralized state casino you can play in gas stations, grocery stores, and bodegas. To answer OPs question I play a little bar Keno once in a while.
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Jun 20, 2020 03:58
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The_Continental posted:Yeah but its not even free. Its money earned from gambling. Most people that play lotto tend to be from lower income brackets and play weekly if not daily. I worked at a CVS pharmacy that sold scratchers and would get people spending $50/day on the things. They also would know which days they were being restocked, and when new scratch games were being released. Whats pretty telling is the amount of people that end up gambling with their winnings. Many lotto winners continue to play the lotto even after they hit a jackpot. Its about giving people a little something to hope for. The frightening reality is that on the minuscule chance you win, the thing you were hoping for ends up being catastrophic and life-ruining. That’s all well and good but I know a for-real lottery winner so nothing you said matters.
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Jun 20, 2020 04:03
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I like how all the lotto winner sad stories are about people who got hosed over by their friends and family or don't know how to handle money and waste it on stupid poo poo. I don't have any friends or family to come murder me for my money, and I don't even want anything particularly flashy in life. The only material wants I have are to not have to worry about money anymore and to live somewhere with nice weather until the famines start.
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Jun 20, 2020 04:03
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Nigmaetcetera posted:That’s all well and good but I know a for-real lottery winner so nothing you said matters. How did it work out for them? edit: Oh sorry thats the lady who kept getting arrested for shoplifting vodka?
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Jun 20, 2020 04:05
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Id but a 10000 dollar dildo if I won a lottery
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The_Continental posted:How did it work out for them? They’re far wealthier than I will ever be, and the wife will never have to apologize for her alcoholism like I’ve been forced to do numerous times. Sometimes money does fix your money problems, I know, fuckin’ weird.
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