trubble76 wrote:
@Blip. It's fine, I just wanted to point out that not everyone that plays is a dribbling moron.

95Theses wrote:Hmmmm

I would describe myself as mathematically literate and I enter the lottery most weeks for £1.

It comes out of my general weekly 'slush fund' that I spend on anything that takes my fancy, a magazine I'm not subscribed to, that sort of thing. Deciding how I'd give away / spend the jackpot idly occupies enough time and is fun enough to be worth the £1.

Just because it's not an efficient investment from a purely financial point of view doesn't necessarily mean that everyone who enters needs to be described as being afraid of 'Big Words'!

Clearly this is different to morons spending money they can't afford in the vain hope of striking it rich as a solution to their problems.

Teague wrote:One thing I don't get is the people that onlyplay the roll over. I guess £5 million isn't enough for the world domination plans

logical bob wrote:Yes, the lottery can be seen as a tax on the failure to understand statistics, or a way of selling 50p pieces for £1 each. Playing can also be perfectly rational, however. When else are you ever going to have a non-zero chance of winning a massive slice of life changing wedge? Can you afford to lose £1? There you go then.

I don't play, mainly because I'd be scared that I might win.

Teague wrote:One thing I don't get is the people that onlyplay the roll over. I guess £5 million isn't enough for the world domination plans

You're just no valuing my time appropriately here. You expect me to walk down to the newsagent for a measly £5million? It takes serious money to get me motivated.