Winning Streak has country bias?

darkman2

Surely Winning streak has a country bias? Almost half the population lives in the Greater Dublin area yet hardly any Dubs get on and that includes the surrounding counties. Ive been thinking it for years that the selection is "flakey" when they call the names for next week. It's even less transparent now then it was before. You physically don't see the names being pulled out of a drum. But even before it changed they always had a blatant Country bias. Im not viciously angry and flustered about it. Just curious. It is irritating cause it is pretty blatant. Do you agree the show has a bias?


Or maybe im wrong and the 2 million people in the Greater Dublin Area just never play it.

youcrazyjesus!

Yes its full of bucktooths from Longford or Achill. But its a lifelong dream
of many from these parts to appear on the show so maybe they buy and
send in more tickets.

Pherekydes

Every steak is a winner to me.

allthedoyles

I agree ...............these tickets must be hand picked ..........its obvious that the presenter is not reading out the teeny weeny handwriting on the back .............but a printed name and address inserted on the back of ticket by the National Lottery

youcrazyjesus!

Wouldn't that be highly illegal?

Land Of Idiots

darkman2 wrote: »

Surely Winning streak has a country bias?

I know! I can never understand how they always manage to pick people who live in Ireland!!





Sorry, I had to say it!

Liam Byrne

Land Of Idiots wrote: »

I know! I can never understand how they always manage to pick people who live in Ireland!!

Sorry, I had to say it!

Don't apologise......it's EXACTLY what I was thinking.......

Mind you, even if we take the alternate definition of the country - as in countrySIDE - I don't watch this rubbish much, but the few times I have seen it I've seen people from all 6 of the cities.....

But unless you had figures as to how many people from the cities actually post in tickets (I know lots of people who don't bother) and checked out the percentages and the pattern of cities vs rural, I don't think you could claim outright that there's a bias......

K4t

But does anybody (apart from OP) really care?

Frisbee

No-one from Dublin wants to be on that show.
Whereas when country folk get on it their the most famous person in their village.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Dublin people, for the most part, are far too sophisticated to even consider purchasing a scratch-card.

elshambo

Sean_K wrote: »

Dublin people, for the most part, are far too sophisticated to even consider purchasing a scratch-card.

People from dublin are far too busy scratching their arms to .... etc etc

ejmaztec

elshambo wrote: »

People from dublin are far too busy scratching their arms to .... etc etc

or too busy scratching their investment brokers' eyes out.

Drakmord

Sean_K wrote: »

Dublin people, for the most part, are far too sophisticated to even consider purchasing a scratch-card.

It's comments like these that make the rest of Ireland dislike the Dubs. :P

Syferus

darkman2 wrote: »

Surely Winning streak has a country bias? Almost half the population lives in the Greater Dublin area yet hardly any Dubs get on and that includes the surrounding counties. Ive been thinking it for years that the selection is "flakey" when they call the names for next week. It's even less transparent now then it was before. You physically don't see the names being pulled out of a drum. But even before it changed they always had a blatant Country bias. Im not viciously angry and flustered about it. Just curious. It is irritating cause it is pretty blatant. Do you agree the show has a bias?


Or maybe im wrong and the 2 million people in the Greater Dublin Area just never play it.

A thread with an invented bias and a discriminatorily tinged (I'm waiting for 'I was joking jackass!' response) undercurrent? Yes!

OK. Here's what you should do to test it if it bothers you so much.

Spend the next two years collecting three star lottery tickets. Then, split your bed-ful of joy into two equal piles and take off on a little road trip. Post half of the tickets in your probably rather inventive borders for the 'Greater Dublin Area', at different locations and with different names of course. Next up, strap on your bullet proof vest and take your radiation meds and venture to the rest of Ireland, posting the other half in a simliar manner.

We all look forward to your whole family claiming a monopoly on Winning Streak for the following six months, or only a paltry four months if your theories prove correct.

Elmo

I think it depends of what you consider the Greater Dublin area since the OP seems to have bump the population up by about 300,000 AFAIK.

And then their are the 2,200,000 people that don't live in the GDA. Plus there maybe more people under 18 in Dublin unable to play the game.

So the OP may want to find out their statistics before shrouding the game in disrepute and claims of underhandedness. No actually this may help the axing of the show.

Tchaikovsky

The sun never sets on the Dublin Empire.

994

Drakmord wrote: »

It's comments like these that make the rest of Ireland dislike the Dubs. :P

What is this "rest of Ireland" of which you speak? I have heard tell of a land beyond Lucan, where ghosts and demons abound, but I thought it but an idle tale.