People who waste their money on lottery products

Never Say Never Again

I saw a lot of oaps using their christmas bonus to buy several millionaire raffle tickets which cost €25 each. Should the national lottery have products that are so expensive? What happened to the days that a £2 scratch card was their most expensive item?

kfallon

Fúck the lotto!!!!

Jim Bob Scratcher

Fookin mug tax!

BuboBubo

Threw 2 euro into a syndicate for the Euro millions in work today.

I know we aren't going to win. But - if those backstards won it without me I'd howl for a lifetime.

colm_mcm

https://youtu.be/LisDUnHmIdw

PowerToWait

It's definitely exploitative. But then so is almost everything consumer, in some way. Selling you a dream.

kfallon

BuboBubo wrote: »

Threw 2 euro into a syndicate for the Euro millions in work today.

I know we aren't going to win. But - if those backstards won it without me I'd howl for a lifetime.

If our work syndicate won I'd be delighted, at least I wouldn't have to work with the cúnts anymore!

KERSPLAT!

I do the lotto or euromillions every so often. The hope and spending of it in my mind is worth the few €€ every few weeks

mfceiling

It's always pensioners. I'd say most of them spend about 70% of their pensions on scratchcards and quick picks on the lotto.

mad muffin

I buy a €2.50 quick pick Euromillions ticket every now and again. No skin off my nose.

KERSPLAT!

mfceiling wrote: »

It's always pensioners. I'd say most of them spend about 70% of their pensions on scratchcards and quick picks on the lotto.

Most of them spend about 70% of their penaions on the lotto? I assume those stats were pulled from your arse?

kfallon

mfceiling wrote: »

It's always pensioners. I'd say most of them spend about 70% of their pensions on scratchcards and quick picks on the lotto.

Prob have a banger if they won!!!!

Ulysses Gaze

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

I do the lotto or euromillions every so often. The hope and spending of it in my mind is worth the few €€ every few weeks

Same.

Anything to distract me from the agonizing drudgery of work.

freshpopcorn

Never Say Never Again wrote: »

I saw a lot of oaps using their christmas bonus to buy several millionaire raffle tickets which cost €25 each. Should the national lottery have products that are so expensive? What happened to the days that a £2 scratch card was their most expensive item?

They are a very popular Christmas present.
The millionaire raffle only happens the ddf time so I have no issue with it.

dxhound2005

If they haven't learned any sense at that age, they are beyond hope.

Mr_Muffin

What other product gives the chance to become a millionaire in such a short space of time?

(Awaiting witty answers).

rgodard80a

Never Say Never Again wrote: »

I saw a lot of oaps using their christmas bonus to buy several millionaire raffle tickets which cost €25 each.

Might be Christmas presents for their children.

Mathematically, the millionaire raffle is the best chance of winning a million... it's a raffle so your chances are 1 in <number of tickets sold> which I think is limited to 500,000 tickets.
As opposed to 1 in 10,737,573 for 6 numbers in normal Irish lotto.

I used to buy them for my parents, in-laws and siblings... probably spent €500 over 5 years and won €500 last year on it.

0ph0rce0

The odds are crazy yes but if your not in you won't win.

You always here of winners that said **** it i'll throw a few quid on and boom millions.

How is that a waste? Seems the complete opposite to me.

Ten of Swords

The latest lottery launching this week...

Bitcoin Lottery

dxhound2005

rgodard80a wrote: »

Might be Christmas presents for their children.

Mathematically, the millionaire raffle is the best chance of winning a million... it's a raffle so your chances are 1 in <number of tickets sold> which I think is limited to 500,000 tickets.
As opposed to 1 in 10,737,573 for 6 numbers in normal Irish lotto.

I used to buy them for my parents, in-laws and siblings... probably spent €500 over 5 years and won €500 last year on it.

If you bought €25 worth of tickets in the normal lotto that would reduced the odds.

Fr_Dougal

The lottery is a tax on the poor, and the stupid.

0ph0rce0

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

The lottery is a tax on the poor, and the stupid.

If you are poor you can't afford the lotto and if you are stupid you wouldn't know what it was or how to play sure.

Clown

freshpopcorn

Who ever bought the winning ticket last year didn't claim the prize!

Allinall

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

The lottery is a tax on the poor, and the stupid.

I don't buy that.

It's patronising.

Taxes are generally unavoidable .

freshpopcorn

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

The lottery is a tax on the poor, and the stupid.

Tell that to Dolorus!

buckwheat

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

The lottery is a tax on the poor, and the stupid.

I resent that. I'm poor and stupid and I don't play it:mad:

Fr_Dougal

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

The lottery is a tax on the poor, and the stupid.

So speaks someone who has never won anything in his life.

KERSPLAT!

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So speaks someone who has never won anything in his life.

Pretty sure he won that raffle himself and Ted organised

Fr_Dougal

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

If you are poor you can't afford the lotto and if you are stupid you wouldn't know what it was or how to play sure.

Clown

If you’re poor enough you’ll spend your last few bob trying to win money. And if you play the lottery you might not be the brightest, considering the odds.

And you can keep your ad hominem abuse to yourself.

Maggie Marie

Be hard to play it when we’re dead.

whisky_galore

I'm never going to give my money to the organisation responsible for the bucket of televisual shyte that is Winning Streak.

dxhound2005

whisky_galore wrote: »

I'm never going to give my money to the organisation responsible for the bucket of televisual shyte that is Winning Streak.

I never watch it either.

wakka12

Its not wasted money if the people enjoy spending it on them. Im sure lots of people think you're wasting your money on activities which they don't enjoy. Waste of money is subjective !
Personally I think its not a good way of spending money but hey you're never going to get to do a lotto again after this lifetime so why not try it for a chance sometime anyway.

Vic_08

whisky_galore wrote: »

I'm never going to give my money to the organisation responsible for the bucket of televisual shyte that is Winning Streak.

RTE?

Spending €160 on lottery tickets is tremendous value in comparison to spending it on Tubbs and D'arsey.

Junkyard Tom

I think there's a lot of pseudo-intellectual sneering at people who do the lotto. I'm sure that most people know the odds of winning are incredibly slim but while they have that ticket they can fantasise about having no money worries, taking exotic holidays, buying a beautiful home, driving an amazing car, looking after their kids' futures and so on.

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dxhound2005

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Daily Million rarely produces a one million winner. Often the best anyone gets is €500 or even as low as €100. Probably because not many tickets are bought. The €25 ticket will get someone a €1,000,000 prize guaranteed.

Dank Janniels

Winning streak must be a pain in the hoop to work for, same crap week in week out.
I suggest eliminate a person evey round -give the 1st 3 maybe afew grand, then the nxt 2 or 3 go head to head in sumthing like tipping point or sumthing to make itintresting, then the "winner" of that round spins the wheel.

Its the same muck everyweek, half the show is chatting to the guests, then all they do is pick numbers -
"pick a number Mary
1,
Next round...
Pick a number Mary
2....
Bladdher rinse repeat

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Vic_08

Dank Janniels wrote: »

Winning streak must be a pain in the hoop to work for, same crap week in week out.
I suggest eliminate a person evey round -give the 1st 3 maybe afew grand, then the nxt 2 or 3 go head to head in sumthing like tipping point or sumthing to make itintresting, then the "winner" of that round spins the wheel.

Its the same muck everyweek, half the show is chatting to the guests, then all they do is pick numbers -
"pick a number Mary
1,
Next round...
Pick a number Mary
2....
Bladdher rinse repeat

There is no way of making it interesting, all the games have to be random chance, even your penny drop idea could be considered to have some skill element so it wouldn't be allowed.

This is the reason the likes of the BBC never tried to make a gameshow out of lottery contestants, they ran actual gameshows around the draws. Most of those were crap but nothing like the desperate cringefest RTE sick up.

Noveight

I'm in the syndicate at work. It's probably going to be money squandered but on the off chance that it isn't...

retro:electro

The best part of playing the lotto is fantasising about what you're going to spend it on. I haven't played it in a while but I just know the next time will be my time. This time next year I'm gonna be a millionaire

backspin.

I'm really looking forward to the day i win the lotto, it seems like a costly exercise at the minute but it will be worth it when the day comes.

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Junkyard Tom

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Perhaps indicative of a sense of desperation engendered by decreasing levels of social mobility combined with being bombarded by ostentatious wealth in the mass media.

diomed

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Pretty sure he won that raffle himself and Ted organised

I remember.
Ticket 11 was called out, but it was the wrong way up.

the_syco

Never Say Never Again wrote: »

What happened to the days that a £2 scratch card was their most expensive item?

You have more of a chance of winning your money back, or making a profit, with the €5 scratchies, over the €2 scratchies.

B.A._Baracus

I don't get the smugness people have about others doing the lotto.

Look, the lotto has been set up that it only costs a few euro and it's enticing to do it because maybe, if you're lucky enough, you can win a lot of money. There is zero harm or no stupidity in throwing a few euro on it each week.

Because if you want to throw the words stupid and money together well there are other foolish things than doing the lotto. Such as paying over the odds for a product because you're too lazy to go out of your way to somewhere else where it is cheaper. Etc.

The lotto is only stupid if you're the type of person who spends 50 a week or more then complains why you never win.

Badly Drunk Boy

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Because if you want to throw the words stupid and money together well there are other foolish things than doing the lotto. Such as paying over the odds for a product because you're too lazy to go out of your way to somewhere else where it is cheaper. Etc.

Exactly! How many of these smug anti-lottery heads pay ridiculous money on some 'fancy' coffee or things like that? Different people get their kicks in different ways.

Eggonyerface

I hate the smug attitude to the lotto, it is what it is and the vast vast majority of people who play know that.

Plus... http://www.rnl.ie/regulation-of-the-national-lottery/application-for-national-lottery-funding/

And... http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/list/1/schemes/National-Lottery-Grants-2017/